Part 1 - Yu Nu Jiao / Jade Slave / Enslaved By Love

Chapter 019 Someone is Provoking

Xie Yun's illness seemed to be aggravating all the illnesses she had never had since entering the palace. It took her over and over again for half a month before she got better.

By the time she left the side hall, she had lost weight.

Xiuxiu felt a little distressed when she saw it: "Auntie, you should eat more in the future."

After Xie Yun's illness, she became less and less fond of smiling, but she still twitched the corner of her mouth and said with rare gentleness and kindness: "Okay."

Not far away, palace people were coming and going in an endless stream. Xie Yun knew as soon as she saw this posture that someone else had received a reward. She didn't want to pay attention to it, but she had to find out.

After all, she would have to live in the palace for only five years.

"What's going on in the palace recently?"

Xiuxiu gave her a troubled look. Xie Yun understood this reaction as soon as she saw it. Someone was probably favored by Yin Ji.

It was only a matter of time, and Xie Yun was not surprised. She sat down holding on to the railing, bathing in the bright sunshine of early winter.

"It's okay, just tell me."

Xiuxiu then spoke: "In the past few days, Concubine Yue seems to have changed. She makes snacks for the emperor all day long. I heard that the shortbread this morning was very popular with the emperor, so she rewarded her immediately. Eunuch Cai has just opened the emperor's private treasury to find out the things and is sending them to Zhaoyang Palace."

Xie Yun rubbed her fingertips unconsciously: "Is there anything else? She is the only one in the harem who gets the reward?"

"On His beloved concubine's birthday the day before yesterday, the emperor also gave her something as a reward and spent the night there."

Xie Yun's hand suddenly stiffened, but she just said "oh" softly.

Yes, Yin Ji said that he would not favor Xiao Baobao, but he did not say that he would not favor others, the emperor, sooner or later.

"Where are the other two ladies?"

"They all had dinner with the emperor, but they didn't stay overnight."

The reason for not staying overnight was probably to give Xiao Baobao face, and they had all eaten because they wanted to share the rain and dew, which was quite thoughtful.

Xie Yun stared at her fingers in a daze, and suddenly remembered that many years ago, Yin Ji once told her that they would be together for the rest of their lives, but it was so long ago that it seemed like a dream.

Or maybe it was really a dream. Even if not, it has nothing to do with her now. Just like the hands in front of her, once weak and boneless, as delicate as jade, after one year in prison and three years of palace regulations, the hand is already covered with calluses and is too ugly to look at.

A clear distinction is made between the noble daughter Xie Shi and the maid Xie Yun.

Her fingertips curled up unconsciously, and she thought vaguely that if such a hand left the palace, it would be enough to support her family.

Pretty good too.

A shadow suddenly fell over her body. Xie Yun shuddered and suddenly raised her head. What caught her eye was Yin Ji's cold face.

"Is it great?"

Xie Yun quickly stood up and saluted, and stretched out a hand in front of her eyes, but she looked at it again and again, but she couldn't raise her hand to shake it.