not short of money for the time being, and Ru Zhaoyi’s family was not rich either, her father was a honest and upright official, and she was the most modestly dressed of all the concubines of her rank.

“Well, then, I’ll leave now and come back to see you again sometime.”

“Good.”

Ru Zhaoyi and the two servants came and went in a hurry, and the door of the Biyue Palace was quietly closed.

Ru Zhaoyi’s father was an official of the imperial court, in the beginning was also valued by the emperor, so she had a good time, but the officials were originally in a dangerous position, if the monarch was not happy, it was useless to try to admonish.

Because of a decree, Ru Zhaoyi’s father and the emperor confrontation, is felt that this is not right, the emperor is also determined to be that way, naturally will not listen to the subjects, so there is a gap between the ruler and his subjects, even Ru Zhaoyi that child, that the emperor has not set foot for two or three months.

The harem is actually a very realistic place, where the wind blows where it is favoured. When Zhaoyi loses her power, she will inevitably be rectified and ridiculed by those who don’t like her, as the original owner saw at that time, and was told by Zhaoyi to watch out for some people and stay away from them by name.

Later, Ru Zhaoyi’s father was ordered to be imprisoned by the emperor for another incident, but Ru Zhaoyi was worried about her father and did not know what to do, so she went to the original owner and pleaded with her, who of course could not release him, but could find out what was going on in the prison, send someone to take care of him, and finally arrange for father and daughter to meet secretly, for which Ru Zhaoyi was very grateful.

However, when she was about to become a member of the Empress’ faction, the original owner stopped her and told her not to get involved.

The original owner’s words to her on that day turned out to be true, and the story really did come to pass.

Although Xin Lan was not short of money for the time being, she did not spend the money for the sake of her mouth and tongue. Therefore, apart from the food brought by Madam Xin on the day she arrived, Xin Lan’s three meals were the standard cold palace fare of vegetables and bean curd and beans, which were extremely miserable, and every time Chun Yue ate, she felt that she had wronged Xin Lan, but Xin Lan felt that there was nothing to say when the situation in the battle was extremely bad.

After eating the meal brought by Ru Zhaoyi, Xin Lan stood for a while and then took a bath and lay down on the bed.

There were many mosquitoes at night and the cold palace was not equipped to repel them, but Xin Lan still had Zero Nine.

Although there was no way for the system to interfere too much with the mission world, it could still help out where necessary, particularly if it was a small but comforting favour.

Xin Lan pulled out a powerful mosquito repellent spray and sprayed it on the side of the bed to keep the mosquitoes at bay for the night, then returned it to Zero Nine.

Zero Nine took the spray back into the storage box, there were some other things in the box besides the spray, Zero Nine also prepared a snack cabinet, if Xin Lan allowed her to eat when watching the sandplay, then she could eat happily, and the snacks could also be shared with Xin Lan, the rubbish and so on could then be put into the system space.

Both she and the host are just conscious bodies entering, and her dimension is a kind of mimicry, existing in another connected dimension.

Zero Nine: Chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp.

Zero Nine: Do you think we should buy a fridge to put in next time, so that the coke can still be cold, or do you want to put in some cooked food, such as chicken wings and duck necks?

Xin Lan: Maybe you can even buy a soup pot to make soup?

Zero Nine: Yes, yes, that would work too!

Xin Lan: You could just put a kitchen in there and cook your own food, you could even fry your own chicken.

Zero Nine: Can I do that, host?

Zero Nine’s voice was full of hope and she stood up with excitement.

Xin Lan: Dreaming is fine.

Zero Nine: You are such a good person.

Xin Lan: Do you know how to cook?

Zero Nine: No, but I can learn, and I can fry chicken!

Xin Lan pondered for a while and calculated her balance.

Xin Lan: How much space do you have in your system, kid?

Zero Nine: Eight square metres.

The standard system space is about the size of a room. The system bought an HDTV to watch TV, a carpet, a small yellow chicken pillow, a cot and a snack box next to it.

Xin Lan: Think about it, the fridge needs space, the kitchen needs space, we need to be more elegant too, how many energy points do you need?

Zero Nine: Let me calculate, according to the current market price, it costs about one million energy points.

For a mission, the best level of energy points is 100,000, and for a hellish challenge, it’s 205,000 energy points.

Xin Lan thought about her savings and was absolutely fine.

Xin Lan: Yes.

Zero Nine: I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you! I’ll give you fried chicken every day from now on!

Xin Lan: Shut up, I’m going to sleep.

Zero Nine closed her mike for one second.

As Xin Lan lay in bed, she thought that the system was quite adorable.

Perhaps the joy of the system was so profound that Xin Lan had a dream at night.

She was sitting in a cold room wearing a lapel gown and eating a steak that had been fried by Zero Nine.

But that would be after the mission was over, not yet.

As the summer solstice was approaching and the summer heat was approaching, a grand wedding was to take place as scheduled.

T/N:

Your Highness 貴妃 (guìfēi): senior concubine / imperial consort, this includes 娘娘 (niángniang): imperial concubine

After this is something more that i didn’t know how to fit in a readable sentence.

金枝玉葉 (jīnzhīyùyè):golden branch, jade leaves (idiom); fig. blue-blooded nobility, esp. imperial kinsmen or peerless beauty

Daughter: ok so, I mentioned this in the previous chapter I think, I don’t really know if it’s her biological daughter or someone she adopted or was adopted in her name. (It turns out its her brothers daughter, so probably she was adopted by Xin lan)

Origin family background / class origin

hidden smile 笑裡藏刀 (xiàolǐcángdāo): lit. a dagger hidden in smiles (idiom); friendly manners belying hypocritical intentions / when the fox preaches, look to the geese

making insinuations 含沙射影(hánshāshèyǐng);to attack someone by innuendo (idiom) / to make oblique charges / to make insinuations / to insinuate

and accusations hidden? 指桑罵槐 (zhǐsāngmàhuái): lit. to point at the mulberry tree and curse the locust tree / fig. to scold sb indirectly / to make oblique accusations (idiom)

own fault 自作自受 (zìzuòzìshòu): to reap what one has sown (idiom) / to stew in one’s own juice

Man : 曼 (màn): handsome / large / long, in this case i suppose it refers to the handsome meaning of the characte