Emperor Jin

Chapter 18 Tian Yuan
Ji Xin was tidying up in the room, but saw the peeling paint door was slammed open, and Bao Jin staggered in in a mess.

She covered the front of the dress with one hand, and the neckline was white and shiny, and the traces of tearing were clearly visible.

"Your Highness?!"

In a moment of desperation, Ji Xin whispered that taboo title.

Bao Jin raised her head and glanced at her gloomyly. Ji Xin knew that she had made a slip of the tongue, so she asked in a trembling voice, "Miss, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, just a little thing."

Bao Jin put down his tattered clothes, picked up hot tea and drank it, his face recovered a bit of blood.

"Go out first, sleep more deeply at night, and don't come over if you hear anything."

She instructed softly, although Ji Xin was surprised, she still complied.

Sitting alone in the room, Bao Jin pulled out the gold hairpin from his temples, and drew a picture on the table. Then he rested his chin and meditated for a while.

She also ate dinner in the room, and everything was fine, until the middle of the night, there was a slight knock on the window lattice.

She opened in response to the sound, only to see Shen Hao jumping in from the window, dressed in black.

Shen Hao didn't have time to exchange pleasantries, and said bluntly: "The palace is always too dangerous, and I suggest that Your Highness leave as soon as possible."

He looked at Baojin, hesitantly said: "Today's matter..."

Bao Jin looked calm, without any shyness, sat upright and said with a smile: "Our eyes and ears in the palace are really good, sending out the news so quickly is not in vain for my high hopes."

"Your Highness, the palace is full of murderous intentions every step of the way. Today... you and the false emperor traveled all the way, and many palace people witnessed it. The matter has spread."

Shen Hao said it implicitly, but Bao Jin still shook his head slightly, "I know, this matter is easy to be hated by others, and some people look at it hot, and I'm afraid it will cause more trouble—but, even if the danger is extremely dangerous, as long as you can live in the emperor side, I'll take the lead!"

The light in her eyes flickered, and she looked at the dull darkness outside the window, "It's like when playing chess, the first hand falls to Tianyuan first. It seems useless, but it can turn decay into magic in the central hinterland."

"I entered the capital as Yuran, not to take Xu Ji's life, nor to bring people like Song Lin under my command, but to overthrow the false emperor!"

The light in the shabby room was like a bean, and the girl's voice was soft, but as powerful as ten thousand jun. Shen Hao looked at her blazing heavy eyes, his heart trembled, and there was a hint of admiration.

Unexpectedly, he thought of the flood dragon's head that fell into the sea a year ago, and the sword light soaring into the sky——

"Your Highness has lofty aspirations..."

He sighed sincerely, "But you are a body of gold, if there is another emergency, no one in the royal family can take charge of the overall situation."

"People are in the country."

Bao Jin resolutely said: "If God really wants to make the Yuan family extinct and replace it with a new dynasty, then let me be defeated and die!"

She said ominous words indifferently, and said: "Although the palace is dangerous, there is one thing that must be clarified here!"

"What is it?"

"My dynasty is destroyed, the truth about my sister's martyrdom!"

Bao Jin looked at Shen Hao, and asked in a low voice: "Compared with my sister, who is better?"

Shen Hao remained silent.

"If you don't tell me, I know the answer too. My sister is amazingly talented, she outwitted me a lot, but she ended up subjugated and died. Isn't that strange?!"

Bao Jin's voice trembled, and he asked sadly, "You are the commander of the guards around her, do you ever know the secret?"

Shen Hao smiled wryly and said: "I was transferred out of Beijing at that time, and when the task was completed, the capital was turned upside down—afterwards, I asked all the surviving colleagues in Beijing, and no one could explain it clearly!"

"No one can tell—but the false emperor must know something, so I want to stay in the palace and by his side!"

Bao Jin resolutely said: "If you don't understand this matter, the great cause of restoring the country is nothing but a joke. I don't think I will be luckier than her when my sister ended up like this!"

Although her voice was low, she carried an undeniable expression, Shen Hao was speechless, and she was deeply convinced.

"But……"

His face was a little hot, he gritted his teeth, and said it out——

"In this way, His Highness's reputation will inevitably be damaged..."

"Famous Festival?!"

Bao Jin laughed softly, his voice was as crisp as ice and snow falling on the ground, spreading out boundless ripples in the dark night.

"Since Li Xin broke the marriage, do I still have any reputation to speak of?!"

Although the words were calm, they contained endless melancholy and misery.

***
In the early morning of the second day, the stewards of the North Fifth Institute came in a hurry and ordered the servants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to replace the doors and windows.

Ji Xin watched from the side, and couldn't help but whispered: "The day we moved in, I went to tell the steward that the doors and windows were damaged, and it was so cold that people couldn't sleep. Hurry up and change!"

"Aren't you afraid that you won't see too much about the trendy things?"

Bao Jin replied softly, but saw the steward approached very enthusiastically and said: "These monkey cubs are very lazy, making the two girls suffer from the cold!"

"Where, it's troublesome to take care of things..."

Ji Xin opened her mouth to sneer, but Bao Jin tugged on her sleeve lightly, and replied gracefully.

The steward sent another brocade quilt, and the rouge for the bronze mirror in the room was replaced with high-grade ones. Baojin accepted them all with a smile, and he returned satisfied.

"It's a rule in the palace that if you accept this favor, it will be considered a cancellation. The current situation is unclear, so it's better not to make enemies."

After Baojin finished speaking, he changed his clothes and went to Lishangyuan.

Even though it was expected that there would be turmoil, as soon as he entered the main hall, he saw strange eyes from everyone, and strange whispers suddenly emerged.

That gaze was mixed with jealousy, sarcasm, disdain, and envy, swishing like a poisonous arrow, Bao Jin was still calm and composed, but sneered endlessly in his heart.

"Jao Si Fang is really well trained, and his ability to seduce and charm is really not shallow!"

Fang Wanqing laughed softly, and there were several people on the side agreeing. Today, Mingyue is on leave due to illness, and no one dares to oppose her anymore, so she becomes more and more unscrupulous.

Seeing that Baojin didn't answer, she said sarcastically: "I heard that you tore off your clothes and seduced you half-revealed. This kind of skill is really brilliant. Why don't you show it to everyone?"

Bao Jin smiled slightly, and was about to speak, but someone on the west side of the table whispered: "Sister Fang, yesterday the etiquette officer mentioned, don't say anything rude..."

It was Xu Yinghua!
She got up and poured a cup of tea for Fang Wanqing, and said with a soft smile: "Although my little girl has listened to this passage, she is a little confused. What should I do in front of the Holy One..."

She added the accent on the word "Holy Majesty". Fang Wanqing's complexion was cloudy after listening to it, but finally she stopped talking, took a sip of the hot tea, and gave Baojin another look, that's all.

(End of this chapter)