Dad, don't be greedy! My brother climbed into the emperor's bed, and I became famous overn

Gu Mingyue stood beside him, watching the whole thing.

Seeing Pei Yu's expression, Gu Mingyue pursed her lips, desperately trying to suppress the laughter that was about to break free.

"Um... Lord Pei, I forgot to introduce you."

Gu Mingyue reached out and pointed to the dusty figure.

"That's my older brother. The current Imperial Physician, Gu Mingli."

"What...reason?"

Pei Yu's mind went blank.

It was as if someone had struck a great bell in his ear, making his very soul tremble.

"impossible!"

He instinctively retorted, his voice even changing tone.

"Impossible!!!! How could this young master possibly have the surname Gu?!"

Gu Mingyue raised an eyebrow and looked at him with a leisurely air.

His tone was completely serious.

"Oh? Then, Lord Pei, what do you think my brother should have if he doesn't have the surname Gu?"

Pei Yu's lips turned pale, her mind went blank, and she blurted out:

"Isn't his surname Xiao?!"

Gu Mingyue: "..."

Pei Yu: "..."

Gu Mingli, who turned around upon hearing the sound from a short distance away, was speechless.

The surrounding air seemed to have been sucked out in that instant.

An extremely terrifying logical chain, leading straight to the underworld, suddenly took shape in Pei Yu's clever mind!

in case……

That night, with peach blossom eyes.

The white-clad man who was tied up and taken back to the dilapidated temple by his men was not the emperor at all.

So...

On the boat in Peach Blossom Spring, the person who sat shoulder to shoulder with this man surnamed Gu while rowing...

That person, though dressed in a light blue brocade robe, possessed an imposing presence and extraordinary bearing...

That person, whose mere glance sent chills down your spine...

The image flashed through my mind.

Pei Yu suddenly remembered something.

Aaaaaaahh ...

That person he pointed at and cursed in the dilapidated temple, in front of a room full of robbers, as "someone who uses his looks to seduce men"...

Aaaaaaahh ...

The person he looked down on, with an air of superiority, pulled out a flimsy one-hundred-tael silver note.

Then it slammed down on his broad chest with utter contempt.

Finally, he arrogantly yelled, "Take the money and get the hell out of here!"

Aaaaaaaahh ...

That person is His Majesty!

That's the truly decisive and ruthless His Majesty!

Pei Yu felt a sudden chill run down her back.

It felt as if someone had poured a bucket of ice water over my head; even my undershirt was instantly soaked with cold sweat.

An indescribable chill of despair shot up my spine and straight to the top of my head!

Pei Yu's knees suddenly buckled.

He staggered forward uncontrollably, taking half a large step.

Looking at his swaying and miserable appearance, Gu Mingyue turned around and glanced at him with feigned confusion.

"Master Pei? What's wrong? Why aren't you leaving?"

Pei Yu certainly couldn't leave.

He couldn't even walk; his legs were as weak as cooked noodles.

At this moment.

His mind was replaying his short but "glorious" first half of life like a revolving lantern.

He could even see the eerie Bridge of Helplessness.

At the bridgehead stood two men, one black and one white, holding a soul-guiding lantern, waving and smiling at him.

"Come on, young master! Let's play the Nine Clans Elimination Game!"

And at the bridgehead, the old woman with a hunched back was trembling as she held a broken bowl.

"Boy, your entire family was slaughtered, wasn't it?"

"How many people are there in total? How many bowls of wine are you drinking?"

"Ice or hot?"

"How much sugar?"

The night Pei Yu returned to the Pei residence from the construction site, she didn't even drink a sip of water before developing a high fever.

The Pei residence was instantly thrown into chaos.

They went to various pharmacies overnight to invite renowned doctors and experts from all over Kyoto.

However, after several elderly doctors with white beards examined the patient's pulse for a long time through the bed curtains, they all came to the same conclusion:

This has nothing to do with wind, cold, or heat.

The pulse was scattered and disordered, clearly indicating extreme fright.

It's a mental and emotional distress caused by shock and anxiety, leading to a loss of spirit!

The old lady of the Pei family sat in front of the couch, leaning on her cane.

I was so heartbroken that I kept crying, and my handkerchief was soaked through.

"Oh my God, my grandson!"

"He just went to that damn construction site for the imperial court, how did he get possessed and become like this?"

Pei Chongyue, the Minister of Personnel, heard the news after returning to his residence from his shift at the yamen.

They immediately realized something was wrong.

The next day.

The main hall of the Pei residence was tightly shut, with its doors and windows closed.

Even the maids and servants who were supposed to serve them were driven outside the courtyard.

Pei Yu, wrapped in a thick winter quilt, knelt stiffly on the cold floor tiles, her face deathly pale.

Pei Chongyue, the head of the Pei family, sat imposingly on a rosewood armchair.

He held a dragon-patterned cane in his hand, symbolizing the majesty of the head of the family.

His face was so gloomy it could drip ink.

"Speak! What happened?"

Pei Chongyue slammed his cane heavily on the ground, making a dull thud.

"What kind of deity did you offend at the construction site? Could someone as dignified and eldest grandson of a noble family be so frightened?!"

Pei Yu's teeth chattered, and she wrapped herself tightly in the quilt.

His face was instantly covered in tears and snot, completely losing any semblance of the demeanor of a young master from a noble family.

"Grandfather, I... I may have offended the one person in the world I should never have offended..."

He stammered and trembled.

The story recounts what happened in the dilapidated temple in Peach Blossom Spring during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Along with the phrases "You womanizer" and "Take the money and get out," everything was laid bare.

The words fell.

The main hall of the Pei residence was deathly silent.

You could hear a pin drop.

Pei Chongyue's lips trembled violently.

His originally cloudy eyes were now wide open in terror, his eyeballs almost popping out.

"What did you say?! What did you say?!"

"You insulted the current emperor?"

"You actually told him to take the money and get out?!"

Pei Yu nodded vigorously.

Finally unable to bear the emotional breakdown, she looked up and burst into tears.

"Grandfather! I really didn't know that was the Emperor!!"

"But the person next to him really did have a jade pendant with a dragon design hanging from his waist! Several of us went to check, and we all saw it clearly!"

The servants who were attending to Pei Yu nodded in unison.

"Clang!"

The expensive set of celadon teacups beside Pei Chongyue was swept away by his hand and smashed to pieces.

"How foolish! How foolish!"

The old man's noodles turned a deep purplish-red, like pig's liver, and his chest heaved violently.

His lips trembled for a long time, but he couldn't utter a single word.

He suddenly leaned back, his eyes rolled back, and he was about to pass out.

"master!"

"Father!"

"Uncle!"

The elders of the Pei family were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and they scrambled forward to help him up.

"Grandfather!" Pei Yu didn't even bother to wrap himself in the blanket and rushed over.

Pei Chongyue gasped for breath and shoved Pei Yu away.

She raised her hand tremblingly and pointed at his nose.

"You...you...ugh!!"

He raised his hand high, but looking at his grandson's tearful face, he couldn't bring himself to slap him.

The old man clutched his forehead in pain and slumped back into the armchair.

After a moment, the old man finally spoke in a hoarse voice.

"Back then, in the struggle for the throne, our Pei family chose the wrong side, and has been walking on thin ice ever since!"

"The new emperor has only been on the throne for a year, yet he has already demonstrated a terrifyingly ruthless approach."

"Right now, he's just looking for a pretext to punish us aristocratic families so he can consolidate his imperial power!"

"And you! You washed your own neck clean and handed it to the emperor's blade! You..."

Pei Yu lay prostrate on the ground in despair, kowtowing repeatedly until her forehead was covered in bruises.

"Grandfather, save me! I don't want to die! I'm not married yet, Grandfather!"

Pei Yu cried so bitterly and pitifully.

Pei Chongyue looked at his grandson, whom he had placed high hopes on since childhood and doted on.

I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.

"Never mind..."

He tilted his head back and pursed his chapped lips. When he opened his eyes again, his cloudy gaze gradually turned fierce and resolute.

"At this point, saving face is out of the question. We have no other choice but to try anything!"