Chapter 58: Reward
“You seem… displeased, Lady Qing.”
“Hm?” She blinked and then feigned an innocent look. Of course, she was fucking annoyed at being interrupted and even more annoyed due to the sigh...
2024-07-05 22:04:25 +0000 UTC View Post
“You seem… displeased, Lady Qing.”
“Hm?” She blinked and then feigned an innocent look. Of course, she was fucking annoyed at being interrupted and even more annoyed due to the sigh...
2024-07-05 22:04:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe talk between them was long. They had to pause when the physician came. Huang Yasheng did not move from her side. He had already seen the unconscious girl and told Han Qin to take him to a secur...
2024-06-28 21:22:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe Emperor.
Samaya stood, bowing to the man. The rules here were strange. If you were standing, you had to kneel to bow unless you were of a certain status and position. If you were sitting ...
2024-06-21 21:50:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe only sound that could be heard for the next few moments was the hacking cough that wrecked the young maid’s body. And then chaos descended. The other maids rushed to the Empress, who was now ...
2024-06-14 21:52:39 +0000 UTC View PostAs the maid started to set the teapot and pour the tea, Samaya waited for a response from the Empress. Her eyes absently roamed over the beautiful porcelain cups. She noticed something. All of them...
2024-06-07 21:42:37 +0000 UTC View PostSamaya had expected to be kept waiting for a while when she arrived at the Tianfenggong.
To her surprise, however, she was quickly led to the large courtyard that surrounded the residen...
2024-05-31 22:29:43 +0000 UTC View Post“Nothing.”
She frowned, her hand clenching around the cup of water in her hand. She had sent Ah-Liu to conduct his own investigation into Kang Yu and what she had been doing before her de...
2024-05-24 19:20:36 +0000 UTC View PostChen Yuming found himself in front of a small shack at the very end of one of the slum lanes of the Capital. The people surrounding the shack - small and malnourished - had long been driven away. T...
2024-05-17 19:46:09 +0000 UTC View PostEven though the concubines were gone, Samaya still gestures the maids to bring a table and set out proper snacks and tea. She was sure the Empress wouldn’t even touch them. But she had to … ah,...
2024-05-10 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt was when a visitor came that the two kids moved. Ah-Liu must have sensed her, since he got up in the blink of an eye, the only evidence of his outburst was the wrinkled sheet by her feet and the...
2024-05-03 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt almost seemed like a dream.
If not for the lingering scent of the man’s perfume, she really would have thought it was some sort of fever dream. She sighed as she relaxed against the pi...
What was she doing?
She could barely even think with the pain piercing every part of her body. She was paying the price for letting her guard down after taking care of the first three fuckers...
2024-04-19 19:36:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe very air around the Emperor was cold. Anyone who had refined their senses enough to sense chi would feel his energy crackling dangerously, boundless wrath simmering beneath his skin. But even t...
2024-04-12 21:56:07 +0000 UTC View PostSamaya awoke as she heard soft footsteps padding across her roof. Those tiled roofs made it easy to get a grip and move around sneakily if you knew what you were doing. However … these people wer...
2024-04-05 20:38:18 +0000 UTC View PostSiwang found treasures in the damnedest places. Of all the places to find some sort of magical treasure, he just HAD to send her to some sort of cave smack dab in the middle of a forest that came s...
2024-04-02 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostShe couldn’t be put on her back. It was a mess of skin peeled off her back and flesh ripped into by the whips. The agony she had felt when the whip had first landed… had been the worst pain she...
2024-03-29 21:03:19 +0000 UTC View PostIt took everything in her not to grab the nearest chopsticks and shove it into the eye of the Emperor. Damn this man and his habit of concealing his presence.
She exhaled softly and tur...
2024-03-22 21:27:46 +0000 UTC View PostWhen they arrived at the kitchen of the Yongyagong with Manu still in her arms, a hush fell over the servants. Most of them scattered out of the way, heads bowed. Some of them gathered the...
2024-03-15 19:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostShe snapped her head back. The figure was only a few inches away from her and she had not even realized. Had she been so engrossed in comforting Manu? Perhaps. She’d been at this since yesterday ...
2024-03-01 22:06:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe open ground - a large field surrounded by small verandas for the Imperial Family and nobility - was cluttered with an array of grim instruments and tools, scattered like silent witnesses to the...
2024-03-01 21:59:29 +0000 UTC View PostSilence reigned like a blanket on a hot summer night, heavy and suffocating.
Samaya could feel Manu clutch her clothes, and shrink himself to her side. She put a reassuring hand on his head a...
2024-03-01 21:47:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe sleeves were lifted to reveal Manu’s elbows wrapped in makeshift bandages. They started from a little above his elbow and ended a little below. They were a bit sloppy but tightly wrapped. And...
2024-03-01 21:36:51 +0000 UTC View PostAnd once again, everyone went down to their knees, bowing to the Emperor as he walked past them. Samaya had to turn around a bit and kowtow as the Emperor passed by. She wondered absently if she wo...
2024-03-01 21:24:37 +0000 UTC View Post“Lady Qing, you have been summoned by the Empress.”
Min’s voice brought them out of their conversation.
Ah. They were here.
She looked at Ah-Liu. “You did good work, Ah-Li...
2024-02-26 18:25:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe residences in each of the Inner Palaces were such that the newest and the most junior concubine would get the outermost courtyards. So the very first Virtuous Lady got a courtyard in the deepes...
2024-02-26 15:28:29 +0000 UTC View Post“Min? What’s wrong?”
Samaya asked, stepping forward. The poor girl looked scared … wary. She was clutching a bundle of clothes in her hands, her fists clenching tightly around the fab...
2024-02-24 17:51:16 +0000 UTC View Post