Your Majesty, I need to use the restroom

Meeting his piercing gaze, Pei Zhuang couldn’t help feeling chilled to the bones, but she still managed to put on a smiling face. “Will someone living a hard life deliberately put up a front?”

The man was rendered speechless.

Pei Zhuang continued her probe. “Although I don’t remember your identity, somehow I actually want to get close to you and rely on you. Did we...”

“We have known each other since we were kids. You were adopted by my parents after a disaster happened to your family. Forget it! Since you have lost your memory...”

After sighing with helplessness, he looked up at Pei Zhuang, whose eyes were flickering with innocence. “Zhuang’er, the Palace is full of danger. Since you have decided to marry the emperor, you must understand that once you are in trouble... You must always be discreet!”

What did he mean?

Pei Zhuang was in over her head!

Since the time travel, she had always focused on learning how to survive in the royal palace. Therefore, she forgot to inquire about the previous owner of her body.

If she hadn’t been kidnapped, she may still muddle along.

Realizing her awful situation, Pei Zhuang turned serious at once. “I don’t even remember why I married the emperor...”

In order to get more information, she deliberately told a lie.

The man turned to her with concern and said helplessly, “Are you sure about that? You always liked pretending to lose your memory when you were a child. I never expected...”

“Exactly.” Pei Zhuang nodded weakly.

As she was lost in thought, the man began to recount her past. “You are the daughter of the late Assistant Minister of War. Your father was framed by a villain and was sent into exile, who died halfway. Greatly stricken by your father’s death, your mother also passed away several months later.”

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Covering her face with her hands, Pei Zhuang pretended to be sorrow-stricken.

She was an orphan!

Was there still hope for her to turn the tide?

As if terribly frightened by the thunder, Pei Zhuang crossed her arms over her chest, shuddering.

In order to find out the murderer’s identity, she mustered up courage to make a deal with Lord Huai, Gu Xuanfeng by getting into the royal palace as a maid.

It was beyond her expectation that she did make it!

After becoming Gu Jinghong’s favourite concubine, she kept passing large amount of information she got from him to Gu Xuanfeng.

As fat as she was, Pei Zhuang, after all, was no more than a weak girl.

Thanks to her blood, a surprisingly effective antidote for Gu Jinghong, without which she would have died much earlier in the white war at the Imperial Palace.

Learning about such an astonishing secret all of a sudden, Pei Zhuang felt like weeping but could shed no tears. With a furious howl in her heart, she wished she could drag the foolish girl’s soul out and teach her a good lesson!

Ah!

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Anyway, being alive was the most important thing...

Never mind! She had to keep herself alive at least!

Pei Zhuang collapsed on the bed like a piece of limp lettuce before saying with a weak smile, “Thank you very much for telling me these.”

“Given our friendship, there is no need for such etiquette. Since you have lost your memory, you must be more cautious. As for Lord Huai, you still have to keep passing information to him as usual.”

Song Xuanye fell back into silence afterward. As the son of the Assistant Minister of Finance, his choice represented his whole family’s standpoint.

He disagreed with Pei Zhuang’s insistence on entering the palace, but he could do nothing in the face of her stubbornness.

Despite the deal she had made with Lord Huai, she absolutely wasn’t intelligent enough to protect herself.

In order to keep her safe, he had to be on Lord Huai’s side.

But he couldn’t tell her all of these.

Although Pei Zhuang had married the emperor, he still couldn’t suppress the urge to care about her and protect her...

Pei Zhuang was speechless.

As the dawn approached, in order to keep her safe, Song Xuanye had to hit Pei Zhuang’s acupoint, put her to sleep, and send her back reluctantly.