System and A Lazy Host✔

Arc 2: Chapter 3

[It's your aura I think. I think they find your aura to be familiar or pleasent which is odd cause I don't know why you have a similar aura as them.]

'Huh...'

"I am pretty right? I used to be the number one beauty in the capital but I became second thanks to consort Dīng Xiuyang, arrival."

"Yes you are beautiful. You just got unlucky and married the wrong person." Hè Meifeng answered.

"The wrong person?"

"Yes, the wrong person."

"How is the emperor the wrong person? If you were to marry the emperor, you would be the richest, most respected woman in the country!" She gasped.

"Consort Dài Yuan, do you even like the emperor? Wasn't your marriage a political marrige?"

"Well yes but I really like the emperor!"

"Are you sure it's not admiration? Maybe you just like his power? Or maybe his money and not his whole self. That is what probably what the emperor like about consort Dīng Xiuyang. She doesn't care for power and wealth but his whole self."

"Im really confused now..." Hè Meifeng sighed. She then started speaking slowly to her. "What Im saying is, you actually don't like the emperor. Maybe you should find someone you actually like rather than someone who likes someone else and loves you for who you are and not your status."

"But wealth and status is everything. If you don't have those, how can you even survive?" Dài Yuan crossed her arms as she spoke.

"Then how do commoners live? They have wealth but not as much as a noble and they are just commoners that us people look down on. Yet they survived..."

"I- uh-" Dài Yuan was about to say something but Hè Meifeng suddenly stood up.

"It's getting late. I best be going now. This consort shall leave." Hè Meifeng bowed and was about to go through the door when Dài Yuan shouted.

"Then have you found someone you love? I heard that you were the first love of the emperor, so you were the one that got married first, then after that he married someone else for political marriage and slowly forgot about you. Is it true? Do you still love him?"

Hè Meifeng looked back and smiled but her eyes looked like they were about to cry. "I have lived in this palace for 6 years. It was all in the past. I guess I wasn't the right one for him. You'll find someone else too." And so, with hurried and graceful steps, Hè Meifeng left with her maid following behind.

"Renshu." A man covered in black clothes appeared behind Dài Yuan. "Go investigate everything about her and report back to me in three days, or no punishment for you."

The man looked at Dài Yuan with a flushed face and a bit of excitement in his eyes and left. He then quickly did his job in hopes to be punished early.

Hè Meifeng who was walking back to her room like nothing happened. Her eyes that looked like she was about to cry returned to her dull and cold eyes as she talked with Intel.

[Turns out, Dài Yuan's a bit of a S] Intel informed as he looked at Dài Yuan who seems to be planning something.