The Love Imagination System

Section 38: Secrets and Secrets

“Be careful if Dowager Consort Sun calls you to the palace,” Baili Qingchen told Qingyi while they were in the carriage.

“Oh? Why?”

“The palace is not as simple as you think.”

No need to say by that guy. Qingyi knew about it. Palace people are not simple, but are people who have two faces and their thoughts are difficult to guess.

However, what interested Qingyi was the initial words of Baili Qingchen. If you think about it, it seems that his relationship with his mother is also not good. If not, he would probably not have said that.

“Including you?” ask Qingyi.

“What do you mean?”

“Do not pretend. You are also from there.”

“I've been out many years.”

“Yeah, who knows. You're like a time bomb ready to explode at any time.”

Baili Qingchen thought Qingyi was a real time bomb. How many secrets this girl had, how deep her understanding of everything was, how much she knew, Baili Qingchen had not been able to measure up to this point.

Qingyi said what she wanted to say, doing what she wanted to do without paying attention to the others. If this continues, it will turn around to harm itself.

Baili Qingchen had expected that her mother would call Qingyi to the palace to see how disrespectful the girl was. In front of the wives of emperors from three generations, his mother tried to test him by borrowing the hands of Emperor Baili.

Baili Qingchen suspected that the girl would give up, but who would have thought her actions were astonishing. He made everyone speechless because of the severity and honesty of his behavior.

“What do you think?” ask Qingchen.

Somehow he felt that this girl knew something that no one else deserved to know about her.

Qingyi crossed her arms in the chest. Since going to Xizhou, Baili Qingchen has done a lot for him. His previous indifference turned into meddling which Qingyi found too excessive.

The man meddled a lot in his problems, whereas Qingyi could solve them on her own. The more the day, Qingyi felt even more strange as the man behaved in an unusual manner. In addition to talking more, he also often met her even though unintentionally.

“You have many secrets,” Qingyi replied.

Baili Qingchen did not respond. He closed his eyes all the way home. Qingyi smiled mysteriously. Again, he found a strange. A powerful and influential man like Baili Qingchen was not simple either.

His mind was fixed on the man's main problem: his hobby of liking men. The more thought out, Qingyi became even more curious.

“You made the Emperor return all of my mansion's monthly rations in full?” ask Baili Qingchen.

“Why? You want to thank me?”

“How do you do it?”

“You want to know? Then tell me your secret I'll tell you.”

Baili Qingchen turned her face away. Bargaining like this would be useless, he thought.

“Never do anything you need not do.”

“I have the rights to that billing. I don't want to have a poor husband. Do you have to wait until all your assets are up just to act? Baili Qingchen, you can't budge forever,” Qingyi said. Baili Qingchen did not respond back and just cleared her throat, then closed her eyes again.

Baili Qingchen was deliberately silent, but did not completely ignore her. Every now and then he peeked at Qingyi who kept looking at him while grinning strangely. The contents of her empress' unpredictable head made her a little uneasy.

Starting from his indifference, Baili Qingchen had unknowingly walked up to him slowly. There are many words that cannot be said.

“Stop looking at me.”

“Why? My eyes won't come out just because they keep staring at you.”

“Terusi to you.”

Without feeling it, the carriage had stopped in front of the mansion. The coachman told them that they had arrived, then prepared a ladder to get down. Qingyi and Baili Qingchen preceded each other to descend. But because their movements were both fast, both of them were wedged in the carriage's doorway.

“I am the first!” qingyi.

“No. I'm faster than you!” baili Qingchen said she would not lose.

“You don't want to budge?”

“No.”

They're arguing. The coachman and the doorman were astonished at the behavior of their two masters. One was a cold, heartless man who disliked women, the other was a troublemaker woman who liked to fight anyone who bullied her.

Who should they choose? Princess Consort Changle or King Changle herself?

I don't know. They only watched the debate until one of them was willing to give up. At that time, Xiao Junjie happened to have just returned home from a visit to his family. Seeing a lifelong friend who looked like her husband was huddling with Qingyi, her heart was itching.

Xiao Junjie thought Qingyi was being punished in the palace for not knowing ethics, but in fact the girl instead went home and argued with Baili Qingchen.

“A-Chen? What are you guys doing?” tanyakanya.

“Ah, Princess Empress is wedged with me,” replied Baili Qingchen.

“I know. But, can't either of you come out first?”

Qingyi's expression turned ferocious.

“He should have relented! Xiao Junjie, quickly pull this guy out!” exclaim Qingyi.

Although annoyed, Xiao Junjie walked up to the carriage, then pulled Baili Qingchen's hand so that the man would come out first.

“A-Chen, come,” he said.

Baili Qingchen received Xiao Junjie's helping hand and got off first. Qingyi grieved, noticing the interaction of the pair of strange and super annoying lovebirds. He jumped down from the carriage, then walked behind Baili Qingchen and Xiao Junjie.

Itching to see the disgusting friendly scene, Qingyi walked quickly, then hit the two until Baili Qingchen and Xiao Junjie were half a meter apart.

Xiao Junjie growled in annoyance, cursing at Qingyi who dared to punch him from behind. He was about to reply, but Baili Qingchen held back her hand and shook her head.

“Let him,” he said. Xiao Junjie was forced to comply.

...***...

That night, Qingyi only remembered that she had left Yinghao in the palace. The little panda was still in Empress Dowager Ming's arms. He had subconsciously forgotten about it due to the focus of following Baili Qingchen. Now, Qingyi was at a loss on how to get it back.

There's no way she'd have to break through the palace all these nights just to take her gaze out of the Queen Mother's hands, right?

He could be considered insane and Emperor Baili would definitely use this opportunity to bring him down again. The show just this afternoon almost drove him half crazy.

“Your Highness, is this little dog yours?” cui Kong asked as Qingyi dissolved in her thoughts. The bodyguard came while carrying Yinghao. Qingyi's eyes twinkled then instantly snatched it from Cui Kong.

“How do you get it?”

“Your Majesty told me to go to the palace to retrieve it. He said, Princess Consort Changle's precious pet is still left there. So, I went and asked her to come back from the Queen Mother,” Cui Kong said.

“Baili Qingchen? Whoa, what's with him today?”

Cui Kong spread his shoulders. He only received the order to take the pet of the Empress Changle, then run it without asking anything. Cui Kong did not deny that something had changed from his employer.

People who usually do not care about trivial things like this, now turned into an unusual attention. Cui Kong could see that King Changle had several times breached his own tolerance limit on his Empress Dowager Changle.

“Connected you are here, tell me how Baili Qingchen is related to Consort Dowager Sun!” pinta Qingy.

“Why didn't His Majesty ask him himself?”

“You think that guy will tell me if I ask? He will throw me out. I'm just lazy to meet and argue with him.”

Qingyi could see the indecision on the expression shown by Cui Kong. As a loyal subordinate, talking about personal things such as relationships with parents is somewhat inappropriate.

But, Qingyi had no other choice because the only person she knew to have followed Baili Qingchen all these years was simply Cui Kong. In order to get an answer to his curiosity, he had no other choice.

“Come, say!” reset Qingyi.

“But I can't tell you everything. Your Majesty needs to know, a few years ago King Changle's relationship with Consort Dowager Sun was not tenuous as it is now.”

“What is Xiao Junjie?”

Cui Kong shook his head. No, it's not because of Xiao Junjie. The relationship between the two was tenuous long before Xiao Junjie came into the life of Baili Qingchen.

If not Xiao Junjie, then who else? Emperor Baili? Empress Dowager Ming? Or maybe….

“The first wife of King Changle?” guess Qingyi. Cui Kong chose not to answer. He did not nod, nor did he shake his head.

“Your Highness Princess, I have to go. His Highness the Prince gave me a task,” Cui Kong said.

He didn't think he needed to talk anymore. Let Princess Empress Changle find out for herself, or King Changle will tell her. Cui Kong left the western courtyard, then disappeared behind the darkness of the night.

After Cui Kong left, Qingyi wagged Yinghao's body and grabbed his ears. Yinghao rebelled, then jumped onto the table. Qingyi told her to change into a human form, then within seconds Yinghao had already transformed into a girl the same age as her.

“Are you so happy to be hugged and carried by a woman as beautiful as Empress Dowager Ming?” cibir Qingyi's.

“Master, you forgot me! I almost become a bolster doll if that bodyguard doesn't take me,” Yinghao lamented.

“Say, did I manage to run the mission today?” ask Qingyi. Of course he did not forget his mission today. Yinghao nodded.

“You not only gained the trust of Consort Dowager Sun, but Empress Dowager Ming as well. The gift of four new costume sets is already stored in the wardrobe dimension.”

Yinghao was suspicious of his master. Qingyi's reaction was ordinary when she received the reward, not as usual. Qingyi's thoughts floated on Cui Kong's words earlier, which told her about the relationship between Baili Qingchen and Consort Dowager Sun. On the outside, they looked very close, but it turned out that there was a tangled and difficult thread to break.

“Yinghao, time for action!”

“Master, what do you want to do?”

Qingyi did not reply, she told Yinghao to return to the form of a panda. While the night was getting late, Qingyi went to the dimension room to change her costume. Tonight, he won't sleep, he has to go somewhere.