Chapter 420 Step by Step Shocking Jade Tan 42
Chapter 420 Step by Step Shocking Jade Tan 42
Ruoxi couldn't help but think of the comments about Kangxi that she had seen on the Internet before. Some people said that he was incompetent in his later years, obsessed with women, and ignored state affairs. Now it seems that the rumors are not groundless.
Thinking of this, Ruoxi couldn't help but feel a little sad.
"Xuan Ye, you should take a rest. How can your body bear staying up late like this all the time?" Yu Tan gently stroked Kangxi's eyebrows with her slender jade fingers. There was a hint of anger in her tone, but it was full of heartache.
Kangxi held her restless little hand, placed it on his lips and kissed it gently, his eyes full of smiles: "I am not tired, as long as I can be with you, even if I have to review memorials until dawn, I will be happy."
"You, you just know how to say nice things to please me." Yu Tan glared at him coquettishly, but couldn't hide the sweetness in her eyes.
She stood up and sorted out the memorials on the table, and then personally made a cup of tea for Kangxi: "Even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about me. If you collapse from exhaustion, what should I do?"
Kangxi took the teacup and looked at Yutan's busy figure, and a sense of satisfaction he had never felt before surged in his heart. He once thought that in this world, apart from the country, nothing else could move him.
But since he met Yu Tan, he realized that there is such a gentle feeling in this world, which made him willing to put aside the dignity of an emperor just to make her smile.
"Okay, it's all up to you."
Kangxi agreed with a smile, but a sly look flashed in his eyes: "But I have one condition."
Yu Tan stopped what she was doing and looked at him curiously: "What are the conditions?"
Kangxi didn't say anything. He picked up Yutan and left, leaving Ruoxi in shock and a room full of palace maids and eunuchs.
"Oh, Your Majesty, what are you doing? So many people are watching you!" Yu Tan said coquettishly, but there was a barely perceptible hint of pride in her voice.
Kangxi ignored her struggles and carried her straight through the hall to the bedroom. His steps were steady, and he didn't look like he was over the age of 50.
"This is my bedroom. I can carry anyone I want into it. No one dares to say anything!" Kangxi said domineeringly, with a hint of unquestionable majesty in his tone.
Yu Tan leaned in his arms, with a sly smile on her lips. She knew that the more powerful Kangxi acted, the more it showed that he cared about her.
In the bedroom, red candles flickered and the air was filled with fragrance. Kangxi gently placed Yutan on the bed and leaned over to kiss her red lips.
Outside the window, the night is deep and a bright moon hangs high in the sky, as if watching all this silently.
Ruoxi stood outside the palace, looking at the closed door of the palace, feeling mixed emotions. She didn't understand why Kangxi was so obsessed with Yutan, was it just because of her beauty?
"Miss Ruoxi, it's late. You should go back and rest early." A voice sounded behind her.
Ruoxi looked back and saw that it was Li Dequan, the chief eunuch beside Kangxi.
"Eunuch Li."
Ruoxi bowed slightly, suppressing the bitterness in her heart, and asked, "The Emperor..."
"I'm afraid the emperor won't come out tonight." Li Dequan looked at her meaningfully.
"Miss Ruoxi, some things should be kept to yourself. They are not something you can interfere with. You should stop now."
Ruoxi's heart trembled, knowing that Li Dequan was warning her. She didn't dare to say anything more and left silently.
After returning to her residence, Ruoxi lay on the bed, but couldn't fall asleep.
Ruoxi lay in bed, replaying the scenes of tonight in her mind. Kangxi's doting on Yutan, the cunning in Yutan's eyes, and Li Dequan's meaningful warnings, all lingered in her mind like a movie.
Kangxi's favor for Yutan had reached an unbelievable level.
"Why? Why is the emperor so obsessed with Yutan?" Ruoxi's heart seemed to be tightly grasped by an invisible hand, making her breathless.
The more Ruoxi thought about it, the more frightened she became. Could there really be such a coincidence in this world?
"Could it be that she is the same as me?" A bold thought flashed through Ruoxi's mind.
Ruoxi carefully recalled Yu Tan's every frown and smile. Those seemingly ordinary actions were actually full of weirdness.
If Yu Tan also traveled through time, then everything she did could be explained. She approached Kangxi, took advantage of Kangxi's favor, and took every step carefully to finally achieve her goal.
The more Ruoxi thought about it, the more she felt it was possible. She must find an opportunity to test Yutan.
The next morning, Ruoxi came to Yutan's bedroom on the pretext of paying respects. Yutan lazily leaned on the couch, holding a cup of fragrant tea in her hand, enjoying the service of the palace maids, looking relaxed and comfortable.
"Miss Ruoxi, how come you have time to come to my place today?" Yu Tan put down the teacup and looked at Ruoxi with a smile.
"I just felt that I had a good relationship with Your Majesty from the moment we met, so I came to visit you today." Ruoxi said with a smile, but her eyes were fixed on Yutan, not missing any of her subtle expressions.
Yu Tan chuckled, didn't take it seriously, and asked Ruoxi to sit down.
Ruoxi walked over to Yutan and sat down, asking casually, "Did you read any books before entering the palace?"
Yu Tan was slightly startled, then smiled and said, "Manchu women are not allowed to read and write before entering the palace. Don't you know that?"
"Oh? Has your Majesty ever heard of 'odd points change, but even points remain unchanged'?" Ruoxi stared into Yutan's eyes.
Yu Tan asked in confusion: "What are you talking about? I have never heard of it."
Ruoxi felt amused. It turned out that Yutan was just pretending to be stupid!
She just couldn't believe that a modern person wouldn't know what "odd things change, but even things don't change" meant.
"Your Majesty is right. Ruoxi was rude." Ruoxi concealed the suspicion in her eyes and put on a smiling face.
The two chatted for a few more sentences in a perfunctory manner, and then Ruoxi stood up and said goodbye.
"Odd changes, even does not change" is a simple formula for binary in modern mathematics, which Yu Tan could not possibly know. She pretended not to understand, which further showed that she was deliberately hiding her identity.
"It seems that this Yu Tan is indeed not simple." Ruoxi left Yu Tan's bedroom, thinking secretly in her heart.
"What is her purpose? Is she trying to change history?"
Back in her room, Ruoxi felt something was wrong. Yutan's behavior was too deliberate, which only made it more obvious. It seemed that she had to think of a way to make Yutan reveal her true colors.
After Ruoxi left, Yutan felt confused. What chicken, lotus root, what on earth are these? She rubbed her temples and felt that life in the harem was boring.
Ruoxi is a really strange girl. She comes to talk to me about all these nonsense for no reason. Could it be that she has been in the palace for too long and her mind has become confused?
She casually called over the maidservant beside her and asked nonchalantly, "Hey, what's wrong with Miss Ruoxi today? Why did she come to me and say such strange things?"
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