The Treacherous Concubine’s Guide To Whitewashing

Chapter 5, Pt 2 - Dim Sum

This was the back garden of Qianqing Palace. Not long ago, this girl must have visited Sikong Lin with the dim sum. With such a depressed expression, it made it evident that she was rejected and then afterward sat here sulking.

Speaking of which, this was also considered to be a common behavior in Gong Dou scenarios where the imperial concubine tries to show her goodwill toward the Emperor. However, Sikong Lin was a fool, so to engage in this kind of charming gesture was like seeing for a blind person, especially with such an unpalatable dessert.

Luckily, Sikong Lin didn’t eat it, otherwise, he was likely to have suspected that he was poisoned, no?

Since Yuan Luo saw through her actions, Empress Wei’s complexion look somewhat ugly.

Yuan Luo shifted and touched her finger. Favorability: -89.

Yuan Luo: ...

As expected, she was an inflexible girl with a little chicken belly. She had dropped two points for something so trivial. She recalled that even after Gu Yi was beaten half to death and tortured by poison, he had only dropped two points.

Empress Wei impatiently retracted her hand. With a bitter smile she instructed her attendants: "Take these back and feed them to the dog later."

Yuan Luo genuinely reminded: "Dogs don’t eat this kind of food."


Empress Wei only heard this statement as a kind of provocation. Her petal-like lips trembled. "The imperial concubine is even concerned about my dog in Kunning Palace?"

"Merely a reminder. If Empress Consort wants to feed it to your dog, I have no complaint."

"It can’t compare with the imperial concubine, whose superior skill with hunting and roasting meat is the favorite among cats and dogs."

This was a mockery of Yuan Luo's background.

This was originally a painful spot for the original owner. One poke and she would get angry, but it entered Yuan Luo’s ears without any disturbance.

Having thought about it, she nodded: "Even if I hunt, this palace is also good at roasting and what not, including making dim sum. In all likelihood, I may also be a little better compared with Empress Consort’s skill."

In her last life, she was also regarded as a little baking master.

Empress Wei laughed angrily. After taking her measure, who doesn’t know that the woman in front of her was born to a hunter’s household. Before entering the palace, she doubted that this person had ever tasted something like dim sum, but now she spoke as if she knew a lot about it.

Her mocking expression was too obvious. Yuan Luo blurted, "How about I make some for the Imperial Consort to taste."

Empress Wei smiled in disapproval and stood up: "The weather is too cold.  This palace is going back."

This answer was more infuriating than contempt. Yuan Luo watched her lead the female officer to retreat quickly, feeling a kind of helpless despair in the cold wind.

The favorability of this inflexible girl seemed to be even harder than that of the male protagonist.

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After Yuan Luo returned to Zichen Palace and had dinner, Sikong Lin’s personal eunuch came to deliver a message. "The Emperor summons the noble concubine Empress."

A summons at this hour...

Yuan Luo looked at the dark sky outside. Suddenly she felt some indigestion from dinner.

Although she knew she was the imperial concubine and had been for some time and, moreover, she dominated as the most holy favored imperial concubine, but…...to go over and lie down in the Emperor’s palace in the evening…....there was such a thing as ‘going to bed’.

Yuan Luo had never had that type of experience in two lifetimes!!! Well, as a modern person, this type of thing wasn’t very important.

However, without considering the issue of the feelings between two people, Sikong Lin was only sixteen years old now, right? His body was that of a sixteen year old. He was still a minor!!!

Yuan Luo sank into a fretful state until Si Xi came over and asked: "Empress, today when you see the Emperor, what clothes should I prepare and also do you not know what the Emperor will want to play tonight?"

Play what? Wait a minute, it’s not possible that we even must prepare some fancy style, this… is too heavy!!!

"Last time the Empress accompanied the Emperor to play a game of fishing, but there were way too many koi in the pond, so no more than two took the bait. It was not as interesting as the cockfight before that, but it was too bloody." She said in distress.

Uh, what? Fishing? Cockfighting? The Emperor went to the harem late at night and didn't exchange "husband and wife feelings" with his concubine, instead, what did she mean, to play fishing and cockfighting?

Filled with doubts, Yuan Luo went to Qianqing Palace. When she arrived, Sikong Lin jumped up excitedly, like a white, fluffy Samoyed.

From childhood, his only playmate was Yuan Luo. In his simple memory, besides his mother, Yuan Luo was his closest person.

Yuan Luo quickly discovered that the so-called game playing was in fact playing games.

The two first played a game similar to whack-a-mole. A group of little eunuchs pretended to be mice running around in the spacious hall with wooden boards. Sikong Lin and Yuan Luo were in charge of throwing rice and fighting. Afterward they watched a burlesque for a long time. More than a dozen actors with burlesque masks were laughing and playing, using various funny actions just to make people laugh. There were a few naturally grotesque pygmies that were jumping up and down and performing cleverly, but they were simply too noisy and Yuan’s Luo head began to ache.

Perhaps the actors finally noticed the impatience on her face, but very soon the program changed to a new one.

Out of boredom, Yuan Luo was eating fruit from the table and nearly spit out what was in her mouth when she saw the next bit of entertainment.

Several beautifully born girls, no, they should be two pretty boys who were pressed to the ground by the pygmies, stripped of clothes, and made to perform various lustful acts, even with the appearance of having sex.

Yuan Luo could not have imagined that the ordinary play from earlier would somehow turn into this kind of 18+ forbidden absurdity.  In particular, were the young boys pressed on the ground producing subtle groans, which must have been specifically trained, because the tone was gentle and charming and the people’s faces were flushed.

This real-life pornographic film made Yuan Luo unable to move. Pulling herself together, she suddenly got up and turned over the plate of fruit on the table in front of her.

The performers were startled and quickly got up before they knelt down to kowtow. Yuan Luo became aware of her gaffe and turned to look at Sikong Lin.

The young Emperor was yawning, as if he had no interest in this kind of drama. Seeing Yuan Luo standing up, she smiled and said, "A Luo doesn't like to watch such boring things either. I also find it very boring."

Yuan Luo's attention shifted and she glanced at Sikong Lin's lower body unconsciously, but apparently he had no reaction whatsoever.

Humans are sensual animals. The few boys and girls just now were stunning and graceful with attractive and seductive postures. Their performance was more charming than the little movies she had seen in her previous live. Yuan Luo’s heartbeat had sped up, making her almost lose her composure. Unexpectedly, Sikong Lin, who was a man, was motionless as if he were a mountain.