PQE Chapter 10

He thought that Concubine De wanted to choose him to be a loyal servant, or to send him to another palace as an insider, or maybe she just took a fancy to some qualities he had in the past three years. He never expected that this would be the most obvious answer. If this was the case, he seemed to understand why Concubine De went to so much trouble.

He suddenly remembered that on the way to send Concubine De back to the palace that day, Concubine De very gently asked him about his birthplace and family.

“I… dare not.” Fu Chen suddenly knelt on the ground with a thud, without any hesitation, “The concubine’s body is worth millions of gold, how can it be desecrated.”

In his previous life, he was a psychologist. Although he had the title of doctor, it would be more appropriate to say that he was a psychological counselor. 

He had seen a lot of dirty things, and keeping his mouth shut was his professional ethics. Many of his clients were celebrities, but even these glamorous people always had some shady things that were not visible to the public. 

Perhaps this was also the reason why he changed his career later. He didn’t want to be assimilated.

When living in an environment that is easily corrupted for a long time, sometimes even the original intention will gradually be lost.

The nobles in the palace all regarded eunuchs as slaves and never looked down on them. This was not directed against anyone, but was a habit accumulated over the dynasties. In other dynasties, such things did happen, that is, eunuchs who gained power would let low-ranking and unfavored concubines serve them.

Concubine De was not angry about Fu Chen’s refusal. She seemed to have expected it. Instead, she was more satisfied. This integrity was the most unique feature of this little eunuch. Her hand with the finger gloves stroked Fu Chen’s smooth face.

Fu Chen felt the tip of the fingertip sliding across his skin, close yet not so close, like a sickle dancing on his heart.

“Everyone wants power, don’t you?”

“Do you know why I chose you? You have a pair of eyes that are beyond your age, and they contain desires that you are not even aware of.”

“You are in a state like this, and you have better options. I can give them to you.”

“You are a smart person and you know what to choose.”

A series of words can arouse people’s most potential desires.

Fu Chen remained silent, listening to Concubine De’s words, every word hitting his heart. Concubine De stood up, graceful and elegant, her breath slowly sprayed on Fu Chen’s neck. Fu Chen couldn’t help but shudder, she chuckled and said: “I once had a lover, he was the same age as you when I met him, you have eyes that hide secrets, you have such a cautious temperament, you have such a beautiful and clean appearance, at that time I was a concubine’s daughter and was placed in an old house in the countryside and no one cared about me, until the emperor issued an imperial decree, my family sent me to the palace out of gratitude, and later learned that I was in love with him, and actually sent him to the palace.”

There was only one path for men sent to the palace.

The family of Concubine De is really cruel. This does not just cut off any possibility.

Fu Chen just learned about Concubine De’s past. He looked confused and asked, “What happened to him later…”

“Died.”

Fu Chen didn’t ask how he died, and Concubine De obviously didn’t want to say.

“I’ll give you some time to think about it. I pity you and won’t force you.”

“If I hear any rumors about what happened today, your family members outside the palace will be implicated as well.”

“Go down, I’m tired.”

Finally, he walked out of Fuxi Palace in a daze under the lazy expulsion of Concubine De.

He believed that any eunuch who could catch the eye of the noble master would be eager to agree.

He did not agree immediately, perhaps because Concubine De saw him as ungrateful.

Concubine De was willing to risk implicating her entire clan in order to displease the emperor. How deep of a hatred was this?

She also thought of the reputation and connections that Concubine De had in the palace. Although the emperor never stayed overnight with her, he always showed her great favor.

He suddenly felt a chill running up from the soles of his feet.

Is it up to him to be a woman’s exclusive lover, a male favorite who relies on his master’s face?

He is even worse than a male favorite. In everyone’s eyes, he is now just a eunuch.

He suffered a stomach cramp and fell to the ground in the corner of the palace path and hid in the bushes. All the food that was still being digested in his stomach was regurgitated.

He had vomited until there was nothing left, but he was still retching, tears filling his eyes, and the touch of the woman’s touch seemed to remain on his face and chest, and his throat was burning. Their age difference was almost two generations, and he thought of a popular saying in modern times: no matter how old a man is, he will always like a girl in her twenties.

Perhaps, this law also applies to women. In this lonely palace, they always have to find some fun.

Does he have to be grateful just because he has the chance to be a part of the fun?

What kind of logic is this! He even wanted to tear off the smiling face of that woman.

Fu Chen staggered out from behind the bushes, not noticing the pair of calm and holy eyes behind him. It was the Third Prince who had been away for a long time.

Shao Anlin walked out leisurely from not far away and looked in the direction where Fu Chen left.

Fu Chen was a well-behaved person. No matter how upset he was, he would not vent it. He came out of Fuxi Palace and walked towards Jianlan Garden.

But when passing by a palace, he heard sounds of laughter and cursing from inside.

“Hey, idiot, come over to Grandpa’s crotch.”

“Hahahaha, come and pick it up, you idiot is really stupid!”

A disheveled, disheveled man screamed and shouted something as he rushed out of the door and bumped into Fu Chen who was coming towards him.

When Fu Chen came back to his senses, he noticed a pair of familiar eyes. It was the Seventh Prince who once punished him to kneel under the scorching sun: Shao Huachi.

Hearing the sound of pursuit from behind, Shao Huachi, who had bumped into someone in front, didn’t seem to notice Fu Chen and just ran forward.

Fu Chen suppressed his shock and turned around without even thinking, hiding behind a pillar. Soon the two eunuchs inside chased out, brought the seemingly crazy Shao Huachi in, closed the palace gates, and isolated him from the outside world.

Fu Chen looked inside through the hollow patterns on the wall and saw Shao Huachi’s eyes were distracted, his expression was dull and he was grinning foolishly. 

His clothes were still a little muddy. He seemed to see Fu Chen looking here and laughed in this direction. He looked completely different from the arrogant and forbearing prince he had seen before. 

Fu Chen had heard a month ago that the seventh prince had a fever after falling into the water. After that, he was delirious with fever and the imperial physician was helpless. Although he was saved, he became stupid. 

The emperor, who originally disliked Concubine Li and her son, wanted to remove them from the list of princes, but was stopped by the kind-hearted empress and ministers and gave up. In the end, he gave them to the empress to raise.

However, Fu Chen knew that the reason why the emperor was so cruel was probably because he still thought that the seventh prince was not his own child.

This palace is usually deserted, so no one knows what the empress wants to do. These eunuchs were probably sent by the empress to deliver meals.

“What is he looking at! Is there anyone there?” One of the horse-faced eunuchs looked in Fu Chen’s direction and found nothing.

“What’s the big deal? Why are you arguing with a fool?” The thin eunuch pulled him back and took a look outside.

The horse-faced eunuch slapped Shao Huachi loudly with great force.

Soon the half mask fell off, and the two eunuchs were so scared when they saw the ghostly side that they grabbed each other.

“Ghost!”

“too disgusting!”

“This ghost face actually has the nerve to live in this world!”

“No wonder Concubine Li entered Jingyang Palace. It must be the work of this half-human, half-ghost thing. What a jinx!”

“Your Majesty is too kind to keep such a thing in the palace.”

While they were cursing, they didn’t know that Fu Chen behind the wall was holding on to his clothes. Jinx, a familiar name, used to be a Jinx, a synonym for disaster. He killed his father, mother, wife and children, and was a complete loner. Even he himself would doubt whether he really killed everyone around him.

The half of Shao Huachi’s ghost face was now even more horrible. Half of his eye had been squeezed by the swollen abscess. The abscess seemed to be torn due to the force just now, and black and purple pus flowed out. On the other hand, the other side was as beautiful as a banished immortal. It was no wonder that the huge difference between the two sides could scare people to faint.

These two eunuchs had seen bloody scenes before, so they suppressed their nausea and approached Shao Huachi again.

The horse-faced eunuch turned his face away, and grabbed Shao Huachi’s hair fiercely with a fierce look of malice, “I’ll let you look around, I’ll let you show your face, I’ll let you laugh! Laugh, laugh, laugh, keep laughing!”

Shao Huachi screamed in pain and looked really in agony.

The horse-faced eunuch seemed to have found some pleasure. As a servant who had been bullied in every way, he could one day surpass his master and vent all his negative emotions on him, especially on the arrogant Seventh Prince.

The horse-faced eunuch threw the rice bowl to the ground, and held Shao Huachi’s head down with one hand, so that the vegetables and rice were all over his face. Shao Huachi’s back was pressed, his hands were flying in the air, and he was making a “wuwuwu” sound from his mouth. It looked like he was really suffocating.

“Hey, you’re almost there. The empress only asked us to test whether he is really stupid. After all, he is a prince. If he goes too far, he will be punished.” The thin eunuch next to him pulled him to prevent him from killing anyone. After all, he is a prince.

“What are you afraid of? He is not the seventh prince now. He is not even as good as us.” The horse-faced eunuch was fearless.

This was true. It was said that after Concubine Li was banished to the cold palace, the Emperor had originally ignored the Seventh Prince. Unexpectedly, the Empress was so kind that she offered to raise the Seventh Prince, who was said to be the reincarnation of a disaster star. There were even rumors in the palace that the Empress was a fairy who had descended to the earth and was very compassionate.

Thanks to the thin eunuch’s obstruction, the horse-faced eunuch did not kill the man after all.

He suddenly laughed evilly, as if he had thought of a good idea, and poked the person next to him, “I said, hold him down.”

“What are you going to do?” The thin eunuch glanced at the ghost-faced eunuch, his face turned pale. He was not as interested as the horse-faced eunuch and just wanted to leave quickly.

“Hold him down, and then…” The horse-faced eunuch opened his legs and pointed at his crotch, “Let him crawl over.”

“Are you… crazy? He is the prince!”

“What’s wrong with the prince? If I can get the prince to crawl under my crotch in this life, I will be honored even when I die!”

The eunuch with the thin face didn’t agree at first. He wouldn’t even dare to think about such a disrespectful thing. But then he became tempted. This was the prince!

Suddenly, at this moment, a voice of greeting was heard, but it was too far away to be clearly heard.

The two eunuchs quickly suppressed the malice on their faces, quickly cleaned up the ground, and rudely picked the food off the Seventh Prince’s face. At the same time, they grabbed a few strands of his hair, and hurried out of the palace without paying any attention to the screaming Seventh Prince.

Fu Chen waited for about a cup of tea, and only walked in after making sure that the two people would not come back.

Just now he was not sure whether shouting greetings could divert the two eunuchs, and fortunately they were already guilty.

He approached Shao Huachi gently, but found that the young man had his head down, completely immersed in his own world, fiddling with his clothes, and did not notice Fu Chen. He approached and gently patted his back, shouting, “Seventh Prince?”

The ghost’s face was facing Fu Chen, but having seen far more horrible things in his previous life, he did not show any disgust. Instead, he took the cloth he carried with him and gently wiped off the blood.

Fu Chen could not see any disguise in that look. He knew that some people who were good at disguise and anti-reconnaissance could confuse the line of sight and act so well that they could even fool themselves. He once assisted the police and provided psychological counseling for a criminal who used to be a professor of criminal psychology. 

The negotiation process was not smooth. Fu Chen was brought into the other party’s world many times when he came into contact with the other party.

But he didn’t think that Shao Huachi, who was still a teenager, had the ability to make the fake look real.

At least for now, in his judgment, Shao Huachi should have really been burned into an idiot.