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Chapter 375 The Darkest Plot
The weather can change in an instant.

The laundry room immediately sprang into action.

Amidst the increasingly urgent urging of the head maid, Li Minghe, along with the other young palace maids from the laundry department, was rushing through the courtyard before the raindrops fell, quickly collecting the clothes of the palace masters.

If the clothes get wet from the rain, and the palace servants can't provide clean, dry clothes when they come to collect them, then the responsible palace maid will be in trouble!
But things rarely go as planned. Li Minghe was carrying the pile of clothes she was responsible for into the house when, just as she was about to reach the door, someone shoved her from behind. She stumbled forward and fell forward. In her panic, she instinctively reached out to brace herself, but as a result, the pile of clothes in her arms scattered all over the ground like petals from a fairy shower.

That's not all; hurried footsteps were all around.

When she struggled to her feet, carrying a pile of clothes, she saw that many of the clothes in her arms were covered with dirty footprints.

Normally, clothes that are already half-dry could be taken back inside and dried a little, then scented with incense, but the footprints left behind mean they have to be washed again.

Thinking of the consequences of not being able to deliver clean clothes on time, Li Minghe's face turned deathly pale.

The noble ladies in the palace wouldn't care why you didn't finish cleaning your clothes on time, especially since the footprints on them were left by a 'lowly' palace maid. What if the owner of the clothes found out...

She subconsciously looked around and felt that all the faces around her were malicious, and she couldn't tell who had deliberately bumped into her.

*Smack!* [Voiceover]

The head maid's slap, though late, came nonetheless and sent a shiver down her spine.

"What are you standing there for? Hurry up and go wash again. You can't even do such a small thing right. You have that foxy face, do you think..."

While everyone else was rushing into the house, Li Minghe carried a pile of soiled clothes back to the well and, braving the increasingly heavy rain, began to rub the footprints off the clothes.

Before long, she was soaked to the bone, even her hair looked disheveled. Rainwater gathered at her chin and dripped down in strings. Her fair face was slightly bluish, but her lips were even more crimson, which she had bitten off under the weight of her emotions.

On the other hand, the other people in the laundry department had all gone inside, only peeking out of the windows with their eyes, watching calmly or gleefully at the figure struggling to rub clothes in the rain.

Lin An and the other actors who hadn't yet had their scenes stood under the eaves off-camera, sheltering from the rain, watching Jiang Hanying filming in the rain, feeling a rare sense of disconnect.

This person is really... when he gets into acting mode, it's like he's a completely different person!

He could hear the other actors' discussions.

"This part broke my heart!"

"Now I don't think we can blame her for turning bad later on."

"This character is truly hateful in the later stages, but truly pitiful in the early stages."

"There's something even more heartbreaking coming up. The screenwriter is really ruthless!"

Lin An: "..."

In the final close-up shot, the director yelled "Cut!" and Pei Yuan rushed out with an umbrella in one hand and a towel in the other.

"Sister, put this on quickly!"

At the same time, he covered Jiang Hanying's head with an umbrella.

Although we'll still get rained on in the next scene, we'll take the shelter for a while now.

Jiang Hanying threw down the clothes in her hand, frowned, draped a towel over herself, and wiped the rain off her face.

She really didn't like it being all wet.

But when she turned her head and saw Pei Yuan's distressed expression, she couldn't help but chuckle, "What's with that expression?"

“I feel bad.”

“It’s all acting.”

"I know it's acting, but I just can't help it..."

"I can earn tens of thousands of yuan a day acting."

Pei Yuan: "..."

Okay, I don't feel bad about it anymore!

Jiang Hanying, holding an umbrella in one hand and a towel in the other, walked over to the director and looked at the playback on the monitor. Yeah, she was just a poor little bullied girl!
I feel sorry for myself in the drama for a second.

The director also asked with concern, "How are you? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

"I'm fine, I don't feel unwell."

"So, are we about to start filming the second round?"

"no problem."

It's better to finish filming sooner rather than later.

Before the rain stopped, the second scene began in earnest.

Because the washed clothes were not presented on time, and there happened to be a set of clothes that the old emperor had praised, the owner of the clothes, Consort Xiang, was furious and sent people to the laundry department to arrest the maid in charge of her clothes and to hold her accountable.

Even if the other party is just a VIP, they are not someone that the laundry department staff can afford to offend.

When the palace servants, who were ordered to arrest him, came, the head maid pushed Li Minghe out without hesitation.

When Consort Xiang, who was waiting in her palace, saw Li Minghe's face, a deep sense of apprehension flashed in her eyes. Coupled with the anger that she hadn't been able to change her clothes in time for the emperor's arrival, she immediately gave the order without saying a word: "Drag him out and beat him!"

Li Minghe had just stepped into the palace and hadn't even had a chance to pay his respects when he was immediately dragged out by Consort Xiang's palace servants. He was then pressed down on a bench in the corridor and beaten severely. Finally, he was thrown into the rain-soaked ground and rolled around several times before finally lying still.

Her pink and white palace maid's dress was covered in blood and mud, and its original color was no longer visible.

After a while, the person who had fainted in the mud and water, letting the rain pelt his face and body, suddenly flinched, slowly opened his eyes, and a dark light appeared in his eyes. Then, he gathered his strength, slowly got up from the ground, and stumbled out.

Walking back to the palace alley leading to the laundry department, I encountered a group of guards on their routine patrol in the rain.

Seeing Li Minghe's appearance, Mo Huaifeng, the head guard played by Lin An, called out to her, glanced at her soaked collar, and then quickly looked away. "Which palace maid are you? What happened? And why are you here?"

Li Minghe lowered her head and said, "Your Excellency, I am from the Laundry Department. I just came from Consort Xiang's palace and am on my way back to the Laundry Department."

As for what happened earlier, just looking at her disheveled appearance and the bloody smell that even the heavy rain couldn't hide, anyone with eyes could see that Mo Huaifeng, who had been working in the palace for some time, could naturally guess what had just happened to this little palace maid.

"name?"

"Li Minghe".

"It is forbidden to walk alone in the palace, let alone when you smell of blood."

If you don't encounter it, that's fine, but if you do, you still have to deal with it according to the regulations.

"I was dragged away by Consort Xiang and beaten with a board. After that, she ignored me, which is why I wanted to go back to the laundry department."

Mo Huaifeng took two steps to stand in front of Li Minghe, looking at her beautiful face that couldn't be hidden even though she was covered in grime, and said, "It's my duty to verify your identity."

Li Minghe paused for a moment, then gently raised his eyes. "How do we verify it?"

"I'll go with you to the laundry department and confirm with the manager that you do indeed belong to the laundry department."

In fact, this kind of trivial matter could have been handled by any subordinate, but for some inexplicable reason, Mo Huaifeng took on the task himself.

Li Minghe slightly bent his knees. "Okay."

The two walked silently along the palace road, one in front of the other.

Li Minghe was in front, and Mo Huaifeng was behind.

Seeing the people in front of me walking unsteadily, and several times almost unable to hold on, I reached out to hold onto the palace wall beside me to catch my breath before continuing forward.

Mo Huaifeng subconsciously reached out several times, but still restrained himself from helping her up.

Her fingers lingered for a while on the tied straps of the raincoat, wavering between untying them and leaving them untied.

"Sir, here we are!"

Suddenly snapping out of my daze, I looked up and realized that the entrance to the laundry department was right in front of me.