After the rebellion was successful, I realized that this place was the Red Mansion

Chapter 145 Lin Daiyu: Turns out he's a tyrant
Inside the Linjing Hall, the following miraculous scene unfolded:
Emperor Chu Yan was embracing a beautiful woman on a soft couch. She had fair skin, and her upper body was covered by several pieces of clothing that she had just taken off. Her face was buried tightly in Chu Yan's chest, making it impossible to see what she looked like.

On the other side of the soft couch sat two unmarried young women, Shi Xiangyun and Xing Xiuyan, their faces flushed with embarrassment, not daring to look up at that side.

Chu Yan held Li Wan, who was buried in his arms, and smiled at Xiangyun, "I'm punishing you. Who told you to barge in like that?"

Upon hearing this, Xiangyun complained, "It was the Emperor who said that I could come in directly without reporting, but now you're blaming me. The Emperor didn't keep his word?"

Chu Yan said, "The emperor's words certainly count, but since you've already run into him, you can't blame me for calling you back."

"What's the point of this?"

"The Emperor's Way."

Chu Yan smiled. Xiang Yun looked up at him, then at the concubine hiding in his arms. She couldn't help but wonder who it was. Seeing that she didn't dare to show her face, she knew that she was also shy.

"I'll go in and get a blanket." Xiangyun took it upon herself to go into the inner bedroom, took a thin blanket from the bed, and covered the concubine's bare upper body with it.

After finishing, she gave Chu Yan a smug smile.

Li Wan, hiding under the covers, finally felt some of the shyness on her face fade, and continued to bury her face in the emperor's arms, listening to their conversation.

Feeling uneasy, she wondered if Miss Yun and Miss Xing had recognized her.
Xiangyun sat back down, and Chu Yan asked the two of them, "Did you come to see me because you need something?"

Xing Xiuyan had been in the palace for several days but had not shown her face; she was staying with Qin Keqing.

Xiuyan hurriedly replied, "I came to see Your Majesty to talk about Miaoyu. I wonder if Your Majesty... has the time?"

She blushed with embarrassment.

Chu Yan looked at her and asked, "Miaoyu? I do remember there was such a person in the Grand View Garden."

Just as Xiuyan was about to speak, she saw the concubine suddenly tremble inside the bulging bed sheet, and seemed to emit a trembling sound that reached people's ears and made their hearts flutter.

Xiuyan blushed, stammering for a long while before continuing, "Miaoyu is a nun practicing at the Longcui Nunnery in the Grand View Garden..."

She recounted Miaoyu's origins in detail. While Chu Yan was groping the woman in his arms, he listened to her story and learned that Miaoyu came from Suzhou and was also a young lady from an official family. Like Daiyu, she was frail and sickly from childhood. They bought a substitute to become a nun in her place to ward off misfortune, but it didn't work. Only after she entered the Buddhist order herself did her illness improve.

After Xiuyan finished speaking, Chu Yan instructed, "Have the palace maids come in and pour tea."

Xiangyun called out to the outside. When Xiuyan saw the palace maid enter, the tall, fair-skinned concubine in the emperor's arms trembled again, as if she kicked her foot. She stretched out her legs and then pulled them back after a while.

Xiuyan assumed she was feeling down, so she continued, "I heard that His Majesty intends to summon Miaoyu to the palace and have her reside in Baoling Palace as its abbess. I was worried that Miaoyu might offend the nobles in the palace with her words because she was out of step with the times, so I mustered up the courage to speak to His Majesty about Miaoyu's character."

Chu Yan asked, "What kind of person is she?"

Xiuyan added, “She is a nun who still has her hair, and she has some worldly ties that she has not yet severed. However, she has a wild and eccentric temperament, and is proud and aloof. She has been living in the garden for a year, but she doesn’t interact much with the girls in the garden. Although Miss Lin and Miss Bao are barely worthy of her attention, she often makes sarcastic remarks, which makes people feel embarrassed.”

Xiangyun laughed and said, "The first time I went to Longcui Nunnery, Miaoyu wouldn't even let me into the meditation hall. Later, after I went with Sister Bao a few times, she gradually became more accommodating and was willing to give me good tea and use her fine cups that she brought from Suzhou."

Chu Yan smiled at Xiuyan and said, "It's kind of you to think of her. Very well, I won't summon her to the palace yet. When we go to the Grand View Garden, I'll offer incense at her Longcui Nunnery."

Xiangyun chuckled, "Since ancient times, has there ever been a man who went to a nunnery to burn incense?"

Chu Yan laughed: "She is, after all, a daughter of a noble family. How would she know what a nunnery outside is like?"

Xiangyun was unconvinced: "Tell me, what do you mean by 'it's a nunnery outside'?"

"Does Miss Xing know about this place?" Chu Yan turned to ask Xiuyan. She had been renting a place in the temple for many years, unlike a noble lady like Xiangyun. Even if she had never met her, she should have heard of her.

Xiuyan nodded, but was too embarrassed to speak, and no matter how much Xiangyun urged her, she wouldn't say anything.

Just then, a palace maid outside called out, "Your Majesty, Miss Lin has arrived."

Xiuyan and Xiangyun were both younger than Lin Daiyu, so they both stood up to greet her. After a while, Daiyu walked in.

Li Wan, held in Chu Yan's arms, was becoming increasingly disheveled, her entire body covered in fragrant sweat.

"Why is everyone here today?" Daiyu asked with a smile, then glanced curiously at the blanket covering Chu Yan, as if there was someone inside.
Looking again at the bed, there was a hairpin, a peach-colored bodice, and clearly a woman under the covers!
"I've come at the wrong time!"

Daiyu blushed and turned to leave.

"return."

Chu Yan said slowly, and smiled, "Sister Lin has come at just the right time. Since you're here, please keep me company for a chat tonight."

Daiyu was caught between a rock and a hard place, her delicate face flushed with embarrassment. After a long while, she finally said, "There's a concubine half-lying on your couch, so there's nowhere for me to sit. And with Sister Yun and Sister Xing here, why would you keep me here?"

Although Daiyu was older than the two of them, she appeared to be the youngest because she was often ill.

In the Grand View Garden, the girls were only a few months apart in age. Sometimes even they didn't know who was older or younger, and they would call each other "sister" and "younger sister" all the same.

Since she was here tonight, Chu Yan took the opportunity to indulge Li Wan through the blanket in front of her, gradually pushing Lin Daiyu's limits.

So he called out, "Bring a chair for Miss Lin."

The palace maid quickly brought over a chair. Lin Daiyu, seeing that she couldn't avoid it and thinking that he wouldn't dare to do such a shameful thing in front of Xiangyun and Xiuyan, sat down as instructed.

She wouldn't even look at him, sitting in the chair with her head half-lowered.

Xiangyun looked at the situation before her and complained to him, "Brother Emperor is deliberately making things difficult for people..."

Lin Daiyu hurriedly said, "Your Emperor brother is becoming more and more absurd. I was thinking of coming to congratulate him today when I heard that Xining Pass had been pacified, but who knew that he would be holding a beauty in his arms and deliberately teasing us!" Xiangyun nodded, "We were just about to congratulate him too. Sister Lin and we had the same idea."

Chu Yan smiled and said, "So it turns out I have failed to appreciate your kindness. Thank you all. Your congratulations make me even happier than the congratulations from all the officials at the morning court."

Upon hearing this, Xiangyun laughed, and Xiuyan also smiled.

Daiyu sneered, "He's an emperor who rose up to conquer the world; he's just teasing you. You actually took it seriously."

Xiangyun was somewhat surprised; her speech tonight was different from usual.

Chu Yan laughed and said, "Isn't this how all men in the world coax women? Even Jia Baoyu, I believe he would coax you too. Besides, since I occupied Jinling, the country has been within my grasp. It is only natural that I am happier tonight than when I attended the morning court, with you all here to congratulate me."

Daiyu laughed and said, "We're not mind readers, how could we believe you? You're just trying to fool us."

Chu Yan nodded, "I'm just trying to appease you."

Daiyu blushed, realizing she had said something wrong, and lowered her head, remaining silent.

Suddenly sensing something was wrong, she looked up at the person in his arms again, and after recognizing them, she stood up in shock: "Sister-in-law?!"

In Chu Yan's arms, Li Wan suddenly cried out in surprise, kicking her legs and immediately throwing off the already slipped quilt, revealing her flushed face covered in sweat, beautiful and charming, her brows tightly furrowed as if she were enduring something in pain.

Daiyu, Xiangyun, and Xiuyan were stunned into silence.

They never expected that the concubine in the emperor's arms would actually be Li Wan!
They were chatting and laughing with the emperor, and the eldest sister-in-law was nestled in his arms the whole time!

"Don't look at me, don't look at me..."

Li Wan covered her face with her arm, as if she were talking nonsense, and her body was trembling violently.

"OK OK."

Chu Yan coaxed her.

The three unmarried girls had no idea what had happened. They thought Li Wan was just ashamed, so they all turned their heads away from her, their faces flushed.

A good while.

Chu Yan pulled his hand out of the trap and smiled at Xiangyun, "Get me a handkerchief to wipe it off."

He looked at the three girls, Daiyu, Xiangyun, and Xiuyan, and saw that none of them seemed suspicious of his hands. Xiangyun took out a handkerchief to wipe his hands and asked curiously with a blush, "Sister-in-law's sweat is a little different from other people's."

Li Wan wished she could hide like a coward and never face anyone again!

After catching her breath and regaining some strength, she hurriedly struggled to her feet, covering her chest with a thin blanket, grabbing her clothes haphazardly from the soft couch, and fleeing into the inner bedroom.

"Bah, so he's a debauched and tyrannical... tyrant."

Daiyu blushed and whispered a rebuke to him. Her voice was delicate and shy, as melodious as the song of a nightingale, and her eyes were like spring water in March.

Seeing Chu Yan looking at her, she turned around and ran away.

Although she was ignorant of worldly affairs and did not know what he held, she could guess that the tyrannical king was favoring his sister-in-law Li Wan, and that this was happening in front of her, Xiangyun, and Xiuyan.

Truly debauched and immoral!
Chu Yan watched Lin Daiyu leave. Just now, Lin Daiyu's delicate manner and soft words truly embodied the charm and grace to the fullest. He had previously thought that she was too frail, and since she was not yet married, her beauty could not compare with Qin Keqing, Xie Zhaojun, Baoqin, and others, let alone be compared with the plump and fair Xue Baochai. She cried all day long and was sickly.

But just now, Lin Daiyu's eyes sparkled, her voice was soft and gentle, her eyebrows were like wisps of smoke, and her eyes were like dewdrops; she was truly irresistible.

Xiangyun, however, stared at Li Wan, who had hidden in the inner bedroom. She noticed that Li Wan had a slender back and a delicate waist, which explained why her emperor brother had summoned her despite her status as a widow.

Xiuyan lowered her head, her face flushed, too embarrassed to speak further.

Chu Yan withdrew his gaze from Lin Daiyu and smiled, "I saw Gong Cai a few days ago and had the idea of ​​taking her as my concubine. I didn't expect you to run into her tonight."

Li Wan, who was getting dressed inside, heard everything clearly. Although she felt extremely ashamed, she finally felt relieved.

She couldn't help but complain: It turns out the emperor already knew she was the eldest daughter-in-law of the Jia family. No wonder he wasn't angry when he heard her son Jia Lan came to bother him last time.

Thinking of this, Li Wan couldn't help but feel moved. The emperor was not only attracted to her beauty, but also indulged and favored her in many ways, just like he did with other girls.

After hurriedly putting on her clothes, Li Wan went out the door, ignoring the gazes of Xiangyun and Xiuyan, and knelt before Chu Yan, saying respectfully, "This servant, Li, begs for forgiveness from Your Majesty."

Chu Yan said, "Raise your head and tell me, what is your name, and who is your husband?"

Li Wan's heart trembled, and she slowly raised her head: "My name is Li Wan, courtesy name Gongcai. My late husband was Jia Zhu, the eldest son of Jia Zheng of Rongguo Mansion and the elder brother of the Virtuous Consort."

Chu Yan laughed, stood up, helped her up, and put his arm around her waist.

Li Wan's heart, which had been pounding with anxiety, slowly calmed down. She said with shame, "Please allow me to refrain from serving you tonight, Your Majesty..."

She was so embarrassed.

"You all go back."

Chu Yan nodded, "That's all for tonight."

(End of this chapter)