Quick Transmigration: Knowing I'm a Bad Woman, Yet Still Liking Me?

Bai Yuan was also envious, and with a few quick movements, she pulled off Xiao Chengyu's belt and began to grope him all over.

Perhaps because the late emperor died from overwork, Xiao Chengyu paid special attention to health preservation and maintained his figure exceptionally well.

Xiao Chengyu stared at the slightly upturned corners of her eyes, "I never realized before that your eyes were so captivating."

Bai Yuan rolled over and straddled Xiao Chengyu, touching his brow bone with one hand. "I've always felt that Your Majesty is not only handsome... but also perfect in every way."

Xiao Chengyu's chest heaved violently from her teasing, and he was about to get up when Bai Yuan pressed him back down.

The beauty before him still held a hint of impatience in her eyes, and her tone was even more impolite, "Who gave you permission to get up? I haven't had enough fun yet."

"You bastard." Xiao Chengyu spoke harshly, but he didn't get up.

To his surprise, Bai Yuan wasn't in a hurry at all after he gave in, as if she was deliberately teasing him.

Xiao Chengyu gritted his teeth, raised his hand and lifted her onto the couch, "Demon Consort."

The cicadas outside stopped chirping. Xiao Chengyu looked at the woman sleeping beside him and suddenly remembered what he had come here for today.

It seemed like they were going to interrogate her and test her attitude, but now...

He then sighed, stroked the woman's smooth back with his hand, and closed his eyes to sleep.

The next day, Bai Yuan was woken up feeling utterly exhausted. Who would be so kind as to get up so early?

Xiao Chengyu smiled at her appearance, "It's good that you're confined to your quarters during this period, so you don't have to get up early to pay your respects to the Empress."

Bai Yuan ignored everyone, being waited on like a puppet as she washed and dressed.

It wasn't until breakfast that she grumbled, "Your Majesty, if you're going to get up, why did you have to drag me out of bed too?"

Xiao Chengyu put down his bowl. "I'll promote Jiang to the rank of Consort later. You can send some things over there too. Let's call it even."

Although only Jiang Cairen's outer garments were stripped off, and no one else in the Imperial Garden witnessed it, the Emperor would certainly never touch her again after this incident.

Logically speaking, giving her a promotion and compensating her with something would be a loss for her.

Because that's all there is to her life.

But Bai Yuan immediately looked up after hearing this, then threw the soup spoon into the bowl. "What does Your Majesty mean by this?"

"I'm cleaning up the mess you've made."

"She provoked me, so I stripped her clothes off, and we were even. Now His Majesty has both confined me and promoted her rank; he really cares about her. From now on, will everyone in the palace who wants a promotion just provoke me and then His Majesty will grant it?"

"That's a fallacy; how can that even things out?"

Xiao Chengyu pointed at her, "You caused trouble and I still came to accompany you and even rewarded you. Do you have any conscience? When Bai Yaoting returns, I will ask him how he raised his daughter."

Bai Yuan's face lit up with joy upon hearing this. "Your Majesty, my father is returning?"

Xiao Chengyu nodded. "I estimate we'll be able to return to the capital in about a month."

Bai Yuan got up, walked around the dining table, and sat directly in Xiao Chengyu's lap, wrapping her arms around his neck. "Your Majesty, I am so ignorant. When my father returns, you must send me back so that my parents can discipline me properly for a while."

"Nonsense! What concubine stays out of the palace for an extended period?"

After Xiao Chengyu finished speaking, he saw that Bai Yuan was unhappy again, so he added, "Your mother can come to the palace to see you."

Bai Yuan smiled again and kissed Xiao Chengyu on the cheek. "Your Majesty is so kind."

Xiao Chengyu pushed her off him, saying, "I have to go to court; I don't have time to play around with you."

Bai Yuan watched his retreating figure, looking somewhat flustered, and curled her lips. This forty-year-old man has his advantages; she hadn't expected him to be so useful.

After leaving the Jade Hibiscus Palace, Wang Shunan noticed that the Emperor's expression was good, so he asked, "Your Majesty, what about Consort Jiang?"

Xiao Chengyu waved his hand, "Forget it, I've already given her family gifts, so she hasn't been mistreated."

Wang Shunan glanced in the direction of the Jade Hibiscus Palace and shook his head inwardly.

Bai Yuan was now awake, and the little system kept talking in her head, "Last night, Shen Xun'er secretly went to see Wang Shun'an, and this morning she secretly met with the Empress's maid Zhiyi."

"Wow, she's quite the social butterfly."

"That's right. She appears to be someone the emperor planted by your side, but she's actually involved with the empress and secretly colluding with Wei Ci. Host, are you really planning to give Wei Ci to the female lead?"

"No rush, he hasn't become the supervisor yet."

At noon, Wang Shunan personally delivered a food box, saying, "Your Highness, this was sent by His Majesty."

After saying this, he ordered someone to open the food box. "This is your favorite lotus seed and lily cake, and this is donkey-hide gelatin and red date soup... His Majesty is hoping that the Imperial Concubine will recover soon."

Bai Yuan's face immediately lit up with joy. "I knew His Majesty was good to me. Wan Yue, bring over that plate of lotus seed and lily cakes."

Seeing that she had taken a bite, Wang Shunan lowered his head and said, "Then this servant will take his leave."

After the person left, Bai Yuan's face darkened, and she spat out what was in her mouth.

Tingxue quickly handed her water to rinse her mouth. "Your Highness, is this really going to work?"

His Majesty does not want her to give birth, and even if she does become pregnant, it will be difficult to keep the pregnancy.

"It's alright. My child, if I say it can be kept, then it can be kept."

It was said that he was under house arrest for a month, but the emperor lifted the order in less than twenty days, citing the Empress Dowager's birthday.

Bai Yuan was very dissatisfied with this. "Your Majesty is really something. How can this confinement be lifted so easily? I have to go to the Empress's place to argue first thing in the morning. It's so annoying."

The Empress's Yuxiu Palace was already full of people, except for the seat at the front that belonged to Bai Yuan, which was empty.

Consort Shu glanced at Consort Jiang sitting in the back and smiled, "I heard His Majesty has lifted Consort Bai's confinement?"

"Yes," the Empress replied calmly, seated at the head of the table.

As soon as she finished speaking, Consort Hui snorted, "Consort Bai is getting more and more unruly. His Majesty has already lifted her confinement, yet she still hasn't come to pay her respects to the Empress. And His Majesty, he clearly put her under house arrest, but I heard he's been to Yufu Palace seven or eight times in the past two weeks."

Consort Jiang was so distressed that she almost wrung out her handkerchief. She had thought that His Majesty would at least offer some symbolic comfort to her.

As a result, she was not promoted in rank, but was only rewarded with a few pieces of jewelry.

Her clothes were stripped off for nothing, and she'll have to rely on them to survive from now on.

So she chimed in, "I'd heard before that the Imperial Concubine had a bad temper, but this time I've certainly learned something new. It seems His Majesty favors her even more now..."

"She's acting so recklessly just because she's favored by His Majesty. I'd like to see how long she can be so arrogant." The more Consort Hui looked at that empty seat, the more it bothered her.

Consort Shu chuckled, "You want to be arrogant, but you need to have the same confidence. She's the eldest daughter of a general's family, and she entered the palace as a consort. She became a Noble Consort without having any children. Consort Hui has been with the Prince's mansion to the palace for over ten years. I'm afraid her consort rank is about to end."