Chapter 111

After finding out that Tang Xia was pregnant, it was not known whether it was a coincidence or a proof to the gossip that Chu Tiankuo did reward Tang Xia with a lot of good stuff.

So everyone knew that Tang Xia was favored by His Majesty again as she was pregnant. Tang Xia now had more enemies, which gave her more worries.

But Tang Xia’s fans were all onlookers who were unaware of the facts, as they only wanted to see the drama of a real harem fight.

However, her fans could not just wait around to see what would happen. They also noticed that Tang Xia’s task was not completed yet, as they discovered that the task should have been finished long ago.

Logically speaking, the task should be complete if Chu Tiankuo fell in love with Tang Xia. It was obviously a bug!

Once someone brought it up, questions flooded the whole broadcast room. Everyone doubted if it was false or was Chu Tiankuo playing tricks on Tang Xia.

Looking at the messages of ‘why she has not completed her task’, Tang Xia was not sure if he was playing tricks on her.

She smelt a rat as if there was something wrong with Chu Tiankuo. After she recalled, Tang Xia remembered that Chu Tiankuo brought her down at the very start, which was not the style of the scheming Chu Tiankuo.

“Chu Tiankuo, are you playing tricks on me?” As there were many doubts in her mind, Tang Xia paced back and forth in the room, “No! I cannot await my doom! I must ask him about this matter!”

So Tang Xia decided to go to Chu Tiankuo as he had caused all this. After making up her mind, Tang Xia walked towards the place where Chu Tiankuo was.

But things went contrary to her wishes. When she passed by the Royal Garden, Tang Xia saw all the imperial concubines gathered together, as if they were discussing a great event. “How could they discuss something important without me?”

Tang Xia walked quietly towards the crowd and pricked up her ears to hear what they were talking about. The closer she got to them, the more she heard.

…”I did not think that she would get pregnant! She must have seduced His Majesty so that she could get pregnant!” After hearing what they were talking about, Tang Xia knew that they were referring to her.

Tang Xia raised her head and discovered that the one who was speaking, was a leader among the imperial concubines, as she was not favored by the emperor. She was always jealous and made trouble for those who were favored.

It made sense that she was not favored as she was fat and looked very ordinary. It would be impossible for her to be favored by the emperor, in the age full of faces altered by plastic surgery and v-shaped faces.

Although the emperor did not favor her, the spectators liked her. Otherwise, she would not have become the anchor!

Her words were quite influential as all imperial concubines agreed with her.

“You are right! So Tang Xia is an opportunistic woman!” The imperial concubine in blue said this, and rolled her eyes. When Tang Xia saw her behavior, she also rolled her eyes at the behavior of the imperial concubine in blue.

The imperial concubine in yellow, next to the imperial concubine in blue, said, “Tang Xia is a capable woman. We also know that His Majesty did not feel good, but we did not do anything, except sit in our palace?”

Although what she had said seemed to vindicate Tang Xia, jealousy was evident in her words. Tang Xia could not help taunting her in her mind, “Do you need to dredge your vessels since you are so jealous (the homophonic word of vinegar)?”

Their discussion was not over yet. As the old saying goes, “Three women can make one play” After counting their numbers quietly, Tang Xia found that there were at least seven or eight women, apart from their maids!

Women would chat with each other or speak ill of others when they gathered together. So it was inevitable whenever these imperial concubines gathered together, they would only speak ill of those who were favored by the emperor.

Unfortunately, Tang Xia was the one who was favored most by the emperor. So she was the target who was attacked by everyone. Excluding the three imperial concubines who had spoken ill of her, there were still a large number of imperial concubines slandering Tang Xia.

“As far as I’m concerned, there is something wrong with Tang Xia!” One imperial concubine said this mysteriously, which attracted everyone’s attention as they all wanted to hear about Tang Xia’s scandal.

Tang Xia was also interested as she wanted to find out what her scandal was. That woman continued, “I notice that she and the palace maid are… What is the name of that palace maid?”

“How could she forget the name even before she finished her sentence?” Tang Xia taunted her in her mind. Then one imperial concubine reminded her, “Lyuyou!”

“Right! That’s her!” The woman agreed, clapping her hands. Lyuyou standing beside Tang Xia heard her words and was puzzled, “Is there something wrong with me?”

“They are so close. Are they lesbians? I have never seen a master who is so close to her maid!” After hearing her words, Tang Xia was shocked, “What the hell?”

“No, I cannot bear it anymore. Who does not have a lady bro? Whoever gets close to her ladybro is lesbian? Is she losing her mind?” Tang Xia stopped eavesdropping and decided to retaliate.

“Shouldn’t you check whether the one you are talking about is around, before saying something bad behind her back?” Tang Xia appeared suddenly, which shocked everyone.

Everyone took a look at Tang Xia and was rattled. One imperial concubine whispered to the others, the reason why Tang Xia was here. As Tang Xia had excellent hearing, she smiled at that woman.

The moment the woman saw Tang Xia’s smile, she felt chilled. Tang Xia said, “Why can’t I appear in this large Royal Garden? As you are all here, why can’t I be here?”

Tang Xia’s appearance was like a heavy bomb dropping. The women were all having a pretty interesting conversation, before she turned up.

Suddenly, everyone became quiet, especially the one who had hinted that Tang Xia was a lesbian. She was rather nervous and hoped that Tang Xia had heard nothing!

Tang Xia would not let that woman off as her slander was too much! Although Tang Xia, as a straight woman, did not look down upon lesbians, she could not stand it when people slandered her as a lesbian!

“Aren’t you talking about my scandal? Why don’t you go on? As I’m here, how about saying it out and making me happy, too?”

Tang Xia was so aggressive that the woman was backed into a corner. No one, except people who were rather bold, dared to speak ill of people, in front of them! So that woman absolutely dared not slander Tang Xia again!

Although that woman dared not do so, the leader of the crowd said, “What are you shouting for? We are just talking behind your back. What’s the big deal? Everyone has a subject for ridicule.”

When she saw her face, Tang Xia wanted to slap her. “How could she walk so tall when she speaks ill of others? She is so uneducated!”

“Right! Everyone has a subject for ridicule. So how about telling us your subject for ridicule so that we can also make fun?” Tang Xia would never let herself be wronged by anyone and tried her best to talk back whenever she had a quarrel with others.

After Tang Xia finished talking, the header stayed quiet as she was put in her place, by Tang Xia. One senseless woman laughed and stopped when the fat woman glared at her.

Maybe it was because the fat woman thought she could not outspeak Tang Xia or she felt disgraced, but she decided to leave and said, “Humph, say whatever you like. I’ll leave now!”

As the most powerful woman had left, the others knew that they could not outspeak Tang Xia and left, too. Tang Xia followed the imperial concubines and glared at them with disdain.

“We will not attack unless we are attacked; if we are attacked, we will certainly counterattack” was always Tang Xia’s principle. After what Tang Xia had said was broadcasted to the broadcast room, all her fans were shocked by her actions.

Messages like ‘Awesome Tang Xia is a ruthless woman of words’ flooded the whole broadcast room.

Lyuyou was shocked by Tang Xia’s words as what had happened was like Tang Xia had withstood and defeated millions of soldiers.

Tang Xia felt rather proud and recalled that she intended to go to Chu Tiankuo. So she walked toward the original destination.

Before Tang Xia walked a few steps, a voice came from behind her, “It turns out that it is the public enemy of the imperial harem who said those words.” Those words were both sarcastic and complimentary.

Tang Xia stopped, “Another woman wants to be scolded by me?” As she turned around, Tang Xia found it was Zui Linglong. Tang Xia had always known that this woman was difficult to deal with and she wondered why Zui Linglong was here.

“I know that I’m the public enemy. I don’t need your warning.” Tang Xia did not want to relate too much to this woman as she was too complicated. So Tang Xia tried to avoid confrontations with her in case she was involved in any matters with Zui Linglong.

“What are you going to do? Ask Chu Tiankuo to give you an explanation?” It seemed that Zui Linglong knew everything and read Tang Xia’s mind immediately.

Tang Xia became nervous, “Am I so obvious? How could she read my mind so easily?”

“There is no need for you to ask me why I can read your mind. Everyone will do the same thing as you. But in my view, you don’t need to go as you won’t get the truth from him.”

Zui Linglong gave Tang Xia a sarcastic look. Tang Xia was quite puzzled by her word, “Truth? What truth?”

Zui Linglong thought that Tang Xia was quite stupid as she could only show off her eloquence, “Are you truly stupid? How can you not understand my words? I don’t know how you can become the empress!”

“Do you think that Chu Tiankuo truly loves you? Stop dreaming! Didn’t you know that he was drugged that night?”