Rebirth: Pampered by the Lord

After Xuexue entered the Imperial Palace, she was quickly taken to the Imperial Study Room.

The moment she went in, Xuexue clearly felt the atmosphere was a bit tense.

The Emperor and Old Master Gu were glaring at her like tigers eyeing their prey.

Xuexue properly performed the kowtow courtesy to the Emperor, then obediently stood to the side; since the Emperor didn’t speak, she didn’t make a sound either.

Birdy standing on her shoulder looked left and right, and in the end locked its target on Old Master Gu’s head...

"Tweet tweet tweet, how strange, why doesn’t this old man have any hair on top of his head?" Birdy cocked its little bird head as it sized up Old Master Gu, while letting out a sharp voice.

Right at that moment, Xuexue regretted it like hell in her heart; she shouldn’t have brought this critter into the Imperial Palace. Old Master Gu already hated her to the bone, and of all people Birdy had to pick him to talk about—wasn’t that deliberately stirring up trouble?

Old Master Gu had already been glaring at Xuexue fiercely; suddenly hearing the little bird on her shoulder speak, he froze for a moment, then slowly realized this little bird was poking at his sore spot.

"You... you... you people are bullying me too much." After people finished bullying him, now even a bird came to bully him; Old Master Gu was so angry his beard practically bristled.

"Your Majesty, you... you saw it too, he... they’re going way too far."

The little bird on Xuexue’s shoulder spoke so fluently that the Emperor was also very surprised: "Miss Situ, where did you find this little bird? It’s too incredible."

The Emperor didn’t question her crime and was instead interested in the bird; Old Master Gu was even more dissatisfied, sitting to the side puffed up with anger.

Xuexue said sweetly, "I happened to come across it in the mountains."

The Emperor’s eyes lit up as he looked at the little bird, his tone full of envy as he said, "Miss Situ’s luck is truly too good; even such a miraculous little bird ended up in your hands."

Xuexue: "Your Majesty overpraises me."

The Emperor rose from the Dragon Throne and walked over to Xuexue’s side, constantly sizing up that little bird, reaching out a hand, wanting to touch its head.

"Annoying, annoying, go away, go away!" Birdy cried as it flapped and fluttered into the air, flew up to the roof beam, squatted there, looking down at them from on high, chattering away: "One baldy ghost, one annoying ghost. Master, Master, you must be careful, don’t let them take advantage of you."

Old Master Gu was so mad his teeth itched; no one had ever dared talk about him like this.

The Emperor could only look up at the beams and sigh, then dejectedly return to the Dragon Throne and sit down.

Once the little bird started talking, all of the Emperor’s attention was drawn over, which made Old Master Gu very displeased. What did the Emperor mean by this? Could he really be favoring the Princess Consort of War Prince just because of a bird?

Old Master Gu coughed hard: "Cough, cough, cough... Your Majesty."

The Emperor’s mind was still on the little bird, and he responded absentmindedly, "Eh!"

Old Master Gu: "About my concubine’s matter... wouldn’t it be best to settle it as quickly as possible?"

The Emperor came back to his senses and said, "Oh, right, right, right, I almost forgot about that."

Old Master Gu’s face was full of black lines as he thought to himself, Your Majesty, what do you mean by that? An old man as big as me is sitting right here, and you can still forget?

The Emperor glanced at Xuexue and asked, "Miss Situ, it is said that you beat up one of Old Master Gu’s concubines on the street; is that true?"

Xuexue said calmly, "Yes."

Old Master Gu immediately seized on it like he’d finally gotten a handle on her and shouted, "Your Majesty, look, she’s admitted it herself."

Damn it, everyone in the Capital saw it; how could she not admit it? Instead of wrangling back and forth with them, it was better to just admit it straightforwardly.

The Emperor said nothing, looking at Xuexue for a long time before asking, "Shouldn’t Miss Situ give Old Master Gu an explanation?"

Xuexue looked at the Emperor with an innocent face and said, "Your Majesty has always upheld the Three Bonds and Five Constants, strict rules and discipline; between Heaven, Earth, ruler, kin, and teacher there is an unbridgeable chasm."

Having said that, she paused for a moment, then asked, "Your Majesty, what is the punishment for an offense against one’s superiors?"

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