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night came, outside of Wei Zhilan's chamber, his two personal maids were talking about him in a whisper. Afraid that the person inside will hear them talk about him behind his back, Meigui, the one who intends to address the matter first, leaned her head closer to the other's ear.

"Don't you think that our miss is acting so strange lately?"

The second maid, Baihe, nodded her head in agreement.

"Ever since her fall in the temple's long stairs, she started acting weird. Is she possessed by an evil spirit?"

"Maybe not. The physician said that our young miss had badly injured her head, so her memories are not that good. She doesn't remember most of the things that happened in her life"

The weird things they noticed was their young miss talking to her reflection on the mirror for a long time, peeing her robe while standing, easily flustered when they helped her bath or dress, the way she talks and walks is akin to a man in the street, she doesn't know how to play qin anymore, doesn't know how to paint and composed poetry, and the way she gazed at them was well... very affectionate?

What more, her personality took a 360 degrees turn. The weirdest part is whenever they wake her up in the morning, aside from her snores and her posture in sleeping, they always caught her massaging her boobs, seeming to like it very much, her eyes were closed as she mumbled 'softie' and 'ah... I like it very much' in pleasure, she often complained about her breasts being so troublesome but she actually loves it.

"Did she turn crazy after her head got badly injured?"

Meigui concluded and the two of them paled.

"I hope not"

Both of them were quite worried about their beautiful mistress that was always composed, graceful, elegant, and talented. She was always good in every way, though she had some flaws too. In their defense, there's no such living person that is perfect. People made mistakes too and their miss is no different for she's also a human.

Zhilan almost had everything, beauty, gracefulness, pure noble blood, elegant in her every action. Even when she trips, it was almost as if it was straight out of a dramatic painting, beautifully falling on the ground. She's very talented too, she can play the Qin really well, she knows how to paint and composed beautiful and sentimental poetry. Where can you find such beautiful and talented mistress like her?

Beauty and talent aside, her personality is barely satisfactory, Yan Gen doesn't know if it's still considered satisfactory. From what he reads in the novel, this girl is pretentious, arrogant, and vicious. It is no wonder that the fifth prince was dissatisfied with her when he learned of her true colors. You see, Zhilan is very good at acting, she can act all frail and kind, with a face like her, it was even more convincing for she can easily tugged at your heartstrings with a single teary eyed look, you will sense a heartache and a surge of pity will come into you.

Aye, so that is why when the fifth prince met her, he didn't right away rejected her, even accepting the gifts she sent to him such as embroidered handkerchief and scented sachet. Yan Gen scoffed, this male lead is actually quite attracted to outer appearance. Only when he learned of her true nature behind that lovely face of hers did he started rejecting the persistent Zhilan who shamelessly displayed her affection to him, then he started liking the dearest heroine of the novel, Li Mei for her attitude and personality. Li Mei is quite inferior to Zhilan when it comes to beauty and talent.

Li Mei has always been stupid in Yan Gen's view since her first appearance in the novel. She's already inferior when it comes to outer appearance and she let herself fall out of talents too, she always skipped her lessons so that she can go outside to have fun while disguised as a man, and that's when she met the male lead and afterwards, sparks flew.

That stupid girl didn't really think of the consequences of her actions. Sure, her parents will only scold her but what of the young ladies from noble houses? Does she really think that they were as considerate as her parents. Although she viewed music and arts as useless, she's an official's daughter too so she has to learn those useless things to give face to their house.

What if someone asked her to play a music and she refused because she doesn't know how to play a single instrument? or what if in some special occasions the ladies started talking about music and arts while she just sat there silently because of how ignorant she is in that subject or if they go painting and hers is the most horrible one, wouldn't they make fun of her?

These kinds of incidents is what exactly happened to her when Zhilan viewed her as a sore eyes after the fifth prince started rejecting her. In countless occasions, she always picked on Li Mei in a subtle yet precise way, displaying her innocent smile when doing so, and the young aristocrats will follow after her lead. Wei Zhilan is quite influential, the chancellor is her grandfather, the minister of revenue is her father, and the favored Consort Wei is her aunt. Who dares to go against her?

Nevertheless, Yan Gen likes Zhilan more. The reason? he's a shallow person so his only reason is because she's a beauty, or perhaps not, he also likes her boldness in expressing her love, though she's being too fast, resulting to a sudden wrong turn of liking, reaching the point of obsession.

She's decribed to be intoxicating like a sweet wine, delicate like a spring flower, and elegantly beautiful like the moon. It is no exaggeration for it is the undeniable truth! She's said to be more beautiful than the previous Consort Wei and the current Consort Wei.

No wonder that she caught the old emperor's eyes and entered the palace under a royal decree. Yes, the most beautiful Zhilan in the story became the old emperor's consort despite her unwillingness. This is the male lead's ultimate revenge. Does she dares to refuse a decree that will cost the lives of the nine generations of her clan?

The old emperor really dotted on her, he even built her a very large and tall pagoda that was named after her. Naturally, she would have power and can easily influence the political court. Say her displeasures and the old emperor will willingly follow her every whim. However, Zhilan has no plans in doing so. She already lost all of her cheerfulness when she became a consort to the old emperor, old enough to become her grandfather, she's like a walking zombie.

That is why the old emperor tried so hard to gain a little bit of her affection, one time she mumbled about how wonderful it is if the path she walks will be gold. She doesn't literally mean this, there's a deeper meaning behind what she said, but the emperor literally made a path of gold on the way to her palace and in her courtyard.

With this kind of dotting, she should get rid of the fifth prince once and for all, yet she didn't. Zhilan still love that bastard of a male lead. Because of her grief, she commits a suicide. The old emperor is already weak and sickly due to his old age and after receiving the news of his beloved committing a suicide, he had a heart attack and ultimately died.

The death of the Emperor is like a sudden thunder bolt from the sky. The princes made their own moves against each other to covet the throne. Nonetheless, the fifth prince has the advantage for he already expect this outcome and the death of the emperor doesn't surprise him in the least, even expecting it.

Such a bad ending for a beauty. A beauty that was all for naught, a waste that she ended up with that old emperor, she only became a pawn to the fifth prince in order to covet the throne.

Yan Gen was thankful that he reads the spoilers in the Mischievous Consort's forum, he jumped in the middle of the story and the story became confusing to him, so he reads the spoilers.

As for Zhilan's aunt who was previously the most favored consort of the emperor, she didn't bear a grudge against Zhilan. In fact, she's thankful of her. Although she's still beautiful, there are subtle signs of old age, she's not as beautiful when she first entered the palace. Their mortal enemy clan found a girl that can surpassed her beauty to sway the emperor to their side, thankfully, the clan still have Zhilan.

It's much better if it's a Wei, rather than someone else that is receiving the emperor's favor.

Because of this event that keeps bugging Yan Gen's mind, he's very afraid of taking a step outside of the estate for days. He would rather die than become a consort to the emperor who is old enough to become his grandfather! It makes him cringed to death. Becoming a wife to a man is already disgusting enough, what more if it's an old man? Ugh. The poor Zhilan, how much she had endured?