The two maids put a cloak on Bu Yaolian and left.

  She went out and saw that the garden was heavily guarded. There were rock gardens and pavilions in the garden, and a few plum blossoms were blooming.

  The walls were high, and the wind couldn’t blow in, so the garden wasn’t very cold.

  The maid stuffed a small hand stove into her hand. “Miss, Shao Zun asked you to bring this with you so that your hands won’t be cold.”


  Bu Yaolian accepted the hot hand stove and thanked her.

  The maid followed her expressionlessly.

  The maids of the Earthly Residence had always been well-trained and never talked much.

  It was basically impossible to get any information from them.

  Bu Yaolian felt tired after a few steps. She looked for a pavilion to rest for a while, and the maid put a cushion down for her. Just as she sat down, she saw a woman in white walking over.

  She walked into the pavilion and saw Bu Yaolian sitting there. She glanced at her. “What is this?”


  “Madam, Shao Zun brought Miss Lian’er here,” the maid replied respectfully.

  The woman was wearing a white dress and a pure white cloak. She was very tall and was half a head taller than Bu Yaolian. She looked at Bu Yaolian sharply. “When did Shao Zun’s taste change? He likes such a fat beauty?”


  She sat down, and a maid served her.

  Bu Yaolian could sense her hostility.

  But she didn’t want to argue with her. After all, they were both Su Shenfan’s women. Why make things difficult for each other?

  The only person she had to please was Su Shenfan.

  “Madam, you probably don’t know, but Miss Lian’er has been with Shao Zun for many days,” the maid said, probably because she couldn’t stand the woman’s arrogance.

  Shao Zun had also told her that anyone who bullied Miss Lian’er shouldn’t be given any face.

  With Bu Yaolian’s personality, it would be strange if she wasn’t bullied.

  “Tsk, someone like her? What underhanded trick did she use, looking like that?” The woman in white raised her head to reveal a beautiful face.

  Bu Yaolian thought that Shao Zun really had a lot of beauties around him.

  This beauty was even better than the three beauties Xiao Jingyun had given to Shao Zun.

  “If you want to talk about me, that’s fine. Don’t curse Shao Zun too. Whether I used a trick or not is my own business. Don’t say the grapes are sour just because you can’t eat them.”


  Bu Yaolian originally didn’t want to talk to her.

  But her words touched her bottom line. Su Shenfan was her bottom line.

  She knew what the woman meant. Shao Zun had indeed been with these women before, but he had never really touched them.

  She didn’t know who this woman was, but it was obvious that she knew Shao Zun well and had complaints.

  She thought that Bu Yaolian was like her, and was just following Shao Zun around while she wasn’t really favored. That made her extremely satisfied, even if she didn’t say it out loud.

  That was why she mocked Bu Yaolian.

  “What are you talking about? How can I scold Shao Zun? I’m only talking about you. You clearly aren’t favored, but you still act like you’re very pampered. Shao Zun had you spend so many nights with him. Everybody knows what he’s like. Looking like that, will he touch you?”


  The more she spoke, the angrier she became.

  All the beauties here knew that Shao Zun had come to the stronghold this time. They only wanted Shao Zun to spend time with them.

  Although they couldn’t be truly intimate, they could still be with him and show their face in front of him.

  In the end, Shao Zun came with a beauty and stayed with her, and didn’t even see them.