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Chapter 758: What Does He Want to Do?_1
Chapter 758: Chapter 758: What Does He Want to Do?_1
Anyway, she had entered the palace on account of her status as an official’s daughter; practically every official’s family had the privilege of sending a young girl to the palace. As the eldest, it naturally fell upon her to go to the palace, all to help with her father’s political career.
Another half-hour passed.
The Emperor was still reviewing Qin She’s memorial. The pace seemed strange, almost as if she had been completely forgotten.
Zhang Tao felt wronged, her hunger growing stronger, her thirst increasing; when would the Emperor come to bed?
Zhang Tao had long since abandoned any notion of sleeping with the Emperor. Instead, she sprawled out on the bed—it was said that sleeping on one’s stomach could alleviate hunger.
And so, she fell asleep in that fashion.
The Emperor stretched lazily.
Finally done with reviewing the memorials, he stood up, preparing to go to bed, only to turn around and see a sprawled figure on the bed.
Then he remembered, she was the palace girl that Nan Feng had chosen for him today.
He frowned.
Her sleeping posture was truly indecorous.
Should he get a eunuch to carry her out?
On second thought, it wasn’t necessary. If she were sent out like this, her future in the palace could be jeopardized. He decided to tolerate her for one night.
There was a chaise longue by the bed, where the Emperor sometimes slept. He chose to lie down on it.
But he couldn’t fall asleep easily. First, he had just finished reviewing the memorials, some of which were quite troubling and required cool-headed deliberation.
Secondly, this chaise longue was fine for a midday nap, but it was rather cramped for the night.
The Emperor decided that nothing else mattered. He would kick out the woman on the bed.
However, before he could do so, he saw her moving. It seemed that she had just woken up.
Since she had been asleep on her stomach, when she woke up and looked around, her movements appeared quite bewildered—the reality of finding herself in the palace might have just dawned on her after a dream.
It made her seem somewhat cute.
For some reason, an idea sprang to the Emperor’s mind. He decided to pretend to be asleep to see what she would do next.
Zhang Tao woke up and, of course, looked at the Emperor. Seeing that he no longer sat behind his desk but lay on the chaise longue, she thought, oh no, how could she have fallen asleep and left the Emperor to sleep on the chaise longue? She should be severely punished for this.
She hurriedly got up, intending to kneel and encourage him to rise from the chaise.
However, as she kneeled, she saw the plate of mung bean cakes on the Emperor’s table. She thought, since she was going to kneel anyway, why not fill her stomach first? That way, she could also conserve energy.
So, Zhang Tao crawled to the table, grabbed a mung bean cake, and started eating, all the while keeping an eye on the Emperor.
The Emperor slightly opened his eyes, keeping her actions clearly in sight.
He suddenly found himself amused by this woman.
He had sneaked food before when he had been punished with no meals for failing to recite texts, sneaking bites while his mother was asleep.
Zhang Tao wolfed down a few cakes and choked. She clutched her throat, hammering her chest to send the food down. Soon she noticed the tea on the table and decided to drink it.
The food that had been stuck in her oesophagus finally descended. Zhang Tao exhaled, wiped her mouth, and turned around.
However, turning around, she saw that the Emperor, who should have been asleep, was wide awake with wide eyes, staring intently at her.
"..." Zhang Tao was stunned, then instinctively knelt and bowed her head, "Your Majesty, please spare me. I shouldn’t have stolen food and fallen asleep, and definitely should not have made you sleep on the chaise longue."
Zhang Tao wouldn’t have had a problem had she not knelt. But a movement, with her head lowered, incidentally revealed quite a bit of her cleavage.
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