Me and Him and Him - Chapter 1

Chapter 1

The emperor was dying.

According to ancestral law, any concubine without children had to be buried with him. As luck would have it, I was one of those poor unlucky souls.

And I wasn’t the only unlucky one. There were three thousand beauties in the harem in the same boat.

Yes, the emperor had plenty of consorts, but aside from the Crown Prince, he had no other children.

Which meant that the moment the emperor passed away, the entire harem was getting wiped out.

None of the consorts wanted to die, so a lot of them started taking desperate risks and borrowing seed from the palace guards.

Then they’d put on an act, go spend a night “caring for” the unconscious emperor, and bribe the imperial physicians to alter how far along they supposedly were.

So far, seven or eight of them had already succeeded and had their names removed from the burial list.

As the most timid and most death-fearing consort in the palace, I was extremely tempted.

But I moved too slowly. Any guard in the palace with even a halfway decent face had been reserved long ago.

The ones left were all crooked melons and cracked dates, and I truly couldn’t bring myself to do it.

After dragging my feet, my turn to attend the emperor in his illness arrived.

Judging by the emperor’s current complexion, he probably wouldn’t last three months.

Counting the days, this would be my first and last time attending him.

So I had to successfully borrow seed within the next few days.

Just as I was about to grit my teeth and randomly pick a guard, I ran into an incomparably handsome guard in the emperor’s bedchamber.

The first time I saw him, my breath stopped. I forgot how to blink and just stared straight at him.

My gaze made his beautifully shaped brows draw together.

My heart fluttered even harder!!

So what if he looked a little cold? With a face that gorgeous, who could resist?

And that body-broad shoulders, narrow waist, long powerful legs. One glance and I knew he was very capable!

So I took off every valuable piece of jewelry I had, wrapped them in a handkerchief, mustered up my courage, pulled him aside, and whispered, “Hello. I want to have your baby.”

At my words, the Cold-faced Guard looked as though he’d been struck by lightning.

His handsome face instantly darkened like the bottom of a pot, and his gaze turned so sharp it could have stabbed two holes through me.

I trembled in fright, but I forced myself to shove the handkerchief full of jewelry into his arms, my voice quivering.

“A-all my money is yours! I’m buying… buying your seed!”

The Cold-faced Guard lowered his head to look at the handkerchief I’d stuffed against him, then looked back up at me. His eyes were complicated, but he didn’t take it.

“You… don’t know who I am?” he asked, his voice low and icy, like a cold spring striking jade. It sounded unbearably pleasant.

My little heart thumped wildly as I secretly decided that no matter what, I had to win him over.

“I know, I know!” I nodded like a chick pecking at grain.

In truth, I had absolutely no idea who he was, but the urgent priority was coaxing him into lending me his seed first!

“You know, and you still dare ask me to lend it to you?” His face remained expressionless. Only one brow lifted slightly.

I mulled over what he meant by that.

Could it be that another consort had already claimed him, and she was of a much higher rank?

So he looked down on me?

At that thought, I was about to cry.

“Wuwu, I really have no other choice. His Majesty is almost gone. If I don’t have a child, I’ll have to be buried with him. I don’t want to die! Please help me, wuwu…”

As I spoke, sorrow welled up from the depths of my heart, and I cried even harder.

But I was afraid of alerting the palace servants waiting outside the bedchamber, and even more afraid of waking the unconscious emperor. So I forced myself not to make a sound, my eyes red as I sniffled and sobbed in little hiccups, pitifully looking up at him.

Seeing me cry like that, the Cold-faced Guard fell silent.

Those beautiful, deep eyes stared at me until my scalp went numb, and I nearly couldn’t keep crying.

Just as I thought he was about to draw his saber and cut down a consort who had defiled the inner palace, he suddenly reached out and took the handkerchief from my hands.

Did that mean he agreed?!

While I was still reeling from this enormous surprise, I heard the Cold-faced Guard look at me meaningfully and say, “Don’t regret this.”

I instantly broke into a grin and hurriedly said, “I absolutely won’t!”

With a man this handsome, how could I ever regret it?