Quick Transmigration: The Charismatic Host is Spoiled to the Point of Pregnancy Again

Chapter 164 The Fall of a Palace Maid (2)

So Liu Yun'er told the aunt who managed the laundry department that Bai Ruofu was sick and that it might be contagious.

The aunt immediately ordered someone to carry Bai Ruofu into a secluded courtyard in the palace, which was specifically for placing dying palace servants.

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Bai Ruofu regained consciousness three days later.

She wasn't in the laundry department, but in the Snow Ling Palace—a remote and dilapidated courtyard where many palace servants suffering from incurable diseases were sent to die.

She was relatively lucky; someone risked their life to go to the Imperial Hospital to get medicine from an acquaintance, and then prepared it to feed her.

This person is Han Linran, a fellow townsman of Bai Ruofu.

Han Linran and she were childhood sweethearts, growing up together since they were little.

When Bai Ruofu's parents sent her to the palace to become a maid, Han Linran resolutely entered the palace as a guard, just to protect her to the best of his ability.

It was because of this incident that Bai Ruofu was moved by him.

The two secretly pledged their lives to each other.

They planned to get married when Bai Ruofu was released from the palace at the appropriate age.

In this cannibalistic palace, the two huddled together for warmth.

When they felt wronged, they confided in each other.

Let's encourage each other.

Their feelings for each other grew stronger.

Just as she was reaching the age to leave the palace, this happened...

Han Linran was unaware that her body had been given to Mu Lichuan; she simply assumed that Han Linran was seriously ill.

In Mu Lichuan's heart, Bai Ruofu was his wife.

So even if Bai Ruofu entered Xue Ling Palace, he still had to come to find her.

Under his care, Bai Ruofu's fever subsided and she woke up.

Han Linran advised her, "Liu Yun'er from the laundry department, the one who used to live with you, lied that she was the palace maid who had a one-night stand with the Emperor that day, but the Emperor saw through her lie immediately and had her beaten to death with sticks..."

“Afu, winter is almost here, and the laundry department is very busy. Let’s get well soon, then go to the Imperial Hospital to get a certificate from the imperial physicians that you’ve recovered, and then go back to the laundry department…”

"We need people right now, so I don't think your aunt will refuse. Afu, you mustn't be discouraged, you must live well, okay?"

Han Linran patted Bai Ruofu's head, his eyes and brows revealing his boundless tenderness for her.

Bai Ruofu couldn't bear it.

Her childhood sweetheart was devoted to her, but if she really returned to the laundry department, it would be a crime of deceiving the emperor and failing to report it.

If the Emperor were to punish them, it might even implicate Han Linran.

Therefore, they must cut ties.

Bai Ruofu did not tell Han Linran about this directly because she understood Han Linran.

Han Linran wouldn't blame her for losing her virginity to someone else, and would even help her hide this secret.

He was a good man; he shouldn't have embarked on this path of opposing imperial power for her sake.

Late at night, after Han Linran left, Bai Ruofu went alone to the artificial mountain cave in the Imperial Garden.

The place where she once spent a night with Mu Lichuan.

The strange rocks on this artificial hill were once her only point of support.

That night, it happened a full eighteen times, which caused Bai Ruofu to fall ill later.

I heard that the Emperor also fell into a deep sleep for a long time.

She didn't want to go back to the laundry department, where the aunties had abandoned her at the Snow Palace before even confirming her condition, showing that she was a coward who clung to life.

If she knew that not only was she not dead, but that she was the person the emperor was looking for, she might, in a moment of desperation, fight to the death with her.

During her illness, Bai Ruofu witnessed much of the evil in human nature.

For example, Liu Yun'er, the aunt in the laundry department, and... those forgotten palace servants of Xue Ling Palace...