kvmb Chapter 199 Palace Intrigue World: A Harem Pierced Through Like a Sickle VS An Awakened Emperor with
Chapter 199 Palace Intrigue World: A Harem Pierced Through Like a Sickle VS An Awakened Emperor with
"Oh?" The Empress turned to her attendants and ordered, "Quickly send someone to check what's wrong with Consort Chun."
"His Majesty has arrived!"
However, before the Empress's people could go out to check, Xiao Jing'an arrived, and everyone hurriedly got up to greet him.
"Flat body."
After the concubines stood up, they realized that the situation was a bit delicate, because Xiao Jing'an did not come in alone. Behind him was none other than the late-arriving Consort Chun, Ruan Ruolan.
After everyone stood up, their eyes were all focused on Xiao Jing'an and Ruan Ruolan. Could there be something fishy about the two of them coming together?
Moreover, Xiao Jing'an, upon entering, did not rush to sit down. Instead, he was very gentle with Ruan Ruolan and even turned back to look at her.
Empress Jiang Lingyao looked at Ruan Ruolan's face and was somewhat dazed. In her previous life, Ruan Ruolan was indeed incredibly beautiful, but her personality was so weak that it made it impossible for her to stand up.
However, when the Empress looked at Ruan Ruolan in front of her, she felt that Ruan Ruolan was even more beautiful than she remembered, and her personality seemed to have changed as well.
How is this going?
After Su Jinyue sat back down, she also observed Xiao Jing'an's every move. She noticed that Xiao Jing'an's movements were a bit stiff, and suspected that he might have been infected on the way here.
“Kongkong, what’s wrong with Xiao Jing’an? His movements are unnatural, like he’s being controlled.”
[Host, please wait a moment, I'll be right there.]
Soon, Kongkong returned.
[Host, Master... Xiao Jing'an is indeed being controlled. He should have been affected by a tool that forcibly increases favorability. Logically, he shouldn't be able to detect anything unusual.]
However, Xiao Jing'an awakened, and his thoughts were no longer under the system's control. But the props were still functioning, resulting in this rigid state.
"How do we remove that prop? Can you help Xiao Jing'an?"
[Host, that item should come from Ruan Ruolan's quick transmigration system. If I make a move, I'm afraid the quick transmigration system will immediately notice.]
Host, you can use your divine sense to help Xiao Jing'an, just like you helped Chen Meizi break free from control in the last world.
"But if I make a move, won't Ruan Ruolan's quick transmigration system detect me?"
[No, your divine sense and the system's energy are not connected, so it can't tell the difference. Besides, after you help Xiao Jing'an break free from control, immediately withdraw your divine sense. I will intercept it from behind, and it won't be able to do anything to you.]
"Okay, that works too."
After discussing it with Kongkong, Su Jinyue immediately took action. Xiao Jingan's situation was urgent, and they had to help him remove the prop's effect.
Su Jinyue's consciousness quickly entered Xiao Jing'an's mind, and a strange force indeed controlled Xiao Jing'an.
Without further hesitation, she immediately focused her consciousness on that force, beginning to tear and attack.
Strangely, when Su Jinyue's consciousness first met that strange power, she could still feel a weak counterattack. However, when her consciousness began to tear at it, the opponent's power suddenly collapsed and did not cause any harm to Su Jinyue.
Although Su Jinyue found it strange, she didn't have time to think about it. She quickly scanned Xiao Jing'an's mind with her divine sense, trying to completely resolve the influence of the favor item on Xiao Jing'an.
Today's situation is special, with several systems existing simultaneously. In order to prevent Xiao Jing'an from falling victim to the system, Su Jinyue used her divine sense to create a temporary barrier in Xiao Jing'an's mind, so that the system items would no longer have any effect on him.
Just as Su Jinyue's consciousness entered Xiao Jing'an's body, Xiao Jing'an felt as if a warm current was enveloping him, and then the strange thing that had been controlling him lost its effect.
Xiao Jing'an finally regained control of his body and breathed a sigh of relief.
Today, Xiao Jing'an has truly experienced firsthand the power of the system that Su Jinyue had mentioned.
Xiao Jing'an originally didn't care about the so-called female lead in the plot. After all, he was the ruler of a country. If he didn't take the bait, what could others do to him?
However, Xiao Jing'an no longer thinks that way.
He had just arrived at the Empress's palace when he heard a voice, seemingly human but not quite, say something like, "A favorable aura has been cast on target Xiao Jing'an; the item has been activated."
Before Xiao Jing'an could understand what was happening, he saw something glowing enter his body, and then his behavior became uncontrollable.
He found a beautiful woman who looked like a fairy in front of him. Xiao Jing'an had seen her during the selection of concubines, so he knew that this person was Ruan Ruolan, who was also the Chunpin he had personally appointed.
Xiao Jing'an originally only thought she was pretty and didn't have any other feelings or sexual desire for her, but now Xiao Jing'an realized something was wrong.
Xiao Jing'an found that the longer he looked at Ruan Ruolan, the more pleasing she became to the eye, and his affection for her grew even stronger.
Xiao Jing'an was somewhat confused. He knew perfectly well that Ruan Ruolan herself had problems, so how could he possibly still have feelings for her?
But now his body seems to be under control. He is fully conscious and knows that the body controlled by that strange prop is getting more and more fond of Ruan Ruolan, but he is powerless to stop it.
Xiao Jing'an could even hear that inhuman voice continuing to give instructions.
[Xiao Jing'an's favorability +10, current favorability is 10.]
[Xiao Jing'an's favorability +10, current favorability is 20.]
[Xiao Jing'an's favorability +10, current favorability is 30.]
……
Xiao Jing'an watched as he personally helped Ruan Ruolan, who was bowing to him, to her feet, and then led her into the Empress's palace. Even during the banquet, he felt a lingering reluctance to part with Ruan Ruolan.
Just as Xiao Jing'an was about to go mad, a warm force rescued him, and then the strange artifact that had been controlling him disappeared as if it had lost its effectiveness.
The warm power didn't stay long; it removed the props from him, restored his freedom, and then left.
But just as that warm power was helping him, several images suddenly flashed through his mind: a man and a woman seemingly playing together as childhood sweethearts; two people naked and entwined in the water; and two people sleeping in each other's arms in bed...
Those images flashed by, and Xiao Jing'an could only remember the general outlines; he couldn't even make out the faces of the two people clearly.
But for some reason, Xiao Jing'an felt that those scenes were very familiar, as if he had experienced them all, and even felt a little nostalgic.
Xiao Jing'an glanced at Su Jinyue, who was sitting at the end of the table, without making it obvious. He had a strange intuition that it was Su Jinyue who had just helped him.
The woman in those pictures is her too!
Su Jinyue said she came to help him!
Perhaps those fleeting images were the reason why Su Jinyue helped him.