"Shao Chen!" Feng Meifeng could only call him gloomily.
Shao Chen's hands stopped packing. He looked at Feng Meifeng moist and red eyes.
"Meifeng jie…."
"You really! Why did you do that?! Now His Majesty is furious at you!" Feng Meifeng was really angry and sad because she heard that no one could have their freedom again after being thrown into the Cold Palace. They were never permitted to go out from the Cold Palace block. Feng Meifeng would lose her one and only friend here.
"Take it easy, jie. I still have to get my revenge against that thief emperor!" Shao Chen gave her a thumbs up.
Her jaw dropped. "How could you – My God, Shao Chen! Did you understand what had happened?! You will be sent to the Cold Palace. That's mean that you will be caged there until you die without anyone could even ever see your shadow again!" Feng Meifeng did not know whether to laugh or cry blood tears.
Shao Chen frowned for a few minutes before showing a foolish smile. "I will get my revenge no matter what. I can do it!" He was too positive!
Feng Meifeng's words stuck on her throat.
"Come on, Miss! You have to go!" He Tao finally called from outside the pavilion. He had run out of patience.
Shao Chen tied the cloth bag then step outside. "Then, I will go. Bye bye, jie."
Feng Meifeng followed him outside. "You have to take care of yourselves, okay?" she said as if she would never meet Shao Chen ever again.
Actually, if someone had become the Cold Palace resident, the next time people saw her was when she had become a corpse. That was not because of strict rules from the kingdom as what rumor had said but the true reason was whether the girl was too shame of her wrongdoing or was too scared of meeting the emperor. So no one would ever go out from the Cold Palace by their own accord so that the palace felt it was not necessary to make a new rule for The Cold Palace resident. Even there were no guards around the block and the nearest guardpost was the one for guarding the underground jail.
However, Shao Chen had no shame and he was not afraid of the emperor anymore because his whole fear had been eaten by the dog. He only had fury towards the emperor because of his stolen money So, he would definitely appear inside the palace again even before Feng Meifeng began to miss him.
Outside the pavilion, another harem girl gathered around to see the infamous girl. When they saw a familiar face, they began to gossip. Some of them even laugh at Shao Chen's face.
"You flirtatious girl! That is what you get for shamelessly trying to get His Majesty's attention!" the girl with a thick powder face sneered.
She was Hang Xingjuan, one of the 19 girls that came from the same village with Feng Meifeng dan Shao Chen. She had hate Shao Chen since their first meeting with the emperor and also the one who stood in front of Shao Chen when they were registering for the harem.
"Xingjuan! Shao Chen did not have any ulterior motives to get His Majesty's attention!" Feng Meifeng retorted angrily.
"What did you know, Meifeng? Were you her mother so you would know all about her?" Han Xingjuan mocked.
Feng Meifeng's feature became red. Shao Chen did not really understand the conversation so he ignored it.
"Jie, I will go now." He bowed briefly toward Feng Meifeng then went away with He Tao.
"Hmph! What a shameless b*tch!" Han Xingjuan shouted deliberately so Shao Chen could hear it.
Shao Chen turned around after 15 minutes had passed, wanted to ask something but he had walked too far from the block so he turned to He Tao. "What is b*tch?"
He Tao's face twitch. 'Don't ask me! I did not want to say that kind of dirty word with my mouth!'
Being ignored by He Tao, Shao Chen did not insist on the answer. He kicked the thought out and began to think about his revenge plan.
'I will do it soon! For my money's sake!' He exclaimed.
'Ah … and for mother and father's sake too…,' he added after remembering his initial purpose for getting revenge.
At the corner of his heart, he apologized to his parents in heaven for forgetting about them.
If Yao Tengfei still alive, Shao Chen would definitely be roared, "You unfilial son!"
*****
The Cold Palace's pavilion Shao Chen sent to was a high building made from rough stone. Inside the pavilion, there was only a bedroom with a hard stone bed, weathered wardrobe, and scuffed bronze mirror. There was no heating stove so it would be freezing when winter came.
"Hah … the bed…," Shao Chen muttered sadly. Even though the bed he slept on when he was still poor in his past life was also hard, it was not as hard as a bed made from stone!
Shao Chen could see some parts of the bed that were slightly protruding. If he slept on it, back pain would definitely become the first outcome.
It had been a long time since he was been this destitute.
'Even though this place has a lot of money!' He grumbled. Had his condition was the same as his past life, he would have harvested lots of money.
His grudge towards the emperor became more profound.
Refused to keep being sad, he imagined how the emperor was trampled under his feet after he managed to get revenge and laughed happily. 'I will definitely succeed!'
In a great mood, he opened the cloth bag and started to stuff his clothes inside the wardrobe. After that, he took his holy bible of revenge, The Thousand Revenge book out.
He actually was dying for implementing the revenge way he had learned yesterday but he felt dull and exhausted so he decided to postpone it until tomorrow. To kill the plenty free time he had for the rest of the day, he intended to look for more ways of revenge from the book.
However, when he flipped the first page, he just remembered that he was an illiterate man who only learned to read three pages of an unknown book. There was no way that he could read other books that were filled with new and unfamiliar word characters.
"Hah … maybe I should search for someone to read it for me?" But he was too tired and lazy to go outside.
As if someone had heard him, at that moment, a light step echoed inside the pavilion, going up the circular staircase. A knocked at the open door was heard after that.
"Hello, I'm not disturbing you right?" a soft female voice asked.
A middle-aged woman with a delicate feature was standing in the doorway. She wore expensive and beautiful three-layered clothes which dazzled Shao Chen's eyes. A friendly smile spread across her face.
"Who?" Shao Chen asked in confusion.
"I'm Yan Mei. Can I know your name?"