It was only three years after Yan Shu ascended the throne that he learned that her powerful regent Xiao Yan pretended to sleep under the dragon bed every night - just waiting for her to secretly look through the secret folds in his sleeves in the middle of the night.
During the day, this man blocked her three times in the court, his phoenix eyes hardened to ice, refusing to give in an inch; but at night, when she pressed on him to snatch the love letter, he didn't even tremble his eyelashes.
Pretending to sleep, right? She wanted to open his eyelids and see who the powerful minister was hiding in his heart.
But at night, when Yan Shu changed out of his dragon robe and slipped through the window into his mansion, this man was always "sleeping". Breathing steadily, eyelashes lowered, he remained motionless no matter how she rummaged through the boxes or deliberately made noises in his ears.
Yan Shu thought he was just pretending at first, until one day she playfully put her cold fingertips against the back of his neck. She clearly felt that the man's ears were suddenly extremely hot, and his pulse was erratic, but his face remained as steady as a mountain.
Later, the civil and military maids of the entire dynasty, the Empress and the Regent, were at odds with each other. Only the personal maid, Dequan, knew that their Majesty had to look in the mirror and get dressed every morning before going to court. At the end, she whispered to herself: "Tonight, I want to see how long he can keep pretending."
Intention: The most difficult game in the world is a tacit temptation; the most intense conspiracy is the perdition of being willing to surrender. In the confrontation between imperial power and military power, write a story about the ultimate pull between the two powers of "seeing through but not telling apart".
