[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-we-agreed-on-experiencing-life-so-why-did-you-im":3,"chapter-we-agreed-on-experiencing-life-so-why-did-you-im-we-agreed-on-experiencing-life-so-why-did-you-im-chapter-424":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","We Agreed On Experiencing Life, So Why Did You Immortals Become Real?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1698042,2166,"Chapter 424: What If I Tell You to Serve His Majesty?","we-agreed-on-experiencing-life-so-why-did-you-im-chapter-424",424,"\u003Cp>The Zhou imperial palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sili was training with the other newly admitted palace maids in the Office of Ceremonial Instruction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sili bent her knees and dipped into a curtsey, holding the posture without moving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each of them had a bowl of water balanced on top of her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoever spilled the bowl would be punished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a quarter of an hour passed, many of the maids’ legs were already trembling, and the bowls on their heads wobbled as if they were about to fall at any moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Sili was as steady as a statue, her entire body perfectly still.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention the other maids—even the lady-official in charge of training secretly found it remarkable. She felt the woman named “Si Li” was truly outstanding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sili ignored the attention from those around her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her mind was still on last night’s events.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The horned mosquito dying was a small matter. It was not some precious spirit beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The real trouble was that crazy woman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be honest, Sili did not even know how she had offended that crazy woman. Out of nowhere, she had come looking for trouble for Sili and Wangxin—Sili did not even know her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, that crazy woman was not only inside the imperial palace, she had even appeared in the Zhou ruler’s sleeping palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What relationship did she have with the Zhou ruler? Why would she appear in the Zhou ruler’s sleeping palace?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One was a great cultivator at least at the peak of the Immortal Realm. The other was only an emperor of a mortal petty dynasty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By all common sense, the two of them should never have had anything to do with each other...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Forget it. Thinking about it now is useless.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sili sighed quietly in her heart and put the matter aside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whatever relationship that crazy woman had with the Zhou ruler—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since she had discovered the horned mosquito, she would certainly have grown suspicious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For all Sili knew, the Zhou imperial palace might already be conducting a covert investigation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the time being, it was best to act steadily and safely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for how to take the Zhou ruler’s fresh blood—after the heat died down, she would think of another way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After sorting out her thoughts,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sili decided that for these days, she would be a palace maid properly and not wander anywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without realizing it, ten days passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the wedding between the Zhou ruler and the two future royal consorts drew closer, the imperial palace grew more and more lively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Sili had no interest in that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By comparison, Sili felt that being a palace maid in a mortal dynasty was not easy at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, she had only been learning etiquette and practicing ceremonial forms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But gradually, the lady-officials of the Office of Ceremonial Instruction taught Sili and the others how to fold clothes, wash clothes, brew tea, and so on...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They even brought out many erotic paintings and explained matters of the bedchamber to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at those paintings and listening to things they had never heard before about “men and women,” many maids blushed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were excited and expectant, yet also a little wistful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They also understood why they were being taught this—so that when His Majesty favored them in the future, they could serve His Majesty better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the problem was: how many palace maids could truly be favored by His Majesty?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How many endured loneliness in the imperial palace, only to be sent out once they reached a certain age?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To become a palace lady-official was the best ending most people could hope for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another five days passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the day Sili entered the imperial palace to today, twenty-one days had already gone by.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the training for the new palace maids would end today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On this day,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some maids were assigned to the laundry workshop, some to the imperial kitchen, and others to the crafts workshop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some who had performed exceptionally well in training were assigned to the sleeping palaces of the two future royal consorts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those maids were the happiest of all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, His Majesty would certainly favor the royal consorts in the future, and would often come and go from their sleeping palaces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That meant they could see His Majesty often.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And if one day His Majesty was in the mood and favored them, too—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was not impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if His Majesty did not take notice of them, serving the two consorts was still better than washing clothes and cooking every day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, the maids who had been assigned positions were led away one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Sili remained standing where she was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the lady-official responsible for assignments was chatting with another lady-official in the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their gazes drifted toward Sili’s direction from time to time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sili’s heartbeat gradually sped up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She suspected her identity had been exposed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sili had even prepared herself already.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If her identity was exposed, she would stop pretending and carve her way out of the imperial palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if the other party was an Ascension Realm sword cultivator, so what?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she wanted to leave, it would not be so easy for an Ascension Realm sword cultivator to stop her!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your name is Si Li, correct?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the time it takes half a stick of incense to burn, the unfamiliar lady-official came to stand in front of Sili.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, Big Sister.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sili dipped into a curtsey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mm.” The unfamiliar lady-official nodded and sized Sili up. “My name is Liu Shi. I am a lady-official in the Empress Dowager’s palace. I heard from Shuang’er that among this batch of newly admitted girls, you are the most outstanding. Come—follow me to the Empress Dowager’s sleeping palace.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Empress Dowager’s sleeping palace?” Sili said in surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lady-official Liu Shi smiled. “What is it? You don’t want to?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course not.” Sili hurriedly said, “To serve the Empress Dowager is the fortune my ancestors accumulated. That fortune has been spent on me—how could I dare be unwilling?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good. But you may not necessarily remain with the Empress Dowager, either. Enough—there’s no use telling you more. Come with me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Shi turned and walked out of the courtyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, Big Sister.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sili put on an anxious, flattered look and hurried after her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three quarters of an hour later...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Palace of Spiritual Heart...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This servant Si Li pays respects to the Empress Dowager.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standing before Empress Dowager Yan, Sili dipped into a curtsey, her expression carrying a trace of nervousness and a trace of being overwhelmed by favor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mm.” Empress Dowager Yan nodded. “Raise your head. Don’t keep it lowered.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, Empress Dowager.” Sili slowly lifted her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Empress Dowager Yan looked Sili over, Sili also looked at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Sili’s eyes, this Empress Dowager Yan, though already forty, [N O V E L I G H T] was very well maintained. There was not a hint of age on her, and compared to ordinary women, she carried an even more mature charm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Pretty. Your figure is passable, too. And your movements are poised and proper.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Empress Dowager Yan examined Sili and nodded in satisfaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ve heard you also understand poetry and songs?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This servant would not dare claim to understand. I have only learned a little skin-deep,” Sili said at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mm. You know to keep your tail tucked. Not bad, not bad.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Empress Dowager Yan withdrew her gaze and smiled at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“To tell the truth, I’m quite inclined to take you into the Palace of Spiritual Heart. But there’s a better place. Do you want to go?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There is no place better than serving the Empress Dowager,” Sili answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hehehe...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Empress Dowager Yan laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re a clever girl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But you’re saying your pretty words too early.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What if I said—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I want you to serve His Majesty instead?”\u003C\u002Fp>",1305,"2026-06-06T14:16:53.426Z",1,"novelbin.me","44a279a8cc19f7420b21ec25d3c3e91957e50db6e0640883d179587a74b64ede","we-agreed-on-experiencing-life-so-why-did-you-im-chapter-425","we-agreed-on-experiencing-life-so-why-did-you-im-chapter-423",451,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwe-agreed-on-experiencing-life-so-why-did-you-im-cover.jpg"]