Chapter 8: Disfigured Palace Maid vs. Cold-blooded Emperor
Yu Yao frowned and looked at him, not understanding why he was laughing.
Little do people know that both Yu Meiren and Yao Chi are symbols of beauty.

But she happened to have a scar on her face, and Ye Beichen couldn't help laughing when he heard her explanation.

Yu Yao reacted belatedly and her hand unconsciously touched her left cheek, touching the slightly rough scar with a look of annoyance.

How come I found such an explanation?

Ye Beichen saw the annoyed look on her face. He suddenly felt that it was not nice to laugh at a woman like that, so he stopped laughing.

He suddenly changed the subject and asked, "On the full-moon night of August 15, did you go to the pond south of the laundry bureau?"

Yu Yao was frightened and her heart was pounding, but she remained expressionless.

Although I saved him, I also learned his secret.

An emperor was poisoned. If this isn't a secret, then what is it?
She didn't know whether Ye Beichen would kill her to silence her, but she didn't dare to hide it because it would be easy to find out.

"I have!" she said honestly.

"Oh, very good!"

Ye Beichen chuckled softly, with profound meaning.

Very good, what is very good, what does this mean?
Yu Yao frowned. Why did she feel that Ye Beichen was like a lunatic? She couldn't understand what he was saying.

"So you know medical skills?"

Ye Beichen asked again inexplicably.

If she didn't know what happened that night, Yu Yao would have been completely confused, but now she understood why the other party asked that. It was simply because he was doubting whether the poison in his body had been cured.

Yu Yao did not hide anything and answered honestly: "No!"

"No? Then how did you remove the poison from my body?"

Ye Beichen did not hide anything and asked the doubts in his heart naturally, while also revealing his identity.

Yu Yao's eyes were filled with shock, as if she was frightened, "Who was that person that night?"

She looked flustered, then knelt down and said respectfully, "Your Majesty, I am sorry that I did not recognize you in time. Please forgive me."

Although I knew it a long time ago, I still had to pretend.

"Get up, ignorance is not a crime."

Ye Beichen glanced at her and said nonchalantly.

Obviously there is no intention to blame.

Yu Yao stood up and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

Then she remembered Ye Beichen's original question and hurriedly explained, "When I was a child, I met an old lady by chance. She gave me a set of skills and some detoxification pills, which are said to be able to cure all poisons in the world."

"When I saw the emperor suddenly fall unconscious, I wanted to call someone over, but I was afraid of being charged with murdering the emperor, so I simply fed him an antidote pill and left in a hurry."

After she finished speaking, she knelt on the ground again, looking hesitant, "I beg the emperor to forgive me."

"Get up, I don't blame you."

Ye Beichen didn't want to argue with her about this, and just continued to ask, "How do you know that I was poisoned?"

Gu poison is also a kind of poison.

Yu Yao stood up, glanced at him, and said, "I saw that the emperor's nails were black, and I was not sure whether it was poisoned, so I just wanted to give it a try."

"Try it? Aren't you afraid of poisoning me to death? And then being beheaded?"

Ye Beichen leaned back, looked at her with a smile, and said.

Yu Yao secretly rolled her eyes and said, "The detoxification pill is fine for ordinary people to take. If the emperor is really poisoned, it will be better to detoxify it."

Ye Beichen smiled, thinking that the little palace maid had tried it right. She was bold and had good luck.

Then he thought of something and looked up at Yu Yao again, "Do you still have the detoxification pills?"

Even the imperial physician could not cure the poison in his body. He had sought out famous doctors everywhere, but all he came to was the conclusion that he needed to find the person who had put the poison in his body before he could prescribe medicine.

But the detoxification pill in the little palace maid's hand could actually cure the poison in his body. It was obvious that it was extraordinary in effect. It was not an exaggeration to say that it was a precious medicine in the world.

Ye Beichen naturally wanted to get his hands on good things.

Yu Yao naturally understood Ye Beichen's plan. She secretly rolled her eyes, but her face was full of respect. "Your Majesty, there are no more. This is the last one for Your Majesty."

Wanting the detoxification pill produced by her system is really wishful thinking. But it costs points.

Ye Beichen didn't doubt it, as it was normal that such a precious medicine with extraordinary efficacy was in small quantities, but a feeling of pity could not help but flashed across his eyes.

"You saved me, what reward do you want?"

Ye Beichen's gaze towards Yu Yao was no longer indifferent as before, but gentle instead.

If it weren't for the little palace maid in front of him, he would have no idea how much torture he would have endured.

Rewards are necessary.

Yu Yao glanced at him and said without thinking: "I only want to leave here and serve the emperor."

The priority right now is to leave the Colosseum and then approach Ye Beichen, so as to complete the mission.

As for Concubine Zhao, as long as she returns to the palace, she will have the opportunity to take revenge.

"that is it?"

Ye Beichen looked surprised. He thought she would ask him to give her a precious medicine to restore her appearance, or she would want Yuanshi and cultivation resources.
But I haven't thought about this.

"Okay, I promise you."

He agreed readily.

This request was too simple and too cheap, but nothing was said.

Yu Yao heaved a sigh of relief, a smile appeared on her face, and she said happily: "Thank you, Your Majesty."

Ye Beichen smiled and nodded, without saying anything, just asked her to sit down.

Then, we went to watch the beast fight.

Yu Yao casually found a stool in the box and sat down, also casting her eyes towards the Colosseum below.

The two of them just sat there quietly watching the beast fight without saying a word.

I do not know how long it has been.

Ye Beichen suddenly stood up from the couch and said to her indifferently, "Let's go!"

Yu Yao knew that he was going to take her back to the palace, so she smiled slightly and quickly followed him out.

With Ye Beichen's guidance, she left the Colosseum smoothly, and no one came out to stop her the whole time.

The group quickly left the Colosseum.

Yu Yao noticed with her sharp eyes that there was an extremely spacious carriage parked at the entrance of the Colosseum.

The carriage was more than one meter tall, pure black, inlaid with gilded lines all around, and carved with complex and ancient patterns. It did not look like an ordinary object.

The most important thing is that this carriage was actually pulled by eight Arabian horses.

A dozen tall men in black stood on the left and right of the carriage, looking forward with cold eyes that showed indifference to everything.

That scene was really... simply indescribable.

Yu Yao thought that Ye Beichen was not only an emperor but also a powerful man, and she felt that this was normal.

The leading black-clad man saw Ye Beichen coming out and quickly walked out of the crowd. He opened the curtain of the carriage and said respectfully to Ye Beichen: "Master, please get in the carriage!"

Ye Beichen glanced at the man in black, lifted his robe, and went up.

Yu Yao stood there, not knowing whether to follow or stand outside the carriage and follow.

"Why don't you hurry up and come up?"

A man's lazy and indifferent voice was heard from inside the carriage.

When Yu Yao heard this, she knew they were talking about her. She curled her lips and jumped into the carriage.

He totally failed to notice the extremely shocked looks of the men in black surrounding the carriage.

The emperor actually let an ugly and lowly slave ride in the same carriage with him?
Did they see it wrong, or is the world a fantasy?

Or did the emperor suddenly change his taste and start liking ugly women?

(End of this chapter)