580 I Dare Pick It! (2/2)

”And then?” Wang Lu certainly noticed that she had yet to finish her words.

”But lately, you've been choosing concubine Liu Li's sign many times. If you choose her again, I'm afraid the other concubines would inevitably have something to say.”

Wang Lu's heart thumped: Liu Li's sign has been chosen many times lately? Why can't I remember any of that! Although I know that this is just the background setting given by the Heaven, it smelled like a delicate emerald crown1…

However, from another point of view, this setting was reasonable. If there was such a palace harem, Liu Li must be among the most popular imperial concubines. Her appearance was not the most important reason—on the appearance, in fact none of the other girls were inferior to her, but Liu Li's character was too invincible. Innocent, cute, and well-behaved, which, as an imperial concubine, Liu Li could be counted as perfect.

If there was such a harem, Wang Lu asked himself for his true thoughts and thought that he would certainly choose Liu Li every day until the sign is overused and broken.

However, on the other hand, as the saying goes, if a tree sticks out in the forest, it would be destroyed by the winds. Liu Li being the favorite concubine would inevitably make her the target for all. Moreover, even without considering the palace fight, looking solely on the condition previously given by Heaven: Must not hurt any of the girls, it was not feasible to favor one person alone, because it would inevitably cause others to fall out of favor and hurt… Wait a minute, there seemed to be something wrong with this logic!

The setting of this scenario by the Heaven implied an important premise: The concubines set by her must have feelings for him to make this scenario meaningful. The problem was that, this simply didn't align with the reality!

Well, Yue Xinyao was certainly an exception. He didn't know what came into her, but since more than ten years ago, after having contacts with him several times, her feelings for him had been deeply rooted. No matter how hard the effort of the fatty Wen was, he simply could not turn her heart around.

Of course, this was also purely following the path of one's own doom by the fatty. In the beginning, he was very enthusiastic in pursuing her, plus Wang Lu also had no other thought on Yue Xinyao, her heart thus vaguely opened a bit. If the fatty took that opportunity to continue to pursue her, there was a great chance that he could win her. But the result was...

The result was that, the fatty was really trying so hard, that he conveniently turned to pursue and take Li Nana, the leader of the Mansion of Light of the Great Ming Country, and achieved the amazing achievement of premarital pregnancy. Henceforth, he indeed lived a happy-s*x life, but his future with Yue Xinyao had been thoroughly cut off.

In addition to Yue Xinyao, Wang Wu could barely be included as one. Although recently, the relationship between the two showed a comical trend, their past hundred years of love had been difficult to clarify… In addition to these two people, Wang Lu really could not think of anyone who possibly had the feeling of love toward him. Liu Li indeed had always been very close to him, but the love between man and woman seemed a bit not yet matured. Bai Shixuan, as the offspring of Grand Cloud Fairy, had an inextricable predestination with him, but it was difficult to classify it as love between man and woman. In addition, Lady Boss and Cat Girl Ling Yan only had friendship with him and not love, so there was no need to say anymore. As for Big Sister Zhu Shiyao, even his friendship with her was relatively weak.

On this premise, it shouldn't matter if he didn't choose any of those several people even for ten thousand years. Thus, the focus of this hurdle seemed to have been problematic from the start.

Thinking to this, Wang Lu tentatively asked, ”As far as I know, Zhu Shiyao always has her focus set on swordsmanship, so she should be indifferent right?”

The maid considered her words first before replying, ”Concubine Zhu indeed has a quiet personality and does not easily interact with people, but her desire to receive Your Majesty's favor will never be weaker than the others.”

Wang Lu inwardly commented, what kind of bullshit is this? With such a personality, how would Zhu Shiyao care favors from anyone? At present, she did somewhat listen to the words of her respected Master, Sect Leader Feng Yin. If he was a True Immortal who was cultivating on the sword path, as long as he could pass on her an unprecedented set of ultimate sword art, she definitely would not mind selling her own body a bit, even being played in all kinds of ways. However, the problem was that, purely in terms of swordsmanship, Zhu Shiyao was still above him...

Seeing how Wang Lu was still in doubt, the maid urgently said, ”Your Majesty, please don't doubt the true feelings of the concubine toward you! Her obsession with swordsmanship happens because the loneliness in her boudoir is unbearable. In the concubine's heart, there's nothing more important than Your Majesty!”

Hearing this, Wang Lu's teeth almost fell. However, after thinking about it, such a setting was actually in line with the needs of the scenario. The problem was, this was tantamount to forced brainwash, forcibly changing the worldview of Zhu Shiyao… This might not be a good thing to the primordial spirit of a cultivator.

”Is it the same with the others too?”

The maid boldly replied, ”Although the several concubines have different temperament, there's nothing false with their true feelings for you!”

”... Wang Wu too?”

”She had shared joys and sorrows with you for many years, so her feeling for you is the deepest. Why… do you doubt her?”

Upon hearing this, Wang Lu fell into silent again. However, very quickly a light of inspiration flashed through his mind: Sharing joys and sorrows for many years?

”Bring me my sign picking records during my recent period.”

Since this scenario had a long history, it should be safe to just follow the previous year's record of picking.

The maid was surprised and said, ”The harem has just been built and the sign choosing system has only been implemented for a few days. And in these past few days, you always choose concubine Liu Li's sign, how would any records be needed?”

...Tsk, ancient Earth Immortal indeed, the work is really watertight, completely not giving people the chance to resort to tricks.

Since that is the case, then there was no other choice.

Wang Lu shook his head and stretched out his hand to pick a sign on the plate.

The maid read the sign and showed a faint smile. ”I will call concubine Wu here.”Emerald crown here just alludes the green hat in a fancy expression. If someone is said to be wearing a green hat, in China, it means his or her mate has done some cheating behaviors. Here it might mean that if in the setting Wang Lu had chosen Liu Li's sign many times, it makes people feel Wang Lu has let Wang Wu wear a green hat.