After the soul - swapping for so long, he had also discovered some interesting things.
For example, when the two of them hugged each other, they could feel the electric current in each other's souls. This feeling was just like their souls touching each other.
At this moment, even if there were bodies and clothes separating them, they were more open - hearted than when they were naked.
After being secretly plotted against several times, Si Junlin even slept lightly. At the slightest sound, he would wake up suddenly. Only when he hugged Su Wan'er and their souls touched could he fall into a drowsy sleep and not wake up suddenly in the middle of the night.
In such a situation, Si Junlin would surely try every means to let Su Wan'er accompany him to sleep more often.
Although they couldn't do anything substantial, just having her company satisfied him.
What Si Junlin could feel, Su Wan'er could naturally feel too, but she just didn't want to say it. She didn't intend to mention such things before thinking them through carefully.
Concubine Mei, who hadn't left the palace gate for a long time, was lying on the bed at this moment.
She had previously hoped that the Empress Dowager would lift her house - arrest, but unexpectedly, after waiting for several days, there was still no news. Even when she spread the news that she was ill, the emperor didn't come to see her.
Finally, even the Rong family stopped sending news, as if they had decided to abandon her as a useless piece.
"Your Ladyship, please take a bite," Cui Si said as she walked to Concubine Mei with a tray of simple meals.
"Get out! Get out! You're also here to laugh at me. Get out!" Concubine Mei angrily scolded and threw the teacup at hand towards Cui Si.
The teacup fell to the ground and made a crisp sound of shattering. With this sound, a mocking voice came from outside the door: "It's really ridiculous. The noble Concubine Mei has actually degraded to the point of taking her anger out on the maids. It makes me laugh."
"Who is it?" Concubine Mei quickly sat up from the bed and angrily looked towards the door. "It's you!?"
The person who slowly walked in from outside the door was none other than Concubine Xi, who had also once been highly favored.
"Yes, it's me. I'm here to see how miserable the once - glorious Concubine Mei has become," Concubine Xi walked straight to the main seat and sat down, looking at Concubine Mei haughtily.
Concubine Mei suddenly laughed, and it was a wild laugh.
Concubine Xi was intimidated by her, and even the people around her carefully protected her, fearing that Concubine Mei might suddenly go crazy and rush over to hurt Concubine Xi.
Concubine Mei laughed for a long time before stopping. A mocking look appeared on her face: "Who do you think you are? If you were still in the emperor's favor, would you have the time to come here and mock me at this time? You're just laughing at someone who is only a little more miserable than you."
"You! You're courting death!" Concubine Xi was stimulated. She never thought that Concubine Mei, in such a state, would still have the courage to retort.
But what Concubine Mei said was also the truth. If she had still been in the emperor's favor, she wouldn't have felt so panicked and come to "catch up" with Concubine Mei, who was in a worse situation.
She couldn't find a retort for a moment and could only get up angrily and turn to leave.
A hint of gloom flashed in Concubine Mei's eyes. Just as Concubine Xi was about to step out of the door, she suddenly said, "Concubine Xi, are you in such a hurry to leave just after coming? Don't you want to bring down the empress?"
Concubine Xi stopped in her tracks and then slowly turned to look at her. "What did you say?"
A cold smile appeared on Concubine Mei's lips. "I think that not only you and I, but also other concubines have been neglected by the emperor. How about we cooperate?"
Concubine Xi returned to her seat. This time, she didn't sneer but put on a serious look. "It's okay to cooperate with me, but you should show your sincerity first."
She didn't want to be used as a pawn. In the end, she would be punished while some confined concubine in the palace would benefit.
"Didn't I show my sincerity? Who do you think spread the news that the empress was poisoned?" Concubine Mei sneered.
Concubine Xi frowned. "Don't tell me you were the one who poisoned her."
"Concubine Xi, that's not a nice thing to say," Concubine Mei glanced at her indifferently. "We're cooperating now. You don't need to set me up like this, do you?"
Everyone knew that the empress was poisoned because someone tried to poison the emperor, and the empress was poisoned while protecting the emperor. If she admitted to poisoning the empress, it would be like saying she had tried to poison the emperor. She didn't dare to take on such a serious crime that could implicate the whole family.
"No, I'm talking about what happened yesterday," Concubine Xi stared at Concubine Mei's face. Seeing the look of confusion on Concubine Mei's face, she was sure that Concubine Mei wasn't the one who poisoned the empress yesterday. Judging from her expression, she might not even know that the empress had been poisoned.
"What happened yesterday? What are you talking about?" Concubine Mei asked puzzledly.
Concubine Xi slowly said, "Just during lunch yesterday, someone poisoned the empress's medicine. She almost died. It's a pity that there was a imperial physician by the empress's side, so the poisoning failed. Instead, the security in the palace has become even stricter. Even if you and I cooperate, it will be difficult to take action."
"I didn't expect there were so many people who didn't like the empress. In that case, we can take a break for a while," Concubine Mei said with a mocking smile on her lips.
"Take a break?" Concubine Xi looked at her puzzledly. "How do you plan to do that?"
"The most important thing is to find out who wants to kill the empress so badly," Concubine Mei said. "Since she wants to kill the empress so much, we shouldn't waste her good intentions. We can give her a hand when she needs help. Even if she fails in the end, it has nothing to do with us."
Concubine Xi quite agreed with her proposal. "It would be great if we could benefit from others' efforts. However, I want to know that there's only one empress's throne. If the empress is brought down in the future, what do you plan to do?"
"This is still a long way off. There's still someone sitting on the empress's throne. Even if I want to compete fairly with you, I have to wait until the throne is empty," Concubine Mei only mentioned "fair competition". This way, she wouldn't anger Concubine Xi, nor would she easily make any promises that were unfavorable to herself.
From this aspect, it could be proved that Concubine Mei hadn't been idle during her confinement. Although she seemed calm on the surface, she was actually planning a bigger scheme.
Concubine Xi was a little hesitant. She wasn't sure if she really wanted to cooperate with such a woman. Such cooperation was too risky for her.