How dare you!? 成何体统

T/N:  I made some changes to the first chapter and characters page, the novel Yu Wanyin gets transmigrated to is now《Transmigration: The Devil's Beloved Concubine》and Xie Yonger is from《The Night of a Thousand Blossoms in the East Wind》. 

Also T/N: This chapter should cover the other half of episode 2 and some parts of episode 3 (I didn't watch episode 3 yet). I didn't read over this chapter like I did for the first one so there might be some typos. Comment where there's an error and I'll fix it!

This thousand-year-old fox demon is suddenly pretending to be a saint, who is she trying to fool?"

Xiahou Dan paused, his expression softened: "My beloved consort has such intentions."

Fooled!

The surrounding palace attendants breathed heavily. That day, Yu Wanyin's name spread throughout all corners of the harem.

Xie Yonger listened to the little maid recounting the scene's dialogue, her eyebrows twitched, showing a confused expression. The tyrant actually trusted Yu Wanyin to such an extent? What's even stranger is why Yu Wanyin didn't point her out? Because she's too stupid to suspect her? Probably not. Because she has no evidence and can't harm her with just a word? But with the tyrant's temperament, he clearly doesn't need any evidence... Yu Wanyin just let go of this great opportunity to eliminate her rivals so lightly.

Xie Yonger thought of her words "looking out for each other," her heart trembled slightly, and then she found it somewhat laughable—In the full text of《The Night of a Thousand Blossoms in the East Wind》Yu Wanyin maneuvered between the emperor and the prince, with graceful movements, leaving no trace, while other concubines all became stepping stones to her success. With such acting skills, nothing she said could be trusted.

That night, the first work exchange meeting in the Spider Cave was successfully held in front of a small hot pot.

Yu Wanyin: "The effort to win her over is not going well. Xie Yonger seems to have built a high mental barrier against me, treating me as if I were a cardboard figure." She sighed, "I don't dare risk being discovered by the Prince and tell her that we are all real people..."

Xiahou Dan: "But that's not the case."

Yu Wanyin: "What?"

Xiahou Dan: "Think carefully, you are a real person, she is not. She is a character from 《Transmigration: The Devil's Beloved Concubine》her identity as a transmigrator is given by the original work, including her personality and thought process, which are all predetermined. It's probably very difficult to persuade her to defect."

Yu Wanyin hadn't thought in this direction before. With his reminder, she suddenly realized that she had subconsciously regarded Xie Yonger as the same kind (T/N: being a transmigrator).

But she is not the same kind after all.

She felt a bit disheartened for a moment, but forced herself to continue struggling: "Don't draw conclusions so quickly, let's keep observing. How did your talk with Xu Yao go?"

Xiahou Dan: "I told him that recalling his father is just a matter of a word from me. He's a smart guy and knows what to exchange for it. But he left looking quite despondent, probably shaken, still grappling with whom to trust."

"Good, good, continue with this approach. You don't have your own power yet, you have to survive in the cracks and stir up trouble." Yu Wanyin analyzed for him, "I"ve been racking my brains trying to recall the original text these days. Among the court officials, seventy percent are in the Empress Dowager's faction, and thirty percent are in the Prince's faction."

Xiahou Dan: "Is it possible for the Empress Dowager to help me?"

"Wishful thinking. She's your stepmother, young, ambitious, and despises you for being disobedient. She keeps the little prince close to her, hoping to bypass you and become another Empress Lü. But don't worry, in the book, she keeps making foolish moves and doesn't achieve much in the end. You still get killed by the Prince..."