A few days pass, and the "empress" has recovered from her provoked sickness; she is now heading towards the emperor's office to speak about it.
"My emperor! My emperor!" She starts yelling as soon as she gets close to his office.
Meanwhile, in the office, the loyal vassals of the emperor and teachers of prince Xiao just finished their report just before the empress started yelling, then the door slammed open without any care in the world showing the empress with her most beautiful dress for her, it was not a beautiful dress put on her because it was stolen from his beloved and suited her more before she was deemed dead.
"My emperor! It would help if you did something about my recent sickness!" she yells not leaving room for the rest of the vassals and teachers to leave the room wanting them to hear her lies about the second prince.
"What is it, my empress? I just heard from the palace doctors that you recovered and are disturbing our meeting, be quick about it." Emperor Zhouli spoke wanting to finish giving the order to the rest but was interrupted before he could do so
"My sickness was provoked! I'm sure that the brat's second prince made someone induce such sickness in me! He is after me! You must do something about him!" Empress Guohei begged him and started to insult his precious son believing he will hear her not knowing he now knows the truth about her schemes against his beloved 'As soon as he believes my words that brat will be gone like that stupid woman, and the full power of the Lotus Kingdom will fall into the hands of my family and will finally be able to hold a grand title like the four Grand Noble Families!' she thought to herself not knowing that the system 08998 was there showing her thoughts to the rest of them.
[Stupid human thinking that i will let her go so easily as soon as i become one with Xiao every interference will be easy to make as of now i can only show her thoughts and soon all her schemes will be revealed to the world] System 08998 has a program that helps him communicate with others but he can only show the messages to the blood-related family or trusted people of his host in case of emergency if something ever happens to the host that needs immediate action but has a different use if the system is not yet synchronized with the host like showing the thoughts of those that are going to harm or have ill intentions towards the host before synchronizing.
While she was speaking her thoughts were shown to the emperor and the rest of the people in the room, but they knew to not show any disturbing emotion on their faces in front of the empress in order to not let her know of the familiar that Prince Xiao is going to have or their future plans with her. With that said, they are going to let their emperor speak because they know that if they start speaking they will let their emotions show, and so they won't speak a word until the emperor tells them to do so.
"Empress, for Xiao to try and induce a sickness towards you is impossible since it must be someone from outside or the inside to do such a thing. But It cannot be the men in this room, and Xiao doesn't have any connection outside the palace except the children of the four grand noble families." As soon the emperor stops speaking a notification pops up on his face but is still able to look at the empress with a serious face.
[This is the only way for me to communicate with you for now. You must provoke her into ordering the first prince to use the poison that she will ask for in secret, and poison Xiao's food. It is the only way for the both of us to meet in person. I'm the only one who can give you the future you want but as of now, I can only help like this. These floating messages are part of my power but only those with good intentions towards Xiao or those that he trusts can see these messages.]
As he finished reading the message similar ones appeared in front of the rest of them except the empress letting them know that the empress has ill intentions towards Xiao, and plans to kill him or dispose of him to take the throne.
"Empress, please leave my office we are not finished with the meeting and we cannot finish with you here since the matters of the meeting don't involve you or Lou, you must leave and return to your room in order to recover." Emperor Zhouli said as soon as the message disappeared leaving no room for Empress Guohei to speak and left the office thinking that he cares for her health, but that isn't really the case as soon as she left they all let out a sigh not knowing that they forgot to breathe since the moment she entered the room.
"My, my, Such an unruly woman she truly is. It appears that she doesn't know that she only holds the title of empress but not the power of an empress." Said Loumei mocking her knowing she stayed by the door trying to listen to the contents of the meeting
Outside the door
'How dare they mock me! I'm the empress! Please emperor say something! Defend me anything will do please show me that you care for me!' She thought while she put her ear close to the door, the servants that were passing by and doing their duty ignored her knowing that it was a normal occurrence in the palace since she came as a concubine.
In the office
[She's still outside with her ear on the door, keep going.]
As they saw the message only appear in the room and not in their faces they relaxed a little and continued mocking her.
"Enough, she only has that position in order to not make the public know our real goal or the search for that person is going to be revealed to the public and make our name look bad." Emperor Zhouli said knowing that as soon he showed he didn't want to speak about Guohei, she will mistake it as caring for her, when the truth is that he doesn't care about her or her reputation, and let his servants and vassals mock her as long as they want but makes sure they stop when they see her lose her composure in front of others.
[She left with an angry face as soon as she heard the emperor speak we can now finish our discussion] Said system 08998 [I go by System 08998, but I will be given a name by Xiao until then call me 08998 or any of my numbers I can't show you my form because i do not want to yet only when I become his familiar i can appear physically for now only the messages can be shown]
As soon as the system introduced itself they pulled out the papers that had the plans written on them.
"Emperor, this is why we proposed the idea of changing parts of the plan," Yuang said while holding up the papers.