I Became the Eye Candy: Four Bigshots Claimed to be My Dad?

Chapter 371: Emptying the Noble Consort’s Private Coffer

In Consort Yuan’s bedchambers, palace maids stood guard outside, but the room itself was empty. She swept her gaze around. The chambers were vast. To the left was a bookshelf, with an assortment of fine writing implements laid out on the desk before it. The bookshelf itself was filled with rare classic texts.

A scroll holder beside the desk was filled with painted scrolls. Ye Qianning casually pulled one out and unrolled it. It was a landscape painting, a recently completed work. The brushwork was elegant and exquisitely detailed.

’It’s quite a good painting. I didn’t expect Consort Yuan to be so skilled.’

After looking around the study, she saw that another bookshelf was filled with antiques and jade artifacts. She picked up a white jade statue of Guanyin. Casually displayed as it was, it was worth a fortune.

She had seen a similar white jade Guanyin in a museum back in the modern world. It had auctioned overseas for as high as ninety million. How could she pass up something so valuable? She casually tossed it into her storage space.

Immediately after, her greedy hands reached for the other treasures. ’These are all such fine things.’ ƒreewebɳovel.com

In the blink of an eye, the once-full shelf was now completely empty. Ye Qianning walked over to the desk and picked up the inkstone. ’Not bad either.’

Having thoroughly looted the study, she moved on to Consort Yuan’s bedroom. The sight that greeted her was astonishing. It was so magnificent that even a legendary palace of pearl and jade would pale in comparison.

The inner chamber was immense, furnished with a fine mahogany bed, a dressing table, a concubine’s chaise lounge, and an enormous zitan wardrobe. Beside the wardrobe sat a chest made of golden-thread nanmu.

Ye Qianning first opened the boxes on the dressing table. They were filled with fine jewelry—jade bracelets, earrings, and more. One pair of earrings was the very set Consort Yuan had been wearing the day before.

The cabinets beneath the dressing table were also piled high with hairpins and other ornaments. After a moment’s thought, she emptied the jewelry from the boxes and transferred it all to her storage space.

’I can’t wear this stuff myself, but it’ll fetch a pretty penny on the black market.’

Ye Qianning had no intention of holding back now that she was in the palace. Everywhere she went, valuable items vanished. Finally, she arrived at the zitan chest and lifted the lid.

Inside were rows of various bottles and jars, along with some common medicinal herbs.

’Logically, a consort who’s been favored for so many years couldn’t possibly have just this much,’ she thought. Standing up, she began to scan her surroundings. Every chamber in the Imperial Palace had secret compartments for hiding valuables, and this one was surely no exception.

After a full sweep of the room, she found nothing suspicious. She frowned slightly, her gaze falling upon the large bed. ’It couldn’t be...’

’It’s the most common hiding spot in all the dramas... Consort Yuan is too smart for that, she wouldn’t...’

With that thought, she lifted the quilt from the bed and knocked on the wooden frame. The sound was solid.

Her hands fumbled around the four corners, then traced their way up a bedpost. There, she discovered something odd—a seam. It was so fine that it was completely invisible unless you felt for it.

She gave it a slight twist to the left, and the large bed slid aside.

"...It really was under the bed." Ye Qianning couldn’t help but make a snarky comment.

’Then again, this mechanism is far more hidden than a simple false panel in the bedframe. The average person would never find it.’

Opening the hidden compartment revealed gold, silver, and jewels, as well as some peerless medicinal herbs and alchemical pills. With no time to inspect each item individually, Ye Qianning simply swept everything into her storage space. She could study it all later when she got back.

After clearing it out, she didn’t forget to slide the bed back into its original position. She did one last sweep of the outer room to confirm there was nothing else of value, then slipped out of the bedchambers.

Just as she reached the door to Miss Yuan’s room, the White Spirit inside sensed her presence and began to flutter and leap about in its cage.

’CHIRP! CHIRP! Hurry, I’m in here!’

’Help me! Get over here!’

Ye Qianning’s ears twitched as she listened. Miss Yuan’s breathing was even; she was still fast asleep. Ye Qianning vaulted through the window.