Aspiring to the Immortal Path Chapter 674: Collaboration

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

The caged woman understood what Tang Jie wanted.

"You want me to be that favorite concubine, giving you a reason to not approach the other women?"

Tang Jie nodded. "Of course, I won't actually do it with you. We only need to act out this play on the outside."

"Why me?"

"It's not like I can work together with another fiend, right? Moreover, I can give you your freedom. Once the matter is done, I will take you away with me, and you can go where you want."

"How long will it take?"

"Until this land has no more value, or I'm discovered." Tang Jie grinned.

The woman dropped her gaze.

After a while, she said, "What did you mean when you said it was a pity?"

"You know," Tang Jie said, offering no explanation.

"I'm not pretty enough," she said.

Since he was going to pick a favorite out of the harem, his choice had to have beauty befitting one. After all, while an emperor might favor a woman who wasn't beautiful, it was a little hard to solely favor her.

Of course, if one really insisted, one might claim to have a mother complex, but alas, the Silver Eyes Fiend Emperor didn't have this sort of problem. People might change many habits, but rarely did their aesthetic tastes change on a whim.

As for this woman, she wasn't actually ugly, her elegant face putting her in the upper ranks. But she was rather lacking compared to all the concubines.

"But there's still hope." Tang Jie smiled. "A little make-up, good clothes and jewelry, and you can be a supreme beauty too." In his last life, he had seen countless examples of plain women being turned into beauties, with masters of make-up being able to turn the putrid into the divine. This woman had a decent foundation to work with, so only a little effort would be needed to bring her up to the standard.

"But I don't know how."

"It's fine. I can help you."

"You even know this?" The woman was amazed.

"I can learn. A man learning how to paint eyebrows for his love is the stuff of romance."

The woman's face reddened. "

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