One More Job

Chapter 757: One More Job

After directly conferring titles of Consort on the three palace candidates, Zhou Xu turned around and returned to the Imperial Study, continuing to deal with the work at hand.

To him, conferring the titles of Consort was like an insignificant little interlude and had not affected him much.

Two days passed. As usual, after helping Zhou Xu organize the documents, Shilke hesitated for a moment before reporting with a troubled look.

"Your Majesty, people have been coming to ask which Consort's palace you've been sleeping in these past two days."

Hearing this, Zhou Xu let out a quiet chuckle.

He knew without even thinking who was asking, while the reality was that he had not gone to any of their palaces these past two days.

His workload had been rather heavy. After finishing his daytime work, he was too sleepy to do anything but sleep at night, and besides, the three Consorts had only just moved in, so their sleeping quarters were still being arranged.

"Have they all settled in?"

"They have."

Shilke nodded.

"Is Your Majesty planning to rest at one of the Consorts' palaces tonight?"

Shilke had been here for so long that he naturally understood some of the matters here.

At the same time, he saw nothing wrong with it. Human lives were indeed short. If His Majesty needed to produce an heir, then he truly had to do so as soon as possible.

As for this matter, Zhou Xu's mood was genuinely somewhat complicated.

Before transmigrating, he had had fairly rich romantic experience, but he had basically spent some time dating each girlfriend before taking the next step. He had always believed in proceeding step by step.

Now that he had suddenly skipped that process, he found himself somewhat unaccustomed to