Chapter 666 I Will Not Be Soft-Hearted

Everyone gasped when they heard what Doctor Wu said, and looked at the Queen Mother with fear in their eyes.

The Queen Mother has such a vicious mind.

He used his own life to plot against Princess Xiangning.

If Xiao Yan had not arrived in time, if Tang Ning had been locked up and imprisoned, Doctor Wu would have been silenced.

After the empress dowager died, it would be a foregone conclusion that Tang Ning had angered her to death. No matter how many conflicts there were between the royal family and the Duke Dingguo's Mansion in the past, how many mistakes Emperor An had made, and how much he owed the He family, Tang Ning's murder of the empress dowager would be enough to wipe out everything, and no one would be able to save her.

But even though Princess Xiangning was a daughter of the Rong family and controlled the Rongsheng Academy, it was still not worth it for the empress dowager to risk her life to convict her.

unless……

What happened today was not aimed at Tang Ning at all.

Several sharp-minded people in the hall had already realized the reason behind the Queen Mother's move, and subconsciously looked at the cold-faced man beside Tang Ning.

Concubine Zhao looked at Emperor An.

Does His Majesty know that the Queen Mother is like this?

Even though no one answered, Concubine Zhao was certain in her heart that Emperor An must have known about this matter.

Otherwise, Liu Tong'en would not have come, and Emperor An would not have come to Shoukang Palace by chance when the empress dowager was vomiting blood and unconscious, and would have taken Tang Ning to "pay for the empress dowager's life" as soon as he arrived.

The Queen Mother collapsed on the ground, feeling the sudden silence in the hall and the various gazes directed at her.

She knew that after Doctor Wu confessed, all her plans could no longer be concealed, and she, the empress dowager, would become a joke, but she had no time to care what others thought of her.

The pain in her internal organs made her twitch constantly, and the feeling of suffocation when her heart pulse contracted made her face turn pale.

If she had died suddenly, the empress dowager might not have felt any regrets, but now she could clearly feel the vitality slipping away from her body. She was still alive, but it was as if one foot had stepped into the underworld, and she was being scratched and dragged into hell bit by bit by hundreds of ghosts.

The pain of watching her own death and feeling the life fade away frightened her.

She doesn't want to die...

She can't die!!

The Queen Mother's face was filled with pain, and she hissed with her mouth wide open.

"I... was wrong, save... save me..."

She breathed desperately, her throat making a wheezing sound like a broken bellows, and each word she spoke was extremely difficult.

"emperor……"

"Aran."

The Queen Mother wanted to survive and wanted to grab anyone who could save her. She desperately grabbed Nanny Ran's arm.

"Aran, save me..."

Nanny Ran listened to her extremely weak pleading voice, put her on the ground, and knelt down to speak to Emperor An, regardless of the blood dripping from the bruises on her face.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please save the Empress Dowager! I beg you to save the Empress Dowager!"

Emperor An looked conflicted when he looked at Nanny Ran. He wanted to save the empress dowager.

But……

He glanced at the resentful Imperial Physician Wu and the guards who had been captured outside Shoukang Palace.

It is obvious that today's events are not going to go as expected. After Doctor Wu confessed, the Queen Mother's frame-up of Song Tangning could no longer be covered up. Maybe even the prince's affairs would be reversed, and then someone would have to be pushed out to take the blame.

If he saved the Queen Mother, he would be implicated.

Nanny Ran kept kowtowing, but there was no response from Emperor An. She looked up and saw that Emperor An was silent. She suddenly froze as if a basin of cold water was poured over her head, and she felt as if she was in an ice cellar.

Yes, how could he save the Queen Mother.

The empress dowager's breathing behind him became heavier, and the huge gasps made people feel as if they were about to suffocate.

Ran Mama knelt on the ground and almost crawled in front of Tang Ning, kowtowed with blood on her face:

"Princess Xiangning, please save the Empress Dowager. None of this was your idea. It's me who is deep-minded, cunning and vicious. I am willing to pay you with my life. Please find an imperial physician to save the Empress Dowager. Please..."

She kowtowed while crying, her tears mixed with the blood on her face flowed all over the ground, and her forehead was bleeding from the knocks.

Qian Qiyue, who had been very angry before, couldn't help but turn her head away, and many people in the hall couldn't bear to watch any longer.

"Aran..."

The Queen Mother's voice became even weaker.

Seeing that Tang Ning was unmoved, Nanny Ran cried even more miserably. She reached out to grab Tang Ning's skirt, but was kicked away by Xiao Yan.

"Don't be soft-hearted." Xiao Yan looked at Tang Ning.

Tang Ning felt him holding her hand tightly, thinking about those people who were eager to kill her and Qian Qiyue when she was surrounded before, and thinking about Xiao Yan's seemingly calm but panicked eyes when he came in.

She never thought that she would repay evil with kindness, let alone that she almost lost her life in the Queen Mother's scheme.

Emperor An certainly didn't dare to kill her directly, but if she fell into his hands, she would be charged with the crime of murdering the empress dowager. Xiao Yan would have to retreat again and again if he wanted to save her, and would be at the mercy of Emperor An.

And there is Qian Qiyue.

Zhou Yuchang.

In order to plan today's events and eliminate the greatest threat to Emperor An, the Queen Mother involved so many people. She never thought about what would happen to these people after the event. She just wanted to destroy everyone for her own selfish reasons.

Now that it’s the Queen Mother’s turn, how could Tang Ning be soft-hearted?

"I won't be soft-hearted."

Tang Ning spoke word by word, letting Xiao Yan support her. She turned around and looked at the crying Nanny Ran, with the same indifference on her face as Xiao Yan's.

"Since the Empress Dowager has painstakingly sought all of this today, how can I let her efforts go to waste? Even Your Majesty is unwilling to save the Empress Dowager, so how dare I interfere?"

Nanny Ran was in great sorrow and was about to continue begging for mercy when she saw the Queen Mother suddenly vomiting blood again. She knelt on the ground and crawled over, holding the Queen Mother's head to try to stop the blood from her mouth, but the blood seemed to have punctured her trachea and kept flowing out.

Every time the Queen Mother took a breath, her whole body spasmed in pain. She opened her mouth wide to try to snatch some life, but it only made her suffer more.

The hall was filled with her heavy breathing, and the sound seemed to tighten around everyone's neck, making them feel the same pain.

The empress dowager leaned in Nanny Ran's arms, leaned forward and pointed in the direction of Emperor An as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she said nothing. The breath that was breaking like the wind in her throat suddenly stopped, and the next moment the empress dowager collapsed to the ground with her eyes wide open, and the hand that was pointing at Emperor An also fell to the ground.

"Empress Dowager!!!"

Nanny Ran cried bitterly while holding the empress dowager's warm body.

She knelt on the ground and wailed, her cries sounding like tears of blood.

The palace maids outside Shoukang Palace also knelt on the ground in unison.

Xiao Yan covered Tang Ning's eyes with his hands: "Don't look."

Tang Ning felt the warmth in front of her eyes and listened to the hoarse crying beside her ears. She reached out and pulled Xiao Yan's hand down, saying softly:

"I'm not afraid."

She is no longer the little girl who could only cry when encountering troubles, nor is she the Song Tangning who was only panic-stricken and had never seen life and death.