Before they knew it, night had ended and dawn was breaking. From the first light of night until dawn, they had been locked in a stalemate until they witnessed Mu Beichen faint from excessive blood loss. Yu Qianqian turned around, her face expressionless, and coldly called out towards the door, "Someone! Quickly summon someone to treat the Emperor!"

After she finished speaking, the guards bowed to her first. When she came out, they rushed in and hurriedly helped Mu Beichen to the bed. Then they rushed off to find the imperial physician.

Yu Qianqian listened to the commotion inside Luo Chen Palace as if she hadn't heard anything and walked straight ahead. When she walked out through the moon gate and completely disappeared from the road leading to Luo Chen Palace, she never looked back.

Not long after, she returned to her palace and was helped in by Xiangxing and others to rest for a while. Later, she suddenly realized that Meng Fulin was nowhere to be seen in the room, and then she remembered that he had been taken away by Mu Beichen the night before.

"Xiangxing, has Meng Fulin not returned yet?"

When Yu Qianqian asked her this, Xiang Xing replied with a trembling voice, her tone clearly anxious and nervous: "Your Majesty... Meng Fulin has not been heard from since he was taken away by the Emperor's men last night."

Mu Beichen's nature is indeed hard to change; in a fit of anger, he actually used Meng Fulin as a tool to vent his frustration.

Yu Qianqian sat down beside the couch, thought for a moment, and then immediately instructed Xiangxing and one of her close maids, "Go to the dungeon for me now and see what's going on."

Upon hearing this, the two immediately replied in unison, "Yes," and hurriedly left Fengyi Palace.

After watching them walk away, Yu Qianqian felt more and more that this matter was not so simple. Judging from her extremely bad attitude towards Mu Beichen not long ago, it was hard to guarantee that he would not take his anger out on Meng Fulin. With Xiang Xing and the others alone, they probably wouldn't even be able to get into the jail right now.

Thinking of this, she quickly got up, put on a dark light fur coat, and hurriedly stepped out of the palace gate. Then, she and a group of palace maids rushed towards the location of the prison at great speed.

As they drew ever closer to the prison, thunder suddenly roared overhead, surging straight in from the depths of the dark clouds. With a deafening crack, lightning, like a long dragon, cleaved the sky in an instant, its bright light illuminating the flickering rays of light within the prison. The impenetrable copper and iron walls sealed off everything inside.

"Her Majesty the Empress is here! Open the door at once!" One of the clever maids beside Yu Qianqian shouted loudly, and a soldier ran out of the prison in response in no time.

"Yes, yes... This servant obeys." The soldier didn't even look up, obediently pushing open the cell door for Yu Qianqian while nodding in agreement.

As they walked in carrying lanterns, the dim light in the prison gradually illuminated the space. They were then led by the warden through an extremely long corridor, where terrifying faces could be vaguely seen emerging from the cracks in the dungeon in the dim light, and an extremely strong stench of blood filled the air.

Yu Qianqian had never seen such a place with such a strong malevolent aura. Even though she considered herself to have often crawled and rolled among piles of dead bodies, she could not bear this eerie atmosphere that was like a living hell.

They covered their mouths and noses and walked along the edge of the cell door until they reached the end of the passage, at which point they all stopped.

She tilted her head and looked into the cell, and at a glance she recognized the little eunuch who was stuck to the torture device and had his eyes closed and head bowed. It was Meng Fulin, the man she was looking for!