She thought to herself that the eldest prince would soon be finished, and her son would soon gain the emperor's attention.

"How did things go? Has the First Prince gone there? Has the poison been administered?" Consort Chen asked the palace maid who had entered.

"Oh dear, Your Majesty, the Buddhist hall is on fire!" The head maid of the Jade Palace was extremely anxious.

"A fire?" Consort Chen's mind went blank for a moment, and her body stiffened. "Explain yourself clearly!"

"Who told you to set fire to that place? That's the old witch's favorite spot!" Consort Chen hurriedly stood up. Oh no, oh no! If that old witch comes back and finds that her Buddhist shrine has been burned down, they'll all lose their heads!

"Oh dear, Your Majesty, how dare I! That's the Empress Dowager's territory!" Kou Dan gasped. Luckily, her mistress hadn't ordered her to set fire to the Buddhist hall, or she would have lost her head sooner or later.

"Wait, do you mean this job wasn't done by our people?" Consort Chen looked at Kou Dan nervously.

Kodan nodded. "We were originally going to poison the little princess, but then we saw the Buddhist hall was on fire, so we didn't go in."

When Consort Chen saw Kou Dan nod, the heavy weight on her chest finally lifted. Since the fire wasn't started by anyone in their palace, there was no way to trace it back to her.

This has nothing to do with her, Consort Chen comforted herself in her heart.

She was plotting in her mind. Her original plan was to poison the little princess and then have the eldest prince, Yun Yibo, appear near the Buddhist hall, so that the little princess's poisoning would be blamed on the eldest prince.

But before their people could administer the poison, the Buddhist hall caught fire. Who started the fire?