Clang! Clang!

The Empress smashed everything she could in her room. Ever since she woke up and learned that the Emperor had decreed that Qian Youxue would be betrothed to the Prince of War, she had been unable to calm down.

"I heard it was Consort Liu's influence through her pillow talk," the maid Hua'er reported to the Empress.

"Consort Liu!" The Empress gritted her teeth and spat out the two words, her half-closed eyes filled with intense murderous intent. She truly wished she could tear that vile woman, Consort Liu, to pieces.

Clang!

She turned around and smashed a favorite vase on the ground.

Granny Wang was also furious, muttering, "It seems Consort Liu has had enough of her good days. A consort without children really doesn't know her place."

"Yes! It's because she has no children that I haven't paid much attention to her. I was really careless." The Empress breathed a sigh of relief and sat down.

She reached out, took the hot tea Hua'er brought her, and took a sip. She closed her eyes and pondered for a while before making a decision: "Go and help the Crown Prince. Marry Qian Muxue back to the Crown Prince's residence as soon as possible. Even if she can't become the Crown Princess, a concubine will do."

"What does the master mean?" Granny Wang pondered.

"Qiansheng is a shrewd man. He has been handling official matters with ease over the years. I want to see which side he will stand on if the two sides really start fighting." The Empress smiled coldly, seemingly lost in thought.

Granny Wang was taken aback for a moment, then realized what she meant and lowered her voice, "Does Master mean that Qian Sheng doesn't know Qian Youxue's identity yet?"

"I suspect that apart from that old codger, no one else in the Qian family knows that secret." The Empress thought that if Qian Sheng really knew the importance of Qian Youxue, he would not have neglected Qian Youxue for so many years, and Liu Shi would not have been able to act so arrogantly in the Qian family for so many years.

Wang Mama also felt that there was some truth to this, and instructed Hua'er to serve her mistress well. After she left, she went out of the palace gate alone.

...

A dark and windy night is the perfect time to commit murder.

The cries and screams from the War King's mansion were incessant, and the sound of whips lashing flesh was especially clear in the night. The people living in the War King's mansion dared not go out at night. It was said that after the War King was deposed, his temper became even more violent, and one after another, corpses that had been whipped to death were dragged out of the War King's mansion, their deaths gruesome and unbearable to look at.

In just one day and one night, the War King's Mansion turned into a second underworld, and many people dared not approach it anymore. Starting in the afternoon, every doctor who came to see patients was whipped before leaving.

As midnight approached, the bustling noise at the entrance of the War King's Mansion subsided, and the high-ranking officials who had originally intended to inquire about the situation were nowhere to be seen.

The gates of the Prince's mansion were tightly shut, and the guards who were originally stationed at the back gate had all disappeared. The guards at the main gate sat on the threshold, yawning, completely lacking their former imposing manner.

"Are you kidding me? Your own servants are so lazy. Aren't you afraid someone will take advantage of the situation?" Qian Youxue observed from a distance for a while and couldn't help but worry about the safety of the Prince's mansion.

It's true that the prodigy has achieved great feats, but it's also true that he has offended many people. If someone were to take the opportunity to retaliate, such as a master like Sai Miaoshou, the prodigy's life would be over.

Clearly, Qian Youxue's worries were unnecessary. The Emperor had already secretly dispatched many experts to guard the vicinity, but Qian Youxue's current cultivation level was not yet able to detect them.

"Miss, thankfully you didn't act impulsively. There are at least twenty Martial Spirit Realm experts outside the Prince's Mansion." Yunhe went to investigate and rushed back to her mistress's side.