"Your Majesty, the Empress has arrived! This servant..."
Before the palace maid could finish speaking, the Empress barged in: "Consort Lan, how dare you!"
Everyone rose and bowed, saying, "Your Majesty, we, your humble servants, greet Your Majesty the Empress."
The Empress remained silent and looked directly at Consort Lan at the head of the table.
Consort Lan was not angry; she simply smiled and asked, "What does Your Majesty mean by this?"
The Empress glared at her: "Consort Han is my cousin. I know her character well. She would never do such a thing. I think Consort Lan has been tortured into confessing!"
As she spoke, she glared at the little palace maid a few times, and the little palace maid dared not raise her head.
Sang Jiang: ...
Has the Empress lost her mind?
Consort Lan burst out laughing: "Your Majesty, that's not right. I don't even have a finger to touch Consort Han. All the ladies in this hall saw it. It was Consort Han who confessed."
As she spoke, she pointed to the concubines sitting on both sides watching the commotion.
The Empress looked in the direction she pointed and saw each of the concubines. All the concubines who were seen lowered their heads, none of them wanting to be the first to stick their necks out.
The Empress ignored Consort Lan and looked directly at Consort Han: "Tell me what happened?"
Just now, a palace maid from Consort Han's side ran to her palace saying that Consort Lan had slandered her. She disregarded the fact that she was under house arrest and rushed over. Unexpectedly, this fool confessed right away.
Han crawled on her knees to the Empress's side and hugged her legs: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please save me! I really didn't poison the Empress Dowager! I... I just couldn't stand how Sang Ruo treated you. I just wanted to teach her a lesson, I..."
"Slap!" Before she could finish speaking, a loud slap landed on her face.
The Empress kicked Consort Han away, glaring at her angrily: "How could you do such a thing! What have I taught you all this time! Have all my words of telling you to be kind to others been wasted! This time, I can't protect you either."
With that, she closed her eyes in disappointment.
She truly hadn't expected that Consort Han would be so stupid, confessing everything before even being interrogated.
She has no choice but to clean herself up now.
The main reason she risked her confinement to come out and protect her was because she still needed her. Since she was so stupid, then she shouldn't blame her for abandoning her.
Upon hearing the Empress's words, Consort Han knew that the Empress was preparing to abandon her.
She couldn't die; she had to live, and she was doing this for the Queen. Thinking this, she spoke again.
"Your Majesty, I did all this for you, have you forgotten..."
"Slap!" Before she could finish speaking, the Empress slapped her across the face again.
A trickle of bright red blood slowly flowed from the corner of her mouth. Han Daying felt a buzzing in her head, and her teeth even felt a little loose.
Before she could recover from the brief dizziness, the Empress's voice reached her ears.
"If you don't want the Liang family to be ruined, I advise you to shut up now and take all the responsibility upon yourself."
She whispered in her ear, so no one else could hear her.
When Consort Han recovered from her dizziness, she saw that the Empress had already regained her usual haughty demeanor. She looked down at her, her tone filled with deep disappointment: "I really didn't expect that you would still be unrepentant even now. Since that's the case, then let the Emperor deal with you."
She took a deep breath and said, "I have left the palace without permission during my confinement period. Starting today, I will be fined six months' salary. Now go back and continue your confinement."
Then she looked at Consort Lan and said, "This matter has really been hard on you, sister."
After saying that, she turned and left, and as soon as she turned around, the disappointment in her eyes turned into ruthlessness.
After leaving Jinghe Palace, the Empress looked at Lin Mama beside her and said, "Go and fetch my brother. I cannot let this go so easily. And..."
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