Tian Lan didn't care.
"You killed him yourself. If you hadn't pulled him to block the sword, he wouldn't have been the one to die."
"Shut up," Concubine Shu raised her hand and pointed at everyone in the room, her fingers trembling. "Don't worry, if he dies, the emperor will be buried with him. The emperor has been drugged by Tian Lan, hahahaha."
Concubine Shu threw her head back and laughed as if she was crazy, and her laughter made people feel creepy.
"Who said that Father was drugged?" The Crown Prince said with a smile on his face. "How could someone as cautious as the Concubine Dowager actually become so complacent?"
"The Emperor was not drugged?"
Concubine Shu put away her smile, looked at Tian Lan, and then, considering the secret guards around her, said in disbelief: "Okay, you all teamed up to plot against me."
The emperor was taking revenge on her for her last scheme against the little princess, letting her know what it felt like to lose someone you cared about.
Therefore, the emperor already knew Shize's identity before, and he kept it just for today.
Why couldn't she see that the person next to her was the one she was thinking about.
"Queen Dowager, in order to avenge the Xiao family, you have been constantly committing evil deeds in the palace, instructing Tian Lan and Concubine Chen to murder me and the Crown Prince. Aren't these things true?"
The emperor strode in from outside and said in a deep voice.
Everyone in the room knelt on the ground in an instant.
"Everyone, get up."
"The Emperor is so calculating that he even pretends to be sick."
"You are too kind, Dowager Consort," the Emperor said as he sat down on the chair. "You are so scheming as no one else, Dowager Consort. First, you schemed your beloved into committing adultery with someone else, then you schemed him into becoming a eunuch. Now, you have simply schemed him to death."
[Hahaha, Daddy has a really venomous tongue.]
[One sentence pierced Concubine Shu's heart three times.]
"I know what the consequences will be if today's incident is exposed. Your Majesty, if you want to kill me or chop me up, it's all up to you."
Concubine Shu looked at Xiao Shize lying on the ground and closed her eyes.
"The Concubine is so anxious, do you want to go down and accompany him?"
The emperor raised an eyebrow and said, "If you behave yourself when you return to the palace, I might consider sparing your life."
"Spare my life?" Concubine Shu laughed sarcastically. "Your Majesty, why are you being so hypocritical? We are just pitiful people."
"No, you are a pitiful person, I am not."
The emperor raised his lips and said, "I am different from you. I have a lovely and smart daughter and a prince with whom I have a good relationship. I am completely different from you, a poor wretch who has nothing."
"Your Majesty, disliked by the late Emperor and loathed by my sister, still has the nerve to call me a pitiful creature?"
She had nothing, but the emperor was not much better than her.
"So what if my father doesn't like me? I still became the crown prince. As for my mother, I can live well without her, right?"
The emperor said this calmly, as if the matter had nothing to do with him.
"What else does Toffee have to say?"
Concubine Shu suddenly had a splitting headache, as if thousands of bugs were gnawing at her in her brain.
She squatted on the ground with her head in her hands, and the people around her became double.
"Toffee, Toffee."
Lu'er hurried forward to support her, crying, "What's wrong with you?"
Concubine Shu shook off Lu'er, stood up shakily, and raised her hands to support herself on the table before she could barely stand up straight.
"Tian Lan, feed the concubine the medicine."
Tian Lan was about to step forward when Concubine Shu said with difficulty, "No need, no need."
This was what that person left for him, and it was also her evidence that that person had once been by her side.
[Love-brained women are really scary. 】
[He treated the drugged person as his own treasure. Love-brained people really don't care about status or age.]
"The Emperor did all this just to get rid of me, didn't he?"
Concubine Shu held her head and panted, "I will admit whatever I did. I only ask the emperor to let Lu'er, who is beside me, go. She knows nothing."
"Toffee, Lu'er will accompany you wherever you go."
Lu'er knelt on the ground, wiping her tears as she said, "Lu'er was wrong. I wanted to find someone to save you, but I didn't expect that not only did they fail to save you, but they ended up hurting you instead."
"Silly girl."
Concubine Shu slowly approached her and said, "Don't cry."
"I can spare her life as a reward for the Concubine's care for me when I was a child."
"I don't want it," Lu'er looked at the emperor, "I only want to stay with the concubine."
"Lu'er," Concubine Shu scolded hoarsely, "Be obedient."
The emperor was a little surprised to see Concubine Shu protecting Lu'er so much.
"I'm actually very curious why the Concubine Dowager is so protective of a little girl, yet hates her own sister to the core."
"Sister? Does she deserve it?"
The headache eased a little, and Concubine Shu wiped the sweat from her forehead.
"Your mother and I are indeed sisters, but she has been carefully taught by her parents since she was young so that she can enter the palace when she grows up. Her parents have focused all their energy on her and paid little attention to me."
"Because of this, you are jealous of her?"
Based on the grudges between women, the emperor felt that he had guessed the reason.
He was not close to his mother, so naturally he didn't pay attention to the affairs of his grandfather's family, so he didn't know many things.
"No," Concubine Shu shook her head and said through gritted teeth, "I'm not jealous of her. On the contrary, I sympathize with her."
I sympathize with her for having to learn various etiquettes and the arts of music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and I sympathize with her for having her life destined from birth.
Out of sympathy, she would secretly bring food to her sister and talk to her.
"Your Majesty should know that if you want to enter the palace, you must not only learn the arts of music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, but also learn court etiquette. Although your mother has received the love of your parents, she has lost her freedom."
Concubine Shu came to her senses, "After her coming-of-age ceremony, she entered the palace and became a noble concubine. But the emperor had someone he loved, and she was not favored, so she went to her father to cry."
Having said that, Concubine Shu paused and took a deep breath.
"Because of her crying, my father and mother discussed and sent me to the palace as well, just to help her consolidate her favor, regardless of whether I wanted to or not."
She cried for a long time that day, her eyes were swollen, but her father and mother remained indifferent, and her sister could obviously help her, but she said nothing.
She had never learned court etiquette at home, and suffered a lot after entering the palace.
"I could have been a simple Second Young Lady and didn't have to enter the inner palace."
Endless hatred burst out from Concubine Shu's eyes. "It's all because of your mother. She made me suffer so much in the palace. I climbed up step by step in the palace full of calculations, and finally gained the attention of the emperor."
"But your mother saw this and was worried that I would grow too powerful and stop listening to her, so she planned for Xiao Shize and I to meet by chance, so that she could control me."
At that time, she was thinking that if one of her parents and sister was more soft-hearted, she would not have to enter the deep palace, and she would not have complained even if she did not have her parents' love.
But the three of them had no mercy on her.
She protected Lu'er because she felt that such innocence was rare in the deep palace.
Rather than saying that she was protecting Lu'er, it would be more accurate to say that she was looking for her own shadow before she got married through her, and fulfilling the regret that she had sought but could not get back then.
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