Chapter 225 Treating the Murderer as Family
Afterwards, the Empress selected some to enter the palace.
[The Empress is truly virtuous. What are you doing now? There's a group of people here; have they come to pay their respects?]
[There should be several, but none of them were of high rank. The Emperor only favored two of them, and one of them could have killed the Emperor.]
[Heh, serves you right. Tell me, who was it that killed Old Deng?]
Just as Xiangxiang was about to speak, Consort Wan entered with a group of beautiful women.
[Wow~ The group sitting below are like buds about to bloom, but the ones walking in now are in full bloom, so beautiful! For a moment, I wanted to be the emperor and sleep with them all~]
[Host, you're so horny~]
[Shut up, don't you think these people are really beautiful?] Ji Yingying really likes beautiful things. She thinks beauty is pleasing to the eye and makes it hard to look away.
It is a direct manifestation of visual pleasure, a deep satisfaction of psychological needs, and a dialectic between the transient and the eternal.
She is indeed very beautiful. In modern times, she would definitely be a big star, or even a leading lady.
That's right!
[Alright, tell me who poisoned the Emperor?] Ji Yingying still wanted to know who was so blind as to poison the Emperor? Or did the Emperor kill their entire family?
That guy over there, surnamed Lan, isn't a good person!
How should I put it?
[Are you familiar with storylines where someone's family is killed by their enemy, they are raised by that enemy, and then indoctrinated by the enemy into believing that the person who saved their family is the murderer?]
[Oh wow~ I see?] Ji Yingying found it interesting!
[That blue one~] Ji Yingying didn't know her rank: [Was she murdered in her own home?]
Yes, her entire family was killed by her current adoptive father. She was only a few days old when her adoptive father took her in and then constantly instilled in her the belief that her family was killed by the emperor.
[He also said that he saved her when he was passing by, and that if he hadn't saved her, she probably would have been killed by that dog of an emperor.]
Wow, this guy's pretty ruthless, impressive!
What can you do?
[PUA!]
【That's true. Let me continue. She believed it too, so she practiced martial arts every day, and then used some tricks to get into the palace at the last spring banquet.】
[She was favored by the Emperor as soon as she entered the palace. But it wasn't really because she poisoned him; she was the one who gained his favor. Then she started poisoning him.]
No wonder.
[This web of relationships isn't clear yet; I'd like to know what the Emperor's position is in it?]
[What else could it be? Her family used to be high-ranking officials. They were all murdered overnight, and the entire family was wiped out. Even after that, the Emperor ordered the Dali Temple to investigate their case and clear their name. But they couldn't find out who it was. Then, your detective brother stepped in and found out her adoptive father.]
She wasn't there then; her adoptive father was arrested and is still in jail awaiting execution.
[Wasn't he killed directly? Was the evidence insufficient?]
The evidence is sufficient, but there's no motive for investigation.
What does it mean to have sufficient evidence but no motive?
All the evidence points to him, and even he admits to killing their entire family, but he won't say why.
【I see! 】
【Do you know what?】
[We don't know yet, all we know is that our Lady Lan has met with her adoptive father, and she wants to save people and kill the Emperor to avenge herself.]
[It's a pity she took revenge on the wrong person. The real person who harmed her entire family was her adoptive father, and now she's also been poisoned by Gu worms.]
"Isn't that similar to that poison person?" Ji Yingying thought of that poison person, wondering how he was doing now.
That's far from the truth. The poison in her body was meant to control her; after all, her adoptive father wasn't a good person either.
[Okay, that old emperor was an innocent victim, poor thing! They gave her family justice, and she repaid kindness with enmity, tsk tsk~ Well, considering she was brainwashed too, I won't complain.]
【Yeah, blind in both eyes and mind…】
[Alright, let the Emperor handle this matter himself; after all, she's his concubine.]
The concubines enjoyed another melon, and everyone left satisfied.
Some people left, but others remained. Ji Yingying was eating pastries and wasn't in a hurry to leave, so she decided to have another bite of melon.
Let's continue enjoying this juicy gossip!
Tell me, tell me quickly.
[That's a member of the family of the concubine in blue; it must be her older brother. He married a woman he doesn't love, but loves a scumbag.]
How to say it?
[To falsely claim a life-saving favor.]
If that's how you put it, then I understand.
What do you know?
[It's about how her older brother was saved by a girl when he was a child. He left her a keepsake, and as an adult, he uses those keepsakes to recognize people, not the one who saved his life.]
[It turns out he married the girl who saved him, and then... whatever their relationship was, he got close to her, obtained a token, and then used her older brother to take revenge on that girl.]
[Ouch~ This is like saving a heartless wretch! Girls, listen up: don't pick the wildflowers by the roadside—no, I mean, don't pick the weeds! And definitely don't save the men by the roadside! It's terrifying! Tell me, how badly have girls been abused?]
[You're overthinking it. Would they really mistreat that girl? She only married her older brother so she could either establish a female household or become a widow.]
So, does that mean she didn't love that man at all?
[I didn't love her. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, we've already divorced. She's registered her own household, and we have a child.]
Whose child is it?
[She had a child with another man after the divorce; she originally wanted to leave the father and keep the child.]
【Good for you! I support you living your life this way after encountering such a scumbag. If he were a good man, I would support you living a good life with him. Who is she? I'll go and show him what I'm made of, and make him regret it.】
You'd better not. What if you keep bothering Xiaomei afterward?
[Yeah, this kind of man is too confident—no, too trusting. It's best not to cause him trouble.]
Yes, yes, yes...
The girl in the blue dress had already planned to tell her older brother about it. Her sister-in-law was a very nice person, and she thought the "wife-chasing-after-the-cremation" scenario was quite fun.
Besides, her sister-in-law isn't so easy to win over.
"Your Majesty, I must go back now. Work is quite tiring, and I'd like to go back and have some fun."
"Go ahead, go ahead."
As soon as the person left, the Empress immediately asked, "Did you write it down?"
"Your Majesty, it has been recorded."
"Yes, send it to the Imperial Study. Lan, you can go with me."
Lan Ying's eyes were already red. She hadn't expected this! She didn't know Ji Yingying's true feelings at first, but she had found out yesterday.
Now all I want is to kill that man with my own hands. He deceived her for years and even made her poison the emperor.
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