Situ Yao nodded slightly, stood in front of the two palace maids, and said coldly, "Get out of the way!"
The voice seemed to be mixed with the chill of the cold winter. The two palace maids shrank back in fear, but still did not move away. They knelt on the ground and said, "Your Highness, please forgive me. This is the order of the Queen. No one is allowed to enter the Luanfeng Palace."
Situ Yao was too lazy to reason with them and just kicked them, and both of them fell to the ground.
The guards inside heard the noise and drew their weapons. Situ Yao stood alone in the middle and asked, "Is Concubine Bai planning a rebellion?" He was the crown prince who had received an imperial decree from the emperor. The guards in Concubine Bai's palace pointed their weapons at him, expressing their dissatisfaction with the crown prince.
After hearing his words, the guards didn't dare to get closer, but they also didn't let Situ Yao go any further inside.
Concubine Bai finally came out, and Chunhua and Qiushi followed her, carrying the unconscious Su Mengyan.
Situ Yao's eyes flashed with subtle worry, "What did you do to her?"
"Your Highness, this is the harem. You can step in here at will. Aren't you afraid that His Majesty will find out?" Concubine Bai heard his threats to the guards just now, so she used this to refute him.
Situ Yao just stared at Su Mengyan, "Let her go."
"Your Highness, don't you know that she is my person? Now I have the final say on how to deal with her. Why does Your Highness have to meddle in other people's business?" Concubine Bai announced Su Mengyan's identity to the public.
Situ Yao didn't care what she said at all and repeated, "Let her go!" His tone was even colder than before.
Concubine Bai smiled charmingly, "It seems that Your Highness is deeply in love with her. It's a pity that she has already taken the Heartbreak Powder and will not live long."
Situ Yao was completely unable to maintain his outward calm. Using his superb lightness skills, he easily reached in front of Concubine Bai. As long as he stretched out his hand, he could strangle this woman to death.
Concubine Bai, as if convinced that he wouldn't dare, raised her head and looked him in the eye. "Selectwoman Su is about to die. Your Highness, are you going to kill me in front of everyone in Luanfeng Palace to avenge her?"
Concubine Bai tried to provoke him, saying that if Situ Yao dared to take action, there would be a lot of memorials attacking him tomorrow.
However, Situ Yao stepped past her and snatched Su Mengyan away. Before leaving, he said coldly, "Your Highness, you have good tactics, but our father's health is deteriorating. How long can you continue to be so arrogant?"
"Hahaha..." Concubine Bai laughed without caring about her image. "By that time, will you still be able to sit firmly on the throne of Crown Prince?"
"Your Highness, instead of wasting time talking to me about these meaningless things, you should think carefully about whether you can find the antidote for the Heartbreak Powder within an hour. Otherwise, the beauty that Your Highness saved in such a rage will die." Concubine Bai did not miss any opportunity to inflict pain on Situ Yao.
The fastest way to get the antidote was to interrogate Concubine Bai directly. Just as Situ Yao was about to take action, he suddenly felt Su Mengyan quietly tug at his sleeve. He looked down and found that Su Mengyan looked normal, without any signs of poisoning.
He had just seen her faint, and subconsciously believed what Concubine Bai said.
"If Your Highness asks me for help, perhaps I can give you the antidote to the Heartbreak Powder." Concubine Bai said condescendingly.
"No need. Your Majesty, please keep the antidote for yourself." After Situ Yao finished speaking, he carried Su Mengyan away. When the guards next to him saw him, they subconsciously made way for him and no one dared to stop him.
Arriving at the entrance of Luanfeng Palace, Situ Yao put Su Mengyan down. She proudly shouted inside, "My Lady, you made a mistake. I didn't expect that I was not poisoned and could survive well."
Concubine Bai pointed her long armor at the person at the door and said, "You, you..." She was so angry that she couldn't utter a complete sentence for a long time.
Su Mengyan continued in a tone that was infuriating enough to make her want to die, "You'd better keep the antidote for the Heartbreak Powder, lest it come back to haunt you and you won't be able to find the antidote."
"Empress, Empress." A series of shouts were heard. It turned out that Concubine Bai was so angry that she fainted when she saw Su Mengyan was safe and sound.
When Yunfu saw that she could come out, he ran over and grabbed her hand to check, "Fortunately, everything is fine." He thought that otherwise she would have lost a sister-in-law.
"What's the matter with the poison?" Situ Yao didn't believe that Concubine Bai would be so kind as to let her go.
Su Mengyan smiled like a cunning little fox, "I just showed a little weakness, and she really believed it."
When Chunhua was about to force-feed her the poisoned wine, Su Mengyan's face was filled with death, so she took the initiative to ask, "Your Majesty, can you untie my hands?"
Seeing them hesitate, Su Mengyan pointed to her feet and said, "If you're worried that I'll run away, you can tie my feet."
"Besides, everyone here belongs to the Empress. I don't have the ability to run away." Su Mengyan said with a wry smile, "I don't like being forced to drink. I will drink it on my own initiative."
Concubine Bai's face was full of suspicion because of the huge change between her before and after.
Su Mengyan continued to persuade her, "The only friend I know in the palace is Princess Yunfu, and she must have been blocked out by the Empress. And His Highness is so busy with all sorts of affairs that it's impossible for him to care about a mere concubine like me."
Concubine Bai was arrogant, and after hearing Su Mengyan's words, she felt even more certain that she was doomed and there was no way she could escape. So she had her hands untied and had Chunhua give her the poisoned wine.
"Drink it." Concubine Bai looked high and mighty, as if she were a god who could judge the life and death of others.
Su Mengyan held the cup, her face ashen, then she tilted her head back and drank it all in one gulp.
She dropped the wine glass to the ground with a resounding sound and fainted in front of Concubine Bai.
Just as they were about to go over to check whether it was real or not, Situ Yao rushed in, so Concubine Bai had no choice but to order Chunhua to bring her out.
In fact, Su Mengyan had poured the poisoned wine into her collar under the cover of her sleeve. Fortunately, Situ Yao arrived in time and she was not exposed.
After hearing what she said, Yun Fu gave her a thumbs up and praised her generously, "Even Concubine Bai was fooled by you, Yan'er, you are amazing."
"It was mainly because Your Highness arrived in time that I wasn't discovered." Su Mengyan looked at Situ Yao gratefully, "Thank you, Your Highness, for coming to save me."
Yun Fu's eyes began to roll again, and she couldn't help but chuckle. Afraid of being discovered by Situ Yao, she quickly said, "Since Yan'er is fine, I won't disturb you and the Crown Prince." She ran faster than a rabbit.
Only Situ Yao and Su Mengyan were left walking back to the East Palace. She cleared her throat and said seriously, "Thank you, Your Highness, for today."
"Thank you for what I did?" Situ Yao turned his head away. "If you hadn't negotiated with Concubine Bai, I wouldn't have come to save you. So this is your own achievement."
"After what happened today, Concubine Bai already knows that I am not hers and she will not use me anymore. The plan we discussed before will have to be scrapped." Su Mengyan felt a little regretful.
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