Gu Yanyue laughed when she heard that and said, "I'll make it for you when I get home."
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A woman in a black cloak stood on the city wall. Seeing all the assassins committing suicide there, she couldn't help but curse them as trash.
She watched coldly as Gu Yanyue and Yu Wenran walked towards the palace side by side, talking and laughing.
Su Xue'e gritted her teeth, turned around and walked into the palace. Seeing the imperial guards patrolling back and forth on the outer layer, she pressed down the brim of her cloak with her bare hands to cover her face a little more, and walked forward quickly with her head lowered.
Just as she was about to pass the Imperial Guards and was about to breathe a sigh of relief, she unexpectedly heard a loud shout from the Imperial Guards.
"The one wearing the black cloak, stop! Who are you? Show me your badge!!"
The guards suddenly stopped her and three or four of them surrounded her.
Su Xue'e took off her hat with all her might, pretending to be calm and said, "I am the Imperial Concubine, who dares to stop me? Why don't you leave quickly?"
After saying that, he took a step forward and was about to rush out.
Someone suddenly reached out to stop them. The leader of the imperial guards walked up to Su Xue'e, lowered his arm, and scrutinized her with eagle eyes. Su Xue'e, dressed in a black cloak that almost blended into the night, said in a deep voice, "It's the dead of night, and the queen just returned to the palace wearing this nightgown. What are you doing?"
Su Xue'e blinked her beautiful phoenix eyes, and opened her red lips for a long time but couldn't say anything.
Gu Yanyue and Yuwen Ran had just returned to the palace and were about to investigate the matter thoroughly when they saw this scene.
When the imperial guards saw His Majesty and the Empress, they bowed deeply and said in unison, "Your humble servants pay their respects to His Majesty, Your Majesty, and to the Empress."
Yu Wenran waved his hand and responded, "No need to be polite."
When Su Xue'e heard the familiar young man's loud voice behind her, she froze in place and even forgot to salute.
Yuwen Ran strode up to Su Xue'e and looked at her. Su Xue'e looked away unnaturally, not meeting his gaze. He raised an eyebrow, took a look at Su Xue'e's outfit and said, "Your Highness, why are you leaving the palace so late at night dressed like this? What are you going to do?"
Su Xue'e forced an unnatural smile and said calmly, "I am leaving the palace to watch the Lantern Festival."
Gu Yanyue also came forward, circling Su Xue'e with her hands behind her back, then stopped in front of her and said with a smile, "Your Highness, you are so elegant. The incense you wear smells so nice, but why do I feel a little familiar with it?"
Su Xue'e's brain suddenly froze.
She suddenly thought that those assassins were secretly kept in her own palace. Gu Yanyue said this at this moment, probably because she knew something.
Gu Yanyue pretended to think: "When did you smell it?"
"Ah! It's the smell of the assassin."
The girl's voice, as sweet as a silver bell, exploded in Su Xue'e's head.
This sentence seemed to sentence her to death.
Gu Yanyue smiled maliciously and approached Su Xue'e. She blinked her peach blossom eyes and looked at Su Xue'e. She pretended to be innocent and asked, "Why does Concubine Su smell the same as those assassins? Could it be that she was with the assassins just now?"
When the guards heard the word "assassin," they immediately asked, "Assassin? What happened to His Majesty and the Empress?"
Gu Yanyue waved her hand to appease the anxious guards and said, "We are standing right in front of you now, nothing is wrong."
At this time, Eunuch Gao, who heard the news that His Majesty had returned to the palace, also arrived.
As soon as he arrived, he heard the breaking news that His Majesty and the Queen had been assassinated, and he hurried before the Emperor.
He asked nervously, "Is your Majesty okay?"
Yuwen Ran replied, "Neither I nor the Queen is in any danger."
Eunuch Gao, with tears in his old eyes, knelt down in self-blame and said, "It is all because of this old servant that I failed to protect Your Majesty. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."
The guards also knelt down together: "Your Majesty, please forgive me!"
Yuwen Ran reluctantly pulled Eunuch Gao up and said loudly to him and the guards, "Hurry up, it was I who told you not to follow me, I don't blame you."
Then he walked up to Su Xue'e and said in a cold voice, "Noble Concubine Su is inextricably linked to this matter. Come, confine her to her own palace and do not allow her to come out without my permission."
"Yes, sir!"
The news that Concubine Su was under house arrest quickly spread throughout the harem.
"What?!"
A woman's angry roar echoed throughout the huge palace.
Gu Yanrou angrily threw the tea bowl in her hand to the ground, and the precious tea bowl instantly broke into pieces.
The palace maids were so frightened that they knelt down one after another, lowering their heads and not daring to look at the furious Gu Yanrou.
Gu Yan paced back and forth in the hall in a low voice.
"Waste, waste, all of them are waste! A bunch of waste!"
"If you can't even do this, what kind of assassin are you raising?"
"I thought he was so powerful, but he couldn't even beat His Majesty and that idiot Gu Yanyue."
The maid Yan'er looked at her own queen, who was already pacing back and forth in anger and muttering. She carefully walked up to Gu Yanrou and said softly, "Your Majesty, calm down. The Queen has just recovered from a serious illness and is at her most proud moment. We should avoid her edge."
Seeing that Gu Yanrou didn't get angry, Yan'er boldly continued, "Overthrowing the Queen is a long-term plan. We can't rush into it. The most urgent thing is to hide for a while."
Gu Yanrou suddenly looked at Yan'er, and her vicious eyes scared Yan'er so much that she took a step back. She said angrily, "Would I be afraid of that idiot?"
Gu Yanrou shook her sleeves, turned around and sat on the soft chair.
Thinking back to the time when Yuwen Ran and Gu Yanyue were together, she looked at the exquisite little incense burner in the hall with wisps of smoke rising from it, and suddenly an idea came to her mind.
"Yan'er, go get me some Ecstasy Powder."
Yan'er was surprised. Looking at Gu Yanrou with a determined look in her eyes, she didn't dare to say anything against it. She could only nod and go to get it.
After a while, Yan'er came back with an exquisite wooden box.
Yan'er raised her hands and said, "My Lady."
Gu Yanrou opened the wooden cover with her bare hands, picked up the purple-red powder through her handkerchief, and examined it intently: "Is the medicine effective enough?"
Yan'er looked at Gu Yanrou and said, "That's enough."
Gu Yanrou put down her handkerchief, her round almond-shaped eyes showing a satisfied look as she said, "That's good."
She walked over to the dressing table, picked up a small, delicate box, and powdered her face, then applied a light layer of lip balm.
Gu Yanrou went to the closet and found a piece of clothing that could vaguely show her figure, then turned to Yan'er and said.
"Pour the medicine into the incense burner and light it."
"Go find His Majesty and tell him I'm not feeling well and want him to come and see me."
Yan Er responded, "Yes, my lady."
In the imperial study, Yuwen Ran was reviewing today's memorials when a young eunuch suddenly came up and said, "Your Majesty, Yan'er, a maid from Concubine Rou's palace, requests an audience."
Yu Wenran frowned slightly. What happened to that woman?
He put down the memorial, his brows still furrowed, and said in a deep voice, "Let her in."
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