She didn't want to admit it yet; she felt that Consort Hui had no evidence.
"You don't know? Someone, bring him up here."
As soon as Consort Hui finished speaking, a palace maid was thrown in from outside.
"Did she tell you to do this?" Consort Hui continued to ask.
"No, no, I don't know her. I really don't know what's going on." Please, Your Highness, have mercy on me!
Xiao Fu's voice trembled, but she still refused to admit it.
But the palace maids on the ground identified her.
"It was Her Majesty the Empress who instructed me to do this. If Consort Hui dies, she will give us 100 taels of silver and let us leave the palace, so that we can leave the capital forever."
The palace maid could no longer endure the torment from Consort Hui's maidservants; all she wanted now was to die quickly.
"Do you have anything else to say?" Consort Hui asked Xiao Fu.
"Your Highness, I was wrong. I was momentarily bewitched. Please forgive me! I was wrong."
After Xiao Fu finished speaking, he started slapping himself repeatedly.
Almost half an hour had passed, and Consort Hui hadn't looked up at her even once.
He was reading a storybook by himself.
This was a gift from Liu Sisi. It's quite pretty, and she takes it out to pass the time when she's bored.
This is the scene that Gu Lingchen saw as soon as he arrived.
When Consort Hui saw her son arrive, she glanced at Qiu'er.
Send them both back to the Empress's palace! Such foolish palace maids should be kept by the Empress and used more often.
But in reality, they would only suffer a worse fate if they went back.
"Mother, are you alright?" Gu Lingchen asked with concern.
"It's alright, Chen'er. Come and see! This male lead is so heartless! He treats the female lead like this, isn't he afraid of retribution? You can't do this again, okay?"
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