Chapter 515 The Imperial Concubine's Assassination Attempt
Hai Qingyang asked coldly, "You want me to send you to the palace? Why?"
Consort Wu said slowly, "Didn't I promise you that I would kill the Emperor for you?"
Hai Qingyang glanced at her and said, "Don't worry, even if you don't say anything, I will still send you to the palace. But before that, you have to eat something."
"What is it?" Consort Wu was about to ask.
Hai Qingyang then put a pill in her mouth, saying, "Of course, it's to prevent you from saying anything inappropriate."
Consort Wu swallowed the pill, her eyes slightly glistening with tears, and said with a bitter smile, "Don't worry, I'm in this state now, I won't risk my life."
After Hai Qingyang saw that she had taken the pill, he knocked her unconscious with a palm strike and then sent her to the palace.
Not long after Consort Wu was sent to the palace, she was arrested by the guards and taken back to the Cold Palace.
The emperor assumed that she had escaped from the cold palace and was hiding somewhere in the palace, and since she had been found, he didn't pay much attention to it.
While the emperor was still grieving over Consort Li's miscarriage, Consort Wu made a scene in the Cold Palace, insisting on seeing the emperor.
The emperor, mindful of their past relationship, actually agreed to see her and sent someone to bring Consort Wu to his palace.
Consort Wu changed her usual crazy appearance and put on the same white clothes as when she first entered the palace, with her hair hanging down and without hairpins.
The emperor said coldly, "Why do you want to see me?"
Just like when she first entered the palace, Consort Wu bowed respectfully to him and said, "Your Majesty has cleared the Empress's name. Next, won't you punish me?"
The emperor said slowly, "I will not kill you. For the sake of our past relationship, you will stay in the Cold Palace for the rest of your life."
Consort Wu paused, straightened up slightly, and looked up at him. "So it seems that Your Majesty's feelings for me in the past were genuine."
The emperor did not reply.
Consort Wu suddenly stood up and slowly walked towards him. "Does Your Majesty truly have feelings for me? If so, why do you treat me this way?"
The emperor looked at her coldly and said, "I have doted on you for many years, but I have never treated you well. It is you who have been entangled with other men, making me a laughing stock in the world."
Consort Wu came to him and poured him a cup of tea as usual. She slowly and deliberately told him the story, "Then what about my child? You knew perfectly well that it was Consort Duan who poisoned and framed the Empress. Why did you protect her and keep it from me?"
The emperor was slightly taken aback, his eyes showing a hint of realization. "Nonsense, I only just learned of this myself."
Consort Wu said bluntly, "I have known about your affair with Consort Duan for a long time, Your Majesty. You couldn't possibly not know what happened back then, you just pretended not to know, and in the end you even deceived yourself."
"And Your Majesty the Empress, do you truly not forget her? If you were truly deeply in love with her, how could you still not be able to find her now? You are merely trying to disguise yourself with the guise of infatuation to conceal your past crimes! You are heartless!"
The emperor was enraged that she had hit the nail on the head, and raised his hand to knock her over.
At this moment, Consort Wu suddenly took out a dagger that she had prepared beforehand from her bosom and stabbed it towards the emperor's chest.
Although the emperor had appeared frail and weak due to illness over the years, he was still a grown man. He grabbed Consort Wu's outstretched hand and dodged the dagger in her hand.
Consort Wu's face was full of hatred for him, and she only wanted to kill him.
The emperor quickly retreated, shouting outside, "Guards! Assassins! Guards!"
Upon hearing this, the eunuchs and guards outside rushed over.
Consort Wu gripped the dagger in her hand and said with a bitter smile, "Don't worry, I don't really want to kill you today. I just want to tell the world that it was you and Consort Duan who conspired to frame the Empress, and that you killed my child! Today I will avenge my child!"
Her voice was loud, carrying from inside the palace to the courtyard outside, and all the palace maids and eunuchs could hear it.
The emperor's face turned deathly pale. He called out to her, "Your Highness, don't think I wouldn't dare kill you!"
Consort Wu, gripping her dagger, charged forward again, shouting, "Then kill me!"
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