Chu Qingyin was a little scared: "Royal sister, are there people hiding down there?"
"Or...a ghost?"
"Could there be a secret room under the bed?"
Chu Qingwan forced herself to remain calm: "Don't be afraid, I'll go get someone."
"Hurry up and get dressed."
"Um."
Chu Qingyin hurriedly got up, put on her clothes, and carefully put away the personal weapons that Su Yujiao had given her.
Just as Chu Qingwan was about to call for help, Chu Qingyin suddenly grabbed her arm.
"Royal sister, don't go, listen." Chu Qingyin's expression was strange.
Chu Qingwan pressed her ear against the bed frame and listened carefully. She then realized that the sound just now was not a woman crying, but... a groan that sounded like a mixture of pain and pleasure.
Chu Qingwan blushed; someone was actually committing illicit acts in their palace.
"Your Majesty... allow this servant to kiss you..."
"My darling... my precious..."
"You rascal... be gentle..."
These unbearable sounds were very faint, intermittent, and almost inaudible, indicating that they were from a great distance.
However, the two of them clearly heard the words "Empress".
The two stared wide-eyed in fright. Could it be... could it be their mother?
The emperor's mother was having an affair behind his father's back?
How is that possible?
Chu Qingyin was so scared she almost cried!
how so?
How could the Empress Dowager be the kind of woman who doesn't uphold traditional virtues?
"Elder sister, is it...is it Mother?"
What should we do now?
"Should we...pretend we know nothing?"
Chu Qingwan lowered her voice: "Shh, don't make a sound. No one can know about this."
"I'll go down and take a look."
"Elder sister, please don't go. What if... what if you run into them? How will you face Mother afterward?"
“I cannot watch my mother continue to make mistakes. She is the mother of the nation, and she cannot do something that tarnishes her reputation.”
"If we get caught, we'll be doomed."
“Father and Consort Jing will take the opportunity to kill Mother, and my brother the Crown Prince and us will all suffer the same fate.”
"You wait upstairs, I'll go down and check and then come back up."
As Chu Qingwan spoke, she even took a stun gun and a flashlight and crawled under the bed.
Sure enough, there was an entrance leading down under the bed. She climbed to the opening and went down the steps.
Chu Qingyin waited upstairs for a while, becoming increasingly uneasy.
She didn't believe her mother would do such a thing; what if it was a misunderstanding?
What if it's someone else down there?
The sound was very soft, and they hadn't heard it very clearly just now...
If it weren't for the Empress Dowager, wouldn't it be very dangerous for my elder sister to rashly go down and witness someone else's adultery?
If it were palace maids or guards, they would at most be punished; they probably wouldn't dare to do anything to the Empress.
However, if a concubine has an affair, it is a crime punishable by the extermination of her entire family!
Will they take a risk?
Chu Qingyin became more and more frightened, but she dared not disturb the guards and palace servants. What if it really was her mother? Wouldn't that be courting death?
So she went down too, not wanting her elder sister to face the danger alone!
Chu Qingyin was very cautious. When she went downstairs, she dared not make any noise or turn on the lights.
He simply gripped the stun gun tightly, trying to adapt to the darkness of the secret passage, and explored little by little by relying on the faint light from the pearl.
"Quickly...quickly tie her up."
Chu Qingyin's palms sweated when she heard the woman's terrified, shrill voice.
"How dare you! I am a princess, who would dare to be so insolent?"
Hearing her elder sister's voice, Chu Qingyin panicked even more; her elder sister was indeed in danger.
Moreover, she was certain that the voice just now was not her mother's; this time she heard it very clearly.
That high-pitched voice sounded very young!
Chu Qingyin dared not make a sound, nor did she dare to go out to call for help. The secret passage was very long, and it took her a long time to get through it.
If this back and forth alerts the thieves again, my elder sister will lose her life.
Now she can only rely on herself!
Chu Qingyin recalled Su Yujiao's words: in many critical moments, one cannot rely on others and can only save oneself.
Chu Qingyin dared not cry out loud and tried her best to calm herself down.
Based on the source of the sound, she discovered a doorway ahead emitting light.
Chu Qingyin quietly approached and peered through the crack in the door to see what was happening inside.
She saw her elder sister's stun gun fall to the ground, be stepped on by a man, and have her mouth gagged.
She looked up along the man's delicate features and saw a jingling, rattling object, and above that, the man's fierce-looking face.
The woman next to her, who was covering her chest with her clothes, was none other than Consort Chun, the birth mother of the Thirteenth Princess.
It turns out she was having an affair with a guard!
You bitch!
"It's all your fault, why did you make such a big commotion?"
What should we do now?
"If the Emperor finds out, I'm doomed."
Consort Chun was so anxious that she didn't even care about revealing her private parts.
The man spoke menacingly: "Kill them."
"She's a princess, the queen's daughter! Are you out of your mind?"
The man, however, remained resolute: "Letting her out would be a death sentence, and it would also be a crime punishable by the extermination of her entire family."
"Do you want to drag your family down with you?"
"I...I..." Consort Chun was so frightened that she didn't know what to do. She didn't want to implicate her family, but she also didn't dare to kill the princess.
The man squatted down and lewdly touched Chu Qingwan's delicate and smooth face.
Consort Chun looked at his bold actions and asked, "What are you trying to do?"
The man sneered, "Since we're going to kill him anyway, let me have some fun before we do."
"I've slept with the emperor's women and his daughters in my life, that's why I haven't lived in vain."
"He Zhang, you've gone mad!"
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