"Yes." After Shadow Ten left, the other one also reported everything he had found out:
"Your Majesty, at five quarters past dusk tonight, the Third Prince of Tianyuan secretly met with Consort Hui. According to Ying Qi's report, the Consort Hui at the Ni Chang Palace was actually her trusted maid in disguise..."
Emperor Jing's eyes darkened. Although none of these women, except for the Imperial Concubine, were women he was willing to marry, he had never lacked anything they deserved.
Unexpectedly, everyone wanted to cuckold him. The Empress's investigation still hadn't yielded results, so he decided to deal with Consort Hui first.
"Send a message to the Third Prince of Tianyuan: I grant their request. Issue an order that Consort Hui has passed away, and the Ninth Prince will be placed under the Consort's name."
Emperor Jing waved for them to leave, as he had memorials to review and did not have time to waste on irrelevant people.
"yes."
That very night, news spread from the palace that Consort Hui had passed away, and the Tianyuan Kingdom's envoy delegation had gained an additional masked woman—but that's another story.
...
On the other side.
Duan Shulan was still in a daze when she was brought to the palace. Just as she was about to escape from the alley, a group of people blocked her way and wouldn't let her pass.
The people from the south were already chasing after us, and there was no road ahead.
More importantly, the group blocking their way turned out to be the very people the two old women had mentioned coming to pick them up.
"Submit to me, and you'll have plenty of good days ahead. If you don't, hmph, I'll give you to my men to play with. Who knows if you'll even survive then, hahahaha..."
Duan Shulan was immediately filled with despair. That man was old enough to be her father. He was fat and big-eared, and having such a deal with people from the South in private was definitely not the mark of a good official.
She was insulted as if she were a prostitute who was kidnapped by men in black just as she was about to die and was about to smash her head against a wall to preserve her chastity.
They brought the imperial palace.
Gently pushing open the door, upon seeing the familiar figure inside, her eyes instantly reddened, and she choked out a sob:
"Feibai".
"elder sister!"
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