"That's right! And your mother too! Do you really think she's kind? Even without me, you're still just a puppet. In the court and the harem, who doesn't fight for power? Yu Jing'an, you can't protect this Great Jin Dynasty!"
After the Empress Dowager finished her rant, she suddenly ripped off her hairpin and stabbed it into her neck!
Immediately, a trickle of blood spilled from her mouth.
She absolutely refused to fall into Yu Nanqing's hands. She absolutely did not want to go to that dark and sunless prison and live like a walking corpse for the rest of her life!
Finally, the Empress Dowager sat on the dragon throne she had always wanted, dying with her eyes wide open in disbelief.
At this moment, the main hall was unusually quiet.
Tanaka broke the silence first: "All of you, step back!"
In an instant, the palace, which had been filled with soldiers and men in black, vanished without a trace.
"Your Majesty," Tanaka bowed respectfully to the young emperor, "Your ministers have been waiting at the palace gates for some time; it is time to issue the order."
The young emperor's eyes darkened slightly as he glanced at Yu Nanqing, only to find that Yu Nanqing's gaze remained fixed on Xiao Chensheng, as if afraid that Xiao Chensheng would escape in the chaos.
Upon seeing this, the young emperor waved his hand and said, "Summon the Court of Judicial Review, the Court of Imperial Clan Affairs, and the Ministry of Justice to the Imperial Study for a meeting!"
There was not a trace of confusion in his tone.
"yes!"
After the young emperor left, only Yu Nanqing, Su Wanyan, Luo Xue, and Xiao Chensheng remained in the hall.
Xiao Chensheng smiled helplessly, looking at Yu Nanqing with a look that he was afraid he would not be able to escape death today, no matter what.
"It was so hard... to finally see you again. I thought we could spend the rest of our lives together..."
Xiao Chensheng smiled as he looked at Yao Tianwei in front of him. His voice was neither too loud nor too soft, leaving the others completely confused.
Yao Tianwei stared at him, seemingly unsure of what expression to wear. It was as if he couldn't bear to see Xiao Chensheng die like this, yet he was powerless to do anything about it and could only stare blankly at the injured Xiao Chensheng.
Yu Nanqing channeled his inner strength, but he didn't know when Su Wanyan had appeared before him. He held the copper pipe in his hand and stopped her, saying, "Wait."
Yu Nanqing pursed her lips and immediately withdrew her strength.
Su Wanyan stared at Xiao Chensheng, who no longer resembled a human, for a long time before speaking slowly, "You didn't break the illusion drug?"
Xiao Chensheng wanted to laugh, but he didn't even have the strength to curl his lips. He staggered back a few steps and leaned against a pillar in the main hall: "You really are... exceptionally clever..."
Su Wanyan never expected it to be like this, but then she thought about it again and realized that with Xiao Chensheng's abilities, he could indeed do it.
"I am completely convinced that I have fallen into your hands. Do with me as you please."
Just standing there was already very difficult for Xiao Chensheng.
In order to avoid a gruesome death, he had to endure until Yu Nanqing made his move before lying down.
"..." Su Wanyan remained silent, then suddenly lowered her eyes slightly and blew a breath into the brass tube.
Wisps of white smoke drifted out, and Xiao Chensheng chuckled, "Don't you know... poison... has no effect on me...?"
After saying this, Xiao Chensheng's vision went black, and with a muffled thud, he collapsed to the ground.
"Your Highness! Your Majesty!" Xiao Bu and Ming Yu rushed into the main hall at this moment.
Su Wanyan smiled and said, "Perfect, let's move him to the side hall."
Upon seeing Xiao Chensheng's inhuman and ghostly appearance, Xiao Bu and Ming Yu were both startled: "Is... he still alive?"
"He's still alive." Su Wanyan was also surprised. An ordinary person would definitely die after suffering such injuries, but Xiao Chensheng was still alive.
"..." Xiao Bu disdainfully stepped forward and lifted Xiao Chensheng up, but her heart skipped a beat: "Wow~"
So light.
It's not the weight of an adult at all.
How disgusting.
"Yan'er." Yu Nanqing grasped Su Wanyan's arm, forcing her to face him. His tightly furrowed brows showed his displeasure, but he couldn't bring himself to say the words.
Su Wanyan just looked up and waited quietly for him to speak.
Su Wanyan knew that Yu Nanqing was angry, so she was waiting for him to reprimand her.
However, the next second, Yu Nanqing simply pulled her into a tight embrace: "Next time... don't do that."
God knows how panicked he was when he found out Su Wanyan was in the capital.
Fearing that Su Wanyan would be alone, he immediately sent Tanaka to her side. He wished he could protect her himself.
At that moment, all he wanted was to quickly deal with the Empress Dowager and Xiao Chensheng, and immediately protect Su Wanyan under his wing, not wanting her to suffer any hardship.
"We clearly agreed that you would wait for me to come back to Fucheng..." Yu Nanqing didn't know that his voice was trembling when he said this.
The thought that she had sneaked into the capital early on filled him with fear. Didn't she know that the Empress Dowager was strictly inspecting the city's defenses in order to catch them?
Su Wanyan laughed: "Am I the kind of person who always obeys orders?"
"Yan'er, don't do this..."
Su Wanyan pushed Yu Nanqing away from her embrace: "What do you mean by 'don'? Do you think I'm joking?'"
Yu Nanqing opened his mouth, but had to close it again, and hugged Su Wanyan in his arms once more: "I know, I know, I... I won't say it again."
He always knew that Su Wanyan was not the type to give in to others' opinions.
He was paralyzed in bed back then, during the East China Sea Campaign, and this time is no different.
Because Su Wanyan controlled the four city gates of the capital, the Dragon Flag Army entered the city with almost no effort.
While he planned to remove the Empress Dowager and then announce it to the world, Su Wanyan was already secretly visiting all the ministers who had the tendency to defect.
Otherwise, there wouldn't have been a situation where officials at the palace gates petitioned for orders.
It was she who found out where the Empress Dowager had hidden the Imperial Guard's military orders, thus reducing casualties in the battle between the two armies.
If it were him, he wouldn't have made such a meticulous plan.
No, it's that he wouldn't do that.
Determined to win this battle, Lü Cezhong intercepted the reinforcements outside the city, while Su Chien, familiar with the city's roads, was able to lead his troops to the palace at top speed, leaving the patrols no time to react.
He didn't care about the lives of the Imperial Guards at all. Casualties were inevitable, and spending time searching for military orders would only delay the battle further.
"I just didn't expect that Grand Tutor Yan was one of your people." This was what Su Wanyan noticed when she had Xiaobu sneak into the palace.
As for Yan Taifu, ostensibly, he was placed by the Empress Dowager to keep an eye on the young emperor.
For the past two years, the young emperor has seemingly been controlled by the Empress Dowager, but in reality, he has been biding his time and waiting for an opportunity. Meanwhile, Grand Tutor Yan is ostensibly helping the Empress Dowager monitor the young emperor, but in private, he has been teaching the young emperor all the necessary imperial power tactics and knowledge without reservation.
Su Wanyan looked up: "You hid it so well, you fooled me completely."
She genuinely believed that Yu Nanqing's attack on the Empress Dowager was an attempt to seize power for himself.
Yu Nanqing never thought about seizing power. From the very beginning, when Su Wanyan said she liked to travel around and practice medicine, he never considered it.
He would not be confined to one place. Ever since he met Su Wanyan, his lifelong wish has been to be with her.
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