A month passed in the blink of an eye. During this time, Rong Qi was quite busy, working on the layout of the palace and checking whether any other people in the palace had been infected with the Gu poison. After the investigation, it was discovered that Rong Che had not completely lost his conscience; only a very few people had been infected with the Gu poison.
Presumably, these people are the ones Rong Che uses to threaten the Emperor. Rong Qi has memorized all of them and arranged for secret guards to monitor their movements one by one. Now is not the time to remove the curse. Once the curse is removed, Rong Che will discover it, and the plan will be completely exposed.
During this month, Li Wanyue regained her status as a Noble Consort and seemed to have regained her former favor, but only Rong Mian felt something was amiss.
He felt that his mother had previously asked him to vie for the emperor's favor, which he had refused, and now she had suddenly regained favor. There must be something fishy about this, but he couldn't figure it out for the time being. He sent someone to investigate, and the result was that his father had personally agreed to restore her status. His mother wouldn't tell him anything, only that she would give him whatever he wanted from now on.
Rong Mian tried to probe his father several times, but even after his father agreed, he couldn't get any information out of him. Helpless, Rong Mian could only remind his father to take care of his health.
He's completely come to terms with it now, and feels that life has been wonderful ever since he had his daughter. Thinking back on the awful things he did in the past, he feels like slapping himself. Even if he could compare to Rong Qi, so what? Rong Qi doesn't care at all.
Xin Yan initially encouraged him to compete for the child, but since giving birth, she seems to have become more virtuous and focused entirely on her daughter. She remembered Xin Yan saying that her mother was also a gentle and kind woman, but unfortunately, she died young. If she had the same temperament as her mother in the palace, she would have been doomed long ago.
But things are better now. No one is criticizing her. As long as she behaves herself, she will naturally not mistreat her.
After all, she is the mother of his daughter. Although he has not yet fallen in love with her, they are husband and wife and Qin'er's parents. There is no doubt about that.
He now very much hopes that his mother can also be content with what she has.
But Li Wanyue was destined to disappoint her son.
After several tests, Li Wanyue was completely certain that the Emperor now only listened to her. She moved back to Yanxi Palace, regained her status as a Noble Consort, and even the Li family behind her rose in status. Li Wanyue's vanity was greatly satisfied. Originally, she wanted the Emperor to depose the Empress and make her his concubine, but she held back. What was so good about being the Empress? All that etiquette and decorum all day long was nothing compared to the freedom she felt as a Noble Consort.
With her now having a highly skilled maid named Hongmu by her side, and the emperor listening to her, she couldn't be happier in the harem.
During this month, Hongmu regained Li Wanyue's trust and took the opportunity to deal with the little palace maid who had slapped her before. He first slapped her back several times, then demoted her to the laundry room, making her the lowest-ranking servant. Moreover, Hongmu's slaps were not something an ordinary person could withstand. It was said that the little maid had no one to apply medicine to her face in the laundry room, and the redness and swelling on her face did not subside for half a month.
Hongmu outwardly obeyed Li Wanyue's orders, but secretly kept in touch with Anruo in Kunning Palace. However, he only kept the messages to a limited extent, fearing that if they were discovered again, the entire plan would be ruined.
Feng Qinghuang rested peacefully for a month, and now the baby is over four months old. She has already determined the baby's gender by pulse diagnosis, and the baby can respond to her calls. However, Rong Qi has been very busy this past month, and often when he returns, Feng Qinghuang is already asleep. The two rarely see each other while awake, so Feng Qinghuang hasn't told him about this.
After waiting for a month with no action from Rong Che, Feng Qinghuang was starting to think he had given up, or that their plan had been exposed. However, the changes in Li Wanyue within the palace forced her to believe that the plan was still underway.
After a month of probing, covert observation, and feedback from Li Wanyue, Rong Che finally couldn't resist taking action.
He had originally planned to act sooner, but the lack of reinforcements from India forced him to halt his plans. However, he now felt he had the Imperial Guards under his control, as well as the women of the harem and his father. He didn't want to wait any longer; the decades-long wait was becoming unbearable.
He was determined to seek justice for his mother and himself at the Empress's birthday banquet a few days later. Why did his father not avenge his mother's wrongful death? Why was his mother not buried in the imperial mausoleum after her death, but simply wrapped in a straw mat and buried somewhere carelessly?
Why? Why?
Thinking of these things, Rong Che felt as if his heart was being torn apart. He lived to seek justice for his mother and to redress her grievances; otherwise, what right would he have to face her after his death?
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