With her mouth gagged, Wan Ge couldn't utter a single word until she was taken back to her palace.
Xie Wenjun didn't seem to be gentle with her either. After pushing her inside, he said directly, "Demote the Empress to the rank of Noble Consort, take back the Phoenix Seal, and forbid her from leaving Fengxia Palace for six months. If the Empress leaves even a step, you will all pay with your lives."
Everyone knelt on the ground, trembling, and answered with a single word: "Yes."
Wan Ge, who was locked up, also heard what he said. It seemed that she had really angered him, and he was about to demote her from wife to concubine.
But I only went to see Ling Qingxiao to test her; I wasn't really going.
Perhaps I should have told him, otherwise I wouldn't be in this situation now.
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Soon after Xie Wenjun left, someone came in from outside. It was a palace maid that Xie Wenjun had recently assigned to her.
The palace maid quickly untied Wan Ge, saying as she did so, "Your Highness, please don't anger His Majesty any further. We cannot bear His Majesty's wrath..."
Many palace maids knew that Wan Ge had secretly left. It was because some of them secretly followed Wan Ge and others went to report the news that they survived. Otherwise, they might have ended up like the previous batch of palace maids.
Even though Wan Ge knew that someone was following her, and that they would tell Xie Wenjun, since they were originally people Xie Wenjun had placed by her side to watch over her, Wan Ge was not surprised that they would tell the emperor.
Seeing how frightened they all looked, Wan Ge knew that she had to explain things to Xie Wenjun quickly, otherwise these palace maids, even if they were his people, might still suffer.
"I understand, I'll be careful. Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you."
The palace maid immediately knelt on the ground again: "Your Highness, we are not afraid of death, and we are willing to give our lives for Your Highness, but... we hope to die in a place of value."
They didn't want to die in these inexplicable places without knowing why.
They hoped to die in a place of value. They were actually assassins trained by Xie Wenjun, and they had no family members left, so there were no family ties to them.
But if it's just that the empress wanted to escape, it doesn't seem worth it to have them all beheaded.
Moreover, with them around, the Empress cannot escape, since their only master is His Majesty.
Looking at the people in front of her, Wan Ge realized that although their words were somewhat presumptuous, they were also their truest thoughts.
Looking at the person in front of her, Wan Ge roughly guessed that Xie Wenjun must have asked her to do some very important things before.
So she had a sense of honor, and she was unwilling to live an ordinary life and die in someone else's love entanglement.
The other person wasn't wrong either; her thinking was correct. No one should sacrifice for someone else's love.
"Get up. I had no intention of running away, nor did I intend to do anything detrimental to His Majesty."
After Wan Ge finished speaking, she walked to the desk, picked up a pen, wrote a letter on the paper, and then took out a package from her sleeve: "Give this letter and this package to His Majesty, and he will understand."
Although the palace maid didn't know what Wan Ge was holding, she obeyed her mistress's orders and obediently took it.
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