Bai Lu, also known as "Lin Wanru" in disguise, had been waiting at the Lin Mansion early on, just waiting for Xie Liangchen to fail and have no other choice but to come to the Lin Mansion.
Having come to this point, Xie Liangchen accepted his defeat with a clear conscience.
He glanced at Lin Wanru with disgust in his eyes.
If it weren't for her, I wouldn't have gone crazy.
It was all women's fault. All his efforts were in vain.
If he could do it again, he would never set foot in the Lin Mansion.
"Herba, keep an eye on him. I'll report to the master."
When Bai Lu was about to leave, she thought that if someone came to rescue Xie Liangchen, all her efforts would be in vain.
So she knocked the two men unconscious and stuffed them into the abandoned well in the backyard of the Lin Mansion, and called a few people to guard them.
Bai Lu herself rode at full speed to the Forbidden City.
At this time, Xu Jing was busy doing after-sales work. Prince Chen escaped, and the Shen family army left behind became a hidden danger.
Except for the majority of the Shen family soldiers who surrendered and were incorporated into the Imperial Guards, the rest were imprisoned and awaited their fate. (The Crown Prince did not have the power of life and death; everything had to be decided by the Emperor.)
The Shen family members and the Wen family members were all imprisoned in the Sky Prison.
The Chen King rebelled, implicating many people. Anyone who had any connection with him was imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison to await their fate.
The Imperial Guards stayed up all night, busy arresting people everywhere. For a time, the people of the capital were in a panic, crying and shouting everywhere, and the common people closed their doors and windows, not even daring to leave their homes.
Before dawn, people from the Ministry of War came to help count the number of people.
The Wen family's rebels were captured by Zhang Jiacheng, the leader was beheaded and displayed to the public, and the other soldiers either surrendered or were killed. In the end, only more than 5,000 people were left.
In contrast, the other rebel army was like a bandit sweeping through every corner of the royal family, just like a swarm of locusts, leaving nothing behind.
King Xie Yunzhang of Chu was awakened from his sleep by shouting outside. Before he could get angry, he was hacked to death by the rebels who rushed into the King of Chu's mansion. His entire family died.
Meanwhile, the palaces of King Kang and King Zhao also suffered varying degrees of damage. Some were killed, others were wounded, and wherever the rebels went, everyone was terrified.
Xu Jing ordered Du Kang to go and wipe out the rebels. It took a whole night of fighting to wipe out all the rebels.
But even so, the losses cannot be recovered.
In addition to the royal family members who were injured, several families that had grudges against Xie Liangchen also suffered a devastating disaster.
For a time, the capital city became a hell on earth, with cries and wails coming one after another.
The good news in this unfortunate situation is that the culprit Xie Liangchen was finally caught. Xu Jing ordered his men to lock him and Lin Wanru up in the clan house and keep them under strict guard.
The bad news was that Emperor Zhao did not survive, and at three quarters past noon, the death knell rang in the capital.
Emperor Zhao died amidst widespread grief at the age of 43. He was known in history as Emperor Xiao Zhao.
In the same year, Crown Prince Xie Yunqi ascended the throne at the age of 25, following the late emperor's will. He changed the reign title from Yongchang to Yongping, and honored the late Empress Shen as the Empress Dowager, residing in Shoukang Palace. Imperial Consort Lin was honored as the Holy Mother Empress Dowager, residing in Zhongcui Palace.
After exorcising the spirits, Xu Jing began to settle the score.
Prince Chen Xie Liangchen rebelled and was demoted to a commoner and imprisoned for life in the Prince Chen's mansion. The princess and all the other female members of the mansion, with the exception of Lin Wanru, were executed.
Lin Wanru was expelled from the clan, demoted to a commoner, and imprisoned in Prince Chen's mansion for life.
When she was sent to Prince Chen's mansion, Lin Wanru was drugged with safflower, which prevented her from conceiving for life. She was destined to spend her life with Xie Liangchen in Prince Chen's mansion.
Even the mastermind, Prince Chen, was lenient with the case out of consideration for the royal family's reputation, but others were not so lucky.
The entire Shen family, except for the branch of the Queen, was executed.
As for the Wen family, even if the imperial teacher Wen Qingjiu pleaded for mercy, it could not change the fate of the Wen family being executed.
Lin Guangmao promptly kicked Lin Wanru off the family tree, thus avoiding genocide. Because he was from the Empress Dowager's mother's family, Xu Jing granted Lin Guangmao the title of Earl of Cheng'en. The rest of the family were dismissed from office and expelled from the capital, with no official positions for three generations.
Apart from the serious consequences mentioned above, there were many more implicated. Aristocratic families often intermarried, and if a wife was involved in treason, she would be divorced, dismissed from office, have her property confiscated, and exiled.
Within a month of the new emperor's accession to the throne, the air of the imperial capital was thick with the scent of blood. The saying "the emperor's wrath leads to rivers of blood" was no joke; it was a bloody reality.
After dealing with most of the things, Xu Jing took Zhou Siheng to meet Xie Liangchen, who was once high and mighty but is now a prisoner.
Xie Liangchen had lost his dream and lived in a daze every day. It wasn't that he didn't want to fight for it, but the news he received every day made him terrified.
The people who followed him died one by one, and the words spoken by the guards became cold facts.
At first he was so scared that he couldn't sleep all night, fearing that if he fell asleep he would die.
As more and more people died, his initial fear became numb.
Lin Wanru is not like this. She is a time traveler and has not yet completely integrated into the ancient times.
Every day, Lin Wanru couldn't help but scream when she heard the guards report how many people died that day.
On the day of Shen's execution, she was dragged to the scene to watch.
She saw Shen, whom she once hated so much, crying bitterly and struggling and refusing to die.
Finally, she was pinned down by two eunuchs, who put a thick rope around her neck and pulled it in two directions simultaneously. As she died, her eyes widened, her face flushed purple, and her neck was half broken.
After returning home, Lin Wanru fell seriously ill. In her dream, she saw a rope around her neck, suffocating her. She couldn't breathe at all, and watched herself die.
After waking up, she burst into tears. She regretted marrying Xie Liangchen. She regretted giving her heart away so easily.
If she had opened her eyes and looked carefully, she would have chosen someone who was right for her, instead of coveting wealth and fame and getting involved in the dirty waters of the royal family.
The emperor is ruthless, and she has no way of surviving in this cannibalistic society.
We can only live one day at a time and survive.
Seeing Zhou Siheng again, Lin Wanru's eyes lit up. She rushed over desperately, crying and begging: "Zhou Siheng, can you please save me? I don't want to stay in Prince Chen's Mansion anymore."
Zhou Siheng pursed his lips and took a few steps back.
"Bitch." Xie Liangchen wanted to kill Lin Wanru. If it weren't for her, he wouldn't have ended up like this.
Now that he is down and out, not only does she not take good care of him, she is even thinking about hooking up with other men. It is so hateful.
"Zhou Siheng, I saved you. Isn't it your duty to help me? A drop of water should be repaid with a spring of water. Have you forgotten?"
Facing Lin Wanru's questioning, Zhou Siheng responded coldly. "I've paid back what I owe you. You brought this upon yourself, you can't blame anyone else."
"How could you be so heartless? If I hadn't saved you, you would have died long ago." Lin Wanru said with tears in her eyes: "You are now a favorite of the emperor, and you can let me go with just one word. Do you really want to watch me die here?"
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