"Sister, is it really you? You weren't already..."
Just as the word "dead" was about to slip out, Yun Nian swallowed it back.
She didn't see whether her sister was dead or not.
At that time, the Empress Dowager had just left the Cold Palace and brought His Majesty back from Consort Hui. One day, her elder sister went out on an errand, but when she returned, she was arrested and accused of using witchcraft to curse the late Empress. Soon after, cursed items were found in her room: portraits, nails, Gu worms, and even the ashes of the dead.
With such a complete collection of cursed items, the evidence was overwhelming, and the older sister was immediately locked in the exposure room.
Since giving birth, the late Empress had been ill and bedridden, her condition worsening day by day. Later, upon hearing of the child's death, she became even more bedridden.
Everyone believed that the late empress had been cursed by her sister, which was why her condition was so severe. So they tortured her severely in the torture chamber. She had secretly seen her sister once and saw that her sister's body was covered in blood and flesh, with no good flesh on her body. Her lips were cracked, and her hands and feet were purple and swollen. If she hadn't been breathing, she would have looked like a dead person.
When later generations told them that her sister couldn't endure the torture and bit off her tongue to commit suicide, everyone said it was good that she died. The exposure chamber was truly a place worse than death, and at that time, she thought so too.
The most taboo thing in the palace has always been witchcraft and curses, which have far-reaching implications. My sister gritted her teeth and said until her death that she was framed, so that the Empress Dowager could be safe and sound, and so could she be safe and sound.
If all of this is just an appearance, then what is the real reason?
Thinking of this, Yun Nian's eyes widened suddenly. How could those cursed objects have entered her sister's room? How could the late empress's portrait be obtained so easily? Witchcraft is a method known only to people from remote border regions. Their hometown is thousands of miles away from there. How could they have thought of using such a method? They had never even encountered a single person from a place known for witchcraft.
No!
It wasn't that they hadn't seen people from the land of witchcraft; the Empress Dowager they served was a concubine from that land.
At the time, everyone assumed that someone had deliberately used witchcraft to frame the elder sister in order to get rid of the Empress Dowager and implicate the Empress Dowager. Because of this speculation, no one ever suspected the Empress Dowager.
But what if all of this was orchestrated by the Empress Dowager? Did she deliberately take a risk to make people think she was framed? Back then, the late Empress Dowager had clearly said that the Empress Dowager was exceptionally clever and was crying wolf, yet the late Emperor insisted on protecting her, even at the cost of turning against the late Empress Dowager. Wasn't it because he thought, how could anyone use something only he understood to harm someone? Wouldn't that make everyone know that she was the one who did the harm?
However, having served the Empress Dowager for so many years, she understood that the Empress Dowager was the kind of person who loved to take risks. It was precisely because of these unexpected moves that she was able to win so smoothly.
Why did the Empress Dowager frame her sister and try to kill her? Why did her sister survive in the Cold Palace, but was about to die after leaving the Cold Palace?
Unless my sister learns some incredible secret about the Empress Dowager after leaving the Cold Palace, she will have no choice but to die!
Thinking of this, Yun Nian's eyes reddened, and her gaze involuntarily shifted to Jun Zhe. After a long pause, the answer was obvious.
It is you who have been banished!
The elder sister had personally held and cared for the Empress Dowager's children, and could tell at a glance that His Majesty was not the Empress Dowager's biological son. That was why the Empress Dowager wanted to get rid of the elder sister.
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