Novel website. For a moment, Yue Qingyin's face turned ashen, and only one thing was on her mind: she could no longer count on the Empress Dowager, she had to save herself, but how could she save herself?
The Prince of Qinyang's mansion has already offended everyone and can't be relied on at all. The Empress Dowager is finished, and even if she isn't, she's probably too busy taking care of herself right now.
Who should she turn to for help?
The face of one person suddenly appeared in her mind—Prince Anxian, Jun Qiming.
Judging from Jun Qiming's dejected appearance at today's palace banquet, he is probably not entirely heartless towards her. In any case, this is the last chance.
A surge of courage rose within her. She glanced at the Buddhist hall, then suddenly drew a vajra from a Vajra statue, grabbed Cailing's arm, and slashed down.
Caught off guard, Cai Ling suddenly found blood gushing from her arm.
"Your Majesty, what are you doing?"
Yue Qingyin didn't answer. She immediately smeared the blood on her clothes. After calming down a bit, she shouted at Cailing, "Quickly clean the blood off your arm!"
Cai Ling covered her arm and quickly tore off a piece of her inner garment to wrap around it. She was completely bewildered and couldn't understand why her master would suddenly slash her.
Yue Qingyin's voice was cold and stern. She shoved Cailing and said coldly, "Go and tell them that I have started my period and am afraid of defiling Buddha, so I cannot continue to pray for His Majesty. Go now!"
Cai Ling was stunned, not knowing what to say for a moment. She admired Yue Qingyin's intelligence and resourcefulness, but also felt that she was heartless and ungrateful. In the future, if the two of them were in trouble, she would probably be the first one pushed out by her master to take the fall. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel sad.
"Go quickly!" Yue Qingyin urged.
Cai Ling was busy with other things, and she spoke shyly and awkwardly to the unfamiliar guard about such a shameful thing as menstruation, her face turning bright red.
The two guards were clearly impatient, but they also knew that one had to be clean in body and mind to pray for the emperor's well-being. If they were unclean and defiled the Buddha, it would be bad. So they patiently went to report to their superiors.
Zhou Anyuan's apprentice, Xiao Jinzi, was the first to hear the news. He sneered and said, "Since Consort Jingxian is in such a hurry to return to her cold palace, then let her go."
The guard understood immediately and brought the message back.
Yue Qingyin breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly followed the guards toward her palace. The further she walked, the more she felt something was wrong. It was already dark, and her palace should have been brightly lit, but it was pitch black and devoid of any human presence. She suddenly realized that her palace had been sealed off, and she was afraid that the Empress Dowager's situation was no better.
She quickly shoved Cailing, who stumbled and fell onto the stone pavement, scraping her knee and tearing off a large piece of skin from her palm, wincing in pain.
"Ouch! It hurts so much!" Cai Ling cried out.
Yue Qingyin hurriedly leaned over, calling out, "What's wrong?" but quickly whispered in her ear, "Go find Prince Anxian and ask him to save me."
A flash of anger crossed Cai Ling's eyes. She kept her lips tightly shut as the guards began to shout at her.
Yue Qingyin stood up and said coldly, "No matter what, I am His Majesty's concubine. You are going too far by bullying me like this. Aren't you afraid that one day I will gain power?"
The two guards in the lead looked at each other. That's how things are in the palace. It's always one way or the other. I've never seen anyone stay in power forever.
After a moment's thought, one of them said, "Send Consort Jingxian back to the palace, and you take this little palace maid to see the imperial physician."
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