The palace maid's name is Wanzhuang. Unlike her name, Wanzhuang has an ordinary appearance and short stature. She would not attract any attention in the crowd. She is also the helper that Lu Yanluo gave to Qin Xuelin before leaving Beijing. She is a secret guard of the palace, codenamed Wanzhuang.

Since Lu Yanluo left, Wanzhuang appeared beside Qin Xuelin, helping Qin Xuelin to find out the news in the palace and becoming Qin Xuelin's eyes in the deep palace.

Thanks to Wanzhuang, Qin Xuelin was not isolated and helpless during this period of time.

"There is no need to do this, Second Miss. Before the master left, he told me to protect the Second Miss well. This is my duty." Wanzhuang said with her head down.

Qin Xuelin felt warm at heart when she heard this. No one in the Night Palace called her Concubine Hui or Empress, but called her Second Miss, as if she had never entered the palace as a concubine.

Qin Xuelin smiled and nodded: "I know, Luo is worried about me, it's okay, tonight I can finally put my worries to rest, it's worth it that I have been worried for so long."

Wanzhuang's eyes moved slightly, and she naturally knew what the matter was, and she said without thinking: "In order to prevent any changes, let me accompany the second young lady tonight?"

Qin Xuelin had exactly this idea. The emperor had been ill in bed for a long time. Even with Lu Yanluo's pills, he could only walk with difficulty. She was also powerless and had to face Nanyue alone. She was really worried. But tonight's matter had to succeed and not fail. This was her only chance.

After nightfall, Qin Xuelin wore a black cloak and makeup and disappeared into the night.

It was a dark and windy night with only a few lights on in the Taiji Hall. The entire palace seemed to be dormant in the darkness, like a beast with a bloody mouth waiting for its prey to fall into its trap, which was very daunting.

Qin Xuelin took a few quick steps with her makeup on and sneaked in through the door of the side hall.

In the hall, the emperor was already dressed neatly, his gray hair was tied up with a golden crown, and he looked more energetic.

"Your Majesty." Qin Xuelin walked forward and saluted.

The emperor hummed, pointed to the screen behind him and said, "You go in first, wait until I finish talking to her, then you can come out and deal with it."

Since he had promised to hand Nan Yue over to Qin Xuelin to vent his anger, he would not go back on his word.

Qin Xuelin said nothing and hid behind the screen as she was told.

Half an hour later, there was a flurry of footsteps outside the Taiji Hall. Nan Yue took the lead and walked in in a panic, muttering, "Your Majesty is really awake? Where is he? Your Majesty is really awake..."

The moment he pushed the door open, Nan Yue was like a duck with its throat strangled, and she became silent instantly.

The emperor, who had been lying unconscious on the bed, had actually woken up. He was now sitting at the table, leisurely pouring himself a cup of tea.

Then he looked at Nanyue: "What's wrong?" The emperor pretended to be suspicious and asked: "You seem disappointed to see that I am safe and sound?"

Nan Yue tried hard to calm herself down, walked quickly to the emperor, bowed, hugged the emperor's legs, and began to act coquettishly.

"Your Majesty, what are you talking about? I would love for you to get better!"

The emperor didn't want to beat around the bush with her, so he got straight to the point and said, "I heard that things are different now, and you are now the empress? It seems that I have missed a lot of wonderful things."

Nan Yue's face changed immediately when she heard this. Since moving into Changning Palace, the thing she feared most really happened.

More than half an hour ago, when she was about to go to bed, a young eunuch rushed in and said, "Your Majesty, His Majesty is awake! His Majesty is awake!"

"What!" The pearl hairpin that was originally held in her hand was not held firmly and fell to the ground in an instant, just like her future, being shattered into pieces.

Nan Yue didn't care about anything else, she grabbed the eunuch and asked, "What did you say? Who woke up?"

The young eunuch was frightened by Nan Yue's crazy look, and stumbled back after a long while: "Yes... yes, Your Majesty, Your Majesty has woken up just now, and is now in the Taiji Hall, waiting to see the Queen!"

Nan Yue looked dazed, and she stepped back unsteadily, then fell down on the couch.

Impossible, how could this be possible? The emperor was poisoned, not seriously ill. She knew this better than anyone else. How could a person who was poisoned and dying wake up? Could it be a last gasp? The emperor... was about to die!

Thinking of this, Nan Yue immediately perked up. The pearl hairpins on her head had been mostly taken off, and she had no time to put them on again, so she quickly walked towards the Tai Chi Hall.

This time she wanted to see the emperor die with her own eyes, only then could she feel at peace.

But who could have expected that upon entering the Tai Chi Hall, what he would see was not a haggard dying person, but a person who had just recovered from a serious illness and was in good spirits.

Everything that happened before her eyes was completely beyond Nan Yue's expectations. It caught her off guard and made her panic.

"Your Majesty...you...please listen to my explanation!" Nan Yue tried her best to explain why she became the queen. Under pressure, she bluntly said Kong Chenyang: "It was Kong Chenyang! He came to me and said that Your Majesty was seriously ill and needed a wedding. He also took out the imperial edict with Kong's jade seal, and then I agreed!"

Nan Yue pushed everything onto Kong Chenyang: "I was deceived. Please understand, Your Majesty! I really don't know anything!"

Compared with Nan Yue's excitement, the emperor was much calmer. He looked at Nan Yue calmly as she tried her best to defend herself. Suddenly he chuckled and brought up something completely unrelated.

"Nanyue, do you know why the King of Nanjiang sent you here after sending your aunt to the capital?" the emperor asked softly.

"Because... because my aunt has displeased His Majesty, and my father and grandfather don't want the relationship between Southern Xinjiang and Tianji to be damaged because of my aunt, so I have the opportunity to come to His Majesty." Nan Yue pretended to be shy, but she was actually panicking in her heart.

Under Nan Yue's suspicious gaze, the emperor nodded: "Yes, your aunt was just like you now, she felt that she was omnipotent and of noble status, but your aunt was more timid than you. At least she did not intend to kill the king and seize the throne, or to falsely convey the imperial decree!"

"No... Your Majesty, I didn't! It was really Kong Chenyang, he forced me to do it!"

Nan Yue tried her best to defend herself, but things were obviously beyond her expectations.

The emperor leaned forward slightly, raised his hand and slowly lifted Nan Yue's face, looked her up and down, snorted coldly after a moment, and threw her aside with force.

Nan Yue fell to the ground.

The severe pain told her that all this was real and she couldn't avoid it.

The emperor said calmly: "I originally thought that you were smart, but who knew that when faced with power, you are always greedy. You are too greedy."