Chapter 443 Used
Qin Yunyan said, "Didn't Imperial Censor Zhu say that the case was handled by Xiao Yu for the Emperor? Imperial Censor Zhu is at most an official who organizes memorials. I will naturally not hold my father's death accountable to you. On the contrary, we will now cooperate with each other."
The woman continued, "Miss Qin, myself, and Imperial Censor Zhu are now all in the same boat as us."
The woman removed her veil, revealing a stunningly beautiful face to Imperial Censor Zhu.
When Imperial Censor Zhu saw her true face, he was startled. "Consort Su!" In fact, he had suspected it before, but he wasn't sure.
“I am no longer Consort Su. Consort Su died in the palace long ago,” Su Qingqing said. “It was Jiang Fenghua who ruined my entire Su family, so now I only want Jiang Fenghua’s life and the lives of the Jiang family.”
Imperial Censor Zhu said, "Actually, I have never believed that the Empress has any great ability to bring down your Su family. Even if the Su family's daughter has fallen out of favor, the person who would deal with the Su family is the Crown Prince at the time. The Noble Consort should know that your Su family is too powerful and arrogant, which is why it has aroused the Crown Prince's resentment."
Su Qingqing sneered, "However, all of this was orchestrated by Jiang Fenghua behind the scenes."
Wanwan once said she was the Empress, while Jiang Fenghua was just an ordinary concubine. Now, Jiang Fenghua has become the Empress, and Wanwan and the Su family are all dead.
What's most infuriating is that she hasn't gotten pregnant again all these years. She thought she had damaged her health when she gave birth to the child, but it turns out it was all a lie told by the emperor.
The Emperor doted on her, yet forbade her to have any more children, which is why she never gave birth to a prince. Xie Jing, that ugly and old bastard, if he doesn't die, she'll personally go find him and ask him why.
And then there's that shrew, Empress Cheng, who argues with the emperor every day, yet he doesn't depose her. Now he's even made her Empress Dowager. It's all the royal family's doing.
The late emperor had long wanted Xie Shang to be the crown prince. Now she finally understood that it wasn't the empress who wouldn't let Wanwan marry Xie Shang as the principal wife; it was clearly Xie Jing who didn't want a daughter of the Su family to be the principal wife of the royal family.
My mother once said that Xie Jing was able to secure his position as emperor entirely because of the Su family, yet it was he who had been scheming against the Su family behind the scenes.
The late emperor's decision to strip the Cheng family of their power, leaving the Su family in a position of absolute dominance, was a deliberate act by the emperor to make the Su family believe that the emperor truly favored them and her. It was all just a royal family's tactic of controlling its officials.
But just as the Su family realized what was happening, the Crown Prince had already begun to deal with them, leaving them no room to retaliate.
She had inquired around and found out that it wasn't entirely the Crown Prince's people; there was another force behind them eliminating the Su family. The speed was incredibly fast, so fast that they didn't even have time to react. It was as if the Su family had been targeted for a long time, and they were just waiting for the right moment to uproot the Su family completely.
Now that the Su family's power has waned, Su Qingqing knows she has no way to seek revenge on the royal family. However, she firmly believes that the person who instigated the Crown Prince to deal with the Su family must be Jiang Fenghua, because Su Xuan said that she is hiding an unspeakable secret.
Now she's going to uncover these secrets. Isn't Jiang Fenghua all about pretending? If Xie Shang finds out that Jiang Fenghua isn't as pure and kind as he imagines, will he still love her?
Su Qingqing is now the wife of the Hu tribe's king.
When Qin Yunyan was first demoted to a slave shed, she fought desperately to reach the laundry department. More than a year later, she wanted to climb up the ranks step by step in order to take revenge on Xiao Yu and Jiang Jinyan.
Later, someone approached her and said they could help her take revenge. She then tried her best to follow the funeral procession out of the palace, which is how she got in touch with Su Qingqing.
Su Qingqing felt sorry for Qin Yunyan after hearing about her plight. She had heard Su Tingwan mention Xiao Yu's name before, and that's when she learned that they had a common enemy, and that Xiao Yu might even have an affair with the Empress.
However, through Qin Yunyan's observation, Xiao Yu and the Empress never spoke to each other. Although Xiao Yu was the official in charge of the funeral rites for the late Emperor, he was very good at avoiding suspicion. The more he did so, the stranger it became.
Qin Yunyan is still unaware that the reason she couldn't enter the palace was because of Xiao Yu's interference; otherwise, she would have been furious. Moreover, Xiao Yu unintentionally changed her fate.
Su Qingqing also knew that Qin Yunyan had once been a candidate for the imperial concubine selection. With her beauty, she would definitely have been chosen by the Crown Prince. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, she did not enter the palace.
After discussing it, the two realized that the Crown Prince wanted to investigate corrupt officials and had come to the Qin family. Xiao Yu was the imperial envoy secretly sent to Quanzhou by the Crown Prince. That's why Xiao Yu used Qin Yunyan to investigate the Qin family and knew that she wanted to enter the palace for the imperial concubine selection. Perhaps it was Xiao Yu who prevented her from entering the palace.
Su Qingqing said, "Men all like beautiful women. If your pretty face really bewitches the Crown Prince after you marry into the palace, how many people will be blocked from your path?"
Qin Yunyan said, "So what Madam means is that some people were afraid that I would enter the palace and marry the Crown Prince, but with so many candidates, whose path could I possibly block?"
Su Qingqing hated Jiang Fenghua to the core, so she naturally blamed everything on Jiang Fenghua. "Naturally, she is the Crown Prince's favorite Crown Princess. Wanwan was defeated by her back then, which is why she ended up like this today. Xiao Yu's attempt to deal with your Qin family is probably also due to the Crown Princess's machinations behind the scenes."
Qin Yunyan asked doubtfully, "Really?"
"A woman as beautiful as you is her biggest threat once she enters the palace. I have been confined within those deep palace walls for more than ten years and know how powerful a stunning face can be to a man. Jiang Fenghua seduced Xie Shang with her face."
A flash of hatred crossed Qin Yunyan's eyes. "So it was the Crown Princess who wanted to harm our Qin family, and to harm me."
Jiang Fenghua was inexplicably blamed again.
Qin Yunyan was unaware that she had been used as a pawn by Su Qingqing. She believed that the Qin family's misfortune was all a scheme by Xiao Yu and the Jiang family, and regarded Jiang Fenghua as her imaginary enemy.
Su Qingqing said, "Now that Jiang Fenghua is so difficult to deal with, we can only use strategy. You can handle the matter of winning over the Zhu family..."
Qin Yunyan was still the daughter of a disgraced official.
She only had a chance to get revenge on Xiao Yu if she cooperated with Su Qingqing; she even thought about how to seduce Xie Shang.
She initially tried to attract Xiao Yu, but Xiao Yu was only pretending to be affectionate with her; it turned out he had already fallen in love with the Empress.
He was the Empress's father's student; it turns out everything was traceable.
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