"promise!"
Upon receiving the order, the jailers on either side immediately pressed down on the Empress Yan's arms and "restrained" her!
"How dare you! What are you doing?"
"What are you doing?"
At this moment, Prince Yan, Ji Xi, slipped out of the prison corridor and slapped Queen Yan hard across the face, sending her sprawling!
At this moment, Jiang Ming also stepped out from behind the Prince of Yan with a gloating expression.
"You? You...you! You're not dead?"
Fuck you!
King Ji Xi of Yan, in a fit of rage, drew his royal sword, intending to kill her with a single blow.
"Your Majesty, wait!"
Jiang Ming stopped the Prince of Yan and said, "She hasn't revealed who her lover is yet."
"You harlot! I, the King, will tear you to pieces!" King Ji Xi of Yan roared.
At this moment, the Empress's head was buzzing! Her whole body trembled, and she couldn't believe what she was seeing!
Her younger brother, He Wuming, clearly told her that Prince Yan, Ji Xi, was dead, and the assassins had already verified it; there was no way it could be false!
How... how did he come back to life?
"No! This isn't real! This can't be real! You...you're dead! Are you a human or a ghost?"
The Empress Yan was trembling and bewildered, her eyes filled with disbelief. Half of her face was swollen like a pig's head, with a clear handprint visible!
"Someone come here!"
Ji Xi ordered, "Throw this poisonous woman into the oil cauldron and boil her alive!"
"ah......?"
Before the Queen of Yan could recover from her 'life crisis,' she was being escorted out by two jailers.
"Your Majesty!"
Jiang Ming advised, "That's not right!"
"Um?"
King Ji Xi of Yan was furious and roared, "I know who that adulterer is! No need to ask! Boil her alive!"
"Your Majesty!"
Jiang Ming advised again, "Your Majesty, she is, after all, the Empress of a nation; she should not die in such a way."
"Mr. Jiang!"
The Prince of Yan stared at Jiang Ming with uncontrollable rage and disbelief, asking, "I really don't understand, what are you doing stopping me? This wicked woman's numerous crimes... each one is enough to kill her a thousand times, ten thousand times! Didn't you hear how she was going to execute my sister?"
"Your Majesty!"
Jiang Ming bowed and advised, "She may not care about her dignity, but you cannot. I suggest... that we detain her first, and then convict her after we have thoroughly interrogated and investigated all her crimes!"
Jiang Ming's words carried considerable weight with Ji Xi, and were reasonable. Ji Xi was emotional, but she had to treat them with caution.
"All right!"
Ji Xi was still trembling with rage, and ordered, "Lock those two bastards in the imperial prison as well. Also... search the entire country for that Luo fellow!"
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty...I'm innocent! Waaah!"
It was only then that the Queen of Yan came to her senses. Under the escort of two jailers, she managed to break free and kneel on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly. The loud "bang bang bang" of her kowtowing was deafening!
"Your Majesty! I was just trying to upset Shishi. Both children are your flesh and blood, really, Your Majesty! Please believe me! Waaah!"
Empress Yan kept kowtowing, and soon a bloody gash the size of a teacup appeared on her forehead.
Ji Xi was so angry that he trembled all over. At this point, he no longer believed the Queen of Yan's lies... The thought that his two children were not his own children caused Ji Xi, the Prince of Yan, to suffer a sudden surge of anger, spit out blood, and even stumble and fall to the ground!
"Your Majesty!"
"Brother Wang!"
......
Jiang Ming and Ji Shishi, who had been untied, quickly stepped forward to help Ji Xi up.
Inside Ji Xi's bedchamber in the Yan King's Palace.
Prince Yan, Ji Xi, lay unconscious on his sickbed, while the old imperial physician took his pulse beside him, his face full of worry.
Jiang Ming, Ji Shishi, and the chief steward Li stood guard to the side.
"Imperial Physician, how is my brother's condition?" Ji Shishi asked anxiously and worriedly.
"cough!"
The old physician sighed deeply: "Your Highness, may I speak with you in private..."
"No!"
At this moment, Ji Xi suddenly opened her eyes and grabbed the old imperial physician's hand.
"My dear minister, just speak your mind... Don't hide a single word!" Ji Xi said weakly, her eyes closed.
"Uh... Your Majesty!"
The old doctor frowned, smacked his lips, and rolled his eyes in a complicated manner as he tried to organize his thoughts.
"Hey! Say something! Cough cough cough!"
Ji Xi became agitated and started coughing violently again...
This time, however, the blood he coughed up was dark red.
"Your Majesty!"
"Brother Wang!"
......
Ji Shishi quickly wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, tears welling up in her eyes with heartache.
"My dear subject!"
Ji Xi grabbed the imperial physician's hand and said, "My dear minister, I know I haven't treated you well on a daily basis, and I often scold you... saying you're incompetent... cough cough! But I actually know in my heart that you are very talented, otherwise you wouldn't have become an imperial physician! My lifelong pursuit of alchemy and immortality is all a lie, cough cough cough!"
As the old saying goes: A dying man's words are good!
Ji Xi was now completely exhausted, and it seemed that she had finally understood.
Upon hearing Ji Xi's words, the old man also burst into tears, wiping them with his sleeve as he said, "His Majesty was just overcome with anger, damaging his heart meridian, and... and... and the poison from the elixir has entered his lungs, hence... hence his incessant coughing and wheezing... so..."
"Is there any hope for me?"
"Your Majesty...please rest well and don't think too much. Given time, you should...you should..."
The old doctor's forehead was already covered in fine sweat, and his face was full of embarrassment and tension.
"Alright! Go ahead, I know..." Ji Xi waved his hand.
"Your Majesty, don't overthink it, just get some rest..."
After saying this, the old doctor fled the room as if he were escaping.
After the imperial physician left, Ji Xi, who was lying on the bed, suddenly burst into tears like a child!
"Brother Wang!"
"Your Majesty!"
"Waaaaah! I know I'm not going to survive..."
Ji Xi cried out in anguish, “I am so useless! Waaah! I gave birth to seven sons, but none of them survived. The two who did survive weren’t even my own flesh and blood. What am I going to do? Waaah! To whom can I entrust this empire?”
"Brother Wang!"
"younger sister!"
Ji Xi held Ji Shishi's hand tightly and cried, "Sister, what should we do, brother? Waaah! Is Heaven going to destroy our Great Yan Kingdom? Waaah!"
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