Concubine Dun trembled as she untied her cloak, revealing her bare shoulders. She was only wearing a low-necked, wrap-around dress that revealed her cleavage.
Sparks flew from the gilded candlestick. Xuan Ling stepped on Concubine Dun's shoulder, and his dragon-patterned black boots made her collarbone crack.
He leaned over and pinched her chin, his eyes bloodshot. "Dressing like this on a cold autumn night, my beloved is truly considerate."
He suddenly exerted force and kicked the man three meters away.
Concubine Dun knocked over the bronze crane lamp stand, and kerosene spilled onto the peacock skirt, instantly igniting a faint blue flame.
She screamed and flapped her skirt, her hair disheveled like a ghost: "Your humble concubine... I just wanted to come and see the emperor after taking a bath..."
Xuan Ling was so hot that he ripped open the collar of his dragon robe.
"Really? The timing is so accurate?
Tell me, when did you administer the aphrodisiac?"
Concubine Dun was so frightened that she shook her head, her face trembling with fear, and she said convulsively: "Your Highness...did not use any aphrodisiac."
Xuan Ling clenched the jade ring tightly in his hand, and his whole body felt like it was trapped in a big net and he couldn't release it.
He grabbed the jade paperweight on the desk and threw it over.
"You think I'm a tyrant?!
"You dare to harm my dragon body? Come, drag Concubine Dun away and strangle her immediately!"
Concubine Dun broke free from the palace maids and cried out, "Your Majesty, I am your father's only daughter. I am your life..."
Xuan Ling said grimly, "Dare to threaten me? Drag him away!"
Concubine Dun shouted and begged:
"I'm not threatening Your Majesty. I just miss my father. Ever since he led his troops out of the capital... I haven't seen him for two and a half years. Woo woo woo."
Eunuch Fu said tremblingly, "Your Majesty, please calm down. Judge Wu is here.
Judge Wu knelt among the broken jades, feeling for the patient's pulse, his official robes soaked with cold sweat.
"This is the 'entanglement of love'. If you don't use the method of balancing yin and yang..."
Before he finished speaking, Xuan Ling swung his sword and cut through the curtains of the dragon bed: "What I want is the antidote!"
Amidst the fluttering brocade, Concubine Dun suddenly laughed madly: "Your Majesty would rather bleed from all seven orifices than touch me?"
The Xuanling sword blade slashed across her throat half an inch, "Drag her away!"
Concubine Dun crawled under the dragon-patterned black boots, grabbed the dragon robe, and cried:
"Your Majesty, I have been in the palace for five years and I am still a virgin. What have I done wrong?
Every day I look forward to receiving your favor, but every day I am disappointed. I even rubbed the stone que at the palace gate until it was smooth and round."
Xuan Ling kicked her away and said, "I will give you one last chance to live. Tell me how you administered the aphrodisiac."
He thought that during the imperial banquet, Concubine Dun had not been personally serving him. How did she drug him? Did she have an accomplice?
Concubine Dun was silent for a while, thinking of what Empress Duan had said to her in private that day.
“If something goes wrong, what you need to do is admit your mistake and impress the emperor.
Your father is still in a position of power, and as long as he comes back, you will be forgiven.
If you are not clear-headed, you are really dead when you die, understand?"
Concubine Dun knelt down and kowtowed:
"I bribed a palace maid to add a little bit of black silk to the inner wall of the last wine glass used by the emperor.
When she said this, Eunuch Fu knelt down hurriedly and said, "Your Majesty, I have failed in my duty..."
Xuan Ling then remembered that at the banquet, he shook off the luminous cup with his sleeve, and the palace servant replaced it with a new one. So that was where the problem lay.
He said sternly, "You little slave, you've indeed neglected your duty. I'll fine you one year's salary!"
Xuan Ling felt uncomfortable all over, and sweat dripped down his cheeks like raindrops.
Eunuch Fu ran to the cabinet and fetched a medicine bottle:
"Your Majesty! Madam Sheng left behind these Heart-Clearing Pills!"
I shook open my purse and the familiar scent of agarwood mixed with mint filled the air.
Xuan Ling clutched the celadon medicine bottle, and the day they parted at the bamboo garden flashed before his eyes.
When Sheng Xiyan put the medicine bottle into his palm, "Xuanlang, may you live a long life..."
At this moment, the aroma of medicine enters the throat, but it is like drinking boiling lovesickness.
"Ban Consort Dun to the cold palace! Get out of here!"
Xuan Ling waved everyone away and staggered to the ground, where he sat down in the mess.
The gilded mirror reflected the red corners of his eyes, and Sheng Xiyan's appearance was all in his mind. He wanted to rush to the temple immediately.
With his head dizzy, he had a suspicion. Could it be that Sheng Xiyan had not let go of Qi Yan and could not accept him yet, so she hid in the temple?
He suddenly grabbed the memorial on the desk and wrote wildly on it with his red brush: "Order the Marquis of Wu'an to escort Sheng back to the palace today..."
The tip of the pen pierces through the back of the paper, "Violators will be beheaded!"
Eunuch Fu didn't dare to go out and was secretly anxious in the flower hall.
Seeing the emperor stand up to take the jeweled dagger hanging on the wall, he rushed forward to block him.
"Your Majesty, you cannot harm the dragon's body. You haven't fully recovered yet, how can you bleed again?
....I beg you, just turn over the card,
You are the emperor, you should treat everyone equally..."
There is only Sheng Xiyan in my heart, but she is not here.
"Get out of here!"
Xuan Ling kicked Eunuch Fu away, took out the jeweled dagger, and slashed his palm.
Holding his hand, blood dripped like broken strings onto the woven palace carpet, leaving a print of gorgeous crabapple blossoms.
The pain in my palms, the unbearable feeling all over my body, the desolation burning in my heart,
He has a lover, but his lover keeps him at a distance.
"emperor!"
Eunuch Fu bandaged the wound while crying. He had been serving Emperor Xuanwu personally since fifteen years ago when he was still the crown prince, and he had never seen the emperor act so impulsively.
Xuan Ling staggered towards the dragon bed.
Phoenix eyes are red, thin lips are smiling bitterly,
"Why would you want to separate and be quiet for a while just for the sake of fairness?
Sheng Xiyan, you are clearly lying to me. You are trying to trick me because you are afraid that I will be enraged and the people you love will be implicated."
The emperor cried and laughed, tossing and turning in pain on the dragon bed - resisting the effect of the drug that was binding his hair.
The next day, on the streets of Beijing.
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