Three days later, Shen Ruyu was sent back with a deathly pale face, her whole body as if she had been soaked in water. Her beautiful face was touching, but the people from the Eastern Depot were unmoved.
Gui Ling, who was ordered to bring her back, looked at the woman lying on the ground with flames burning in her eyes and said coldly.
"Your Highness, it's best not to cross the Chief Supervisor's bottom line again. This is the second time already. If it happens again, Your Highness may not be so lucky. Our Chief Supervisor said that if you still cannot communicate with the 'god' and obtain anything useful, we will have no choice but to send you to the Hall of Punishment for dissection. Perhaps we can discover the reason why you are different from ordinary people."
The entire Yunxiao Palace was now empty. Apart from two palace maids left behind by the Eastern Depot to keep watch, all the original Embroidered Uniform Guards had been replaced by Eastern Depot constables, and the Yunxiao Palace had been sealed off.
Shen Ruyu was placed under house arrest, and with so many beauties around the young emperor, he probably wouldn't even remember her.
He didn't shed a single tear even when the beautiful woman who deliberately poisoned him died; that woman was someone he had cherished dearly before.
In the vast, empty palace, magnificent and beautiful, Shen Ruyu curled up, first choking back sobs, then trembling.
Finally, she roared hoarsely, "You castrated dog, you'll die a horrible death! Ah!!!"
During the torture, they didn't gag her. No matter how much she roared and cursed, it was no use. They were a bunch of cold-blooded devils! And Cao Anmin was a castrated dog. She wished she could bite his throat off!
hatred!
The immense hatred pushed Shen Ruyu to the brink of a nervous breakdown.
She didn't know why fate had sent her through time; she had initially thought it was a blessing, but now it seemed like a nightmare.
Since her failed escape three years ago, Cao Anmin has kept her under house arrest in the palace, tearing off her mask of pretense and repeatedly forcing her to communicate with the gods in hopes of obtaining something even more powerful than the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow.
But how could Shen Ruyu grant his wish?
She stopped "inventing" anything truly useful, but no matter how much she resisted, in the middle of the night, Shen Ruyu suddenly had a dream.
In that dream, she controlled Cao Anmin, who worshipped her and even loved her deeply. She also had the entire Shen family as her backing, and a silly, loyal brother outside.
Even the contents of her personal space were different; it contained countless rare treasures and books, which she could draw upon endlessly.
She is a goddess!
She is the empress to whom all the people of Yushang submit!
A voice told her, "That's the life she should be living."
But now, everything is different. The Shen family has been destroyed, and the fate of her so-called brother is unknown. The strangest thing is Cao Anmin, who is different from the obsequious eunuch in her dream.
Why! ?
She felt like a cow that could be slaughtered at any moment; she had a heart full of revenge but was trapped in the palace.
Now Nanlin is destroyed, and that idiot Dongqi is dead.
She had a gut feeling that all the "abnormalities" were because of Cao Anmin. If she killed him, everything would return to normal. But now she was isolated and helpless, and even her attempt to escape the palace had failed.
If he found out a third time, she knew he wasn't joking; he really would kill her.
After all, the title of "messenger of the gods" can be bestowed upon anyone.
But what could she do?
Shen Ruyu entered the space and looked at the small patch of spiritual spring water. Apart from being able to heal wounds, no matter how much she drank the spiritual spring water, she could not improve her "easily knocked over" constitution. On the contrary, other people who drank the spiritual spring water were able to improve their internal strength and physical fitness by leaps and bounds.
Frustrated, she punched the clear spring water, wiped away her tears, and used the spiritual spring water to wash away the unseen wounds on her body.
She still had one last trump card: gunpowder. She remembered the composition of gunpowder and had been storing a lot of materials. The worst outcome would be nothing more than mutual destruction.
When Shen Ruyu left her personal space.
Suddenly, she heard light footsteps coming from the courtyard of the Cold Palace. Before she could react, someone rushed in through the window and covered her mouth.
"I'm warning you, don't make a sound, or I'll kill you."
The newcomer smelled of blood and was breathing heavily, but his voice was deep and familiar.
No, it wasn't that she was familiar with it, but rather that she felt like she had heard it somewhere before.
It wasn't until the man collapsed from blood loss that Shen Ruyu lifted his mask and saw a handsome face, vaguely matching the one in the original owner's memories.
"Brother Shaoyang?"
On the other side, someone else was equally surprised.
Cao De, who was already 63 years old and retired, was provided with a mansion by Cao Anmin in the best location in the capital. It was spacious with three courtyards and three entrances, and servants would attend to him whenever he came and went. He would enjoy his old age here.
However, today, a stranger suddenly entered his study.
He looked at the uninvited man, his hand resting on the dagger hidden at his waist. "Little friend, have you come to the wrong place? There's nothing fun here."
The newcomer was dressed in a black outfit, but from his exposed eyes and figure, it was clear that he was only eight or nine years old.
"Lord Cao, I've come to ask for your help." He calmly removed his mask.
"Heh, I'm a eunuch, and I've been retired for a long time. How could I help..." His words trailed off when he saw his face clearly. "You are!?"
He stared intently at the child again and again. He couldn't be mistaken; the child looked 90% like Qi Yu!
"Who I am is not important, what's important is who my father is. He's still alive, isn't he?" Xia Mingyu took out the black and gold dagger he always carried with him and weighed it in his hand under the other person's shocked gaze.
The next day, the Imperial Noble Consort suddenly spoke up, saying that she had received divine instructions to focus on researching the elixir of immortality for His Majesty, and that she had brought in hundreds of different medicinal herbs from outside the palace.
Cao Anmin didn't know what she was up to, but since those hundred kinds of medicinal herbs were commonly used by alchemists outside, he approved it.
At this moment, Nanlin is in great chaos, and it is the time to deploy troops.
At the morning court session, Minister Lin submitted a series of memorials requesting military action against Nanlin. After a few days of symbolic hesitation, the young Emperor Qi Lin granted his request.
Taking advantage of the chaos in Nanlin and the infighting between the two princes, Yushang's army swallowed up more than half of Nanlin in half a month.
During this two-week period.
After arriving in the capital, she began investigating the whereabouts of Xiao Mingyu and Shen Shaoyang. All the clues mysteriously disappeared at the Eastern Depot, so if they wanted to find out the truth, they had to find a way to get in touch with the Eastern Depot.
However, the Eastern Depot now wields such power that even a first-rank general in the court dares not offend it, so they can only proceed cautiously.
To get closer to the Eastern Depot, Xia Yixin thought of food.
It is said that food is the most important thing for people. Moreover, there are hundreds of people in the Eastern Depot. Although they have their own kitchens, they are all for high-ranking people. Most of the other shops still have to take care of their own food.
So, half a month ago, she took over a large two-story building that happened to be diagonally opposite the East Factory and opened a restaurant. She hired a professional chef and, based on the local people's lack of attention to food, taught the chef more than a dozen dishes.
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