When Concubine Xian fled to the door, it suddenly closed.
"Open the door, someone come and open the door!" Concubine Xian acted like a madman and banged on the door hard.
A pair of cold hands fell from behind to her neck.
"Tell me, why did you harm Sister Thirteen?"
"Let me go, let me go--" Concubine Xian was almost going crazy. She wanted to pry away those cold hands, but when she thought that they were a pair of dead people's hands, she dared not touch them. She could only scream and didn't care about the problem.
"If you tell me why you harmed Thirteenth Sister, I will let you go. Otherwise, I will die with regret!" A sinister voice rang in Concubine Xian's ears.
At that moment, Concubine Xian almost blurted out the word "Empress Dowager", but the last bit of clarity in the spirit platform stopped her.
But the Fourteenth Princess who was so close to her almost made her collapse. In order to get rid of this terror, she couldn't help but screamed: "Because I hate the Queen!"
There was a moment of dead silence in the room, and then Concubine Xian’s eyes went dark and she passed out.
After an unknown amount of time, Concubine Xian woke up and the Emperor, Empress, and others came into view.
Concubine Xian was a little confused: "Your Majesty, where am I?"
Emperor Jingming's face was as cold as ice, and he said coldly: "Where is not important, what is important is whether you still remember what happened?"
"Concubine..." Concubine Xian rolled her eyes and suddenly remembered.
A pale face, cold hands on the neck, a sinister voice...
Wasn't she in her bedroom? She heard a knock on the door in the middle of the night. The Fourteenth Princess came to claim her life and forced her to tell her why she killed Princess Fuqing - what was going on now?
Could it be that it was just a dream?
"Don't remember?" Emperor Jingming stared at Concubine Xian closely, and when he saw that she remained silent, he wished he could drag this vicious woman out and beat her to death.
He hates pretending to have amnesia the most!
"It doesn't matter if you don't remember. I'll just tell you. You were guilty of being a thief, and you woke up in the middle of the night and shouted that it was you who wanted to harm Fuqing... Do you remember?"
Concubine Xian turned pale and hurriedly denied: "I did not harm Fuqing, the emperor must have misunderstood——"
Emperor Jingming was too lazy to listen to Concubine Xian's excuses, so he asked coldly, "Where is Concubine Xian's maid?"
Soon a palace maid knelt down in front of Emperor Jingming. Concubine Xian looked carefully and found that it was the palace maid who was on guard tonight.
She remembered that there was a knock on the door, and she asked the maid to open the door and find out what was going on, and then the maid disappeared into the darkness.
Emperor Jingming looked down at the maid and said expressionlessly, "Tell Concubine Xian what you saw."
The maidservant prostrated herself on the ground, trembling and said, "Your Highness did not fall asleep tonight. In the middle of the night, she suddenly started talking in her sleep—"
"What did she say?"
The maid quickly raised her eyes to look at Concubine Xian, and said with a pale face: "The Queen asked the Fourteenth Princess not to seek revenge on her, saying that she wanted to harm Princess Fuqing instead of the Fourteenth Princess——"
"You bitch, you are talking nonsense!" Concubine Xian felt a chill all over her body and shouted at the top of her lungs.
Of course she remembered what she said, but it was clearly not a dream; the Fourteenth Princess really came to seek revenge on her.
Emperor Jingming glanced at Concubine Xian coldly and shouted, "Go on."
"The Queen also said...that she harmed Princess Fuqing because she hated the Queen—" The palace maid lowered her head, not daring to raise her head.
Concubine Xian's face changed drastically: "Your Majesty, please don't listen to this bitch's nonsense——"
Emperor Jingming interrupted Concubine Xian coldly: "That's enough, don't treat me like a fool. Now I just want to hear why you hate the Queen."
"Your Majesty, I didn't--" Concubine Xian struggled desperately.
Emperor Jingming stared at her with indifference in his eyes: "Or do you want me to call the fourth son into the palace to ask him questions?"
All he needed to do was to identify the mastermind between Concubine Xian and Concubine Ning. It didn't matter whether there was evidence or whether the mastermind would admit it after being found out.
Concubine Xian's struggle only increased his anger.
Ascribing Fourteen's knocking on the door to Concubine Xian's dream was done to cover up the matter of ghosts and gods and to have a suitable explanation to the outside world.
After all, it is much more glorious for Concubine Xian to let slip what she said in her sleep than for a ghost to knock on the door.
He is the true dragon emperor, with dragon energy to ward off evil spirits. But if the palace is haunted by ghosts, where will his face be if this gets out?
Emperor Jingming's words hit Concubine Xian's soft spot hard, making her dare not to defend herself anymore.
Concubine Xian's face turned gray and she staggered and fell to the ground.
Emperor Jingming showed no sympathy and said coldly: "Speak now, I don't have time to waste with you."
Concubine Xian was lying on the ground. It was a midsummer night, but the chill penetrated from the jade bricks to her bones.
A tear flowed from the corner of her eye, flowed into the corner of her mouth, and mixed with the fishy sweetness in her mouth.
Concubine Xian bit her tongue and choked up, "I was bewildered for a moment, and I was jealous of the Empress for taking away the Seventh Prince..."
The queen, who had been silent the whole time, sneered when she heard this: "Are you jealous that I took your daughter away from you?"
The two words "Jian'er" made Concubine Xian stunned for a moment before she realized that it was Yu Jian.
After she reacted, a surge of hot blood rushed into her throat.
The shameless bitch, the Queen, actually called the Seventh Prince "Jian'er". Was she trying to show off her power to her?
The Queen tightened her lips and looked into Concubine Xian's eyes.
She just wants to kick a fallen dog. Do you expect her to be merciful to the person who harmed her daughter?
Not only does she want to punish the dog that has fallen into the water, she also wants to find out the dog's owner.
The Queen didn't believe that Concubine Xian would harm Princess Fuqing just for this reason.
If Concubine Xian really cared about Prince Yan, she would not have ignored him all the time.
She is also a mother, and she has to think about whether her daughter will kick the quilt at night. The heart of a loving mother is not like that of Concubine Xian.
"Jin'er, it was you who didn't want it, and the Emperor picked it up and gave it to me. I can't believe your reason."
The corner of Emperor Jingming's mouth twitched.
Did he pick it up? The seventh one is obviously his son too.
Concubine Xian's eyes flashed with panic, and she hissed, "Even if I don't want it, I would rather throw it away and destroy it than give it to someone else for free. You took my son, so you have to give me my daughter in return—"
Emperor Jingming was furious: "That's enough, you are hopeless, someone come——"
The Queen tried to stop her, saying, "Your Majesty, I think Concubine Xian has some hidden agenda. Maybe she has been bewitched by someone."
Concubine Xian felt nervous.
Now that the truth has been exposed, all she can do is not to give the Queen Mother away, because if she does, she and Zhang'er will be doomed.
Now she could only gamble on the Queen Mother's determination to deal with the Queen.
The Emperor is very filial to the Empress Dowager. As long as the Empress Dowager supports Zhang'er wholeheartedly, Zhang'er will have a chance to turn things around, instead of having no chance of success like now because he is abandoned by the Emperor.
It seemed that she had lost, but since Zhang'er had a relationship with the Queen Mother, she wasn't completely defeated.
As for whether the Queen Mother will keep her promise, she has her own plan.
Concubine Xian looked up at the Queen and sneered, "Your Majesty, what you said is really interesting. Although I am not as noble as the Queen, I am also one of the four concubines. Who in this palace can seduce me? Is it the Queen, the Emperor, or the Queen Mother?"
"Shut up!" Emperor Jingming's face turned livid. "If you continue to talk nonsense, don't blame me for being ruthless."
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