Yin Yuan stared wide-eyed at the emperor, motionless.
A cool sensation ran through my abdomen.
"Tick-tock, tick-tock..."
Yin Yuan stared blankly with his head down.
Hot blood dripped onto the ground, forming a pool of glaring blood.
A sword pierced his abdomen.
The hilt of the sword is covered with intricate and beautiful patterns, and bright red blood fills the patterns along the lines, making them vivid and alluring.
The hand that gripped the sword hilt was long, fair, with well-defined muscles and bones, and as translucent as jade. Every joint seemed to have been meticulously sculpted by the hand of a god...
Yin Yuan thought: This person is truly a favorite of heaven.
really……
You can't just pluck the stars from the sky.
No, Yuan Yuan is not a star.
He couldn't describe what this aloof and dangerous person was like...
The Empress Dowager's cries seemed to come from afar, ethereal and distant, making Yin Yuan feel as if it were unreal...
"Clang!"
The sword in Yin Yuan's hand fell to the ground.
The sharp blade sliced across Jiang Xian's neck.
However, the shock outweighed the pain, and Jiang Xian was completely unaware that her skin had been cut, let alone that she was bleeding.
He roared furiously, "Traitor! Traitor! I will kill you!"
After saying that, Jiang Xian bent down, picked up Yin Yuan's sword from the ground, and stabbed Yin Yuan with trembling anger.
"No!" the Empress Dowager cried out in anguish.
Yin Yuan looked up and gazed at the Empress Dowager.
He forced a smile, wanting to tell the Empress Dowager that he was alright and in no pain.
As a result, as soon as he opened his mouth, blood gushed out uncontrollably, drowning out all his voice.
"Bang!"
Yin Yuan fell heavily to the ground.
"Yin Yuan!"
The Empress Dowager called out Yin Yuan's name in a shrill voice. Ignoring her swollen belly and weak body, she got out of bed and crawled to Yin Yuan's side.
Yin Yuan lay on the cold ground with his head turned to the side, large mouthfuls of blood flowing from his mouth.
He managed to utter, "Empress Dowager..."
"You mustn't die! You mustn't die!" The Empress Dowager frantically pulled Yin Yuan from the ground, crying, "I order you, you mustn't die! Do you hear me?"
"I..." Yin Yuan smiled, then blood gushed from his mouth: "Good... good, live well..."
The last note faded into the blood foam.
His blood-stained hand slammed heavily to the ground.
Yin Yuan is dead.
Yuan Yuan stared coldly at the blood-dripping sword tip.
The Empress Dowager pulled out the sword that Jiang Xian had plunged into Yin Yuan's abdomen, held Yin Yuan's body, and wept bitterly.
The entire bedchamber was filled with the Empress Dowager's heart-wrenching cries.
Standing to the side, looking at Yin Yuan covered in blood, Jiang Xian still felt unsatisfied.
He was trembling violently, and though his voice was shaking, it was filled with rage: "Traitor! To die like this is too good for you!"
How dare they poison him, trying to kill him?
They're really asking for it!
Exhaling a breath of stale air, Jiang Xian looked at Yuan Yuan and began to worry again: "Yuan, we've been poisoned, what are we going to do?"
"Ah Yuan, are we going to die?"
Seeing the Empress Dowager crying her heart out, Yuan Yuan raised his hand, wiped the blood from his lips with his fingertip, and said coldly, "She won't die."
Looking at Yuan Yuan's face, Jiang Xian was still a little worried: "A Yuan, we should hurry and find the imperial physician!"
As he spoke, he tried to pull Yuan Yuan away.
Seeing the two men's robes swaying, the Empress Dowager looked up and asked resentfully, "Why? Why did you kill him?!"
Yuan Yuan gave a mocking smile and retorted, "Why does the Empress Dowager want to kill me, and why does she want to kill the Emperor?"
Empress Dowager: "..."
The Empress Dowager's eyes were red and swollen from crying, and her face looked extremely ferocious.
Holding Yin Yuan's gradually cooling body in her arms, she laughed angrily: "Want to know the reason? It's too late!"
You have already taken poison and will soon die!
As she spoke, she gently stroked Yin Yuan's face: "Go in peace. An emperor and a high-ranking official, both buried with you, it's not a bad deal..."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Xian's eyes reddened: "You're talking nonsense!"
He trembled as he reached for the sword.
Suddenly, Yuan Yuan's cold voice rang in his ears: "There is no poison in the tea."
Not poisonous?
Jiang Xian looked at Yuan Yuan in surprise.
The Empress Dowager laughed in anger: "How could it not be poisoned? I personally watched Yin Yuan pour the poison in!"
"How can you be so sure it's poison?" Yuan Yuan asked.
The Empress Dowager, her face streaked with tears and her expression deranged, cried out, "Yesterday, I had someone test the medicine! I personally witnessed that palace maid die from poisoning!"
"Heh..." Yuan Yuan sneered, "Foolish!"
madness?
The Empress Dowager suddenly realized what was happening.
She was both shocked and furious, pointing her bloodied finger at Yuan Yuan: "It was you! You switched the medicine? No...!"
How could this be? How could this be…
"Why not?" Yuan Yuan curled his lips into a sneer, his voice icy: "You want to kill me, but I can't defend myself against you?"
"How could this be..." The Empress Dowager's eyes were red and almost bloodshot: "How could you possibly have replaced my medicine?"
Yuan Yuan smiled sarcastically: "I don't know whether to say that the Empress Dowager is stupid or that she is impatient."
Didn't you just see my bodyguard yesterday?
bodyguards...
The Empress Dowager finally collapsed to the ground.
That's right, Yuan Yuan has secret guards!
She underestimated him after all!
The Empress Dowager's expression became extremely distorted and ferocious due to excessive despair and heartache: "It was you who instructed the secret guards to sneak into my palace and switch the poison."
It was you who pretended to be completely unaware and drank the tea that had been spiked.
My supposedly perfect plan is nothing but a joke in your eyes, isn't it?
Your acting is superb!
You tricked me with a self-inflicted injury!
The person I loved most also died by your sword!
Yuan Yuan, in the end, I underestimated you!
Yuan Yuan curled his beautiful thin lips and said casually, "Likewise."
The Empress Dowager was furious.
She couldn't stand Yuan Yuan's appearance the most—
He seemed to have everything under control.
Everything seemed to be under his control...
The Empress Dowager turned to look at Jiang Xian, and roared through gritted teeth, "You are the emperor, are you just going to let such a person stay by your side?"
Jiang Xian hadn't been yelled at like that in a long time.
If it were any other time, he would probably have been so frightened that he would have retreated behind Yuan Yuan.
But for the first time, his expression turned sinister, and his eyes flashed with a bloodthirsty light: "I trust A Yuan! Stop trying to sow discord!"
Empress Dowager: "..."
The Empress Dowager seemed to choke up: "You..."
Seeing that the Empress Dowager was rendered speechless by his rebuke, Jiang Xian suddenly felt emboldened and shouted, "Enough with the nonsense!"
"I will grind this traitor to dust and scatter his ashes into the moat to feed the fish!"
"How dare you!" the Empress Dowager roared.
"Don't let him pollute the moat," Yuan Yuan said coldly. "Just throw him into the mass grave to feed the wild dogs."
“That makes sense!” Jiang Xian immediately agreed: “Debauchery in the palace, murder of the emperor… such filthy things deserve to be torn to pieces!”
"You...you all..." The Empress Dowager clutched her abdomen, her face deathly pale, her entire body except for her red eyes.
Suddenly, Yuan Yuan looked at her coldly: "This time, it's just a small lesson for you."
As the Empress Dowager, she should know what she should and should not do.
Otherwise, next time, the people lying here will be you and your unborn child!
"Yuan Yuan..." The Empress Dowager clutched her abdomen, her breathing becoming labored: "I...I will kill you sooner or later!"
"I'm going to kill you and send you to join Yin Yuan..."
"A-Yuan!" Jiang Xian exclaimed in surprise, pointing at the Empress Dowager, "She...she's bleeding so much!"
Yuan Yuan: "..."
He coldly raised his eyes and looked at the Empress Dowager.
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