Chapter 558 Consort Liu's Severed Arm
Consort Liu, who was waiting to the side, took out a blank imperial edict that she had prepared and handed it to the emperor, forcing him to write a decree of succession.
Although they said it didn't matter if there was no imperial edict, who wouldn't want to be legitimate and have their name recorded in history?
As the third prince spoke, he drew his sword and swung it at the emperor on the dragon bed, while the other princes struggled to break free from the rebel soldiers around them.
Unfortunately, the fourth and fifth princes were too weak in martial arts, and despite their efforts, they could not break free from the rebels' restraints.
The second prince, who had never been favored by anyone, threw the two people binding him far away with a single punch and kick.
The Second Prince's actions stunned both the Third Prince and Consort Liu, who had been forcing the Emperor to write an edict at swordpoint.
Taking advantage of their momentary daze, the Second Prince leaped up and snatched the sword from the Third Prince's hand with lightning speed. He then kicked the Third Prince and Consort Liu aside and shielded the Emperor behind him.
Consort Liu, who was kicked to the ground, never expected to be ambushed by a useless prince.
The Second Prince Zhao Junyue is Empress Gu's son. If you were to ask who Consort Liu hates the most, it would definitely be Empress Gu.
She always felt that Empress Gu had taken her place as empress, and Consort Liu had wanted to be empress since she was a child.
When she grew up, she entered the palace as she wished, but the emperor loved the eldest daughter of the Gu family.
At that time, Prime Minister Gu held a high position and great power, so Miss Gu naturally became the empress.
After years of scheming and plotting, she finally brought down Prime Minister Gu with the help of her own father and framed the Empress.
She never expected that even with all the evidence laid out before the Emperor, he still hadn't issued an edict to depose the Empress, nor had he even sent her to the Cold Palace.
Instead, she was simply imprisoned in Kunning Palace. So, taking advantage of the Emperor's efforts to find evidence to overturn the case for the Gu family, Consort Liu used a concubine in the palace to kill the Empress.
In the end, the concubine was deposed and died, and her entire family was exterminated.
Then Prime Minister Gu died in prison, followed by the death of the eldest prince.
With the deaths of the Empress, the First Prince, and the former Prime Minister, Gu Zheyuan followed the late Prime Minister Gu's last wishes and left the capital with his family to return to Yunlu City to serve as a local official.
Consort Liu originally thought that the Empress was dead and the Gu family had fallen, but her Liu family had risen rapidly under Liu Xuenian's maneuvering.
Consort Liu originally thought that the position of Empress would naturally become hers, but she never expected that the Emperor would give up the idea of ​​establishing an Empress and simply hand over the management of the harem to Consort Liu.
Although Consort Liu appeared to be the most powerful woman in the harem.
However, her heartache never subsided, and she never ascended to the throne of empress, which she had dreamed of.
Outsiders all say that the Emperor dotes on Consort Liu, but only she knows in her heart that since Empress Gu's death, the Emperor has not been as warm towards her as outsiders perceive.
Otherwise, she wouldn't only have the second prince as her child.
Now that the Emperor is insisting on not making her son, the Third Prince, Emperor, the Consort Liu directly suspects that the Emperor intends to give the throne to the Second Prince.
Although she was just a woman in the harem, she could tell from the Second Prince's moves just now that he wasn't as useless as she had imagined.
It seems the Second Prince has been hiding his true abilities all these years.
Consort Liu grew angrier the more she thought about it. Taking advantage of everyone's inattention, she rushed towards a sword hanging on the wall of the Emperor's bedroom and charged at the Second Prince, intending to kill him.
She just didn't expect the Second Prince to turn around so quickly and decisively slash at her hand holding the sword...
"ah......................."
The second prince swiftly swung his sword and, without a second thought, severed Consort Liu's right arm.
Now, not only the Second Prince and Consort Liu were stunned, but everyone else in the hall was also dumbfounded. The dying emperor opened his mouth, but in the end, he said nothing.
Consort Liu covered her bleeding amputated arm with her unsevered left hand, glaring fiercely at the hand on the ground as she stared at the Second Prince.
"How dare you harm me! Who gave you the audacity?"
The Second Prince looked indifferently at Consort Liu, who seemed to want to devour him.
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