After Zhuang Yuyan accompanied the emperor to finish his meal and sent him off, she sat back on the beauty couch and let the palace maid massage her legs.

"Yunxi, let Luyi who is kneeling outside come in." Zhuang Yuyan yawned and spoke slowly.

Lu Yi knelt for nearly two hours and was shaking as she walked. When she saw Zhuang Yuyan half-leaning, she trembled even more. She knelt down in front of Zhuang Yuyan and said, "Please forgive me, Madam."

"When I was in Taoyu Pavilion, I also had a senior maid named Luyi by my side. Do you know where she is now?" Zhuang Luoyan slowly opened her eyes and glanced at the pretty Luyi. "You were assigned to me after I moved to Xihe Palace, so I gave you this name myself. Who knew that you would have the same ulterior motives as the last Luyi after using this name?"

"Your Majesty, I dare not!" Lu Yi's face turned pale. She naturally knew that there was originally a girl named Lu Yi by Your Majesty's side, but later she was driven to the Clothing Bureau for some reason. She heard that her life was not easy now. Now that Your Majesty said these things, did she mean that she was worse than the previous one?

"What are you afraid of?" Ting Zhu snorted coldly, "When the emperor and the queen are talking, who are you showing off your beauty to? And you are holding this pot of arborvitae on purpose?"

Tingzhu went forward and grabbed a handful of soil under the pine tree. With just a light grab, the tea leaves underneath were exposed. "I didn't know that I could smell the tea leaves just by pouring some water on them. You are quite clever."

"I don't understand what Miss Tingzhu means." Luyi looked at Tingzhu with a wronged look on her face, as if she had no idea what Tingzhu meant.

"Do you understand that you helped the people in Xu Zhaorong's palace to tie the knots in the water? Do you understand that you helped people to move the female corpse to the lotus pond? And do you understand that you murdered the master and left the pearl flowers worn by the maids in Jingyang Palace?" Yun Xi took out a red hairpin from her sleeve. It was the red hairpin that the Empress had awarded to the servants in the Empress' palace a few days ago.

Seeing Lu Yi's face turn ugly, Yun Xi smiled and played with the red hairpin in her hand, "I guess you have been wondering where the red hairpin that you deliberately left by the pool has gone these days. Now you finally know?"

Lu Yi bit her lip and looked at Yun Xi with hatred, "Aunt Yun Xi wants to blame me for all these things, but I have nothing to say. After all, Aunt Yun Xi is a capable person who has served several masters."

"Even if I followed two masters, I was loyal to them. It's better than you following this master but thinking about other masters in your heart." Yun Xi put the red hairpin on a tray, smiling, "Don't be stubborn. If the tea leaves hadn't been buried under the arhat pine tree you were taking care of, I'm afraid you wouldn't have jumped out in a hurry."

Lu Yi's face turned pale, she really didn't expect that the secret she accidentally discovered was actually done by Zhao Xianrong on purpose. Now that Zhao Xianrong was injured, even if the emperor came to visit her often, he couldn't do anything else. Even if someone took advantage of her to ascend to the throne, it was not a period worthy of criticism.

Zhao Xianrong was not a harsh person in front of them, her servants, unlike previous rumors. But she didn't look particularly scheming either. But why did Zhao Xianrong know all these things so clearly? Could it be... Her face changed drastically, and she looked suddenly at Zhuang Yuyan who was lazily leaning on the beauty couch.

Could it be that So Hyun-yong, who had always seemed to her like a simple scheming person, was actually just playing the pig to eat the tiger, looking innocent but actually a person with endless means?

Noticing Lu Yi's eyes, Zhuang Luoyan opened her eyes and looked into her eyes without dodging or showing any emotion, but this made Lu Yi inexplicably feel a little chilly.

"Send this red hairpin to the Empress," Zhuang Yuyan lowered her eyelids, "I believe the Empress will make her own decision. As for Lu Yi... just keep it for now."

Lu Yi was unwilling to accept it. Many things were very secretive, how could Zhao Xianrong know? She looked at Zhuang Yuyan with wide eyes and said, "Madam, I don't understand why you think all this has something to do with me?"

Zhuang Yuyan looked at Lu Yi with a half-smile, then slowly stood up, turned around, walked to the window and looked at the bright spring light outside, "You will know soon." She turned her head and looked at the surprise on Lu Yi's face, "And the person behind you, she has schemed against me so many times, I should give her something back."

Seeing the surprise on Luyi's face turn into fear, Zhuang Luyan raised her eyebrows and smiled brightly.

In Jingyang Palace, the Queen opened the gold-plated hollow cat-eye jewelry box in front of Tingzhu. What was placed inside was not a precious item, but just a red hairpin. However, this red hairpin made the Queen's face change, "Where did your Queen get this red hairpin?"

"Your Majesty, I found this red hairpin by the lotus pond on the day the master was injured. I was so busy that I forgot about it. I just remembered it today and mentioned it to Your Majesty. The maid beside me reminded me that this red hairpin was specially awarded to the maids by Your Majesty, so Your Majesty ordered me to return the red hairpin to Jingyang Palace."

The queen closed the jewelry box and said with a smile, "You ladies are so thoughtful." After that, she had someone give Tingzhu a purse before letting him leave.

"Your Majesty, what does this So Hyun-yong mean?" He Yu-wo frowned. "This is the red hairpin that only the maids in our palace have. How could it end up in Xihe Palace? And why..." It happened that it was picked up by someone on the night So Hyun-yong was attacked.

"So Hyun-yong is telling me that there is a spy in the palace. She is also trying to convince me that she trusts me and that I was not responsible for the attack." The queen put the jewelry box aside, her face gloomy. "I really want to know who is trying to kill two birds with one stone by framing me."

"Why did Zhao Xianrong send the things now?" He Yu looked at the jewelry box in confusion, "How could she endure it for so long instead of telling the emperor directly."

"She is also trying to figure out whether the red hairpin was framed by someone or dropped accidentally," the queen sneered, "Now, I owe her a favor. I underestimated her in the past."

He Yu thought about the fact that the emperor often went to Xihe Palace recently, and said hesitantly: "Your Majesty, the emperor often went to Zhao Xianrong's place recently, but the newly promoted Qian Guiren was neglected."

"Although Lady Qian is stunningly beautiful, she is a bit arrogant. The Emperor is not an ordinary man, so why would he go to such lengths to satisfy her arrogance?" The Empress sneered. "There are all kinds of women in the harem. Her arrogance is nothing but a joke. As for Xihe Palace, try to keep a distance from them. I want to see how the one in Anqing Palace can keep her composure."

He Yu said nothing after hearing this, but just watched the empress open the jewelry box again and pick out the pearls from the red hairpin.