Ah Kui, having received Yun Wanwan's order, was about to go over immediately, but the palace maid, who was sitting paralyzed on the ground, rushed over and hugged her thighs tightly, preventing Ah Kui from moving at all. "No! You are not allowed to go over there! That is the place where the Imperial Concubine keeps her valuables. No one is allowed to go in without the Imperial Concubine's order!"
The more the palace maid prevented A Kui from going to see, the more Yun Wanwan felt that there was something wrong with the inner room of this side hall.
Since Akui's feet were held by the palace maid and she couldn't move at all, she decided to go and see for herself what was in that inner room.
Before Yun Wanwan could make a move, the door to the inner room opened automatically, and the person who walked out was the Empress who was put under house arrest by Rong Chengxuan!
Lin Qingfang was just as impeccably dressed as she had been the last time Yun Wanwan had seen her. With a faint smile, she emerged with her maid. "Miss Yun, long time no see. How have you been lately?"
Yun Wanwan then realized that Concubine Yun was just a cover for Lin Qingfang to invite her into the palace. The bowl of soup that was said to be sent to her by Concubine Yun must have been made by her.
Yun Wanwan bowed towards Lin Qingfang and said, "I wonder why the Empress went to so much trouble to invite me into the palace?"
Lin Qingfang looked at Yun Wanwan approvingly as she bowed to her, her smile growing even wider. "Miss Yun is more polite this time than last time. At least you've learned to bow to me."
Yun Wanwan stood up straight and looked at Lin Qingfang with a half-smile. "After all, Your Majesty has been imprisoned. If you contradict the prince again, I'm afraid you'll lose your position as empress, right?"
Lin Qingfang looked at Yun Wanwan with a cold expression and a fierce look in his eyes. "Last time, I didn't realize that Miss Yun was quite eloquent. But after waiting for a while, I wonder if Miss Yun will still be able to speak."
Yun Wanwan was startled and looked around. She realized that the maids who had just come out with Lin Qingfang had formed a circle, surrounding both her and A Kui. She had been right. Lin Qingfang was going to attack her.
If I had known earlier, I would have listened to A Kui and told Rong Chengxuan about this. If he had come with me, it would not have ended up like this.
Lin Qingfang gestured to the palace maids and said, "Capture Miss Yun for me. Since Miss Yun has come to my territory, I will naturally treat her well."
Yun Wanwan looked at the palace maids who kept approaching her and A Kui, and kept estimating in her mind the probability that she and A Kui could successfully escape.
Before Yun Wanwan could do anything, there was a bang, and the door of the side hall was kicked open from the outside.
Yun Wanwan heard the sound and subconsciously turned around to look. The first thing that caught her eye was a moon-white brocade robe, and then the familiar face appeared in her sight.
"Wanwan?" Rong Chengxuan stepped into the hall and the first person he saw was Yun Wanwan who was surrounded by people ordered by Lin Qingfang.
Yun Wanwan also called out to him, "Rong Chengxuan!"
After Rong Chengxuan confirmed that Yun Wanwan was alright, he led the imperial guards to push aside the palace maids surrounding Yun Wanwan, shielding her behind him. He looked at Lin Qingfang with a gloomy expression, "Queen, what do you mean by this?"
Lin Qingfang was not afraid of Rong Chengxuan at all. She even took a few steps forward and stood in front of Rong Chengxuan, facing him. "Your Highness, didn't you see everything? I want to kill your future princess. I want you to experience the feeling of losing the one you love most."
Rong Chengxuan looked at Lin Qingfang with disgust and blocked Yun Wanwan behind him even more tightly. "Queen, are you crazy?"
Lin Qingfang looked at Rong Chengxuan and suddenly laughed, "Hahahahahaha, crazy? Yes! I've been crazy for a long time..."
Lin Qingfang had gone mad long before she married Ji Moyi and discovered that he had no real power. What she wanted was to be the mother of the country, to be envied by all the women in the world, rather than to be manipulated by that cowardly emperor in the palace for the rest of her life.
When she decided to take action against Yun Wanwan, she expected that Rong Chengxuan would definitely come, so she invited Yun Wanwan into the palace in the name of Concubine Yun, hoping to use Concubine Yun to stop Rong Chengxuan. Unexpectedly, Concubine Yun was also a useless person, just like the palace maids in her palace, they were all wastes and could not even stop Rong Chengxuan.
"Someone come! The queen is mentally ill and can no longer bear the responsibility of being the queen. From today on, the queen will be deposed and sent to the cold palace and kept under strict watch. Don't let her go crazy and hurt people in the future." Rong Chengxuan waved his hand and called several imperial guards, and then asked them to take Lin Qingfang away.
No one knew where Lin Qingfang got the strength from, but when he was being escorted by the Imperial Guards past Yun Wanwan, he suddenly broke free, pulled out a dagger from his sleeve and was about to stab Yun Wanwan.
At the critical moment, Rong Chengxuan changed direction with Yun Wanwan. When he was about to kick the dagger in Lin Qingfang's hand, he suddenly felt a fishy and sweet taste in his throat, and he actually spat out a mouthful of blood.
Because of this, Rong Chengxuan was unable to dodge the dagger that Lin Qingfang stabbed at him. Then, a groan of pain was heard from Rong Chengxuan, and then he fell straight to the ground due to exhaustion, unconscious.
When Yun Wanwan saw this scene, she was so frightened that she just stood there in a daze. It was not until A Kui called her that she came to her senses.
Lin Qingfang had been taken away by the Imperial Guards. Because Rong Chengxuan had only a few men with him, they had to execute Rong Chengxuan's orders first. So now only she, A Kui, and Rong Chengxuan, who was lying unconscious on the ground, were left in this side hall.
Before Rong Chengxuan fell, Yun Wanwan clearly heard Rong Chengxuan say the word "insect".
Yun Wanwan was shocked after hearing this. She had always thought that the poison in Rong Chengxuan had been removed, but she didn't expect that there were still some residual poison in Rong Chengxuan's body that had not been completely cleared.
Yun Wanwan withdrew her thoughts and looked at Rong Chengxuan, who was still lying on the ground. She said to A Kui, "Come, A Kui, give me a hand. Let's lift Rong Chengxuan to the bed, and then you can go call the imperial physician."
After the imperial physician came to examine Yun Wanwan, he just kept shaking his head at her.
Yun Wanwan clenched her fists so tightly that her nails dug into her flesh, feeling the pain. She forced herself to calm down and said to the imperial physician, "Imperial Physician Li, I know you're a reasonable person. If I heard anything negative about the prince, you know what the consequences would be, right?"
Doctor Li nodded repeatedly, indicating that he would keep Rong Chengxuan's condition a secret.
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