Chapter 172 Yun Wan
Every minute and every second of waiting felt like being tortured in boiling oil.
Inside the hall, you can hear a pin drop.
Everyone's eyes subconsciously turned to the vermilion gate leading out of the palace, as if they could penetrate the palace walls and see the scene deep inside the cold palace.
The queen collapsed on the phoenix chair, her face ashen and her eyes empty, like a piece of porcelain about to shatter.
She's finished.
When the word "underground palace" came out of Zhou Yan'an's mouth, she knew that everything was over.
After an unknown amount of time, a burst of hurried and chaotic footsteps was heard outside the hall.
Here we come!
Everyone was cheered up!
Li Dequan, the commander of the Imperial Guards, strode into the hall, followed by Zhou Yan'an and...
Two haggard women were supported by the imperial guards.
The woman in the lead, although dressed in rags and with messy hair, kept her head down.
She was so thin that she seemed to be blown down by a gust of wind, but at this moment, her eyes were fixed on the bright yellow figure in the hall. Her eyes were filled with overwhelming hatred, endless sorrow, and the despair of not seeing the sun for twenty years.
A gust of wind blew, blowing the hair off the woman's face, and everyone took a deep breath!
There is not a single piece of good skin on that face!
The crisscrossing sword marks, of varying depths, new ones stacked on top of old ones, resembled a spider web that had been ripped countless times and then barely held together, ferocious and terrifying! But the unyielding character and elegant temperament between his brows could not be concealed.
The girl beside her, who was supported by another imperial guard, made the entire hall gasp.
That girl...
That face...
She actually looks 70% similar to Xue Minglan!
The same eyebrows, the same nose bridge, but without Xue Minglan's sinister and cruel nature, and with a bit of paleness and cowardice that comes from living underground for so long.
Like a frightened little deer, she cowered behind her mother, looking at this magnificent yet suffocating world with a pair of frightened and curious eyes.
Twin sisters!
Time completely stops at this moment.
There was dead silence in the hall.
The man on the dragon throne was shaking.
His eyes, greedily and painfully, traced the woman's face.
Suddenly, as if struck by lightning!
Is that Yun Wan?
The emperor's heart seemed to be gripped by an invisible hand, and the pain was so severe that he could hardly breathe.
That’s right, this is Yun Wan!
The face that had once haunted his dreams was now covered with crisscrossing scars, with new wounds overlapping old ones, looking hideous and terrifying.
Further down, her wrists and ankles, exposed from beneath her ragged prison uniform, were covered in blood and flesh, their original color no longer recognizable.
There is not a single piece of good flesh on his body!
***
That’s right, that’s Yun Wan!
That was the queen's maid.
The queen looked at this scene with resentment. It was all over, all over.
Memories came flooding back like a tide.
Back then, the Xue family had specially found and presented the female doctor from the Yun clan, a legendary doctor, to her in order to please her.
Simply because the Yun Clan has a legend.
According to legend, their blood can be used to refine the elixir that allows women to maintain eternal youth.
She kept Yun Wan by her side, treated her as her confidante, and studied ancient books every day, all for the sake of the elixir that could turn back time.
But no matter how much she planned, she couldn't anticipate the emperor's intentions.
By the time she found out, it was too late.
She looked at the two disheveled people lying on the dragon bed and trembled with anger.
And that man, her husband, the ruler of the world, the current emperor, didn't even feel a trace of guilt!
He was even shameless, pinching Yun Wan's chin and speaking to her with a smile.
"Empress, I think this girl is good and gentle. Why don't you make her Consort Yun?"
Concubine Yun?
A lowly maidservant is worthy of being on equal footing with her?!
Why?!
The overwhelming jealousy and hatred completely devoured her sanity at that moment.
She remained calm and took advantage of the fact that the decree of enthronement had not yet been issued, and lied that Yun Wan was unwell and wanted to send her to another courtyard to recuperate.
Then, she was thrown into the underground palace that had been prepared long ago!
She wanted to kill her.
But she couldn't bear to do it.
She couldn't bear to part with the legendary Ninghua Pill.
What she didn't expect was that Yun Wan was already pregnant with a dragon seed!
An evil thought took root.
She made Yun Wan give birth to the child.
A boy and a girl.
She sent the boy out of the palace and handed him over to the Xue family to be raised, and named him Xue Minglan.
Use the girl's life and Yun Wan's safety to keep him under control!
She wants the chess piece she has trained personally to become her sharpest knife!
She wants to make this mother and son, this pair of twins, be her dogs forever and ever!
***
The emperor suddenly stood up slowly and walked down from the high dragon throne step by step.
Every step seemed to be stepping on the heart of the queen.
The emperor walked up to the woman and asked, "Are you Yun Wan?"
The woman burst into tears, and the tears looked particularly hideous on her scarred face: "Your Majesty... yes... I am Yun Wan..."
In those eyes that were exactly the same as Xue Minglan's, there was no light at all, only confusion and fear towards this world.
She was like a bird that had been imprisoned for too long and had forgotten even how to spread its wings and fly.
The emperor turned his head suddenly, and his eyes, filled with rage and endless murderous intent, were fixed on the queen!
“Queen!!!”
A thunderous roar made the entire hall buzz!
The queen was so frightened by the roar that her soul flew away. She slid off the phoenix chair and collapsed to the ground.
“No… no…”
Her lips were pale and her speech was incoherent.
"Your Majesty... Please listen to my explanation..."
"It's not me... all this is Lu Jiuxiao..."
"Yes! It's all his fault! He coveted the secret medicine of the Yun Clan..."
At this moment, she still wanted to struggle to her death!
Chen He looked at her clumsy performance coldly, with a cold arc at the corner of his mouth.
idiot.
The emperor looked at her, and the last trace of affection in his eyes turned to ashes.
He walked up to the queen, looked down at her, and spoke in a voice as soft as a ghost.
"Queen, oh Queen, you really are... such a cruel heart!"
Under the emperor's contemptuous, horrified and unbelievable gaze, the woman who collapsed on the ground suddenly let out a strange laugh.
“Hehe…”
“Chuckle…”
The laughter was initially suppressed in the throat, like the cry of a night owl, fragmented and sharp.
Soon, it turned into unbridled, crazy laughter!
“Hahaha…ha ...!!!”
The queen got up from the ground with disheveled hair, her phoenix robe dragging on the ground, her pearl hairpins disheveled, and her once graceful and elegant face now only had twisted madness in it!
She raised her hand, and her index finger, which was covered with gorgeous armor, pointed directly at the emperor on the dragon throne!
"Xiao Yan!!"
She roared and called out the emperor's name!
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