Chapter 176 Success
Shen Qingyuan's cold and iron-hard words "I obey your order" were like a heavy hammer, smashing the last trace of false warmth in the hall.
It also woke up the person who had been in a nightmare.
"Father……"
A faint, hoarse female voice, as if it had been polished by sandpaper, came from the soft couch.
Shen Jiao woke up.
She struggled, her weak eyes swept confusedly across the magnificent hall, and finally stopped on Shen Qingyuan's bloodless face.
"Where are my children..."
There was a hint of pleading in her voice, a hint of madness on the verge of collapse.
"Third Prince...my child...how is he?"
No one answered her.
The entire hall was in deathly silence.
Panic welled up in Chen Jiao's eyes. She seemed to remember something and suddenly turned in another direction.
"Mother...where is mother? Why is she not here?"
The cry of "Mother" finally startled a figure in the corner who had already lost his soul!
It’s a single pearl!
Like a female beast that was cornered, she went crazy, stumbling to the soft couch and hugged Shen Jiao tightly in her arms!
"Jiaojiao! My Jiaojiao!"
Her cry was shrill, like a cuckoo crying blood, and every word was tearful.
"My poor daughter!"
In sharp contrast to her collapse was the third prince Xiao Jingren, who was slumped on the other side.
It was as if all his bones and soul had been sucked out of him.
The whole person was leaning limply against the cold pillar, his eyes lifeless, staring blankly at the intricate and gorgeous patterns on the ground.
He was mumbling something over and over, but no one could hear it clearly.
Sitting on the dragon throne, the emperor's brows were twisted into a knot.
The disgust and impatience in his eyes were almost turning into reality, and he was about to torture these indecent things to death!
“Shen Qing!”
A cold shout, without any warmth!
"What are you still standing there for?"
"take away!"
These two words, like two ice spikes, pierced Shen Qingyuan's heart.
He shuddered all over, as if waking from a dream.
So, what is he waiting for? Waiting for this royal scandal to become a laughing stock?
"Go back home!"
The overall situation has been decided.
Chen He bowed in the direction of the dragon throne and the phoenix throne, her posture calm and elegant, as if everything that had just happened had nothing to do with her.
"Your Highness, I will take my leave."
She turned around, her steps steady and without a trace of nostalgia.
When she passed by Xue Minglan, she did not pause.
But her eyelashes, which trembled like butterfly wings, lifted slightly, and the corner of her eye met his eyes burning with black flames for a moment in the air.
In an instant.
Xue Minglan seemed to have received some kind of silent promise. His paranoid eyes were fixed on her back until she completely disappeared outside the palace gate.
After Chen He left, Chu Yue and Zhou Yan'an also had a look of understanding.
The two men immediately stepped forward and bowed.
"I, your humble servant, take my leave."
The emperor waved his hands impatiently, as if to drive away two annoying flies.
The heavy palace door slowly closed behind them.
“Squeak—”
A dull sound completely isolated the moonlight outside the hall from the imperial power inside.
Only a few core members of the royal family were left in the hall.
The emperor's cold gaze, like a lone wolf patrolling his territory, slowly swept over everyone.
He glanced at the tired-looking empress dowager, the silent crown prince with his head bowed, and the princes who were as silent as a mouse.
Finally, it fell on his newly adopted son, Xue Minglan, who was still kneeling upright.
"tonight."
He spoke, his voice not loud, but it lowered the temperature of the entire meeting hall by three points.
"Everything that happened here..."
He paused, and every word sounded like ice tempered with poison.
"If even a single word of this gets leaked..."
There was murderous intent in his eyes, no trace of tenderness left.
“Kill without mercy!”
***
Outside the palace is another world.
The cold night wind brushed across his cheeks, blowing away the thick atmosphere of blood and calculation in the hall, and also waking up Chen He's nerves that had been tense all night.
She slowly raised her head.
A full moon hangs high in the sky, as bright as a jade plate, and its light spreads all over the ground.
The moonlight poured down like water, coating her body with a layer of cool and holy silver light.
It’s so bright.
She stretched out her hand, her slender fingertips clenched in the air, as if trying to catch the cold moonlight.
In my previous life, it was also a moonlit night like this.
She and her family were thrown into a mass grave without even a shroud, left to be eaten by wild dogs.
The moon that night was also so bright.
Chen He slowly closed his eyes and took a deep, deep breath of the air filled with the fragrance of grass and trees.
When she opened her eyes again, the hatred, madness, and pain in her eyes had faded away, leaving only boundless calmness and determination.
finally……
It's been so long.
After countless days and nights of planning and torment.
Finally, it worked.
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