As soon as Concubine Qin opened her mouth to say something, the emperor's face instantly turned gloomy.

"What do you mean, Imperial Concubine?" the Emperor asked in a cold tone.

Concubine Qin quickly knelt down from the emperor's arms, and then spoke in a delicate voice, "Your Majesty, I don't want to see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince being deceived by someone with ulterior motives, so I have to say this."

"Your Highness the Crown Prince is an upright and simple person. He doesn't know that Lin Zhan is a thoughtful woman. I once ran into Lin Zhan instigating Your Highness the Crown Prince to disobey the order."

As soon as the words fell, the emperor's face turned grim, and the atmosphere in the entire imperial study became solemn and cold.

In order to get the emperor to severely punish Lin Zhan, Concubine Qin added fuel to the fire. "And Lin Zhan is still the Crown Prince's aunt. If the two of them were really together, wouldn't it make the Crown Prince laugh at people all over the world?"

This sentence seemed to be the last straw that broke the camel's back. He slammed the table in anger and finally left the imperial study.

After achieving her goal, Concubine Qin's lips curled up into a triumphant smile.

The emperor came to Lin Zhan's Hanfang Pavilion with a rage, but Lin Zhan was in the Queen's palace at the moment telling jokes to Liu Qiuchan to make her happy.

So she didn't know that a disaster was about to befall her.

"The Emperor has arrived!"

A young eunuch came in hurriedly to deliver the message. Liu Qiuchan knew that the emperor had arrived, so she quickly stood up to greet him.

The emperor strode in and saw Lin Zhan standing aside in a well-behaved manner. However, when he thought of what Concubine Qin had just said, he looked at Lin Zhan with displeasure.

"Is the emperor here to see me?" Liu Qiuchan keenly noticed that the emperor's eyes had been sharp and cold on Lin Zan since he entered the room, so she asked.

The emperor snorted coldly and pointed his finger at Lin Zhan. "I'm here to find her, Lin Zhan, you still don't know your guilt."

After he finished speaking, Lin Zan stood there in a daze, not knowing why the emperor suddenly glared at her.

However, the emperor was so angry that blood flowed like a river. Lin Zhan knelt down immediately to avoid being killed. "Your Majesty, please calm down. I don't know what I did wrong to make your brother-in-law so angry."

Lin Zhan deliberately mentioned the title of the emperor's brother-in-law in order to remind the emperor of his identity and to make the emperor remember the friendship of the deceased Queen Lin.

But he didn't expect that the emperor would get even angrier once he mentioned it, and even trembled with anger, saying viciously, "You still know that you are the sister of Queen Shilin, do you know what your identity is? How dare you covet the position of Crown Princess?"

After hearing this, Lin Zhan was stunned on the spot, and Liu Qiuchan's eyes flickered, and she said to the emperor with a smile. "What does your Majesty mean? How could Zhan'er covet the position of Crown Princess?"

"Humph, how is it impossible? I felt sorry for you because you had no one to take care of you, so I kept you in the palace. I didn't expect that you forgot your identity and dared to seduce the prince." The emperor said angrily.

These words shocked Lin Zan, and Liu Qiuchan also took a breath of cold air.

Liu Qiuchan knelt down with Lin Zhan and said to the emperor in an anxious voice, "Your Majesty, there must be something else behind this matter. Your Majesty must not wrongly accuse Zhan'er. Zhan'er has always been well-behaved in the palace and has never done anything beyond the rules."

"Besides, Your Majesty, you know that it was Zhan'er who first noticed something was wrong with Concubine Ying's matter, which prevented a catastrophe."

But what no one expected was that Liu Qiuchan's words, which were intended to take credit for Lin Zhan, did not improve the emperor's expression at all.

Instead, the emperor's face became even more livid at a speed visible to the naked eye, and he looked at Lin Zhan and said, "So that's how it is, you're using this method to get close to the prince."

This sentence made Liu Qiuchan stunned on the spot. The emperor questioned Lin Zhan and left. The atmosphere in the whole hall was very solemn.

"Don't worry, Zan'er. I will protect you." Liu Qiuchan looked at Lin Zan, who was pale beside her, and thought that she was frightened by the emperor's words just now, so she hurried over and comforted her softly.

Lin Zhan shook his head with a bitter smile on his face. "Sister, I'm fine. I just don't know why the emperor would blame me for the prince's disobedience, or if someone reminded the emperor of this."

Hearing her words, Liu Qiuchan showed a sad expression on her face. Living with the emperor is like living with a tiger. In the harem, one is like walking on thin ice and has to be careful at every step.

Even though Liu Qiuchan is now pregnant with a prince, the emperor's attitude just now did not take Liu Qiuchan into consideration at all.

Just after the emperor left Kangfu Palace, Concubine Qin came out from the corner with a smug smile on her face and said to Empress Zhang beside her, "I have prepared the biggest fire for you. Now it's up to you."

"Don't worry, Your Majesty." Empress Zhang smiled slightly, as if she had everything planned out for her.

Lin Zan returned to Hanfang Pavilion. The more he thought about this matter, the more he felt something was wrong, so he wrote a letter and wanted someone to take it out and give it to Jun Beiqi.

Seeing that the young eunuch had left Hanfang Pavilion, Lin Zhan sighed and sat back. What the emperor said today also made her realize one thing deeply.

That is, even if Lin Zan has a good impression of Jun Beiqi, their identities and secularity do not allow them to be together.

This gap in status is insurmountable in this era. It is like a bottomless chasm between two people.

The eunuch who delivered the letter followed the usual path, holding the token and preparing to leave the palace, but he did not expect that an accident would happen this time.

The young eunuch was knocked unconscious and thrown into a corner of the cold palace. Even the letter written by Lin Zan to Jun Beiqi was taken away from his body.

The letter fell into Concubine Qin's hands. She opened it and took a look, then smiled coldly. "This letter is not enough. Since Lin Zhan cares so much about His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, I cannot let him down."

Finally, Concubine Qin called someone who was good at imitating handwriting, and imitated Lin Zhan's notes and wrote another letter.

In this letter, Lin Zhan, like a lovesick girl in the boudoir, expressed her love and longing for Jun Beiqi in a passionate manner.

When she saw the letter, Concubine Qin nodded with satisfaction, then handed the letter to Empress Zhang. She no longer needed to worry about what happened next.

Empress Zhang took the letter back to the palace with an understanding look on her face. Then, as usual, she wrote a love poem and gave it to Princess Silin, asking her to take it to the Emperor.

But there was a letter inside.