This woman just admitted it like that?
Baili Yingfeng was slightly taken aback, looking at Miao Nanyan with surprise, before regaining his composure and roaring angrily, "Speak! What was your intention in hiding this dagger under your pillow?!"
"Are you waiting for me to come to Yiqin Palace, and one day when I'm not thinking clearly and you've bewitched me, so you can stab me in the back?!"
Miao Nanyan didn't understand what he meant. She hadn't expected that a dagger under the pillow would make Baili Yingfeng so angry.
Seeing the furious Baili Yinfeng, the palace servants in Yiqin Palace were trembling with fear, bowing their heads and not daring to breathe.
Xiangling and Yunjin, who were kneeling on the ground, secretly exchanged a glance. Yunjin was kneeling behind a pillar in the courtyard, and the thick pillar blocked her view.
She moved slowly, taking advantage of the noise inside the bedchamber and using the pillars and zithers as cover, and quickly left Yiqin Palace.
"Your Majesty, what do you mean by this? I am terrified. This dagger..." Miao Nanyan didn't understand why Baili Yingfeng would be so angry over a dagger. She wanted to explain, to tell him that the dagger was given to her by the little princess of Nanyang because she was afraid that she would encounter danger on the road.
"You're terrified?! I really didn't see that coming!" Baili Yingfeng sneered.
Miao Nanyan's body trembled slightly, but she still held her head high, looking at her stubbornly.
She remembered the last time he was just as angry. All she did was bring him a plate of pastries to his palace, and he grabbed her neck as if he wanted to strangle her.
Baili Yingfeng stared intently at Miao Nanyan and said, word by word, "There is a 'cloud' character engraved on the tip of this dagger!"
The voice seemed to contain immense disbelief, disappointment, and even some pain.
[Is the character for "cloud" engraved on it?]
Miao Nanyan was stunned. After she got the dagger, she had never opened it to look at it and had no idea that there were words engraved on it.
The royal family of Northern Liang was surnamed Yun, so it's not surprising that the little princess's belongings were engraved with the royal surname.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, this dagger is for self-defense, Your Majesty doesn't have it..."
Before Miao Nanyan could finish speaking, he interrupted her, "What conditions did the Emperor of Nanyang offer you? If you assassinate me, what benefits will the Emperor of Nanyang give you?!"
"Send you back to Hongxiu? Or, bestow upon you the title of Consort of Nanyang?!" Baili Yingfeng grew angrier and angrier as she spoke, her tone becoming increasingly impatient, as if she urgently needed an answer.
"Hmph, unfaithful to her husband!"
[The Imperial Concubine of Nanyang?]
Miao Nanyan was stunned. What did he mean by that?
"You, are you secretly colluding with Nanyang?!" Baili Yingfeng's eyes were bloodshot as he forcefully grabbed Miao Nanyan's neck.
Miao Nanyan looked at him in horror, her lungs filled with less and less air.
"Your Majesty, does Your Majesty suspect that I have an affair with the Emperor of Nanyang?" Miao Nanyan felt a pang of bitterness and pain in her heart. It turned out that in the heart of the high and mighty King, she was so despicable.
[I'm afraid no matter how she explains, he won't believe her.]
She suddenly felt that it would be better if she just died like this. Her life was worthless before, and now it was even more worthless.
Cold tears slid down her cheeks.
Baili Yingfeng felt the coldness in his hands, paused for a moment, and slightly loosened his grip on Miao Nanyan's neck.
"Why aren't you saying anything?!" Baili Yingfeng roared, and Miao Nanyan felt her ears and head buzzing.
Miao Nanyan closed her eyes, her lips pressed tightly together, with an expression of resignation to her fate.
"If you don't speak, does that mean I've hit the nail on the head?!" Baili Yingfeng was even angrier, his chest heaving.
Chen Yuan looked at his king, [Why is Your Majesty so angry?]
[On the battlefield, even when the two armies are clashing, His Majesty always responds with composure and calmness. Why is he so enraged now?]
"Drag him out and give him twenty lashes," Baili Yingfeng ordered coldly.
"Until she tells the truth!" He released his grip on Miao Nanyan's neck and took out a handkerchief from his sleeve to wipe his hands.
The palace servants bowed their heads and dragged Miao Nanyan out.
"Your Majesty!" Xiangling cried out loudly.
She crawled to Yun Beiye's feet, tugging at his robes, "Your Majesty, please spare the Empress! Your Majesty, the Empress stays in Yiqin Palace every day, she has no ill intentions!"
Baili Yingfeng kicked Xiangling away with disgust and walked out of Yiqin Palace with his hands behind his back.
Two eunuchs brought over a board, and several palace maids lifted Miao Nanyan up.
"one!"
"two!"
Miao Nanyan, who had just been choked, was in a daze. She felt herself being carried to a bench outside the main tent, and with each count, waves of excruciating pain spread throughout her body.
She clenched her teeth, trying not to make a sound.
"Don't hit the Empress!" Xiangling grabbed a eunuch's sleeve, preventing him from striking her with the board.
"Get out of my way, don't delay me from administering the beating!"
"If you delay the punishment, you'll all be in deep trouble. Don't drag our family down with you!" The eunuch forcefully shoved Xiangling away. Xiangling fell to the ground, lost her balance, hit her head on the wall, and fainted.
As the paddle struck her buttocks again and again, she felt as if her soul and body were about to separate.
"fifteen!"
"Mother!"
"Your Majesty!" Yun Jin ran in from outside and threw herself on Miao Nanyan, shielding her from the board.
"Ah!" The paddle landed on Yun Jin, and Yun Jin let out a scream.
"Sixteen!" The executioner continued to beat the victim forcefully.
"Don't hit Mother!" Baili Mingwen rushed in anxiously, but unfortunately, his legs weren't long and he couldn't run fast.
He stood on tiptoe and lay on top of Miao Nanyan to prevent the board from falling.
When the eunuch holding the board saw that it was the young prince who had come and was blocking his way, the board he had been holding above his head stopped in mid-air and could not be brought down.
"Your Highness?" The eunuch holding the board was terrified, large beads of sweat forming on his forehead.
"Should we...should we hit her again?" The palace maids, who were holding Miao Nanyan's arms and legs, were at a loss for what to do.
"Alright, let's go." The king had already left, so the eunuchs put away the boards and left.
Miao Nanyan felt no new pain in her body, and her consciousness was gradually fading.
She only vaguely saw a tiny person looking at her with tears streaming down their face.
She tried to reach out and wipe the tears from the child's face, but suddenly everything went black, and she finally fainted.
...
Inside the Nanyang Imperial Palace, Ah Xiang accompanied Sun Huohuo and Yun Duoduo to the Imperial Kitchen.
Aunt Wu was delighted to see them arrive. She smiled and bent down to look at Yun Duoduo, "Little princess, what would you like to eat?"
"Erhuo, what do you want to eat?" Yun Duoduo smiled at Aunt Wu, then turned to look at Sun Huohuo.
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