"What do you want to do! I am the Empress Dowager! You can't touch me!" Knowing that begging for mercy was useless and unwilling to die, the Empress Dowager could only shout weakly and incoherently, as if this would suppress the fear in her heart.
Xi Que pressed down on her shoulders, and together with Bai Lu, they pinned her hands back, pressing her firmly onto the bed. No matter how hard she struggled, she couldn't move an inch.
"Scream! You old hag, scream all you want! We came here today just to hear you scream! The louder you scream, the happier we are!" The magpie gritted its teeth in the Empress Dowager's ear and said hatefully, "This old lady has hated you for quite some time now!"
Empress Dowager: "..."
Are they really not afraid that their shouting will attract other people?
Although Cixi Palace is a bit out of the way, it is still part of the palace.
The Imperial Guards are not to be trifled with!
But she didn't have much time to think about these things, because Ji Fengyao's slender, fair fingers had already gripped the top of her head.
With a single exertion of force, her seemingly soft and boneless fingertips transformed into the hardest steel claws in the world, threatening to crush her skull.
What's even more painful is...
It felt as if a sharp needle pierced into Ji Fengyao's mind from each of her five fingertips, stirring up a storm within her soft brain.
"Ah—ah—!"
One after another, inhuman screams came from the Empress Dowager's mouth.
The excruciating pain, as if her soul were being torn apart, made her eyes widen and bulge. She couldn't care about anything else, and she didn't know what to think. She just instinctively opened her mouth as wide as possible and screamed in agony, wishing she could neither live nor die.
Ji Fengyao closed her phoenix eyes slightly, quickly flipping through the Empress Dowager's complex memories to the past:
Back then, the late emperor had not yet ascended the throne; he was merely a prince.
The Empress Dowager's twin sister married the late Emperor and became his principal wife.
The Empress Dowager had always longed for her brother-in-law, especially after the late Emperor ascended the throne, when this longing reached its peak.
But she did not have time to take action and become one of the late emperor's concubines;
At that time, the late emperor went out to fight a war and brought back a stunningly beautiful woman from somewhere;
That woman was Zhao Qinglian, Shang Xiye's birth mother.
The late emperor seemed to have gone mad.
From the moment he brought Zhao Qinglian back, he doted on her alone.
Inside and outside the palace, throughout the court and the country, everyone was shocked by the late emperor's "devotion and deep affection," and they all said that Zhao Qinglian was a vixen who brought disaster to the country and the people.
Almost every day, dozens of memorials were submitted to the court requesting that Zhao Qinglian be expelled or executed.
The imperial harem was not idle either. Almost all the concubines were jealous of Zhao Qinglian. The concubines who used to fight each other to the death even secretly formed an alliance because of Zhao Qinglian. They worked together to plan to put Zhao Qinglian to death.
No matter how the court officials submitted memorials or how the concubines plotted against her, the late emperor still deeply trusted Zhao Qinglian and his affection for her remained undiminished, even growing stronger.
in this case.
The Empress Dowager's wishful thinking of seducing the late Emperor naturally failed completely.
Later, Zhao Qinglian's son was born.
Overjoyed, the late emperor bestowed upon the name Xiye, signifying the passing of night and the approach of dawn, and also implying the rising sun and the future continuation of the great Zhao dynasty.
As Shang Xi grew up peacefully day after day, the concubines in the harem felt like they had thorns in their backs, especially those who had children, who were even more uneasy.
However, the late emperor was not swayed by outsiders and protected Zhao Qinglian very well.
They tried every trick in the book, from framing to assassination, against Zhao Qinglian, but they were still helpless against her.
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