Wei Xiao's roar, filled with resentment and unwillingness, exploded like a thunderclap in the quiet morning camp!
"Su Jinxiu! You wicked woman! We agreed to share wealth and honor after this was done, and now you dare to betray me!"
This information-packed statement struck like a heavy hammer into the hearts of everyone who heard it, leaving the already shocked crowd completely stunned!
The Virtuous Consort?!
The deathbed betrayal of the Zhenyuan General led to the discovery of the usually gentle, virtuous, and unassuming Consort Xian!
How...how is this possible?!
Wei Xiao's actions completely shocked everyone. He didn't resort to a desperate attempt to assassinate the emperor, but instead chose a suicidal method, dragging his accomplices down with him to hell!
"Protect His Majesty!"
The commander of the Imperial Guards was the first to react. He roared and immediately led several personal guards to block Xiao Che's path.
The rest of the Imperial Guards surged forward like a tidal wave!
"Clang! Clang! Clang!"
Countless longswords were drawn, their chilling light instantly engulfing Wei Xiao's burly body.
Facing the ferocious Imperial Guards, Wei Xiao, already resigned to death, offered little resistance. His sword was knocked from his hand almost instantly, and he was pinned to the ground by several Imperial Guards, unable to move.
His roar quickly spread throughout the entire camp.
Consort Su Jinxiu, who was recuperating in a nearby tent, naturally heard the furious roar that was enough to terrify her.
The tent flap was suddenly flung open, and Su Jinxiu ran out looking "panicked," wearing only a thin nightgown and with her hair disheveled, as if she had just been awakened.
However, when she saw the scene before her—Wei Xiao, who was pinned to the ground by countless imperial guards and looked like a madman, and the emperor, whose face was ashen and whose eyes were cold—the feigned "panic" on her face instantly turned into real, undisguised fear!
Her face drained of all color in an instant!
how so? !
How could Wei Xiao have been exposed?!
The plan...wasn't the plan supposed to be flawless?!
Her first reaction wasn't to care what had happened, but to try her best to distance herself from the situation!
"I didn't!" She looked in Xiao Che's direction, her face pale with fright. She waved her hands repeatedly, her voice shrill as she denied it, "Your Majesty, please understand! I have absolutely no relationship with him! I know nothing!"
Her panicked and desperate attempt to distance herself from the situation did not serve to prove her innocence; instead, it only added to the suspicion that she was trying to cover something up.
Wei Xiao, who was pinned to the ground, was even more furious upon hearing her heartless words!
He raised his head, his bloodshot eyes fixed on Su Jinxiu, filled with resentment, unwillingness, and overwhelming hatred for betrayal!
"Su Jinxiu!" He roared at her with all his might, "You vicious woman with a heart of stone! If you hadn't seduced me with the Su family's future and the Regent's promise, would I, Wei Xiao, have committed such a treasonous act?! Now that you've failed, you think you can wash your hands of it all? Let me tell you, I'll haunt you even as a ghost!"
His words once again stirred up a storm among the crowd!
The Regent?!
This matter even involves the powerful regent?!
The princes and ministers present were all trembling with fear, wishing they were deaf. They knew that a massive storm, capable of shaking the very foundations of the nation, was beginning to unfold!
"Gag him! Take him away!" The commander of the Imperial Guards quickly gave the order as he saw that the man's words were becoming increasingly offensive.
Several imperial guards immediately stepped forward and stuffed a rag into Wei Xiao's mouth. Wei Xiao was roughly dragged up from the ground and escorted out of the camp.
Before being taken away, he still stared intently at the woman who was trembling with fear on the ground with his eyes full of resentment and unwillingness.
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Meanwhile, in the royal tent not far away, Lin Wanwan quietly leaned against the soft couch, listening to every word of the commotion and shouts outside.
A cold, triumphant smirk slowly crept onto her lips.
She knew that Wei Xiao, this pawn, was completely useless.
His desperate counterattack before his death officially sounded the clarion call for war against Consort Xian, Su Jinxiu!
Dogs fighting, a mouthful of fur.
This play was even more exciting than she had imagined.
The noise outside the tent gradually subsided.
Xiao Che glanced coldly at Su Jinxiu, who was slumped on the ground, her face ashen. There was no pity in his eyes, nor did he intend to punish her immediately.
He simply gave the order to the commander of the Imperial Guards in a cold, emotionless tone:
"Your Highness, the Virtuous Consort, has been frightened."
"From this moment forward, rest well in your tent. No one is to visit you without my order!"
This order, ostensibly for protection but in reality for house arrest, was like a bucket of the coldest water, drenching Su Jinxiu from head to toe!
She suddenly raised her head and looked at Xiao Che in disbelief.
She saw the undisguised, cold suspicion in his eyes.
In that instant, she felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave!
She knew it was over.
The emperor has begun to suspect her!
Lin Wanwan, the instigator of all this, was in her own tent, leisurely picking up the warm ginseng tea served by a palace maid and gently blowing on it.
Through the rising steam, she seemed to see Su Jinxiu's panicked, lost face, like a stray dog.
She understood that next, it would be the turn of this "good sister" who had schemed against her countless times to taste the bitter fruit of her own actions.
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