The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

In Concubine Deng's view, if she had not been favored by heaven and successfully gained the recognition of the divine creature, she would ultimately be just another sacrifice to fulfill her grandfather's loyalty to the emperor.

She didn't want to be sacrificed, but had to sacrifice herself. Now that her adventure had paid off, it was only natural that she should do with the reward as she pleased.

But neither her grandfather, the old Duke, nor her father, the current Duke of England, thought so.

Concubine Deng, who inherited the bloodline of the Duke of Yingzhou, has been one of the family's properties since she was born. Even when she later entered the palace as a concubine, she still wore the mark of the Duke of Yingzhou, which was a precious ribbon that proved the close relationship between the royal family and the Deng family and that the emperor trusted and relied on the Deng family.

If she is disloyal to the emperor, she will be betraying the old duke and the emperor.

If she doesn't love her family, she will be unworthy of her parents who are her flesh and blood.

She used the "divine object" to murder high-ranking concubines, including the queen, and made the few princes in the palace weak except for the second prince she gave birth to. Later, she calmly and frantically killed the fourth prince, regardless of the danger of being exposed...

Concubine Deng was very clear that everything she did was disloyal to the emperor and showed no love for her family.

But she did not feel guilty. Instead, she was quietly lurking, weaving conspiracies, and making various arrangements in advance for the eventual failure of her mission.

"...A person who kills will be killed. I have already prepared for this letter to be sent out. However, if fate favors me again and I succeed, I will quietly hide this letter in the imperial study. If future generations are lucky enough to find it, it will surely be a very pleasant scene for me."

The Concubine Deng that Xie Yuzhen had seen with her own eyes had always been dignified and polite. She always spoke softly and slowly, and her every move reflected the good upbringing she had received since childhood as the daughter of a noble family. As Concubine Xu said, Concubine Deng gave people the feeling of a jade Buddha sitting high in the hall.

Every word in this handwritten letter expressed her true feelings, revealing ambitions, evil thoughts, and even some slightly playful bad tastes as mentioned above, all made Xie Yuzhen feel like he had gotten to know this woman who made him feel cold all over again. He couldn't help but feel some resonance with her. While lamenting that she was about to die, he silently raised the credibility of this letter to eight points.

In the first piece of letter, Concubine Deng explained the origins of the three "sacred objects" that had been held in the Duke of Ying's mansion. They were the proof of the harmony between the emperor and the deceased old Duke. However, these proofs were full of traces of the unjust deaths of Concubine Deng's brothers, sisters and even nephews.

The second piece of letter paper was filled with all the cases that Concubine Deng had committed since she got this "magic object" - her "magic object" was not a "panel" like Deng Er and Deng Si, but a strange nursery that was only one foot square. This nursery could appear according to her wishes, and every once in a while, a plant that met her needs would grow in the nursery.

At first, she just followed the instructions of the emperor and her grandfather, visualizing in her mind the plants she was asked to grow, but she always had distracting thoughts, resulting in the effects of the plants she grew being different from what the two expected, or they were simply just ordinary flowers and plants that looked good, and after being taken out of the nursery, they quickly withered and turned into ashes within a few breaths, becoming almost useless.

After trying several times, the emperor and the old duke gradually gave up on Concubine Deng's nursery.

However, Concubine Deng stated clearly in her handwritten letter that she had done it on purpose. She was just pretending to be incompetent and deliberately asked the two to give up on her. In this way, she could use this magical object to do what she wanted.

The more times the nursery was used, the shorter it took Concubine Deng to grow plants. At the same time, she also discovered that the plants taken out of the nursery would no longer wither and die, but would keep their original appearance after being taken out, and would start to grow under her control. The only pity was that she could only make it grow but not destroy itself...

She secretly concealed the changes in the nursery, and while she was planting some exotic flowers and plants as per the emperor's request to prove that she was not using them to plant other things, she was secretly visualizing the plants she really wanted.

What she wanted most at that time was a colorless and odorless poison that would make people weaker and weaker and that could not be cured by imperial doctors.

It happened that Concubine Hu Duan was pregnant at that time, and she became the first victim of the poison. The poison was a very inconspicuous moss that could survive as long as there was water and soil. Concubine Deng controlled them and crawled all over the bottom of the floor of Concubine Hu Duan's palace, which no one noticed and no one would deliberately pry open to take a look.

As she wished, Concubine Hu Duan suffered a difficult labor due to her frail health and died of hemorrhage after giving birth to a princess. The eldest princess she gave birth to was also in poor health.

Perhaps it was because the power of the poison was too strange, but after a long time, Concubine Deng was unable to successfully visualize it again. She could only slowly control the moss to grow in various corners of the palace, waiting for them to slowly take effect.

The Emperor, the Empress and the Queen Mother did not notice anything unusual about Concubine Hu Duan's death. The Queen Mother even intended to ask Concubine Deng to be the eldest princess's adoptive mother, but the Emperor and the Empress wanted Concubine Ning to raise her.

Because the eldest princess was the emperor's first child and was born to the empress dowager's niece, even if she was just a girl, she would be very influential. Therefore, Concubine Deng's mother, the Duchess of England, wanted to ensure that the child was born to her daughter smoothly.

The idea is normal, but unfortunately...she used the wrong method.

At that time, the old Duke's health was getting weaker and weaker. In order to allow the next generation of Duke of England to continue to maintain this closeness and trust with the Emperor, the old Duke, after obtaining the Emperor's consent, told his son and daughter-in-law all the inside information.

It was at this time that Miss Deng Er, who had already married, returned to her parents' home. She was just immersed in the joy of having her first child with her husband, so when she came back to her parents' home to announce the good news, she inadvertently received the recognition of the divine object.

The panel obtained by Miss Deng Er can modify the climate of an area, but the price is also extremely high. When she tried to use it for the first time, she started bleeding profusely after a short while, and her almost full-term baby turned into blood on the spot, and she was not even able to give birth to a human form.

And within a few days, she became a widow and could return home to recuperate with a legitimate reason.

After learning the inside story and witnessing the miraculous effects of the magic object, the Duchess of England set her sights on the highly valued panel on her fourth daughter.

She had no idea what consequences the divine object would bring, but she thought that since her father-in-law and the emperor both attached so much importance to it and were even somewhat afraid of her fourth daughter, didn't that mean she could use it as a bargaining chip to gain custody of the eldest princess for her eldest daughter in the palace?

She coaxed her ignorant fourth daughter into giving the emperor a bad review according to her description, and then... natural disasters and man-made calamities came one after another. She did win the princess for her daughter, but she also lost her life because of this action. She angered her father-in-law, who regarded loyalty to the emperor as his life, to death, and made the emperor resentful of the Duke of Yingguo's Mansion. This forced this family to regard Fourth Miss Deng as the only bargaining chip to preserve their lives and property, and they were implicitly opposed to the emperor, the monarch with whom they were originally close and dependent.