The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

As the jade seal shattered, the strange light dissipated.

Xie Yuzhen only felt that the candlelight in the hall seemed to be brighter. The emperor standing next to him shook his body as if he had just woken up from a dream, raised his hand and rubbed his brows: "Before, whenever I wanted to destroy this body, I would feel reluctant. Now that it has been asked to be smashed by you, I don't even have the slightest concern left. Instead, I feel a little creepy..."

"Although this thing is strange, its origin and purpose are unknown. I thought Your Majesty had taken my words to heart and had destroyed it, but I didn't expect you to..." Xie Yuzhen glared at the emperor fiercely, and then decided to give him some sweet treats after she was done with her temper. "Yuanjun has never been a crybaby. Fortunately, she cried when she saw something on the windowsill, so I was able to detect the danger in time and react. I was afraid that Your Majesty was in danger, so I ran over like a mad woman."

She said a few soft words to express her concern for the emperor's safety, and pretended to be exhausted, which successfully made the emperor forget that this woman had run all the way from Shouning Palace to Lizheng Palace and still had the strength to beat up several eunuchs. He was moved by his "lover's" concern for him and said, "I was blinded by this weird thing. No matter what you order in the future, I will definitely not delay any longer."

Glancing at the emperor, Xie Yuzhen did not take his assurance seriously, but pretended to be tired and leaned into the emperor's arms - it couldn't be considered a complete pretense, the excitement of facing the deadly danger had gradually subsided, and the pain from the wounds on her body that only she could see slowly surfaced again.

However, Xie Yuzhen's thoughts were still very clear and stable: "Since your majesty has said so, then don't be idle for now. Send someone to the Cining Palace to check on the condition of the fourth Miss Deng."

The emperor nodded, "That's right... The engraving on the bottom of that strange thing is not words, but a strange pattern. It has to be stained with human blood and then covered on paper. The person whose blood is taken has a chance to develop the ability called the panel, or die suddenly... If you want to destroy the panel on a person, you only need to burn the blood print on the paper. However, every time you burn one, a crack will appear on the strange thing."

"I am bewildered by it, and I don't want to see it broken. Also, ahem, I am afraid of Deng Si's ability, so I have been delaying for a long time..."

"The last time the blood seal was burned, she... was ill for a while. I think the same should be true for Deng Si." After the emperor said this, he summoned his most trusted eunuch Li Zong and asked Li Zong to quietly go to the Cining Palace to check on Miss Deng Si.

Li Zong knew a lot about the emperor's private affairs, but not all.

He only knew that the emperor seemed to attach great importance to the Duke of Yingguo's Mansion because of something, but he didn't know it was such an extraordinary thing that was beyond the imagination of ordinary people. So after listening to the emperor's order, he subconsciously thought that the emperor was still thinking about the fourth Miss Deng, but... Concubine Zhao Guipin was there, did His Majesty deliberately want to be looked down upon by the Concubine?

As a eunuch, Li Zong was not interested in the increasingly bizarre hobbies of his masters. This thought only flashed through his mind before he threw it away and hurried to carry out his masters' orders.

Seeing Li Zong leave, Xie Yuzhen silently calculated the time in his mind and asked the emperor: "Your Majesty, why haven't you rested yet so late?"

The emperor suddenly looked worried again. He opened his mouth and said, "There are some troubles in the previous dynasty. You..."

After thinking for a while, the emperor stood up and went to the outer room. When he came back, he held a few memorials in his hands and said, "Come and have a look."

"Your Majesty?" When Xie Yuzhen was accompanying the emperor in the Lizheng Hall, she also flipped through the memorials on the emperor's desk, but most of them were greetings full of nonsense, and she would not be asked to read serious matters.

Impeaching a concubine is obviously a very serious matter.

"I'm afraid it's not appropriate." Xie Yuzhen suppressed the emotions in his eyes and rejected it lightly.

The emperor sat next to her with the memorial in his hand and said, "If it were someone else, she would not be allowed to read it. But to me, she is no longer someone else."

It’s my sweetheart.

The emperor really enjoyed his "love" for Xie Yuzhen.

Love.

Of course, she should be the only exception in his life who could break the rules for her. This willing dedication made him so satisfied and addicted, and he hoped that this untamable woman could also put him in her heart.

Thinking of this, the emperor suddenly felt helpless again - why was she still unwilling to love me as much as he loved her? If so, this "love" would be more complete and could better fill the unknown emptiness in his heart.

Looking at the emperor's somewhat dazed eyes, Xie Yuzhen could only guess that he might be moving himself again. He took the memorial from the emperor and casually read it through. The content was no different from what he knew. It was nothing more than suspecting the cause of death of the late emperor. It also accused Concubine Ning of poisoning and the Queen of assisting her, working together. One was not fit to be a concubine and should be executed, and the other was not fit to be the Queen and should be abandoned.

What Xie Wei really needs to pay attention to is the names of the people who submitted the memorials. He should read them carefully and write them down one by one to avoid retaliating against the wrong people in the future.

The content of this memorial seemed to want to kill Concubine Ning, but Xie Yuzhen knew very well that Concubine Ning's life was just a bonus, and what they really wanted was the throne of the Queen.

"Xianming, what do you think I should do?" the emperor said distressedly.

Xie Yuzhen raised his eyebrows. "Is it worthy for a court official to specially write several memorials to support such nonsense without any evidence?"

"He doesn't care about the people's feelings, doesn't investigate unjust cases, and takes street rumors seriously. I really want to ask him how he got his job as an official. He doesn't do his job, but just picks on such fabricated things. He even has the guts to interrogate my master with this!"

"He is disloyal as a minister, incompetent as an official, and he slanders the concubines and the queen mother. He should be arrested and imprisoned on the spot to serve as a warning to others!" Xie Yuzhen was dressed in plain clothes with his hair loose, and his outfit was obviously cold and simple to the extreme. When he raised his eyebrows and spoke in a stern voice, there was a kind of sinister charm in him.

"Your Majesty, this bitch spoke so rudely when my two sisters passed away one after another and the palace was in chaos. Anyone with a discerning eye would know that he had bad intentions. Your Majesty is so magnanimous that you gave him the face to question the master!" Xie Yuzhen slapped the memorial fiercely, "If Your Majesty can't bring himself to teach him a lesson, then I will come early tomorrow to wait for you to leave the court, so that these bitches who disrespect the monarch can see what a witch and a vicious woman is."

"Wait...wait a minute." The emperor saw that she was angry, and every word she said was full of hatred for those people who submitted memorials for disrespecting the monarch. While he felt relieved, he was really afraid that Xie Yu would block the court officials from leaving the court and do something terrible, so he hurriedly said, "There is another hidden story here. Please listen to me first and I will tell you in detail."