The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

This day.

The fire started from the palace.

Just when a group of royal family members went to Princess Rong Le's mansion to intimidate her but failed, she instead used poisonous smoke to put their lives in danger.

The real leader of the Hongyang Sect gathered the remains of the late emperor and the tablets of Lu's ancestors into a pile in the Lu's ancestral hall in the imperial palace and burned them all.

The old man's red eyes reflected blazing flames and black smoke. His appearance was very similar to the one who had met the emperor and empress in the northwestern border town, except that he had a few long and terrifying scars on the side of his face. If someone who was familiar with Mi Baobao looked at him carefully, they would find that the facial features and contours of the two uncle and nephew were indeed similar, and their kinship could be seen at a glance.

“Burn…Burn…” The leader of the Red Sun Cult murmured as he looked at the raging fire in front of him, “Even if you fail at the last moment and have nowhere else to go, I will still grind you to dust and scatter your bones to ashes. I will also make sure that all of you…will not rest in peace even in the afterlife!”

"Master!" The cultist guarding outside the ancestral hall ran over anxiously, and the heat of the fire made him close his eyes instinctively. "A large group of people are rushing here. It seems to be the Yulin Guards under Concubine Xu. Our people are scattered all over the capital. I'm afraid the followers who stay here can't resist for too long. Master, please leave quickly."

"leave?"

The leader of the Hongyang sect asked back: "Where else can I go? When Princess Yuyi did not die in Tongzhou, but returned to the imperial capital with a large army, my failure was already doomed. Otherwise, I would not have to ask my followers to risk killing people in order to provoke internal strife in the Lu family..."

He looked up at the cloudless sky: "Nian'er still hasn't replied?"

"Young Master, she..."

"It seems that she made what she thought was the right choice." The scar on the face of the Red Sun Cult leader looked even more hideous under the overlapping of light and shadow. "That's right, that's right. Just like the reason why we got together and formed the Red Sun Cult in the first place, wasn't it because we were all victims of the Lu family? She...ha, of course, would be more willing to get close to other women...the same kind of women who are unwilling to submit to others, such as the princess and queen."

"Master, let's go!" the cultist urged hurriedly.

The leader of the Hongyang sect looked at him, neither saying he wanted to leave nor saying he would not leave: "What do you think of Queen Xie?"

"Ah?" The burly male believer was stunned for a moment and answered instinctively, "Master, that's a witch!"

He was quite emotional: "Think about it, since ancient times, men have always been on top and women on the bottom, but since she became the queen, what has the world become?"

"Women are not like women, and they are doing men's things, such as taking the imperial examinations, becoming officials, doing business, and running factories. Prostitutes have lost their jobs, and good men have been abducted away from home. They have paid gifts to their parents-in-law but cannot get their wives' dowries. What's worse, women are becoming more and more arrogant, and they need men to take the initiative to pursue them... The most important thing is that we are squeezed so much that we can hardly pass on our religion."

The male Christian was already quite old, and had always been a staunch believer in the idea that "women are born guilty, while men are pure and innocent." He kept complaining that Empress Xie actually wanted to impose the same sentence on men who killed their wives and women who killed their husbands, which was truly extremely biased.

She even supports a woman who has been beaten by her husband to divorce her husband. My God, it's just a few beatings. Doesn't she know that the man paid a gift? She spent money but wanted to make the man without a wife. This is really vicious!

"...... Master, you have to get out alive. Only you can continue to lead us to fight against the evil queen Xie!" The male believers were so excited that they danced with joy. "With her here, the laws of Dasheng are completely unfair. Those high-ranking officials are rushing to please her. I'm afraid that in the future, men will be less likely to be promiscuous, take concubines, or pawn their wives... Instead, they will have to treat women as their fathers!"

"Since those officials still have some damn laws that are unwilling to protect us men, then only people like you can lead us to protect ourselves and kill all the women who oppress us, so that they will fall into the hell of our God and suffer..."

The leader of the Hongyang sect stared at the male cultist without blinking: "Is that so?"

"Yes!" the male believer affirmed loudly.

But the leader of the Hongyang sect smiled bitterly: "There are also a large army outside the city, how can I escape?"

He sacrificed countless lives for revenge.

While he was indignant about the fate of his own family, he never showed mercy to other people's wives and daughters.

Now that the end of the world is near, the leader of the Hongyang Sect has fire in his eyes and misses his adopted daughter in a tone as if he has been betrayed and abandoned by Mi Nian. The despair in his heart is gradually being stirred by the fanatical affirmation of the male believers.

The leader of the Hongyang sect frowned, and the thought of surviving came into his mind. He looked at the male believers, and his mind moved. He sighed and said, "Forget it, forget it. You are young and strong, so don't resist for me. Run away quickly. I am an old man, and I have realized most of my wishes. There is nothing to regret in this life."

"Master!" The male believer took off his coat excitedly, "Master, don't say such discouraging words. Put on my clothes quickly and tell the believers to leave together. I will stay here and pretend to be you. Let them think you have been burned to death, so that we can turn light into darkness!"

“This…” The leader of the Hongyang sect smiled bitterly and said, “How can I let you die for me in vain? Moreover, in this situation, I’m afraid that only a divine soldier can descend from the sky, and then I can…”

He could escape without the help of divine soldiers.

Although the leader of the Hongyang Cult had prepared himself to die here, and felt that he had no chance of survival if his revenge was not achieved the moment the flames started, he still wanted to live. Not only did he want to live, he also wanted to lurk in various states like before and quietly continue to run his cult.

He induced the male believer to sacrifice himself not simply to escape death, but also to plan for the future and reduce the possibility of being hunted down.

He remembered the route map around the ancestral hall that the inconspicuous but extremely bold princess had shown him, and quickly found a way out for himself in his mind.

However, facing this extremely loyal male believer, the leader of the Hongyang Sect did not intend to escape with everyone. Instead, he pretended to sigh about his situation and feared that only God could save them.

He raised his helpless but open-minded eyes, and was about to act out a scene of being persuaded by the male believers.

The sky above the palace suddenly darkened.