“It was the concubines who hired that assassin, including Concubine Chen, Concubine Yang, Lady Wang, and Lady Fucha.” Shiao Qi reported Ye Shengxuan the name of those troublemakers one by one.
Helian Chacha was so surprised as she had thought it was the secret agency that had planned to kill her, and she had never expected that the planner was from the harem of Ye Shengxuan. What was more out of her expectation was that Xu Ruyun was not part of their operation.
As she was wondering, Ye Shengxuan pounded the table all of a sudden, “Bring me the four of them right now!”
Shiao Qi nodded and walked out of the hall. After around 10 minutes, four delicately dressed women walked into the hall from the outside, talking and laughing all the way.
They were all very excited to see Ye Shengxuan as they bowed to him slightly, “Good day, Your Majesty.”
Ye Shengxuan glanced at them slightly as it was hard for them to read his mind from his expressionless face, “Get up.”
They all stood up and started to look at Helian Chacha who was standing next to Ye Shengxuan. Feeling the burning eyes of those women, she put her head down immediately.
After just one glimpse at her, Concubine Chen looked away from her and smiled at Ye Shengxuan, saying, “Why do you summon all of us here, Your Majesty?”
Ye Shengxuan looked up at her with his dark and cold eyes, which were as calm as the frozen lake, “You are always the smart one, Concubine Chen. Then guess why I bring all of you here?”
Concubine Chen looked at the others and then shook her head in confusion, “I have no clue.”
“No clue?” Ye Shengxuan pounded the table again with his fist and stood up all of a sudden.
All of the people there were scared by the sudden anger of the emperor, so they all kneeled down subconsciously.
“Please calm down, Your Majesty! I really have no clue at all!” Concubine Chen was so scared that she sounded like crying.
Ye Shengxuan didn’t continue the conversation, but just waved his hand, “Shiao Qi, bring the guy here.”
Hearing that, Shiao Qi who had been waiting in the outside carried that fainted strong guy into the hall and dropped him in front of those concubines.
“Do you know him?” Ye Shengxuan pointed at the man in black and questioned them.
Lady Fucha covered her nose and took a few steps back, saying in disgust, “Who is this man? He is so dirty.”
The others all looked confused as none of them knew what Ye Shengxuan was going to do.
Concubine Chen asked him, “Your Majesty, who is this man?”
“Since you can’t recognize him, then let’s see if he recognizes you!” Ye Shengxuan sent Shiao Qi a signal, “Wake him up.”
Shiao Qi understood him and then took the wooden basin passed by the guardian behind him.
Splash—
The man in black was splashed by a basin of water.
Then, the finger of the man in black on the ground moved a little bit as he opened his eyes slowly when all the others were staring at him. Yet he moved back all of a sudden when he saw Shiao Qi and his face changed drastically in the next moment.
He crawled to Concubine Chen like a caterpillar and kept murmuring, “Your Highness, please forgive me, Your Highness. I failed to finish the task you assigned to me, but please let me keep my poor life. I promise I’ll never fail again!”
Concubine Chen was scared to scream and she took out the sword of the guardian standing aside in panic, striking the man in black all of a sudden. Then the blood was all over the place.
The Yangxin Hall suddenly calmed down as all of the others were staring at Concubine Chen in shock.
After she pulled herself back to reality, Concubine Chen’s hands started to tremble.
Clash—
The sword fell to the ground as the man in black fell into a pool of blood with no more breaths.
No one had ever expected that Concubine Chen would kill the man. Shiao Qi stepped up to check the wound of the man in black and he frowned after checking the breath of him from the nose, “Your Majesty, he is dead.”
Concubine Chen could barely feel her legs, so she collapsed to the ground and stared at her hands unbelievably, “I… I killed him…”
Looking at the frightened Concubine Chen, Ye Shengxuan waved his hand and said without hesitation, “Guardians! Lock Concubine Chen into the imperial prison and let her wait for her punishment!”
Some of the imperial guardians waiting outside heard it, so they went inside and wanted to bring Concubine Chen away.
Feeling that someone was touching her, Concubine Chen finally woke up from the shock.
“Your Majesty, Your Majesty!” She tried so hard to get off the two guardians and crawled to Ye Shengxuan, yelling hoarsely, “I am so wronged! I am so wronged! I never hired the assassin to kill anyone. There must be someone who set me up! Please believe me and do me justice!”
Ye Shengxuan just stood there unmoved.
Knowing that His Majesty would never give Concubine Chen a second chance, Shiao Qi urged those guardians standing aside, “What are you waiting for? Just take her down!”
Hearing the order, the guardians went up immediately to drag her out of Yangxin Hall by force.
“Your Majesty! I am really wronged! Your Majesty!”
Concubine Chen’s screaming was fading away. The other people kneeling on the ground were feeling more and more scared as they held their breaths and kept their heads down.
After handling the leader of these women, Ye Shengxuan now shifted his focus onto the other concubines left there.
He took a deep breath and said very coldly, “All of the others shall be deducted three years’ salaries and grounded for a year. Anyone who resists will be beheaded at once!”
All the others were shocked and then agreed in a frightened voice. Without further explanation, they left the Yangxin Hall in fear right away.
After those concubines had left, the imperial guardians took that body of the man in black away as well. The palace maids cleaned the hall quickly and lit some ambergris incense. In just a short while, the Yangxin Hall became clean and tidy as usual, as if the farce was barely a dream.
Ye Shengxuan sat on his armchair and Helian Chacha served him a cup of tea considerately. Shiao Qi stood next to them and he seemed to have something to say.
Helian Chacha suddenly reliazed that Shiao Qi wanted a private talk with the emperor, so she said “Then I’ll leave” to Ye Shengxuan and left the hall.
Inside the Yangxin Hall, Ye Shengxuan was enjoying his tea while Shiao Qi was standing aside, trying so hard to not speak. He was struggling for a long while but still didn’t say a word.
Noticing his struggling, Ye Shengxuan couldn’t help asking him, “You want to say something?”
Since he asked, Shiao Qi finally said, “Your Majesty, I think this is not as simple as it looks.”
“Oh?” He raised his eyebrows a bit and slightly smiled, looking quite delighted, “Go ahead.”
“First, this man in black used to be so resistant yet he just confessed so easily and told us all the names of those concubines involved in this. Somehow it feels that he made it on purpose. Second, according to the expressions of those concubines, they seemed to have just met him for the first time today, which means, Concubine Chen and the others might have been set up by someone.” Shiao Qi analyzed all of these details carefully.
“You are absolutely right.” Ye Shengxuan nodded firmly, “I know they were set up. But don’t you think that the harem has been too noisy and disobedient lately?”
Shiao Qi was stunned, “You want them to learn the lesson and behave themselves?”
Ye Shengxuan put a finger on his lips to shush him and then shook his finger, “Keep silent.”
Meanwhile in the Ruichen Palace.
The screens were half-closed and gauze curtains were dancing with the wind. Xu Ruyun was lying on her chair, fanning softly.
Suddenly, a black shadow flashed into the room, “Your Highness, we have finished the task you assigned.”
Xu Ruyu grinned a bit and picked up the sachet on the seat to throw it at them. It finally fell into the hand of the man in black, making a beautiful trajectory in the air, “Take it and leave the city. I don’t want to see you again.”
“Thanks for your reward, Your Highness.” After that, the man in black disappeared immediately.
Helian Chacha had planned to take a stroll after she left Yangxin Hall. But she saw Xiaohuozi running towards her in a hurry when she just got to the gate.
“Dagou, Brother Wang is dying! Go back to check him out, hurry!”
“It was the concubines who hired that assassin, including Concubine Chen, Concubine Yang, Lady Wang, and Lady Fucha.” Shiao Qi reported Ye Shengxuan the name of those troublemakers one by one.
Helian Chacha was so surprised as she had thought it was the secret agency that had planned to kill her, and she had never expected that the planner was from the harem of Ye Shengxuan. What was more out of her expectation was that Xu Ruyun was not part of their operation.
As she was wondering, Ye Shengxuan pounded the table all of a sudden, “Bring me the four of them right now!”
Shiao Qi nodded and walked out of the hall. After around 10 minutes, four delicately dressed women walked into the hall from the outside, talking and laughing all the way.
They were all very excited to see Ye Shengxuan as they bowed to him slightly, “Good day, Your Majesty.”
Ye Shengxuan glanced at them slightly as it was hard for them to read his mind from his expressionless face, “Get up.”
They all stood up and started to look at Helian Chacha who was standing next to Ye Shengxuan. Feeling the burning eyes of those women, she put her head down immediately.
After just one glimpse at her, Concubine Chen looked away from her and smiled at Ye Shengxuan, saying, “Why do you summon all of us here, Your Majesty?”
Ye Shengxuan looked up at her with his dark and cold eyes, which were as calm as the frozen lake, “You are always the smart one, Concubine Chen. Then guess why I bring all of you here?”
Concubine Chen looked at the others and then shook her head in confusion, “I have no clue.”
“No clue?” Ye Shengxuan pounded the table again with his fist and stood up all of a sudden.
All of the people there were scared by the sudden anger of the emperor, so they all kneeled down subconsciously.
“Please calm down, Your Majesty! I really have no clue at all!” Concubine Chen was so scared that she sounded like crying.
Ye Shengxuan didn’t continue the conversation, but just waved his hand, “Shiao Qi, bring the guy here.”
Hearing that, Shiao Qi who had been waiting in the outside carried that fainted strong guy into the hall and dropped him in front of those concubines.
“Do you know him?” Ye Shengxuan pointed at the man in black and questioned them.
Lady Fucha covered her nose and took a few steps back, saying in disgust, “Who is this man? He is so dirty.”
The others all looked confused as none of them knew what Ye Shengxuan was going to do.
Concubine Chen asked him, “Your Majesty, who is this man?”
“Since you can’t recognize him, then let’s see if he recognizes you!” Ye Shengxuan sent Shiao Qi a signal, “Wake him up.”
Shiao Qi understood him and then took the wooden basin passed by the guardian behind him.
Splash—
The man in black was splashed by a basin of water.
Then, the finger of the man in black on the ground moved a little bit as he opened his eyes slowly when all the others were staring at him. Yet he moved back all of a sudden when he saw Shiao Qi and his face changed drastically in the next moment.
He crawled to Concubine Chen like a caterpillar and kept murmuring, “Your Highness, please forgive me, Your Highness. I failed to finish the task you assigned to me, but please let me keep my poor life. I promise I’ll never fail again!”
Concubine Chen was scared to scream and she took out the sword of the guardian standing aside in panic, striking the man in black all of a sudden. Then the blood was all over the place.
The Yangxin Hall suddenly calmed down as all of the others were staring at Concubine Chen in shock.
After she pulled herself back to reality, Concubine Chen’s hands started to tremble.
Clash—
The sword fell to the ground as the man in black fell into a pool of blood with no more breaths.
No one had ever expected that Concubine Chen would kill the man. Shiao Qi stepped up to check the wound of the man in black and he frowned after checking the breath of him from the nose, “Your Majesty, he is dead.”
Concubine Chen could barely feel her legs, so she collapsed to the ground and stared at her hands unbelievably, “I… I killed him…”
Looking at the frightened Concubine Chen, Ye Shengxuan waved his hand and said without hesitation, “Guardians! Lock Concubine Chen into the imperial prison and let her wait for her punishment!”
Some of the imperial guardians waiting outside heard it, so they went inside and wanted to bring Concubine Chen away.
Feeling that someone was touching her, Concubine Chen finally woke up from the shock.
“Your Majesty, Your Majesty!” She tried so hard to get off the two guardians and crawled to Ye Shengxuan, yelling hoarsely, “I am so wronged! I am so wronged! I never hired the assassin to kill anyone. There must be someone who set me up! Please believe me and do me justice!”
Ye Shengxuan just stood there unmoved.
Knowing that His Majesty would never give Concubine Chen a second chance, Shiao Qi urged those guardians standing aside, “What are you waiting for? Just take her down!”
Hearing the order, the guardians went up immediately to drag her out of Yangxin Hall by force.
“Your Majesty! I am really wronged! Your Majesty!”
Concubine Chen’s screaming was fading away. The other people kneeling on the ground were feeling more and more scared as they held their breaths and kept their heads down.
After handling the leader of these women, Ye Shengxuan now shifted his focus onto the other concubines left there.
He took a deep breath and said very coldly, “All of the others shall be deducted three years’ salaries and grounded for a year. Anyone who resists will be beheaded at once!”
All the others were shocked and then agreed in a frightened voice. Without further explanation, they left the Yangxin Hall in fear right away.
After those concubines had left, the imperial guardians took that body of the man in black away as well. The palace maids cleaned the hall quickly and lit some ambergris incense. In just a short while, the Yangxin Hall became clean and tidy as usual, as if the farce was barely a dream.
Ye Shengxuan sat on his armchair and Helian Chacha served him a cup of tea considerately. Shiao Qi stood next to them and he seemed to have something to say.
Helian Chacha suddenly reliazed that Shiao Qi wanted a private talk with the emperor, so she said “Then I’ll leave” to Ye Shengxuan and left the hall.
Inside the Yangxin Hall, Ye Shengxuan was enjoying his tea while Shiao Qi was standing aside, trying so hard to not speak. He was struggling for a long while but still didn’t say a word.
Noticing his struggling, Ye Shengxuan couldn’t help asking him, “You want to say something?”
Since he asked, Shiao Qi finally said, “Your Majesty, I think this is not as simple as it looks.”
“Oh?” He raised his eyebrows a bit and slightly smiled, looking quite delighted, “Go ahead.”
“First, this man in black used to be so resistant yet he just confessed so easily and told us all the names of those concubines involved in this. Somehow it feels that he made it on purpose. Second, according to the expressions of those concubines, they seemed to have just met him for the first time today, which means, Concubine Chen and the others might have been set up by someone.” Shiao Qi analyzed all of these details carefully.
“You are absolutely right.” Ye Shengxuan nodded firmly, “I know they were set up. But don’t you think that the harem has been too noisy and disobedient lately?”
Shiao Qi was stunned, “You want them to learn the lesson and behave themselves?”
Ye Shengxuan put a finger on his lips to shush him and then shook his finger, “Keep silent.”
Meanwhile in the Ruichen Palace.
The screens were half-closed and gauze curtains were dancing with the wind. Xu Ruyun was lying on her chair, fanning softly.
Suddenly, a black shadow flashed into the room, “Your Highness, we have finished the task you assigned.”
Xu Ruyu grinned a bit and picked up the sachet on the seat to throw it at them. It finally fell into the hand of the man in black, making a beautiful trajectory in the air, “Take it and leave the city. I don’t want to see you again.”
“Thanks for your reward, Your Highness.” After that, the man in black disappeared immediately.
Helian Chacha had planned to take a stroll after she left Yangxin Hall. But she saw Xiaohuozi running towards her in a hurry when she just got to the gate.
“Dagou, Brother Wang is dying! Go back to check him out, hurry!”
