AWB Chapter 205 Insanity
Chapter 205 Insanity
Upon hearing this, Chu Qingyin trembled slightly and said timidly, "Your Majesty, the Empress..."
"shut up!"
Before she could finish speaking, Empress Wang shouted angrily, "Stop putting on this pitiful act in front of me! This so-called wronged soul might just be a show you staged to slander me!"
Chu Qingyin retreated step by step, her eyes brimming with tears, her voice trembling with sobs: "Your Majesty, what are you saying? Why are you slandering me like this..."
Pei Yuanling shielded Chu Qingyin behind him, his eyes filled with coldness and wariness: "Enough! I think you've lost your mind!"
"Chen Zhongliang, escort Her Majesty the Empress back to Fengyi Palace to rest. She need not travel around until she has fully recovered."
He coldly ordered that the Empress be confined to the Phoenix Palace.
"This old servant obeys the decree."
Chen Zhongliang gasped and hurriedly bowed as he stepped forward, saying, "Your Majesty, please."
Empress Wang stared at him in disbelief, her eyes filled with sorrow: "Your Majesty, are you so heartless as to confine me to my quarters?"
Her voice, tinged with a mournful sob, echoed in the empty palace.
Pei Yuanling ignored her and said coldly, "If it weren't for my past affection, you wouldn't be able to leave this side hall today."
"Okay...okay..."
Perhaps due to the extreme fright, Empress Wang fainted.
"Your Majesty the Empress!"
Tonight's farce has finally come to an end.
Chu Qingyin frowned, looking preoccupied.
Unexpectedly, even when Empress Wang was forced to this point, she still refused to admit that she had been poisoned.
But everything that happened tonight is enough to prove that my death in my previous life was inextricably linked to the Empress.
"Your Majesty, could the Empress have been poisoned...?"
Chu Qingyin's voice trembled slightly, and the last half of her sentence was drowned out by a soft sob. She fainted before she could finish speaking.
"Yinyin!"
Pei Yuanling panicked instantly, quickly grabbed the person around the waist and strode towards Feixue Palace.
"Chen Zhongliang! Quickly summon the imperial physician!"
Lu Zhiheng's expression changed upon seeing this, and he instinctively reached out to protect her, but ultimately held back.
Watching the two figures hurriedly leave, he stood there with a complicated expression, motionless for a long time.
After everyone had left, a figure appeared beside him: "Master, what should we do now?"
"Send her out of the palace, and there will be no way to prove it when she dies."
Lu Zhiheng glanced at the shaman who had fainted from exhaustion and frowned.
Only the dead can keep secrets from being revealed.
He was never a kind person, just a swindler and a con artist. He's dead now.
"Yes!"
The man knelt down and bowed, then carried the unconscious sorceress away into the night.
Lu Zhiheng stroked the thumb ring on his thumb, his dark eyes slightly narrowed.
Judging from Pei Yuanling's reaction just now, he has probably already noticed something...
Fortunately, he had already left with Chu Qingyin in his arms, so the remaining cleanup tasks naturally fell to him.
Lu Zhiheng stood outside the dilapidated walls of the Cold Palace, watching the eunuchs and maids coming and going, cleaning up the mess.
Since this is a secret matter within the palace, these people naturally cannot be allowed to remain.
Lu Zhiheng's expression turned slightly cold as he stared intently at everyone entering and leaving the Cold Palace. By then, the sky was already beginning to lighten, and by the time he finished dealing with everything, it was already dawn.
"Lord Lu, His Majesty requests your presence at Feixue Palace for a meeting."
The chief eunuch beside Pei Yuanling rushed over, bowed before him, and continued, "Please, sir, take a step forward."
"Please show me the way."
Lu Zhiheng remained expressionless and followed after him.
***
Feixue Palace.
Chu Qingyin had slowly woken up, but her face was still haggard. She found herself lying on the bed in Feixue Palace. She struggled to sit up, her voice still a little hoarse: "Xianglan."
She didn't summon Xianglan, but instead noticed a corner of a dark garment peeking out from behind the screen.
Then Pei Yuanling came out.
The man's expression was solemn, with a hint of concern in his eyes, but he did not go forward directly. Instead, he looked at her from a distance and said, "Yinyin, you're awake."
Seeing his reaction, Chu Qingyin knew he had become suspicious. Her eyes immediately reddened, and tears welled up again. She said sadly, "Your Majesty, I just had a nightmare. I dreamt about my death in my previous life..."
Her voice choked with sobs, her eyes filled with a pitiful tenderness, "Your Majesty, I am in so much pain..."
Looking at the familiar face before him, Pei Yuanling felt a void in his heart for some reason, as if something had disappeared.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Chu Qingyin cried even harder. "Your Majesty... I am really scared. When I think of what happened in my previous life, I am filled with sorrow. If it weren't for Heaven's mercy in allowing me to be reborn, I'm afraid I would never have seen you again, and I would never have known the truth."
Hearing her recount her experiences in her previous life, Pei Yuanling finally stopped stern-faced, but his heart was heavy and he was somewhat moved. "Yinyin, please don't say any more."
But the other woman simply shook her head and continued, "Your Majesty, I thought you truly despised me, that even after I drank the poison, you wouldn't want to look at me again. But I never expected..."
At this point, she burst into tears and sobbed uncontrollably.
"Yinyin, the imperial physician said you are weak and need to rest recently."
Pei Yuanling couldn't bear it any longer, so he stepped forward and pulled her into his arms. "Don't think about it so much, just rest and recover."
The woman's warm breath sprayed onto his neck, and then icy tears slid down, flowing into his chest along his clothes.
Feeling the trembling of the person in his arms, he gently patted Chu Qingyin's back, trying to soothe her emotions, but his heart was becoming increasingly chaotic.
"No, I must speak!"
Chu Qingyin lost control of her emotions: "Your Majesty, you clearly saw that the mastermind behind my death is Empress Wang! How can I live peacefully in this palace?"
"Whenever I think of the suffering I endured when I died in my previous life, I feel that even tearing Lady Wang to pieces would not be too much!"
Pei Yuanling sighed softly, "I know you are suffering, but you cannot do anything to her right now."
He held Chu Qingyin's shoulders with both hands and carefully wiped away the tears on her cheeks: "Yinyin, the Empress's maternal family is very powerful and has deep roots in the court. If we rashly move against her, it will definitely cause a huge uproar and the court may be in turmoil."
"I need time, I will proceed slowly, you must not be in a hurry."
Wait, wait, it's making her wait again!
Five years have passed, and he's already so wary of the Wang family?
What about the Chu family?
Back when the Chu family was at the height of its power, the princes were vying for the throne and the Chu family remained neutral. It was only because I insisted on marrying him as a concubine that my brother was forced to choose him.
With his elder brother holding considerable military power and the Chu State Duke's mansion always bustling with visitors, could it be that he was also wary of the Chu family?