Huo Wei's expression twitched slightly, then turned cold again. He stepped aside and said, "Take her away."
His voice was utterly devoid of warmth, like the cold spring near a solitary peak, with every ripple exuding a frigid chill.
When Dugu Luanyue was being escorted away by the soldiers, she glanced back at Huo Wei deeply but didn't say a single word.
In the Zichen Palace, Zhao Chuyan helped Murong Min out from behind the bedroom. She sneered and said, "Your Majesty, the Queen is as venomous as a snake. Did she really think she could keep you in the dark forever?"
Dugu Luanyue was pushed by Zhao Chuhe and knelt on the ground.
It was obvious that Zhao Chuhe was taking revenge on her for her previous schemes. Her knees hit the ground heavily, and she couldn't help but let out a muffled groan.
She looked up and saw Yu Zan kneeling in front of her. Zhao Chuyan was looking at her with a look of schadenfreude.
Dugu Luanyue was a bit puzzled. She had locked Yu Zan up properly. How could she have been taken away by Zhao Chuyan?
Zhao Chuyan adjusted the bright red hairpin on her coiled hair. Her voice was lazy yet cold: "Yu Zan, tell us."
Yu Zan kowtowed to the ground and then said, "I'm Yu Zan, the trusted maid the Queen brought from Southern Chu.
On the surface, I'm the Queen's maid, but in fact, I'm her substitute for the night with the Emperor.
The Queen splashed the Gu poison from Southern Chu into her eyes. As long as the Emperor got close to the Queen, he would be infected with the Gu. That night, no matter who he saw, they would all look like the Queen.
I'm extremely similar in figure to the Queen. I was chosen as the substitute for the night with the Emperor when we were still in Southern Chu."
On Murong Min's pale and tired imperial face, his eyes swept over Dugu Luanyue like a blade: "Queen, you've put on quite a show!"
No wonder. Every day during the daytime, Dugu Luanyue would avoid him. He thought it was because she was shy and embarrassed. It turned out that this woman had never had a real husband - wife relationship with him.
But when Murong Min thought of the night he sent Dugu Luanyue to Prime Minister Ning's private room, his chest tightened. The extremely beautiful Queen he had married had actually lost her virginity to that old traitor, Prime Minister Ning.
Murong Min became extremely angry and seemed to be going crazy. His eyes were filled with bloodlust.
Dugu Luanyue slightly lowered her phoenix - like head and didn't defend herself. At this moment, any defense would be useless.
Yu Zan sobbed and said, "But I did it for Your Majesty! I was pregnant with Your Majesty's child, but the Queen personally aborted it. That was Your Majesty's child!
The Queen not only refused to serve Your Majesty at night but also repeatedly seduced the Crown Prince, defiling the imperial palace!"
Murong Min suddenly stood up and knocked over all the things on the imperial desk in front of him. The inkstone was also knocked down and hit Dugu Luanyue's shoulder heavily: "Bitch!"
The heavy inkstone made Dugu Luanyue let out a muffled groan. She felt as if her shoulder bone was about to shatter.
Dugu Luanyue's eyes swept over Yu Zan fiercely, then turned cold again. Her words were clear and calm: "Your Majesty, I really don't understand why you believe Yu Zan's words so easily.
Your Majesty knows very well that I'm your wife. Yu Zan just holds a grudge against me and is making up lies.
After all, it was me who blocked Yu Zan's way to becoming a concubine. But the child in Yu Zan's belly was also the one Your Majesty didn't want to keep.
After all, she's from Southern Chu. I just understood Your Majesty's intention and helped Your Majesty solve this problem. Yu Zan bears a grudge and was instigated by Concubine Zhao to slander me."
Murong Min walked up to Dugu Luanyue and grabbed her chin forcefully: "She said you seduced my Crown Prince and defiled the imperial palace. How do you explain this?"
Dugu Luanyue frowned and endured the pain: "The Crown Prince had a hidden illness before. How could I seduce him? And wasn't it Your Majesty who brought the Crown Prince to my palace the first few times?"
Zhao Chuyan said sharply from behind: "The Queen and the Crown Prince went to Danyang City together and spent several months together day and night. Who knows when the Crown Prince's hidden illness was cured?
Your Majesty, there are no traces of such things. I think Your Majesty should conduct a thorough investigation.
How about torturing the two Taoist sorcerers recommended by the Queen first? The Queen should also be given a little punishment. Only under such strict measures can these people tell the truth."
Murong Min was extremely suspicious. This kind of unclear matter was most likely to stir his emotions.
Zhao Chuyan came to report the Queen today, saying that there was something wrong with the golden pills he had taken. At first, Murong Min didn't believe it. But when the imperial doctor he summoned checked, it was found that there were many hallucinogenic herbs in them.
Only then did Murong Min realize why he had been seeing Lu Wanyin so often recently. The Queen had drugged him to make him think of Lu Wanyin, and then he had recognized Huo Wei as the Crown Prince.
Murong Min took half a step back. Fear filled his entire chest. He looked at Dugu Luanyue angrily: "You and Huo Wei must have colluded long ago, right?"
Dugu Luanyue didn't want to involve Huo Wei. She said anxiously: "Your Majesty, why would I collude with Huo Wei? Isn't my only reliance in Northern Yan Your Majesty?
At first, Huo Wei was just a vassal king with only an empty title, whose real power had been taken away by Your Majesty. Am I so stupid as to place my bet on Huo Wei?
If I really had placed my bet on Huo Wei, why would I have gone to so much trouble with Your Majesty?"
Murong Min bent down and tightly grabbed Dugu Luanyue's slender neck. A murderous look flashed in his eyes:
"For the fact that you let a maid substitute you for the night with me, I can kill you. This is a crime of deceiving the Emperor!"
She was already being choked by those strong hands and couldn't speak. She gasped for breath and kept trying to break Murong Min's hands to struggle.
Murong Min looked at her viciously: "Anyway, you're not that important to me. You're just a good - looking face.
Someone, summon the Crown Prince to the Zichen Palace and let the Crown Prince execute the Queen in front of me. Someone, bring the poisoned wine."
The Eastern Palace of the Northern Yan Palace
Huo Wei roughly realized that things were getting tricky. Most likely, it was another trap set by the Zhao family.
He quickly returned to the Eastern Palace and found Shen Guilan. He grabbed his collar and asked:
"I'll ask you one more time. What exactly did He Zhizhou tell you? Whose son am I?"
Shen Guilan's back hit the screen, and the screen crashed down. He repeated again: "You're Xie Jinyang's son."
The knuckles of Huo Wei's hands protruded. His eyes were filled with a scarlet and murderous look:
"There has never been a military advisor named He Zhizhou around Xie Jinyang. Since there's no such person as He Zhizhou, how did you get into the Xie family's mansion by He Zhizhou and grow up with me?
Shen Guilan, I've regarded you as my life - and - death brother, closer than a real brother. If you've been hiding something from me and are reluctant to tell me, then I'll have to find out by myself.
I hope I'm really Xie Jinyang's son. If I'm really Murong Min's son, I'll kill myself!"
If he was really the son of that woman who had been humiliated and had a blood - related connection with Murong Min, should he kill his father, or not, or kill himself?
He had lived for 21 years, as if he had always been living in a huge lie, not even knowing who he was.
Shen Guilan already understood. If Huo Wei was really Xie Jinyang's son, then he might have a final battle with Murong Min without any hesitation.
Just as the two of them were facing off, the Emperor's personal guards from the Zichen Palace came and ordered the Crown Prince to rush to the Zichen Palace immediately to execute the Queen.