She tightly grasped Rong Xun's hands, fearing that the person in front of her would leave again.
"Rong'er, you've suffered a lot in the past."
Hearing this, Rong Xun gently released Granny Xuan's hands. He shook his head and said in a cold tone, "Empress Dowager Xuan, we were never the same kind of people. Since you chose to leave that day, there's no longer any relationship between us. You're just the empress dowager to me."
Hearing these words, Granny Xuan couldn't hold back her tears any longer and they fell.
Tang Youyou sensed something was wrong. She waved her hand, signaling the two of them not to dwell on it.
"Anyway, you're old acquaintances meeting after a long separation. There's no need to be so particular about words. Right and wrong will eventually have an answer. Let time prove everything."
After Tang Youyou finished speaking, she gave Tang Jun a look. Although Tang Jun was still angry about what had just happened, he nodded slightly at this moment.
Tang Jun walked up to Granny Xuan and said with a mischievous look, "Old lady, what are you up to again? You've been shouting since the entrance. Where can I put my old face?"
With just a few words, Tang Jun redirected the focus to himself, and Tang Youyou took Rong Xun and quietly left the Tang Mansion.
The two got into the carriage again. This time, they returned to the imperial city grandly in front of the whole Chang'an.
In the carriage, Tang Youyou frowned. She couldn't figure out what kind of secrets Rong Xun was hiding.
Rong Xun beside her naturally noticed her worried expression. He pulled Tang Youyou into his arms and said gently, "My matters aren't important. What's important is how you're going to deal with those three people in the palace."
Hearing this, Tang Youyou immediately pulled her thoughts back. She looked at Rong Xun and said, "Actually, you already have a plan in mind. You just want to test me, right?"
Saying this, she acted coquettishly. Pouting her cute little mouth, she moved to the other side of the carriage seat.
But unexpectedly, Rong Xun turned out to be a bit of a flirt in private. He also moved closer to Tang Youyou, afraid that she would jump out of the carriage. He forcefully wrapped her in his arms.
"What, are you so afraid of me?"
Tang Youyou shook her head. "It's not that I'm afraid of you. I just feel that you've always been on guard against me."
Hearing this, Rong Xun spoke again. "So you're blaming me, right?"
He was right, but for Tang Youyou, she couldn't directly admit it. So she just remained silent.
Seeing that Tang Youyou didn't want to talk, Rong Xun didn't ask any more questions. He started to talk on his own.
"I know you may feel that you know nothing about my affairs, so you don't want to talk to me."
"The Empress Dowager Xuan just now is my mother. But after she gave birth to me, she had an illegitimate child with someone else. She was thrown into the cold palace by the late emperor in a fit of anger. Then she abandoned me and only cared about Rong Jiangyu."
Hearing this, Tang Youyou finally breathed a sigh of relief. She looked up at Rong Xun and said in confusion, "But in my opinion, Granny Xuan isn't such a person. She must have her own difficulties. Have you really communicated with her?"
Hearing this, Rong Xun nodded. The two remained silent until they arrived at the palace. Tang Youyou was then taken by Rong Xun to the prison in the imperial city.
In this dungeon, most of the prisoners were members of the royal family, and there were also some ministers who had been dealt with by the previous emperor.
This place was established to allow the current emperor to deal with some people who were difficult to handle openly.
However, the scenes in front of her really shocked Tang Youyou. "Rong Xun, has this place always existed?"
Rong Xun nodded. "The imperial city has been around for a hundred years. It's just that the dynasties have changed too quickly, making people think that time has passed very short. This dungeon has been around for three hundred years and has become an unspoken rule in the royal family."
The deeper they walked, the darker the dungeon became.
Finally, they came to the last dungeon. This place basically held the most heinous criminals, but it was holding Su Minhuai and Su Sen. Next to them was Bai Xueji.
At this moment, Su Sen was unrecognizable, while Bai Xueji could still have three meals a day. After all, she had a backer behind her. As long as the backer wasn't removed, they couldn't let her die.
When the three of them saw Tang Youyou, their faces were filled with unwillingness. Bai Xueji was the first to speak.
"Tang Youyou, what right do you have to detain me? Even the emperor can't detain me here. Aren't you afraid that my master will slaughter your entire Daming Kingdom!"
What she said was true, but what Tang Youyou was going to do next wasn't a joke either. She glanced at the guard and signaled him to pull Su Sen out.
The man on the ground watched helplessly as a small white snake slithered out of Tang Youyou's sleeve. The snake coiled on his chest and kept spitting out its forked tongue.
This scene scared Su Sen so much that he immediately held his breath, afraid that if he wasn't careful, the white snake would bite him.
Su Sen panicked and said, "What are you doing? Quickly take this thing away!"
But Tang Youyou smiled and said, "Xiaobai, watch this man. If he closes his mouth, bite him to death."
Hearing Tang Youyou's words, Su Sen immediately opened his mouth. Then Tang Youyou put a small bean into his mouth. The next moment, Xiaobai, who had been stretching, quickly returned to her sleeve.
Seeing this, Su Sen immediately asked, "What did you give me to eat?"
As he spoke, he kept digging at the pill in his mouth.
"Don't worry. Anyway, it's a medicine that won't kill you. This thing will make the skin on your body peel off layer by layer, then grow back, and peel off again. By then, you'll become a real blood corpse."
Hearing Tang Youyou's words, Su Sen instantly widened his eyes. "Quick, give me the antidote. Please give me the antidote. I mustn't become like that! I mustn't!"
Watching the man in front of her plead for help, Tang Youyou pointed at Bai Xueji next door. "Isn't this person also good at medicine? People from the Qingyun Sect all claim to be highly skilled in medicine. Why don't you let her take a look at you?"
Hearing this, Su Sen went crazy and crawled towards Bai Xueji beside him.
His knees, which had just recovered, were rubbed and bled again. The blood dripped all over the ground. But just as he stretched out his wrist to Bai Xueji, his whole body began to rot.
This rot started from the inside out, and his skin began to peel off layer by layer.