After being reborn in the Mass Grave, she overturned her predecessor's power

"The Empress Dowager summoned Princess Qingzhou to the palace for an audience!"

After the eunuch delivered the cold decree, he said to her with a fake smile, "Princess, please."

Jiang Xue Ning turned her head and glanced at Jiang Li. The moment their eyes met, she said, "I'm leaving."

Jiang Li nodded, understanding what she meant, "Don't worry, I'm here outside."

Jiang Xue Ning followed the eunuch out of the palace and got on the carriage to the palace. She knew this moment would come ever since the Empress Dowager left the mountain and returned to the capital.

The two had already fought in the air, but had never met. Now was the time to face each other.

She was calm, even expectant.

After entering the palace gate, the carriage was changed into a sedan chair, which swayed slowly towards Yongkang Palace.

Xiao Linfeng of the Xiao family looked at the news he had just received and chuckled, "Do you think she can walk out of Yongkang Palace alive?"

Xiao Wuji had a gloomy expression and tightly grasped the Embroidered Spring Sword at his waist without saying a word.

Xiao Linfeng glanced at the Feiyu suit he was wearing, "It's your turn to be on duty in the palace tonight. It's really fate. If the Empress Dowager wants to kill her, will our iron-faced and impartial Jinyiwei commander save her?"

"none of your business."

He turned around and strode away, heading into the palace to take over.

"The princess has arrived."

The palace maid reached out and helped her down from the sedan chair. The Yongkang Palace before them was solemn and majestic, and there was a chill in the night.

Under the guidance of the palace maid, she entered the side hall where the Empress Dowager lived. As soon as she entered, she smelled a faint scent of sandalwood. The finest golden carbon threads were burning inside, and it was very warm.

She knelt down in a proper manner without looking around, and her clear voice rang out in the hall, "Your humble servant pays respect to the Grand Empress Dowager. May the Grand Empress Dowager live a thousand years and a thousand thousand years."

The hall was extremely silent. She could only maintain the posture of bowing until she was asked to stand up.

After a while, she heard a low "Look up." She looked up and saw a pair of calm eyes.

The Empress Dowager looked at her calmly, without much emotion on her face.

"Many years ago, your mother also knelt here to pay her respects to me like you."

"When Gu Mingyue got married, she came with His Majesty to offer tea, and I gave her a jade hairpin as a reward."

"After the Gu family got into trouble, your grandmother knelt here for a whole night in exchange for your life."

"Now it's your turn to kneel here. It seems that we have been destined to be together for a long time."

It is a very peaceful passage, but buried within it is the rise and fall of a family and the lives of several people.

She said calmly, "I heard that you believe in Buddhism. This is probably the cause and effect reincarnation mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures."

"Someone help the princess up and serve her tea."

Jiang Xue Ning was helped to sit aside, and the palace servant brought her a cup of tea at just the right temperature.

She just took a look and showed no intention of drinking.

The Empress Dowager saw her movements clearly and fiddled with the Buddhist beads in her hand, "Why don't you drink? Are you afraid that you won't be able to leave Yongkang Palace if you drink?"

She was already quite old, with a head full of white hair, and looked very old, but sitting there, she still gave people a strong sense of oppression.

Jiang Xue Ning picked up the tea and took a sip, then smiled at her, "You're joking."

For a smart person like her, the Grand Empress Dowager did not beat around the bush, but said calmly, "All the previous queens of Xiling have never had a good end. Do you think you will be an exception?"

There are too many shady ways to kill a woman in the palace, even if that woman is the queen.

This was a warning to her and also a declaration of war against her.

Jiang Xue Ning certainly understood what she meant. She was the high and mighty Empress Dowager, and it would be too easy to encircle and suppress her in the palace.

Moreover, having reached this supreme position for a woman, she was already the biggest winner in the palace.

Unfortunately, she was never prepared to go the palace fighting route.

What she wanted was to overthrow the imperial power and take revenge.

She chuckled and said sincerely, "Then I wish you to keep winning."

What does it matter if you win? You will still be subject to the imperial power, and will be imprisoned in the deep palace forever, growing old day by day.

She didn't say anything, but her expression said it all, the sarcasm was clear.

The Empress Dowager, who had been cultivating herself for many years, could not help but sneer, "My princess looks very confident, then I am waiting for you to enter the palace."

Jiang Xue Ning lowered her eyes and did not respond. She was afraid that she would not be able to wait for that day, as the position of queen meant nothing to her.

She was too calm and composed, and the Empress Dowager felt a little unhappy. After a brief exchange, the sharp attack went straight to the core.

"You are a smart person. I won't beat around the bush with you about some things. What do you want to say about the Feng family?"

Jiang Xue Ning raised her eyes and looked at her. She was surprised that she would ask so directly.

"You issued a secret decree to execute my mother, and now you are using the same trick to kill me. Even ants try to survive, so of course I will fight back."

"Very good, the princess is indeed courageous!" The Grand Empress Dowager clapped her hands gently, "The more courageous you are, the more I will not let you leave alive."

As she clapped her hands, the eunuch in charge of Yongkang Palace brought up a cup of poisoned wine.

"Do you want the princess to drink it herself, or should I ask someone to help you?"

Jiang Xue Ning sighed with some disappointment, "Alas, you are old after all, and your methods are much lower than I thought."

"Hmph, I have changed my mind. I will kill people like you with one strike." The Empress Dowager said indifferently, "If I let you live one more day, it will only cause trouble in the future."

She had originally prepared two plans, one was to let her enter the palace, and the other was to slowly torture her. But after talking to her, based on her intuition, she felt that it would be better to deal with such a woman directly.

She was just a princess, so she died. She could just find a reason. As the Grand Empress Dowager, she had nothing to fear.

Jiang Xue Ning tilted her head, "I don't want to die."

"It's too late. You have no choice."

"How can there be no choice..." Jiang Xue Ning said with a smile, "It's rude not to reciprocate. I'll give you a difficult question."

"Do you want the entire Feng family to be buried with me, or do you want the secret you have been hiding to be revealed to the world?"

"Queen, what do you want to choose?"

"What do you know?" The Empress Dowager's face darkened. "Do you think you can threaten me like this?"

"Someone, send the princess on her way!"

Several eunuchs came out and tried to catch her, force her to surrender, and send her off.

She touched the soft sword hidden at her waist, and at the critical moment, the door was kicked open.

"Grand Empress Dowager, what are you doing?"

It was Helian Xuan who came, followed by Zhongqiu and Xiao Wuji.

The Empress Dowager asked coldly, "Why are you here, Emperor?"

Helian Xuan walked over and put his arm around her waist, and said drunkenly, "She is still young, if there is anything she doesn't understand, you can teach her slowly."

"emperor!"

Helian Xuan acted as if he hadn't seen the cup of poisoned wine, and said frivolously, "Since everything is fine, I'll take her away first."

The Empress Dowager endured and endured, and in the end said nothing. Even if she was rampant, she was not so arrogant as to dare to poison her in front of the emperor.

Jiang Xue Ning followed Helian Xuan out, and when she reached the door, she stopped and looked back.

"Grand Empress Dowager, you are old."