While Concubine Lan was copying the palace rules and cursing the Queen in her heart, someone suddenly came to the door asking to see her.

Xia Lu bowed respectfully to the Queen and said, "Greetings to Her Majesty, Your Majesty. I, on the orders of the Emperor, have heard that Concubine Lan is here, so I specially invite Concubine Lan to the Yangxin Palace!"

When Lan Fei heard these words, her brush fell to the ground!

After the Queen noticed Concubine Lan's small action, the corners of her mouth raised inadvertently. It seemed that the matter of the palace maid committing suicide in Chuxiu Palace had been reported to the Yangxin Palace, and the Emperor would also personally interrogate Concubine Lan.

"Princess Lan, then you can go with Xia Lu. You can copy the palace rules later!" said the Queen.

Concubine Lan stood up and glanced at the Queen. The Queen, that bitch, was pretending to be magnanimous at this moment. However, Concubine Lan had no time to confront her at the moment. She wondered why the Emperor suddenly wanted to summon her.

"I'll go with you." Concubine Lan said to Xia Lu

"Please come in, Empress Lan." Xia Lu said

So, after saying goodbye to the Queen, the two of them walked out of Fenghua Palace.

On the way to the Yangxin Palace, Concubine Lan kept wondering why the emperor summoned her. Could it be because of the suicide of little Gengzi?

But this matter belongs to the affairs of the harem, and the emperor is too busy with the affairs of the former court, so how could he suddenly have the mind to take care of these things?

Or did that bitch, the Queen, deliberately reveal this to the Emperor so that he could punish her along with her! This must be the case!

But where is Meng'er? Meng'er has been missing for so long, where did she go? Meng'er and Xiao Gengzi went to deliver something to Xiaoying in Yufangzhai, but Xiao Gengzi suddenly committed suicide, and Meng'er's whereabouts were unknown. What happened that night?

Along the way, Concubine Lan was thinking and unknowingly arrived outside the gate of the Palace of Tranquil Longevity.

"Empress Lan, it's time to come in!" Xia Lu said

Concubine Lan came back to her senses and looked at the plaque above the Hall of Mental Cultivation. It was so fast, they had arrived so soon.

"Your Majesty, I am here." Concubine Lan said standing at the door

The emperor's voice came from the palace, "Come in."

Concubine Lan pushed the door open cautiously and walked in. Sitting right above her was the emperor, holding a few pages of paper and examining them carefully.

"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you..." Concubine Lan didn't know what the emperor was looking at, but she noticed that he read those few pieces of paper several times.

It was a long time before the emperor spoke.

"What did you order people to do the night before?"

When the emperor asked this, Concubine Lan's heart beat faster. Could it be that the emperor knew something... ?

Concubine Lan said guiltily, "I...I didn't order anyone to do anything..."

The emperor put down the paper, stroked the jade ring in his hand and said, "It has been eight or nine years between you and me, if not ten. I have been with you all these years. It seems that for the sake of our past relationship, and for the sake of Chen Yi and Chen Xi, I have turned a blind eye to many things."

"But what about you? Are you worthy of me?"

Concubine Lan looked up at the emperor's disappointed eyes. She was too guilty to dare to look directly at him. She looked around randomly and said with a lack of confidence, "I don't know what the emperor is talking about..."

Xiao Rui said, "There are only you and me here, so there's no need to pretend. Aren't you tired of pretending for so long? Just speak frankly."

Before she was sure what the emperor knew about those things, Concubine Lan didn't dare to say anything.

"Your Highness, Your Highness did not..."

The Emperor enumerated Concubine Lan's evil deeds. "It was you who ordered Meng'er to give Concubine Yu a slow-acting poison in an attempt to kill two people with one body! It was you who colluded with the imperial physician to tell Concubine Wang that her healthy dragon fetus was in danger, forcing her to resort to a bad strategy to kill her own child! Concubine Ru's child was already ten months pregnant and was about to be born, but you bribed the midwife to secretly make trouble and suffocate the child to death in her belly! It was you!"

Thinking of those scenes, Concubine Lan covered her ears and said, "Your Majesty, I beg you not to say any more..."

The emperor asked, "Are you afraid too? Have you ever thought about these children? You yourself have children, so how can you not know the pain of being a mother?"

"There is also the death of Concubine Xi. She didn't think much about it. After all, she stayed by my side for five years. You said you would execute her? And Concubine Wang was also forced to death by you! You repeatedly framed Song Qingwan. What did she do wrong to make you target her as soon as she entered the palace!"

Concubine Lan collapsed on the ground. Facing the emperor's loud questioning, she suddenly covered her face and cried, "Your Majesty, I am innocent. I don't want this to happen! But they are really too much of a nuisance!"

Hearing Concubine Lan say that she was innocent, Xiao Rui couldn't help but laugh. "Haha, you are innocent? And now Yu Yingda from Zhongxiang Palace, Zhang Weizi, her child was also the work of you, Concubine Lan, right? You killed her child, and then let her take the blame for you killing Concubine Ru's child! What is Yu Yingda's fault?"

Concubine Lan just kept crying and didn't say anything.

The emperor looked at Concubine Lan who was slumped on the ground and said, "You also instigated Concubine Shu in the cold palace to set fire to Yufangzhai, and as a result, by mistake, the woman of the official He was burned to death! Concubine Lan, you have killed so many people. How many times in the middle of the night, aren't you afraid that those wronged souls will come to claim your life!!"

Concubine Lan wiped away her tears and said confidently, "I am not afraid. Those people cannot defeat me when they are alive! Even after they die, they will be defeated by me!"

Xiao Rui clapped his hands towards Concubine Lan, "Hahaha, very good, Concubine Lan, you are very good!"

Concubine Lan looked up and asked, "Did that bitch Meng'er tell it? She must have been careless and was discovered by Song Qingwan! Song Qingwan, that bitch!"

Xiao Rui said, "You don't have to feel sorry for yourself. You have been in the harem for so many years. Don't you know that if you don't want others to know, you better not do it yourself?"

Concubine Lan sniffed and said, "Since the emperor knows everything, I won't say anything more. I know that I will definitely die. I only ask the emperor to give me a decent death..."

Xiao Rui asked, "You're so happy to say that. If we die, everything will be fine. Have you ever thought about Chen Yi and Chen Xi? Chen Yi is very talented and needs someone to teach him well!"

"And Chen Xi, Chen Xi is the youngest child in the palace, innocent and cute, naive and ignorant. When you did these things, did you ever think about the two children? If they are discovered one day, what will happen to them?!"

Speaking of children, it touched the softest part of Lan Fei's heart.

"My children! My two children! Wuuwuwu...wuuwuwu...I beg Your Majesty to show some mercy. Even if Your Majesty has to banish me to the cold palace or demote me to a slave, I will die immediately when my two children grow up, okay?"

Concubine Lan, who had been determined to die just now, now knelt on the ground, hugging Xiao Rui's thigh and begging.

Xiao Rui kicked her away in disgust. "You regret it now, but it's too late. You are the head concubine, second only to the emperor in the harem, and you have a pair of lovely children, but you are giving up your good life!"

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