In order to eat, I signed a contract with the system

In addition, as Yinzhen gradually stabilized the court, he gradually became unable to tolerate Nian Gengyao's rebelliousness. Nian Gengyao had been jealous of the emperor taking away Yixiu for many years. In order for his son to become emperor, he endured the disgust and assisted Yinzhen to ascend the throne.

It was just that her attitude on weekdays still showed some of it, which Yinzhen remembered. The Queen Mother was more concerned about the offspring born by Honghui, her niece, and for the stability of Honghui's position as the Crown Prince, although she was dissatisfied with Hua Fei's practice of poisoning the women in the harem to make them infertile, she did not say much because it was beneficial to the Ulanara family.

The emperor has suffered a lot from the Nian family over the years, but Nian Gengyao has no wife and no children, and Concubine Hua has no children either. Under Yixiu's advice, Nian Gengyao did not do the corrupt and illegal things in the plot, so the emperor has never found an excuse to deal with the Nian family.

This time, the incident involving Concubine Hua finally gave the Emperor a reason. Not only did he demote Concubine Hua to a noble lady, he also announced that she would be permanently confined to the Yikun Palace. He also used this as a reason to punish the Nian family and remove Nian Gengyao from his position. This was a much lighter punishment than in the plot.

Yixiu wrote a letter to Nian Gengyao, asking him to wait for Honghui to ascend the throne. Although Nian Gengyao could not see Yixiu in these years, he was still devoted to her. Especially after knowing that Honghui was his blood, he had the ambition to confuse the royal bloodline. Therefore, in order to achieve this ambition, Nian Gengyao had been obedient to Yixiu's words in these years.

After dealing with Nian Gengyao, Yixiu found a night and quietly came to the closed Yikun Palace with Jianqiu.

"Who is it?" After hearing the knock on the door, Concubine Hua vigilantly asked Songzhi who went to open the door to see what was going on. Unexpectedly, Songzhi did not answer, but let the person in directly.

Concubine Hua got up from the bed and looked over. She found that it was Yixiu. "Sister Queen, why are you here?"

Over the years, Concubine Hua has never been alone with Yixiu in private. On the one hand, she was afraid that the emperor would find out that they had a good relationship. On the other hand, she wanted to escape. Seeing that Yixiu's face was somewhat similar to her lover Xingde, Nian Shilan dared not see her too often, for fear that she would not be able to suppress her inner longing for her.

"Shilan, I came here specially to see you!" Yixiu smiled and walked to Concubine Hua's bed and sat down naturally. "Let me ask you, do you want to leave the palace?"

"Leave the palace?" Hua Fei repeated the word "leave the palace" in a daze. She didn't answer anything, but the tears on her face answered everything.

"Xingde is still waiting for you!" Yixiu didn't say anything else, just said this.

When Hua Fei heard this, her eyes widened instantly. She had never told Yi Xiu about the relationship between her and Xingde, and she had always assumed that Yi Xiu knew nothing. However, she did not expect that Yi Xiu knew everything and was even willing to accept her and Xingde being together.

"Queen sister. I... I don't know, am I still okay? I mean, how can I still..."

Looking at Concubine Hua who was so excited that she was incoherent, Yixiu sighed softly in her heart. At the beginning, she just wanted to use Concubine Hua to deal with Yinzhen and Yinzhen's woman. For this reason, she deliberately allowed her to have a miscarriage, and even deliberately let Nian Gengyao tell Concubine Hua Honghui's identity so that Honghui could ascend the throne.

The reason why Concubine Hua and Xingde fell in love was, on the one hand, to take revenge on Yinzhen, and on the other hand, to take revenge on Concubine Hua and to allow her to have better control over him.

But seeing how Concubine Hua had been hiding her intention of revenge by being arrogant and domineering all these years, and how she had been living in pain and depression, Yixiu still softened her heart. Anyway, in the plot, it was now the time for Concubine Hua to die. It seemed that there was no difference between dying by hitting her head against the wall after learning the truth and self-immolating and leaving the palace after learning the truth in this life, right?

After confirming that Concubine Hua was willing to leave the palace, Yixiu told Concubine Hua her plan and asked her to arrange for Zhen Huan to come and expose the truth about Huan Yixiang before she left. Yixiu did not stay long and left again under the cover of night.

Now that Concubine Hua has hope in her heart, she no longer looks as lifeless as before. Songzhi is also beside her, so naturally she knows all the plans and is happy for Concubine Hua.

With Wen Shichu's full support, Zhen Huan's musk was about to be discharged from her body when Huanbi came in with Huanyixiang.

"Your Highness, this is the Huanyi incense commonly used in the palace of Noble Lady Nian. I found that the people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs were a little uneasy about it, so I took some back."

"Brother Shichu, can you help take a look?" After saying that, he motioned to Huanbi to give the Huanyi incense to Wen Shichu. Wen Shichu took it and smelled it, and was shocked: "My queen, this, this contains a lot of horse musk, the strongest musk!"

Even though there was no vengeance for the murder of her son, Zhen Huan still hated Concubine Hua who had always been bullying her and making her childless. She had not expected that the person she had thought would control the emperor's offspring was not the Queen but the childless Concubine Hua. Now that she knew the "truth", Zhen Huan would of course give her former rival a good seduce.

Sure enough, not long after, Zhen Huan found an opportunity to go to Yikun Palace alone. After hearing Zhen Huan proudly say that the Huanyi incense given by the emperor personally contained a lot of musk, Concubine Hua did not show a broken expression as Zhen Huan expected. Instead, she said calmly: "Do you think I don't know? I know what kind of person the emperor is much better than you."

"You think you are favored because of yourself? Humph, ridiculous, do you know that you look similar to the emperor's first wife? You are just a substitute!"

Zhen Huan said she didn't believe it, but she still left Yikun Palace with a heavy heart. Nian Shilan sneered and turned to ask Song Zhi: "Have you prepared the 'blood letter' for the emperor?"

Songzhi nodded: "I'm ready."

"Okay then, let's wait for the Queen to send someone to inform us of the timing. Now let's pack up our things first. I don't want to leave my things here to the women who come after me."

Soon the substitute prepared by Yixiu arrived, and Nian Shilan cooperated very well. The "blood letter" specially prepared for Zhen Huan was also successfully delivered to the emperor's desk.

Zhen Huan was still struggling in the Sui Yuxuan over what Hua Fei meant by the word "substitute". She took it for granted that the Emperor loved his first wife terribly, but she didn't think that all the time she had spent in love with the Emperor was fake. She was struggling over whether or not to find out the truth when she heard Xiao Yunzi come in to report.

"My queen, there's a fire in the Yikun Palace!"

"What?" Wasn't everything fine when I left? How did it catch fire?

There was no need to report such a big fire; all the women in the palace knew about it soon, and of course the emperor knew about it too.

The emperor, who had just finished court and had not yet returned to the imperial study, came to the front of the Yikun Palace in his court robes. Upon asking, he learned that the Yikun Palace was on fire from the inside and the palace gate was closed. Neither the noble lady Nian nor her personal maid Aunt Songzhi came out.

The women in the harem came to the Yikun Palace one after another. Even Yixiu was not surprised. After the palace people tried their best to put out the fire, the fire in the Yikun Palace was finally extinguished, and two charred female corpses were carried out from the main hall...

The emperor couldn't tell what he felt in his heart, he only knew that Concubine Hua was passionate and beautiful, and he liked her in his heart. It was just a demotion, why did she suddenly commit suicide?

A man returned to the imperial study in a trance. As soon as he sat down at the desk, he saw a blood letter with the words "Shilan's last words" written on it.

After reading the letter about Huan Yi Xiang, the emperor realized that Shi Lan was heartbroken by him and had lost the will to live, so she decided to commit suicide by burning herself. The guilt, pain and uneasiness in his heart instantly surged up. At this moment, Zhen Huan became the outlet for his negative emotions.

"Pass on my decree. Concubine Wan Zhen has a bad character and has disobeyed the emperor's will. She is demoted to a concubine and confined to Suiyuxuan."