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Hearing Jing Chen's address, the man almost trembled.

He raised his head slowly, and after seeing Jing Chen's appearance clearly, his eyes were about to widen: "You...Third Young Master!"

"My lord still recognizes me." Jing Chen sighed softly, "But I hardly recognize my lord."

"The old man is ashamed." The man said hoarsely.

Jing Chen looked at him with a complicated face.

This person... the former prime minister of Moyuan, was promoted by the former emperor at a young age, and he is loyal.

After the late emperor passed away, Ren Zexuan succeeded to the throne, and the court was purged. As the prime minister of the dynasty, Li Ru'en never made any mistakes during his tenure. In addition, he was deeply trusted by the late emperor, so Ren Zexuan had no reason to do anything to him.

It's just that Ren Zexuan has always disliked the release of power.

The prime minister was the minister of the two dynasties, and in the later years of the late emperor, he assisted Ren Zexuan in dealing with many court affairs, and Ren Zexuan always had doubts about him.

After weighing again and again, Ren Zexuan chose Li Ruyan as the queen, trying to push the Li family to the top and then pull it down.

Because the daughter of the Li family was the first woman Ren Zexuan appeared around after having Jing Chen, Jing Chen was very concerned about the affairs of the Li family.

Li Ruen is good at everything, except that her daughter is too arrogant. At least Li Ruyan was extremely domineering after entering the central palace, but she never made a mockery of Jing Chen. She was unexpectedly lukewarm towards Jing Chen.

It was rumored by outsiders that the queen was domineering, but Jing Chen later found out that Li Ruyan never treated his servants harshly, and the occasional scolding was just to make them work more, or punish them to light the lamp at night, but they would not be allowed to serve them the next day , gave them time to rest.

The maids who were beaten up by her and thrown to the Clothes Bureau were all from other palaces.

She has only been in the middle palace for a few years, but she has tried her best to be arrogant. Everything in the palace is the best. Ren Zexuan used her too much publicity as an excuse, and told Jing Chen that he would use others to check and balance her, so there was Emperor Rou. Concubine.

As soon as she entered the palace, she was the imperial concubine, only under the queen. At that time, Jing Chen also felt that the queen was even more arrogant after the imperial concubine entered the palace. There were rumors in the palace that if the imperial concubine came to pay her respects, she would even ignore her and let her kneel down Sorry.

Later, there were more concubines in the palace, and they looked at Jing Chen with a little contempt, and later even blatantly mocked him, Jing Chen no longer liked to go out.

Later, I heard that the concubines in the palace would always have accidental miscarriages after they conceived children. No one related these accidents to the queen. Until later, the imperial concubine lost her child, and all the evidence pointed to the queen.

Later, it was found that those aborted children were also from the hands of the queen. The emperor was furious, abolished the queen, and fell into the cold palace.

But later, not long after, something happened that Ren Zexuan found out that the palace people treated Jing Chen harshly, and the imperial concubine also went crazy because of this.

Everything seems to have settled down. It is said that the prime minister had been quiet for a while in front of the court, fell ill and had to recuperate for a long time.

Later, Ren Zexuan arranged for his younger brother to marry a prince from another country, but eloped.

The person who eloped with the fifteen princes was not a woman, but a man, and that man was Li Ruen's son, Li Yin.

Ren Zexuan was furious and sent people to arrest the two eloped. At the same time, someone reported that Li Ruen had colluded with cronies and accepted bribes. Ren Zexuan was furious, dismissed him from his official position, demoted him to a commoner, and exiled him to the border.

That was the end of Jing Chen's eighth year in the palace.

In the ninth year, the imperial concubine who had not recovered from her madness escaped from her bedroom while the palace people were not paying attention, screaming as she ran.

She broke into Jingchen's bedroom and was subdued by Zhuyue Zhuqing.

Before being taken away, Jing Chen learned the truth from her crazy words.

Those children who died back then were all caused by this imperial concubine. Before she was taken away, she kept crying to tell these evil spirits not to kill her. She was just for her own status in the palace.

Listening to her words, Jing Chen didn't know whether to believe it was true, or classify it as a lunatic's words.

Two months later, Ren Zexuan's younger brother, Ren Zelin, returned to the palace. He confessed his mistake to his brother, but Ren Zexuan didn't blame him too much, but arranged another marriage for him.

It is said that Li Yin followed him back and became Ren Zelin's male favourite.

One month before Jing Chen's accident, the Empress Dowager suddenly sent someone to invite him to the Leng Palace.

Jing Chen had nothing to do, so he went to the cold palace.

There are surprisingly many people serving Li Ruyan.

There are four palace ladies.

It is said that when she was abolished, the palace maid voluntarily followed her in.

When Jing Chen went, she was already very thin because of being bedridden all year round.

"What do you need from me?" Jing Chen stood beside her hospital bed and looked at her.

"I thought that I probably have no one to ask, so I planned to ask you. I don't know if you would like to do me a favor." Li Ruyan spoke very softly, perhaps because she had been ill for too long, her voice had long since disappeared. Instead of being domineering in the past, "I don't know if you are willing to do me this favor."

"If I can do it." She seemed to be dying. As for the dying person, Jing Chen knew the situation of the Li family, so if he could help, he would do so.

"I'm dying soon." She said pantingly, "After I die, these four girls will stay in this palace alone. I don't worry. After serving the poor, they willingly follow me into the cold palace, and they will be separated later. Going out is also to be treated harshly." There was a long gap between her words, and she tried her best to hold back her cough.

"What do you want me to do?"

"I know you can do it. Help me arrange them out of the palace. Only after they leave the palace can there be a way out."

"Your Majesty." The four palace maids beside her wept unbelievably, "My Majesty is gone, and our sisters will follow, Your Majesty..."

"Silly girl, you are still young, your life has just begun, and you will have a way out when you go out of the palace." Li Ruyan smiled slightly.

Jing Chen looked at the person on the bed, in fact, she was also very young, she was not yet 23 years old, but she looked like an old woman at the moment.

"You are different from the rumors." Jing Chen said, "If you are really arrogant and domineering, it is impossible for them to be so devoted to you.

"Oh," Li Ruyan smiled coldly, "I knew from the beginning that he was planning to use me, but the emperor's order is hard to do. If I resist the order, then he has more reason to deal with the Li family. I can only do it here. In the palace, I watched him push me to the cusp of the storm, watched him use me to destroy the Li family, since he wants to use me, then he should not think about it."

Therefore, she disturbed the entire harem, causing a bloody storm in the palace just as he wished, so she used the most domineering attitude to satirize those concubines who were being used without knowing it.

She knew that Ren Zexuan wanted to destroy her so that she could take the opportunity to destroy the Li family, but Li Ruyan was a proud master since she was a child, knowing that she couldn't help herself, so naturally she would not let the person who harmed her feel better.

She couldn't move the emperor, so naturally she could only turn the harem upside down.

"You didn't kill those children, right?" Jing Chen asked.

"It was the imperial concubine who killed her, but I killed the child in her belly. She always thought that I was just empty-headed. During pregnancy, she guarded others, but she took me lightly. The child was born as a child. The way his mother and concubine fought for favor, killing him while the fetus was not yet formed, is atonement for her mother's previous methods." Li Ruyan smiled coldly, her face had already turned pale, smiling like this now, seeing It's like a ghost who is killing her, "Even if she is not crazy, she will not be able to conceive a child in this life."

This is a poor woman, but also a vicious woman.

Jing Chen looked at Li Ruyan and thought in his heart.

"My brother." Li Ruyan took a breath, "It wasn't voluntary."

Jing Chen was startled.

The news from the previous dynasty to the harem was that Li Yin eloped with Ren Zelin voluntarily, but Li Ruyan...

"He wants to bring down the Li family, and it's not enough for the Li family to have a deposed queen," Li Ruyan panted, and when it came to Ren Zexuan, she was still unable to calm down, "My brother was taken away, and Ren Zexuan used this to threaten My father, I didn't expect that my father was planning to resign to protect my brother's peace, but I didn't expect Ren Zexuan to be so ruthless that he exiled my father!"

"Li Yin was taken away?" Jing Chen was taken aback. If this is really the case, then was Ren Zexuan planning this matter from beginning to end? "how do you know?"

"Even he doesn't know about the contacts I made in the palace," Li Ruyan sneered, "My family will always have a way to inform me. My father and the others encountered bandits during their exile, and now we have lost the news."

"You told me so much, what are you going to do?"

"In addition to asking you to help me get these girls out, there is also a warning." Li Ruyan stared, as if he wanted to imprint Jing Chen's appearance in his heart, "Do you know why I didn't look for you back then? trouble?"

"do not know."

"Because I think you are more pitiful than me," Li Ruyan sneered, "I clearly know that I am being used, but you always think that he has feelings for you, Jing Chen, you have been in this palace for ten years, and now Can you still say without hesitation that you believe he has feelings for you?"

He spoke almost reflexively, but couldn't say a word.

His face instantly became whiter than Li Ruyan.

Her words almost tore open Jing Chen's deep wound.

Today, can he still say without hesitation that he believes that Xin Zexuan has feelings for him?

"Can't answer? Right." Li Ruyan laughed, "I didn't say it back then, because even if I said it back then, you would still believe it, but you have been in the palace for ten years, and these ten years are not enough to make you Can you see clearly?"

"Jing Chen." She took his hand, and red marks appeared on Jing Chen's hand, "In my whole life, life is not up to me, but you are not. You have the opportunity to leave the court, and you have the opportunity to start over , Think about how happy you were before, look at you now, are you still a person now?"

Jing Chen's whole body trembled at that moment.

Li Ruyan asked him, look at you now, are you still a person?