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Xiao Rou was a little flustered by her gaze. She began to sweat profusely as she said in a trembling voice, ”Esteemed … ”Go ahead.”

Finally, Xuanfei lowered her eyes, lifted her lips, and slowly recited, ”Liquorice, ephedra, asarum, aconite …”

When Xiao Rou heard the names of the herbs, her heart suddenly skipped a beat. Her legs went soft as she clenched her fists and said, ”Empress … What do you mean, how am I... ”Why don't you understand?”

”It doesn't matter if you don't understand, let the emperor personally interrogate you. Miss Xiao naturally knows everything. Today, that horse nearly injured all of your highness' injuries and even alarmed the emperor and empress.” Xuan Fei's cherry lips lightly blew on her slender fingers as she lazily asked.

Did Xuan Fei know that she and big brother had done it?

Xiao Rou was so frightened that her knees bent and she knelt on the ground before urgently speaking, ”Esteemed wangfei, have mercy! Esteemed wangfei, have mercy! I know my wrongs! I really know my wrongs! I was just … I was just messing around, but I didn't think that …”

”Do you want to kill Lian Ru Yue?” Suddenly, Consort Xuan interrupted her soft begging voice.

Xiao Rou stared blankly for a moment. She could only feel the blade scraping against her heart. He stopped begging for mercy and slowly raised his head. He looked at Consort Xuan in surprise as his heartbeat quickened. ”Empress, you mean …”

”If you want, I'll give you a hand. If you don't, then pretend I never came. So, now you just have to tell me if you want to or not. ” Xuan Fei said.

Xiao Rou's eyes were fixed on Consort Xuan's face. Her expression was cold and heartless as she suddenly understood and asked, ”The Empress wants to kill her too? But why? ”

As far as she could remember, there didn't seem to be any enmity between Consort Xuan and Lian Ruyue.

”Because... She deserves to die. ” A cold light burst out of Consort Xuan's usually gentle eyes — —

She had fallen in love with the emperor every day for him. She had fought among the women in the harem for him. She had fallen, bled, plotted, and suffered pain. She had experienced it all once!

She was patient, she was waiting, waiting for him to ascend to the throne so that she could be with him in broad daylight. She believed that he would eventually be hers.

She also knew that he had other women with him, but that was just for him to vent his desires. But today, she discovered that he treated Lian Ru Yue differently. The possessiveness in his eyes had never been seen before, and he said that he would spend his entire life to obtain Lian Ru Yue. These words nearly destroyed all of her will!

She, You Xuan, would never allow such a person to exist! No one would be allowed to disrupt her path to his reunion.

Xiao Rou only felt a bright light flash before her eyes and she was suddenly enlightened.

She narrowed her eyes and said coldly, ”The esteemed Empress is right, she deserves to die!” Even if he were to die a thousand or ten thousand times, it wouldn't be enough! However, her life seems to be especially tough, as if I can't kill her no matter what! ”

Consort Xuan snorted coldly and said, ”There is no one in this world who can't die, let alone a mere person who's as weak as a crescent moon.”

”Then what method does the Empress have?” Suddenly, such a powerful alliance appeared. Xiao Rou didn't think too much about it. Her depressed heart was once again filled with fighting spirit!

”Of course there are. It just depends on whether you are fit to cooperate or not.” Xuan Fei looked at Xiao Rou in front of her and pretended to be deep in thought.