Quick Wear: The Enchanting Concubine, Rules of Survival and Plunder

"The Empress is truly audacious," the Emperor said, laughing in anger. "But have you not considered the fate of your family? To plot against an imperial heir is a crime punishable by the extermination of nine generations of your family."

The Empress's face showed a hint of guilt, but she quickly put it into words and said, "Then let it be my family's bad luck! They're unlucky to have a daughter like me. If there is an afterlife, I will come back to atone for my family's sins."

"Your Majesty," the Empress said, looking directly at the Emperor with a look of resignation, "Since I have confessed my guilt, please grant me and the servants in my palace a swift end! Since I have already confessed, why should the servants in my palace be subjected to severe torture in the Imperial Prison?"

The Empress is so eager to die because she is worried that Shaoyao and Shaoqing will implicate Prince Chen.

What the Empress didn't know was that if she hadn't said it, things would have been better; the moment she did, suspicion began to rise in the Emperor's mind.

"The Empress doesn't consider her own family, but she's very concerned about the servants around her," the Emperor said, rising up and coming to the Empress's side. He bent down and pinched her chin. "I really want to peel off your skin and see what secrets you're hiding."

The Empress's pupils dilated slightly, though it was fleeting, the Emperor still caught it, which naturally made him even more suspicious.

"Why does Your Majesty say that? I have already confessed to the crime of plotting to harm the imperial heir. What secrets could I possibly have hidden?" The Empress's eyes then reddened. "Your Majesty, I know I have wronged you, but I only love you too much."

"For the sake of our past as husband and wife, please grant me and my servants a quick death!"

"Heh!" The Emperor chuckled coldly, releasing the Empress's chin before walking outside.

"Your Majesty," the Empress cried out in anguish, "I beg you to grant me and my servants a quick death!"

This woman, obsessed with love, can be so stupid sometimes it's unbearable to watch. Knowing full well that her words have aroused the emperor's suspicion, she keeps repeating them over and over again. Isn't that obviously a guilty conscience?

After leaving the Empress's palace, the Emperor went to the Empress Dowager's palace.

Your Majesty: "Mother, although the Empress said she targeted the imperial heir out of jealousy, the more I think about it, the more suspicious it seems."

“Of course it’s suspicious,” the Empress Dowager sneered. “Having committed such a heinous crime, instead of thinking about leaving a way out for the family, she couldn’t wait to have her servants in the palace punished. This is clearly because she is worried that her servants will not be able to withstand the torture and will say something they shouldn’t.”

"Give the order to have the people from the Censorate pry open the mouths of the servants in the Empress's palace. I want to see what else the Empress has done."

That's right, the Empress Dowager only suspected that the Empress had done some heinous crimes, but she really didn't think about the possibility of her having an affair.

“Your Majesty, Your Majesty,” the chief eunuch of the Empress Dowager’s palace rushed in from outside, “the people from the Censorate are outside requesting an audience.”

"Let him in." That was the Emperor's voice.

The newcomer was the chief eunuch in charge of the Censorate. As soon as he entered, he knelt on the ground, and before he could even speak, his body began to tremble.

"Speak! What exactly did they find out that made you, a mere servant, tremble like this? Could it be that the Empress has truly committed some other heinous crime?" The Empress Dowager asked, frowning.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty," the eunuch held up the confession above his head, "this is the confession of the Empress's maid, Peony. Please take a look, Your Majesty."

To be honest, the reason why the chief eunuch of the Censorate was trembling with fear was mainly because he was afraid that he would be silenced!

Heavens above! Earth below! How could he have encountered such a thing? The Queen of a nation has actually become embroiled in a scandal with her brother-in-law.

Is this something a human being could do?

The chief eunuch in the Empress Dowager's palace hurriedly stepped forward to take the confession and present it to the Emperor.

The emperor took the confession and began to read it. The more he read, the darker his face became, and then it turned a liver color. Finally, he vomited a mouthful of blood.

After all, no man can accept being cuckolded in any way, especially not by an emperor.

"Your Majesty!" the Empress Dowager cried out in alarm, "Imperial Physician! Summon the Imperial Physician at once!"

Consort Chengfu, where Jiang Chunxi resided, was closest to the Empress Dowager's palace. Therefore, when news of the Emperor vomiting blood and fainting in the Empress Dowager's palace and summoning the imperial physician reached the inner palace, she was the first to arrive at the Empress Dowager's palace.

"Your Majesty, what has happened to the Emperor?" When Jiang Chunxi arrived, the Emperor was still unconscious.

"What are you doing here?" The Empress Dowager was barely holding on at this point. "Guards! Quickly send Consort Fu back to Chengfu Palace."

Jiang Chunxi naturally acted as if she didn't want to leave, but also couldn't leave.

After returning to Chengfu Palace, she dismissed all the servants so that she could have some peace and quiet.

For someone like Jiang Chunxi, who has an unfair advantage, she only needed to glance at the unconscious emperor to know that something was wrong with him.

It seems the Emperor has been poisoned!

Considering that the servants in the Empress's palace were all sent to the Imperial Prison, it's not hard to imagine that the person who poisoned the Emperor must have been the Empress.

However, why would the Empress poison the Emperor? It would be understandable if she gave him a drug to prevent him from having children and harm the imperial heir, but poisoning the Emperor is a completely inexplicable reason for her to do so.

After all, if the emperor were to die, what good could she, as the empress, possibly expect?

Of course, whatever the Empress's reason for poisoning him, Jiang Chunxi was unwilling to dwell on it.

The most important thing now is to keep the emperor alive. Her child hasn't been born yet, and the emperor can't be harmed. Otherwise, those vassal kings will unite and devour her and her unborn child alive.

Jiang Chunxi immediately purchased an antidote pill from the system shop and then used points to remotely deliver the antidote pill to the emperor using a prop.

After Jiang Chunxi administered the antidote to the emperor using a prop, the emperor quickly regained consciousness.

Because the peony only confessed to the illicit affair between the Empress and Prince Chen, and that she had harmed the imperial heir for Prince Chen's sake, she couldn't hold on any longer and died. Therefore, her confession did not record the fact that the Emperor had been given a secret drug. Thus, the Emperor was unaware of the secret drug.

As for Shaoqing, she remained defiant and never betrayed Prince Chen until her death. Because she and Shaoyao were interrogated separately, she did not know that Shaoyao could not withstand the torture and confessed Prince Chen's identity.

When the Empress Dowager saw that the Emperor had regained consciousness, she could no longer hold on and fainted.

And so, the Empress Dowager's palace was thrown into chaos once again.

When the concubines arrived at the Empress Dowager's palace after receiving the news, the Emperor, who had already regained consciousness, ordered them all to return home.

When Consort Li returned to her palace, she looked puzzled and asked, "Tell me, what is it that made the Emperor vomit blood? Could it be that the Empress did something other than harm the imperial heirs that made the Emperor so angry that he vomited blood?"