My Lord, the princess doesn't want you anymore.

"Ah......" The queen suddenly sat up, breathing heavily, her whole body soaked with cold sweat.

Over the years, she had this dream from time to time, and each time she woke up with a start when the woman's sword stabbed into her chest, and each time she was frightened for a long time.

She was about to call for hot water for bathing, but she saw her trusted maid running in with a panicked look on her face: "Madam, it's bad. News has come from Prince Kang's mansion. Prince Kang has been poisoned by some unknown poison and is unconscious. Several doctors have been there, but they are helpless..."

The queen was so anxious when she heard this that she didn't even have time to change her clothes and was about to leave the palace. "Go and report to the emperor immediately. I'll go first."

She instinctively thought that it was Concubine Cheng who did it. Since the identity of King Kang had been exposed, she was of no use to him, so she might as well drag him down with her and let everyone die together. This was something that vicious woman could do.

As she walked, she gave the order: "Tie that woman up. When I return to the palace, I will make her suffer a fate worse than death!"

……

An hour later, Yan Ruobing, who was reviewing a memorial, suddenly put down her pen and asked, "What time is it?"

"Your Majesty, it is already past half past the hour of the Xu." Eunuch Fu, who was serving at the side, responded carefully.

"Is King Kang okay?"

"Your Majesty, Prince Kang is fine. I found an excuse to lead him out of the palace and have sent people to serve him."

Yan Ruobing was silent for a moment, then took out an old sachet from the locked drawer below, staring at it absentmindedly, and asked without raising her head, "What about the news from the queen? Has there been any news yet?"

Eunuch Fu stiffened and said, "I'll have someone go and find out."

Yan Ruobing waved her hand, "That's not necessary. I have waited for twenty years and don't care about this moment."

Eunuch Fu raised his eyes and glanced at Yan Ruobing secretly. "No matter what the result is, the Queen has not seen the Emperor, and she roughly knows the Emperor's intentions. So no matter what, it can be regarded as a broken face. Even if she is lucky enough to be alive, she can't be kept."

Yan Ruobing nodded and said through gritted teeth: "Ever since I found out what she did back then, I have been thinking about taking her life all the time."

Eunuch Fu: "I understand that the truth has come too late, and the Queen's party has already become powerful. Right now, it is indeed the best choice for Prince Jing to take action."

As soon as he finished speaking, a close attendant came running in in a panic, reporting, "Your Majesty, something bad has happened. The Queen was abducted by criminals in Prince Kang's mansion and is missing."

They were kidnapped, not killed.

A trace of surprise flashed in Yan Ru's eyes, and she stood up suddenly: "Go to Prince Kang's mansion... Check, and make sure to find the queen..."

……

pitch black.

After the black cloth in front of the queen's eyes was torn off, the surroundings were still pitch black.

In the darkness, there was deathly silence.

Two hours ago, she had just stepped into Prince Kang's mansion when she encountered an assassin. Her first reaction was to "send someone to protect Prince Kang."

When a queen leaves the palace, she will naturally be accompanied by guards with strong martial arts skills, but she left the palace in a hurry this time and never thought that she would encounter assassins in Prince Kang's mansion. The other side has more and more people, and their martial arts are not bad.

After a struggle, the queen was kidnapped. The other party stuffed her into a carriage that had been prepared long ago at lightning speed, blinded her with a black cloth, and drove directly out of the palace.

"Is Prince Kang okay?" After all, she was a queen who had seen the world, so she spoke calmly and only asked this one question.

Although she was assassinated in Prince Kang's mansion, she would not be foolish enough to think that it was Prince Kang's doing. Prince Kang had just recognized the Queen as his biological mother. Even if he blamed her for not noticing Concubine Cheng's conspiracy for so many years, he would definitely not harm her at this critical moment. It was possible that Prince Kang had been controlled.

"It's fine now, but if the Queen starts to shout loudly, I can't guarantee that Prince Kang can live to see tomorrow's sunrise." A very pleasant man's voice sounded in my ears.

The queen immediately shut up and said nothing more.

She originally thought that the emperor would come quickly after learning that Prince Kang was poisoned, but she never waited for him.

A bad premonition came to my mind.

In the carriage, she kept thinking, what is going on? How can she save herself?

Until I got off the carriage and was brought here.

In the darkness, the queen felt for a chair and slowly sat down.

"No matter who you are, if you dare to touch me, the emperor will kill your entire family!" She said in a calm voice, "If you can turn back and send me back to the palace, I will pretend that this incident never happened."

No one answered. She didn't even hear the other person breathing.

Such darkness and deathly silence are enough to drive anyone crazy.

But the queen is not an ordinary person. Instead, she calmed down and her mind became extremely clear.

Even if the other party didn't kill her directly, she still had a chance.

As long as the emperor doesn't want her life, she is confident that she can deal with these bad guys.

Even if the emperor was the mastermind behind this, as long as it was not because of that incident, she had a way to deal with it temporarily.

After an unknown amount of time, someone removed the black cloth covering her eyes, and a faint candlelight lit up in the secret room. The queen's eyes were stung by the pain she felt from staying in the darkness for too long.

It took her a while to adjust herself before she could barely see the red-robed man in front of her holding a candlestick.

The man had a stunning face, with a faint smile that flashed with some evil and cruelty in his eyes, and behind him was something long and wrapped in cloth.

The queen looked at the unfamiliar face and felt as if she had seen it somewhere, yet it did not look like anyone she knew.

But I shuddered for no reason.

She looked at him quietly without saying anything.

Li Mo placed the candlestick on the table in front of the queen and sat down opposite her.

After she sat down, she straightened her red robe and smiled nonchalantly at the queen, "Does the queen think I look familiar?"

The queen did not answer, but turned her head away arrogantly and snorted coldly from her nose.

Li Mo was not in a hurry. He changed his posture and crossed his legs lazily.

"Over the years, the King of Chu has been increasingly valued by the Emperor. The Crown Prince feared that the East Palace would change hands one day, so he wanted to pull the Iron Bone Gang into his camp. After all, the Iron Bone Gang is known to know everything. But he was stupid, and he should never have sneaked to the capital of Zhenguo to meet with the leader of the Iron Bone Gang." Li Mo stared at the Queen and said slowly, "So, I took the opportunity to kill him in Zhenguo."

The queen was moved. "Did you kill the prince? Why?"

Li Mo spread his hands and shrugged, "Is the Queen still grieving over the death of the Crown Prince? He was originally a waste, and he was not your son. I killed him for you, you should thank me."

The queen snorted coldly and asked instead, "Are you the King of Chu's man?"

Li Mo snorted contemptuously, as if he had heard something extremely ridiculous, "King of Chu? Is he worthy of it?"

He put his face close to the candlestick, and the face appeared clearly in front of the queen.

At that moment, the queen felt like she was going to stop breathing, and her voice was filled with fear: "You, you are..."

"Shh..." Li Mo put his index finger in front of his lips to interrupt her. He then took off the cloth wrapped behind his back, gently placed it on the table, and then slowly opened it layer by layer.

An ancient sword shining with cold light appeared in front of the queen.

"Empress, do you still remember this sword?"

The queen's pupils suddenly shrank again and her whole body stiffened.

This is the Yinshuang Sword, the sword that belonged to Li Moyan, the daughter of the Palace Master of Wuchen Palace, twenty years ago.