Lihua cried and begged Su Minglang to go see Concubine Li for the last time. Su Minglang looked at this loyal slave who still followed her and finally nodded.

"Let's go, lead the way."

Lihua still had tears on her face, and she looked at Su Minglang with surprise, "Thank you, thank you, Empress Zhaoyi."

Su Minglang was speechless. Lihua took her to Zhaohua Palace. This was her first time setting foot in this palace.

The Zhaohua Palace was cold and deserted. It did not have the environment a concubine should have. The guards at the door were lazily leaning aside and taking a nap.

Su Minglang remained silent and walked in. He saw Concubine Li tied to the head of the bed, with disheveled hair and dirty face. When she saw the person coming, she rushed towards her like a madman.

"Ah, ahhhhh! Ahhhhh!"

Seeing this, Xiao Ye hurriedly stood in front of Su Minglang. Su Minglang patted her shoulder calmly and said, "It's okay. Get out of the way."

"Master, she..." Xiao Ye looked at the crazy Concubine Li and was hesitant to speak.

"It's okay, you all go out, I want to talk to her alone."

"master……"

Xiao Ye wanted to stop her, but Su Minglang smiled at her gently and said, "Go ahead, take the child with you."

Xiaoye didn't say anything in the end. She believed that her master must have made a decision in her mind, so she pulled Lihua out.

"Ah, ahhh! I'm going to kill you! Ahhhh!"

Concubine Li was still screaming, but Su Minglang didn't care and found a chair to sit down, watching her go crazy leisurely, until Concubine Li was too tired to move anymore, she slowly said: "You didn't ask me to come here just to watch you go crazy, right?"

Concubine Li hung her head and said nothing. Su Minglang continued, "Do you know how Lihua begged me to come?"

"She knelt in front of me, crying, and held onto my clothes tightly, refusing to let go even though I beat and scolded her."

Of course Su Minglang didn't attack her. She was just trying to provoke her and wait for her to fall out with her before she could speak frankly to her.

"I don't really understand. If you say you are a good person, you can poison and kill people without blinking an eye. If you say you are not a good person, the people around you are more loyal than each other."

"Especially the maid who died by hitting her head against a pillar in the palace. I remember her name. Peony? Rose? Oh, it was Peony, right?"

Su Minglang looked at Concubine Li's trembling body, smiled and continued, "You seemed to have fainted at the time, so I guess you didn't see it? The blood on the floor of Changle Palace took the palace servants a full quarter of an hour to wipe it clean."

"I don't even dare to think about it. How determined is she? What do you think..."

"Enough!" Concubine Li struggled violently, but was tied to the bed with ropes and unable to move.

"Stop talking! Stop talking!"

Su Minglang looked at her expression, and she swallowed all the hurtful words in her heart. Su Minglang was silent for a long time, and slowly exhaled, "So what do you want?"

"Pretend to be crazy and stupid, and then let yourself rot in this harem?"

"What else can I do?" Concubine Li smiled miserably, raised her head and looked directly into Su Minglang's eyes, "The winner is the king, the loser is the bandit, I lost, kill me!"

"Kill you?" Su Minglang seemed to have heard something funny and couldn't stop laughing. "Am I a Bodhisattva in the eyes of Concubine Li?"

"If I let you die so easily, what's the suffering I've endured? Who will pay for the blows that hit my people?"

Su Minglang's face darkened instantly, and he looked at her coldly, "You let my people be your knives, and then you sacrificed them without hesitation. At that time, have you ever thought about how you would repay me if you fell into my hands one day?"

"Then what do you want?" Concubine Li looked away in despair, looking at the closed door from afar, "Mudan is dead, and I am locked up here forever, what else do you want? If you want revenge, kill me!"

"I won't kill you." Su Minglang walked slowly in front of her. "If I don't kill you, the emperor won't kill you either. I guess you don't know this yet? Lord Jiang has been impeached repeatedly and has long been exhausted, but he still remembers to protect you."

"An old minister of two dynasties! He raised a good daughter."

"You attacked me, didn't you ever think about what kind of counterattack you would get?" Su Minglang frowned and looked at her puzzledly, "Have you never been afraid of the Su family?"

"I am the only woman sent to the palace by the Su family. The Su family still relies on me to make things happen in the court. Are you going to kill me without any regard for the consequences? Just for that moment of favor?"

"Favor?" Concubine Li sneered, "What do you mean favor? Are you talking about Xiao Heng?"

Concubine Li called the emperor by his name without hesitation, "He has never had eyes for me! How can he favor me?"

"Su Minglang, you don't think Xiao Heng loves you, do you? He is just using you to cover up his dirty thoughts!"

"Empress Li!" Su Minglang lowered her voice, "Be careful with your words!"

"What am I afraid of? I have nothing left! What am I afraid of?" Concubine Li laughed. "Hahaha, I am alone now, what am I afraid of?"

"Su Minglang, do you know why I want to hurt you? It's not for the so-called favor, but because you're blocking my way!" Concubine Li slowly stopped whispering, stared at her with a gloomy look and said, "Xiao Heng favors you and gives you supreme glory, but you do nothing! You don't fight or take advantage of it, as if you don't care at all, but I need it! I care!"

"Even if those are all fake?"

"Even if those are fake!"

"Fake favor is still favor, fake glory is still glory! I need it, the Jiang family needs it, and my father needs it!" Concubine Li covered her face tightly, sobbing and swallowing her saliva, "Jiang family, Jiang family, who is left now?"

"Both the boys and girls died on the battlefield, and when they return to the court they are still feared by the monarch!"

"Why does Xiao Heng do that? Why?"

Su Minglang shook his head as Concubine Li screamed and slowly retreated, "Take care of yourself."

Perhaps it was because she had never felt the warmth of family in two lifetimes, she could not understand the sadness in Concubine Li's eyes, but she felt the unwillingness and despair in her sobbing.

Su Minglang had no mercy on her. If it happened again, she might retaliate in an even more cruel way. But when she thought that she would rot here for the rest of her life, unable to live or die, she suddenly felt relieved.

"Lihua?" Su Minglang called softly, "Take good care of your master. Don't tie her up if there's nothing wrong."

Lihua nodded timidly, and the determination she had just shown was no longer in her expression when she looked at Su Minglang.

Su Minglang didn't care and left with Ye Zi with a heavy expression.

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