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"Your Majesty, please don't think about it anymore. The Emperor has already issued an order, and no one can change it." Songzhi consoled her carefully, fearing that she might say something wrong and make her master sad again.

Nian Shilan ignored him and stared blankly out the window with empty eyes, as if she had lost her soul.

"Songzhi, tell me, does the emperor really no longer have me in his heart?" Her voice was hoarse and trembling.

Songzhi didn't dare to answer. She knew that Nian Shilan knew the answer to this question better than anyone else.

"Songzhi, prepare the sedan chair, I want to go to the Palace of Tranquil Longevity!" Nian Shilan said firmly.

"Your Majesty, the Emperor has already ordered that no one is allowed to disturb..." Songzhi hesitated.

"Shut up! Don't you want to listen to what I say?" Nian Shilan shouted angrily.

Songzhi was so frightened that she knelt down immediately: "I dare not, I will go and prepare it now."

Outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the wind was bitingly cold.

Nian Shilan knelt on the cold stone slab, shivering. She had been kneeling for two hours, her knees were numb, but she still gritted her teeth and persisted.

"Your Majesty, I beg you to see me! I have something to say to you!" She begged over and over again, her voice becoming weaker and weaker.

The eunuch guarding the gate had a blank expression on his face and was indifferent to her pleas.

"Empress Hua, you'd better go back. The Emperor won't see you."

"No! I won't leave! I want to see the emperor! I want to plead for my brother!" Nian Shilan shouted at the top of her lungs.

She didn't believe that Yinzhen would be so heartless. She didn't believe that the relationship between them would be so fragile.

"Your Majesty, please see me! I beg you!" Nian Shilan cried out, her voice was shrill and heartbreaking.

Suddenly, the door of the Hall of Mental Cultivation opened.

Yinzhen walked out and looked down at Nian Shilan who was kneeling on the ground. His eyes were cold and without a trace of warmth.

"Your Majesty!" When Nian Shilan saw Yinzhen, she felt like she had seen a savior. She struggled to get up and wanted to rush over.

"Stop!" Yinzhen shouted coldly.

Nian Shilan was so frightened that she stopped in her tracks. She looked at Yinzhen with eyes full of fear and despair.

"Hua Fei, do you admit your guilt?" Yinzhen asked coldly.

Nian Shilan's heart sank to the bottom. She knew that she was finished, and the Nian family was finished too.

"I...I know my crime..." Her voice trembled and tears flowed like rain.

"Since you admit your guilt, go back." Yinzhen turned around and was about to leave.

“Your Majesty!” Nian Shilan rushed over, hugged Yinzhen’s legs, and cried, “Your Majesty, please forgive my brother! He was just confused for a moment, he has no intention of rebellion!”

Yinzhen lowered his head and looked at Nian Shilan, with a complex emotion flashing in his eyes.

He said slowly: "Hua Fei, you can go back. I have made up my mind, and no one can change it."

"Your Majesty!" Nian Shilan shouted in despair.

"Your Majesty, I know my brother's crime is unforgivable, but I beg Your Majesty to spare my brother's life for the sake of the Nian family's generations of loyalty and the years of service I have given you!"

Yinzhen looked at her with a complex expression in his eyes, which contained regret, disappointment, and a hint of reluctance.

He spoke slowly, his voice low and majestic: "Shilan, you know, what I hate most is people who are arrogant because of their achievements and have no regard for the law."

"Nian Gengyao, he really disappoints me."

Nian Shilan's heart sank a little bit. She knew that Yinzhen's words had already defined Nian Gengyao's character.

But she was unwilling to accept this. She couldn't just watch her brother die.

"Your Majesty, my brother was just confused for a moment. He has no second thoughts! I can swear to heaven!" Nian Shilan cried and kowtowed heavily. Her forehead soon became red and swollen.

Yinzhen closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and when he opened them again, his eyes were cold: "I know you have a brotherly love for Nian Gengyao, but the country has its own laws and the family has its own rules. I can't bend the law for your sake."

He paused, and his tone softened a little: "In consideration of the Nian family's past contributions, I can spare Nian Gengyao's life, but the death penalty can be avoided, but the living punishment cannot be escaped."

When Nian Shilan heard Yinzhen say that he could spare Nian Gengyao's life, hope suddenly ignited in her heart. She ignored the pain on her forehead and asked hurriedly: "Your Majesty, what...what are you going to do with my brother?"

Yinzhen looked at her and said slowly, "I will issue an order to demote Nian Gengyao to a city gate guard and never allow him to return to Beijing."

Nian Shilan was stunned. She didn't expect that Yinzhen would make such a decision.

To demote a general who once held great power to a soldier guarding the city gate was even more painful to him than killing him.

But she knew that this was Yinzhen's bottom line.

She couldn't force him anymore, otherwise, Nian Gengyao would not even be able to save his life.

"Your Majesty, I thank you for your grace..." Nian Shilan kowtowed with tears in her eyes, her voice choked with sobs.

Yinzhen looked at her with mixed feelings.

He knew that by doing this, Nian Shilan would hate him, but he had to do it.

He is the king of a country and he is responsible for the people of the world. He cannot ignore the laws of the country because of his own personal feelings.

"You can go back." Yinzhen waved his hand, his voice tired.

Nian Shilan slowly stood up and left the Yangxin Palace in a daze.

……

The imperial edict came down quickly, and the news that Nian Gengyao was demoted to a city gate guard spread quickly throughout the capital like wings.

The people were talking about it, some expressed regret, some gloated, and some applauded.

After receiving the imperial edict, Nian Gengyao was completely dumbfounded.

He never thought that he would end up like this.

He could not accept the huge gap from being a high-ranking general to being a humble soldier guarding the city.

"I don't accept! I don't accept!" Nian Gengyao roared and tore the imperial edict into pieces.

"Come here, take Nian Gengyao to the city gate!" said the eunuch who delivered the order coldly.

Nian Gengyao was forcibly taken away by the guards. He struggled and cursed all the way, but to no avail.

He never dreamed that he would leave the capital in this way.

……

A few days later, a guard in tattered military uniform appeared at the city gate outside the capital.

He was tall and strong, with a haggard face, and his eyes were full of resentment and resentment.

He was Nian Gengyao.

He stood at the city gate every day, watching the people coming and going, with mixed feelings in his heart.

He remembered his former glory, his former power, and his former honor.

But now, all of this has become a thing of the past.

He became a forgotten outcast, a laughed-at waste.

"Nian Gengyao, you have finally met your fate!" An official who had been bullied by Nian Gengyao deliberately stopped and mocked as he passed by the city gate.

Nian Gengyao looked up suddenly, a fierce light flashed in his eyes, but he quickly suppressed his anger.