Dressed as a beauty to be selected, the game starts in hell mode!

Xiuzhu was a maid in the palace's needlework department. Because she was young, her roommates took good care of her.

When she had no work to do, she liked to play with other girls her age from other palaces, especially Guifang from the imperial kitchen, because Guifang would always put a few pieces of crispy candies or candied lotus seeds in her purse.

That day, she went to play with Guifang again and heard the palace maids in the imperial kitchen talking about rumors about Concubine Chen.

Concubine Chen? !

she knows!

Although she had only been in the palace for a short time, she had heard about Concubine Chen's deeds.

She was the envy of all the maids in the palace. Although she was born in a humble family, she gained great favor with her beautiful appearance, and had a noble status and was the most favored among the six palaces.

Are there rumors about Concubine Chen? Xiuzhu moved closer with some curiosity.

"what?!"

"Is Concubine Chen kidnapped while recuperating outside the palace? And she lost her innocence?"

Xiuzhu was startled and her eyes widened in disbelief.

These rumors sound too sensational.

How could Concubine Chen, the woman who existed like a legend in the palace, encounter such a terrible change?

Is this...is this true?!

Xiuzhu was very suspicious.

But Chunxing from the imperial kitchen spoke with such confidence, as if they had seen it with their own eyes, that Xiuzhu's original suspicion was shaken... She stayed for a while, and when she found that she could not hear any new news, she left and hurried to find Guifang.

Guifang was hiding in front of the stove and secretly eating roasted chestnuts. When she saw Xiuzhu coming, she hurriedly secretly stuffed some hot roasted chestnuts into her hand.

Xiuzhu didn't even have time to eat the chestnuts and quickly told Guifang the rumors she had overheard outside.

Unfortunately, Guifang knew nothing about this. She just said a few words in surprise, "Is it true?" "Is it impossible?" "Who told you that?" and then her attention was attracted by the freshly roasted chestnuts.

After eating roasted chestnuts at Guifang's house, Xiuzhu ran back and told her roommates the rumors she had heard during the day in the evening.

Sister Yunjin, who had always taken the best care of her, immediately changed her expression.

She smelled a conspiracy.

"Xiuzhu, please don't spread these words anymore."

"Whether the matter of Concubine Chen is true or false, it is not something that servants like us can discuss casually."

"If someone with ulterior motives hears this and spreads it to the higher-ups, we'll be in trouble."

The other sisters in the room also felt the same way.

But at that time, Xiuzhu didn't understand the seriousness of the matter at all, and thought that Sister Yunjin was making a fuss out of nothing.

What a shocking news!

Why aren't the sisters interested?!

Now she knows that spreading lies could lead to death!

In the past few days, the guards have dealt with several sources of the initial rumors, all of whom were beaten to death in front of them. Her screams made her shudder and unable to sleep at night.

Among those beaten to death was Chun Xing, the girl from the imperial kitchen whom she had seen.

It turned out that she had not only told her the lies about Concubine Chen, but had also said the same thing to the sisters in the other six bureaus. No less than a hundred people had learned from her that Concubine Chen had lied.

Those who deliberately spread false statements about Concubine Chen and whose circumstances were serious were directly executed; those who were next in line were sent to the Shenxing Bureau to pound rice and work there for the rest of their lives until death; those who were next in line were people like them, who were given thirty strokes of the cane.

Xiuzhu was frightened and cried.

She was only twelve years old, how could she possibly withstand thirty beatings.

Only then did she realize how ignorant she was.

In addition to fear, she also felt guilty.

Because of her, her sister who took care of her in the same room and Guifang, who only cared about eating, also had to be beaten with thirty sticks.

After these thirty strokes of the cane, the lives of her roommates were in danger, but she and Guifang would definitely not survive.

Just when she was panicking and was about to hit them, the emperor suddenly issued an imperial decree, reducing their sentence of thirty strokes of the cane to ten strokes, because the kind-hearted Concubine Chen pleaded for them.

He said that although they made mistakes, they were not the main culprits and did not do it intentionally. Thirty strokes of the cane would cost them their lives and was too harsh, so he wanted to plead for them and exempt them from punishment.

The emperor was furious and refused to agree. It was only after Concubine Chen pleaded again and again that the emperor reluctantly changed the sentence to ten strokes of the cane.

Although they couldn't escape a beating in the end, they were already very grateful in their hearts.

Only ten strokes of the cane, which is already very light.

Even if she and Guifang hold on, they can get through it.

Finally, I don’t have to die.

Xiuzhu hugged Guifang and cried bitterly, and at the same time, she felt very regretful.

When others slandered such a beautiful and gentle master like Concubine Chen, instead of helping her to denounce those people, they even doubted her in their hearts. They are so heartless.

Countless palace ladies knelt down to thank Concubine Chen for saving their lives.

They felt both grateful and guilty.

They will never forget the great kindness of Concubine Chen.

After this storm is over, they must work hard to repay the imperial concubine's kindness.

Hua Wu herself did not expect this. She just thought that some people here did not do it intentionally and their crimes were not punishable by death, so she pleaded for them. However, she won the hearts of a large number of servants in the palace, making Hua Wu's prestige in the palace almost that of the queen. Whenever someone mentioned her, they would involuntarily express admiration and gratitude.

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The rumors in the palace were quelled very quickly under the iron-fisted suppression of Emperor Jinghong Xiao Lin, and they did not even have time to spread to the previous dynasty.

But this does not mean that the matter is over.

On this day, Emperor Jinghong Xiao Lin finally stepped into Kunning Palace. At this time, Queen Feng Yuanheng was sitting at the top, wearing solemn and gorgeous queen's auspicious dress, waiting for her. The huge oriental pearl on the phoenix crown showed her dignity and exuded an inviolable majesty.

"Your Majesty, you are here."

For the first time ever, Queen Feng Yuanheng did not stand up to greet the Emperor, but just smiled faintly and said.

Emperor Jinghong Xiao Lin frowned slightly, then he understood.

The Queen knew that she had been exposed and that she also knew that someone was planning to depose her.

"Queen, you shouldn't do anything wrong!"

Emperor Jinghong Xiao Lin had cold eyes and was intimidating without even getting angry.

Queen Feng Yuanheng stared at the handsome and incomparable Emperor Jinghong. The young emperor was wise and brave, and he saved the Great Yan Dynasty from danger. He was also the person she admired in her heart.

No one knew how happy and excited she was when she knew she was going to marry the young emperor.

She felt that she was the happiest woman in the world because she could marry him.

But when she really became the queen, she was not happy.

Because Emperor Jinghong doesn't love her!

The relationship between him and her will always be that of an emperor and his subject.

She had been unwilling before, but making Emperor Jinghong fall in love with her... was so difficult.

Over time, she gave up.

However, she could give up his love but could not give up her position as queen.

This was not only an honor for her, but also meant that she was his wife.

But soon, she won't be.

"I am unwilling to accept this!"

"Your Majesty, I have worked diligently and wholeheartedly over the years to manage the harem, never daring to make the slightest mistake, but ended up being deposed..."

"How can I bear this?!"

She was the one who got hurt, but she didn't regret it!

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