Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace: Fawning

Yuyan was horrified and hurriedly crawled to Hongli's side, pulling at his trouser legs. She had been exquisite and beautiful for decades, but at this moment she became so embarrassed. She sobbed, "Your Majesty, Rong Guiren's poisoning has nothing to do with me. Someone must have framed me. Your Majesty, please think carefully. I am already a noble concubine, and I have Yongsheng, Yongxuan, and Yongyan. Why would I attack a noble who just entered the palace? And I put the poison in the soup I sent. Isn't this just shooting myself in the foot? Even if I really wanted to poison Rong Guiren, I wouldn't be so stupid. I... I am innocent."

Yuyan said a lot of things, each one of them justifying herself. She couldn't take the blame, otherwise it would definitely affect Yongcheng's future.

Hongli blinked, turned the cup on the table, and responded nonchalantly, "Oh? You said someone wants to harm you? Who could that person be?"

The deep, reassuring sound from Hongli's chest seemed to shake him. Yuyan raised her wet cheek, wiped away the tears, and said tenderly, "I don't know yet, but Your Majesty, please don't forget what happened to Lady Yikun. When she was still Concubine Xian, it was because of your exclusive favor for her that she was framed for no reason. A Ruo, Imperial Noble Concubine Huixian, and Imperial Noble Concubine Chun..."

"Empress Chun has been seriously ill these days, and I have been taking care of the affairs of the harem. Yongsheng is also highly regarded by you, so it is inevitable that he will be envied. I hope Your Majesty will be able to see through everything and find out who is behind this, so that my mother and I can be cleared of all charges." After saying this, Yuyan kowtowed heavily.

Hongli fell into deep thought.

When he doted on Ruyi, she was indeed framed in this way. It's not like he had never experienced the methods used by concubines to compete for favor, but sometimes he was unwilling to admit that the person he had doted on for many years actually had a vicious heart.

"You have such a powerful tongue, Lady Jia. I really underestimated you. You can even turn black into white."

A voice came from outside, and Nanny Yun came in, supporting Jing Se, with a pair of golden tassels swaying constantly. Behind them followed Yan Wan, who had just come out of confinement.

"Your Majesty, I wish you good health."

"Your Highness, I greet you."

The two of them saluted in unison.

Hongli's eyelids twitched and he asked, "Jingse, Concubine Ling, why are you here?"

Seeing Jingse, Yuyan suddenly felt a little nervous. Ever since Langya passed away, she and Jingse had gradually become estranged. Ever since she got married, he hadn't even spoken to her on the street, let alone come to Qixiang Palace to see her. Now that Jingse had appeared in Qixiang Palace with Yanwan by his side, he was probably here to cause trouble for her.

Yuyan took the initiative, pointing at Yanwan and shouting, "It's you. You hold a grudge against me, so you secretly put the Nine Cold Medicine in the soup I sent to Baoyue Tower. You want to frame me, right?"

Yan Wan was taken aback by the sudden accusation. She knelt down to apologize without knowing what had happened. Today she originally wanted to go to Baoyue Tower to see Xiang Jian. As his mother, although she did not like Xiang Jian monopolizing Hongli, she only felt sympathy for her since she knew that Xiang Jian had lost her qualification to be a mother due to someone's harm. But on the way there, she met Lan Qi and Jing Se. Lan Qi said that something big had happened in Qixiang Palace and wanted Yan Wan to see Yu Yan's retribution with her own eyes. Out of curiosity, Yan Wan followed them there in a daze. However, just as she arrived outside Qixiang Palace, Lan Qi was invited to Cining Palace by Zeng Huan's people.

Yan Wan: "Your Majesty, I am innocent. I have no grudge against Rong Guiren, why would you harm her? As for Jia Guifei, I have no reason to harm her..."

Looking at that face that bore a striking resemblance to Ruyi, Hongli suddenly felt that Yanwan had matured considerably. He wondered why he had previously thought Yanwan looked like Ruyi. Yanwan was the woman he had personally trained. From palace maid to concubine, from vulgar to graceful, he simply could not believe that Yanwan could be such a malicious person.

Yuyan: "You..."

Yuyan moved her lips, but finally swallowed her words.

Jing Se curled his lips and said, "Empress Jia, why don't you continue? Why do you want to say that Empress Ling framed you? If you don't dare to say it, then let me say it for you."

Yuyan panicked, "Princess Hejing..."

Jing Se: "Back then, in order to please my mother, you brought Empress Ling, who was then a palace maid, back to Qixiang Palace. You denied her food and clothing, and even spread the word that anyone in Qixiang Palace could bully her. And just because she looked a bit like Empress Yikun, you named her Ying'er. Surely, the Emperor doesn't know this?"

Hongli glared at Yuyan, and at the same time, looked at Yanwan with a bit more heartache. He reached out and helped Yanwan up. He knew about the "Ying'er" incident, but what he didn't know was that Yuyan had actually abused Yanwan in this way behind her back.

Yuyan lowered her head guiltily.

But she soon raised her head again and defended herself, "Your Majesty, I was not kind to Concubine Ling before, but I have changed my ways. Since she became your concubine, I have never caused her any trouble..."

Jing Se: "But your ambition to rise to the top has never changed."

Yuyan frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"

Jing Se clapped his hands, and immediately a veiled woman came in from outside.

The woman knelt down and saluted, saying, "Your servant pays respects to the Emperor."

Hongli asked in confusion: "What is this?"

The woman raised her hand and slowly removed her veil, revealing her true face. It was Su Lian. The three people except Jing Se were all startled.

Yuyan said in panic: "Su Lian? You... aren't you dead? No, you are not Su Lian."

Su Lian sneered, "Empress Jia, you naturally don't want this servant to be Su Lian, but I'm sorry to disappoint you. This servant is Su Lian, the Su Lian you almost ordered to be killed in the Imperial Garden."

Hongli: "This...what's going on?"

Su Lian told Hongli everything that happened that year.

Hongli's face was gloomy. He knew that Langya was innocent. Langya's family background and behavior were very decent. Although she sometimes had a temper, it was also because she loved him. Langya never had the malicious intention of murdering others because of such trivial matters. It turned out that all this was instigated by Yuyan. Even Lianxin's marriage to Wang Qin was Yuyan's idea. And Gao Xiyue, Xiyue was simple and kind before, but it turned out that she was also instigated by Yuyan. Why didn't he realize Yuyan's cruelty before?

Hongli stared at Yuyan until she was frightened. Sulian was not dead, and now Hongli would not believe anything she said.

While she was still thinking of a countermeasure, Hongli raised his leg and kicked her, cursing: "Bitch, how dare you murder the prince and kill people in the palace?"

"Your Majesty, I didn't..." Yuyan refused to admit it.

Just when Hongli wanted to depose Yuyan and hand her over to the Shenxingsi, Jinzhong ran in and whispered a few words into Hongli's ear.

Hongli's face changed. He asked someone to look after Yuyan while he went back to the Yangxin Palace to handle matters.

Jingse and Yanwan were puzzled, but they could only watch Hongli leave.

I just hope that Hongli won’t let Yuyan go this time.

It was only when Hongli returned to the Palace of Tranquil Longevity that he received the memorial that had been sent from the front line at full speed.

There were only four large characters written on the memorial:

The Yu clan was exterminated.