The queen died on the day when Concubine Chun's daughter was one month old.

Before her death, she had a poor appetite every day and vomited almost everything she ate. In just one month, she lost a lot of weight. The queen's auspicious clothes looked empty on her body, making her look like a ghost.

Before her death, she suffered from insomnia every night. The crying of the ghost baby was heard in her ears, tormenting her to the point of neurasthenia and mental confusion.

Yixiu was naturally not afraid of ghosts, but she had something to hide. Nian Shilan knew that the Queen's biggest regret was her eldest prince Honghui, so she arranged for the young palace maids and eunuchs who were good at ventriloquism to hide in Jingren Palace and staged dramas of ghost babies gnawing at Honghui.

"Don't come over here, don't come over here. No, don't bite me!"

“Oh~”

"Brother, I'm so hungry!"

"Brother, it hurts so much!"

"No, no, mother! Mother, save me! My brothers and sisters are biting me! Wuuuuuuu~"

"Oh my god, where are you running to? I'm so hungry, come here and let me have a bite!"

"No, no! Honghui! Damn Honghui! Get out of here, you little bastards! Get out!"

"Mother, it hurts, it hurts so much! Ah——"

"Honghui! Honghui, what happened to you? Honghui, ah!"

Yixiu missed a step and fell off the bed, hitting the corner of a table that had been moved next to the bed at some point, and died.

When the palace maids found out the next morning, Yixiu's body was already hard.

And this day was the little princess's full moon banquet.

The timing was so coincidental that Feng Ruozhao couldn't help but suspect that Nian Shilan had done it on purpose. She had let Yixiu die on this day to annoy Zhen Huan and the others.

After Su Peisheng bent down and reported the news to the emperor, Fat Orange's first reaction was: What bad luck! This has spoiled my precious daughter's full moon banquet.

The second reaction was: "I have said that I will never see her again in this life or the next. Ulanara should be buried with the ceremony of a noble concubine."

Yet, he never mentioned the cause of the Queen's death. Perhaps he didn't care, didn't care how she died, or perhaps he knew who would be unwilling to let her live, and he acquiesced.

Although Yixiu had been doing evil for many years, she had been with the emperor for most of his life. It was chilling to see how their decades of love as husband and wife had turned so badly against each other.

The emperor's cruelty and ruthlessness do not stop there.

It was said that Yixiu should be buried with the ceremony of a noble concubine, but the Ministry of Internal Affairs only allocated one hundred taels of silver!

How could one afford the funeral rites for the imperial concubine with just one hundred taels of silver? Furthermore, the emperor had issued an edict forbidding the empress from being buried with him in the imperial mausoleum, only permitting her to be buried in the imperial mausoleum.

The Ulanara clan only had women in the harem but no men from the previous dynasty. Now that the empress dowager and the queen who were supportive of the Ulanara clan were dead, the Ulanara clan was no longer in glory.

No one would be willing to stand up for a dead, childless queen from a poor clan who was hated by the emperor.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs acted according to the instructions given, and the funeral ceremony was extremely perfunctory and simple.

During the entire funeral, neither the emperor nor the imperial concubine showed up, and the imperial concubine Feng Ruozhao was not in charge of the matter, so the funeral was actually organized by Concubine Wan Zhen Huan alone.

In this life, the true identity of the Queen was revealed in advance, and Zhen Huan's biggest enemy changed from Nian Shilan to the Queen. Naturally, she would not host her funeral ceremony wholeheartedly.

It was already polite of her to not hide like Nian Shilan did, but to happily drink and applaud in her own palace.

Concubine Duan, however, felt a little sad when she saw that the Queen, who had been such a huge figure, was the first to fall. She supported her sick body to kowtow and burn paper for the Queen, sighing, "In fact, the Queen is also a pitiful person."

Zhen Huan didn't care. "There must be something hateful about a pitiful person. She has been doing evil for many years, and it can be said that she died a 'death that she deserves'. Besides, who in this palace is not pitiful? Who doesn't have something pitiful?"

Feng Ruozhao burned paper silently and did not participate in the argument between the two.

Of course, Concubine Duan was just expressing her feelings as a friend since the Queen had died. It was impossible for her to truly sympathize with the Queen, so she did not refute Zhen Huan's words.

After the Queen's funeral, Nian Shilan became the master of the harem and wanted the Emperor to crown her the Queen.

Nian Gengyao also felt that the position of empress belonged to his sister, so he wrote memorials to the emperor every day hoping that the emperor would issue an edict to promote their Nian family.

The Nian family was originally a bannerman, and only after Nian Zhonglong passed the imperial examination did they rise to the rank of Bordered White Banner, a Han banner. After Pang Ju ascended the throne, the Nian family was raised to the Bordered Yellow Banner. However, they were not Manchu bannermen after all, so if she were to be crowned empress, it would still be a challenge for the Manchu nobles to accept her.

The Nian brothers and sisters were blinded by their overwhelming wealth and assumed that the position of empress was within their grasp, and the honor of carrying the banner was their due. However, they failed to see the deep coldness in the emperor's eyes.

Just when Nian Gengyao was getting more and more impatient, Prince Dun came to visit...

That summer, Prince Dun rebelled and laid siege to the Old Summer Palace. Nian Gengyao wanted to use Qiao's tactics to watch the tigers fight from a mountaintop – you can save the emperor, but you have to show your sincerity and make my sister the queen.

But he didn't expect that the emperor was luring him into a trap.

Prince Dun was quickly captured, his title stripped, his property confiscated, and he was sent to the clan office to accompany his eighth brother and ninth brother.

Prince Dun's wife was forced to divorce Yun and return home. Her daughter was taken into the palace by the Emperor as his adopted daughter, raised by the Empress Dowager, hoping to raise the Emperor's own daughter in the future.

I wonder if you will regret it after receiving the imperial edict?

After the Tenth Master was dealt with, Nian Gengyao, who was too smart and wavered between the two sides, was also finished.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty! Something bad has happened! General Nian has been dismissed from his post and imprisoned by the Emperor!"

Zhou Ninghai limped and sweated as he hurried over to tell Nian Shilan the news.

"Bang!" Nian Shilan lost her grip on the teacup and dropped it to the ground. Not caring about the tea stains on her body, she stood up and shouted at Zhou Ninghai:

"What? Impossible! The Emperor relies on my brother the most. Where did you hear this rumor?!"

Her eyes were wide open, her face filled with disbelief, yet her face was pale and her hands were shaking. Inside her heart, a faint voice was saying, "This day has finally arrived."

When did he realize that the emperor seemed to be secretly dissatisfied with himself and his brother?

But none of this matters now. The only thing she can do now is to rush to the emperor and beg him to forgive her brother for the sake of their many years of marriage.

But the emperor didn't want to see her.

"Why doesn't the emperor see me?"

Su Peisheng wanted to stop her but didn't dare to. He chased after Nian Shilan and explained awkwardly, "How dare I speculate on your Majesty's will?

Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please think twice!"

"Your Majesty! My brother has no intention of offending Your Majesty. It is my greed that makes me want to be your legitimate wife."

"Your Majesty, it is I who am ignorant. My brother simply loves me too much and has absolutely no intention of disobeying me."

"Your Majesty, this is all my fault. I dreamed of being your wife. It doesn't matter how you punish me. I only ask that you spare my brother's life. I will serve you faithfully, Your Majesty, just as I would a dog or horse."

She begged and kowtowed, her voice hoarse and blood on her forehead. But the emperor in the Qinzheng Palace was cold-hearted and turned a deaf ear.

"Your Majesty, I beg you, Your Majesty!"

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