The widow becomes a fairy, and the time-traveling girl counterattacks and becomes the queen

"You...you guys..." Zhao Guoan looked at the scene of forcing the emperor to abdicate and was so angry that his whole body was shaking.

He pointed at the officials who were gathered on the ground, his chest heaving violently, his body swaying, and he almost lost his balance.

A biting chill rose from the bottom of his heart.

Is this the court he has painstakingly built up over the years?

"You... dare to unite and threaten me?" These words were almost squeezed out from between his teeth.

Empress Dowager Luo Lan was also displeased when she saw this scene.

She could pamper Zhao Yucheng endlessly, but that was not on the premise of challenging the imperial power.

However, Zhao Yucheng did not realize this.

"Royal brother, how can this be considered a threat?" He felt more confident, and even a hint of pride returned to his face.

"This is the ministers speaking out for justice! It is you, fearing my popularity among the people and filled with dissatisfaction, who fabricated charges and intended to put me to death! I... I have no choice but to resist!"

Wang Xinyao, who had been watching coldly from the sidelines, could no longer suppress her disdain and sneered, "Prince Yu is too confident!

If the people of the world knew that the "virtuous king" they loved was actually engaging in corruption, bribery, assassination of the crown prince, and debauchery in the palace,

Do you think they will continue to support you as before? I'm afraid by then, their spit will flood your palace!"

"What a joke!" Zhao Yucheng snorted coldly and retorted, "The 'testimony' given by an eight-year-old child under the pressure of the emperor, coupled with your so-called 'evidence',

As long as I deny it, do you think the people will believe me, the wise king who has done countless good things for them over the years, or will they believe your fabricated story filled with loopholes?"

"Prince Yu is really good at speaking? Are you sure that the people only have you, the hypocrite Prince Yu, in their hearts?" Wang Xinyao sneered.

Zhao Yucheng's expression changed: "Little Yaozi, huh? I'll remember you, just wait and see!"

"What? Your Highness can't convince me, so now you want to threaten me?" Wang Xinyao glared back without showing any weakness.

For a moment, the two sides were once again in a stalemate.

Empress Dowager Luo Lan looked at the officials kneeling on the ground, then at the pale Emperor Zhao Guoan and Zhao Yucheng with a face full of "anger and grief", and felt a splitting headache and was in a dilemma.

Her fingertips dug deep into the armrests of the phoenix chair, but the cold touch could not suppress the heat in her heart.

On one side was Emperor Zhao Guoan, whose face was pale and his body was shaking slightly. This was her son and the king of Daxia. She had to uphold the dignity of the imperial power.

On the other side, Zhao Yucheng's face was almost identical to his younger sister's. He could hear his younger sister's faint pleading voice again: "Eldest sister... Cheng'er... I entrust this to you..."

At that moment, she hugged her sister's still warm body and promised to treat him as her own.

This promise now felt like a shackle, strangling her to the point of suffocation.

If she dealt with Zhao Yucheng according to the law, how would she face her sister in the afterlife?

If she shows favoritism, how will the civil and military officials in the court and the people of the world view the emperor and her as the empress dowager?

Beneath the dragon throne was a bottomless abyss. No matter which way she went, she would be crushed to pieces.

At the moment when the atmosphere was almost frozen, the eunuch's voice was heard again outside the hall. This time, the voice was filled with a bit of surprise and uncertainty.

"Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager... Yu... Princess Lin of Yu, requests an audience with the Empress Dowager outside the palace!"

"Princess Yu?" Luo Lan was slightly startled and frowned: "She...why is she here at this time?"

In her impression, this daughter-in-law has always been a reclusive person, gentle in nature, and even a little timid.

She never participates in political affairs, and she would never do anything out of line. Why did she suddenly break into the court at the center of the storm today?

Zhao Yucheng, who had been trying to remain calm, suddenly changed his expression when he heard the words "Princess Yu"!

How could this woman, whom he never took seriously, dare to trespass into the court?

Although he didn't believe she had the guts to betray him, at this critical moment, any sign of trouble would make him tremble with fear.

Seeing this, Wang Xinyao immediately gave Zhao Guoan a look.

Zhao Guoan understood what he meant. Any change at this moment could break the deadlock.

He immediately raised his voice and said, "Announce! Princess Xuanyu enter the palace!"

"Royal brother! No!" Zhao Yucheng hurriedly stopped him, with a barely perceptible hint of panic in his tone.

"This is the solemn court where state affairs are discussed. How can we allow a mere woman to barge in? How disgraceful!

She came here to talk to me about family matters. The country is more important than the family, so we can talk about family matters later..."

"Princess Yu was conferred the title of First Rank by me, so why can't she come to the court?"

After Zhao Guoan finished speaking, he ignored Zhao Yucheng and raised his voice, ordering firmly: "Quickly summon Princess Yu to the palace for an audience!"

"Announce...Princess Yu to enter the palace!"

The sound of the transmission was like a huge rock dropped into stagnant water, causing invisible ripples in the hall where you could hear a pin drop.

All the officials, whether kneeling or standing, subconsciously held their breath, their eyes fixed on the slowly opening palace door.

Lin Shiyi walked against the light, step by step into the core that symbolizes the highest power of the empire.

She could clearly feel the countless gazes on her like thorns on her back, some curious, some suspicious, some gloating.

There was also the gaze from her husband Zhao Yucheng, who almost burned her to death.

The gold bricks under my feet were cold and hard, and every step felt like walking on a knife edge.

But she knew in her heart that from the moment she stepped in here, there was no turning back.

Early this morning, not long after she, Liu Yu and Li Mei left the house, the guards accompanying them were secretly apprehended.

At this moment, she should have taken refuge in the Prince's Mansion, but she finally chose to step into the palace.

Having been married to Zhao Yucheng for more than ten years, she knows this man too well.

——He is extremely despicable. If he is not completely defeated, he will cause endless harm.

Rather than living in fear for the rest of your life, it is better to enter the palace and confront him face to face.

The air is filled with ambergris and a tense atmosphere called "power", which is almost suffocating.

She walked steadily into the Golden Palace, dressed in her imperial robes, her back straight.

The gentleness and timidity between his brows in the past have disappeared, leaving only a kind of awe-inspiring awe that is almost like martyrdom.

She knelt and bowed to Luo Lan and Zhao Guoan according to etiquette, her voice as calm as water: "Greetings to the Queen Mother, and to Your Majesty."

"Stand up and talk." Luo Lan raised his hand and looked at his daughter-in-law who seemed inconspicuous on weekdays.

Lin Shiyi thanked him and stood up. Then, she slowly raised her head, her eyes no longer lowered, but looked straight at Zhao Yucheng.

There was no longer the gentleness and tolerance of the past in that look, only a resolute coldness remained.

"Lin Shiyi, think it over before you speak." There was no warmth in Zhao Yucheng's eyes.

He even felt that he had been too kind before and should not have spared her life.

"Your Highness," Lin Shiyi's voice was crisp and unusually clear in the silent hall.

Every word was like an icy needle, piercing Zhao Yucheng: "At this point, the evidence is irrefutable. You should stop using clever words and futile excuses."

She paused, as if she was gathering strength, or as if she was recalling the unbearable things in the past, and a bleak sneer appeared at the corner of her mouth.

"I heard it clearly while I was waiting outside the palace. You keep saying there's no witness?

I wonder… can I, your wife who has slept with you for many years and knows countless of your secrets, be considered a witness?

Zhao Yucheng was struck by lightning and his body swayed violently.

He stared at Lin Shiyi, as if he was meeting this woman who had slept with him for more than ten years for the first time. The horror in his eyes eventually turned into a rage that made him want to tear her to pieces.

He almost yelled, "Lin Shiyi! What...what do you want to do?! Are you crazy?"

"What do I want to do? Humph... hehe..." Lin Shiyi let out a series of cold and endlessly sad laughs.

The laughter echoed in the solemn hall, sounding particularly harsh.

She no longer looked at Zhao Yucheng's distorted face, but turned to face the emperor and the empress dowager on the throne. Her voice suddenly rose, clearly and forcefully declaring:

"Your Majesty! Queen Mother! I, Lin Shiyi, am willing to guarantee in the name of Princess Yu the lives of the entire Lin family!

The list of Zhao Yucheng’s crimes that Your Majesty just received is all true!

Most of them were secretly taken out from the secret room in Prince Yu's study by me, enduring humiliation and fear!

He formed cliques for personal gain, embezzled and accepted bribes, plotted evil, and even had secret letters with Concubine Yin, all of which were hidden in it!

I, your humble servant, am the best witness!" After saying this, Lin Shiyi looked directly at Zhao Yucheng. At this moment, she was ready to face death with equanimity.

"Shut up, you vicious woman!" Zhao Yucheng shouted angrily, "The entire Lin family? Are there any other people in your Lin family besides you? The guarantee you said cannot be invalidated."

"Your Majesty, who told you that Yi'er is the only one left in the Lin family?"

Lin Hua walked out slowly, his voice steady but with a power that could penetrate the years.

"Your Majesty, you are a forgetful person, so naturally you wouldn't recognize an old man like me. But you must remember that when you asked for Yi'er's hand in marriage, you swore to heaven in my study that you would protect her for the rest of her life."

"A vow? What man wouldn't make one before proposing marriage?" Zhao Yucheng frowned, then sneered, "How ridiculous! My father-in-law disappeared more than ten years ago, and he might have already passed away by then.

You are just a pawn hired by my brother to suppress me, and you are worthy of calling yourself my father-in-law?"

As he recalled, after Lin Shiyi's father disappeared, he let Gou Hongying take over as the Minister of Personnel at Ling'er's recommendation.

Just now, he was fully focused on how to sever his relationship with Minister Gou, and did not pay any attention to the witness who suddenly appeared.

Subconsciously, he believed that this was a trap set up by Emperor Zhao Guoan to suppress him.

How could a person who had been missing for more than ten years suddenly reappear?

What's more, the former Minister of Personnel Lin Hua had a plump figure and a full face.

But the person in front of me is so skinny and has sunken eyes. How can he look anything like he used to?

Of course, it was also because he never took Lin Shiyi to heart.

As time passed, Lin Hua's appearance had long become blurred in his memory.

"Father? Is it really you? How could you...become like this..."

Lin Shiyi stared at Lin Hua for a long time, and finally recognized from those cloudy but familiar eyes that this was her father Lin Hua whom she missed day and night.

Tears instantly filled her eyes, and her voice trembled, barely forming a sentence: "Father..."

She choked with sobs, a thousand words stuck in her throat, and finally turned into a long-overdue call: "Daughter...Daughter misses you so much..."

These words, which had been weighing on her heart for many years, had echoed in her heart again and again during countless sleepless nights when she was almost crushed by the burden of life.

Now that I finally say it, these few words express all the longing and bitterness over the years.

"Yier... I am sorry for you. I failed to protect you well." Lin Hua's heart was also pounding and his eyes were wet.

But he knew very well that this was not the time to reminisce about the past.

He turned to Zhao Yucheng, his gaze piercing. "Prince Yu, do you still believe that I'm a fake? Do you know where I've been all these years?"

"Where?" Zhao Yucheng couldn't help but ask, and he was indeed a little curious.

When he married Lin Shiyi, he was attracted by her status as the legitimate daughter of the Minister of Personnel.

Unexpectedly, less than half a year after their marriage, Lin Hua disappeared mysteriously.

Keeping this useless princess in the palace made him depressed for many years.

If it weren't for maintaining his reputation as a wise king, he would have divorced Lin Shiyi long ago.

Over the years, he took out all his resentment on her.

Apart from the empty title of a princess, in private, has he ever treated her as a human being?

However, Lin Hua's next words made Zhao Yucheng feel like he had become a huge joke.

"It seems that the prince is also curious. After all, when the prince married Yier, he was attracted by the power of my Shangshu Mansion." Lin Hua sneered, and perhaps because he had been standing for too long, his body swayed slightly.

Zhao Guoan immediately ordered: "Come here, show the Queen Mother and Minister Lin a seat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace." Lin Hua bowed gratefully, coughed a few times, and slowly sat down before continuing to speak.

"For over ten years, I have been imprisoned in a secret underground chamber in the Palace of Beauty, suffering torture daily, leading a life worse than death.

If I hadn't thought of His Majesty, longed for the day I could see the light of day again, and remembered Yi'er's suffering in Prince Yu's mansion, I probably wouldn't have been able to hold on until now."

Zhao Yucheng was in disbelief when he heard this.

This must be Lin Hua’s lie!

His Ling'er is so gentle and kind. Apart from being decisive in supporting Li'er to ascend the throne, she normally wouldn't even hurt an ant. How could she possibly imprison an official appointed by the court?

"Beauty Palace? Isn't that the bedroom of Concubine Yin?" Minister of Revenue Chu Xiong asked in surprise.

Other officials echoed: "Indeed!"

"The one who imprisoned me is none other than Concubine Yin. Her true identity is the real ruler of the Wa Lie Kingdom." Lin Hua's expression was stern, and every word he spoke was extremely clear.

When these words were heard again in the hall, the ministers were in an uproar, and Zhao Yucheng's heart sank.

"Stop talking nonsense!" he shouted sternly. "You must have been hired by my brother to frame me! I repeat, my relationship with the Imperial Concubine is pure and innocent. There is absolutely no ulterior motive!"

Lin Hua did not directly refute, but cast a serious gaze on Zhao Yucheng, saying something meaningful:

"Then, Your Highness, do you know why I was imprisoned? And why have you been childless all these years?"