The wives of the concubines are empresses

The Empress Dowager of the Eastern Palace looked at Concubine Li lying on the ground with a cold gaze: "This bitch arranged for Yue'e to put an aphrodisiac in your teacup."

Thinking that this thing that was only used in brothels was used on her, the daughter of an emperor, she was so angry that she wanted to kill someone.

Shangguan Wanjun looked at the person on the ground with cold eyes. If she remembered correctly, aphrodisiacs were not allowed to enter or leave the palace.

"I remember this medicine was given to Concubine Li after she was deposed, and she was given poisoned wine and a forbidden drug in the palace."

The Empress Dowager Xigong said, "Indeed, almost every emperor has strictly prohibited it."

Even though the late emperor was extremely licentious, he prohibited aphrodisiacs from appearing in the palace.

Shangguan Wanjun pointed at a palace maid covered in blood and asked, "Is she the palace maid who personally drugged me?"

She had admired the other person's looks before, but now this person wants to harm her.

Concubine Lu - Liu Haiming bowed: "Your Majesty, she is, her name is Yue'e, and she was placed in the Chaxiang Courtyard by Concubine Li."

Shangguan Wanjun sneered and stood up and walked towards her, while Aunt Cheng followed worriedly behind her.

"Your Majesty, please watch your step."

Shangguan Wanjun walked back and forth in front of Yue'e without saying a word until a cup of tea had passed.

"Do I have a grudge against you?"

Yue'e, covered in blood, shook her head desperately: "No."

"Is it because I was not nice to you, or punished you, causing you to feel resentful?" She remembered that she seemed to have never punished anyone in the palace.

Liu Cheng stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, since you ascended the throne, you have not punished anyone in the palace."

Yue'e stretched out her hand desperately, trying to grab the empress's legs.

"Your Majesty, I was wrong. Please spare my life." When her bloody hands were about to grab Shangguan Wanjun's legs, Concubine Wu - Zhu Wu quickly stood up and kicked her.

"How dare you! You can't even touch the emperor with your dirty hands." Although he didn't have any particularly deep feelings for the emperor, he felt fairness and justice during these days in the palace. At least the emperor treated them, the concubines in the harem, in this way, which made him feel unprecedented respect and self-worth.

Yue'e spat out a mouthful of blood again. The Empress Dowagers of the East and West Palaces frowned. Concubine Bai - Jiang Ruobai gave orders with disgust when she saw it.

"Someone, drag this bitch out and stop disgusting the emperor."

The guards looked at the empress, and Shangguan Wanjun turned her head to look at Concubine Li.

"Listen to Concubine Bai. Let her be whipped in the most open area in the harem tomorrow, so that everyone in the harem will remember the price of blood and life this time." No blood or life. Those people really think she is a soft persimmon that can be squeezed at will.

Yue'e was terrified when she heard this and begged for mercy desperately.

"Your Majesty, please spare my life. I was wrong. Please give me another chance to redeem myself. All this was ordered by Concubine Li." The guards carried Yue'e roughly, and the blood was seeping all the way.

Hearing her begging for mercy, Shangguan Wanjun raised her right hand slightly, and the guards stopped dragging her.

"Spar you? If I don't perform the Zhougong ritual with a man in time, I will be the one to die. When you drugged me, did you ever think that we are both women, and why should a woman embarrass another woman?

The world is harsh on women, yet you did such a thing to me. You're truly audacious. If I were just an ordinary woman, wouldn't my reputation be ruined forever if you damaged it? If I were an ordinary woman, already married, how would my husband's family view me if you acted like this? I'm afraid I'd be drowned.

So you deserve to die, and what you deserve most is to take the initiative to die as an apology, and to apologize to all women in the world."

Everyone was shocked by her words. At this moment, she was not only an emperor, but also a woman.

"What are you still standing there for? Drag her away and put her in the most open place. Let her think carefully about what the last day of her life is all about." Could it be that she came to this world just to frame others and deprive them of their innocence?

The guards dragged them like dead men until they were out of sight.

When it was Concubine Li's turn, Shangguan Wanjun looked down at her condescendingly.

"Empress Dowager Li, I don't recall ever offending you."

Concubine Li shuddered when she heard her cold voice.

"I am the concubine of the late emperor. You have no right to dispose of me."

Seeing that she was still so tough when facing death, Shangguan Wanjun sneered sarcastically.

"The world belongs to me now, not my father. Since you are my father's woman, you should stay in the palace of the Concubine Dowager. Why are you making trouble out here?"

Shangguan Wanjun reached out and lifted Concubine Li's chin. "Such a delicate and charming face, but she truly has a vicious heart. No wonder the old sayings say a poisonous woman is a femme fatale. The Concubine Li truly lives up to her words."

Shangguan Wanjun swung it violently, and Concubine Li fell to the ground as usual.

"What do you want to do to me?" He just wanted to banish her to the cold palace, but she was still alive.

The cold Shangguan Wanjun did not answer her.

"What did you find in Concubine Li's palace and the maid's quarters?"

Liu Cheng quickly said, "The maids only have a few hairpins, but Concubine Li's palace does have aphrodisiacs."

A eunuch was holding a tray with a white porcelain bottle on it. Shangguan Wanjun raised her hand to pick it up and took a look.

She said lightly, "Empress Dowager Li, as an elder, you are unkind to the younger generation; as a subject, you are disrespectful to the royal family and the king. You will be punished according to the law for the three serious crimes of plotting to murder the royal heir, regicide, and carrying the forbidden drugs in the palace.

All her private property shall be confiscated and she shall not be allowed to be buried in the imperial mausoleum."

Concubine Li lost her composure when she heard this: "You can't treat me like this. I'm the late emperor's concubine..."

Before she could finish her words, Shangguan Wanjun interrupted her angrily.

"Shut up. The world belongs to me now. As long as I reign, you are all my subjects. Concubine Lu and Concubine Xuan, I will add another crime to her: indecent behavior in front of the emperor. You will be punished with twenty strokes of the cane."

Concubine Lu - Liu Haiming and Concubine Xuan - Song Xuanyi bowed: "Yes, Your Majesty."

"I have been given a cup of poisoned wine by Concubine Li. You have treated the late emperor's only child so badly. Then you will go down and confess your sins to the late emperor. You will go to hell. As for this bottle of medicine, since the Concubine likes it so much, let her accompany you. Someone, pour it into the Concubine's mouth for me."

Upon hearing this, Concubine Li was horrified: "No, I don't want it. Your Majesty, I beg you to spare my life. You can even banish me to the cold palace, Your Majesty..."

Shangguan Wanjun looked down at her indifferently: "I'll spare you, but have you ever thought of sparing an innocent person like me?"

Concubine Li sat on the ground helplessly. She was finished. The Empress would never let her go.

When the guards dragged her away, Concubine Li suddenly lost all life and looked as if she had lost all hope.

All the officials in Concubine Li's family were brought in by the guards.

When Shangguan Wanjun saw the people from Concubine Li's family, her eyes were as cold as an ice cellar.

"Your good daughter, raised by the Wan family, dares to attack me." Shangguan Wanjun, who was sitting on the dragon throne, threw the teacup at Lord Wan in anger.

Lord Wan was terrified. Until now, he still didn't know what mistake his daughter had made in the palace.