Transmigrating into a Man's Wife: I Share the Pain with the Male Protagonist

"What happened?" Lu Mingyun asked with a frown.

Zhao Xu did not answer immediately. He was a little dazed, as if he had been hit hard by something and couldn't recover for a long time.

"De Fei is dead... My sister is dead," Zhao Xu said, choking with sobs. "At the beginning, didn't I tell you that she met with my mother and told her about the pills? That was the last time she saw her mother."

"My sister died not long after that. Our family never knew about this. His Majesty kept it a secret... If it weren't for a little maid my sister brought into the palace who risked her life to bring the news out, we don't know how long this would have lasted..."

Zhao Xu began to describe the incident haltingly.

In April, just before the Crown Prince wanted to take Wang Ruiyan as his concubine, everyone was extremely nervous because the ghost immortal started to cause trouble.

It was also at that time that Zhao Xu told them about the events in the palace. The emperor began distributing pills to the concubines, and the reason for giving the pills to Concubine De was that she had been unable to conceive. However, Concubine De did not take the pills out of caution and even met with her mother to tell her about it.

But not long after that, Concubine De died.

The maid who ran out said that Concubine De fell ill not long after taking the pill. When the emperor knew about it, he asked an imperial physician to come and see Concubine De. The imperial physician suggested that Concubine De rest, so most of the people in Concubine De's palace were dismissed, and even the maid was driven away.

The little maid had no idea what happened to Concubine De in the palace. She only knew that Concubine De fell ill and died not long after. The Changchun Palace where Concubine De lived was even sealed off. However, the maids in charge told them not to discuss the matter or spread it outside.

Zhao Xu asked the maid if she remembered what the imperial physician looked like. The maid said he was an old man with white hair and a few missing teeth.

Zhao Xu also asked the maid why Concubine De took the pill. The maid said that the eunuch beside the emperor had come and then Concubine De took the pill.

The reason why the little maid wanted to run away was because she wanted to know what had happened to Concubine De, so she secretly went to look for the servants who had stayed in Changchun Palace. It would have been better if she hadn't looked for them, because when she looked for them, she found that those people were all dead.

The little maid immediately knew that something was wrong. She felt that she might be killed as well, so she tried every possible way to escape, and in the end she actually managed to escape.

Duke Zhao and his wife were heartbroken when they learned about this. They had deep feelings for their daughter. The reason she was sent to the palace was because the emperor had nominated her. After all, Duke Zhao was in a high position.

Zhao Xu said that Duke Zhao sat alone in the study room thinking for a long time, and finally ran to the palace to ask for an audience early this morning. No matter how his family members tried to stop him, they couldn't. Finally, at noon today, news came from the palace that Duke Zhao had been locked up.

The person who delivered the news also said that Duke Zhao was arrested on the charge of trespassing into the palace. The emperor was very angry about this. He heard that Duke Zhao had broken into the palace and had a loud argument with the emperor. When the emperor arrested him, he was so angry that he said he would chop off Duke Zhao's head!

Zhao Xu was stunned when he heard the news. He immediately went to the palace to ask for an audience with the emperor, but the emperor would not see him. Zhao Xu knew that time was running out and that the emperor might not see him even if he knelt for a whole day. So he remembered that Wu'an Hou had been very close to the emperor recently, so he thought of asking Wu'an Hou to intercede for the Duke of Zhao.

Then Zhao Xu braved the rain and rushed to the mansion of Marquis Wu'an. After Marquis Wu'an learned about this, he immediately went to the palace to ask for an audience.

"...If my father is really dead...what should I do?" Zhao Xu spoke incoherently. He was worried about the Duke's wife who had fainted at home, grieving for the death of Concubine De, and afraid that the Duke would be executed by the Emperor.