Marrying a concubine and swallowing her dowry? The mistress turns around and marries a high-ranking

Chapter 382

Mo Zhonggui's face was stiff, and he did not answer, but Shen Lingjun could tell at a glance that he had tacitly agreed.

That's definitely true... He was there at the time and saw everything, but because he was in such a weak state, he might be killed by Fu Shi Yan if he were exposed, so he didn't rush out to stop her.

No wonder he said he hates food made with osmanthus flowers the most...

It must be because of the two osmanthus cakes she gave him?

She had just saved his enemy, and then turned around and tried to do him this kind of small favor. At that time, she must have seemed very hypocritical to him, and he probably wanted to tear off her fake kindness.

I wonder what happened to those two osmanthus cakes afterward; they were probably trampled into the snow and turned into mud...

Although she remembered that she and Mo Zhonggui had such a connection, Shen Lingjun did not feel any sense of relief.

If you offer help when someone is in their most difficult time, that kindness will likely be remembered for a lifetime; but if you make a mortal enemy of someone one minute and then give them a little something the next, that's a huge irony.

If it were her, she would hate the other person too.

But Mo Zhonggui had countless opportunities to avenge her, so why didn't he take action?

To say that they spared her life to slowly torture her... well, it seems they didn't really torture her that much.

Shen Lingjun couldn't help but want to ask Mo Zhonggui. Although it seemed like she was courting death, she still wanted to get to the bottom of it.

Otherwise, she wouldn't know what Mo Chonggui wanted to do to her. This feeling of having a sword hanging over her head, not knowing when it would fall, was too uncomfortable.

"Chief Supervisor Mo, I do not deny that I saved Fu Shiyan's life back then. But since you already knew, why...?"

Shen Lingjun was interrupted halfway through her sentence.

A series of urgent knocks sounded at the door, followed by Ye Huaichi's voice, which was extremely urgent.

"Your Excellency, a major incident has occurred in the palace! Chu Jinxun and the Grand Princess Pingkang have launched a palace coup, and the Emperor and a group of royal relatives have been detained!"

Mo Zhonggui and Shen Lingjun's expressions changed drastically, and they stood up abruptly!

Shen Lingjun was extremely shocked.

Chu Jinxun escaped from prison, and the entire Changguo Marquis's mansion was ransacked. Yet he still managed to launch a palace coup?

How did Princess Pingkang get involved? She is the emperor's own aunt, so how could she have conspired with Chu Jinxun to rebel?

Mo Chonggui clearly had the same question as Shen Lingjun, asking Ye Huaichi, "How many men did Chu Jinxun bring? How did he infiltrate the palace?"

Ye Huaichi said, "According to the news coming from the palace, Chu Jinxun led a force of over a thousand men, fully armed. They were probably his own private army, and there might even be some people from the Western Qi among them. They entered the palace through a secret passage. It's unlikely that they dug a tunnel out on their own; they probably found a secret passage left over from the previous dynasty."

Shen Lingjun also asked, "What about Princess Pingkang? Why is she in league with Chu Jinxun?"

Ye Huaichi: "I heard that Princess Pingkang went to the palace a couple of days ago to ask the Emperor to release her husband, Song Yong, back to the capital, but the Emperor refused. Princess Pingkang may be holding a grudge because of this, so she joined forces with Chu Jinxun."

Shen Lingjun looked on incredulously: "...Just because of this?"

Has Princess Pingkang gone mad?