Demoted from wife to concubine? Reborn, the mistress of a noble family plots another high-status mar

Chapter 628

"Stop!" Yun Xiyue ordered her men to stop them. "Princess, do you intend to take lives so lightly?"

"Humph!"

Murong Yun snorted and threw down her sword. "I was just trying to scare them. Your elder brother is so ruthless; now he's injured my consort. Your Yun family must give me an explanation!"

There was a guard in the Jiaofang Palace, which was roughly equivalent to the imperial guards, with more than fifty people. They immediately surrounded them.

Because Yun Xiyue is the Empress, and this group of guards was arranged by the Emperor to protect the Empress, all the guards in the palace knew about it.

Upon seeing them, they dared not make any rash moves.

"Your Majesty, the Imperial Son-in-Law is seriously injured. If your Yun family does not provide a satisfactory explanation, then we will have no choice but to make your elder brother pay with his life," the Empress Dowager said.

Yun Xiyue sneered, "The Empress Dowager and the Eldest Princess never act with reason, only with the power to coerce people?"

"You..." The Empress Dowager's expression changed slightly. She knew that the matter was the fault of the Imperial Son-in-Law, but the Yun family's decision to depose him was excessive.

"Your Majesty, it was Consort Liu who kidnapped me first and drugged me, trying to humiliate me. If Your Majesty wants to blame my husband, I will beg the Emperor and the people of the world to uphold justice," Xiao Ling'er said angrily.

The Empress Dowager glanced at Xiao Ling'er, thinking that she was the granddaughter of the Xiao family. If she really allowed the eldest princess to kill Yun Xiaohan in a fit of anger, it would indeed be very troublesome.

"We cannot rely solely on your side of the story. I will order an investigation, and if it is indeed the prince consort's fault, I will handle the matter impartially."

Yun Xiyue's expression was as cold as frost as she smiled and said, "The parties involved have all identified the culprit, and the prince consort woke up at the crime scene. Also, this isn't the first time he's forcibly taken another man's wife."

"Will the Empress Dowager continue to protect this kind of person?"

"There's no need for the Empress Dowager to send anyone to investigate this matter, because I have already notified the Court of Judicial Review to investigate, and we will have results soon."

The reason why Liu Muyuan dares to be so arrogant is because he has the support of the Empress Dowager and the Eldest Princess.

Liu Muyuan should have died two years ago. Now that he dares to touch her elder brother, she absolutely cannot tolerate it.

Before long, Pei Heng arrived at Funing Palace.

When she saw him, the Empress Dowager was reminded of the incident two years ago when the Imperial Son-in-Law had seduced his nephew's wife.

Because of this incident, Pei Heng became estranged from the Empress Dowager and the Eldest Princess, and had not visited the Empress Dowager in the palace for two years.

The Empress Dowager dotes on her daughter. The eldest princess forbids the emperor from executing the consort, only punishing Xu Lan, while Liu Muyuan remains unharmed. The Empress Dowager has indulged him to this day, never considering Pei Heng's feelings.

Stealing another man's wife is an irreconcilable crime.

With Liu Muyuan constantly in front of him, Pei Heng felt an urge to snap his head whenever he thought about it.

"Your Majesty, I have come to pay my respects." Pei Heng said coldly, glancing at Yun Xiyue and the others, before recounting the entire story of the case.

"The prince consort has already admitted that he sent people to kidnap Young Madam Yun, drug her, and attempted to assault her. If Young Master Yun hadn't arrived in time, the consequences would have been unimaginable."

"Young Master Yun only injured him by accident."

Yun Xiyue asked, "Since he has confessed, how should he be dealt with according to the laws of the Great Xia Kingdom?"

"Kidnapping and abduction, thirty strokes of the cane, six months in jail." Pei Heng spoke the truth. If he had violated Xiao Ling'er, he would probably be dead. The Yun family and the Xiao family would never forgive him.

The eldest princess was furious. "The prince consort is already injured, and you still want to punish him with thirty strokes of the cane and send him to jail for six months?"

"Then why don't you mention Yun Xiaohan's injury to the prince consort's manhood?"

Pei Heng, dressed in a dark red official robe, with a face as beautiful as jade and a cold expression, glanced at the eldest princess with a hint of disdain in his eyes. "The emperor is subject to the same laws as the common people. Consort Liu injured the princess first and then harmed himself. Young Master Yun's actions were to save his wife. Even if he accidentally killed him, it was his own fault."

"The laws of the Great Xia Dynasty are not designed to make things convenient for the princess. If the princess is not satisfied, she can go to the emperor."

But the Emperor would definitely give her a severe dressing down.

Then she immediately issued an edict to execute Liu Muyuan. With the Xiao family stirring things up behind the scenes, the Empress Dowager couldn't protect Liu the Imperial Son-in-Law.

The Empress Dowager had already guessed the outcome, "Yun'er!"

"Mother..."