The whole family of villains listens to my heart, the Regent Prince treats me dearly.

Before Zhai Rongyu could speak, Consort Shu screamed first.

"Why are you begging her?"

"She's just like these ghosts, she's here to harm me!"

Zhai Rongyu shrugged. "Well, it's not that I'm unwilling to save her, it's that your lady is willing to bear the consequences of her actions."

"That's amazing!"

She gave Consort Shu a thumbs-up, then leisurely walked away, swaying her ribbons.

"Your Majesty! You're confused!" Qiu Jin cried as she crawled to Consort Shu's side, only to be slapped away. "Get out of here! All of you, get out of here!"

Consort Shu pinched herself and stumbled as she ran toward Xianning Palace.

"Ghosts fear fire... I will burn you all to death today..."

"If you've got the guts, come along!"

"Hahahahaha..."

Chunlan and Qiu Jin were immediately shocked.

"Chunlan, you watch over Her Majesty, I'm going to find the Sixth Prince!" Qiu Jin said, and then ran out of the palace.

Chunlan nodded and immediately caught up with Consort Shu.

The fire at Xianning Palace is raging.

Consort Shu ran to the palace gate, her hair already disheveled.

She pulled the hairpin from her hair and started stabbing wildly at the air, shouting, "I'm not afraid of you! I'm not afraid of you!!"

When the palace servants who were putting out the fire saw Consort Shu acting erratically, they couldn't help but secretly gather around to watch.

Soon, a large crowd gathered outside Xianning Palace.

Consort Shu acted as if she hadn't seen them at all.

Before her eyes now was a swarm of ghosts!

Consort Shu was in a frenzy, looking at the fire and talking to herself.

"Consort Ning, you spoke recklessly, and it is only right that I had your tongue pulled out! If it weren't for your clever words and flattery, why would the Emperor have gone to your palace instead of attending to me on the day I was to serve him?"

"You mere noblewoman dare to compete with me for my favor? You deserve to die!!"

She swung the hairpin in her hand fiercely, then stabbed it hard in another direction.

"Consort De! Get out of here with your stillborn child! You caused me to fall, and I was already being lenient by pushing you down the stairs!"

"It's your own fault for being useless, causing the death of both you and your unborn child. What does it have to do with me!"

"I've consumed so much Zichehe to maintain this face, so what difference does the fetus in your womb make! It's already dead! It's its honor to still serve me!"

The palace servants all stared wide-eyed.

Good heavens! The once gentle and virtuous Consort Shu was actually secretly eating stillborn fetuses to maintain her beauty!

Many of the more timid palace maids had already run to the side and started vomiting.

"Quickly report to the Emperor! Consort Shu has gone mad!" a eunuch ran to spread the news.

The Emperor's carriage soon arrived at Xianning Palace.

The eunuchs have already reported all the sordid things that Consort Shu had just revealed to the Emperor.

The more the emperor listened, the more solemn his expression became.

Consort Ning… Consort De… and so many stillborn infants in the palace, it turns out they were all harmed by Consort Shu…

She has such a face, yet she does such a vicious thing!

A fake will always be a fake.

Leaving it for too long will only make you feel disgusted.

"What are you all doing here? Hurry up and put out the fire!"

The emperor was furious, and the palace servants dared not linger, scattering like birds and beasts.

Consort Shu was completely unaware of what had happened and was still caught in her own madness.

"Consort Xiang... Do you think that just because you look somewhat like me, you can monopolize the Emperor's favor? In this palace, even if someone is a substitute, there can only be one me!"

"Who do you think you are! You dare to covet the Emperor's love!"

"I slashed your face only to warn you! Who knew you would be so foolish as to seek revenge? You asked for death! Don't blame me!"

"Isn't it wonderful to be ordered to commit suicide by the Emperor? Hahahaha..."

The Emperor was shocked.

Consort Xiang… He vaguely remembered that the woman’s appearance was even more beautiful than Consort Shu’s, and she resembled Huai’er’s mother even more.

Unexpectedly, he also died because of Consort Shu's scheme.

He looked at Consort Shu, his eyes losing all tenderness, leaving only a cold, regal majesty.

"Consort Shu." A cold voice rang out.

Consort Shu recovered from her frenzy and looked at the Emperor standing with his hands behind his back in the distance. Overjoyed, she ran over to him without regard for her appearance.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, please save me!"

"There are so many ghosts here... They all want to harm me!"

Consort Shu staggered to the Emperor's side, fell to the ground, and grabbed his trouser leg. "Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, with abundant yang energy. You will surely be able to drive away these evil spirits!"

She turned around fiercely, and sure enough, the ghosts dared not approach.

Consort Shu was overjoyed and held tightly to the emperor's robe.

The emperor pulled out his robe with some disgust.

"Evil ghost?"

"From what Consort Shu just said, these people are all innocent souls who died at your hands!"

"Don't you feel even the slightest bit of remorse?"

He leaned down slightly, looking at Consort Shu's face, which seemed increasingly unfamiliar.

"A sense of remorse?"

Consort Shu seemed lost in thought. She murmured as she reached up to touch her face, looking up at the Emperor, "All these people are against me. Your Majesty loves me dearly, shouldn't you stand by my side?"

"Your Majesty should forgive me for whatever I do because of my face, shouldn't you?"

She laughed wildly, and as she laughed, her eyes filled with tears.

The emperor straightened up, his expression indifferent.

"So you knew all along."

Consort Shu suddenly became furious and grabbed his robe again. "How could I not know? I wanted to pretend I didn't know! But the Emperor's favor and rank are all because of this face!"

“Every time you look at me, you always look through my face at another woman! How could I not know! How could I not hate you!”

"Has Your Majesty ever loved me, even in the slightest?"

"Does Your Majesty remember my name?"

The emperor lowered his eyes and did not answer.

Consort Shu seemed to have known the answer all along, and laughed maniacally, "Hahahaha... After so many years in the palace, the Emperor can't even remember my name."

"I gave birth to Qing'er for you, but now it all seems like a joke!"

"You just treat me like a decoration! Like a mirror!"

The Emperor withdrew his gaze and instructed the eunuch, "The Xianning Palace has caught fire, and Consort Shu has suffered mental damage from the burns. Find a palace for her to be properly settled."

"Yes, Your Majesty." The eunuch made a move to help Consort Shu up, but she brushed him away.

"I'm not crazy!"

"You're the crazy ones! You're the crazy ones!"

"A self-deceiving madman!"

Consort Shu got up from the ground and sneered, "Find a palace to settle me in? You want to lock me up?"

"I'm telling you, you're dreaming!"

"After years in the deep palace, I've had enough of this disgusting life!"

She looked at the towering flames inside Xianning Palace and suddenly smiled.

"If Your Majesty is unwilling to save me, I have no choice but to save myself."

She staggered toward Xianning Palace.

The eunuch cried out in terror, "Your Highness, what are you doing! The Xianning Palace is engulfed in flames!"

The Emperor watched Consort Shu's retreating figure with a cool gaze, as if bidding farewell to the past.

"Let her go."

The eunuch immediately fell silent.

Consort Shu rushed into the sea of ​​fire, just as the Sixth Prince, Jun Yiqing, arrived.

"Mother!!!"