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As he thought about it, Feng Qing Cheng's underling's strength also couldn't help but decrease by a lot. Using this opportunity, Xi Jiu Er twisted his neck and broke free of the other party's restraints.

After retreating quite a few times, Xi Jiu Er finally bent over and coughed nonstop. Just now, she had used too much force to grip her lower jaw and had even tied her throat. The suffocating feeling made Xi Jiu Er feel like she was about to drown.

"Choose whether Dong Zhu lives or dies."

Feng Qing Cheng brought up the matter again, he actually wanted to see if this woman was willing to spend her entire life to save a mere maid.

Both of Xi Jiu Er's hands supported her knees, and with a heart wrenching cough, she took a long time to get used to the speed of air entering her lungs through her nose, which made him cough almost as fast, and just as the air was flowing smoothly, Xi Jiu Er suddenly approached Feng Qing Cheng.

"I'm willing to stay behind when she's alive, but Feng Qing Cheng, you better remember this, even if you want to keep me here, you better not leave anything behind. To me, you are just someone who has gone through thick and thin, that's all."

After Xi Jiu Er finished speaking, he swiftly turned around and left, leaving behind a bundle wrapped with shattered treasures and antiques, and a man who made him feel at a loss.

Xi Jiu Er braved the cold wind and walked along the brightly lit path while wrapped in a thin layer of Ye Xing Yi. Hanging everywhere under the eaves of the house, she received a large lantern with gold inlay.

After messing around for the whole night, they were almost at the ring-hour s by now. There was a trace of grey that gradually stained the sky, causing Xi Jiu Er to feel hungry and tired.

Ever since he became pregnant, his appetite seemed to have become even better, apart from the oddity of his daily taste. He would have to eat every few hours.

Xi Jiu Er was too lazy to think about anything else. Fortunately, the palace she was in was not too far away from here.

The tail that was following him the whole way kept on following him. Only when he was sure that he had returned to the palace, did he hide in a corner.

Xi Jiu Er glanced at the shadows behind him from the corner of her eyes, turned around and picked up her black clothes, then stepped into the great hall.

However, unexpectedly, everyone in the hall had already gathered together, as if they had already known that Xi Jiu Er would appear at this time.

Xi Jiu Er looked at the room full of eunuchs and maids, and she understood in her heart that if there wasn't a traitor among them, it would be absolutely impossible for them to know her current whereabouts.

The person she suspected the most was naturally his personal maid, Wan Yun. He had immediately told her of his plan and fell into Feng Qing Cheng's trap the moment he stepped out of the room.

Xi Jiu Er silently moved past the crowd and headed back to the inner hall to rest. The people around him all knelt down and shouted together, "I beg Imperial Concubine to spare our lives!"

Xi Jiu Er frowned suspiciously, and watched coldly from the sidelines. She subconsciously told her that someone was scheming something behind her back.

All the people kneeling on the ground knelt down on all fours, pretending to be frightened. Only Wan Yun raised her head with a dull expression and her eyes were filled with alienation and indifference.

"I beg you, Imperial Concubine, to no longer take the initiative to flee the Imperial Palace.

The corner of Xi Jiu Er's eyes twitched as she looked at her coldly. After a long while, he finally replied, "If I really have to think of a way to escape from this place, how can you tolerate me?"

Wan Yun knelt on the ground and bowed deeply. His face no longer had its usual cheerful and lively expression; instead, it was replaced with a cold and distant look, as if she had never been like the way she was before.

Wan Yun slowly spoke out, "Then Dong Zhu's life was caused by Imperial Concubine's death."

Hearing that, Xi Jiu Er paused, she mulled over the words for awhile. After a moment, she understood, these feelings were with another person who was using Dong Zhu's life to threaten him, how could she not be angry? If two people, no, a bunch of people, threatened him within a day, it would be impossible to say whether she was angry or not.

Xi Jiu Er shot forward like an arrow, and "pa", a resounding slap fiercely landed on Wan Yun's face. Her face was dark clouds, and she could not even restrain herself from venting all of her anger for the entire night.

"I knew that you were the one who leaked my plan of escaping the palace to Feng Qing Cheng, but today you have revealed your true colors, and I'm afraid that you already know that I will return, what about it? You want to use the person I care most to threaten me? You are just like your master, shameless! "

Xi Jiu Er directed all of the anger in her heart towards this, one word at a time. Amongst the women who had been lurking by her side for many days, she hated others betraying her the most, furthermore, she was Xi Jiu Er's trusted aide, so she wanted to treat him with sincerity.

Xi Jiu Er didn't know how much strength she had just used; she could only see that after her palm landed, half of Wan Yun's beautiful face had swollen up, and traces of blood could be faintly seen from the corner of her mouth.

Wan Yun lowered his head, lowered her gaze, and deeply buried his head. She concealed the malicious anger deep within her eyes, and said with a still cool voice, "Imperial Concubine will teach you a lesson, but only Imperial Concubine will have a master."

In other words, Xi Jiu Er was seeking her own humiliation.

As for what kind of woman Xi Jiu Er was, how could she not understand the disrespect and hatred in the other party's words? At this moment, they had already calmed down quite a bit, and pretended that she hadn't heard the other party's ridicule.

The entire room of terrified maids and eunuchs were scared stiff. They had never seen Xi Jiu Er this angry before, the way she treated others was always gentle, sometimes cold and aloof, but they never thought that cold and indifferent people would actually have such terrifying outbursts of temper.

Originally, everyone had only followed Wan Yun here, and sincerely begged Xi Jiu Er not to leave the palace, in order to protect their lives.

Wan Yun told everyone that today, the Imperial Concubine wanted to escape the Imperial Palace, but the emperor was forced to stay behind using Dong Zhu's life as a threat. The Imperial Concubine was forced to stay, and everyone was afraid that one day, she would truly disappear.

However, they did not expect to almost offend the Imperial Concubine. Everyone touched their chests to soothe their trembling little hearts.

Xi Jiu Er returned to the Inner Palace gloomily, and after she climbed onto the bed, she felt that it was only when she was alone, that she had to call for the maid to cook food for him, and then fell into a deep sleep.

The days passed by little by little as Xi Jiu Er's abdomen continued to swell.

In the blink of an eye, the coldest days passed. As spring gradually warmed up, rumors spread that the emperor was about to fill in a second wife for the imperial harem.

It seemed that she was the daughter of His Majesty the Emperor's uncle, the King Xiang. She was called Feng Jin Se, and upon hearing that she was extremely beautiful, comparable to the Empress herself.

Xi Jiu Er leaned on the bed, leaned her ear against the curtain and listened to the two little servant girls whispering to each other, discussing the first gossip in the past few days.

Xi Jiu Er started to fall into a deep sleep in the spring. After having lunch at noon, she went to the Inner Palace to rest and after sleeping for an unknown period of time, she heard the two female attendants who had just transferred over to the other side of the hall discussing this matter in a low voice.

Actually, Xi Jiu Er had seen this Feng Jin Se before as well and had forgotten where she had met her. However, her subconscious told him that this woman must have met him once.