Chapter 716: Half Two

Chapter 716: Half Two"Mother!"

Seeing this scene, Nan Hou Xiang's heart dropped. He had the feeling that his mother had inexplicably courted her own demise with this action.

Madam Qu was stunned too. She didn't expect that this servant would be so fast that she would take the cup and drink almost all of the content in one gulp. The content inside should be fine if it was taken little by little but all at once was courting death.

*cough* *cough*

The servant kept on coughing blood and then fell to the ground.

"Kyaaaaaaaaaaa!"

It was chaos.

Nan Shu Cheng watched as Madam Qu tried to defend herself and claimed that she was innocent while Concubine Su was crying, saying that Madam Qu wanted to harm her and her baby. The other concubines said nothing and merely watched from the side.

Looking at his father's expression, Nan Hou Xiang knew that his father had lost his patience towards his mother.

"I have been very patient with you." Nan Shu Cheng looked Madam Qu coldly. The expression within his eyes seemed as if he was looking at his enemies rather than his own lover who shared the same bed as him.

"Starting from now, Concubine Mu and Concubine Yu will be the two in charge of the household. You should rest and don't play any other tricks."

"Shu Cheng!" Madam Qu couldn't believe that he took her power in the household just like that.

"Yes, we'll do our best." Both Concubine Mu and Concubine Yu quickly bowed. They felt that this was an unexpected windfall and might come with some annoying consequences. How much they felt that it would have been better for them to not be the one pointed by Nan Shu Cheng.

"Let's go." Nan Shu Cheng took Concubine Su's hand and walked away.

At this moment, Concubine Su suddenly turned and looked at Madam Qu. She revealed a mocking smile right towards Madam Qu before resuming her crying act as she walked away with Nan Shu Cheng.

"Father, this..." Nan Hou Xiang wanted to speak for his mother, but he saw Nan Shu Cheng looked at him with a cold gaze.

"You shouldn't interfere in this matter, Hou Xiang."

But for some reasons, that gaze filled with love and complete affection had disappeared from Nan Shu Cheng's eyes when he looked at Madam Qu. He no longer regarded the woman that much.

Was it because of time?

Or....

Nan Hua?

Nan Hou Xiang clearly remembered that his mother's temper had been very bad when Nan Hua first entered. Not only that, Nan Shu Cheng slightly differential treatment towards Nan Hua was not only once.

Even though it seemed that he hated her, there was some kind of uncomfortable feeling when Nan Hou Xiang saw Nan Shu Cheng treated Nan Hua differently.

'What should I do now?'

...

Meanwhile, Nan Hua sipped the tea while listening to Xiao Yun recounted the events on the dinner not long ago. She had asked them to pay attention to the news, so Xiao Yun was on guard.

"Half two." Nan Hua put down the cup. "The other half will come soon enough."

Xiao Yun knew that merely taking Madam Qu's power was not enough punishment for what Madam Qu had done in the past. Right now, it was merely the icing in the cake.

Nan Hua looked into the sky once more. "The moon is beautiful tonight. It's the perfect day."

Perfect day?

Xiao Yun blinked her eyes.

What she didn't know was that there were actually many people who would die tonight because of Emperor Yang Zhou's cleaning. Even when he was preparing for his marriage, he would never forget his duties.

Did those officials thought that he was easy to deal?