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Xue Liuhua looked at the jewelry and tools that were brought over by the servants dressed in different types of palace outfits. The outfits were embroidered and beautiful, causing her eyes to be so red that blood practically dripped to the ground.

"Empress," the eunuch who gave the decree saw Xue Liuhua's stupefied look, and could not help but call out to her a few more times, "Empress Imperial Concubine Hua, quickly receive the decree."

Xue Liuhua opened her eyes wide in disbelief: "Imperial Concubine Hua?" She was the direct descendant of the Prime Minister Xue family, how could she only get a position.

His innocence was initially set in stone by the Prince Jin, but seeing how His Majesty was so handsome and so considerate and gentle to her now, he couldn't help but think that it would be great if he could reluctantly become her wife, but how could the Emperor be willing to only give her a position of consort?

Her father-in-law hid the disdain in his lips. She was just a lady who had the spring breeze with the Emperor the previous night, and she had to pretend to be arrogant. He smiled apologetically: "Esteemed Imperial Concubine Hua, it's best for you to quickly accept the decree. Otherwise, you will have to consider it as disobeying the decree."

Anger rose in Xue Liuhua's heart, but she still chose to act like a young miss of the Prime Minister's house, and smiled: "Your Majesty. Prime Minister Xue... Does father know I'm going to be a concubine? "

"Prime Minister Xue?" The eunuch covered his mouth as he laughed, "Empress, you are the adopted daughter of the Duke of Ning Country, where did all these Prime Minister Xue come from?"

Xue Liuhua stared at him in shock, and could not help but shriek, "Didn't the Duke of Ning already die, where did the adopted daughter come from?"

Eunuch touched his nose in disgust and said with a smile, "The Prime Minister Xue lost his daughter the next day. Isn't the Empress the daughter of the Duke of Ning? Your Majesty …"

"Lost a girl the day after tomorrow?" Xue Liuhua truly felt that it was extremely absurd, "I'm here for good, where did the girl get lost from?"

"Empress," the eunuch gradually lost his patience, "In the future, you will call yourself 'I', so you can't call yourself 'I' anymore."

Xue Liuhua angrily threw a teacup at his head, "Shut up, I'm the dignified Prime Minister's daughter, I don't need an eunuch like you to teach me!"

The eunuch dodged the sudden teacup and a cold light flashed in his eyes, "Empress Imperial Concubine Hua, you should take it easy. Although the Duke of Ning has not accomplished anything in his life, he can still be considered to be obedient.

"My father is the Prime Minister, Xue Longhu. Go away," Xue Liuhua said as she jumped down and started to walk out the door, "I want to go see the Emperor!"

"Empress Imperial Concubine Hua, you should take your time. The Yongle Palace bestowed to you by the emperor is so vast, it will still take some time for you to reach the palace gate."

Xue Liuhua suddenly stopped in front of him. Seeing her stunned look, the elder wanted to laugh at her, but could only see the gloomy face of the emperor walking in from outside.

"Parameter..." The eunuch knelt down in panic. "Greetings, your majesty."

"I heard you guys arguing from the entrance of the palace," the Emperor said as he walked past Xue Liuhua with a cold expression.

The eunuch anxiously replied, "Empress Imperial Concubine Hua doesn't know much about the rules of the palace."

The emperor indifferently swept a glance at Xue Liuhua who was pretending to be calm, and lightly bit the corner of her lips: "I didn't call you over to allow you to argue with Imperial Concubine Hua, but instead to teach her some manners."

The eunuch smiled apologetically, "This servant failed in his duty, this servant failed in his duty."

"Since you've failed in your duty, you should be punished." His ice-cold gaze swept across the crowd, causing everyone to feel a chill run down their spines.

The Emperor beckoned to Xue Liuhua who had stopped by the door, "Come over."

Xue Liuhua was startled, then like a ghost, she walked into the palace and knelt down weakly, "Your Majesty …"

"What's wrong?" The emperor lightly smiled. "Who bullied you?"

"Your Majesty, I …"

The emperor's fingers slowly moved across those exquisite fabrics. "This is something special from me to you. Do you still like it?"

"..." I like it. "

"Hua is a special title that I've bestowed upon you. What do you think?"

Xue Liuhua's lips opened and closed, "I think it's very good …"

"It's good that loving consort likes it," the Emperor said as he touched his lips. "But loving consort must remember to say 'chenqie' in front of me."

Xue Liuhua remained silent for a while, before asking, "Your majesty, how did chenqie become the adopted daughter of the Duke of Ning? chenqie is the daughter of the Prime Minister."

"Oh," the Emperor acted as if he was deep in thought, "So this was what loving consort was concerned about."

Xue Liuhua straightened her body and said with tears in her eyes: "Your majesty, in the end, chenqie is still the direct descendant of the Prime Minister Xue family of Xue Longhu.

A smile appeared on the emperor's face, but his eyes were chilling. He waved his hand towards the door and said, "You guys can leave first."

The eunuch and the palace maid left together. Sunlight shone through the tightly shut door and into the room, landing on Xue Liuhua's pale face.

"Imperial Concubine Hua," The Emperor smiled slightly, "Do you know how you were sent to our Bedchamber?"

Xue Liuhua was startled, and revealed an extremely miserable smile. "Why did the emperor ask such a question?"

"A dignified genius of the Prime Minister's Mansion actually ran to the palace and laid on my bed," The emperor raised a cold smile, "Did Imperial Concubine Hua get set up by someone, or was it someone else who sent you to set up a trap for us?"

Xue Liuhua was shocked and her body couldn't help but tremble slightly. "Your Majesty, this concubine doesn't know how you sent her to your Bedchamber."

"The maternal family of your mother, Madam Ye, is currently at the waning stage of one's family business. If we had not thoroughly investigated the corruption in Madam Ye, I believe we would not have landed ourselves in such a predicament."

Prince Jin's name was just next to his tongue. If she spat it out, it would definitely set off a storm, and if she didn't say it, he would end up with malicious intentions.

"Imperial Concubine Hua," The emperor smiled, but the cold light in her eyes made people shudder. "Why are you so slow to say that person's name, could it be your lover?"

Xue Liuhua shook her head, at a loss of what to do, "No, Your Majesty, chenqie doesn't know what happened that night either, chenqie … As soon as chenqie woke up, she saw the emperor. "

"That's why," the Emperor pursed his lips, "Imperial Concubine Hua, we aren't even sure if you are sincere in your love for us or if you have other intentions."

Xue Liuhua's tears were about to fall out of her eyes, "Your majesty, I really didn't …"

"This matter involves too much. First, you have two choices; one is to obediently say the name of the person who plotted to kill me, and the second is to fake his death to end the Xue Clan's eldest daughter's identity. I'll give you a few days to think it over." With that, he flicked his sleeves and left.

Xue Liuhua kneeled on the ground in disappointment. What was going on with the emperor? A few days ago, he was still warm and considerate towards her, but today, she became this cold-blooded and heartless. What went wrong?

Prince Jin? When Xue Ronghua and Chu Zongge saw who it was, they stood up in shock.

Prince Jin nodded his head and smiled: "What's with the expressions of Royal Brother and sister-in-law?"

"Oh," Xue Ronghua calmed down, "None of us expected that Prince Jin would come to the Prime Minister's Mansion."

Prince Jin sat at the table very naturally as he impolitely poured a cup of tea and lightly sipped on it, "Is this the newly entered Dragon Well? The eating and wearing speed of Prime Minister's Mansion is really out of the ordinary."

"No matter how good the things in the Prime Minister's Mansion are, they can't compare to the things in the palace." She took a glance outside the door, where the gatekeeping Zhu Tong and Little Zhui were currently nowhere to be seen.

"Is the quasi wangfei looking for the two maidservants?" The Prince Jin smiled, "They have been doing their duty all day, it's really too tiring. I'll let them rest."

Xue Ronghua's face darkened, "Where did you take them?"

"They are in the servants' rooms," the Prince Jin comforted. "Quasi-wangfei, do not worry. This king is not a vile person."

Xue Ronghua curled her lips in disdain, "You are indeed not a despicable person, but you are a complete hypocrite."

Prince Jin raised his eyebrows. "What do you mean by that, quasi wangfei?"

"You should know best what you have to do yourself," Xue Ronghua thought for a while, "Xue Liuhua's matter, was something that you schemed against."

The Prince Jin spread his hands innocently. "The quasi wangfei cannot blame everything on me, it's too biased against me."

Chu Zongge had a faint smile on his face as he sat opposite to Prince Jin, "Currently, only the three of us are here, and since Prince Jin and I are in an alliance, let's not keep any more secrets from our allies."

The Prince Jin laughed lightly, "Prince Duan's good at using the word 'ally'. I'm afraid that I have to use the Prince Duan as my ally, and the Prince Duan will use me as a shield."

Chu Zongge was not in a hurry to argue, "The first thing to do in the battle for the direct line of descent is to get rid of the crown prince, you and I are clear on this point, and other than the crown prince, the Prince Jin knows better."

The Prince Jin blinked his eyes indifferently and turned to Xue Ronghua, "Congratulations to Second Miss Xue for being promoted to the big miss of the Xue Family. Now Prince Duan will no longer be criticized for marrying a princess."

Xue Ronghua said coldly: "I have to thank Prince Jin for helping me get rid of Xue Liuhua, this big problem in my heart."

"This can also be considered as a huge gift that I prepared for Royal Brother's wedding."

"Big gift?" Xue Ronghua could not help but laugh, "Obviously, the Prince Jin wanted to throw off the burden of Xue Liuhua herself."

"If I didn't dump this burden on you, how could I let the Prince Duan go with the flow and do you a favor?" The Prince Jin raised his eyebrows, "The matter of Xue Liuhua's death should be told to the Prime Minister."

Xue Ronghua was silent. Madam Ye was gravely ill, Xue Liuhua had died miserably, she was about to become the direct daughter of Prime Minister's Mansion, but she did not know if Xue Longhu would accept this matter quickly.

"Xue Liuhua is extremely beautiful, and should be able to seal some sort of position in the palace." Xue Ronghua hoped that the Emperor wouldn't think too highly of her. Otherwise, if she came here in the name of an imperial concubine to suppress her as a wangfei one day, she wouldn't be able to withstand it either.

Prince Jin placed the teacup down, "Seal it as Imperial Concubine Hua."

Xue Ronghua heaved a sigh of relief. Although there was a title for her, she was after all not a concubine. The Emperor was not that infatuated with her beauty.

"I'm afraid that there will be more advancement in the future," Chu Zongge said, "Just don't rise too high."

"She won't have that chance," the Prince Jin said with a light smile. "With Empress Chen and the Noble Consort Kang above his, it would already be impressive if Empress Imperial Concubine Hua did not surrender. In a place like the harem, just beauty is useless."

Xue Ronghua laughed coldly: "No matter what, you are still Xue Liuhua's lover. You really do have the heart to do this evil thing to your woman who loves you."

"In the past and present, there has never been a Sovereign King who had stepped on the bones of others to ascend to the throne," Prince Jin looked at Chu Zongge playfully. "On this point, Prince Duan must definitely be clearer than me."

Chu Zongge raised his eyebrows, and chuckled: "Prince Jin really can deduce oneself and others."

"Since you are an ally of the Prince Duan, you should spend some time and effort on these things."

Xue Ronghua sighed helplessly, "Listening to you people plotting to get the throne is really scary."

Chu Zongge chuckled: "I can use my Qing Gong in front of you, only Tai Chi would do better in front of him."

Prince Jin squinted his eyes, "What kind of qinggong is Prince Duan talking about right now? You guys are already getting married, what's there to be afraid of?"

Xue Ronghua and Chu Zongge's eyes immediately dimmed, they had to quickly figure out what happened at Mrs. Heyi.