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"What are you laughing at?" Ji Yunkai's sudden laughter made Grand Concubine Jing uneasy.

"I'm laughing at you, at how you live your life under the shadow of my mother." There was no need to study the heart of the Grand Concubine Jing. As long as she could see the expression on her face, Ji Yunkai could deduce the grudge between her and her mother.

One can only know more if one infuriates the other.

"I may not be the empress, but I am Prince Yanbei's Wife." Ji Yunkai's lower jaw slightly rose, showing her pride.

"So what if you're Prince Yanbei's Wife? If I want you to kneel, you have to kneel obediently for me." Grand Concubine Jing gripped her hands tightly, using this to calm her anger as she said, "Someone, give it to me…"

"Grand Concubine Jing, think twice before acting." Without waiting for Grand Concubine Jing to call for help, Ji Yunkai unceremoniously interrupted her, "Don't force me to go out and talk about how you were so concerned about my father that you betrayed the Late Emperor."

"You, what nonsense are you spouting!" Grand Concubine Jing's face stiffened. There was guilt in her words, but there was also anger and unease.

"Is it nonsense? Only you know." It was easy to deduce that Grand Concubine Jing loved him.

Her mother had always lived in the South. She married her shitty father after going to the North. Here, the only man who could be in the middle of this grudge was her shitty father.

"I have underestimated you. Aren't you afraid of implicating Ji Family?" Grand Concubine Jing did not expect Ji Yunkai to be so shameless, nor did she expect that with just a few words, Ji Yunkai could deduce so many things.

"A married daughter is like water that has been poured out. I have already entered the door of the Xiao Family, what does the Ji Family have to do with me?" Since Grand Concubine Jing showed her weakness, Ji Yunkai did not force herself to hold back any longer. She calmly walked to the side and sat down.

Her legs had no strength left in them. She could not keep standing any longer.

Ji Yunkai heaved a long sigh of relief as she slowly sat down.

She finally felt alive.

"If the Ji Family falls, you won't have a good ending." She was really afraid that Ji Yunkai would blurt out her secret to the world, but she was also unwilling to lower her head to Ji Yunkai, so she could only use the Ji Family to threaten her.

"If the Ji Family doesn't fall, I won't be lucky either." She had always relied on herself, whether it was in the past or in the future. Forget about the Ji Family helping her, it would be good enough if they did not drag her down.

"Alright, alright... come, bring Infanta Shiqing here." Grand Concubine Jing was a smart person, she naturally knew of Ji Yunkai's intention to threaten her.

"Many thanks to Grand Imperial Concubine." Although Ji Yunkai did not show it on the surface, she heaved a long sigh of relief in her heart.

She could not be sure that Grand Concubine Jing would be threatened.

"You're thanking me too early, Ji Yunkai… I will not be so easily threatened." Grand Concubine Jing smiled sinisterly. With a *pa* sound, she broke the cup beside her.

But, it was too late!

She then pounced towards Ji Yunkai, "Someone come! Someone come! Prince Yanbei's Wife is going to assassinate me!"

The Late Emperor was no longer around. It did not matter if there were any scars on her body.

"Damn it!" Ji Yunkai's expression changed drastically. Logic told her that she had to leave immediately to prove her innocence, but the current her could not escape.

With a *bang*, both Grand Concubine Jing and Ji Yunkai fell to the ground. The palace maid walked up alertly and looked as if she was pulling the two apart from each other, but she purposely entangled herself to Ji Yunkai, not allowing her to leave.

"Ji Yunkai, now that you aren't the quasi-empress, it's easy for me to kill you." Grand Concubine Jing held the piece of porcelain in her hand and stabbed it into her heart. She said in a crazed manner, "I'd like to see how you defend yourself against the assassination and slander of the Grand Imperial Concubine!"

Although she knew that she would not take her own life, Ji Yunkai still could not help but scold: "Crazy!"

A woman who went crazy for love was too terrifying. She was regretting provoking Grand Concubine Jing.

"Not good! Not good! Prince Yanbei's Wife stabbed and injured the Grand Imperial Concubine!" The palace maids and the eunuchs shouted at the appropriate time, it was clear that they had a tacit understanding with Grand Concubine Jing.

"Grand Concubine Jing, you are very sick!" Ji Yunkai took the opportunity to push her aside and stood up. But just as she turned around, a guard rushed in and pointed his spear at her. "Prince Yanbei's Wife, please do not move."

"Grand Imperial Concubine, are you alright?" Imperial physician! Quickly, call for an imperial physician!" The palace maids and eunuchs surrounded Grand Concubine Jing as they shouted out in exaggeration as if she would die in the next second.

Ji Yunkai stood at the side and sneered. Grand Concubine Jing is ruthless enough, she had lost.

After a moment of panic, the imperial physician arrived, as did the Emperor.

The one that "hurt" Grand Concubine Jing was her. Ordinary people would not dare to touch her, much less punish her for her crimes, but the Emperor could!

"Ji Yunkai, how dare you! Do you know the crime of assassinating the Grand Imperial Concubine!?" The Emperor did not give Ji Yunkai a chance to defend herself. He scolded her and with his mouth, condemned her immediately.

"I don't need to know because I didn't try to assassinate the Grand Imperial Concubine." It did not matter how the Emperor condemned her. What was important was that she definitely would not admit it.

"The witnesses and evidence are all here, and you still dare to quibble?" As Ji Yunkai had thought, the Emperor would never believe her, nor would he give her a chance to prove her innocence. He immediately ordered, "Someone, drag her out and make her kneel outside until Grand Concubine Jing wakes up."

That's right, Grand Concubine Jing had fainted!

It was just that the piece of porcelain cut through the skin of her neck, leaving a shallow wound in her chest. The imperial physician had told him that the blood last was enough to fill a bow and that she could die at any moment.

"Your Majesty, I did not harm Grand Concubine Jing. Please investigate. Return my and Prince Yanbei's Mansion's innocence." Ji Yunkai knew that she did not have the ability to struggle free from the restraints of the guards, and could only use Prince Yanbei's Mansion to remind the Emperor. She was Prince Yanbei's Wife, so if he insulted her like this, Xiao Jiu'an would not let it go.

However, she did not expect those words to provoke the Emperor instead. "What are you standing there for? Drag Prince Yanbei's Wife down to kneel! Once the Grand Imperial Concubine wakes up, only then can she get up!"

The Yanbei army was in turmoil right now and all of the people he bribed were executed by Xiao Jiu'an, and Xiao Jiu'an did not report anything about this to him, the Emperor. Xiao Jiu'an did not put him in his eyes.

Xiao Jiu'an did not put him, the Emperor, in his eyes, and had repeatedly provoked his authority, so why should he care about Xiao Jiu'an's face?

Also, it was not as if he punished Ji Yunkai in the slightest, he had merely made her kneel. At most, the time spent kneeling could be a little longer, but Ji Yunkai had asked for it!

"Your Majesty, you've been unfair in your conduct of things. This matter will not end here." Ji Yunkai did not know, but she had been pitted by Xiao Jiu'an again.

"Unfair treatment? We are the Son of Heaven, We speak fairness!" The Emperor obviously would not reason with Ji Yunkai, and he would not give Ji Yunkai the chance to reason.

Ji Yunkai looked at the Emperor, her heart filled with unspeakable hatred. "Don't touch me, I'll kneel on my own!"

In this palace filled with tigers and wolves eating each other, she did not have the strength to resist, even walking was strenuous for her. Other than obeying orders, she had no other choice.

Not giving the guards the chance to touch her, Ji Yunkai threw down those words as she swiftly turned around and walked out of the palace. Then, she knelt...