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Chapter 357 - Heartless Heartlessness

Furthermore, the Emperor hadn't stepped foot into the purple palace s for half a year.

The empress became more and more haggard and taciturn during the past six months.

No one knew the reason. In just one night, the imperial concubine had favored her so the empress was gone from the emperor's eyes!

His Majesty had even ordered for the empress not to leave the purple palace at all. Currently, the purple palace was in a deathly state, and the empress had been ill for many days already, having announced that the empress had sent an imperial physician to visit her. Even the imperial physician could not say that he was currently diagnosing and treating Du Xiawei who was already pregnant, and that he did not have time to come to the purple palace.

As a result, the empress had been lying on her bed for days, looking for the imperial physician every day, but there was no trace of him. The servant sneakily went to see Murong Chen, but after hearing that Ran Ke was severely ill, Murong Chen didn't even bat an eyelid as she ordered her men to cane him fifty times over.

At this point, no one dared to go in front of Murong Chen and ask for her order.

Ran Ke was currently in a stupor day by day, and when she occasionally woke up, either it was in the middle of the night or she wouldn't be able to eat anything in the afternoon of the second day. Ever since Ran Ke had lost her favour, the food sent over by the royal kitchen was getting more and more crudely simple.

When the palace maid, Xiao Dan, who was married to Ran Ke, saw the unconscious and blackened Ran Ke, she could not help but cry. "Empress, are you feeling better now?" Why was the heavens being so cruel to the Empress?

The Empress treated everyone kindly, and there were many people who had received the Empress's favor in the past. But now that the Empress had suffered, these people all climbed up to bully her. Could it be that their conscience was eaten enough?

Hateful! This was too hateful!

Ran Ke looked up at Xiao Dan, and gently shook her head, "I'm fine, I feel much better today. Don't cry, I'm okay. "

"Empress …" Xiao Dan cried even more. She had originally wanted to hold back her tears and not let Ran Ke worry, but she still couldn't help but cry. The Empress had been ill for so many days, the imperial physician had been unable to invite her.

Ran Ke replied weakly, "I'm really fine, I'm a little tired and I want to continue sleeping. Go out."

"Fine, I'll call the Empress over dinner. The Empress can sleep in peace." Xiao Dan wiped her tears and immediately covered Ran Ke with the blanket. Only then did she feel at ease and walk out.

"We need to think of a way, the Empress has given us a great debt of gratitude. If not for the Empress, we probably would have been killed countless of times in the palace in the past few years, and if the Empress were to be in trouble now, we can't just worry about our own lives. If this were to drag on, the Empress might even … "I can't hold on much longer."

"Sister Xiao Dan, we will listen to you. In the entire imperial palace, everyone was envious of us, we served the Empress, had never been scolded by the Empress, which one of the people in the other palaces had not been scolded before? "When we heard that there was a problem at home, the Empress immediately sent someone to help us. If we do not repay this debt of gratitude, we would not be able to live up to our reputation!"

"That's right, Sister Xiao Dan, the Empress's condition is getting worse and worse. If we don't treat her now, the consequences will be dire."

"I just hate myself for not letting His Majesty come a few days ago. Instead, I was the one who got beaten. I'm useless." Sister Xiao Dan, I'm sorry. "

Xiao Dan clenched her teeth, "There is only one way now."

"What method?"

Xiao Dan took a deep breath and looked in the direction of the Eternal Music Palace. "I can only go see the imperial concubine now."

"Imperial Concubine?" It's impossible for the imperial concubine to be so kind as to save the esteemed one, right? "

Xiao Dan gritted her teeth once more. "This is our last method. If we can't get the imperial concubine to agree to save the Empress, then we can only watch as the Empress leaves us." So, this is our last chance. "Esteemed Empress, you take good care of me. I'll go see the Imperial Concubine." If... If I can't come back, you must take good care of the Empress, you must let the Empress go in the end and not suffer too much. If it's possible, then go beg the Emperor to come and see the Empress. "

"Sister Xiao Dan, don't worry. We will not fail to live up to your request. "

Xiao Dan turned her head to take a look. Her expression was resolute, and without looking back, she walked out of the purple palace, straight towards the Eternal Music Palace.

The Eternal Music Palace.

On the fox skin reclining chair, a beautiful woman with the color of the Tian Xiang Country was lying down.

The palace maid at the side gently waved her fan as she waited upon the woman.

"Empress, Xiao Dan of purple palace has already knelt for two hours." The palace maid reported with a smile.

Du Xiawei's expression did not change at all, as she continued to leisurely eat the grapes she just delivered.

The palace maid saw the situation and immediately said, "Everyone in purple palace is like a stray dog. I heard that the Empress doesn't have many days left to live, this Xiao Dan really doesn't have much vision. He's almost dead, why did he let the imperial physician come over? If she likes to kneel, then kneel. "

An hour later.

Xiao Dan did not dare move, and knelt straight. It had been more than two hours, but the imperial concubine was still unmoved. She did not believe that the imperial concubine's heart was made of steel.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and it was as if he had seen the emperor in a trance.

Murong Chen walked far away from where she was. When he saw Xiao Dan kneeling on the ground, he frowned, and was about to get someone to chase Xiao Dan away, but Xiao Dan seemed to have already seen her lifeline as she crawled up from the ground and staggered towards Murong Chen.

"Your majesty, your majesty, I plead for Your Majesty to save the Empress. The Empress won't be able to stop herself soon. Considering our former friendship, may Your Majesty please save the Empress." Xiao Dan kneeled down with a thump as he painfully begged Murong Chen.

Murong Chen lowered her head and looked at Xiao Dan coldly, "Servants, she has 50 staff."

Xiao Dan's face changed drastically as she looked at Murong Chen without any color on her face. How he doted on the Empress in front of him, and everything was still fresh in her mind, as if it was yesterday. But now, in the blink of an eye, the emperor had turned hostile, so why was she being so heartless? Poor Empress …

Xiao Dan entered the Eternal Music Palace as she watched walk out of the palace to receive him. Xiao Dan closed her eyes in despair.

purple palace.

It had already been more than two hours and the sky was already dark. Xiao Dan still had not returned, and had even asked him about it during the Empress' dinner, so they could only lie.

Just as the few of them were at a loss as to what to do, two figures suddenly appeared in front of them, stopping right in front of the Empress' sleeping quarters.

"Who are you? This is the purple palace, the empress's palace! "

"Someone come!" There's an assassin! "

Several people kept shouting, but no matter how much they shouted, no one came in.