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"You wretch! Your heart is so wicked, you even want to harm an unborn child. Yao'er has been so good to you, yet you would harm her and the child in her womb. You viper!" 。With a forceful kick, one foot slammed into the shimmering palace attire. 。"Your Majesty, I did not! I am innocent!" 。"Here, the imperial noble consort Gu, shocking hearts with her treacherous schemes, has plotted against the empress and harmed the crown prince. Her crimes are unforgivable. Immediately demote her to commoner status and confine her to the Cold Palace." 。The sky was overcast, heavy with the promise of torrential rain. In a neglected corner of the opulent palace in Liangzhou City, there lay an abandoned courtyard overgrown with weeds. The windows and doors were dilapidated, and the winter air bit with a chilling sharpness. A howling wind rattled the broken panes, creating a mournful creaking sound that added to the desolation. 。...and on the courtyard gate were the words "Cold Palace" written in bold. 。Gu Jinglan sat on the cold, dilapidated floor of the room, watching the winter snow fall in the yard. His heart was as cold as this snow. 。She was the favored concubine of the Emperor just months ago, but in a single night she was cast out to this cold palace, abandoned and reviled by all. 。The door creaked open, and footsteps slowly walked in. Gu Jinglan looked up and saw a young man who was twenty or six years old. He wore an empress's robe, with a crown on his head. His face was beautiful and dignified, yet there was also a hint of elegance and grandeur that was beyond compare. 。At this time, the woman with a six or seven-month-old belly walked in. Gu Jinglan looked at the former imperial concubine who was once loved by thousands, and now saw her in such a pitiful state. He gently smiled. 。"Good sister, elder sister is here to see you. Can you speak to elder sister?" 。"The voice of the child said playfully, " 。"Nan Gong Yao, isn't this field I'm in now all thanks to you? I never pushed you, nor did I poison the child in your belly. Isn't everything your doing?" Gu Jinglan looked at Nan Gong Yao and said resentfully. 。"That's right, you guessed it all. It was this palace who wasn't poisoned at all. It was this palace who bribed the imperial physician to say that this palace was poisoned." 。That fall was also intentional on my part. 。"Nangong Yao, you poisoness! The emperor will definitely find out and clear my name!" 。"Haha, Gu Jinglan, are you stupid? Do you still think the emperor will care about your affairs?" 。Don't you understand the Emperor's intentions yet? He already wants to kill you. How can he even spare a glance at you now? You should be thanking this Palace instead, you know. The Emperor was going to sentence you to death, but I begged him to spare you because you are carrying his heir. 。"The Empress Nan Gongyao spoke in a rather pitiful tone," 。"Fool, don't you understand even now? The Emperor married you only because your family's influence could help him ascend to the throne of the prince." 。Later on, my pampering you was just to win over your father. Now that your father and brothers are dead, and your family has been ordered by the emperor to be ransacked, the emperor no longer needs to fawn over you. Besides, you also "harmed" this palace and the future prince, so the emperor will certainly not let you go. 。"No, Your Majesty wouldn't do that to me. My Emperor dotes on me, how could this be fake?" Gu Jinglan was a little crazy. 。"Humph, Gu Jinglan, are you still deceiving yourself? With your intelligence, how could you not have thought of it? The emperor never truly cared for you. All these years, his pretense of favor was actually a disguise for his growing disgust with your arrogance and lack of understanding towards Xiao Yi's gentleness. And all these years, his seeming indifference to this palace was merely a form of protection. Otherwise, why wouldn't he have made you empress? Humph, what imperial concubine, what most favored person, in the end, since you entered the mansion, you've only been a concubine." 。"Nangong Yao said with a hint of ruthlessness and relief." 。Gu Jinglan listened to the words for a long time without speaking. Yes, in fact, ever since the day he was banished to the cold palace, Gu Jinglan had known that all those years of friendship were false. Otherwise, how could he have directly decided to banish him to the cold palace without even investigating? And not...Gu Huai, with his child, his abolished martial arts left him helpless on all sides and with nowhere to escape... 。"“Now that you've gotten your wish, the two of you can still live happily ever after. What are you doing here? Come to see my joke?” Gu Jinglan said coldly to Nangong Yao. " 。"How could I not? After all, you and this palace have been sisters for ten years. How could I not give you a little gift? Someone whose tendons are severed, limbs broken, and face ruined... " 。“It is the Empress, this servant obeys your command.” 。Several eunuchs of Nangong Yaohou bowed in response. 。"Nangong Yao, you venomous woman, for so many years I have been favored but never provoked you. Why are you so cruel? 。Gu Jinglan angrily said: 。“Hahaha, Gu Jinglan you say I'm vicious. For so many years, because of you being in the Prince’s Mansion, people only knew you, Gu Jinglan, and ignored me, your rightful Crown Princess. After entering the palace, people only recognized the Imperial Noble Consort and didn't know me, your Empress who rules over all women! Because of you, I have endured countless ridicule and insults.” 。"Then, with a smile, he said,""Don't worry, this is just a small punishment. I won't kill you, and I will keep your child. What are you standing there for? Go serve our esteemed Empress Dowager now." 。The eunuch hurriedly responded and walked towards Gu Jinglan. The knife in his hand mercilessly severed all of Gu Jinglan's tendons, and then slashed dozens of times on Gu Jinglan's face until it was blurred beyond recognition before stopping. 。Gu Jinglan lay painfully on the ground... 。Nan Gongyao looked at Gu Jinglan's embarrassed and ugly appearance, and laughed happily. "Sister Gu, you must not die! What about the child in your belly? Hehehe" 。With a burst of laughter, Nangong Yao walked out accompanied by her attendant eunuch. 。Gu Jinglan lay on the ground, letting out bursts of laughter. Though Gu Jinglan prided himself on his intelligence and all-around talent, 。Xiang Gu Jing Lan, the only son of Zhen Guo Da Jiang Jun Ding Yuan Hou, was a pampered heir to a powerful military family. He received every indulgence imaginable from his father until he made a wrong choice in love and ended up in this sorry state due to that one mistake within the imperial harem. 。To the point of feeling like death, gazing at the slightly protruding belly, how could he bear to die just like this? He still wanted to see the child being born, still wanted to watch the child grow up. The unborn child unwillingly shared his fate. Gu Jinglan thought in his heart that he must live well and give birth to the child. After all, the child was the emperor's own flesh and blood. The child was innocent, they shouldn't treat him any differently. As for the parents who had passed away, he would go find them underground after the child was born and apologize. 。 (The End) |
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