C1 Mingyuezhang

Su Mingyue had never thought that she would be in such a sorry state. She was originally First-born Daughter from the Jing'an Marquis Mansion, and married the current emperor. Their relationship was close, and Su Mingyue had never thought that she would one day enter this cold and damp palace.

All the people around her had been sent away. The luxurious clothing on her body was also stained with mud, and her hair was disheveled. No one would have thought that this extremely miserable looking girl was the once aloof and haughty Empress.

"Is sister well?" The door opened with a creak and Su Mingyue shivered as she walked into the snowstorm. Her clothes were thin and she was wearing very thin clothes.

The woman who came in wore a light blue, luxurious clothing. Her face was like a peach blossom, and she had a smile on her face.

"It's you?" Su Mingyue's face was filled with resentment as she looked at the woman walking in.

This girl was the person she was the most familiar with. His cousin, Jing'an Marquis Mansion's Miss of Cousin, had grown up with him. She had been protecting Ruan Ping'er since she was young.

"Elder sister, don't look at me like that. I'm really scared." A smile hung on Ruan Ping'er's delicate face. She was happy. After so many years, she had finally stepped on Su Mingyue.

"It's you. Why did you do this?" Su Mingyue said fiercely.

She knew that she had done nothing to let Ruan Ping'er down. Ruan Ping'er's father was a child of the Humble Class. Although he had also become the censor, in the capital, where powerful people were everywhere, a Humble Class Censor was nothing.

Su Mingyue was always protecting Ruan Ping'er, but she didn't expect that Ruan Ping'er would go to her husband Yuan Ao's bed. Su Mingyue was always protecting Ruan Ping'er, but she didn't expect that Ruan Ping'er would go to her husband Yuan Ao's bed.

Su Mingyue had always trusted Yuan Ao and doted upon Ruan Ping'er, so she didn't want Ruan Ping'er to be unable to raise her head in front of everyone in the capital. Therefore, she helped Yuan Ao accept Ruan Ping'er as his secondary wife and protected her after they entered the palace. After that, Yuan Ao became the Emperor of Daqian and they became the empress and imperial concubines of the palace.

Su Mingyue had originally thought that staying together with Ruan Ping'er in the harem was a good idea, but she didn't expect that the person who would end up stabbing her viciously in the heart was actually Ruan Ping'er.

"Elder sister, what are you saying? It was clearly elder sister who drugged me, causing my birth to be low. How could you say that it was your younger sister who did it?" Ruan Ping'er smiled sweetly at Yan Xi. Her eyes looked innocent and harmless, but this innocent look had fooled Su Mingyue countless times.

"You're not pregnant at all. How could you have a baby?" Su Mingyue stared at Ruan Ping'er with indifference. Her heart had turned cold. No matter who it was, her heart would not hurt so much. Yet it was her, Ruan Ping'er, who had grown up with her.

Ruan Ping'er laughed instead. "Is it that important? The most important thing is that His Majesty has already believed in it. His Majesty has already ascended the throne for three years, but because you're so jealous, he doesn't have a single child. How could you say that His Majesty doesn't hate you?"

"I didn't. I once thought of giving her a concubine. He rejected it himself." Su Mingyue also knew that she had been childless for so many years, and it had attracted a lot of discussion in the imperial court. Su Mingyue also knew that she had been childless for so many years, and it had attracted a lot of discussion in the imperial court.

"Elder sister must be really confused. With such a heavy soldier in the hands of the Jing'an Marquis Mansion, even if elder sister were to request for a concubine of her own, your majesty would not dare to accept!" Ruan Ping'eryu smiled sweetly, her eyes full of mockery and contempt.

"Then what about now? Could it be that he isn't afraid anymore? He can't forget that my big brother is still at the border, and he's also the Marquis of Jing Wu with an army of three hundred thousand. If he treats me like this, then isn't he afraid that my big brother will overthrow his lands?" Su Mingyue couldn't understand why Yuan Ao would treat her like that. Even though he did not care about his previous affection for her, she was still that Jing'an Marquis Mansion's eldest miss, Su Mingshu's favorite younger sister. He should have at least been a little fearful of Jing'an Marquis Mansion behind him.

"Elder sister probably doesn't know, right?" Ruan Ping'er's dress was adorned with a tinkling sound, which was extremely pleasing to the ear. However, when Su Mingyue heard it, it was exceptionally ear-piercing.

"The Great Mastermind has hated Jing'an's Marquis Mansion for a long time. He sent assassins to kill him, and the Marquis of Peace's death was unlucky."

They were obviously cousins, but Ruan Ping'er's face was filled with pride.

"How could … how could this be …" Su Mingyue looked as if she had been struck by lightning.

How could her big brother, who doted on her to the bones, die just like that?

"It's him, right? It's him, right?" Su Mingyue pounced towards Ruan Ping'er.

Her brother, the god-like Su Mingshu, who had stood above the battlefield for so many years, how could he just die in such a small conspiracy. Su Mingyue didn't believe it, Su Mingyue didn't believe it at all.

"Elder sister, how can you think of His Majesty like this? Cousin Mingshu, he is the most important person in the world, how can His Majesty kill him? He really just died in the middle of this assassination attempt. "

However, no matter how he died, in the eyes of outsiders, he could only die at the hands of Da Yu. Otherwise, this would become the biggest stain on Yuan Ao's political life. Therefore, Yuan Ao did not allow anyone to talk about this matter, even if it was his favorite, Ruan Ping'er.

"Don't worry, sister. His Majesty couldn't bear to see his Su Family lose so easily, so he granted Cousin Mingye the title of nobility and continued to enjoy the glory of the family." Looking at Su Mingyue's pained expression, Ruan Ping'er stabbed her in her heart yet again.

"Su Mingye, how could it be him? There's obviously …" Su Mingyue said anxiously.

"There's still Su Mingqian, right?" Lili smiled ruefully. "Look at me, I only said half of what I wanted to say, but I forgot to tell my sister that Cousin Mingqian and Cousin Mingshu were very close. When he heard that Cousin Mingshu had been killed, he was annoyed, so he went into his tent and disappeared."

"Where did he go?" Without knowing where it had come from or where it had disappeared, Su Mingqian had probably fallen into Yuan Ao's hands as well. Lili's tears flowed uncontrollably.

Su Mingyue's father, Su Xiao, and her second uncle, Su Hee, had both died on the battlefield, leaving only Su Mingshu and Su Mingqian.

After all, Su Han of the Third Branch was Ruan Ping'er's uncle and was not the same as the Eldest and Second Branch. No wonder Ruan Ping'er was so happy.

It was because he no longer had anything to rely on that Yuan Ao and Ruan Ping'er dared to treat him like this.

Su Mingyue burst out laughing, but her laughter was filled with sorrow. Who would have thought that after painstakingly nurturing Yuan Ao for so many years and helping him ascend to the throne, he finally managed to support an ingrate. Not only did he obtain such an outcome, he even took the lives of Jing'an's entire Marquis Mansion.

"Empress, His Majesty has decreed that you are unkind and jealous, that you have murdered the son of the Emperor, and that you have killed Prince Yuan Ming all these years ago. Your Majesty has committed an unpardonable crime, but even so, he still remembers your relationship with him for all these years and wishes to leave you with your corpse as a whole, so he can send me here to send you on your way."

Since she had already broken off her relationship with Su Lili's sister, Ruan Ping'er no longer tried to be hypocritical and claimed that she was right.

"Unvirtuous and jealous? Assassinate the emperor? Dove to kill Prince Yuan Ming? " Su Mingyue laughed without saying a word.

So all of this was her fault? In order to realize Yuan Ao's ambition, she did not hesitate to go against her own conscience, helping Yuan Ao to win over the Minister of Imperial Court, helping her to come up with ideas, and even helping her to feed a glass of Jiu Jiu wine into Prince Yuan Ming's mouth.

At that time, the previous emperor was severely ill. Yuan Ao's explosion was due to the curse of Prince Yuan Ming's voodoo insect. All human evidence was present, and all material evidence was present. When Prince Yuan Ming entered the clan's mansion, the previous emperor left after a short while due to the aggravation of the situation.

The other Princes were either unable to accomplish anything, or were in a foreign land, or were still young, and only Yuan Ao could use them. Thus, Yuan Ao also naturally ascended to the throne.

Prince Yuan Ming had always been loyal to Ming Rui and benevolent, so he was a good candidate for the throne. After such an incident, it wasn't that no one disagreed, there were many people who disagreed, but not long after, Prince Yuan Ming died in the clan's manor.

The cup of venomous wine she gave Prince Yuan Ming was personally sent by her. She also knew that there was definitely the shadow of Yuan Ao behind this incident, but, after all, Yuan Ao was the one who was in front of her. Between the truth and Yuan Ao, she chose Yuan Ao.

Was this brought up again? Yuan Ao couldn't suppress those ministers, so he could only push her out to be the scapegoat.

"Since Empress is going, then I'll show you a lot of kindness so that you'll understand."

"Do you know why you haven't been able to bear a child all these years?" Ruan Ping'er asked.

Su Mingyue stopped laughing and looked at Ruan Ping'er. She had been married to Yuan Ao for seven years, but they did not have a single child. Su Mingyue did not hesitate to drink the bitter medicine, but it was to no avail.

"That's because your husband, the emperor of Daqian, had personally fed you the medicine for your son." Ruan Ping'er bent her body slightly. Although there was a smile on her face, it was exceptionally horrifying.

"You're lying, you're talking nonsense, how could he do that?"

Su Mingyue and Yuan Ao had been together for seven years, so she naturally knew Yuan Ao's desire for his son.

"Why wouldn't he?" Ruan Ping'er's voice was clear and cruel.

"You are the daughter of Su Family, how could the emperor allow you to give birth to a prince with the bloodline of Su Family?"

It was also because Yuan Ao didn't want a child with the Su Family and bloodline, but he still had to coax Su Mingyue everywhere. Even she hadn't gotten pregnant in many years, so how could Ruan Ping'er's hatred for Su Mingyue be small?

"If he really hates our Su Family so much, then why did he marry me back then?" Su Mingyue's voice had also become shrill. It was because she didn't know anyone and had even lost the lives of Jing An's entire Marquis Mansion.

"If it wasn't for the military power in your father's hands, do you think that the Emperor would be willing to marry a wife he can only afford?" Ruan Ping'er asked.

"Su Mingyue, you have always been aloof and looked down on others ever since you were a child, but now, you have lost to me. You are the only one who miscalculated."

What Ruan Ping'er said was right. Su Mingyue helped Yuan Ao win the position of Crown Prince and offered some advice to her. Yuan Ao had once called her a female classmate.

"In the future, there will no longer be a person like Empress Su in this palace. I, Ruan Ping'er, am the only master." As long as Su Mingyue was around, she was destined to be a foil to Su Mingyue. Therefore, Su Mingyue had to die.

"Imperial Concubine Ruan, do you really think you've won?" Su Mingyue slowly stood up.

If you can cripple me today, then tomorrow will be the day I abandon you. At that time, I did not stop him from going to your palace, and I did not stop you from having children either. But today, you still haven't given birth to a man and a woman. Su Mingyue's face was full of mockery. Yuan Ao was heartless, he couldn't possibly be acting towards her alone, right?

"Slut." Ruan Ping'er slapped him. "As matters stand, we are still estranging the feelings between us."

Ruan Ping'er naturally didn't believe him. Yuan Ao had a lot of trust in him, so no matter how secretive it was, he was willing to tell her.

Su Mingyue's face turned red, but she didn't fight back. She just sneered.

Facing such an opponent, Su Mingyue was afraid of dirtying her own hands.

"It's already late, Empress should hurry up and set off. The entire Su Family family is waiting for you below!" Ruan Ping'er suddenly became angry. That's right, why would she be angry at someone who was about to die?

Su Mingyue's eyes were filled with tears. She hated them, not only did she hate Yuan Ao and Ruan Ping'er, she also hated herself.

"Ruan Ping'er, you will have your retribution." To rely on Jing'an's Marquis Mansion to climb up to the top, and now he even wanted to step on Jing'an's Marquis Mansion as well. This kind of person was probably only a chess piece that Yuan Ao could discard at any time.

After losing her military power, Jing'an Marquis Mansion was just an empty shell. Without this layer of protection, Ruan Ping'er probably wouldn't be able to stand firm in the harem.

Laughing loudly, Ruan Ping'er left. She no longer paid any attention to Su Mingyue. Retribution? What retribution? She didn't know when her retribution would be, but Su Mingyue's was right in front of her.

The white silk around Su Mingyue's neck tightened bit by bit. She could even hear the praising voices of the people from the palace, saying that Ruan Ping'er would become the next Queen.

Ruan Ping'er knew too much. Yuan Ao wouldn't let her live for too long, and Ruan Ping'er would come down to accompany her in the end.

"Dad, mom, big brother, Mingyue is here." Su Mingyue whispered in her heart.