C14

At the entrance of the Gate of the Temple, the lady's clothes were tattered and her entire body was dripping with blood. Her hair was messy with weeds stuck to her deathly pale face. Five bright and dazzling finger marks on her face were even more shocking.

That was more than just a tragedy!

Inside the Tenglong Hall, bright yellow curtains hung down from the ceiling. The coiling-dragon pillar was engraved with fine golden carvings and the room was filled with luxury. The emperor was still wearing his dragon robe as he sat behind the casekeeping, filled with majesty.

This was not the first time An Su had entered this place, nor was it the first time she had seen the emperor. Three years ago, she was called back and was entrusted with a mission at a critical and difficult moment to defeat the Xuan Army. And it was here that the emperor had summoned her.

The first and only time.

After that, she went to the You Zhou, led her forces to fight for a whole three years, and never returned the Capital. She hadn't thought that when the next time she would step in here, she would be full of hatred and in the identity of someone else. The Holy Monarch, who sat behind the casekeeping and stood high above her, who she was loyal to before, in the end, had ordered her entire clan to be exterminated.

Looking at the coldness in the Emperor's eyes, she recalled the admiration and responsibility she had towards him three years ago. In the end, the admiration became an indescribable irony.

When she was in the Blue Drop Mountain, her master had warned her that accompanying an emperor was like accompanying a tiger. The most heartless of all was the emperor's Family. However, she, who had been deeply influenced by her father since she was young, had never placed the warning in her heart. She had never expected that one day, she would understand the true meaning of those two sentences.

The realization was made of blood and tears.

Unfortunately, it was too late. In the end, she had failed to live up to her master's painstaking effort to cultivate her.

An Su walked into the palace in a stiff manner and knelt in the middle of the hall, "I, Ji Huashang, sued the Third Princess. She was dissatisfied with the marriage that the Majesty bestowed on me and Prince Ning, so she publicly discredited me by making up a relationship between me and another man. Not only did she beat and me up in front of everyone, she also ordered Wang Xuanlang, Xie Wentao and Wei Jiaqi to kick me into the moat and tried to take my life.

"Bitch, you're just in time."

When An Su had not even finished speaking and everyone had yet to recover from their shock, Xiao Tianyue bellowed in anger and swept her eyes to the sword on the yellow table. She took it, unsheathed this sword and slashed at An Su, "You dare to slander me even before your death. I will kill you now. Let's see who can save you!"

Xiao Tianyue didn’t have Imperial Consort Jing’s patience. The hatred of being humiliated in front of everyone, the hatred of having her face destroyed, and the waves of stinging pain that came from her face instantly piled up together. At this moment, when she saw her enemy and heard the words of the other person suing her, the fury in her eyes grew to be uncontrollable in an instant. The little sense she had left was wiped out by the fire immediately.

There were only three words left in her head, “kill that bitch!”

A shining blade.

Her killing intent was awe-inspiring.

Imperial Consort Jing's heart thumped as she cursed loudly in her heart.

That was the Imperial Sword, which had been placed in the Tenglong Hall. No one dared to move it without the Emperor's decree. When Yue used the sword to slash at Ji Huachang, wouldn't that mean that she had made a big mistake even she hadn’t before?

Xiao Tianyue was so furious that she did not even have the mind to bother noticing that it was the Imperial Sword. How would she have thought that she would actually be able to use the Imperial Sword to slash at someone?

Imperial Consort Jing wanted to stop her but Xiao Tianyue's move was too fast and her fingertips only touched the lower hem of her gown.

It slipped past the gap between her fingers.

Of course, An Su would not be stupid enough to stand there and be chopped into pieces. She rolled and dodged on the spot. When she saw that Xiao Tianyue's second sword had arrived, she screamed out, and suddenly raised her head, "Anyway, I won't be able to live. The entire Marquis Yongning’s Mansion will be ruined by you. Xiao Tianyue, today I'll fight it out with you, ahhh ~"

Deciding to shoot the works, An Su bent over and used her head to charge forward to smash towards Xiao Tianyue's stomach.

Boom!

Clang!

Xiao Tianyue was knocked to the ground on all fours.

An Su could not pull back her feet and directly pounced on Xiao Tianyue, pressing her down hard. Xiao Tianyue who was already full of river water felt a spasm in her stomach and the yellow gall water almost squeezed out from her throat. She hit the back of her head onto the ground and a golden light flashed in front of her eyes. She was almost knocked out but her anger made her go straight to the sword hilt and chop again. At this time, her neck was suddenly grabbed by two hands.

Xiao Tianyue's face was flushed red to purple. She raised her head to look but what she saw was a sinister face hanging on top of her head, whose eyes were red like an asura evil spirit. As the crazy words entered her ears, she broke out in a cold sweat.

"I will kill you. I will kill you. A malicious woman like you used to bully me. But now that the emperor gave me the order, you're still bullying me. I can't marry the Sixth Prince anyway. I'll kill you now. I'll kill you, the malicious woman …"

Her weak and boneless hands were like iron pincers, which couldn’t be broken no matter how. That suffocating feeling came over again, causing Xiao Tianyue to feel afraid. But she couldn't even cry out for help.

"Stop!"

"Yue..."

Two voices sounded at the same time. It was the Emperor with a dark face and the anxious Imperial Consort Jing. This turn of event happened too suddenly and everyone was caught off guard. Even more so, no one expected that there would actually be someone who would dare to hack and kill in front of the emperor in the Tenglong Hall.

Qin Kun regained his senses and was about to go forward to stop her. But another figure quickly went forward and grabbed An Su’s hand, carried her like a chick, and picked her up from Xiao Tianyue's body and threw her onto the ground.

"Yue, Yue, how are you …"

Xiao Tianyue coughed violently. Imperial Consort Jing stepped forward and looked at the dark green finger marks on her daughter's neck. She was angry and resentful. Turning her head, she looked at the emperor with tears in her eyes.

"Your Majesty …"

Before she could even open her mouth to beg for forgiveness, An Su, who had just been thrown to the side, suddenly sat down on the ground and started crying and howling, "Your Majesty, you've seen for yourself. The Third Princess even dared to use a sword to kill me in front of the Emperor. You can't side with her just because she's your daughter. It's her viciousness. It's not my fault. You can't just because of this to chop me off or chop my father off, and even more so, you can't chop my brother …"

The corner of Shao Feng's mouth twitched when he led the three into the palace.

This woman was unbelievable. She had ruined the Third Princess's appearance and even caused the Third Princess to roll her eyes in front of the Emperor. In the blink of an eye, she was already acting like a shrew crying for injustice. Not only was her change in expression faster than flipping books, the wounds on her body, if he remembered correctly, were not there before.

That is to say, the injury was added latter by herself?

She had injured the princess, falsely accused the imperial family, made a scene in the Tenglong Hall, and even fooled the Emperor. Any one of them would be a capital offense. Her relevant nine clans could be executed. But how could she get the courage to provoke the Emperor and challenge the imperial family's dignity?

"It's not proper to be in such a disorderly state and make such a ruckus."

Emperor Yongying bellowed angrily. An Su shuddered and looked up at the Emperor, as if she seemed to be frightened. Her face was wet and it was unknown whether it was tears or water.

"Hurry up and stand up. If you have any grievance, explain it clearly to me. After I investigate it thoroughly, I will deal with it fairly." Seeing such a shrew, the emperor also felt a headache. Especially when he saw how she continuously scolded Xiao Tianyue and how innocent she looked.

He couldn’t take sides with Xiao Tianyue just because she was a princess.

These words were said well. This idiot had unintentionally made the emperor embarrassed.

The Empress Wang smiled as she stepped forward to support An Su, "That's right. Just now when you made your move against the Third Princess, the Emperor did not blame you. How could he kill you, your father or your brother? The Emperor is the most impartial. If you have any grievances, don't be in such a hurry. Speak slowly. If you cry out like this, even the Emperor can't help you."

The lady on the ground took the chance to stand up and whimper, "Esteemed Empress, I fell into the water three days ago and just woke up today. Then Sixth Prince came to my mansion. Together with my second sister, he forced me to enter the palace and ask for retrieving the imperial edict. I was naturally unwilling and told him that disobeying the imperial edict would be killed. So, he took out his sword to kill me. If it wasn't for the large crowd at that time, I would have been stabbed to death long ago."

"I felt wronged and wanted to go out to relax but the princess was somehow provoked and wanted to kill me as soon as she met me. She said that I had an affair with a wild man and I was not worthy to be the imperial concubine. After hurting me, she even ordered Wang Xuanlang and Xie Wentao to kick me into the moat. This was nothing, but she actually …"

"But she destroyed the imperial edict that the Emperor bestowed to me. Isn't she trying to take my life, my father's life, and my brother's life? She's trying to take this opportunity to completely destroy our family!" An Su kept wiping her face and crying miserably, but in fact her eyes were cold.

She had already met Xiao Ye before and had a reason to approach him, so this imperial edict was useless for her. They all want to break off the engagement. Since they could not do so, she would help them.

As long as they don't regret.

They want to make use of her and kill her? How could there be such an easy thing in this world?

Destroyed the imperial edict!

When the four words came out, everyone's eyebrows jumped.

Empress Wang inhaled a breath of cold air. She felt her heart beating faster and faster, "Ji Huachang, is what you said true? The imperial edict has really been destroyed? This can’t be joked about!" Her voice was extremely stern.

An Su immediately reached into her sleeve and pulled out a jade scroll. The roll silk, which was made by the golden silk and silver embroidery, was already wrinkled and its body was a mass of black and yellow after it was smeared with the black color. Its original face could no longer be seen.

The Emperor only glanced at it once and his expression was extremely dark.