"Your Majesty—" Li Yucai started to speak, but was speechless again.
For the first time in so many years, he saw that the emperor was sincerely interested in a woman, but that person did not cherish her. Instead, he wanted to kill the emperor. Such a woman must not be kept.
But he was also afraid that after this battle, no woman would be able to fall in the emperor's eyes, and he was even more afraid that the emperor would be lonely for half his life.
"Your Majesty, think carefully before making a decision." Biyu spoke again.
She had the same worries as Li Yu. Mu Ci was not the other concubine. It didn't mean that if she was killed, there would be another one who could take her place.
There cannot be another Mu Ci in this world.
The emperor finally opened his heart to a woman. If Mu Ci was really executed, she was afraid that the emperor would regret it.
"There's no need to think about it anymore, I've already considered it long enough." Dugu Liancheng said, heading towards Yong'an Palace.
This time he didn't take the chariot, and he didn't walk very fast. It was obviously a bit far from Yong'an Palace, but somehow he arrived quickly.
Sooner or later, I have to face Mu Ci. This day will come sooner or later.
The servants of Yong'an Palace all greeted the emperor's arrival, but Mu Ci did not appear.
Dugu Liancheng met Mu Ci in the garden.
Mu Ci looked in the direction of the vegetable field and seemed to hear his footsteps. She pointed at the blood-red flowers growing toward the sun with a quiet and gentle smile: "This is the soul-eating grass I planted myself. It is beautiful.
right?"
Beautiful, but people dare not look directly at it.
It flutters in the wind and blooms the most beautiful scenery.
If we didn't know its past and present lives, who would have known that it was such a sinister herb?
"It's beautiful." Dugu Liancheng sat down in the empty seat next to Mu Ci.
When the soul-eating grass blooms, it is just as beautiful and vicious as when Mu Ci kills people without getting any blood.
Sometimes he felt that he was no match for a woman's ruthlessness.
"Why are you so sure that it was me who poisoned you with the Soul-Eating Grass?" Mu Ci asked.
She knew that Dugu Liancheng was not easy to fool, so she felt it was reasonable for Dugu Liancheng to see through it.
Especially after punishing Qing Le, Dugu Liancheng still didn't come to her, so she roughly guessed that the emperor already knew the truth.
"I asked Dr. Qi how long it would take for the Soul-Eating Grass to cause an old disease. Dr. Qi told me that this thing is subtle and it will take a year at the earliest to occur. Judging from the timeline, you are the biggest suspect." Dugu.
Liancheng replied slowly.
In other words, Dugu Liancheng had already guessed that it was Mu Ci before Qing Le complained to Dugu Liancheng.
"Indeed, I have the most motive to attack you in the entire harem." Mu Ci understood.
She knew that Dugu Liancheng would discover the truth sooner or later.
She could hide it from others, but how could she hide it from the scheming emperor?
"Do you hate me so much?" Dugu Liancheng turned to look at Mu Ci.
He thought she just didn't like him, but he never thought that she wanted to kill him.
"You don't understand. My feelings for you are far more than just the word hate. I liked you the first time I saw you. When I grow up, I want to marry you.
It's just that no relationship can last forever, and I am not exempt from it. In the end, I neither hated you nor loved you. Originally, we could have stayed together, but you forced me to become your woman. At that moment, I
I know what I should do." Mu Ci's smile was as bright as spring, and his voice suddenly changed: "The moment the soul-eating grass bloomed, I picked it, dried it, ground it into powder, and made lip balm."
On the first night she went to Yanfu Palace to stay, Dugu Liancheng had already fallen victim to the Soul-Eating Grass.
Apparently Dugu Liancheng also thought about it: "In terms of scheming, no one in this harem can compare to you."
"I'm not so arrogant. If I know how to plot, I still can't escape your eyes. You don't like your concubines, that's why you let me plot against them. Speaking of which, you have murderous intentions against me more than once, right?
? Let’s not talk about the distant ones, let’s talk about the Battle of Ten Thousand Flowers Festival. In fact, you also wanted to use other people’s hands to get rid of me. But for some reason, you came again later..."
Mu Ci looked directly at Dugu Liancheng: "When it comes to scheming and cruelty, you and I will give in."
Dugu Liancheng smiled: "You have seen all this."
That time, he did have murderous intentions towards Mu Ci. It was just because Mu Ci had too much influence on him, which was not a good sign. At that time, he felt that keeping this woman would be a disaster, and he was afraid that one day she would suffer backlash in the future.
.
He likes everything to be under his control, but as he continues to be attracted to Mu Ci, his heart is out of control.
My father did a very good job. He had never been sincere to any woman in the Sixth Palace, so he was a good emperor.
Seeing the madness of his mother and concubine, he became even more sure that people in the royal family should not have true feelings, because such a place cannot tolerate true feelings, and even if there is sincerity, it will only become twisted and ferocious in the end.
He was actually afraid that one day he would become like his mother-in-law, who would become unlike himself and torture himself and those closest to him for someone who didn't love him.
"The only thing you win over me is your identity. You are an emperor and can decide people's life and death. If our positions were reversed, even if I gave you arsenic, you would have no right to question me." Mu Jitan
Take a glance at Dugu Liancheng.
Perhaps he was used to her temperament, so when he heard what she said this time, Dugu Liancheng actually felt that it made sense.
"It's a pity that I am the emperor. No matter how unwilling you are, this is reality. I really want to know why you saved me later when you had the chance to kill me." Dugu Liancheng expressed the doubt in his heart.
"Soul-Eating Grass is a medicinal herb I discovered when I accidentally read a medical book. It is not poisonous, and my original intention is not to kill you. It's just because I want you to taste the pain of being involuntarily.
.You and I could have coexisted peacefully, but you forced me to become your woman. I was unwilling to accept it, so of course I tried to find a way to fight back. Dugu Liancheng, let me ask you, if a woman fell in love with you, even
If I want to force you, will you be willing to be abused by that woman?"
"I am the emperor, no one dares to do this to me." Dugu Liancheng glanced at Mu Ci coldly, and really couldn't understand what kind of thinking she was having.
"I'm still the Queen Mother, why don't you force me the same way? You can't answer, which means you don't want to be forced. So, it's reasonable for me to fight back against you, right?" Mu Cixiao said with great righteousness.
Dugu Liancheng looked at her with a confused expression: "Do you think you can escape punishment because of your eloquent tongue?"
"No, I'm just trying to reason with you. Just because you are the emperor doesn't mean that you have to reason with everything. Emperors also have to be reasonable in order to convince the public." Mu Ci replied quietly.
Dugu Liancheng felt as if he was being led by her.
Listening to what she said, is it still reasonable for her to kill the king?
