The queen walked away, and the palace staff who followed her also hurried after her. The crowded inner hall suddenly emptied out a large area. However, Empress Xiang remained motionless in her seat, waiting until everyone from Changxin Palace had left before letting out a chilling cold laugh.

  Lin Wan looked at Xiang Fei, this woman still occupying her main hall was really annoying. She spoke without courtesy: "Xiang Fei Niangniang, aren't you going with the Empress Dowager? The mirror moon pavilion of the concubines is not a good place, evil energy fills the air and ghosts roam around, if it collides with Xiang Fei Niangniang, what would happen?"

  Xiang Fei's temper was not good, and her notorious reputation had long spread throughout the capital. At this time, she was provoked by Lin Yuen, but she rarely did not get angry. She smiled indifferently at Lin Yuen, stood up, pushed away the supporting palace maid, and struggled to prop herself against the table corner as she walked in front of Lin Yuen: "Lin Yuen, is it you?"

  "What?" Lin Yuen was confused by her question.

  "I said," Xiang Fei reached out and grasped Lin Wan's sleeve, her face as calm as dead water, but with a faint blue glow flashing in her eyes, her black pupils staring straight at the person: "Was it you who did it?"

  Xiang Fei's appearance made Lin Yuan, who was normally fearless, feel afraid. She tried to pry open Xiang Fei's fingers but found that she couldn't budge them; her own strength was no match for a woman who had been bedridden for months due to pregnancy. She gritted her teeth and said: "I don't know what Your Ladyship is talking about, Xiang Fei. If you suspect me of doing something detrimental to you, you can use any means necessary to investigate or ask the Emperor to intervene. Please let go of me."

  Xiang Fei's chest heaved up and down, her face turned even paler. The people from the Linji Palace nearby hurried to support her. She smiled coldly, covering her mouth as she coughed weakly twice, her voice soft and frail: "You must be very disgusted with me? So, you want to find ways to kill me? Right?"

  "Shangguan Li!" Lin Wan saw that she couldn't escape, so she confronted her with anger: "The pregnancy of the Shengfei is not going well, and she's been feeling unwell. Could it be that you think it's because one of the concubines has cast a curse on you using witchcraft?" After saying this, she laughed in extreme anger: "Haha, haha, so even someone as intelligent as the Shengfei actually believes in such absurd and mysterious things like witchcraft? If there really were magical powers in the world, then we wouldn't need to use our brains at all. We could just cast spells to fight for favor or seize power, why bother with all the hard work and secret struggles?"

  To be honest, Lin Wan didn't have the courage to face Xiang Fei like she did when facing the Empress Dowager. Xiang Fei's pregnancy was unstable and her body was extremely weak, if anything went wrong and something happened to her in Jingyue Pavilion, no matter what the circumstances were, Lin Wan would be the one to suffer the consequences. She just hoped that she could use reason to make Xiang Fei understand, but she didn't dare to really quarrel with Xiang Fei.

  Xiang Fei listened to her say this, but on the surface, she forced a bitter smile, looking like the other party didn't understand what she was saying at all. Forget it, it wasn't her, shouldn't be her, at that time she still didn't have that ability...

  She finally let go of Lin Yuan, without saying a word, and turned around to stumble towards the palace gate.

  Lin Wan was left bewildered by her, and it wasn't until she got into the sedan chair and was carried away that she finally kicked a table leg in frustration, saying: "They're all just looking for trouble!"

  Xiang Fei ran over just to ask her a strange question?

  What an eerie and despicable woman!

  The first snow, however, did not bring good luck to Xiang Fei. She saw that everyone in the outer palace had retreated, and immediately grabbed Lin Yuan's wrist, saying urgently: "Young Master, what can be done about this?! The Empress Dowager has dug up that thing, the evidence is conclusive... even if we can escape punishment, according to the Empress Dowager's words, this place is an unlucky place, Young Master you..."

  Alas, alas! The emperors of the Great Qin dynasty have always been very believing in this. Even if this matter is not done by the young master, it will be difficult to get a good end at the emperor's place. Moreover, Empress Dowager has been worshiping Buddha for many years and understands Buddhist teachings deeply. She must believe what Master Hui Ci said. In that case, how can the young master face the Emperor and Empress Dowager in the future?

  Lin Yan snorted: "Let them go! Because of the rescue, the Empress Dowager even praised me for having great luck. The witchcraft is scary, but it's just a rumor, with the wisdom of the Emperor and the Empress Dowager, how can they easily believe in evil spells?"

  "That's what they say, but Master... " Xue still felt uneasy: "What are we going to do now? The Empress has issued a decree to confine us here, and she is outside colluding with that Hui Ci Shitai, doing who-knows-what. We can't know anything! Master, think of a plan quickly..."

  Although the ancients were superstitious, the first snow didn't think that Hui Ci's words made any sense. She was Lin Yuan's confidante and naturally knew that Lin Yuan had nothing to do with Wu Guo, let alone Lin Yuan's unlucky sayings, which she didn't believe at all. She had seen Lin Yuan climb up from the very bottom, and they had been through countless hardships together; how could such a master be an unlucky one?

  Huìcí Shītài had never met her, but she was already dissatisfied with her. Fan Yuē Dìjī suffered so much torture in the Dah Juè Temple, if Huìcí were a sincere Buddhist, how could she bully a young child? It can be seen that there is no compassion or kindness at all, and she is not worthy of being a nun.

  "Get out of here, all of you." Lin Yuanyan weakly waved her hand at Chu Xue.

  She supported her cheeks and closed her eyes, not caring that this outer hall was colder than the inner chamber. She thought she really needed to calm down for a moment. Chūxuē saw her like this, shook her head and retreated, instructing the palace maid to bring in several braziers when she went out.

  She felt like she was born to worry and die in peace, these days hiding in the house to recover from her injuries, and with Tuoba Hong's favoritism, she actually started to recuperate lazily and scatteredly, completely forgetting what kind of place she was in. She was remiss in her defense, which allowed someone to bury a curse in the back hall of the Mirror Moon Pavilion, and she didn't even notice; she was lazy by nature, so when the news of Ye's pregnancy came out, she didn't even muster up the spirit to arrange for people to keep watch near the Longxin Palace, resulting in her being left in the dark after Ye fainted, not knowing what had happened or how to prepare. Now she suspected that the blow to her chest might have also injured her brain, and with things having turned out this way, being hit by the Empress Dowager and unable to escape, she was truly foolish.

  Alas, alas......

  Should we investigate who put the wooden puppet in the back palace first, or should we look into Ye Xiu's illness? To say that, the key puppet was taken away by the Empress! Heaven, this case is difficult to solve from the start.

  Lin Yan kept knocking on her own skull.

  Jingyue Pavilion was sealed off, and Lin Wan inside was sighing and worrying. Although she had not been out for some time, the Empress's decree made it impossible even for a bird to fly out of Jingyue Pavilion. Chuxue and others found it hard to get any news from outside, as if trying to reach the sky.

  Ye's side is also unknown, only the emperor has never come to Mirror Moon Pavilion, guessing that Ye is not doing well, Tuoba Hong doesn't have the heart to manage other things. Tuoba Hong didn't show up, Lin Yuen was anxious and frantic but couldn't do anything about it.

  It had been like this until the evening of the third day. The night was cool and refreshing, and more than half of the palaces in the Daqin Imperial Palace had extinguished their lights, as dark and unfathomable as a whirlpool in a deep pool. In the main hall of the Mirror Moon Pavilion, two weak yellow candles were lit, and Lin Yu was lying on the bed drinking porridge. She was feeling sad and her mood was poor, and she really couldn't eat anything else.

  "Jingyue Pavilion is a secluded place, and the nearby palaces are only Bixiao Hall, Yujing Platform, and Zhongcui Palace." Chuxue sat on the edge of the bed, tapping her fingers on the wall as she muttered to herself. Now she just wanted to figure out how that wooden puppet in Jingyue Pavilion came to be there, and maybe by catching the person responsible, she could find a solution.

  "Isn't there still the Cold Palace?" Lin Yuanyu said slowly.

  "Alas, the Cold Palace is a place where everyone inside is as good as dead. With such strict guards, how could those discarded concubines possibly sneak out and harm people?" Chūxuē immediately vetoed, and felt that mentioning the Cold Palace was really inauspicious, so she hurriedly patted Lín Yuàn's hand and warned: "Young Master, these next few days, absolutely do not mention those two words again."

  Lin Wan was speechless. Chuxue was a good person, but she was a bit of a worrywart. She wasn't worried that she would be thrown into the cold palace because of the witchcraft disaster. Firstly, she had saved the emperor's life, and he wouldn't treat her as carelessly as before. Secondly, the empress made sense when she said that to harm someone with the "yansheng" technique, one must bury the object in the person's residence for it to take effect. Who would put evil objects on themselves to attract bad luck? However, after digging three feet into the ground in both Changxin Palace and Linzhi Palace, nothing was found. Instead, something was discovered in the distant Jingyue Pavilion. Following this line of reasoning, Lin Wan must have been framed.

  "The Emperor is now in a flurry, on the one hand issuing an edict to rescue and treat Ye Liangyuan, while on the other hand strictly investigating the true culprit." Lin Yuer's tone remained calm and unruffled: "It has been three days since the incident occurred, yet the Emperor has not issued an edict to have us arrested and interrogated in the Ministry of Justice. Instead, he is still searching the entire palace for evidence to find the real culprit, which shows that he does not believe we were the ones who did it. What I am worried about now is that he will put too much trust in Hui Ci's words and think that I am an unlucky person. Even if this matter is cleared up, he will no longer favor me, and from then on, I will be out of favor and unable to regain my position."

  Perhaps she had been immersed in the business world for too long, and as a graduate of Peking University's Finance Department, Lin Yan's mind was filled with clever calculations. Her rationality completely suppressed the sensibility that a woman should have. She didn't feel that by blocking the arrow for the Emperor, she had truly become a great contributor to the imperial family, nor did she think that the Emperor would be so deeply in love with her that he would disregard his own safety for her sake. If the Emperor really was too superstitious and thought she was a harbinger of doom, even if he didn't want to kill her, he would still keep his distance from her from then on.

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