Abandoned Princesses
Conspiracy of the Emperor

Qiao Rong or rather, Li Wenhua, was certainly not the first time for him to set foot in prison.

While in the Wuling Sect, he was the one in charge of determining the punishment of traitors and criminals who were arrested. So of course he is very familiar with the term prison.

The prison in the palace itself is located in the part of the palace that is farthest from the residential area of the princesses, princes, and concubines. This prison was located right in front of the residence of the palace soldiers.

Now inside one of the dark prison cells filled with the cries of the criminals, poor Princess Lan was curled up in tears.

"Ugh, Your Majesty. Are you sure you will still visit Princess Lan? It smells so bad here, it's so dirty." Chu Yue Yang's comment so entered instantly closed her nose tightly.

Qiao Rong looked around, it seemed like the animals he often encountered first were indeed the permanent residents of the palace prison. Rats, and other insects are now gathered in every corner of the cell.

Finally after seeing the surrounding conditions, Qiao Rong told Chu Yue to wait in front of the prison gate. The girl nodded with relief, then left.

After walking for a while, Qiao Rong was now right in front of Princess Lan's cell. As soon as she saw the girl, Princess Lan immediately stood up and roared like a doormat.

"Eject! Get me out of here! You don't know who I am?! You are! You are! You bitch!!" Princess Lan's hand grabbed out a slit of cells to reach for Qiao Rong's body. Surely, Qiao Rong immediately dodged backwards.

Qiao Rong simply laughed mockingly.

Even if Princess Lan now felt extremely tormented, was it worth what Qiao Rong had been feeling all along? Even Li Wenhua who only had that memory without ever experiencing it alone could feel how tormented Qiao Rong had been for so many years.

Not even enough, the woman who was roaring in front of him also took the life of the poor girl.

Even if Qiao Rong were to avenge that, he would not let Princess Lan just die. He would make sure the woman lived so miserable and embarrassed to show her face in front of the crowd, just like the old Qiao Rong.

Just getting the death sentence, actually Qiao Rong was already very kind to that woman.

The punishment that Qiao Rong gave was, to separate from her husband even though he had only been married for a few days. In two days, they will be executed together. Qiao Rong only hoped that they could live together in the hell together later. That way the real Qiao Rong could calm down.

"You don't even realize your own mistakes. So crafty, evil, killing one by one our blood sisters. Of course you didn't kill me just because you felt I wasn't a threat. What about now?" Qiao Rong started to open his mouth.

Princess Lan looked at Qiao Rong with a look of hate, mixed with anger, annoyance, sadness, and other feelings that overlapped with each other.

But ever since Princess Lan set foot in this prison, her screams and cries never stopped. He never stopped calling names to help her. The Emperor, Su Xiao, Consort Wu, even Prince Qin, were all not missed from the order of names he shouted.

Qiao Lan felt her life could get to this point all because of the brash girl before her now. He regretted not killing her long ago. Also regret being complacent and lowering his guard due to his marriage.

She could not even imagine the prison torture being inflicted on her husband and father-in-law right now. But all he could do was try to escape himself, which was impossible anyway.

Qiao Rong simply smiled widely, not waiting for a reply to come out of Qiao Lan's mouth. Seeing the woman before him was silent a thousand words and was like going through a transition like crazy. Finally Qiao Rong decided to leave instead of having to waste time in that place.

Qiao Rong greeted Duan Yi and Hu Fei who happened to be on guard duty in front of the palace prison. They looked very happy that Qiao Rong had come and taken the time to greet and visit them. Unfortunately, Gao Ping was participating in an expedition team to eradicate dangerous monsters in the area of Wen Kingdom that was not inhabited by the community.

Qiao Rong who deliberately wanted to visit Duan Yi and Hu Fei while going to the palace prison, had already prepared the freshly cooked Chu Yue cuisine as they were about to depart. It certainly did to remind them of the times in Nanshan Village when they were all living as brothers.

Qiao Rong was able to be on good terms with the three men of course because they did not look at Qiao Rong who did not have a protective spirit. Instead, they judged Qiao Rong with an individual point of view. Therefore Qiao Rong respected them very much even though their position was quite low.

After conversing for quite a while, Qiao Rong finally decided to return to the Yun Pavilion with Chu Yue.

*****

Emperor Qiao could only lower his head continuously due to being depressed by the terrifying amount of qi the man was releasing.

Regarding the arrest and execution of his daughter, the Emperor could only blame himself. That's why some days he can't sleep at all.

Until finally the letter from the man came.

"Hows it? Isn't this deal very interesting?" The man laughed again.

"Y-yes sure." Emperor Qiao could only laugh a little awkwardly.

"Don't bother so. Didn't you lose anything in this deal? I've been kind enough to swap your daughter in jail later. Even made her my concubine even though she was married! Ahaha! And you just have to pay me a little army. Isn't that tempting?" The man was now walking towards the throne of Emperor Qiao.

Emperor Qiao froze. He wanted to shout at the man that he was so rude and impudent to him. But if he had told that to the man, it would have been suicide.

Emperor Qiao began to break out in cold sweat looking at the man casually sitting on his throne. His throne. Yet even a little bravery in the Emperor's heart advised him not to move in the slightest.

The Emperor knew, in front of the man, he was just a small ant that could be killed whenever the man wanted to.

After playing around for quite a while, the man suddenly now was right in front of the Emperor.

The man grabbed onto both necks of Emperor Qiao with one of his hands easily and slowly raised the Emperor's body upwards.

Emperor Qiao begged for mercy so that the man immediately let him down. The reserves of oxygen in the Emperor's lungs were dwindling, with his age already rather old, the Emperor was certainly more difficult to breathe than ordinary people.

"If you dare try to deceive me... You certainly know that I won't stop until it's like today." Said the man before throwing the Emperor's body onto the floor.

The Emperor coughed and held his neck, which was now completely reddened. The emperor became frightened and was soon in a frenzy dragging himself back to get away from the man.

But the man looked at her with a cruel look. He doesn't like people running from him.

The emperor who realized it immediately cleared his throat and returned his wilful life back to how it was.

"Ehem! Of course." The emperor stood up and looked down at the man.

The man then smiled with satisfaction and when the Emperor looked back at the scene in front of him, the man had already disappeared in the middle of the darkness of the night.

As soon as the Emperor checked correctly that it was gone, the Emperor immediately slumped on his throne. Small army? The reply he asked for was the entire elite army of Wen Kingdom which was directly commanded by Emperor Qiao himself.

However, for the sake of his daughter's safety, also for the sake of the relationship with the man if it was true that later Qiao Lan would become the man's concubine, even Emperor Qiao felt that twice the army that man asked for, he said, he will also give.

*****

Hearing the report of Jiang Junwei who was now behind him, Shen Haofeng only smiled happily

"It looks like it's done, huh? Then I'll be here soon."