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Listening to the maidservant's mutterings, there are rumors in the streets:
"The monarch has passed away, and the crown prince will ascend the throne three days later."
I look at the cabinet, where the monarch once left behind a decree for himself.
Once a courtier, no regrets in this life.
I plan to publicly recite the imperial edict when the crown prince ascends the throne in three days.
The world is unaware of the rebellion in the court, and the only ones who can prove it are the people I abducted that night.
I put on my clothes and walked out of the west wing.
In the dungeon, that person was still panting, it seems his life was not meant to end.
But this person's loyalty, it won't be easy to make him speak of betrayal.
I took the executioner's bone spike and stabbed it into his bone seams one by one.
Watching him slowly wake up, I smiled and said, "I heard that the bone spikes from the frontier are powerful, able to melt into the blood and bones. Have you ever tried it?"
"In less than ten days, the bones will turn into blood, hanging you up for a breath, and you will turn into a human pig."
Saying that, I reset his chin and pierced his skull: "I will save your life, preserve your dignity, and let you watch your soldiers being defeated while you survive in a jar, fully conscious."
"That's enough..." the man lowered his gaze and spoke.
He shook his head and finally looked at me: "The prince colludes with the nomads, offering us no less than the officials. We, the dead men... he promised us that when the prince ascends the throne, we... we will be able to..."
I pursued, "What can you do then?"
He looked up at the top of the dungeon, this dark and sunless place, and said, "You can tear up the contract and gain freedom."
"Is that a joke?" I sneered with a long sword in hand. "You creatures would rather believe in a patricidal beast than fear him to the bitter end."
I suggested, "How about this: you reveal this matter to the world, and I will help you obtain the proof of innocence."
"Why should I trust you?" he asked in return.
"Trust me because I am from a family of loyal ministers for generations."
The long sword is abandoned, swinging it for half a day makes me feel anxious. I open the person's clothes in front of me, crush the heart-killing pill and smear it on his chest. The antidote is placed three meters away from his eyes.
"If I can come back in three days, I will set you free. If I can't come back, we will die together, and it can be considered as having a companion on the road to the underworld."
After leaving the dungeon, a cold air rushed into my chest, making me cough a few times.
Yan Zhi stood outside my door.
He now wore his hair tied up and was dressed in a fox fur robe even more splendid than mine.
"I heard everything," he said.
I gazed at him and said, "So what if you heard? Can you stop me?"
"I just... I was only thinking that three days is still far away, and there may be changes in the palace."
"Tomorrow night is the Lantern Festival, would the master be willing to go with me to see the Corridor Lantern Festival?"
I pushed him away and refused, saying, "A captive slave who has given birth to a crooked child dares to ask the master for something."
"Anyway, what am I now? A female official of the Collapsed nation, not even as good as a dog."
Yan Zhi frowned slightly and said, "No, my lady, you—"
I closed the door and interrupted him.
During the Lantern Festival, the lantern fair is lively, spanning the entire capital.
I sit on the eaves, drinking several pots of wine.
These past two days, I have dismissed all the servants in the mansion except for the personal maidservant of the lady of the house.
Official education no longer has servants attending to me day and night. If it weren't for Su Rang sending Fuyi to deliver books to me, I would have thought that I had also been dismissed by Official education.
I heard from Fuyi that Su Rang was teasing me this morning: " Hua Siyan is delicate and pampered, looking like a dandy, but with one whip, he can send ten thousand people flying."
It's an exaggerated gesture, like something Crown Prince Su would say.
I fell drunk under the eaves, squinting at the moon in the sky.
Today the moon is not full, and there are clouds covering it in the end.
I hear someone approaching, and he covers me with his robe.
"Master..."
I know, it's Yan Zhi kissing the corner of my mouth.
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