Crazy Queen, Striving to Become the Most Beautiful Lady in the Harem

Chapter 528 Shocking Secret

Xiao Cheng continued, "Empress, three years ago, I was willing to follow you because I thought you would win. Unlike the Empress Dowager back then, she would win because of the favor of the late Emperor and..."

Lin Junxue said meaningfully, "Also, Old Duke Chen!"

Xiao Cheng was stunned, then nodded

"Sure enough, Queen, you have guessed it."

Lin Junxue's eyes flashed. Xiao Cheng had experienced three generations of emperors, so naturally he knew a lot of secrets in the harem.

"I have always speculated that even though the Queen Mother was young and her appearance was the most beautiful in the harem, there was never a shortage of beauties in the harem. If the Queen Mother only relied on her brains and means, without the help of Duke Chen, the most trusted person of the late emperor, the Queen Mother's desire to tie the late emperor firmly in her hands for a lifetime would be nothing but a foolish dream."

Xiao Cheng paused. Although his eyes were cloudy, they were still shrewd.

"Your Majesty, your guess is correct. For so many years, I have been keeping a shocking secret. I wanted to take this secret into my coffin, but today, I am willing to tell you. If Xiao Xiazi does anything wrong in the future, I will use this secret to get your forgiveness."

Lin Junxue looked at Xiao Cheng's expression and knew that what he had been keeping for so many years must be a shocking secret about the Queen Mother.

It seems...

Today, she will have an unexpected gain...

Lin Junxue nodded and said, "Of course, I promise you, Eunuch Xiao, don't worry."

Xiao Cheng recalled the past when the late emperor was still alive.

It turned out that at that time, the late emperor was at the Duke of Chen's mansion and fell in love at first sight with the dancing empress dowager.

Later, the Queen Mother entered the palace and was favored by the late Emperor.

However, the Empress Dowager did not favor the imperial concubine exclusively, and the imperial concubine was still favored.

And three years after the Queen Mother entered the palace, there was a court dinner.

The remnants of the previous dynasty assassinated the late emperor. The empress dowager risked her life to save the late emperor, blocking the knife for him and almost lost her life.

From then on, the Queen Mother began her half-life of exclusive favor.

But no one knew that in his later years, the late emperor gradually lost his love for the empress dowager, whose beauty was gradually fading, and wanted to favor a younger and more beautiful woman.

So, in order to protect her position, the Queen Mother poisoned the late Emperor with a poison from the southwest.

"Love Poison"

The late emperor also contracted a serious illness after being infected with the love poison for a long time, and finally passed away.

Those who are unfortunate enough to be poisoned by the Gu will gradually experience horrifying changes in their bodies.

At first, there may be only subtle symptoms that are not easy to detect.

But as time went on, the poison began to spread wildly in the body, eroding every inch of skin and tissue.

The poisoned person's skin will appear a strange purple-blue color, and then the color will continue to deepen, and hideous cracks will begin to appear on the skin.

Moreover, the festering trend is like a prairie fire that cannot be contained at all and will soon spread to every part of the body.

Eventually, the entire body will be swallowed up by this horrific purple festering, which is a horrible sight.

Therefore, the person who truly harmed the late emperor was the Queen Mother...

At that time, Xiao Cheng served the late emperor and witnessed the late emperor's symptoms with his own eyes.

Because he made a living in the southwest when he was a child, and was displaced. Later, he entered the palace and became a eunuch.

Therefore, he had seen the symptoms of people who were poisoned, and they were exactly the same as those of the previous emperor.

Xiao Cheng sighed

"I have been keeping this secret for all these years. The late emperor was wise and brave throughout his life, but he never expected that he would die at the hands of the woman next to him, the woman he doted on all his life. The late emperor was different from the emperor. He did not do anything to let the empress dowager down."

Lin Junxue curled her lips. Today, Xiao Cheng's secret was really an absolute unexpected surprise.

The late emperor actually died from a love poison administered by the empress dowager herself.

Lin Junxue said indifferently, "So that's how it is. But this love poison is not something that Xie State should have, and it is not something that the Queen Mother back then could get. Eunuch Xiao, have you ever thought about who gave this love poison to the Queen Mother, and who really harmed the late emperor?"

Xiao Cheng paused, looked at Lin Junxue, and a hint of admiration flashed in his eyes.

"Your Majesty, you are indeed smart."

Lin Junxue spoke calmly

"So, the person who really wanted to kill the late emperor was the one who gave the Queen Mother the love poison. As far as I know, Duke Chen was stationed in the southwest for five years. So, it was him, Eunuch Xiao. You should have guessed it a long time ago, right? The Queen Mother, who seemed to be in a glorious position, was, after all, Duke Chen, a chess piece in the hands of a minister."

Xiao Cheng said with emotion, "Empress, your guess is correct. The person who really harmed the late emperor was Duke Chen. Back then, the love poison that the empress dowager used to harm people was given by Duke Chen. It was a pity that when the late emperor died, he entrusted his son to the care of others, but he didn't know that the person who really harmed him was Duke Chen, whom he trusted the most."

Lin Junxue curled her lips

"It seems that this old Duke Chen is really unfathomable."

Xiao Cheng's face became more serious.

"Empress, Duke Chen has been recuperating in a villa outside the capital and has never appeared in public. Duke Chen has been dormant for many years. He seems to be ignoring government affairs, but he has never really left the court. You have never seen this Duke Chen. You don't know how cruel and calculating he is. How terrible it is? If you really see him in the future, you must be extremely careful."

Xiao Cheng's reminder showed that he had long understood that sooner or later, she, as the queen, would come into conflict with Concubine Mi, and naturally, with the entire Chen Guogong Mansion.

Lin Junxue nodded

"I understand."

Xiao Cheng looked towards the window, staring at the falling snow outside.

My thoughts gradually drifted back to the past.

Looking back to that year, it was also a winter day with cold wind and flying snow.

He entered the majestic palace gate and cleansed himself.

After entering the palace, he took every step carefully, for fear of making a mistake.

Now, after many years of trials and tribulations, he has reached his twilight years.

Those past memories would flood into Xiao Cheng's mind like a tide, making him feel filled with emotion.

Seeing that Xiao Cheng didn't say anything, Lin Junxue's expression gradually began to distract.

She slowly shifted her gaze to the tightly closed window. Through the slightly blurry window paper, she could vaguely see the pure white snowflakes floating outside.

Under the vast white snow, I don't know how many people in the palace have hidden their lives full of joys and sorrows.

The palace maids once shed tears silently here, missing their relatives far away.

The concubines fought for favor and ended up in a tragic end.

It is more likely that innocent people will be drawn into the vortex of court struggles and lose everything.

The stories of the people in the palace, like the falling snowflakes, blend silently into this cold palace.

However, all of this will gradually be forgotten by time.

In the long river of history, it is just a drop in the ocean.