The Demon Concubine of God

Chapter 384 Confession, Counter-espionage

The atmosphere in the palace was bad the whole night. Early in the morning, Eunuch Guo accompanied the Emperor to the morning court as usual, and had lunch with him at noon. He only left the imperial study after serving the Emperor for his nap.

As soon as he walked out of the imperial study, the two little disciples who followed him came up to him and asked, "Master, what should we do next?"

Eunuch Guo gently swung the whisk in his hand and placed it on his arm. He raised his slender eyebrows and said, "You can follow me to Fengzao Palace to have a look."

The young eunuchs accompanied Eunuch Guo to Fengzao Palace very quickly. Standing in front of the bedroom door of Fengzao Palace, they could clearly hear cruel and painful cries from inside. An aunt guarding the door bowed to Eunuch Guo, the chief steward, and without waiting for him to ask, she said, "We fed him a special poison made by the Ministry of Punishment this morning, and we have been watching him the whole time. According to Eunuch's instructions, we want him to live but not die, but we cannot let him commit suicide, nor let him get bumped and hurt so that he looks injured."

After hearing this, Eunuch Guo nodded with satisfaction and said, "Well, very good, you did a good job."

They opened the door of the dormitory and walked in one after another.

Then he saw a frail and haggard beauty lying on the bed, her hands and feet tied with soft cloth strips. The pain from the poison made her whole body tremble, her black hair was disheveled, and sweat was pouring out of her body, soaking her whole body. Even so, she had a strange beauty, like Xi Shi holding her heart.

Eunuch Guo's position blocked the little light in front of Jesse. The faint dim light made Jesse, who was immersed in pain, open his eyes and look at Eunuch Guo.

Eunuch Guo looked down at Jesse and said to him as if he was sentencing a criminal: "Master Shen, do you know why you ended up like this?"

Although he had a premonition, Jesse still pretended to be ignorant and shook his head, saying, "I don't know. Please tell me clearly, sir."

Eunuch Guo frowned and said, "You are such a bold lunatic! How dare you pretend to be an official of the imperial court and deceive His Majesty? This is such a serious crime, it is enough to chop off your head ten times."

Despite Eunuch Guo's stern threats, Jesse remained calm. After all, such experiences happened frequently in his previous life, whether he was interrogated as an undercover agent, or was questioned and interrogated while on the run, or was captured by the enemy on the battlefield and suffered physical pain.

Jesse raised his head and asked, "I am the real Shen Wen. How could your father-in-law accuse me of being fake?"

Eunuch Guo pointed at him and shouted angrily: "How dare you lie? Who did you originally belong to? Have you even forgotten yourself?"

The chronic poison came in waves, causing Jesse's whole body to feel like it was electrified, and he twitched and rolled over in pain?

When Eunuch Guo reached the critical moment of the interrogation, he asked the aunt next to him to take out an antidote and feed it to Jesse.

Jesse swallowed the antidote and felt a little relieved. He greedily enjoyed the physical comfort.

Eunuch Guo asked everyone to leave, but he sat on the edge of Jesse's bed. He spoke to Jesse gently like an elder who cared about his juniors, "How does the poison taste? This thing is in the inner palace, and it is used to deal with the loyal servants of each palace. You are considered a good one. The previous ones couldn't last more than two hours after using this thing. They either bit their tongues and committed suicide when no one was paying attention, or sold their masters out. Don't think that you are fine after taking the antidote now. The antidote can't suppress it for much time. It won't be long before you will be in pain again. So I advise you to tell me what you know. Don't be lucky. Do you know that the young master Shen Wen you replaced is not an ordinary person at all. He is different from the fakes like you who have been ripped off and sewn up. Do you understand what I mean?"

Jesse stared at him blankly, cursing in his heart! Why didn't you say this earlier? If you had told him what was wrong at the beginning, wouldn't he have given up on it?

Jesse licked his lips and said, "I confessed everything. Can you show me some leniency? I beg the emperor not to kill me and give me the antidote first."

When Eunuch Guo saw that he had come to his senses, he readily agreed and said, "Of course, I have an antidote at home. This one in my hand will really cure the poison in your body after you take it."

After saying that, Eunuch Guo really took out the medicine bottle from his arms, and Jesse saw that the real antidote was a black pill. Eunuch Guo pinched the pill with three fingers and handed it to Jesse, who took it and swallowed it immediately.

Eunuch Guo looked at him expectantly to see what he would say next.

Jesse smoothed the pills in his esophagus and said, "I am a substitute who was transformed by Lord Shen. Lord Shen is not a human being at all. He has transformed men and women like me batch after batch. Your Excellency, I am also a victim. It was Lord Shen who deceived the emperor."

Eunuch Guo's eyelids twitched. He asked, "He also ordered you to replace Master Shen Shiqi? What did he want to do? Where is the real Master Shen Shiqi?"

Jesse wanted to know too. He had never known where the real Shen Shiqi was. Could it be that he had never seen him? Thinking of this, the image of Shen Wen, the one who had tricked him here, and the substitute Shen Wen, appeared in his mind...

Jesse's expression suddenly changed.

Two lifetimes...

He had been scheming, cunning and hypocritical for two lifetimes, and suddenly he found that he was being fooled by a little girl of seventeen or eighteen years old.

Now thinking about what happened, if it weren't for the two mecha warriors backing that guy, how could he not see it so easily?

Seeing him looking stupid, Eunuch Guo waved his hand in front of his eyes and asked, "What are you thinking about? Why don't you answer my question?"

Jesse came back to his senses and said, "Eunuch, I don't know. I am just one of Lord Shen's thousands of substitutes. In Lord Shen's eyes, I am smaller than an ant in his mansion. Whatever purpose he has, it will not be lower than me. You should ask him."

Eunuch Guo was angry and his face turned ugly. He controlled his temper and said, "Then what do you know? Don't say you know nothing, or you will be worthless in our eyes. Since you are so worthless, we can't keep you."

Jesse immediately became anxious. He rolled his eyes and thought, "I... I only know that Lord Shen asked me to fool Lord Chu. I don't know how I ended up in the palace that night when I was staying in the Crane Tower of Lord Chu's house."

When Eunuch Guo heard this, he seemed to be thinking about something.

Eunuch Guo stood up from the bed, and as he left, he turned around and asked, "What is your real name? Tell us so that we can remember it."

Jesse replied, "My name is Xiaoxi."

Xiaoxi? It's really an inconspicuous name.

Chu Yanqiu, who had been running around outside looking for Shen Wen for the past few days, finally stopped that day. He waved his hand to Chi He and other servants behind him and said, "No need to look for him anymore. Let's go back."

Chihe didn't understand, so he asked why they didn't look for it anymore.

Chu Yanqiu looked in the direction of the palace and said, "I know where he is."

Chi He and other servants escorted Chu Yanqiu back to Duke Ji's Mansion.

At night, news came from the secret line in the palace. It was not clear whether it was Shen Wen, but a new noble lady came into Fengzao Palace yesterday. It was said that the emperor valued this noble lady as soon as she arrived and loved her very much.

Chu Yanqiu wanted to know whether a person was the one he was looking for. With his skills, he had the ability to break in and find out what was going on no matter whether it was the human world or hell.

In the second half of the night, Chu Yanqiu put on a nightgown and set out from Duke Ji's mansion to explore the palace at night.

Chu Yanqiu's skills were superb. He could easily fly over any high city wall or dodge any tight guards.

Chu Yanqiu was also very familiar with the layout of the harem. The Fengzao Palace was where the queen, the heroine, lived, so he found it quickly.

When he lay on the roof of Fengzao Palace and looked down, he found that the whole palace was brightly lit, which meant that His Majesty the Emperor would come to Fengzao Palace to sleep at night. The women in the harem have always been like this. After being favored for one night, they would think about being favored for two nights, three nights, and every day trying to keep the Emperor. The servants in each palace were even more proficient in this. Every night, they would prepare everything in their master's palace, and bright lights were indispensable.

Perhaps the master of the house had something to order, and the servants were busy coming in and out. Chu Yanqiu was on the rooftop, and could see the general situation of the house with the door open. There was a beautiful figure wearing plain silk, walking around in the house, and her figure was about 70% similar to the woman he had been thinking about.

Chu Yanqiu waited for a while, until the servants received the instructions and went to work outside the palace. Then he quietly got down from the roof, quickly opened the door and rushed in.

When he entered the room, he saw the person lying on the bed.

The man rested one arm on the pillow and took a nap. Suddenly he opened his eyes and caught Chu Yanqiu red-handed.

This sight was incredible. The beauty immediately sat up from the bed and threw herself into Chu Yanqiu's arms in ecstasy.

Chu Yanqiu also missed her very much, and the two star-crossed mandarin ducks hugged each other for a long time.

Chu Yanqiu lowered his head and kissed him on the forehead. The tenderness and care in his eyes almost melted him. He said, "Don't cry, he has captured you again. You didn't suffer, did you?"

The man raised his head, his eyes filled with grievance, and said, "You are finally here. I cannot afford to have such a noble lady in the harem. Please take me away quickly! If it takes another two days, I will not be able to hold on. Once I agree to be His Majesty's favorite concubine and the emperor announces my title to the world, I will no longer be the free Seventeenth Young Master of the Shen Family."

Chu Yanqiu naturally understood what he meant, so when he came, he couldn't wait to steal him out again. He touched the beauty's forehead and said, "Then you promise me that you will go back and be my legal wife, and we will hold a grand wedding right away."

Seeing that the beauty was still hesitant and entangled, but finally agreed, Chu Yanqiu was extremely happy. Chu Yanqiu hugged his slender waist tighter and said, "Let's go now."

Without hesitation, the two of them walked out of the house, and like a phoenix with two wings, they flew onto the roof and quietly disappeared into the night.

As soon as they escaped from the palace, a man was sent into the palace as easily as Chu Yanqiu.

This person entered the palace without avoiding people. If a guard patrolling the city saw this person, she would wave her wide sleeves and freeze the person in place or let him fly away gently like a kite.