"Wangfei, you'd better wait in the room. Your highness … the emperor will definitely send someone to take you into the palace." The maid beside her urged anxiously. Wangye had just ascended the throne the day before yesterday. According to common sense, he should have sent someone to take her to the palace. Why was there no news yet? Ye Zhen was uneasy.
She married Mo Rongzhan at the age of thirteen. Apart from seeing him once on the wedding night, they had not seen each other for two years. He didn't even know what she looked like. Now that he had usurped the throne, would he take her into the palace?
"Wangfei!" The maid who went out to inquire about the news came back and gasped. "Wangfei, the emperor took Miss Lu into the palace in Guifei's carriage yesterday. This morning, he issued an edict …"
Ye Zhen's heart was in her throat, and her face became paler. She asked in a trembling voice, "What did he do?"
"The Ye family has been confiscated. They will be executed tomorrow. Wangfei, the emperor … the emperor wants to execute the entire Ye family!" The maid cried out.
"Why …" Ye Zhen staggered and almost fainted. The maid next to her held her shoulder.
Even if the Ye family had helped the former crown prince, didn't they do their best to support him later? Why does Mo Rongzhan still want to settle accounts with the Ye family?
"Go, go find Lu Lingzhi. No, I'll go find him myself!" Ye Zhen pushed away the maid's hand and ran in the rain.
Outside the door of the palace, more than a dozen guards stood. They stopped her and said that the emperor had ordered that no one was allowed to go out.
"Ye Zhen!" Lu Lingzhi came in from outside and looked at her with gentle eyes. "Where are you going?"
"Lingzhi, you have to help me. You said you would help me, didn't you?" Ye Zhen grabbed his arm. In the past two years, Lu Lingzhi had helped her a lot and delivered a letter to Mo Rongzhan for her. She regarded him as a close friend. He would definitely help her.
Lu Lingzhi smiled slightly. "You tell me, I will help you."
"Take this to the emperor for me. As long as he sees this jade pendant, he will come to see me." Ye Zhen took out the jade pendant she had worn for eight years. It was a phoenix jade pendant with a flame-like color.
"Good!" Lu Lingzhi's eyes flickered. "However, the Emperor is busy with official business and may not come to our mansion."
"I don't want anything from him. Back then, I saved his life. He said that as long as I have this jade pendant, he will promise me one thing. I only want him to let the Ye family go!" Ye Zhen choked with sobs. She no longer dared to dream of growing old with him. Now, she only hoped to save the Ye family.
Lu Lingzhi's eyes flashed as he took the jade pendant from her hand. "Good! Wait for me. "
Ye Zhen went back to the house and waited. This time, she waited for a glass of poisoned wine.
"Why?" Ye Zhen looked at Lu Lingzhi inexplicably. If Mo Rongzhan saw her jade pendant, he would know that she was the girl who saved him in the past. Why would he not come to see her?
"Ye Zhen, the emperor always thinks that the person who saved him was Shuang 'er. Even if you take out the jade pendant, it won't change anything." Lu Lingzhi said faintly.
Ye Zhen suddenly looked up at Lu Lingzhi, "Shuang 'er? Lu Wushuang is your sister? You know that I was the one who saved the emperor. Why didn't you explain it to the emperor? "
"Ye Zhen, I owe you for this life." Lu Lingzhi whispered, "Go on your way with peace of mind."
Ye Zhen had no time to ask more questions. The most trusted maid beside her had already clasped her chin and poured the wine into her mouth when she was unprepared.
Lu Lingzhi's low voice reached her ears. "Ye Zhen, I'm sorry. If there is an afterlife …"
Ye Zhen felt as if there were thousands of arrows piercing her heart. Her soul flew out of her body and floated in the air as she watched Lu Lingzhi order the slaughter of all the servants in the palace, including the maid who had just fed her the poisoned wine.
A fire burned down the mansion she once lived in, and all traces of her were erased.
Ye Zhen's soul did not dissipate. She followed Lu Lingzhi into the palace and came to the imperial study.
"Your Majesty, Ye shi found out that you wanted to put her under house arrest in the prince's palace. She wasn't willing and burned the palace down. No one survived." Lu Lingzhi knelt in front of the man and respectfully said.
Ye Zhen floated past the pillar. Now there was nothing to stop her body. She landed in front of the man and stared at him in a daze. His bright yellow clothes made him look noble and majestic. His handsome face was both familiar and strange at the same time. Her heart trembled as she looked at him.
She hadn't seen him for many years. He was no longer the young man in her memory. He had become more handsome and tall. His eyes were clear and cold, making people feel intimidated.
"Mo Rongzhan, why do you want to kill me? Why didn't you keep your promise? Why didn't you come to see me? "Ye Zhen asked, but no one could hear her.
Mo Rongzhan's cold eyes fell on Lu Lingzhi, who was kneeling in front of him. "Is Ye Shi also dead?"
"Yes!" Lu Lingzhi answered in a low voice.
"Well, it's an insignificant person. If she dies, then so be it." Originally, seeing that she and he were husband and wife, even if he didn't want to take her into the palace, he could have spared her life and let her live in the palace without worrying about food and clothing. Since she was unwilling to live like this, then she died.
Lu Lingzhi's eyes flashed. "Yes."
"Go down. Tomorrow, I will make Shuang 'er an imperial concubine. If Shuang' er hadn't saved me, I wouldn't be here today." Mo Rongzhan whispered. Although she didn't remember the code word she said at that time, she was only seven years old at that time.
Suddenly, Ye Zhen had the urge to laugh out loud. Her waiting, her deep affection, her duty-bound determination, in exchange for a glass of poisoned wine and a sentence from him that it didn't matter. She didn't know the truth until she died. She screamed, "Mo Rongzhan, if there is an afterlife, I, Ye Zhen, will sever all ties with you and avenge this life's hatred!"
She turned to escape from the palace. She wanted to see her father, but no matter how hard she struggled, she couldn't break free.
She didn't know why her soul was trapped in this palace.
She was trapped for two years.
"Your Majesty, look, do you remember this jade pendant?" Lu Wushuang, who had become an imperial concubine, took out a flame-colored phoenix jade pendant and asked him with a smile.
Mo Rongzhan glanced at it and showed a doting smile. "This is what I gave you back then. I wanted you to come to me with the jade pendant. Unfortunately, I waited for you all day, but you didn't show up."
Lu Wushuang leaned in his arms and said something.
It was the jade pendant that Ye Zhen had given to Lu Lingzhi. It turned out that he did not give the jade pendant to Mo Rongzhan, but gave it to Lu Wushuang and let her take her place.
Ye Zhen never knew that there was more hatred than hatred.
She reached out to grab Lu Wushuang's jade pendant. Suddenly, the jade pendant glowed like a flame. She only felt that the palm of her hand holding the jade pendant was burning. She felt a burning pain.
"Ah …" Lu Wushuang screamed. The jade pendant fell to the ground and broke into two halves.
As the flame light, invisible to the naked eye, gradually disappeared, Ye Zhen's soul finally broke free from the palace.
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