"B*stard! How, how dare you..."

Emperor Jingxiao glared at Prince Chen Huanan Xin. In his blank eyes, two cold lights were bursting out.

Although he was stupid, Emperor Jingxiao realized what Prince Chen, his "dim-witted son" wanted.

"Guard, guard! Catch the b*st*rd..."

With trembling hands, Emperor Jingxiao pointed to Prince Chen, anxiously roaring and shouting.

Outside Qinming Hall, there were noises from far to near. Being escorted by several guards, an elegant woman in Phoenix Robe came in.

When Wenren Junzheng saw her, he only softly asked,

"Are you OK?"

The woman slightly smiled,

"I’m fine. Your members of Clan of Swords made a great difference this time."

Emperor Jingxiao frowned and stared at the woman in front of him, as he didn't remember his empress was in such features.

Before Emperor Jingxiao asked, the woman smiled,

"What? Have you forgotten me? Have you forgotten that... our son Xin'er has a disfigured Mother?"

Empress Jingxiao's pupils suddenly contracted,

"You are..."

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty..."

Hearing the horrible and sorrowful cries from the crowd, the woman in Phoenix Robe quickly stepped aside. Immediately, a guard walked ahead, pushing disheveled Empress Qian down.

Empress Qian appeared grieve and awkward. While staggering and crawling to Emperor Jingxiao, she shrieked,

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

"Empress... Jingyi... "

Staring at Empress Qian's half-face which was deliberately disfigured, Emperor Jingxiao frighteningly screamed and continually moved back.

"Your Majesty!"

Empress Qian cried more sorrowfully and horribly.

The woman in Phoenix Robe showed no expression. Instead, she stared at Emperor Qian in sharp eyes,

"Twenty years ago, I was lucky to be a concubine of His Majesty. But when I was pregnant, you became jealous of me. So you contrived to kill me with a big fire. Fortunately, I was rescued by Wenren Junzheng in time. But my disfigured face astonished His Majesty. Then I was sentenced to suffer in the Cold Palace. Now you devil eventually gained your retribution. Now you know what it’s like to be disgusted by His Majesty because of disfigured appearance?"

Immediately, Empress Qian stopped crying. She hatefully turned around and spitted,

"Bah! Thick-skinned fornicated paramours!"

A guard walked forward, slapping Emperor Qian with alternated left and right hands. In the loud sound of slapping, Emperor Qian's lips bleed severely.

She didn't give in but tried to raise the utter body in dazzlement. In red and terrible eyes, she did her utmost to seriously scold,

"Huanan Xin, how dare you! You should bring guards to rush into the Palace! Do you want to be the Emperor through regicide?"

Prince Chen showed a smile on his handsome face. Then he waved sleeves and moved two steps. With head raised, he said loudly,

"Be an Emperor through regicide? Ha-ha, do you really think that I am the only person who wants to kill Father? Even if I hadn't taken action, the power would be seized by Commander-in-chief of the Eastern Depot."

"What, what are you saying?"

Empress Qian was astonished, with eyes widened largely.

Like a ghost, Prince Chen shunned in front of Emperor Qian, looking at her eye to eye. Then he sneered,

"Mother, haven't you also suspected him? Leng Qingtang, Commander-in-chief of the Eastern Depot has already been meditating revenge for people involved in Baishui Gate Matter. Therefore, he has already colluded with High Priest Yu Xuanji in the dark, controlling Father with Jindan Pills. Even if I took Jindan Pills to Father, he wouldn’t last very long."

"Baishui Gate... Baishui Gate..."

Empress Qian just blankly repeated. Then she eventually realized something, showing fright on her disfigured face.

Prince Chen slightly mocked, staring at absent-minded Emperor Jingxiao in sharp eyes,

"Father, that year you contrived to be Emperor through murdering Grandfather and Noble Concubine Lan. Then you suspected the loyalty of Lord Protector Zheng, ordering Lord Shen Wan Zong to slaughter Zheng Ran and his families. But have you ever thought of the round nature? Have you ever imagined that my Ninth Uncle who was born in the western tribes will come back and take revenge on you together with Zheng Ran's son?"

As words blurted out, all became quiet.

Prince Chen looked pleased. It seemed that he extremely enjoyed the moment when he was the center of one matter, and he just continued to say,

"Commander-in-chief of the Eastern Depot Leng Qingtang is just Father's ninth little brother Huanan He. When Grandfather and Noble Concubine Lan were held as hostages in the western tribes, they had a son that was Huanan He. And High Priest Yu Xuanji... was Zheng Muxiu, the second son of Lord Protector Zheng Ran. Leng Qingtang pretended to be a eunuch while Yu Xuanji disguised as a priest. They just aim to be absolutely believed by Father, killing all officials who once made differences in Baishui Gate Matter and slaughtering Zheng Ran and his family. At last, they will force Father to give up the power with the use of Jindan Pills."

"In the matter of Southern Jiang, unless Mother feared Leng Qingtang and dispatched him to the frontline, how can I seize the great opportunity and smoothly become the new Emperor? In a sense, Leng Qingtang has made a lot of attempts and I just take his fruits. Anyhow, I should thank you for your behavior, hahaha..."

Empress Qian was suddenly speechless with rage. With lips moved silently and helplessly, she turned around to see her husband. Emperor Jingxiao, the man whom she had been loving and hating for half a lifetime, the man for whom she was willing to spend all her time in sophisticated Palace and yards, the man to whom she devoted her most wonderful youth, was dully sitting on the ground in dejected expression.

He was her pillar, her husband, her all pride and fortune she had been putting efforts for half a lifetime...

She realized that all was over now.

With indignation and regret, she burst into tears. And then she pounced to Emperor Jingxiao and tightly hugged him, sobbing and crying,

"Your Majesty...Your Majesty!"

The amazing news astonished Wenren Junzheng. He plodded and walked slowly to Prince Chen, asking,

"Xin'er, what are you saying? Is Leng Qingtang ... the ninth son of the deceased emperor?"

Up to now, he finally noticed the truth about the contrived death of his sworn brother and his families. The powerful eunuch Leng Qingtang who had been cursed and hated by him shouldn’t have been his enemy!

Therefore, the year when Leng Qingtang tried to take Zheng Wanruo and brought her up on his own, Leng Qingtang didn't hold such insidious objects as he had imaged...

Instantly, he felt so regretful...

Prince Chen Huanan Xin raised his eyebrows, looking at Wenren Junzheng's pale and old face. Then he raised his lips,

"Yeah, master. That's true indeed. It was I that prevented the letter my senior apprentice delivered to you. In the letter, all things were illustrated clearly."

Wenren Junzheng trembled and took two steps back,

"Why? Why did you peep at the letter Hua'er wrote to me? Why haven't you told me about those things earlier?"

With hands held on the back, Prince Chen laughed evilly and insidiously,

"If I told you earlier, would you assist me to be the Emperor?"

"You..."

Other people were getting into the hell with rustling footsteps. A guard saluted Prince Chen,

"Master, the 100,000 soldiers of Capital Army have been gathered on the four gates of the Palace."

"Great!"

Prince Chen turned malicious in his eyes. He took a look at his biological mother Miaoyin eye to eye. Immediately, he turned around and looked at the guard, ordering loudly,

"Transmit my order, exterminate the members of the Clan of Swords!"

Wenren Junzheng was almost astonished to death by him. With his strong and tall body tottering and staggering, he became amazed and grieve in his face,

"You..."

Miaoyin looked at Wenren Junzheng, laughing coldly and maliciously,

"You have always been muddled and stupid. Now you eventually realized one thing. Yeah, it was I that made use of you. In virtue of our former relations, I persuaded you to assist Xin'er. Now you and your members of the Clan of Swords are useless."

Prince Chen laughed and quickly hid behind crowds of guards.

"Huh, huh, huh!" As the air rustled, gleaming swords were taken out, making a sword mountain in front of Wenren Junzheng.

Prince Chen became more triumphant. He evilly and insidiously squinted his eyes and said,

"Ruthlessness is the mark of a truly great man. Master, you are old now. It is better that you make the last thing for me. Take the guilt of assassinating His Majesty and become my first stepping stone on my way of being the Emperor!"

"Impossible!"

Wenren Junzheng made a loud shout, taking a sword off with his one arm. While fighting against guards, he tried to retreat and flee.

Miaoyin glanced outside the door disdainfully, and then she sneered,

"He can't escape. Though he has a good command of Kungfu, it is still hard for him to fight against 100,000 soldiers of Capital Army. Xin'er, don't wait. Quick to seal the decree! So when Leng Qingtang comes back to the capital, the die is cast."

After finishing talking, Miaoyin took out a brilliant yellow scroll from her large sleeves.

Prince Chen arrogantly stood there in deep and dark eyes,

"Mother, you can just be relieved. I have already made preparations to make sure that Ninth Uncle will never come back to the capital."

When he walked by this dejected couple, Emperor Jingxiao and Empress Qian, his one leg was hugged by Empress Qian.

She cried and implored,

"I beg you, let His Majesty off and don't harm him. He is also your Father..."

Prince Chen kicked her down. In malicious eyes, he casually unfolded his hands and said,

"I just try to take back the thing that originally belongs to me. You can only blame Father for his own insidious actions. In order to gain the throne, he killed his friends and murdered his father. Now it is also because of the throne, his son killed him. Isn't it justice? Guard! Now that His Majesty wants to have Jindan Pills, we satisfy him. Give all Jindan Pills to him!"

As the order was issued, guards and the high eunuch gathered to surround them. One of them controlled Empress Qian, and others separately pressed Emperor Jingxiao's arms and legs, violently stuffing all Jindan Pills into his mouth.

After a short silence, Emperor Jingxiao lay supine on the ground. His chubby body was eventually stiff.

"Your Majesty..."

Empress Qian pushed the tall eunuch away. Incredibly, she stared at Emperor Jingxiao on the ground, with clear tears flooding and shedding.

In his proud life, Emperor Jingxiao calculated and contrived so much. On the base of numerous people's corpses and blood, he eventually reached the supreme throne. But had he ever thought, one day, he would follow those people's steps and become one of those corpses?

Empress Qian raised her hand and took a gold hairpin, slowly and sadly closing eyes.

Suddenly, a scream of pain pierced the night,

"Your Majesty..."

A smell of blood diffused into the air. As the blood burst from her throat, the scarlet fulfilled all people's eyes.

"See, what an understanding woman! Without my order, she still knows she should commit suicide."

Huanan Xin lowered his eyes and indifferently looked at Emperor Jingxiao and Empress Qian on the ground, ordering loudly,

"Quick to clean up all the mess here! Then announce, His Majesty was dead and His Grace committed suicide for him."

Guards bowed and lowered heads.

Huanan Xin raised his mouth and sneered. Then he took the decree and walked in front of the table, holding the jade seal and emphatically stamping the decree.

A new Emperor replaced the original one. The history turned a new page.