In the Main Hall of Miaoyin Hall, Noble Concubine Hui restrained her fear and turned her hasty eyes to Gu Yunxi.

"What do you wanna say? Speak up!"

Gu Yunxi's smile contained a trace of laziness. She looked at the man casually.

The chief eunuch Lei understood what she meant. He took a fire pattern waist card from his sleeve and respectfully sent it to Gu Yunxi's hand.

Noble Concubine Hui was stunned and pale-faced.

When Gu Yunxi saw it, a sneer floated on her face.

"It seems that Your Grace know this thing."

Noble Concubine Hui's facial features twitched, and her two wide eyes focused on the waist card.

"This… This thing... Where did you get it?"

"In the mountain behind the Yonglu Temple..."

Gu Yunxi looked directly at the stiff-faced woman with sharp eyes and answered with a smile.

Noble Concubine Hui's lips trembled, paused for a moment, and she raised her arms to the people around her.

"All of you go out. Hongjing, you also go out and watch outside the hall."

Hongjing hesitated slightly, but she respectfully greeted and retreated outside with the maids of Miaoyin Hall.

The red gate was closed, and there were only two women and Lei left in the hall. Lei stayed to protect Gu Yunxi and prevent Noble Concubine Hui from acting impulsively in despair at any time.

When there were no more people in the hall, Gu Yunxi smiled and completed the deliberately truncated half sentence.

"This thing was taken from the killer on the night when I was assassinated."

"No… No… Don't frame me!"

Noble Concubine Hui shook her head in disbelief, slowly stood up from the chair, suddenly screamed, and rushed over to grab the waist card.

Gu Yunxi had already prepared. She threw her waist card to Lei in one hand, and accurately caught the woman's thin wrist in the other hand. Then Gu Yunxi put her in front of herself.

"Well, do Your Grace want to kill me again?"

Gu Yunxi smiled lightly and threw the woman to the ground with a backhand push. She looked coldly at her decline and embarrassment with messy clothes and scattered hair.

"How dare you...?"

Noble Concubine Hui was shocked. She screamed wildly. She was about to rush up and was stopped by Lei who strode forward.

Noble Concubine Hui suddenly became discouraged and sat on the ground with her head drooping. She panted.

"Zheng Wanruo, what do you want to do?"

Gu Yunxi got up calmly, raised her eyebrows proudly, and hissed.

"What do I want to do? I'm the one who's supposed to ask you that, right? I thought I was always in the right place, and you would not let me go. Your Grace, what do you want from me?"

Noble Concubine Hui narrowed her eyes resentfully.

"You evil spirit, you not only confuse His Majesty with beauty but also secretly seduce the Ninth Prince."

"Don't think I don't know that you lied to His Majesty about the assassins. You lied that you met the assassins on the night after Girl's Day to cover up your affair with him."

Gu Yunxi gently stroked the tassel with golden thread and rice beads on her temples, which caused a rustling. After hearing this leisurely, a sharp cold light flashed across her eyes.

"It seems that it was really done by Shi's Mansion. Otherwise, how could you know the time of the assassination better than others?"

Noble Concubine Hui panicked and covered her mouth, but her words had become irreparable.

The fierce light in her eyes almost devoured people. She aimed at Gu Yunxi and shouted sadly.

"Bi*ch, how dare you have an affair with the Ninth Prince in the Yonglu Temple? Do you deserve His Majesty's love?"

"Shh, Your Grace, you'd better be careful!"

Gu Yunxi smiled lightly. She stretched outher index finger and pressed the woman's red lips. The peach blossom face with exquisite makeup was slowly enlarged in front of her eyes.

"You keep saying that I had an affair with the Ninth Prince, but is there any evidence? That day you asked me to kneel down and pray for rain to prove my innocence, and I did it, didn't I?"

When the two pairs of eyes coldly clashed, Gu Yunxi saw the woman's fear in her eyes.

The Noble Concubine looked unwilling and spoke angrily.

"Don't be complacent. It's just a coincidence!"

"Yes..."

Gu Yunxi suddenly stood upright, stared at her opponent with arrogance, and raised her hands happily.

"I am alone in this deep Palace, with His Majesty's love, the friendship of the sisters in the imperial harem, and the loyalty of the maids. Now even God is helping me!"

After a sharp turn, Gu Yunxi leaned close to Noble Concubine Hui again, looked at her rapidly changing face, and laughed cruelly.

"Your Grace, what else do you have besides a good father, huh?"

Suddenly, she pushed down the sad and speechless woman with fierce eyes.

"Shi Yuanqing, you can't fight me!"

The woman was humiliated, but she was unable to resist. She fell down, wept, and screamed a few times.

When her mood was stable, she wiped away her tears and asked aggressively.

"What do you want now? Do you want to take the waist card of Shi's Mansion to His Majesty and say that I was the one who sent people to assassinate you that night?"

Gu Yunxi sniffed and walked slowly around the woman.

"Do you think I'm stupid? I won't say this to His Majesty. I came here today just to explain my mind to you. In this imperial harem, I just want to live in peace. Status and glory are just floating clouds and smoke, which will disperse at any time after a gust of wind."

Noble Concubine Hui frowned in surprise, "What do you mean?"

Gu Yunxi fell into the void and said to herself.

"Your Grace, I know I'm a second married woman. I'm not as noble as you. I won't argue with you. Let's stop fighting. If we keep pestering, it will only benefit the real shyster."

"Who are you referring to? Who is the real shyster?"

Noble Concubine Hui stared at Gu Yunxi and felt that there was a hidden meaning in her sentence.

Gu Yunxi smiled gently.

"That day, in the Yonglu Temple, the Ninth Prince said that someone falsely told him His Majesty's oral decree to deceive him to the back mountain, deliberately causing trouble for him to be present with me at the same time. Have you never seriously thought about who the hateful man is?"

"Well..."

Noble Concubine Hui lowered her head slightly, and her eyes shook without attention.

She did think these days. But with her brain, she couldn't understand it.

Seeing her embarrassed and helpless face, Gu Yunxi couldn't help laughing contemptuously.

"Your Grace, you know very well that the assassination actually took place on the night of July 7. Just now you asked me where I was and what I did the next day."

Noble Concubine Hui proudly raised her eyebrows.

"Aren't you with the Ninth Prince?"

"I was really with Ninth Uncle. But after we fell off the cliff, we were quickly rescued and hid in a safe place all day."

Noble Concubine Hui clenched a corner of her clothes and thought repeatedly.

"How could it be? Who would stay in the wild in the middle of the night?"

Looking at Gu Yunxi's smiling eyes, the woman suddenly realized something.

"Is there someone..."

"Yes, someone already got the news. So in order to achieve his goal, he sent a eunuch to deceive Ninth Uncle into going up the mountain and saved us halfway in order to leave evidence."

Gu Yunxi sighed, smiled again, and continued.

"On that day, everything went well and everything was developing according to his expectations, especially you."

"He made an elaborate trap, wanting everyone present to misunderstand that I had an affair with Ninth Uncle. He doesn't say his plan himself. It's just you who said it for him."

"You were aggressive at that time. If Counselor-in-chief Shi had failed to speak in time to stop you and you had said one more word, that person would have stood up and testified against you."

Noble Concubine Hui's face was as cold as ice, and flames of resentment sprang up at the bottom of her eyes. She shouted in a daze.

"Who is that person? Who is so hateful that he has conspired against you, me, and the Ninth Prince?"

Gu Yunxi only glanced at her and said coldly.

"There is only one person in the world who is well-informed and can dispatch the eunuchs in the Palace at will."

"It must not be His Majesty. Is it...?"

Noble Concubine Hui paused with a fierce look in her eyes.

"It's him, the Commander-in-chief of the Eastern Depot!"

Gu Yunxi turned her head. Looking across the blue shadow window screen, she looked at the flower rattan whirling in the sunshine in the yard.

"He pretended to save me and Ninth Uncle to contain you. He is also very clever in this way."

"But he never expected that I accidentally got the waist card of Shi's Mansion on the way, so I already knew the identity of the killer."

"Yue Xilou is ambitious but narrow-minded. I know he has always been at odds with Counselor-in-chief Shi in the court."

"If he takes advantage of this to bring down the head of the cabinet, it can be said that the whole cabinet will fall into his control. In his early years, he also got some problems with Ninth Uncle."

"So is he going to set the Ninth Prince up this time?"

Noble Concubine Hui looked at Gu Yunxi with a glance of cold.

"What about you? Why did you tell me the news?"

"I want to join hands with Your Grace to deal with Yue Xilou."

Gu Yunxi did not avoid the two sharp-looking eyes but answered decisively.

"Why?"

The tone of Noble Concubine Hui's speech was light, and her tight face was always full of vigilance.

"Yue Xilou killed my husband. I want to avenge my late husband. Is this a good reason?"

Gu Yunxi bit her lips. Her eyes looked like a mirror, and she added with hatred.

"Your Grace, you can suspect me, but it's urgent to eliminate the informants of the Eastern Depot in your palace and Counselor-in-chief Shi's Mansion."

"Before long, the Eastern Depot will have a big action. You must tell your father to start early and don't let the Eastern Depot take the lead."

Noble Concubine Hui's heart tightened and her breath became heavier and heavier.

Her five fingers were firmly clenched in her sleeves. From her expression, she clearly believed Gu Yunxi's words.

At this time, a trace of doubt remained in her mind.

"Who are you exactly?"

She stared at the slender and graceful woman opposite and asked.

"Your surname is 'Zheng' and your name is 'Wanruo'. Why did someone in the Palace call you 'Gu'? Why did His Majesty call you 'Yunxi'? Who are you?"

Gu Yunxi was about to step out of the hall. When she listened to the speech, she was as calm as iron and said slowly.

"I am a person who is free from worldly strife and has no ambition. If anyone hurts my close relatives and loved ones, I will give a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye!"

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The night was quiet and deep. Among the rolling buildings, red walls, and green courtyards, everything was silent.

In a wing room in one of the back rooms in the Imperial Ceremony Office, the lights flickered.

"Leshuang, get up and take the medicine."

Yue Xilou sat at the edge of the bed and handed Leshuang the blue and white porcelain bowl.

Looking at his waxy yellow face and blue and purple lips, Yue Xilou was angry for a moment, and his veins jumped and protruded on his head. He said grimly.

"It's nice of someone to dare to do it under my nose!"

Leshuang held the bowl in both hands and lowered her eyes. At that moment, large tears fell into the dark brown soup.

"Godfather is so kind to me. I'm useless. Not only did I screw up my job, but I was easily designed and poisoned."

"Don't cry. You're worthless!"

The words of Yue Xilou were as cold as ice, which made people shudder.

"I didn't expect that the old man's spy could not help being beaten... OK, if he wants to hurt my godson, I will teach him a good lesson!"

He pushed the door out and soon he walked away.

A eunuch flashed into the room and closed the door tightly.

"Bingbi really suffered this time. He even hurt himself in order to provoke a fight between the Eastern Depot and the cabinet."

This man was Leshuang's confidant. Naturally, he knew that the poison in Leshuang was poisoned by himself.

Leshuang drank up a bowl of medicine and gave the empty bowl to the eunuch.

"I did all this for the Ninth Prince and to avenge the murdered former colleagues of the Eastern Depot. Look, Yue Xilou can't wait to give the list to His Majesty."