Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 375 Helping the evildoer

"What? What are you talking about? Why am I getting more and more confused..." Ji Anni didn't expect things to be so serious. "No wonder the Empress Dowager's Palace was blocked, and no wonder Concubine An suddenly left the palace. Could it be... could it be all because of these things? Why is Princess Tianning not the daughter of the late emperor?"

Although she knew that there would be no answers to these questions, Ji Anni still couldn't help but roar out in a low voice.

Yan Niang continued to speak slowly in her unhurried tone: "Princess Tianning who stays in the palace cannot escape the death penalty, but Princess Tianning outside the palace can save her life. Human executioners cannot kill me, and I don't mind being Princess Tianning's scapegoat."

Hearing this, Ji Anni finally understood. Yan Niang was tortured as Princess Tianning, and after the execution, Princess Tianning no longer existed. But if the purpose was so simple, why did Yan Niang go to so much trouble to return to the palace? Didn't Yan Niang return to the palace to take herself and Prince Ming out of the palace? If she lost the convenient identity of Princess Tianning, how should she act?

Thinking about these messy questions, Ji Anni's eyebrows subconsciously twisted into a knot.

As if she had seen through Ji Anni's thoughts, Yan Niang chuckled and said in a gentle voice, "Consort Zhao, I was reluctant to give up my identity as Princess Tianning. But the person who promised to help me enter the palace was afraid that I would cause trouble, so he insisted that I give up my identity as Princess Tianning after revealing Princess Tianning's background. Otherwise, he would not have helped me completely eliminate Taoist Yuan Rong, and would not have... helped to move the capital."

After all, Yanniang's purpose was to seek revenge on Taoist Yuanrong and force the royal family to move the capital. As for her saving Princess Tianning's life, it was just a good deed that benefited others and herself.

"Then who agreed to help you enter the palace?" Ji Anni felt that there seemed to be a dangerous force lurking in the palace.

"Do you think I will tell you?" Yan Niang smiled and didn't want to say more about it. "I have said too much today, just to let you know that Princess Tianning's current situation is not the worst. If you insist on asking her to return to the palace, she will only lose her life in vain. After the execution, even if Princess Tianning still wants to return to the palace, I am afraid no one will believe that she is a princess. Maybe she will be executed as a lunatic or a monster. Therefore, Concubine Zhao... Princess Tianning will never be able to return to the palace in this life. You have no choice but to follow the will of heaven."

Ji Anni's fists were clenched so tightly that they made a crackling sound. This was why Yan Niang always blocked all her escape routes whenever she spoke to her. She felt deeply helpless and helpless.

"Even if what you said is right...even if you have found a way for Princess Tianning to survive that is slightly better than death, but...but don't you think that Tianning is too pitiful? What mistake did she make? Just because she is not a princess, just because she is not the child of the late emperor, should she be executed? Should she be wiped out?"

Ji Anni felt more and more distressed for Tianning, whether it was because of the harm Kang Xiaorong had done to Princess Tianning before, or because of the words that Yan Niang said now, revealing her life story.

Not only was the most important wedding of her life disrupted, but she was also kidnapped from the palace, left alone to wander the world, lost her relatives, friends, and husband, lost her most precious status, and completely turned from a royal family into a worthless person in the dirt. Thinking of this, how could Annie not worry about her and feel sorry for her.

"Concubine Zhao Cong, now that things have come to this, you should think more positively." Seeing Ji Anni's painful expression, Yan Niang comforted her.

Even if the court of the feudal era could not tolerate private love, it should not impose the crime on an innocent descendant. Even if there is a crime, it is unforgivable, and it should be committed by the father. What does it have to do with Tianning who cannot choose his own birth? Those words that Yanniang said as a matter of course pierced Ji Anni's ears, but every word was unpleasant to her ears, and she could not be convinced at all.

Ji Anni bit her lip, holding back her heartache, and said, "Even if she is not a princess, what has she done wrong? Why did you send her to her doom..."

How could Princess Tianning, who had been spoiled since childhood and had no skills to make a living, survive outside the palace?

Yan Niang chuckled and said coldly, "Her mistake was that she was born into the wrong family. She is the empress dowager's daughter, and she is a terrible woman who doesn't care about the consequences."

"Now the general and the emperor have sealed off the Empress Dowager's palace, just to force the Empress Dowager to confess?" Ji Anni admired herself for being able to speak calmly. At this point, she just wanted to find out what was going on in the Empress Dowager's palace.

Yan Niang said, "Yes, the Emperor and the General both want to use this opportunity to settle old scores with the Queen Mother."

"Old accounts..." Ji Anni's chest ached for a moment at these two words, "Does the emperor want to re-investigate the case from three years ago?"

Yan Niang nodded and continued, "The Queen Mother will not be able to escape this time. From the look of it, the general is determined to frame the Queen Mother for the old case from three years ago."

"So what is the truth? Yanniang... do you know what the truth is?" Ji Anni remembered that Yanniang had always been the empress dowager's confidant. Since she was a confidant, she must know a lot of unknown secrets. Yanniang just said "not hesitating to frame someone", which seemed to imply that the evidence held by the general was not enough to convict the empress dowager, but she was unwilling to give up this great opportunity and was planning something despicable.

Yan Niang said: "Although I know a lot, but... Yan Niang is already a dead person in everyone's mind, and cannot be listed as a witness at all. And now the only living witness in the palace..."

"It's only Imperial Concubine Yu." Ji Anni finished the second half of Yan Niang's sentence and then pondered, "...it seems Imperial Concubine Yu really knows something."

"She knows more than just a little. Three years ago, she saw me cast the curse with her own eyes..." Yan Niang suddenly said something unexpected.

"You?" Ji Annie couldn't help but shudder, suddenly remembering the curse mark on the pillow that Shui Furong had found before.

Shui Congfei's cause of death was unknown after she died because she was not killed by a weapon but by a curse. The curse mark on the pillow as evidence should not be visible to anyone, but recently the curse mark gradually appeared due to the loss of Yanniang's magic power, and was discovered by Shui Furong. Unfortunately, this only piece of evidence was thrown into the fire by Yanniang and burned.

The mystery had remained unsolved for three whole years, but now someone was standing in front of him and admitting it frankly.

This sudden change made Ji Anni a little overwhelmed, and she even suspected that there was something wrong with her ears.

Yan Niang, it was actually Yan Niang... Although I was mentally prepared, when I heard the truth, I still couldn't reduce my shock.

Ji Anni unconsciously backed away slowly, trying to calm herself down. "So it was you who cast the soul-sucking spell on Shui Congfei. It was you, it was you... Why did you want to kill her?"

Talking about the murders she committed in the past, Yan Niang's cold eyes did not show any regret, but revealed a bit of helplessness. She said calmly: "Isn't the answer obvious? If Concubine Shui Cong had not died, she could have become the queen mother with the glory of the birth of the little prince. And those who don't want the position of queen mother to fall into the hands of others asked me to kill Concubine Shui Cong."

"Is it the Queen Mother? Is it the Queen Mother?" Ji Anni clenched her fists in anger.

After the death of Concubine Shui Cong, the Queen Mother was the biggest beneficiary. Yan Niang was also the Queen Mother's confidant and only followed her orders. Therefore, the person who ordered Yan Niang to kill Concubine Shui Cong could only be the Queen Mother.

Yan Niang did not evade the question, but nodded calmly and said, "It is indeed the Queen Mother."

Ji Anni was irritated by her calmness and yelled uncontrollably, "Do you kill her just because she told you to?"

This is a human life, no one has the right to kill.

Yan Niang had long expected Ji Anni to have such an excited reaction, and she was not surprised at all. She continued to speak slowly in her calm voice that seemed to be frozen: "All this is God's will, and I don't want to kill innocent people. In fact, as early as after Concubine Shui Cong was confirmed to be pregnant, the Queen Mother had already had the intention to kill and forced me to do it. But I really didn't want to break the precept of killing, so I made an agreement with the Queen Mother that if Concubine Shui Cong gave birth to a princess after ten months, she and her daughter would be spared; but if Concubine Shui Cong gave birth to a prince, I would kill Concubine Shui Cong. But after ten months, God's will made Concubine Shui Cong give birth to a prince, and God's will left me with no choice... I had to curse her to death. When I cast the curse that night, I was unexpectedly seen by Concubine Yu Gui who happened to pass by. I was forced to destroy her memory, causing her to become the crazy she is now..."

"How can you still speak so aggrievedly? Do you have any regrets at all..." Ji Anni's throat was hoarse and she could hardly speak.

Why did the soul-capturing spell appear on Concubine Shui Cong's pillow, and why did Concubine Yu's condition suddenly improve? It turned out that it was all because Yan Niang was injured by Yun Zhen, and her demonic power was depleted, causing the previous spell to almost become ineffective.

The reason why Concubine Shui Cong was not killed while she was pregnant was only because Yan Niang showed some "kindness".

But in the end, she attributed her own sin of murder to the misfortune of Concubine Shui Cong giving birth to a prince.

"I don't care what you think of me. You haven't been in my situation and you don't know how I feel at all." Yan Niang's calmness was almost shattered by Ji Anni's questioning, and she couldn't help but growl.

"Why are you so obedient to the Queen Mother?" Ji Anni really couldn't think of any reason why Yan Niang would be loyal to the Queen Mother.

Yan Niang said, "Because the Queen Mother saved my life, I cannot fail to repay her."

"Your way of repaying a favor is to kill someone?" This is not repaying a favor but committing a sin.

Yan Niang tried to explain, and said urgently: "My repayment is to fulfill her wish and make her life happier..."

"Have you repaid the favor? Have you really repaid the favor? ... All you did was repay evil with kindness, aiding the tyrant, and helping the queen mother go from a 'paranoid' to a 'murderer'."