Evil of all ages

Chapter 213 Cao the Traitor
"With the emperor gone, we supported the young and powerless seventeenth prince to ascend the throne. Everyone can see that he is a puppet emperor."

“There must be a lot of opposition from the outside world.”

“Rebellions by feudal princes, uprisings by disaster victims, and major aristocratic families seizing cities and occupying territory... these situations are bound to occur.”

"We must proceed steadily and surely, and we must not be too hasty. We must first stabilize the situation in the capital and firmly grasp the capital in our hands."

"Starting from the capital again, we will gradually quell the unrest."

Xu Yushu said.

Upon hearing this, both Xu Ming and Xu Yunxue nodded.

Finally, Xu Yushu gave his sister another instruction: she must keep a firm grip on the palace.

With the palace in place, everything they do is perfectly legitimate.

If the palace is breached, or changes hands.

They are traitors, rebels...

After giving his instructions, Xu Yushu and Xu Ming left the palace.

As soon as her two older brothers left, Xu Yunxue didn't dare to rest for a moment.

Instead of visiting other palaces, he returned to his favorite Ziyun Palace and buried himself in reviewing the mountain of memorials piled up on his desk.

While the emperor was alive, although she did help with reviewing memorials, there weren't as many.

As a result, after the emperor died, there were many more things to deal with, and many more memorials to the emperor were submitted.

Perhaps the more people have power, the more they fear death and worry about their own safety.

She increased the Imperial Guard to 30,000 men.

The guards at each gate of the palace should be replaced as needed.

All the problematic eunuchs and palace maids were dealt with.

……

"Funeral sacrifice"

While dealing with issues related to the imperial palace, Xu Yunxue saw a memorial listing the concubines who were to be buried alive with the emperor.

Even if she felt compassion, she knew that there were some things throughout history that she simply could not change.

He could only order some of his concubines to be buried alive or dismiss others within the limits of his authority.

Cai Yuying

"Ouyang Yudie"

Xu Yunxue muttered the two names with her cherry-like lips.

When the emperor died, the concubines in the palace either had to be buried with him or be dismissed; very few remained in the palace.

She, Xu Yunxue, is the Empress. Once the young emperor ascends the throne, she will be promoted to Empress Dowager.

Besides her, two other concubines in the palace were promoted to the rank of Dowager Consort.

One is Cai Yuying

She was the biological mother of the young emperor.

She had a child at sixteen and is only twenty-eight now.

The other one is Ouyang Yudie
She is the youngest of the three, only twenty-four years old this year.

She has never been favored by the emperor.

She was neither forced to be buried alive with the emperor nor dismissed from the palace because her brother was General Ouyang Yetian, the Grand General who protected the country.

"Fortunately, she has no children with His Majesty, otherwise, with her elder brother around, who could compete with her?"

"His Majesty must have known this, which is why he did not favor her."

Xu Yunxue sighed at the Emperor's deep thoughts, and it was precisely because of this that she dared not have any thoughts when the Emperor was alive.

Fortunately, His Majesty, who was prone to overthinking, is already dead.

Now it was her time. Seeing that Cai Yuying and Ouyang Yudie posed no threat to her, she continued to revise other memorials.

Until night falls
She was still grading

Hungry, she held the memorial in her hand without letting go, her eyes never leaving its contents, and asked Zhu Duo'er to feed her.

The more she revised the documents, the more she realized how difficult it was for a woman to hold power in a male-dominated era.

But the more this was the case, the less she dared to neglect it.

They wanted to make up for all their innate deficiencies with hard work.

Or perhaps she was afraid that one wrong step would lead to utter ruin.

"Your Majesty, you have been sitting for four hours. It is now the hour of Hai (9-11 PM). You should rest."

Zhu Duo'er reminded the Empress.

"Not urgent"

Seeing that there were still ten memorials left to review, Xu Yunxue decided to finish them before taking a break.

Hearing the Empress's tone, Zhu Duo'er knew that the Empress would not give up until all the revisions were completed, and she had no choice but to accept it.

Looking at the earnest empress, she sighed, lamenting why the empress wasn't born a man.

Time passes little by little
Three memorials remain.

Xu Yunxue picked up the memorial and opened it, when suddenly Granny Lian appeared.

Xu Yunxue looked up and thought Granny Lian had something to say. Then she saw Granny Lian give her a slight bow, and Zhu Duo'er and the palace maids also gave her a slight bow before walking out of the hall.

This left her completely bewildered.

What's going on with Granny Lian and the others? She didn't let them leave.

"Grandma Lotus"

"Zhu Duo'er"

"..."

Xu Yunxue called out several times, but found that Granny Lian and the others did not stop walking, as if they had not heard her.

This made Xu Yunxue tense up, as she thought that Granny Lian and the others had been controlled by some kind of supernatural power.

But just now she clearly saw that Granny Lian and the others had clear eyes, without any emptiness or blankness, indicating that they were being controlled.

This made her panic.

She didn't know what was going on, but she knew these people were planning to leave her alone in the Purple Cloud Palace.

How does this work?
Something unusual must be going on, and a woman's intuition told her that she absolutely could not stay alone in the Purple Cloud Palace.

He stood up, preparing to use his lightness skill to float out of the hall.

Then her expression darkened; she realized she couldn't use her internal energy anymore.

Unable to use her inner energy, she could only walk quickly outside.

"bump"

But an invisible wall blocked her way.

This time, she was truly terrified. Was she possessed?
But this is the imperial palace; how could there be anything unclean here?

"Grandma Lotus"

"Zhu Duo'er"

"..."

"Come back! All of you, come back to me!"

Xu Yunxue slapped the invisible wall with her hands and threw things at it, constantly calling out to Lu Yilian and the others.

But her struggles were useless. Lu Yilian and the others walked out of the hall and closed the door.

moment
Lu Yilian and the others, who were guarding outside the hall, could hear Xu Yunxue breathing soundly as she slept inside.

They were relieved.

He instructed his subordinates to be careful, and to execute anyone who made a noise that would wake the Empress.

They are like this because their five senses have been deceived.

What they saw was that the Empress had already finished reviewing the memorials.

The Empress refused to be served or bathed, saying she only wanted to be alone and called everyone out.

So they came out.

Hall
Xu Yunxue witnessed the greatest evil in the world.

"who are you?"

"what is your purpose?"

Xu Yunxue stared intently at the suddenly appearing unknown entity.

The person's head was shrouded in black mist, obscuring their face; only their eyes, beyond description, were visible.

"whoosh"

Before she could get a response, her opponent appeared in front of her in an instant.

With a swipe of the hand

"tear"

Xu Yunxue's phoenix robe was torn open.

"How...how dare you..."

The moment her clothes were torn open, Xu Yunxue's eyes widened; she knew exactly what the other person wanted to do.

For a moment, her eyes were filled with panic.

At the same time, she cursed that all the supreme masters of the Li royal family were dead.

A non-human monster ran into the palace and no one noticed.

Unfortunately, her outrageous remark not only failed to deter the other party, but instead emboldened them to take even more advantage.

"tear"

In less than a breath, her clothes were torn off.

The other party pounced.
In a situation where she had no one to turn to for help.

She was defiled.

She didn't know how long she had been tormented, but she finally couldn't take it anymore and fell into a deep sleep.

finish
The shadowy figure disappeared.

The chaotic interior of the hall remains, telling the story of the shadowy figure's crimes.

(End of this chapter)