The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 834

Chapter 834: 385 Stoking the Fire (Added Chapter)

The Emperor had been unwilling to believe it, but every sentence, every word, every fact fit precisely with the experiences of Xiao Liulang.

It was hateful, his loyalty was true, yet in the end... in the end... to be betrayed like this...

And to hear what his mother, the empress dowager, had said?

Wasn’t each word a knife stabbing into his heart...

The Emperor’s heart was bleeding...

The feeling was like being pulled out from an icy hole and then viciously stabbed several times!

He staggered, nearly falling over!

Your Majesty!

Eunuch Wei dared not make a sound, hurriedly reaching out to support him.

To be honest, he was also terrified.

He had never expected that he and His Majesty would overhear what was being said at the Empress Dowager Jing’s wall corner, nor that the content would be so explosive.

From the Empress Dowager Jing’s tone, were both assassination attempts on Xiao Liulang orchestrated by her?

Thinking about it, who else but the legendary Dragon Shadow Guard could have such skill to infiltrate the Imperial College and cause chaos?

That’s where Eunuch Wei was mistaken. Although the Imperial College was tightly guarded, there were still plenty of masters capable of sneaking in.

However, since the Empress Dowager Jing personally admitted to "another failure," it seemed that the incident at the Imperial College was also her doing.

Even more damning, the conversation inside did not stop but instead grew increasingly thunderous.

"All right, Your Highness, don’t be angry; take care that you don’t harm your health with your temper."

It was the voice of Madam Cai!

"Speaking of it, it’s not the Dragon Shadow Guard’s fault. Those people are too cunning. If it weren’t for them, how could His Majesty be fooled? In my view, all these so-called divine physicians, all these scholar Xiao’s achievements, are nothing but their tricks to deceive His Majesty!"

"But how was His Majesty deceived by them? Did they also drug His Majesty?"

This was the voice of the Empress Dowager Jing.

If the Emperor had only felt anger upon hearing what had been said earlier, upon hearing this, he began to feel utterly bewildered.

What did she mean by also drugging him?

The voice of Madam Cai continued: "Such drugs are not only available to Your Highness; perhaps that Yan Country pharmacist sold the drugs to someone else!"

The voice of the Empress Dowager Jing said, "Such drugs are extremely rare, they’re not something that can just be sold if one wishes to sell them, those drug ingredients can’t all be found within the bounds of Zhan Country!"

"With money, one can make the devil turn the millstone, Your Highness, you’ve underestimated them!"

"Are you suggesting... His Majesty’s high regard for Xiao Liulang and the Gu Family girl is because Xiao Liulang and the Gu Family girl also gave His Majesty ’white powder’?"

"Your Highness, you have personally experienced the effects of the white and black powders. Recall how, after that incident, His Majesty reconciled with you and how he fell out with the Empress Dowager, was it not all because of those two drugs?" _{freēwēbnovel.com}

The Emperor couldn’t hear clearly what was being said after that; his whole head was buzzing, his vision went dark, and the world seemed to spin around him. When he finally regained consciousness, he found himself already sitting on the ground.

Eunuch Wei was kneeling beside him, shaking him anxiously: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty... Your Majesty..."

The Emperor’s body was drenched in cold sweat.

He numbly asked, "The Empress Dowager, where..."

"She’s gone... I didn’t see them come out... They must have left through the back door..." Eunuch Wei’s eyes were red, and his voice was choked, "Your Majesty, you scared me to death..."

"Help me up..." The Emperor said blankly, extending his arm to Eunuch Wei.

Eunuch Wei wiped away tears, helping the Emperor up from the ground: "Your Majesty..."

The Emperor, like a soulless puppet, turned around with a vacant expression: "Back to Huaqing Palace..."

Not long after the Emperor and Eunuch Wei left, two figures emerged from behind the rockery near the Greeting Room, one after the other.

Both were dressed in the attire of little eunuchs, but their statures were taller and more upright than the ordinary ones.

The one dressed as a eunuch, Xiao Liulang, spoke, "You changed the lines."

The other one, Gu Chengfeng, pouted, "Did I? I was just following the script you gave me!"

Xiao Liulang glanced at the small script in Gu Chengfeng’s hands and said expressionlessly, "It doesn’t say ’little limper’ anywhere on there."

Gu Chengfeng: "...Cough, I was improvising, it adds a unique touch!"

Xiao Liulang: "I’m docking you a bottle of Hair Growth Potion."

Gu Chengfeng: "?!"

That’s too much!

Wasn’t it hard enough for him to agree to imitate a woman’s voice for him? And he even had to play dual roles! That girl wouldn’t go easy on him even though he mastered her voice, and yet this fellow has an even blacker heart than she does!

No, that’s not right, that girl is truly ruthless, while this fellow is hypocritically ruthless!

He looks innocent and harmless, but he’s full of more tricks than anyone!