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Upon hearing Chen Pingping's order, his subordinates obeyed and went to carry it out.
……
As dawn breaks, a cool breeze blows.
Fan Mansion, Kyoto, Nanqing.
Fan Jian has already led the Tiger Guards back; last night he had intended to go directly to Taiping Villa.
Who would have thought that they would encounter Wu Zhu along the way.
Through Wu Zhu's instruction, Fan Jian learned of Ye Qingmei's death.
In addition, there are temple messengers and members of the queen's faction also pursuing them.
The people at the temple wanted to get rid of Wu Zhu.
Meanwhile, the Empress's faction plotted to kill the child that Wu Zhu had taken away.
In a moment of desperation, Fan Jian made a decision.
She switched Fan Xian with her newborn child.
She allowed someone from the Empress's faction to kill her son.
They saved Ye Qingmei's child.
"Don't you feel guilty about doing this?"
Wu Zhu asked a question, and then glanced at the baby sleeping soundly in the bed.
Fan Jian was very disappointed.
You should know that in order to save Fan Xian, he sent his own son to the brink of death.
"For Miss, anything is worth it."
After a long silence, Fan Jian replied with these words.
Wu Zhu didn't say anything more, but spoke in a cold voice:
“Miss has another child at Taiping Villa, I have to go and bring him back.”
"This child will be entrusted to your care."
Having said that, Wu Zhu got up to leave.
As soon as he turned around, Fan Jian stopped him:
"No need to go."
"Chen Pingping has already taken that child away."
Wu Zhu paused for a moment, then replied:
"Chen Pingping?"
"I don't trust him!"
"To be precise, I don't trust anyone right now."
Fan Jian frowned slightly and uttered a soft question:
"Then why do you believe me?"
Wu Zhu didn't reply; he had never trusted Fan Jian to begin with.
However, in order to save Fan Xian, Fan Jian did not hesitate to make his own son a scapegoat, thus giving Fan Xian a chance to live.
From this perspective, Fan Jian is indeed trustworthy.
"The young lady's other child was born with the aura of a sacred dragon!"
"He has now been taken back to the Supervisory Council by Chen Pingping."
"Given Chen Pingping's admiration for Miss, he will surely treat her as his own daughter."
"You don't need to worry about that."
After Fan Jian said that, Wu Zhu breathed a sigh of relief.
After a brief silence, Fan Jian changed the subject and asked, "Wu Zhu, don't you think Miss's death is very suspicious?"
"What do you want to say?"
Wu Zhu pressed for an answer.
Fan Jian didn't rush to give an answer, instead appearing thoughtful.
After thinking for a moment, he finally spoke:
"The timing of this all seems too coincidental."
"I was conscripted to join the army on this western expedition!"
"Just then, the Northern Qi invaded the border, and Chen Pingping was also transferred away, unable to return to the capital to provide reinforcements!"
"Ye Zhong, the garrison commander of Kyoto, has also been transferred out of the capital."
"As for Wu Zhu, you were deliberately lured away."
"This left the young lady without a single person to protect her."
"What a coincidence!"
Fan Jian looked grave, already having guessed what was going on.
Too many coincidences happening at once are not just simple coincidences.
And besides Emperor Qing, there is no one else capable of orchestrating such a grand scheme.
"You suspect Emperor Qing?"
Chapter Nine: A Bloody Night in Kyoto! The Empress's Lineage Was Purged!
Fan Jian did not give a clear answer.
After all, he only had suspicions and felt that everything was too much of a coincidence.
The thought of that once stunningly beautiful woman, now dead, filled him with immense sorrow.
"Both of her children are doing well."
"Then it's time to reshuffle the deck in Kyoto."
"Those who laid a hand on her, leave no one alive!"
After a moment of silence, Fan Jian spoke coldly, his eyes flashing with murderous intent.
……
Soon, Chen Pingping and Fan Jian discovered that the murderer of Ye Qingmei was none other than the Empress's lineage.
Although the empress was of noble status.
But Chen Pingping and Fan Jian couldn't care less about that.
More than 3,000 people connected to the Empress were massacred, and the Empress's entire clan was wiped out overnight.
As for the Empress, she was imprisoned in the deep palace.
This night is also known as the Kyoto Bloodshed Night.
Yaohua Palace.
Inside the main palace hall, it was cold, desolate, and utterly miserable.
A woman collapsed limply to the ground in an extremely casual manner.
The woman looked haggard and pale, her tattered clothes stained with blood.
He looked like a prisoner.
Little did they know, the woman was actually the Empress of Nanqing.
Not long ago, she was smugly leading her faction to massacre the Taiping Villa.
Who would have thought that retribution would come so quickly?
His entire maternal relatives were slaughtered overnight by Chen Pingping and Fan Jian's men.
As for her, because of her status as the Empress, she had only just escaped with her life and was now imprisoned in Yaohua Palace!
"hateful!"
"Chen Pingping and Fan Jian are incredibly audacious!"
"How dare you slaughter my entire clan!"
The Empress's face was filled with hatred, but she was also somewhat frightened when she recalled that night.
She can feel it.
Both Chen Pingping and Fan Jian harbored an extremely strong desire to kill her.
If she weren't the empress, she would probably have been torn to pieces long ago.
As she pondered this, the Empress suddenly realized something and burst into uncontrollable laughter:
"Hahaha……"
After laughing for a while, the Empress's expression turned bitter.
"Emperor Qing is truly a master strategist!"
"Am I heartless?"
Compared to him, my snack is nothing at all.
"So... I was just a tool he used to consolidate his imperial power!"
The Empress wasn't stupid either.
After a little thought, I understood.
The reason she had such a good opportunity to kill Ye Qingmei was entirely created by Emperor Qing.
It was Emperor Qing who created all the necessary conditions for him.