The evil empress wouldn’t rest for a single day. It was an autumn afternoon. But for others in the palace, winter had already come.
Shui Yinzhu left the hot spring in the morning. After she arrived at her own palace, she finally sent people to deal with the dead body of the palace maid in the bathroom. She killed someone in the morning. However, in the afternoon, she summoned all the palace maids, eunuchs, guards, Elder Consorts and almost everyone in the palace to the Imperial Garden.
They weren’t invited to appreciate the flowers and scenery. That wouldn’t sound like what Shui Yinzhu might do. When they all arrived, they found that there was a murder game going on in the center of that dense crowd.
The rule was simple. No one would be provided with any weapon. But among all the eunuchs that slapped Shui Yinzhu before, only one can get to live. In order to make it more fun, Shui Yinzhu didn’t allow them to eat anything in the past three
“Sister Xi, will you please let go of her now?”Shui Yinzhu chuckled as she saw Xiaoren getting killed by Yun Su. She dropped the dead body of the maid, walked to her bed and lied down. Clearly she was mad at Yun Su. Yun Su asked the servants to clean up the dead body and the blood. As everyone left, he hurriedly got into the bed to hold Shui Yinzhu. “Are you angry at me, Sister Xi?“Is that going to be of any use?”“Yes. But I won’t let you go.”The man and woman kept cuddling for the rest of the night. Just like she said, no matter Shui Yinzhu was or wasn’t willing to do so, her attitude didn’t matter. Just like neither of them cared for human life.The cloud went more gloomy in the palace afterwards. Whomever Empress Xi smiled at, either man or woman, would be killed. Even Yun Su’s closest eunuch didn’t survive that smile. Slaughter happened every day inside the palace and everyone was terrified
“Your Highness, I was just following order. I never meant to hurt you.”“Don’t you understand how I became such a cruel evil empress?”“Your Highness, I...”“Answer me, will you keep reporting to Yun Su about my situation or will you not?”Xiaoba had witnessed Shui Yinzhu’s life ever since she came back into the palace. He saw the empress almost dying for her love of Xuan Zhi. Wu Chen saved her life and brought her some simple and safe days. Just like all other human beings, Xiaoba pitied Shui Yinzhu when he wasn’t in love with her. But what about when he was? He started to realize how innocent Shui Yinzhu used to be. The death of Wu Chen, however, changed her. Xiaoba heard about Shui Yinzhu’s past but never cared about it. The part that he knew was already so miserable that she was turned to a cruel and fearless being. All of a sudden, he believed that Shui Yinzhu wasn’t making things up. Maybe she would reall
Yun Su really wished that Shui Yinzhu could bear his child. Maybe she would care about him after that. Even if Shui Yinzhu didn’t, at least the connection between mother and child would never be cut off. He had sex with her many times in the past days, and she didn’t take any contraceptive drugs. He even secretly asked someone to add many fertility-stimulating medications to their meals.Yun Su would never know that Shui Yinzhu kept the Heat Poison inside her body to avoid getting pregnant. She had been so cruel to her own body that even if she was pregnant, it would be a malformed one. Shui Yinzhu understood how much Yun Su wanted a baby, so she did it on purpose. Losing her virginity on him was her bottom line. If she got pregnant with his child, she would go crazy. Meanwhile, this would be her retaliation in another form. Yun Su would never have a child.The next day, Shui Yinzhu was so tired that she could barely move. Yun Su never knew how to re
And then came the most magnificent coronation ceremony for the Empress in the history of the Empire of Yun. It was surely a unique ceremony since Yun Su, the emperor, demanded a more grandiose one than his enthronement to make Shui Yinzhu happy. Moreover, Shui Yinzhu, the evil empress in a red dress, delivered an utterly unexpected performance that day.The long red carpet covered the path and stairs all the way from the gate to the front of the phoenix seat left to the throne in the audience hall of the imperial palace.In the morning, the evil empress got up early and allowed palace maids to get her dressed. It was the first time that Shui Yinzhu willingly put on the phoenix robe representing the title of empress. She still wore her blood-red dress inside the golden phoenix robe. Her hair was tied in a complicated style, but she kept the hairpin with two pearls among all other hairpins down the phoenix crown. The formal outfit added a dignified aur
Knowing that Yun Su was busy dealing with his said-to-be siblings in order to consolidate his power, Shui Yinzhu was glad to have more free time.The evil empress Shui Yinzhu decided to hold a party for ladies only in an evening and invited the wives of all the ministers to the Imperial Garden for tea and chitchat.Since the invitation was from Shui Yinzhu, the wives had to come whether or not they were willing to. They didn’t want to get their family killed because of themselves. However, Shui Yinzhu appeared to be an easygoing woman that night instead of a patronizing empress. She was nothing close to that evil empress who murdered people cruelly.“Please take a seat, ladies.”“Yes, Your Majesty.”“Xiaoxin, stay here to serve me,” Shui Yinzhu instructed Xiaoxin.Xiaoxin understood Shui Yinzhu’s intention as she nodded and stood on the left of Shui Yinzhu.“Would you mind me asking why
“Paner, where is the...bamboo scroll?”“What?”“The bamboo scroll...you mentioned.”“Oh, right.” Paner finally remembered what she came here for and took out a bamboo scroll from her pocket. This was the reason why she came to find Shui Yinzhu.“Okay.” The pain drained all the strength from Shui Yinzhu’s body. But she still managed to read the message before sending Paner to burn it.The bamboo scroll came from Wei Ruxuan. He intended to cooperate with Shui Yinzhu. It wouldn’t be hard to guess that it was because of Bu Xiaoyan. But Shui Yinzhu didn’t expect was that Wei Ruxuan could send this bamboo scroll to her through this well-guarded harem. Prime Minister Wei’s influence could reach farther than it seemed.As the window opened again, Xiaoba took out a flask and handed it to Shui Yinzhu. “I asked the doctor to have the medicine boiled for you.”“Okay.” Shui Yinzhu took the flask and
Speaking of the empress Shui Yinzhu, people all recognized her as the personification of a succubus. She was so charming like a vixen whose glamour in innocence could attract everyone around her. She didn’t wear the phoenix crown and robe, the status symbols as the empress but the blood-red dress. She kept her hair in a bun, and wore a simple hairpin with two pearls on it. The emperor of Yun was so fascinated by her that he forgot the responsibility of the throne and started to kill innocent people.Under the constant and mostly intentional influence of the evil empress, Yun Su raised the tax over and over again. He forced his people to do labor work and abused his power and the financial resources to build wonders. The nervous people were sent everywhere to build grandiose temporary palaces for the pleasure of the emperor and the empress.The emperor totally ignored the welfare of his people as he would torture them for saying anything wrong. He con
“Many years ago, there was a little girl. She was the little princess of the Kingdom of Shui. Her parents loved her and provided her with the best affection. However, when she turned nine years old, the Kingdom of Yun waged war against the Kingdom of Shui... The little princess felt as if she was a jinx. In order to protect the ones she loved from dying, she had to sacrifice herself to live with her enemies.”Shui Yinzhu then told her story, including her relationship with Kong Yue and Xuan Zhi. She told the little girl about the death of Kong Yue, the injury of Xuan Zhi, the care of Qi Yuan, and the destiny of Wu Chen. She omitted the part that she was a child of the emperor’s father and how she retaliated upon the general, the Prime Minister, and the lords.Shui Yinzhu was the storyteller, but her heart still ached when she recalled the past. Surprisingly, the string of her heart could still be plucked by the past after all the time passed. She was