Before this, Her Majesty the Empress had thought: anyway, the situation in the Capital was already settled, with the Ninth Princess beginning to take power. So, for now, why not quietly bide her time until the person behind Jiang Feng was revealed, while also taking the opportunity to strategize long-term, to lure that fish to take the bait.

However, after today’s intense experience, she was still an iron-blooded Emperor who once commanded millions. Her blood had not yet cooled, nor had her passion been extinguished; her anger surged, and she no longer wished to lie dormant!!

"Your Majesty, please reconsider!!" The Great Commander, pale-faced and in a panic, thudded to her knees; she crawled to the Empress’s side and clutched the Empress’s leg.

The Empress looked down at the Great Commander and spoke slowly and deliberately, "And if it means cutting off the line, so be it. With Lao Ba’s wolfish ambitions, even if she really left descendants, how could I dare let them succeed me and Jiujiu on the throne?"

After saying this, the Empress calmly brushed off the Great Commander. "Pass down the order, I want her captured alive; swiftly bring her to me!"

Dong Huiying exchanged another look with Yun Ge, utterly surprised that Her Majesty the Empress would be so bloodthirsty? Although this fierceness was indeed quite appealing??

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Bai Xian had once deliberately gotten close to the Eighth Princess, and tampered with her food, ultimately poisoning her before leaving.

Although the Eighth Princess summoned many doctors to treat her, the poison Bai Xian gave her was too unique. As a result, this deadly poison was misdiagnosed as smallpox. Because after the Eighth Princess was poisoned, her symptoms were exactly like smallpox.

When the Empress ordered the Great Commander to send someone to capture the Eighth Princess alive, the Eighth Princess was already skin and bones, her frail body long unable to withstand a blow, resembling nothing more than a sack of bones.

However, given the current situation, the Great Commander, because of Jiang Feng’s presence, could not trust those Hidden Guards who also served Her Majesty the Empress. Yet her loyalty made it impossible for her to defy Her Majesty the Empress’s order, so despite disagreeing with this matter, she could only comply with Her Majesty the Empress’s will.

The Great Commander sent people to Nanling City. But those who were sent were not her own people, nor the Empress’s Hidden Guards, but manpower borrowed from Dong Huiying and the Liang family.

Once the Empress spoke, the secret of her awakening from a coma was exposed. Dong Huiying knew Jiang Feng was a menace, so she immediately informed the Liang Family Brothers, instructing them to keep an eye on Jiang Feng, to prevent any mischief from him.

Jiang Feng was the first to receive news of the Empress’s awakening. He agonized over it for a long time before slowly realizing that he had fallen into a trap.

He thought back to the day Dong Huiying performed acupuncture to remove the ancient city for Her Majesty the Empress and instantly understood everything.

It seemed he had already been exposed, and to survive, he must devise an escape plan.

However, just as he was about to act and flee from Chuixue Manor, he found that the manor had already become an inescapable snare.

The manor’s scenery was extremely beautiful, though not a cage, yet to Jiang Feng, it was as if he was a condemned prisoner in a cell, now only able to await Her Majesty the Empress’s judgment. The taste of this agony was imaginable, but it also made him increasingly anxious and restless. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

"I absolutely will not sit here and wait for death!!" Jiang Feng clenched his fist hard and said this as if making a vow.