First, she would deal with the Empress and Taizi. Then she would finally deal with the Emperor.

  Zi You immediately whispered to Shuiling.

  Shuiling nodded and revealed a slight flirtatious smile.

  So, that night, Shuiling didn’t wear a bright red muslin dress. Instead, she wore a large-sleeved silk dress. It looked purple at first glance, but it was actually a thin layer of purple muslin lightly shrouded around the dress, which highlighted a beautiful figure.

  She was like a delicate purple rose with dew drops on it. She was an enchanting beauty in the cold moonlight.

  She stretched out her jade-like arm and wrapped it around Xuanwu Emperor’s neck. She smiled coyly and asked, “Do you want Shuiling to take you flying in the sky, Emperor?”


  Flying! Who didn’t want to? If a fairy would take you flying, just thinking about it was as beautiful as a dream.

  Xuanwu Emperor laughed like a child and clapped his hands. He grinned happily as he said, “Good, good, good. Zhen is happy anywhere with Shuiling around.”


  Shuiling wrapped an arm around Xuanwu Emperor’s thick waist and jumped up. Her posture was like a volley of flying birds in the vast sky. She was beautiful to the extreme in the blowing breeze.

  Xuanwu Emperor squinted his eyes. His rarely emotional heart instantly turned soft.

  Shuiling was a flower fairy and really different from his previous women. She was gentle, but she exuded seductiveness from her bones. Her affectionate eyes could hook any man’s heart. She was gorgeous, but she was aloof and could exude no charm whatsoever. She was just like her name.*** She was flexible, clever, and coquettish. She was particularly lovable.

  [Shuiling: Shui = water; Ling = lustrous / full of life]

  Such a lovable person not only cared about him, but she also helped him solve some of his political problems.

  For example, he had been troubled over Taizi’s increasing growing forces a few days ago. Shuiling had immediately come up with a plan for him. “Since you’re worried that Third Wangzi’s forces will grow too big, why don’t you use Second Wangzi? Don’t forget. Even if you give Second Wangzi even more power, he won’t be disloyal to you. He can’t be the Emperor.”


  That had instantly woken him up. It was really true. His second son was a waste. Even if he had more power, he couldn’t ascend to the throne as the Emperor. In order to protect himself and his Mufei, he must wish that Xuanwu Emperor would live for thousands of years.

  Thus, this old man immediately added a deputy commander position in the capital’s imperial vanguard. He gave the position to someone Second Wangzi recommended to compete with the commander of the vanguard, who was from Taizi’s camp.

  Mu YingYi was supposed to take over as the vanguards’ commander. But Mu YingYi had gone to Nanjiang to suppress the rebellion and Xuanwu Emperor had listened to Wu Jieyu and given this position to someone on Taizi’s side.

  He really regretted it now that he thought about it! However, he didn’t need to worry too much. Since the deputy commander was from Second Wangzi’s side, Xuanwu Emperor would find a reason sooner or later to get rid of the commander.

  Xuanwu Emperor flew in the air, but he wasn’t in the mood to enjoy the beautiful night view. He was thinking nonstop.

  At this time, he heard Shuiling’s charming voice in his ear. “Eh? Emperor, there’s a red light over there.”


  Xuanwu Emperor looked down and in the direction where Shuiling was pointing to. There was indeed a faint red light there. Wait. Wasn’t that where the Empress’ Fengming Palace was?

  Chapter 234.1 - Shuiling’s Scheme, Discovers the Red Light, Finds Out About the Empress and the Shaman’s Affair Part 1/3

  What was that woman doing? Xuanwu Emperor frowned in displeasure. The Empress had been listless and absentminded lately, but he didn’t know what was wrong with her. He had asked her if she was ill, but she said she was fine.

  Now, there was something strange going on with her palace. No matter what, he should go take a look. She was his wife after all. He had to take that into account.

  Xuanwu Emperor decided and immediately said to Shuiling, “Take Zhen down there.”


  “Shuiling doesn’t want to.” Shuiling deliberately placed her head on Xuanwu Emperor’s chest and acted spoiled.

  Xuanwu Emperor was ecastic to see that the flower fairy was jealous because of him. He touched Shuiling’s smooth skin and smiled lecherously. “Zhen is just taking a look. We’ll go back to Chengguang Palace Hall in a moment.”


  “Okay.” Shuiling’s coy laugh was particularly pleasant in this winter night. “Shuiling likes Chengguang Palace Hall. It’s Shuiling and Haoyu’s home.”


  Haoyu? Xuanwu Emperor’s heart suddenly jumped. A feeling that he had never had before surged in his heart. It was like he drank a bowl of hot soy milk infused with honey. He felt warm on this cold winter night.

  So, it sounded this nice when someone addressed him by his name. So, he had a home. Yes, he had never treated this cold and lifeless Palace as his home. That was because there were no relatives in this home who doted on him.

  They weren’t a family in the imperial family whether it was his Muhou, wives, children, brothers, or sisters. There was no familial affection. They only used and schemed against each other.

  He didn’t expect that this Shuiling actually let him experience the feeling of a home and having a loved one.

  Xuanwu Emperor’s heart softened into a mess. He wrapped his arms around Shuiling’s soft and boneless waist. Even his voice was warm. “Okay, let’s take a look and then return home. Shui’er, call me Haoyu when there’s no one else around.”


  “Okay.” Shuiling very naturally kissed Xuanwu Emperor’s face and called out, “Haoyu, Haoyu, Haoyu……”


  Her voice was like a spell. Every time she called him, Xuanwu Emperor’s heart would sink……

  When they arrived at Fengming Palace, that red light was even brighter and more eye-catching, as if the whole Fengming Palace was shrouded in a red light.

  Xuanwu Emperor’s strange feeling grew stronger and stronger. Shuiling landed with him on the ground and he couldn’t wait as he strode towards the palace.

  The palace maids and guards guarding the palace were scared. They started to call out, but Shuiling quickly tapped their mute acupuncture points.

  She opened the palace door and whispered to Xuanwu Emperor with a coy smile, “Haoyu, why don’t we play hide and seek with the Empress? Let’s sneak inside and scare her.”


  Xuanwu Emperor didn’t suspect her at all. Shuiling had always been mischievous like this. Even the palace maids and enunuchs were often tricked by her.

  But she was pure and simple and didn’t understand the world at all. She didn’t understand the schemes and calculations between people.

  This was one of the reasons why Xuanwu Emperor particularly liked her. He thought she was truly innocent and kind, unlike the wicked Wu Jieyu.

  So, Xuanwu Emperor did as Shuiling said and quickly snuck towards the Empress’ bedroom. But he didn’t expect that the Empress had such heavy protection. There were lots of guards, palace maids, and eunuchs. There were six people guarding three doors before they finally reached the Empress’ bedroom.

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  But the Emperor never would have expected to see what he saw when he opened the last door. The Empress was completely naked on a cold day. Even though there were heaters, the Emperor saw how she didn’t even have a quilt over her naked body and shuddered for her.

  The thing that was even more unbearable for him was that his good Empress, his wife, had closed her eyes and spread her legs to reveal her private parts. She looked lewd and intoxicated as her chubby hand stroked back and forth in midair, as if there was someone there. She moved her body up and down and made sounds like a wild cat in heat. “Mm…… Darong Ka, good. Harder…… Don’t stop…… Harder…… Almost there. Bengong is almost there……”


  There was a ring on her pillow. That ring glimmered and constantly emitted a strange red light.

  “Slut!” Xuanwu Emperor shouted angrily. He went over and kicked the Empress.

  How could he not be angry? This shameless old woman was so dirty and cheap in her dreams. Let’s forget it if she was just dreaming about copulating with a man. The key was that this man wasn’t her husband, the Emperor. Instead, it was that lowly and vulgar Nanjiang shaman Darong Ka.

  How could he accept this? He, a respected Emperor and a man among dragons, couldn’t compare to a lowly and vulgar Nanjiang man?

  Once he thought of Darong Ka’s face and that the man who looked like a toad actually slept with his Empress and made him a cuckold, Xuanwu Emperor immediately wanted to kill someone.

  But he didn’t have a sword on him tonight. So, he rushed over like a market shrew, grabbed the Empress’ hair, and punched and kicked her.

  After being beaten, the Empress woke up from her dirty dream. Once she saw that it was the Emperor hitting her, she broke out into a cold sweat from fear. She said incoherently, “Emperor…… Emperor, listen to your consort’s explanation. It’s not – It’s not what it looks like……”


  She hadn’t finished speaking when the Emperor grabbed her neck. Her words were stuck in her throat and she couldn’t speak anymore.

  Xuanwu Emperor had a martial arts background and he was furious right now. So, it could be imagined how much strength he used.

  Soon, the Empress stuck her tongue out, rolled her eyes, and wildly kicked her legs. She had just had a dirty dream, so she was sweaty all over. Then she broke out into a cold sweat because she was scared by Xuanwu Emperor’s appearance. Afterwards, Xuanwu Emperor had beaten her up. At this moment, where was her usual noble and dignified self? She was extremely ugly!

  Yes, she could only be described with the word “ugly.” It made Xuanwu Emperor really hate her. Were his eyes growing on his crotch? How could he have thought that she was beautiful, dignified, and elegant? Bah!

  Shuiling quickly went over to remind him. “Emperor, you can’t kill her. Even if she’s guilty, she should be punished by the law. If you do this, you’ll be criticized by the officials.”


  This reminded Xuanwu Emperor. He let go and trembled out of anger. He pointed to the Empress and scolded, “Yes, you’re not worthy of Zhen killing you, you slut. Zhen will abolish you and send you to be a slave in the laundry department!”


  “
……” The Empress almost died from the choking. She first choked and coughed now that she could breathe. Then she was like a dead fish as she gasped deeply through her open mouth without paying any attention to her image. She heard what Xuanwu Emperor said and panicked. She didn’t worry about breathing anymore. She wrapped a quilt around her body and didn’t forget to quickly hide the Devil Ring under a pillow.

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  The Empress rolled out of bed, kneeled in front of Xuanwu Emperor, and kowtowed repeatedly. “Emperor, your consort is falsely accused! What did your consort do to make you want to abolish me?”


  “What did you do?” Xuanwu Emperor sneered ferociously. “What did you do? You’re still asking this? You shameless slut. You even dream about rolling around with that lowly barbarian Darong Ka. Why don’t you just die?

  The Empress was really worthy of being the Empress. She had calmed down by this time and immediately looked aggrieved like she was suffering the greatest injustice. She cried helplessly and pitifully. “Emperor, even if your consort has no eyes, your consort still knows that that Nanjiang barbarian can’t compare to you, Emperor! Isn’t that like comparing mud to clouds?

  “Emperor, your consort has never been in contact with Darong Ka, so how can we roll around together? Emperor, your consort has been wronged……”


  The Empress clearly knew what the Emperor’s temper was like, so Xuanwu Emperor wasn’t as livid as before. “Then why did you call out Darong Ka’s name in your dreams?”


  The Empress suddenly pointed to Shuiling and snapped, “It must be here. It’s this demon! Emperor, you can’t trust this demon. She was given to you by Mu Zi You. She wants to retaliate against you and Taizi. She must know about your secret.”


  Emperors were undoubtedly suspicious. The Empress had been husband and wife with him for so many years, so how could she not understand him? Thus, she accurately said what he had hidden in his heart, but was difficult to express.

  With Wu Jieyu’s example, it was really impossible for Xuanwu Emperor not to even be a little doubtful of Shuiling.

  But who was Shuiling? She was a water spirit! Even if the Empress was smarter, how could she surpass a spirit who could transform into a human and psychically communicate with Zi You?

  Xuanwu Emperor looked at Shuiling and saw her starry eyes misty and blankly looking at him. She didn’t explain anything. She looked extremely innocent, as if she didn’t know what was going on!

  This expression was clearly that of a pure and innocent girl. If she really had schemes, she wouldn’t have stopped him from coming here to check out the red light and certainly wouldn’t have stopped him from killing the Empress.

  Xuanwu Emperor thought of this and his expression changed again. He kicked the Empress hard. “Nonsense! Don’t blame Shui’er. She doesn’t know anything.”


  At this time, Shuiling acted as if she didn’t hear him say anything and went over to the Empress’ bed. She reached out and pulled out the ring from underneath the pillow.

  She smiled while looking at it. “Emperor, it’s this ring that emitted……”


  “Give it back!” Before she finished speaking, the Empress rushed over crazily to snatch the ring back.

  She couldn’t be blamed for losing her calm. She finally found out the benefits of the ring. If she rubbed the Devil Ring, chanted the spell, and said her wish out loud, it could satisfy her in the *** aspects, if nothing else.

  She thought of how the Emperor hadn’t set foot in her bedroom for a long time now. How could she live through such long, lonely nights? She could only rely on this Devil Ring!

  Chapter 235.1 - The Empress is Under House Arrest, The Imperial Tutor’s Fu is Raided, Taizi is Panicked and Furious Part 1/3

  But the Empress didn’t know that Darong Ka was imprisoned in Hundred Herb Garden. He ate three meals a day, so he couldn’t starve to death. Zi You had also given him a gu and poisoned him. He couldn’t do anything else, so he thought about shameless things all day long.

  Darong Ka would sense it as soon as the Empress rubbed the Devil Ring. As soon as he sensed it, he would remember those beautiful things between him and the Empress. Then he would become passionate.

  Once he became passionate, the Empress would be controlled by him. He was being suppressed by Zi You, so he only had this ability. That was why the Empress met him every night.

  In reality, the Emperor couldn’t see Darong Ka, but the Empress felt as if Darong Ka was actually there. This was the Devil Ring’s power.

  Darong Ka had his ability, so of course the Empress couldn’t get rid of her addiction to him. It was the same with Wang Yiping and Yueluo. They might be reluctant at first, but they would miss him once they did it once with him.

  Thus, the Empress didn’t want to throw the Devil Ring away anymore. She treated it like a treasure and hid it in an incense burner. That was why it wasn’t found when the Emperor ordered people to search for it.

  The ring would glow no matter where it was hidden, but it was afraid of incense ash. It would immediately lose its light when it touched incense ash.

  Actually, it wasn’t afraid of incense ash. It was afraid of Buddha. The Buddha statues were all blessed. The Devil Ring was an evil item after all and the Buddha symbolized righteousness. This was the so-called evil couldn’t win against justice.

  The Emperor basically didn’t come to Fengming Palace. The Empress was unbearably lonely. But Darong Ka gave the Empress so much pleasure. She was like an opium addict who couldn’t quit.

  Xuanwu Emperor saw her desperately grab the ring and became suspicious of course. He took it from Shuiling and looked at it. He immediately remembered what Zi You said about the Devil Ring.

  His heart, which had never calmed down, started to churn chaotically again. He slapped the Empress and scolded furiously, “Slut! And you’re still saying you don’t know Darong Ka? He gave you his most precious Devil Ring. Do you dare to say you have nothing to do with him? Slut! Slut! Slut…… Zhen is going to abolish you. Abolish you!”


  The Empress saw how Xuanwu Emperor knew about the Devil Ring and knew that she couldn’t hide it anymore. So, she gritted her teeth and said, “You can’t abolish me. You swore a vicious oath in front of my dather that no matter what I did, you will never abolish me in your whole life!”


  Xuanwu Emperor froze. She was right. He had actually forgotten about this. In the competition for the throne back then, he wanted to obtain the support of Imperial Tutor She, who was the Minister of Revenue back then. So, when he proposed to marry his Di daughter She Fengrong, he did swear a vicious oath. “Benwang will never let She Fengrong down and will never abolish her as the Empress. Betrayal of this oath will lead to heavenly punishment!”


  He couldn’t suffer heavenly punishment, so he couldn’t break his oath. But he couldn’t just let this adulteress off!

  Xuanwu Emperor kicked the Empress hard. She flew out, hit the wall, and sprayed out a mouthful of blood.

  However, it was like Xuanwu Emperor didn’t see that. He dragged Shuiling out of Fengming Palace and issued several decrees overnight. “First, the Empress is under house arrest in Fengming Palace and can’t take one step out of Fengming Palace. Second, the Empress is stripped of all power. Liu Guifei will be in charge of all the harem’s affairs. Third, Imperial Tutor She is demoted to a commoner and to be thrown into prison. Imperial Tutor’s fu will be raided. The whole She family will be thrown into prison. Those who are officials in the government will never work for the government again.”