Zhao Ming was standing there weakly, while Lu shi held onto her arm to support her. Her body was still trembling as she recalled Zhao Ming's last painful memories and Xiao Li's psychotic actions.

  Her crazy gaze and that laugh were still sending shivers to her spine. She is strong and bold enough to deal with her, but hearing that she can try again to kill her and strangling her, scared her out of her wits.

  Xiao Li is not normal. She knew that she has a bitchy personality but that kind of dark side of her was something she has never imagined before.

  However, before Xiao Li could do anything to her, someone came between them and parted Xiao Li away from her and gave her a tight slap, whose sound echoed in the room.

  It was none other than the Empress Dowager.

  Xiao Li was shocked when Wen Xu slapped her across her cheeks. She held her cheek and stared at her in disbelief.

  She has never once scolded her but today she slapped her? That too, in front of Zhao Ming?

  " Mo…… ther……why? How……could you…" she stuttered as she was still not in her senses. She couldn't understand what's happening and why.

  Wen Xu gritted her teeth and said, " You ask why? Xiao Li, today you truly disappointed me. How can……how can you think of taking someone's life so easily? Huh?"

  " I always supported you unconditionally. Because of you I always looked down on Zhao Ming but then why? How could you think of killing her? And what? Greedy? Stupid woman? I never thought that you have such great thoughts about me. " Wen Xu looked at her in disbelief.

  She was coming to meet Xiao Li when the maid came running out of the pavilion. When they explained that Zhao Ming had barged into the chamber and slapped Xiao Li, she got worried and came to protect her.

  But she was shocked and speechless seeing the drama unfolding in front of her. Xiao Li, who stumbled onto the ground, suddenly stood up when she was about to walk to her.

  Her expressions changed into a split second and she heard her hateful words and thoughts about her. Not only that, she even tried to strangle Zhao Ming, right at the palace.

  She never thought that Xiao Li could stoop so low-

  " Mother, it's not what you're thinking. It's not me…… it's this bitch who tried to force me to say all those things. Mother, you need to believe me, I didn't do anything. It's not me." She pleaded when she remembered her life's biggest mistake.

  She tried to hold onto Wen Xu's shoulders but the latter slapped her hand away.

  " Remove your dirty hands off me. Xiao Li, you might have forgotten that I am still higher in position than you. You're not even a Head Consort now but I am still the Empress Dowager. How dare you touch me with your filthy hands?"

  " I treated you as my daughter but you were thinking of me as a greedy stupid woman? To pamper you, I humiliated this girl who always took care of me. However, I kicked her away and embraced a snake-like you." She said with eyes filled with sadness.

  Zhao Ming, who started to calm down frowned upon hearing Wen Xu's words. Well, at least now she knows that Xiao Li, she was adoring, was thinking of her as a greedy bitch.

  Xiao Li frowned seeing Wen Xu's attitude towards her. Her lips twitched, brows knitted as she said, " Pamper me? Weren't you just pampering yourself with all the gifts and royalties from my father? You didn't even do anything when I was humiliated by this bitch and your son. You're just a double-faced old hag who doesn't care about her son at all."

  "-_-"

  "-_-"

  Zhao Ming pursed her lips as she stared at Xiao Li in shock. She doesn't know if she should cry or laugh at this situation. Seeing them fighting was somewhat satisfying.

  'Seems like she has chosen death after this.' she shook her head while Lu shi held onto her.

  " You're criticizing me for trying to kill her? Aren't you the same? You drugged Ji Cheng on their first night just because of your stupid superstition and in the end, when someone else said that the child with Zhao Ming will only bring the dark energy and bad luck, you gave her to have the medicine so that she won't able to conceive."

  " Not only that, you're the one who was torturing her all this while. Who told you to listen to everything I say? You're the one who helped me in fanning the rumors, believing that Zhao Ming was really making Ji Cheng's cuckold. And you're also the one to send her father to the dungeon."

  Xiao Li glowered at her and shouted, " You're now blaming me for being too much? It was you who supported me every time. So don't think that you're not a part of all this mess. You're the worst Wen Xu. Ji Cheng is your son but you couldn't even see his happiness. You're the one who deserves to die."

  Wen Xu stared at her with dumbfounded expressions. Xiao Li……what happened to her? She never thought that she was holding so much inside all this time.

  " You……die……you deserve to die. You all should die." She lunged onto Wen Xu this time, trying to strangle her.

  Zhao Ming frowned and felt something tugging on her heart. Even though she doesn't like Wen Xu, she does resemble her mother. How can she let someone else kill her like this? That too in front of her.

  " Xiao Li, are you crazy? Stay away. Leave her." She came in between trying to separate Xiao Li from Wen Xu.

  In their struggle, they didn't notice the figure who was watching over the situation while standing at the door.

  Suddenly a few women walked in, whose faces were covered with a cloth and held onto Xiao Li's hand and pulled her back, to separate her from Wen Xu.

  Zhao Ming noticed them and stepped back as she watched the women who held onto Xiao Li and forced her to kneel on the ground with force.

  She was shocked as she has never seen such women in the harem before. They were strong and easily pushed Xiao Li to the ground, controlling her violent crazy actions.

  She raised her head and her expressions lit up seeing Ji Cheng walking over to them.

  He walked to her and looked at her worriedly, before turning to Xiao Li, " Xiao Li, you have truly let go of your facade huh? You not only dared to do your dirty schemes towards the royal family but also tried to kill the Empress of the Ji Dynasty as well? Not only that, you even tried to strangle Empress Dowager too? Do you know the intensity of your crimes?" He said with his hands folding at the back.

  His indifferent and calm tone sent shivers to Xiao Li's spine. She is over this time. She finally came to her senses when those female guards slapped the senses into her mind.

  " Your Majesty….I did not. They are lying. I wasn't……it wasn't me. You have to believe me. They are both working together to ruin me. It wasn't me. Really." She sobbed while trying to hold onto his helm of robe but the guards tightly pushed on her shoulder, resulting in her face to be pressed against the ground.

  Zhao Ming who was looking at Xiao Li's pitiful crying state was shocked by how she can change her personality, it surprised her.

  However, the energy she was holding onto all this while started to weaken. Her legs started trembling, her eyes turned hazy and blurry. Her eyes closed and her body slid down and she fell unconscious.

  " Your Majesty" Lu shi cried out when Zhao Ming suddenly fell unconscious. She held onto her but her petite body could not manage Zhao Ming's body weight.

  " Zhao Ming," Ji Cheng looked over worriedly and carried her in his arms in a princess style. He looked at her worriedly and started walking out.

  He stopped in his steps and turned around, he glanced at Feng Ju who was standing there and said, " Lock her in a prison cell for now. We will deal with her later. Also, you don't need to treat her as a Consort any more, she is just a murderer and nothing else." He said before walking out of the room with Zhao Ming in his arms.

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