Chapter 52: A hole which you have no choice but to jump into

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The Emperor wanted her to detoxify. Why not invite her in Lord Ming Mansion, but abduct her after she left there?

Why not bring her to the bedroom of Concubine Dan? Moving a poisoned person around was equivalent to killing her!

Emperor Tianlong took the great effort to bring her here was absolutely not to make the concubine die soon, but to kill Ruan Jiujiu here.

After she secretly detoxified the concubine, then he could secretly kill her here.

Detoxify? No, it was a murder.

“My Emperor, there is nothing I can do for the concubine.”

“Why? You don’t know how to detoxify Wusi poison?” The Emperor asked with some asperity.

“Yes, I can!” She replied affirmatively, but then added in a same affirmative way, “But I cannot do that now!”

The Emperor felt his patience had reached the limit, “Why?”

“Because I don’t have the permission of Lord Ming,” She replied seriously, and also signed quietly, indicating that she did want to save her life but without permission.

Her sign completely irritated the Emperor.

Without the permission from Lord Ming? His imperial edict was inferior to Beiming Xuan’s permission?

“Ruan Jiujiu, I am the king here!”

He was in rage now, glaring at her with furious anger, which was on the verge of explosion.

Commonly, a normal person would be frightened by his anger, but except Ruan Jiujiu.

There was no such so-called imperial power or momentum in her cognition at all.

More over, why should she respect someone who intended to kill her? She was a doctor, and what a doctor cherishes most is life, including his own life.

And Ruan Jiujiu didn’t have any respect for an emperor who never took others’ lives seriously.

But now she was controlled by guards here, and there was no way out, so what she could do was to frame Beiming Xuan with it.

And whether the Emperor would blame him or not was none of her business.

She bravely looked at the Emperor, and said earnestly, “I know you are the only king in our country, but since I have been the maiden of Lord Ming, I must follow his command.”

In case the Emperor would not die by anger, she added, “I know you and Lord Ming are brothers, and Lord Ming is a man of great insight, so he cares about nobody.”

In case the Emperor would not die by anger, she added, “I know you and Lord Ming are brothers, and Lord Ming is a man of great insight, so he cares about nobody, and I think you may be this kind too.”

A man of great insight, and cared about nobody, also including you, Emperor Tianlong.

Her remarks silenced the whole palace.

Nobody dared to say a single word, because they all knew that her words really hurt the Emperor’s esteem.

“How dare you!” The Emperor’s roar is like a thunder, making everyone tremble. He was completely in fury now.

He continued roaring, “ Drag her out, out!”

The guards rushed in and dragged her out.

Once she got out, she was amazed at what she found.

There were countless guards outside.

Did he take her too seriously?

But she denied this idea at once.

He was taking Beiming Xuan very seriously.

All of these guards were against Beiming Xuan, and in the eyes of the Emperor, Ruan Jiujiu was a delicate girl, and killing her was as easy as stepping on an ant.

Now she really felt like an ant in his hand. Although she held the golden needle in her hand, the guards around made her unable to help but ask herself --

Where should I start!

She originally thought she could get chance to escape outside the palace after irritating the Emperor.

But now, how?

She visually inspected that there were about hundreds of them.

So how could she run away?

Even if she could get away, here was the imperial palace, which was the home of the Emperor.

So Ruan Jiujiu a bit regretted that she pissed the Emperor off.

Was there any remedy?

But when seeing Emperor Tianlong who followed behind her, she felt no one could save her now.

Because the Emperor looked like extremely angry, and his eyes were blazing with fury.

“My Emperor, how to deal with her?” The guards asked for further instruction.

He glared at Ruan Jiujiu.

From the city to the present, his anger was already on the verge of explosion, and Ruan Jiujiu’s words made it worse, so at this high time, he would care nothing anymore; even his concubine or the clues of Wusi poison could not stop him from killing her.

“You guys, kill...”

He meant to kill her, but when he said out the word “kill”, the atmosphere around suddenly silenced.

No one dared to say at first, and now this place was dead.

The sound of slow steps came, and the Emperor suddenly stunned when he figured out who was here.

Beiming Xuan?

He was in black, and his face was cool, noble and arrogant, exuding an air of icy cold.

Emperor Tianlong was frozen, and the guards around knelt down and shouted,

“Long live Lord Ming!”

Their shout made him immediately realized that it was Beiming Xuan who was standing a few steps away.

“My brother, why are you here?” He tried to open his mouth to ask, and felt like losing his breath. In case Beiming Xuan came here, he specially arranged hundreds guards here to stop him.

But it seemed that his strategy was useless.

Where were the other guards?

Actually, the guards also wondered how he got there without their awareness.

“Jiujiu had forgotten an item before she came here. I come to the Palace to give her that.”

Beiming Xuan replied gently, but it sounded differently by Ruan Jiujiu and Emperor Tianlong.

Come to the Palace? Forget something? He even brings that to her specially?

His meaning seemed to be that her coming to the Palace for work was fair enough, but she left something behind, so he had to come here to bring it for her.

It sounded very reasonable in that way, but the fact was not.

She was kidnapped here, and Beiming Xuan couldn’t have known that. Besides, the whole process of detoxification was a secret, so it was impossible for the “forget something” issue.

Both Emperor Tianlong and Ruan Jiujiu had no idea about what he said.

What are you thinking?

“Ruan Jiujiu, you silly girl, when can you stop being forgetful?” Beiming Xuan threw something to her.

Because all guards were kneeling down, there was no one holding her, and she caught that thing by hand.

An injector!

This one was used for injection of the antidote in Yun Palace. She took out two injectors at that time, and threw this one away after running out of it. But Mu Rong regarded it as a treasure, and kept it since that time.

Ruan Jiujiu tried hard to make a smile, “My lord, I am so sorry to bother you about bringing that to me. I’m so moved.”

She really meant it. Otherwise, she would be killed.

He snorted and turned to the Emperor with his hands behind his back, “Brother, since I have brought that thing to her, let her finish her job now.”

What? Emperor Tianlong’s expression changed.

“Let’s go, my dear brother.” Without waiting for the Emperor, Beiming Xuan walked toward him.

Because Beiming Xuan looked so relaxing and calm, Emperor Tianlong had no choice but to suppress his anger.

Watching them walking up to the hall, Ruan Jiujiu raised her lips slightly.

This man was interesting!

Back to the hall again, she found the whole atmosphere here had changed.

The Emperor had suppressed his anger successfully, “Ruan Jiujiu, it is your turn now.”

Ruan Jiujiu frowned sightly.

After all, the concubine looked very scary now, and her face was covered with poisonous lines as if she herself was tied by black silk.

She winked to Beiming Xuan secretly, but he just sat beside and drank tea with ease.

He ignored her wink completely.

Shit... Ruan Jiujiu clenched her teeth.

Just now, she innocently believed that he meant to save her, but it turned out that he had dug a hole for her again.

It was because of him that she used Wusi poison as a shield to protect herself, and only he knew that.

But now he came here to continue this farce, professing that she came here to detoxify for the concubine.

Are you fucking kidding me?

Can anyone tell me what kind of poison has struck her? Even if I figure out what kind of poison it is, I only know how to use acupuncture to expel the poison instead of making the antidote, Okey?

Looking down the injector in her hand, she blinked, and recalled the stretcher she had seen just now...

Suddenly, the eunuch reported outside, “Empress, the sixth and seventh princes, and Infanta Lianhua arrive!”

Ruan Jiujiu frowned again when seeing a bunch of people coming in.

It was lively here, but also too troublesome.

Sure enough, once the six prince came in, he directly rushed to Ruan Jiujiu without any solute to the Emperor, “Ruan Jiujiiu, how is my mother?”

Do you have eyes? Her face darkened.

Then here was Empress Xiao.

“Jiuju, how is Dan?” She screamed exaggeratedly at the sight of Concubine Dan, “My God, how could she be like that!”

She was frightened and took two steps back, and Beiming Ting came forward to hold her. She covered her lips with a handkerchief, worried, “Son, come to see your mother Dan, isn’t she...”

“Don’t worry, mother. Father has invited Jiujiu to save her. She will be fine.” Beiming Ting comforted her , and cast a glance at Ruan Jiujiu.

Ruan Jiujiu clenched her teeth secretly.

Shit, you guys come to dig holes for me one by one.

She was afraid that this group of people also followed the Emperor’s instruction to come here. Otherwise, he would not allow others to witness he killed her. And Ruan Qingqing was among them too.

Ruan Qingqing glared at her once she stepped into the hall. She was meant to watch her death.

Ruan Jiujiu glanced around all their faces.

The Emperor planed to let her save Concubine Dan; after all, the concubine was his wife. But he also planed to kill her after her detoxification.

But now?

It was impossible for him to kill her now, but whether he still hoped that she could detoxify the concubine or not was hard to say.

For Beiming Yue, he hoped she could, but had no confidence in her.

As for Empress Xiao and Beiming Ting, obviously they didn’t want her to save the concubine.

And Ruan Qingqing was different, she just wanted her fail.

Compared with these two sides, Ruan Jiujiiu was so weak now.

So the best way was to pretend to be incompetent.

Ruan Jiujiu jsut took a step back, and she suddenly heard Beiming Xuan’s voice.

“Jiujiu, detoxify.”

When he spoke, everyone looked at him.

Ruan Jiujiu also looked at him, and he looked back coldly, like talking about something unimportant, “Start now.”

Start? Ruan Jiujiu cried in her mind.

She almost forgot that even if only he in this world wanted her to detoxify the concubine, she would have no choice but to follow his order!

After all, he was the guy who had dug the hole for her, so did she have any choice except jumping into it?