The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 1161 - 1161 563 Perfect (two updates)_6

Chapter 1161: 563 Perfect (two updates)_6 Chapter 1161: 563 Perfect (two updates)_6 “The Empress Dowager Sister-in-law also asked me to inquire with Imperial Brother how he plans to deal with Mother Empress? What? Imperial Brother wants to kill Mother Empress?”

“Isn’t that inappropriate? After all, Mother Empress raised Imperial Brother. How could Imperial Brother commit matricide? Oh, I forgot, Imperial Brother has already done it before. Wasn’t Mother Consort bestowed death by Imperial Brother? It seems Imperial Brother is well-practiced; to commit matricide again… not even a blink of an eye, right?”

Princess Ning An’s laughter was chilling, as if she were possessed, but in the next instant, she retracted her smile and said indifferently, “Mother Consort was killed by you all working together, and you still have the face to ask me whether or not I hold a grudge?”

“Imperial Brother, why don’t I kill your Mother Empress and then ask you if you hold a grudge!”

The unconscious Emperor suddenly began to tremble gently, his hands and the eyeballs under his eyelids seeming to struggle and shake violently.

He was like a beast desperately trying to break free from shackles and cages, even if the cost was his own flesh and blood.

“Ha!” Princess Ning An pressed him down with one hand, speaking mockingly, “Killing her would be letting her off too easily. Better to have her become a nun at Taiping Nunnery and taste the suffering my Mother Consort endured! Then let her watch with wide eyes as her own son dies miserably before her, watching the empire she protected fall into the hands of others bit by bit! Isn’t that taste far more unbearable than death?”

The Emperor’s body shook violently!

Princess Ning An, devoid of any trace of pity in her eyes, released her hold on the Emperor, stood up straight, and took the imperial edict out of the Sleeping Palace.

She then tossed a bottle of medicine to Eunuch Wei, “Give it to him again tonight.”

Eunuch Wei glanced at the imperial edict in her hand, his pupils shrank, he dared not ask more, lowered his head, and took it with both hands, “Yes.”

Princess Ning An lifted her chin and said, “His Majesty has just awakened, and this is the imperial edict he asked me to write on his behalf—Empress Dowager Zhuang has committed regicide and rebellion, heinous crimes against the state, effective immediately she shall go to Taiping Nunnery to become a nun, and without summons, she is not to return to the palace. Eunuch Wei, now, follow me to Renshou Palace to proclaim the imperial edict!”

Eunuch Wei’s face changed dramatically, “Princess…”

Princess Ning An looked at him coldly, “Go, or die?”

Eunuch Wei shakily took the imperial edict.

He didn’t believe that His Majesty would lay a hand on Empress Dowager Zhuang, mother and son had already reconciled long ago, His Majesty would rather die than bear to harm the Empress Dowager!

This was clearly… clearly…

Princess Ning An said coldly, “Don’t test my patience! If you won’t go, someone else will.”

A turmoil rose in Eunuch Wei’s chest.

I can’t die, I can’t die, if I die, she’ll put someone else by His Majesty’s side, His Majesty’s fate would be even more uncertain…

Eunuch Wei’s eyes reddened and he said with a trembling voice, “I’ll go! This servant… this servant… will now go to Renshou Palace to announce the edict!”

Eunuch Wei followed Princess Ning An to Renshou Palace.

Empress Xiao had ordered that no one was to enter Renshou Palace to visit Empress Dowager Zhuang.

However, seeing the imperial edict was as good as seeing the Emperor, so Eunuch Wei and Princess Ning An were not among those to be stopped.

“The imperial edict arrives—”

Eunuch Wei chanted loudly.

There was no response from within Renshou Palace.

Eunuch Wei chanted again, “The imperial edict arrives—”

Only the palace maids came out.

Princess Ning An looked towards the tightly closed Sleeping Palace, “Mother Empress, His Majesty has an edict.”

Empress Dowager Zhuang seemed to have no intention of dealing with them.

After all, there has never been an Emperor who issued edicts to the Empress Dowager before; this is truly a first in history.

It was within reason that Empress Dowager Zhuang ignored it.

Eunuch Wei called out the edict once more.

Princess Ning An frowned and walked forward to push open the vermilion lacquered openwork doors.

But she saw an empty Sleeping Palace; where was the figure of Empress Dowager Zhuang?