CHAPTER 759: CHAPTER 626: THE DEED IS DONE

Empress Qing Shuang stood up and walked towards Feng Lan step by step.

Yet after a few steps, she felt a sudden pain in her abdomen.

The Empress’s complexion changed drastically; she bit her lip and commanded the servants to open the door in disarray.

"Your Majesty, what’s wrong?" The close female official noticed something amiss with the Empress.

"Escort me back to the palace." Empress Qing Shuang seethed with anger to the point of nearly shattering her teeth.

She remembered that her menstrual period was still days away; why did it come so suddenly?

Of all times, why now? After such difficulty in deceiving Feng Lan to come, if tonight is missed, she and Feng Lan may never find another chance.

"But, Your Majesty, what about Prince Feng?" The female official hesitated, glancing inside Chuyun Palace.

Your Majesty had drugged Prince Feng’s drink; if tonight... he might...

Of course, Empress Qingshuang was aware. The Elixir Pills that Chen Hongru had refined were potent, and without proper moderation, Feng Lan might not withstand it, causing his meridians to flow in reverse and damage his body.

"Go inside!"

The Empress glared fiercely at the female official.

This female official had served her since she was very young, and she was one of the finest in stature and appearance.

With Feng Lan having the appearance of a Heavenly Person, countless women in the nation were deeply infatuated with him.

Her own female official always looked at Feng Lan with shy, bashful eyes, and how could the Empress not notice?

Startled, the female official promptly kneeled.

"Your Majesty, your servant dares not."

Though she admired Prince Feng in her heart, he was the person chosen by Your Majesty. Your Majesty has a very sharp temper, and if she truly becomes involved with Prince Feng... Your Majesty would never tolerate her.

"If I order you to go, you go. Consider it a reward from me, but after tonight, you mustn’t speak of it to anyone or else, beware of the lives of your entire clan." Empress’s heart twisted as if being cut by knives, watching the young and beautiful female official enter Chuyun Palace with reddened eyes; the waves of jealousy in her heart surged furiously, one after another.

But what else could she do?

Feng Lan was someone she had to keep, by any means necessary.

The lights went out in Chuyun Palace; the Empress bit her lip and tasted blood, taking difficult steps, leaving Chuyun Palace behind.

Inside, Feng Lan could not help but recall the words from Feng Xun upon leaving Mercenary City, "Beware of the Empress."

It was detestable that he did not heed the warning: who could have expected that Empress Qing Shuang, with whom he shared a brotherly bond, would do such a thing.

Feng Lan could only laugh bitterly at himself. He had been unconscious for more than a decade; during these years, everything had changed.

The only constant was probably Qing Feng, who now lay in the tomb.

Qing Feng... that name both foreign and familiar.

His wife, whom he had not even properly mourned since awakening.

At this moment, in the dark Chuyun Palace, Feng Lan began to miss Qing Feng.

The wife he had forgotten for many years, the only woman for him.

Lost in his grief, he did not even notice the Empress’s departure.

"Prince Feng?" The female official called out softly.

Though she was forced to come by the Empress, her heart was filled with adoration for Feng Lan.

The thought of soon being with Prince Feng filled the female official with sweetness.

She followed the sound of Feng Lan’s breathing and approached.

"Do not come any closer, or don’t blame me for being unpleasant," Feng Lan vaguely saw a figure approaching.

"Prince Feng... I’ve come to help you." The female official stepped forward, and suddenly felt a sharp pain at the base of her neck and fell to the ground.

In the darkness, Earth Venerate narrowed her eyes, observing the situation inside Chuyun Palace.

Seeing Feng Lan stiffly entrenched in the corner, Earth Venerate glared at him furiously.

Damn Feng Lan, he actually drank Qing Shuang’s wine. How many times must Qing Shuang fool this man before he learns his lesson?

Earth Venerate felt a resentful energy akin to hating iron for not becoming steel. She genuinely wanted to abandon Feng Lan, to let him regret and anguish, becoming just one of the Empress’s many men.

And yet... in the end, she couldn’t completely harden her heart to abandon him.

Earth Venerate took out an Elixir Pill, intending to feed it to Feng Lan.

Who knew that after taking the Weimeng Elixir, which made his Five Senses and Six Consciousness even more acute, Feng Lan noticed the woman’s approaching hand and grabbed it.

Earth Venerate, in pain, could not restrain herself from cursing.

"Feng Lan, you scoundrel, let go!"

That fragrance, ever since he returned from Mercenary City, haunted him in his dreams. Many times, as he awoke from sleep, he seemed to smell it still.

That rebuking, angry voice reached Feng Lan’s ears.

A shackle of memories seemed to be unlocked in an instant.

A young girl’s tear-streaked face flashed through his mind.

"Feng Lan, you scoundrel, let go of me, I don’t want to go with you, I’m going to Tongtian Pavilion, I will ignore you from now on."

Fourteen-year-old Qing Feng, eyes brimming with tears, nose red.

All of it appeared as if it were right in front of him.

"My Qing Feng, my Qing Feng."

Feng Lan murmured as if in a dream.

The last traces of consciousness in his mind completely collapsed.

Earth Venerate shivered all over, staring at Feng Lan in disbelief.

"Feng Lan, you..."

Until the murky daylight slipped into Chuyun Palace around dawn.

Earth Venerate shifted her body with difficulty.

"Damn Feng Lan, it’s always like this."

Earth Venerate wanted nothing more than to kick Feng Lan to death.