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Chapter 4124: 4.1724 The Empress Has Gone Mad

Hong Shang faintly glanced at Zha Pinshao. "What, do you have a different opinion?"

"I don't have any opinion," Zha Pinshao said with a smile in his voice.

Hong Shang couldn't help but frown.

This Junior Brother Zha, though inferior in strength, was indeed much smarter than her.

She had led people to find trouble with that stoic face, and Junior Brother Zha had also expressed disagreement.

Could it be that he truly thought there was something extraordinary about that stoic face?

Hong Shang raised her eyes again, looking towards the little stoic girl.

"Next match: Wei Nanfeng of Fire Refining City versus Biao Liang of Tianhua Academy, Mingzhou!"

Qiao Mu had just walked down and settled into her seat when she heard the male host, Niu Niu, announce the names of the two combatants.

The little one immediately tugged at Crown Prince Mo's sleeve. "Your Wei Nanfeng is on."

The Crown Prince couldn't help but feel speechless. He raised a finger and lightly stroked her small head. "What 'my Wei Nanfeng'? You're mine. As for Wei Nanfeng? Heh."

Looking at that scornful little expression, if Wei Nanfeng were here and heard his own brother speak of him like that, he would surely cry.

As they spoke, Wei Nanfeng and Biao Liang, the student from Tianhua Academy, simultaneously ascended to the arena, bowed to each other, and simultaneously summoned their weapons from their Sea of Consciousness.

——Author's Note Here——

"Cough, cough cough, cough."

Outside the sheer gauze screen, below the palace steps, eunuchs and palace maids knelt everywhere, all prostrated in fear, not daring to even breathe heavily.

Since the Empress arrived, the atmosphere here had been chilling and eerily terrifying.

Everyone only dared to pretend to be dead, lying motionless as if their five senses and six organs were completely blocked. Who would dare to listen to the sounds of argument coming from inside the gauze curtain?

"Impossible! His Majesty couldn't have just passed away like this! Tell me! Was it him? Was it Prince Chen who did this? Was it?!!"

Empress Liu's face was sallow, and her eyes were completely sunken from lack of sleep.

Now so thin that her cheekbones protruded sharply, her eyes were like evil spirits from hell, grimly staring at the row of imperial physicians kneeling before her, emitting a high-pitched, agitated shriek.

The row of imperial physicians had long since fainted from fear.

The Empress openly accused the Crown Prince of murdering the Emperor?

Who the heck would dare to agree to such words without risking their life?

"Cough cough, cough." The Chief Imperial Physician bravely raised his head and shook it. "Your Majesty is overthinking. His Majesty's injuries from earlier years were too severe, and he has only been sustained by medicine all these years."

"His Majesty was also very clear about his own body, including the head palace maids serving him..."

"Silence!" Empress Liu's sharp, pointed nails gestured through the air at the Chief Imperial Physician, and she shrieked, "You, Wang Hua, how dare you give false testimony for Prince Chen! It was him, it must have been him who poisoned His Majesty! Investigate, you must investigate for me! I want to investigate to the very end!"

"The Empress has been overthinking and distressed these past days, and her mind is unclear. Send her back to Rencuan Palace first."

Duan Yue's cold voice suddenly rang out, chilling enough to make one's heart tremble involuntarily.

The head eunuch, Laifu, who had been keeping his head down and silent, immediately responded "Yes" upon hearing Duan Yue's command.

"What are you doing? What are you doing?! You group of dog slaves! How dare you seize me? Let go of me! Let go!" Empress Liu shrieked.

Duan Yue's gaze swept over her indifferently.