Su Mumu couldn't believe her eyes. The old woman with dull eyes and gibberish in front of her was the once extremely charming Empress Dowager Xu.

A head of disheveled gray hair covered most of his face, with only wrinkled and shriveled lips exposed. The clothes on his body were dirty and ragged, as if they were hanging on a bamboo pole that was about to break at any time. He was sitting slumped on a thin wooden board.

On the bed, hands like dead wood kept waving in the air, as if they were trying to grab something, but also as if they were desperately pushing away something.

There was a foul smell coming from her nose, so Su Mumu couldn't help covering her nose with her hands, and took a few steps forward. Su Mumu found that there seemed to be a person curled up behind Queen Mother Xu in the bed.

"Ah! Ghost! Ghost!" The shrill voice almost pierced Su Mumu's eardrums.

"Don't be afraid, Queen Mother Xu, I'm Su Mumu, I'll give you something to eat." She turned around and took the glutinous rice cake handed over by Forsythia, and tentatively moved closer to the bed.

Noticing the food in Su Mumu's hand, Queen Mother Xu's eyes suddenly straightened. She rushed forward and grabbed the rice cake from Su Mumu's hand and wolfed it down. She swallowed it in several mouthfuls and raised her head to ask for it from Su Mumu.

"Don't choke." Forsythia clearly picked up the bird's nest porridge that had been cooked at a suitable temperature, resisting the pungent stench, and fed it to Queen Mother Xu.

Su Mumu was about to step forward to see the person huddled behind Queen Mother Xu, but was suddenly stopped by Forsythia raising her hand.

"Your Majesty, it's better not to look at it."

She tried her best to control her voice, but Su Mumu still heard the faint vibrating sound in it. Sensing something was wrong, Su Mumu quickly stepped forward and looked into the bed. With just one glance, Su Mumu felt her stomach churn, and she rushed out of the room to vomit.

"Why is this happening?"

Being supported by Forsythia and sitting on the steps of the cold palace, Su Mumu couldn't help but burst into tears.

The maggot-covered face of Nanny Ji, who was curled up in the bed and rotting, kept shaking in front of Su Mumu's eyes. She once naively thought that winning the imperial power was just to stay with Nan Muchen forever, but now

What is everything that happened? Is it a victim to achieve her goal? Is it a stepping stone necessary to consolidate her so-called happiness? Is it the best result of Nan Muchen's revenge?

"Forsythia, am I wrong?"

Throwing herself into Forsythia's arms, Su Mumu burst into tears. She blamed herself for the human tragedy that she had single-handedly caused, which almost made Su Mumu collapse.

"Your Majesty, the struggle for imperial power has always been about either you dying or me. There is no right or wrong. I hope your Majesty will not be overly sad. Be careful not to break your body from crying. Your Majesty will be worried."

At the mention of Nan Muchen, Su Mumu felt like she was getting angry. She stood up with a loud sound and rushed to Qinhe Hall to find Nan Muchen.

"Empress! Please make the decision for me!"

Before Forsythia could stop him, a group of women with disheveled looks and poor clothes ran up to Su Mumu and knelt down in front of her.

"Who are you...?"

The first few people looked familiar to Su Mumu, but she couldn't remember where she had seen them before. She was searching in her mind when she heard a woman in front of them, dressed in Jingchai cloth, kowtow and answer.

"Replying to your Majesty, I heard that your Majesty came to visit Empress Dowager Xu in the cold palace, and the ministers and concubines discussed that they should come together to beg your Majesty. I am Wu Shi, the first wife of Nan Muze, the emperor of the old Nanqi Dynasty. I beg your Majesty to be kind enough to remonstrate with the Emperor.

The sisters came out of the cold palace to reunite with their exiled husband...Nan Muze and his wife, and they hope that the queen will fulfill her wish."

After hearing this, Su Mumu made a sound, complaining that she looked familiar. They were sisters-in-law, and they had met each other before when they went to and from the palace. Su Mumu remembered the Empress Wu and the dozen or so concubines in the harem.

It was Empress Dowager Xu who carefully selected Nan Muze one by one according to her family background. It was really difficult for the former Empress Wu to still claim to be Nan Muze's wife even if she was in such a state of poverty.

"Sister-in-law, please get up quickly!"

He took a step forward and helped Mrs. Wu up, but she still refused to get up from her knees on the ground.

"Your Majesty, my sisters and I are in the cold palace. I miss my husband Nan Muze very much. I wonder if your Majesty can tell me about my husband's current situation so that my concubines can feel at ease."

Knowing that the situation in the court is changing suddenly, as Nanqi ministers, everyone is in danger to protect themselves. These women who once married into the royal family in order to build relationships have now become hot potatoes one by one. Their parents-in-law are eager to put an end to their relationship immediately.

, who cares about the life and death of these chess pieces. What's more, now that Nan Muche is dead, Nan Muchen has used the lives of these women as collateral to observe the intentions of the major families. The fate of these women in front of him is really sad and lamentable

, I feel sour in my heart. The fun I had when I first entered the palace has long since disappeared. I feel sorry for all the women who are also women. Tears fell unconsciously.

Hearing Su Mumu call her sister-in-law, Wu couldn't help but be startled.

"I am frightened, so I beg your Majesty for your grace. Don't call me sister-in-law, lest you humiliate your Majesty."

Insisting on helping Wu, Su Mumu told her with tears in her eyes.

"It's nothing humiliating. It's just that your husband is dead. What are your sister-in-law's plans in the future?"

As soon as Su Mumu finished speaking, everyone was already crying and hugging each other. Before Su Mumu could say anything to comfort everyone in the Wu family, a long and mournful howl suddenly came from the room behind her.

Forsythia rushed in first, followed closely by Su Mumu.

I saw Empress Dowager Xu lying on the ground not far from the door, writhing and wailing, her voice was inaudible. Forsythia was at a loss and stood by. She tried to help Empress Dowager Xu get up several times, but was beaten by the wailing Empress Dowager.

Pushed aside with a kick.

Su Mumu guessed that Queen Mother Xu still had some clarity in her heart. She was tempted by the food and wanted to crawl to the door to continue begging for food from Su Mumu. She didn't want to hear the news that Nan Muze was dead, so she burst into tears.

"Forsythia, don't help her yet. Let her cry out all the pain in her chest. It will actually do her some good."

After a long time, Empress Dowager Xu on the ground cried until she fainted, and Mrs. Wu and all the concubines also fell to the ground crying in confusion and could not get up.

Su Mumu stood alone in a miserable place, seeing all the desolation in the world, and couldn't help but secretly hate Nan Muchen, the person who created the figurine in the first place.

Although Nan Muze is the emperor of the old dynasty, as long as he abdicates the throne, why bother to harm his life and ruin the future of these women? Nan Mulin is despicable and dirty, and I am afraid that he is only surviving now because he can turn around.

Pretend. You actually stayed with such an insidious person. There was no strategy, and only Queen Mother Xu was obedient and non-threatening. However, you took the opportunity to kill Nan Muchen. Did I, Su Mumu, really misjudge you, Nan Muchen?

"Have you cried enough?"

Su Mumu shouted loudly, overriding the wailing, it was like a thunderbolt from the blue, and everyone was immediately silenced.

"Although you are women, you have the responsibility of caring for your husband and raising your children. However, we still have to be independent people. When your husband is in charge of the family, when he is gone, you can make your own family. Don't cry anymore. With me, Su... with this palace.
Chapter completed!