Chapter 4 — Receiving Seven Envelopes for Help, I Alone Stormed into the Royal Palace

The two servants were so scared that they immediately bowed their heads.

“Please, Your Majesty, spare my life!”

“What the Concubine said is true!”

“The princess often makes her son-in-law kneel in the yard until morning.”

“I also ordered the slaves not to bring medicine or rice to Pho Ma.”

"After discovering the sixth envelope, the Princess smashed the Concubine's peace box, and also ordered someone to squeeze the Concubine's wrist, asking him if he still dared to write letters."

My brother closed his eyes. Truong Lac screamed.

“You dare to betray your master!”

I said coldly:

“They betrayed you.”

“But not humans.”

Finally, the man in the mysterious robe also spoke.

“Princess Changle lost her virtue.”

“Immediate detention.”

Truong Lac did not dare to believe it.

“Your Majesty?”

The man wearing a mysterious robe looked at her.

“Secret down.”

The soldiers stepped up. Truong Lac struggled as hard as he could.

“You punished me because of a concubine?”

“I am your biological sister!”

When she was pulled past me, she even tried to kick my brother. I lifted my foot and stepped on her skirt. Her whole body leaned forward, falling onto the stone floor with great difficulty. The jade brooches all over the head collided with each other, making chaotic jingling sounds. The forbidden army all stiffened. I bowed my head to look at her.

"This fall, for my brother, I'll ask for three days of only eating cold rice."

Truong Lac raised his head, his eyes filled with hatred.

“Tham Thanh Duong, this palace will not forgive you.”

I squat down.

“What a coincidence.”

“I never intended to forgive you.”

After Truong Lac was escorted away, no one in the pavilion dared to speak up. Her scream echoed far away. In the end, there was only the sound of the jade brooch hitting the stone floor. My brother sat on a stone bench, his face as white as a sheet of paper. The doctor is applying medicine to him. As soon as he sprinkled the powder, the pain was so bad that his fingertips trembled, but from beginning to end he didn't make a single groan. I stood next to it and watched. The more I look, the heavier my heart becomes. Since childhood, he has been afraid of pain. When I was little, just being pricked by a needle would make my mother hug my sleeve and moan for a long time. Now my whole body is covered in injuries, but I don't even dare to cry out in pain. The emperor, wearing a legendary robe, sat on the other side. His wound was finally treated by the Thai doctor. The royal physician knelt on the ground and cut open his clothes, his hands trembling even more violently than my brother's. Those two whips were indeed not light. A whip on the shoulder. A whip across the chest. The skin was torn apart. Let's take a look. No regrets at all. The silver-bearded mandarin stood outside the pavilion, his hair still loose. He tried to open his mouth several times, but was forced to swallow it back by the Emperor's cold eyes. The maid came forward carrying hot tea. The emperor did not accept. He looked towards me.

“Shen Qingtang.”

I raised my head.

"You publicly injured your superior, do you know what crime that is?"

“Beheading, confiscating family property, banishing the three clans.”

My brother's hand trembled slightly, the medicine bowl almost fell to the ground.

“Thanh Duong!”

I look at the Emperor.

“But if you behead me first, then my brother's debt will no longer be claimed.”

The Emperor's eyes darkened like darkness.

“Do you still want to ask?”

"Of course."

I pointed at my brother's wrist.

“Twenty-seven whiplashes, three burns, a fractured wrist, and internal starvation long time.”

“There was also humiliation, intimidation, house arrest, not being allowed to go home.”

“Every single thing must have an explanation.”

Finally, the silver-bearded minister could not bear it any longer.

“Your Majesty, Princess Changle has been detained, but this woman still doesn't know enough, it's too arrogant.”

I turned my head to look at him.

“If your son was beaten like this, would you still be as generous?”

He choked. I asked again:

“Or is it that there is no one in your family qualified to marry the Princess?”

Someone in the pavilion bowed his head and coughed softly. The silver-bearded minister's face turned red. The Emperor rolled his eyes and looked around at the court.

"Today's story, whoever dares to add salt and salt to it and spread it out, I will cut out his tongue."

Everyone immediately knelt down.

“I don't dare.”

The Emperor looked at my brother.

“Tham Nghien Chu.”

My brother quickly tried to kneel. I hold his shoulder back. But I couldn't keep it. He still knelt down.

“God is present.”

The Emperor was silent for a moment.

"Truong Lac treated you cruelly, it was my fault."

“I will give you a fair reward.”

My brother prostrated himself on the ground.

“I don't dare.”

I frowned.

“What do you not dare to do?”

“You're already injured like this and you still don't dare?”

My brother replied in a low voice:

“After all, she is a Princess.”

"The princess is not the king of heaven."

The Emperor glanced at me. I add one more sentence:

“I, the Heavenly King, have also whipped him before.”

My brother almost burst into tears again. The corner of the Emperor's lips seemed to move slightly. But very quickly it returned to its coldness.

"Your request for separation, is it really from your own heart?"