Poor Girl Becomes Empress

Chapter 24: The People's Support

Fengying walked into the prison. His firm move made everyone who was there bow their heads in fear. The prison, which was made of wood, was filled with men and women with many wounds on their bodies.

The Emperor of Taoming was the most ruthless emperor in the history of the previous emperor. He was being warm to Wei just a trick for the girl to want to be with him. Who would have thought if behind his warm attitude he had killed many people just to look for Wei, the girl who was destined to become empress.

He's a man who will do anything to get his wish fulfilled. Agreeing to marry Wei was also not of his own volition. He will use Wei as a tool to get the people to support his actions and make Wei a target for the people.

His steps came to a halt while in front of a man sitting on a chair with his hands and feet tied. The man looked at Fengying intently as if he hated her so much.

Fengying laughed as she walked up to the man. "Have you confessed yet?"

The man spat in front of Fengying with his sharp eyes glaring at Fengying. "Why did I confess to the son of the murderous concubine? I'd rather kill myself than confess!"

Several soldiers surrounded the man by pointing a sword at his neck. Instead of being afraid, the man laughed out loud which made Fengying clench both of his hands.

"How strong is your group? Is it capable of fighting me?" Fengying.

The man clucked while smiling cynically. "Why are you so arrogant, emperor? Ah, you're exactly like your mother. Proud, arrogant, and very confident." the sharp pressure that Fengying was left in deep thought with the man before her.

"Why do you always try to kill the empress? Is killing two empresses not enough for you?" fengying asked as he played the hot iron inside the ember furnace. He was eager to throw the hot iron on the man's face, but he paused at having to hear his explanation.

The man did not answer. It made Fengying chuckle, realizing how tightly the man's mouth was locked.

"Looks like you don't want to open your mouth, huh? Until when are you guys gonna stop, huh?!"

"Every day we would come to the palace to kill the empress. You will lose the empress and will never be able to get any offspring from the empress! This is karma because of the actions of your mother, the murderous concubine!" his screams were like thousands of swords piercing right into Fengying's heart.

Fengying took out the hot iron inside the furnace that contained embers and directly pressed the iron onto the man's thigh.

"Yahoooo!!!" the man shouted while writhing in pain. His red face endured the pain from the heat of the iron. His pants were torn, revealing the flesh of his thigh that was cooked by hot iron.

"You really are a bunch of cowards! It was my mother's doing, why should I accept karma, huh?! Who are you to determine the karma of my mother's actions?!" this time Fengying pressed the hot iron onto the man's chest.

The silent prison was now filled with screams from the man. People in other confinements shut mana, mute mouth, and heed ears. No one dared to see or talk about the man seeing how Fengying intervened to torture him.

"Did your group think it could bring me down? You guys aren't even better than me! What have you done to this country other than trying to kill the empress? You're just trash that should be burned alive!" sharp dive Fengying while throwing the hot iron into the furnace.

The man's chest went up and down, he started coughing up blood. There was no fear within his eyes, he was still staring intently at Fengying.

As Fengying was about to go back to tormenting him, the man said. "Do you know why the previous emperor agreed to give you his throne? At that time, his son was not just you. There's another prophecy about you and now it's coming true."

"Stop saying nonsense!" Fengying took the warrior sword beside her and pointed it at the man's neck.

"You won't get any offspring from the empress even if you want it so badly! In the future you will only get children from concubines, like your mother!"

Fengying fell silent after hearing the words of the man before her. His heart was heating up, his eyes were sharpening and his hands were clenched back.

The man before him brought his face closer towards Fengying. "The bloodshed between the concubine and the empress will happen again. Wouldn't it be better not to have a queen? Ah, even better is to step down from the position of emperor."

"You just need to prepare yourself" said the man who made Fengying even more angry.

Without further ado, Fengying directly thrust the sword into the man's chest. Blood flowed out from his mouth and chest. Fengying smiled sinisterly, then she pulled the sword from the man's chest so that his blood hit the robe and Fengying's face.

"Hanging this man at the palace gate. Tell the people that this man is a traitor who tried to kill the empress. Tell them all, if anyone knows the identity of this man or his family, report it to me immediately! I will give a thousand gold coins to those who report them to me!" yelling Fengying did not want to be rebutted at all.

"Okay, emperor!"

Fengying looked at the man with hatred. "You've been wrong for playing around with me. I will soon send your entire family to hell!"

With his cruel face, Fengying immediately left the prison. He cursed himself for having spent so much time in that overcrowded prison.

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The soldier had hanged the man at the palace gate. All the people gathered in front of the palace to see the man's face.

Most of them stoned the man's body. They all obviously did not accept the actions of the man who tried to kill the empress.

From the upper tower, where the soldiers stood guard to see the state of the entire palace, stood Zhuan, Quolin, Baoyi, and Annchi. The four of them saw how strong the popular support for the empress was.

Zhuan's face turned sour. "Why should that lowly girl be destined to be empress? He didn't even deserve to occupy that position!"

"Hm, right. I don't like that lowly girl at all. He was only the son of a slave, but he was so arrogant. Do you think the same as me?" said Annchi who was nodding his head by Baoyi.

Both Baoyi's hands clenched as they saw people pelting the man's body with stones. "She even received great support from the people when she was only a day as empress. And we are always equated with the previous concubine! It's not fair!"

Quolin looked at the faces of Zhuan, Baoyi, and Annchi. She remained calm and was not affected at all to be angry like the other three concubines.

"You guys are so stupid for being angry like that" said Quolin who made the other three concubines look at him in confusion.

"What do you mean, second concubine?" baoyi asked with a confused frown on her forehead.

Quolin seemed to be breathing out. "Do you think the people will support the empress in the long run? Don't forget the empress' origin, she's just a poor slave boy. The emperor won't even let the people support him."

"Don't you remember the first day the lowly girl came to the palace? What did the emperor tell us, did you forget?" zhuan said as allowed by Baoyi and Annchi.

Smile etched on Quolin's lips. Not a happy smile, but a cynical smile. "It seems that the first concubine did not know the emperor well."

"What do you mean, second concubine?! I even stayed by the emperor's side first, obviously I know the emperor well!" sharp-eyed Zhuan while looking at Quolin in annoyance.

"The emperor said so because he didn't want us to disturb the empress. The emperor wants to achieve his goal without any interference from us. I'm sure that the lowly girl will only be used as a tool to expand the power of the emperor. It's stupid if you don't realize it." Quolin explained, making Zhuan's mouth shut.

The situation below was getting hotter as more and more people came, including the nobles.

"That lowly girl won't be a threat to us. You don't have to waste your energy getting angry."