Inside the Imperial Palace, the death of Emperor Chengyuan was followed by the successive demises of the Second Prince and the Fourth Prince. General Xu had been killed by the Emperor’s secret guards, while Noble Consort Xu had perished at the hands of the Second Prince’s men.
Throughout the palace, everywhere except for the Empress’s residence, which remained as tranquil as ever, was in total disarray.
The area surrounding the Imperial Study was particularly gruesome, a sea of corpses and a river of blood.
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