Rebirth: Pampered by the Lord

"You can leave the palace from here." The man in black pointed to an old well, speaking to the palace maids.

At these words, the palace maids retreated in panic.

Although they hadn’t been in the Imperial Palace for long, they had nonetheless learned one or two of its secrets. Most of the dried-up wells in the palace were the best places to hide bodies. These two men in black want them to go down the well, perhaps intending to silence them.

"Wh... what do you want to do?" The palace maids looked at them in terror.

The man in black seemed displeased, coming to save them out of kindness, yet being met with suspicion: "What’s the matter? Do you not want to escape? Willingly die with that old woman?"

Palace maids: "You want to kill us, we’re not going down."

The man in black let out a cold laugh: "If I wanted to kill you, I’d have no need to act. After dawn, your fate would be sealed. This well is actually a tunnel. If you go down, you can follow the tunnel to escape out of the palace."

Like startled birds, the palace maids were skeptical of the man in black’s words, unsure whether to believe him or not.

The man in black looked up at the sky and added: "If you don’t leave now, it will soon be dawn. Then it will be too late to leave."

After much hesitation, the palace maids gritted their teeth and decided to take the risk. If they gambled and lost, they’d just report to Lord Yama a bit earlier, so there was nothing to lose.

So, over a hundred people lined up and slowly descended into the dry well.

Until the last figure disappeared, the two men in black breathed a sigh of relief, finally having saved the palace maids. They did this, not for anything else, but just to trouble the current Emperor.

"Prince, it’s getting late. Shall we leave?"

"Hmm!"

The two figures flickered and vanished in the courtyard, the surroundings returning to tranquillity, as if no one had ever appeared.

At dawn, just as the light began to break, a cry shook the entire Imperial Palace: "It’s not good, the maids accompanying the burial are all missing."

The Empress Dowager’s funeral was about to take place, and at this moment, the disappearance of the accompanying maids was significant. If the Emperor were to blame, heads would roll. The Imperial Guard Army responsible for watching the maidens was greatly frightened. They dared not hide it and immediately sent someone to report to the Emperor.

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The Emperor did not sleep all night, standing guard by the Empress Dowager’s coffin.

The Empress and the concubines were also accompanying him.

The surroundings were silent. At this moment, a palace maid hurriedly reported: "Emperor, Emperor, something bad has happened."

The Emperor was already upset, nothing had gone right recently, and now his Empress Mother had been harmed, dying before his very eyes, leaving his heart troubled.

"What matter makes you panic and disturb my Empress Mother’s coffin? I will have your head!"

The palace maid fell to her knees with a tremor and said, "Reporting to the Emperor, the maids meant to accompany the burial disappeared overnight."

"What?"

The Emperor was so shocked he stood up abruptly. Recently, events had occurred one after another in the palace, secretly alarming the Emperor, who felt that an invisible hand was orchestrating everything from behind the scenes.

"Search! Turn the entire Imperial Palace upside down. Even if you have to turn the palace over, find them." The Emperor was furious.

As the funeral for the Empress Dowager was to commence in just a few Shichen, such an oversight at this critical moment was truly inconvenient.

Palace maid: "Yes, this servant will handle it immediately."

The Empress always wanted to redeem herself by serving the Emperor. Seeing his anxiety, she quickly came forward with a suggestion: "Emperor, this concubine has an idea, though I’m not sure if it will work."

The Empress Dowager had hanged herself at his door, and now the burial maids were missing, leaving the Emperor distraught and bewildered: "What method does the Empress have, do tell."

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