Before anyone could say anything that person asked again "What are you guys doing here? Are you all also threw into the cold palece?"
Everyone was silent and didn't know what should they say.
Zhao Yuncheng and Su Yaoqin were shocked to see Xue Lanxuan alive.
They thought that the maid already poison her to death and they can accuse that maid for killing the Empress.
They can never let that maid to confess anything.
But now they were too shocked to say anything.
Not only them but another person was shocked to see Xue Lanxuan alive.
According to his informants that maid brought the poisonous food to the Empress long before.
And they didn't see the Empress and the maid and they didn't hear anything in the cold palece either.
So, they assumed that the Empress were already dead and that maid was still in the cold palece.
Prince Regent was here to capture that maid in red handed with evidence of empress's dead body and he will make her to confess everything but now he was dumbfounded.
He didn't know what to say anything because that person who was supposed to dead was perfectly fine in front of them.
And other nobles thought maybe the rumour was real and they were here to witness that.
Looking at his daughter in front of his eyes a tear came down from the Prime Minister's eyes.
He can not control his emotion anymore.
He knew that he looked weak in front of all the nobles and Royal family but he didn't care anymore.
He was happy and sad both to see his daughter.
He was happy because to see his daughter was alive.
And he felt sad because his daughter was in the cold palece and his daughter suffered a lot.
He didn't protect his daughter.
He went toward to his daughter and touched her head and said with teary voice "I am sorry. I failed you once again. Can you forgive your useless father this time?"
Xue Lanxuan looked at him with complicated expression.
She understood that this person was the father of the real Xue Lanxuan.
In the past he ignored her and now he wanted forgiveness for his negligence.
She didn't know what to say to this person.
She was not the person who was hurt because of this person's negligence.
That person was no longer here anymore and she had no right to forgive this person behalf of the original Xue Lanxuan.
Only real Xue Lanxuan had right to forgive him and accept him.
She was silently looking at him.
Looking at her indifference he sighed and thought that it's not easy for his daughter to forget all the past and forgive him so easily.
But he looked at her with determination and thought "It doesn't matter if you will accept me or not but from this day on I will protect you".
Before father and daughter could say anything Empress Dowgar looked at Xue Lanxuan with distant look and said with mocking tone "I know nothing will happen to this woman. She is the vicious person who hurt innocent people. Who can be as vicious as her to kill this ugly woman? You all worried for nothing."
Hearing empress Dowgar's mocking tone Xue Lanxuan shifted her gaze from her father to empress Dowgar.
She looked at empress Dowgar with her cold eyes and an evil smile appeared on her face.
Feeling her cold eyes toward empress Dowgar a shiver ran down in her spine.
She didn't know why but for some reason her heart beat first and goosebumps appeared on her body.
For some reason a fear appeared on Empress Dowgar's heart but she controlled her emotions and asked with angry voice "Why are you smiling? Don't you feel any remorse for what you did to your sister?"
She snorted and said with with mocking tone "It's look like I gave you easy punishment that time. I only sent you to the cold palece. Next time I will punish you harshly so you can understand your fault and reflect on your mistake".
Hearing her words Prime minister greeted his teeth with anger.
And a spark appeared on Xue Lanxuan's eyes and see looked at empress Dowgar with excitement.
Lingxi shaked her head and thought that the last thing anyone could do was to provoke her queen. And now no one can protect the empress Dowgar anymore.
Hearing Empress Dowgar's words Zhao Yuncheng and Su Yaoqin came back to their senses and both of them looked at Lingxi furiously.
They cursed Lingxi in their hearts.
They thought that this maid killed Xue Lanxuan and they could pin the blame on her and clear the obstacle but now their plan was flopped.
Zhao Yuncheng greeted his teeth furiously and asked the maid "Why didn't you say about the empress's whereabouts before? When everyone asked you about her, you kept silent! Why?"
Then he looked at the maid and said with threatening tone "Do you know the punishment of disobeying the Emperor?"
Lingxi smirked inwardly.
What can a mere mortal could do to her.
She was one of the powerful Demon souldier and she took order only from her king and queen.
And no one was powerful enough to make her to obeyed them.
But she didn't say anything.
She just kept quiet.
Looking her silent face Zhao Yuncheng became furious but before he said anything to her in front of all the nobles Su Yaoqin came to him and touched his hand.
She tried to calm himself down.
She didn't want him to say anything he should not say in front of those nobles.
Looking at their affection Prime Minister greeted his teeth.
He was very angry but he can not do anything to both of them now.
Before he made a condition to Zhao Yuncheng for help him to ascend the throne and that condition was not only make his daughter the empress but also he had to be loyal towards his daughter and never take any concubine but after he ascended the throne he made Xue Lanxuan the Empress but he also took Su Yaoqin as his concubine.
Before he said anything to Zhao Yuncheng, everyone heard a cold voice.
Everyone looked at Xue Lanxuan with shocked expression.
They knew Xue Lanxuan was a timid person.
She never talk back and that's why everyone could bully her but right now hearing her cold voice a shiver ran in their spine.
Xue Lanxuan said asked with cold voice" Who will punish my subordinate?"
Su Yaoqin came back to her sense and said with teary voice "Sister, don't protect this maid. She dared to disobey our majesty".
Hearing her a smirked appeared on Xue Lanxuan's face and asked with innocent voice "And what did she do to disobey our majesty?"
Hearing Empress's question Su Yaoqin felt nervous.
She didn't thought that Xue Lanxuan asked her about it like that.
Before she said anything Zhao Yuncheng said furiously "We asked her about your whereabouts but she didn't tell us anything about you".
Hearing his accusation Xue Lanxuan wanted to laughed.
She knew that person was angry because Lingxi didn't complete her mission. He wanted to kill his wife and put the blame on the maid whithout giving her any chance to confess anything.
She knew people like him very much.
Those people were selfish, hypocrite and act like so called "self righteous ".
And she knew how to handle them.
A smirked appeared on her face and she said "She didn't tell you about me because I ordered her to no one disturb me. I was tired and took a nap. That's why I told her to make sure no one disturb me".
Zhao Yuncheng looked at her with disbelief.
Xue Lanxuan never talk back to him.
And she never ordered anyone to do anything for her.
Then how could she ordered the maid to no one disturb her.
Before he could say anything Su Yaoqin came forward and asked "Sister, how could you order that? Do you know our majesty was so worried for you?"
Hearing this Xue Lanxuan looked at Su Yaoqin with her cold eyes and said with cold tone "Who give you right to interfere between Emperor and the Empress?"
Hearing this Su Yaoqin's eyes were widened in shock.
She never thought that her timid cousin ever talk back to her.
Zhao Yuncheng greeted his teeth in frustration and said with irritation "She is my concubine and she has right to talk for me. And you have no right to insult me".
Hearing his words Xue Lanxuan laughed and asked "Concubine?? Who is your concubine? How come I never know that you have a concubine?"
He looked at her with shocked expression and asked "Do you hurt your head? Do you forget I took Su Yaoqin as my concubine?"
She controlled her laughter and said with mocking tone "Your majesty, that's why education is important. You should not skipped your classes back then ".
Before Zhao Yuncheng said anything she continued "According to our country's rule no one can take concubine without their legal wife's permission. This rule was made by our founding Emperor and Empress. And Royal family also follow this rule. That's why our previous Emperor did not make your mother as his concubine. After our previous Empress died, then he made your mother his concubine and you became the royal prince ".
Everyone looked at her with shocking face.
Everyone knew about this but no one can talk about it.
A evil smile appeared on her face and she said with mocking tone "So, my dear husband, you don't have any concubine " then she looked at Su Yaoqin's pale face and continued "That's mean you are not from the royal family and as the Empress I can punish a commoner how ever I want. No one can accuse me for that ".
Looking at everyone's shocked face a satisfying smile appeared on her face.
She then looked at her father and asked "Am I right, Prime Minister?"
Before he could answer anything she heard a familiar voice.
Prince Regent said with mocking tone "Empress is right. No one can bring concubine without their wife's permission ".
She looked at the Prince Regent and the smile disappeared from her face.
Her eyes widened in shock and she murmured "What the hell is he doing here?"