The director decided to release the man, not because he believed Shi Potian’s nonsense, but because he couldn’t afford to offend the son of the governor. However, out of professional ethics, he stopped himself before releasing the man, with an embarrassed expression on his face: “Although this is your wife, she is also a murderer. It’s too much of a joke to exempt her with just one word from you.”

Shi Potian blinked his eyes: “I didn’t say I would exempt him.”

The director was startled: “So what do you mean?”

Shi Potian looked back, and saw Linghu Chong, Wang Lianhua, and Ke Zhen’e all nodding at him. Shi Potian turned back and said firmly, “I’m just saying that you can’t treat him like this. You can’t let him… let him have a baby. Didn’t he kill someone? I remember that people charged with murder would be sent to the front line!”

The director was confused by this operation: “But public opinion…”

At this time, some appropriate threats were needed. Shi Potian couldn’t do this, so Wang Lianhua stepped forward and said, “How can public opinion override the law? Did you become an official of the empire by relying on public opinion or the law?”

A hammer is fixed.

After coming out of the shelter, Wang Lianhua could no longer hold back. He didn’t stop laughing until his stomach hurt. There were tears in the corners of his eyes. He even went so far as to go in front of Ximen Chuxue to admire his expression – even though Ximen Chuxue didn’t have any expression, he wasn’t the kind of person who would necessarily make things difficult for him.

Although the word “common-law marriage” did make his pupils tremble.

With Shi Potian’s original identity, there was no need to use such a poor excuse to get someone out of the shelter. Wang Lianhua taught him this purely intentionally and with malice. He did not try to hide his intention and malice at all. With his exaggerated smile, even Ke Zhenwu could not help but advise him to be more restrained.

Ximen Chuxue completely ignored him, but in such a hot summer, it was inevitable to feel a little cold walking next to him.

Linghu Chong intentionally changed the subject and said, “Are we going to the Special Operations Training Camp or the Frontline Command Camp next? We have to hurry. Prisoners sent to these two places will not have a good ending.”

As he spoke, he took out the key from his pocket and pressed a button. A high-tech luxury sports car took off its invisible cloak and stopped. The sunlight shone on its black metal shell, giving people an inexplicable sense of excitement that accelerated their heartbeat.

Several people got in the car, Linghu Chong started the car, and the sports car made an ancient humming sound, then rose up as if being pulled by something, and sped along the exclusive lane in the air.

Ke Zhen’e was sitting in the co-pilot seat and said at the right time: “Let’s go to the military command first. The training camp is also our hometown. If you go and say hello there, that little girl surnamed Lin won’t be embarrassed.”

“What’s going on with you?” Ximen Chuxue suddenly asked.

Although Shi Potian had already taken a spaceship once, the feeling of flying in the air still made him excited no matter how many times he experienced it: “This is something I got when I got here! It should be given by the game, right? How is it? Isn’t it awesome!”

This was certainly not what Ximen Chuxue wanted to ask. He was not someone who was easily excited, nor was he stupid. When he saw Shi Potian, he guessed that his original identity was not ordinary.

He just couldn’t understand why these people were trapped in the Zerg’s encirclement three days ago, but they were able to appear in the shelter in time three days later? This efficiency was really inconsistent with this world. You know, the inhibitors Linghu Chong had shipped were still on the way, and he was afraid that they might not be able to be used when the next estrus season came.

He changed the question: “How did you know I was in the shelter?”

Shi Potian was a little surprised: “Don’t you know? I thought you had already discussed it. It was Uncle Ye who asked me to come. He has been looking for me for several days and told me to contact the people outside and make sure to rescue you. Ah, he was just asking me about the progress.”

Ximen Chuxue’s eyes moved, then became deep, and he watched the scenery passing by outside the window in silence.

Shi Potian also followed his gaze and leaned over beside the car, his eyes sparkling: “The houses here are so tall!”

……

In the luxurious and magnificent manor, the clear sunlight fell on a clump of carefully cultivated ivy. When the breeze blew, the green leaves trembled, and the swaying light spots jumped into the window, which made the man sitting by the window reading a book squint slightly.

The attentive servant immediately opened the window and pulled up the blackout curtains.

The man was relatively young, with short chestnut hair and a pair of eyes as blue as the sea.

Although he was reading a book, it was obvious that his mind was not on it.

There was a military jacket hanging on the hanger by the door, and it was obvious that he was a high-ranking officer.

The servant asked cautiously, “Young Marshal, are you worried about… that person?”

The man raised his eyebrows slightly: “Are you talking about my sweetheart? How is it, is she willing to admit her mistake?”

Being charged with the crime of gathering for promiscuity and exiled to the Insect Planet, she must have been terrified, right? There was nothing that could be done about it, because she was so disobedient.

The servant swallowed his saliva and said, “I just received news that she was rescued by an officer along with several other prisoners. I don’t know what happened, but she was discovered by the military. As you know, exile and escape are also serious crimes. The situation at the front is tight, so she was sent to the military camp at the front.”

The man called the young marshal frowned: “Military camp?”

“Yes.” The servant said, “She is consumable. Do you want to take her back?”

The man smiled and closed the book: “Of course, I can’t really watch her die there.”

……

“I thought we were the most unlucky people in the game, but compared to the people in the Star Empire, our lives are actually pretty good.” Wuhua smiled as he looked at the man next to him who was digging the soil with a hoe: “What do you think?”

Shangguan Jinhong glared at him and said coldly: “If you have time to watch the live broadcast, why not go out and fetch two buckets of water?”

Wuhua sighed softly: “The guards outside are so strict, you are making things difficult for me.”

In the midsummer, the courtyard is deep and the sounds of cicadas and frogs are endless. Even in this dilapidated palace, it is really… too noisy.

Shangguan Jinhong twisted his wrist, and two pieces of soil flew out from under the hoe. Seven or eight dead cicadas fell from the big tree in front of the palace gate.

The yard suddenly became quieter.

At this time, three months have passed since the restart of the Deep Palace Grudge copy, and two months and twenty-nine days have passed since Wuhua and Shangguan Jinhong were banished to the cold palace. Considering that June only has thirty days, it can be said that they were banished to the cold palace just one day after participating in the palace fight.

…looks like a dish.

Both of them have high IQs, and can even be said to be the smartest of the smart, but when they recall what happened on the day they were banished to the cold palace, they still feel puzzled.

Yes, when the Deep Palace Grudge copy was restarted, the palace fighting trio had already decided to seriously participate in the palace fighting, the kind that does not require martial arts, does not kill the emperor, and relies purely on wisdom to become the queen.

It’s not that they have any interest in the career of being the emperor’s concubine, it’s because they found that they can’t go back if they don’t pass the test!

The alternative “path” is completely blocked, and there is really no other way except to fight hard for favor.

Fortunately, the restarted copy has been completely changed. Perhaps the game has also discovered that it is much more difficult to get three straight men to be male concubines of a middle-aged emperor than to get Ximen Chuxue to give birth to a child. So in this copy, the emperor is a woman in her twenties, beautiful as a flower, which reduces the difficulty.

This is a world where a woman can follow the normal order of succession, be named crown prince, and become the legitimate ruler of a country.

This dynasty has existed for more than 150 years and has had 13 emperors, three of whom were empresses. The current one is the fourth. Since she is an empress, the concubines and empresses must of course be men.

Moreover, because there were not many empresses, the titles of concubines in the harem were still called by the old terms, “Empress”, which sounded very wrong.

Of course, this abnormality can be completely ignored compared with the difficulty of the task.

Even the palace fighting trio had to admit that in terms of using shady means to frame others and flatter and win favor, the difference between men and women was far smaller than the difference between people.

The most vicious heart of a woman is also the corresponding one: there is no man without viciousness.

The beginning of the copy was no different from the previous one. Three people knelt on the floor tiles, like three big carrots planted in the soil, except that the woman sitting on the upper position was replaced by a man, and the words they said were no different, even the tone was exactly the same.

After experiencing so many ups and downs, Shangguan Jinhong became a little more restrained. He controlled his temper in time and was not as impulsive as last time. He lowered his head and the blue bricks under his palms cracked silently.

The newly-conferred rank is certainly not very high. It is the ninth-rank “Selected Concubine”, called “Shu Ren”. In a long list of upgrade rankings, it ranks second to last, and there is a lot of room for improvement. The game symbolically gives her 100 points.

The incident happened on the afternoon of the day of the enthronement. The three palace fighters were taken by the palace servants to visit various palaces. This was a good opportunity to get to know their opponents. Since they had decided to fight in the palace, Wuhua also carefully memorized those people’s positions, family backgrounds, personalities and skills.

Of course, this skill does not refer to the skills given by the game, but real palace fighting skills, such as some arts like music, chess, calligraphy and painting. The empress likes to be pretentious, and she always looks up to talented people, and these skills happen to be what Wuhua is particularly good at.

He had not wanted to reveal these cards too early, but his opponents had already heard of him. When they paid him a visit, they called him “Shaolin Master” and “Master of the Seven Wonders”. It was unclear whether they were sincere compliments or intentional sarcasm, but Wuhua felt very uncomfortable being called that and he almost showed off his eighth wonder several times.

At this time, the importance of Li Xunhuan was highlighted. Although he looked calm and detached, his skills in confronting people and his words were as sharp as his flying knives.

After a round of verbal attacks, those who had verbally provoked him were rendered speechless and furious.

In the evening, the three palace fighting groups returned to the palace and gathered together to exchange information and discuss the follow-up plans when a voice outside saying “The Queen has arrived” broke the silence of the night.

Before the three men could understand what was going on, they were held down by several guards. Then, seven or eight nimble palace maids rushed in and rummaged around, pulling out a bag of pollen, a sachet, a bag of cinnabar, and a few unnamed gadgets. The mess was piled on the ground. Seeing these things, the queen snorted coldly.

“Miao Shuren, we have caught the perpetrator red-handed, the evidence is irrefutable, what else do you have to say?”

Miao Shuren is Wuhua’s title. Wuhua was stunned for a long time and had nothing to say because he had no idea what was going on.

The Queen didn’t waste any time talking to him and directly banished him to the cold palace, along with Shangguan Jinhong, because a palace maid reported that she had witnessed “Jin Shuren” being present at the time, so she was accused of being an accomplice.

The two of them entered the cold palace with confused looks on their faces, leaving Li Xunhuan behind with an equally confused look on his face.

They even missed the previous emperor a little. If it were him, he would definitely be willing to tell them what had happened.

So, can you who are involved in palace fighting please stop being riddlers?
(End of this chapter)