Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 153 Life and Death 1 Line

"How dare you!" How could the Queen Mother tolerate such provocation from Ji Anni? She was almost mad with anger and shouted at the top of her lungs, "What are you still standing there for? Take her away! Take her away!"

Amid the Queen Mother's angry roar, a guard stepped forward and grabbed Ji Anni's shoulders.

Ji Anni was not someone to be trifled with. She twisted the guard's wrist and kicked him off the scaffold. Then three more guards came up, but none of them was Ji Anni's match. They were defeated in two or three moves. But no matter how strong Ji Anni was, she was alone. The guards kept coming one after another, and they could never stop beating her. Gradually, Ji Anni ran out of energy and was panting heavily from exhaustion.

"No one is allowed to touch me! If you want to kill Yun Zhen, you have to invite the emperor first! Can't you see that the emperor's token is right here? How dare you openly ignore the emperor's order!" Ji Anni was also irritated. She picked up a knife on the ground and pointed it at the empress dowager on the execution platform not far away, saying, "As long as I, Ji Anni, am still standing here today, you will never be able to confuse right and wrong or black and white!"

"Rebellion! Rebellion!" The Queen Mother was so angry that she couldn't even speak clearly. She pointed at Ji Anni without any ability to retort.

Seeing that the Queen Mother was so angry that she was about to spit out blood, the Prime Minister hurriedly stepped forward and said to Ji Anni face to face: "Zhao Ji, what is the brand of your gold medal of immunity from death?"

Ji Anni threw the knife on the ground, took out the jade token that the emperor had given her from Yun Zhen, held it high in front of everyone and said, "I believe the prime minister should still remember that after the archery ceremony at the hunting competition that day, the emperor promised to fulfill one of my wishes. Later, I exchanged that wish for this jade token, and the emperor also promised to exempt me from a death sentence when necessary. Now I give this token to Yun Zhen. No matter what crime he has committed, even if it is a capital crime, you can't touch him! He is a person with a gold token of immunity from death. Anyone who touches him is ignoring the emperor's order, which is treason, disloyalty and injustice!"

Ji Anni finished the long conversation in one breath, out of breath.

The prime minister said, "Zhao Ji, you are committing a capital crime for disturbing the execution ground today. Even if you have the golden medal of immunity from death, it is only enough to save your own life. You are in a difficult situation now, so you should kneel down and apologize."

"What a joke! You are the ones who should kneel down! Seeing the token is like seeing the emperor. I have been holding up the emperor's token for so long, but you have ignored it. You are simply treating the emperor's authority as nothing! Aren't you afraid that the emperor will blame you?"

Ji Anni really wanted to rush up and slap each of the three giants in the face.

"Is there still law here?" The Queen Mother pointed at Ji Anni and said, "Zhao Ji, if you don't kneel down and confess your guilt, I will behead you today! Don't think that you can do whatever you want with a golden medal of immunity from death. Even if the emperor stood here today and I said I want to behead you, he would not be able to stop me! As the Queen Mother, can't I behead you? Even if I behead you today, it will be to enforce justice and purge the emperor's side!"

"Okay! If you want to kill, just kill. Then let the world know that the current empress dowager is cruel and brutal, killing innocent people indiscriminately!" Ji Anni took a step forward and walked to the edge of the execution platform, looking like she was going to yell at the empress dowager.

Ji Anni herself didn't feel anything, but the people around her were already sweating coldly. Kang Xiaorong and Yun Zhen were all frightened by Ji Anni's thrilling scene at the execution ground today.

"Your Majesty!" Yun Zhen could no longer remain silent and urged, "Your Majesty...please confess your guilt."

"What a joke! If I plead guilty, you will die." Ji Anni turned around and glared at Yun Zhen, hating his compromise.

"My Lady, Yun Zhen knows that he has committed a capital crime and is willing to serve his sentence..."

"Shut up!" Ji Anni interrupted him loudly, trying her best to stop her body from trembling. She clenched her fists and said, "Yun Zhen, you are useless!... Do you think you can save Bao Niangniang if you die? Do you think you can bear all the charges alone? Yun Zhen... If you die here today, do you think Bao Niangniang can survive?... If Bao Niangniang has any accident, she was killed by you!... Yun Zhen, stand up! Since you have the courage to admit that you used violence against Bao Niangniang, since you have the courage to kneel here and let the executioner chop off your head, why don't you have the courage to admit in front of everyone that you like Bao Niangniang! Do you think that if you die today, it proves that you like Bao Niangniang! This is not, this is not love at all! If you really like Bao Niangniang, you should live for her!"

Ji Annie threw the jade token heavily towards Yun Zhen, hitting him right on the shoulder.

"You can't die... Yunzhen, you can't die... Do you know..." Ji Anni no longer had the strength to yell. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and suddenly felt a burning pain in her eyelids. Tears were about to burst out.

"Empress Zhao..." Yun Zhen couldn't utter a word. Ji Anni's words just now seemed to have suddenly woken him up.

Yes, he could die today, but if he died, what would happen to BoA?

Will I be sad? Will I be sad to death?

If anything happens to Baoer, wouldn't I become the culprit who killed Baoer?

Ji Anni wiped her tears with the back of her hand, took a deep breath, and said to the three giants on the execution platform: "What's wrong with liking someone you like... Why should someone you like die... Doesn't anyone think this is incredible? Doesn't anyone think this is unreasonable?... Before you killed Yun Zhen, why didn't you ask Baogui Concubine who she liked?... The one who really took Baogui Concubine by force was not Yun Zhen, but the emperor! The late emperor!... Why don't you hold them accountable, but behead Yun Zhen, who is truly in love with Baogui Concubine?... They are the ones who use their power to take women by force, they are the real sinners!"

Ji Anni didn’t know whether it was the world that was crazy or herself who was incompatible with this world.

"Zhao Ji, no one can save you today..." The Queen Mother on the execution platform took a deep breath and said grimly.

"Queen Dowager, this has nothing to do with Concubine Zhao!" Yun Zhen saw from the Queen Dowager's eyes that she had murderous intentions towards Zhao Ji, and hurriedly stood up and pulled Ji Anni behind him and said, "Queen Dowager, Concubine Zhao was just impulsive! This has nothing to do with her at all!"

"Did she have nothing to do with disrupting the execution ground? Did she have nothing to do with slandering the late emperor and the emperor? Did she have nothing to do with insulting me and disobeying the prime minister? Each of these crimes is enough to execute her entire clan! How dare you say it has nothing to do with her!" The queen mother slammed the table in anger and shouted at the executioner and guards on the scaffold, "What are you still standing there for! Why are you letting that prisoner stand here! Whoever kills her today will be awarded the fifth rank of nobility and a reward of 1,000 taels of gold!"

"No!" Yun Zhen subconsciously hugged Ji Anni into his arms, knelt down and said, "Queen Dowager, please think twice! Queen Dowager, please spare my life!"

"Yun Zhen, stand up! Even if I die here today, I will not die on my knees!"

"Empress Zhao..." Yun Zhen didn't know what to say. Did she know her situation? Did she know that she was about to die? How could she still be so stubborn?

"Hurry up and take action! Just wait and see how long she will continue to be so arrogant!" The Queen Mother had reached the limit of her patience and was about to rush to the execution platform and kill Ji Anni herself if the guards did not take action.

The guards then responded, raising their shining swords and swinging them towards Ji Anni.

"Empress!" Yun Zhen hugged Ji Anni tightly in his arms and used his body to block the shining cold blades.

Ji Anni closed her eyes subconsciously, and the guards' chaotic roars rang in her ears.

At that moment, death was imminent...