Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 236 Wheel of Fortune

"Are you afraid?" Yan Niang turned around and smiled sweetly at the Queen Mother. Those enchanting eyes could only be possessed by a monster.

Although the Queen Mother was used to Yanniang's coquettish behavior, she felt threatened by her glance. A chill suddenly rose from the soles of her feet to the top of her head. She clenched her fists and pretended to be calm, "Yanniang...how have I wronged you? Why can't you open your heart to me like before?"

"It was you who broke the agreement between us first..." Yan Niang said softly.

"I know I shouldn't have allowed Soji to enter the palace, but...but..."

Before the Queen Mother could think of an excuse, Yan Niang coldly interrupted her and said, "Breaking the contract is breaking the contract. Now that Zhao Ji has entered the palace, it is useless for you to say anything more."

"Why can't Zhao Ji enter the palace?" The Queen Mother was deeply puzzled.

If Yanniang had told the Queen Mother in advance the reasons why Zhao Ji could not enter the palace, perhaps the Queen Mother would not have allowed Zhao Ji to enter the palace. It was precisely because Yanniang did not say anything that the Queen Mother did not realize the seriousness of the matter, violated the original agreement with Yanniang, and agreed to let Zhao Ji enter the palace.

In the Queen Mother's mind, Yanniang and Zhaoji should be two completely unrelated people. Yanniang left the palace three years ago and made a living by running Xianghonglou in the capital. Before that, Yanniang had been in the palace of the Tianyou Dynasty for a full twenty years. Zhaoji was under the age of twenty, born and raised in Qi, and it was impossible for her to know Yanniang. In this case, why was Yanniang so sensitive to Zhaoji?

In fact, from the very beginning, the person who prevented Zhao Ji from entering the palace was not the Queen Mother, but Yan Niang.

When Long Mohan, Zhaoji and Prince Ming returned from Qi, Yanniang leaned against the railing and glanced at them casually on the street as they entered the city. It was that one glance that made Yanniang recognize Zhaoji - recognize that she was someone who was absolutely not allowed to enter the palace!

So Yanniang sneaked into the palace in the form of a fox and begged the Queen Mother not to let Zhaoji and Prince Ming enter the palace.

At that time, the Queen Mother agreed to Yan Niang's request, but Yan Niang did not tell the Queen Mother the reason why Zhao Ji could not enter the palace.

Until now, the Queen Mother still doesn't know why Zhao Ji could not enter the palace.

Due to the obstruction of the Queen Mother, Zhao Ji and Prince Ming could not enter the palace. Fortunately, they were later taken in by Yan Niang and avoided living on the streets.

After Yan Niang took in Zhao Ji and her son, she always wanted to take them away from the capital and escape to a farther place.

Yanniang spent three months to finally sell Xianghonglou to someone else. When Yanniang wanted to tell Zhaoji the truth and take Zhaoji away, the Queen Mother suddenly broke the original agreement and sent someone to Xianghonglou to take Zhaoji into the palace.

At that time, the palace sent out two teams of people, one team went directly to the residence to pick up Prince Ming, and the other team came to Xianghong Tower to pick up Zhao Ji.

Yan Niang was caught off guard by the sudden incident and had no time to take Zhao Ji away.

When Yan Niang got the news, Yun Zhen, the imperial teacher who was responsible for bringing Zhao Ji into the palace, had already sat in Zhao Ji's room.

Forced by the situation, Yan Niang had to use witchcraft to force Zhao Ji to move somewhere else.

But Yun Zhen was no ordinary person. He immediately realized that a monster was casting a spell on Zhao Ji, so he fought back with Taoist magic.

Yan Niang's magic was disturbed by Yun Zhen and went astray. She failed to move Zhao Ji's entire body to another place, but only moved Zhao Ji's soul out of her body.

Seeing Zhao Ji suddenly fainted, Yun Zhen was unwilling to give up. In order to find out the monster who cast the spell secretly, he started a magic duel with Yan Niang.

Under the strong collision of sorcery and Taoism, unexpectedly, it caused a dislocation of time and space, and accidentally sucked Ji Anni's soul from another world. Ji Anni's soul just filled Zhao Ji's empty body.

So when Ji Annie traveled through time and space, both Yun Zhen and Yan Niang were seriously injured, but Yun Zhen didn't know that the monster that attacked him was Yan Niang.

When Yun Zhen took Ji Anni to say goodbye to Yan Niang, Yan Niang actually endured the pain in her body to see them off. However, Yan Niang hid it very well, and even Yun Zhen did not notice her injury.

Yun Zhen had always misunderstood the true intention of the demon attacking Zhao Ji. He thought the demon wanted to stop Zhao Ji from entering the palace and wanted to kill her, but in fact the demon Yan Niang just wanted to move Zhao Ji away and had no intention of harming her.

Yan Niang didn't know that Zhao Ji's soul had been replaced by someone else, and she thought her magic had completely failed.

In fact her spell failed half and succeeded half.

The failure was that Soji's body was not transferred away, and the half success was that Soji's soul was transferred away.

After the fake Zhao Ji, Ji Anni, followed Yun Zhen into the palace, Yan Niang, who had sold Xiang Hong Lou, found the Queen Mother again and asked to enter the palace. The Queen Mother knew that she had violated the agreement with Yan Niang and felt guilty, so she agreed to Yan Niang's request to enter the palace.

So Yan Niang became the aunt in charge of the East and West Concubine Palaces.

After Yanniang met Zhaoji, who was also called Ji Anni after she entered the palace, she always felt that Ji Anni's behavior was suspicious, as if she had become a different person. However, Yanniang did not know what was going on, but gradually felt that Zhaoji and Yunzhen were very close. So Yanniang speculated whether Yunzhen had cast some kind of spell on Zhaoji, causing Zhaoji to become strange.

Yanniang was seriously injured at the time and dared only to doubt but not to take any action. On the second day after Ji Anni was named the imperial concubine and moved into the right courtyard, Yanniang went to the room in the East Concubine Palace where Ji Anni had lived before to check. She accidentally found a box of incense sticks left by Ji Anni, and after opening it, she found that it was actually the incense for exorcism.

At that time, Yan Niang had not yet recovered from her old injuries, her magical powers were very weak, and she immediately revealed her original form.

At the moment of her transformation, she accidentally broke the vase on the cabinet. Ji Anni, Hua Rong and Die Er were outside the door at that time. After hearing the noise, they rushed in and saw the fox stealing the fragrance.

Yanniang saw a bunch of incense sticks on the ground that had not been opened. She thought that the reason why Zhaoji became strange was all because of the incense sticks, so she took some away to check. Later, she found nothing abnormal, and Yanniang's clues stopped there.

A few days later, it was suddenly heard that Zhaoji had gone to the execution ground. Yanniang knew the danger and went to rescue her.

She rescued Zhao Ji at the critical moment, but she was stabbed. Later, she returned to Zhi Ningquan to heal her wounds. During the conversation with the Queen Mother, she heard the Queen Mother say that Zhao Ji said one sentence at the execution ground: "As long as Ji Anni is still standing here..."

After hearing these words, Yan Niang finally understood and solved the mystery that had been bothering her.

It turns out that Soji's body and soul have been separated, and now the soul in Soji's body is no longer Soji, but another stranger named "Ji Anni".

Even though Yan Niang solved the mystery of Zhao Ji's drastic change in temperament before and after entering the palace, she still didn't know where Zhao Ji's real soul was, nor did she know how to get Zhao Ji's soul back. In addition, Yan Niang was injured, so she didn't dare to act rashly, for fear of exposing her identity as a fox demon in front of Yun Zhen.

Taoists and monsters are incompatible, just like mice and cats, which are natural enemies.

On the other hand, the Queen Mother killed Yun Zhen not only to avenge Bao Er, but also to compensate Yan Niang.

The Queen Mother knew that Yanniang was injured because of Yun Zhen, and she also knew that Yanniang had always suspected that Yun Zhen had used some magic on Zhao Ji. In order to please Yanniang and make up for her mistake of breaking the contract, the Queen Mother wanted to get rid of Yun Zhen to help Yanniang get revenge, but she ended up doing more harm than good, and later Yanniang jumped out to help Zhao Ji block the knife, and was more seriously injured.

After that, the relationship between Yan Niang and the Queen Mother became even colder.

This time, a fox demon in the Demon-Suppressing Temple injured people again, and the first person the Queen Mother suspected was Yan Niang.

Even if the fox demon that bit Zhao Ji was not Yan Niang herself, it must be related to Yan Niang. But in fact, there was no fox demon that attacked Zhao Ji that night. Zhao Ji's wound was caused by Shui Furong, and the blood on the ground was Ji Anni's own.

The Queen Mother, who was trapped in the fog, became more and more afraid and worried that Yan Niang would harm her in return. She even began to regret expelling Yun Zhen, the Taoist priest who could seriously injure Yan Niang, from the palace.

It is precisely because of this that the Queen Mother asked Yan Niang with ulterior motives just now whether Yun Zhen was really that powerful.

Yan Niang had already heard the Queen Mother's fear and suspicion of her from her tone, and sneered coldly, "Queen Mother, if you are afraid that I will betray you, you should let Yun Zhen return to the palace to protect you... Are you beginning to regret expelling him from the palace?"

After being exposed by Yanniang, the smile on the Queen Mother's face gradually twisted. She didn't want to break up with Yanniang, the close friend who helped her become the Queen, but as an ordinary human being, she was really afraid that Yanniang would betray her and hurt her. She wanted to keep Yanniang, but she was afraid that her efforts would be in vain. She asked painfully: "Yanniang, what did I do wrong? ... I have already confined Zhaoji, isn't that enough? If it's not enough, can I drive Zhaoji out of the palace right now?"

"It's too late... It's already too late..." Yan Niang let out a weak laugh, lowered her head and sank herself into the hot spring.

From the moment Soji entered the palace, the wheel of fate began to turn again...

No one can stop it...

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On the other hand, in the Peach Garden of Wenhua Academy.

After Hua Rong left, Ji Anni returned to the room alone.

When Shui Furong saw Ji Anni coming back, she wanted to pester her to find out what was going on, but she saw Ji Anni's face, which was as white as a zombie. For most of the next day, Ji Anni didn't say much, but just sat quietly by the window, thinking about something blankly.

What did Hua Rong say to Ji Anni? Shui Furong's curiosity kept gnawing at his heart, torturing him to the point of going crazy.

Although Shui Furong tried hard to get something out of Ji Anni's mouth, she failed in the end.

After dark, Ji Annie went to bed early, but Shui Furong knew that Ji Annie must not have slept well that night because she could hear her tossing and turning.