1 Chapter 1 - National Disaster Poison Empress

The dark and damp cell was swept by rats and ants, also smelled so bad. In the imperial city of Qin Dynasty, all the prisoners who entered here were extremely wicked and unforgivable, no one could get out alive.

In the innermost part of the cell, a man with a shaggy hair was sitting against the cell wall. His face was sallow and swollen, the scars on the corners of his mouth were clearly visible. It was the traces left after being slapped with great force. The eyes are intertwined with lifelessness and despair, the man is full of heartbreak and loveless breath.

"Empress, please here."

With the sound of flattery, the two jailers walked over with people in tow. The head was a woman with a beautiful face, and a white dress made it even more ethereal and dusty, as if a fairy falling from the clouds.

The group stopped in front of the cell. Seeing that the people inside didn't notice anything, the jailer took the initiative to open the cell, and the woman waved her hand.

"Go out, I want to say goodbye to fifth brother."

"Yes, yes."

The palace maid who followed the woman threw an ingot of gold to the jailer, and the two jailers nodded their heads, bowed and left.

From beginning to end, the man sitting in the cell didn't move, not even raising his eyelids. The woman didn't seem to care, she walked up to him and looked down at him condescendingly, as if she was looking down at ant. Moist and bright eyes are filled with intense hatred and pride.

"Fifth brother." Didn't know how long the woman squatted down to look at him. The man's lifeless eyes were forced to meet her.

"Fifth brother? I don't dare to have a sister like you in my palace."

Qin Yunshen personally pointed to him that day. He poisoned the Emperor, killed the heirs of royal clan, and forced to be the culprit. His good sister was one of the most important players. He was blind and stupid. He paid for it in ten years sincerely. I believe that the so-called lover and relatives will fall into this field.

"My palace? Hahaha…" Hearing his claim, the woman covered her mouth and sneered sarcastically.

"Fifth brother think he is still an Empress with more than 10.000 people? It is a ridiculous. Fifth brother doesn't know yet. Your Majesty has already made an order today. Choose a day to make me the Empress, as for you, you are nothing more than a disaster for the Emperor." Catching the pain that flashed on his face, the woman smiled brightly and the hatred in her eyes did not fade.

"Really? You are an adulterer with an adulteress; you are a perfect match." After a short period of being dazed, Shen Liang suppressed his nausea and turned indifferent. Before he changed his mind, he would definitely feel like being stabbed. In the past ten years, he has always loved Qin Yunshen so much that he could not kill him several times, but after he personally pointed out that he poisoned the Emperor and the Princes; named him "the poisonous empress". He finally recognized the truth, Qin Yunshen has never loved him. He has always loved the Nether Guardian behind him, a force that his daddy left him all over the world.

"You…" The woman was furious. She didn't expect it to take away everything from Shen Liang. He still has someone, but… it seemed something had been crossed in her thought. The woman smiled and approached him quietly. The woman said;

"Fifth brother doesn't seem to care about his life and death. What if it is the General's Mansion? Doesn't fifth brother care?"

"What do you mean?" Shen Liang's pupil shrank, could it be that…

Finally hit him in pain, the woman stepped back a little;

"The General Wei's Mansion supported its own soldiers and intended to rebel. There was more than 100 people in the Wei clan. Not even the babies escaped bad luck. They were all cut down by Your Majesty's order."

"No, impossible. Grandfather has…." Shen Liang's calm heart was completely broken, his sallow and swollen face was full of panic. When he disbanded the Nether Guardian, he lost all the power to resist.

"Is there poison book of Wei?" The woman snatched his words and sneered;

"Fifth brother, you are really fateful. Although when your daddy insisted on marrying our father, the General Wei's Mansion broke contract with our Dongling Mansion. But General Wei still took out the poison book of Wei to rescue you the first time, but they may not even think of it in their dreams. All this is to eliminate the arrangements they made, including the Emperor asking you to dissolve the Nether Guardian. Fifth brother really harm the Wei clan. You are the one with all their bloods, hahaha…."

"No, no. Qin Yunshen can't…."

It's all gone. Panicked and helpless, Shen Liang couldn't say anything. When Qin Yunshen was not the most favoured prince, he married him and became the fourth princess. After that, Dongling Mansion and his daddy left him the Nether Guardian. He became Qin Yunshen most important assistance, although General Wei's Mansion did not support it, even his grandfather and several uncles said that Qin Yunshen was not someone who could be trusted, under his will they did not hinder anything. For nearly ten years, he was doing his best helping Qin Yunshen and his great cause of seizing the throne at all costs. But after Qin Yunshen took the throne, he was the first to be deal with and Qin Yunshen personally put the charge of poisoning the Emperor on him. Being so cruel to him, Qin Yunshen won't leave General Wei's Mansion alone.

Thinking of this, Shen Liang closed his eyes sadly, tears of regret slid down his cheeks, it was him his blindness that blinded General Wei's Mansion and killed more than one hundred lives in his grandfather clan.

"Ahhhhhh…..." The cruel truth became the last straw that overwhelmed him, holding his head in pain and screaming, his ears slowly shed blood.

"One more thing, fifth brother may not know. Big brother's death was not an accident. Oh, he also died because of you. Let me think about it, how many people died for you…." The more in pain he is, the happier the woman will be and her delicate lips reveal the cruel truth.

"What…." Hearing what the woman said, Shen Liang stood up and squeezed her shoulders like crazy. The woman screamed in fright. When she raised her eyes, not only his ears but his eyes, nostril and mouth were all bleeding. As if seeing ghost, the woman, the eunuchs and palace maids who came with her were so scared, they even forgot to struggle and call for help.

"How did my brother die? Did you kill him? Didn't you?" Shen Liang was completely mad, and all that came to mind were his brother and Wei clan, who all die in blood bath.

"Let go, let me go. You are all death don't pull him away from me soon, hurry up." After returning to her senses, the woman swept away her previous excitement, turned her pale face with fright and screamed in shock. Hearing her scream, the eunuchs and palace maids around her came back to their senses, one after another rushing forward and trying to pull him away.

"Shen Qiang, did you kill my brother? Did you…." Didn't where he got the strength, several eunuchs and palace maids couldn't pull him away, his cold hands were tight as iron clamps. Clamping his arms tightly, heart-piercing questions resounded throughout the cell.

"Bump…." The eunuch slammed Shen Liang's arm with a punch, and Shen Qiang who was caught felt that her shoulder was about to be crushed. At this moment, Shen Liang couldn't think of anything, just crazy and stubborn. He screamed;

"Is it you, did you kill my brother, did you?"

At that time when Shen Liang was born, he was accused by a well-known Taoist priest as the evil star. It happened that his daddy was death because of his birth. He died of blood loss, his father hated him and he was about to be thrown to death in the spot. It was his elder brother, the eldest son of Dongling Mansion who was just five years old, Shen Da was crying and saved him. It was also because of him, Shen Da ran away from home at the age of fifteen. In the end, his elder brother died on the battlefield. The body was hung on the wall by the enemy to humiliate and demonstrate.

For a long time, Shen Liang thought that the death of his elder brother was an accident and was caused by irresistible factors on the battlefield, but now Shen Qiang told him that his elder brother did not die by accident but was killed by him. The cruel truth is out, how does he accept it?

"What the matter? I blame you for not taking my brother's son as the heir, damn Shen Da. Damn you, chopped off his arm for me." Shen Qiang was also crazy, accumulation of jealousy and resentment since childhood. It all surged upwards, and there was no more beauty and dusty appearance all over her body.

"Yes."

"Ah…." Two people suddenly came out, He saw a flash of knife and Shen Liang's two arms that tightly gripping Shen Qiang were cut off from his shoulder, blood spurted out and dyed everything in red. Shen Qiang also got sprayed all over, the eunuchs and palace maids were frightened and scattered.

"Bump!" Without restraint, he was beaten by people for a long time and lost his arms. He fell to the ground with loud sounds. His whole body was completely red with blood and his two severed arms fell beside him. But the pain in his body is far inferior to the pain in his heart. Shen Liang only hates why he is so stupid; he didn't know the truth until today.

"Does my brother's death have anything to do with Qin Yunshen?" When the pain and hatred reached the extreme, Shen Liang didn't feel anything, even if his severed arms still bleeding.

"Shen Da and us are not the same, but he has made great achievements. Do you think with him, the Emperor can marry you?"

Is it true?

Hearing this, Shen Liang thought that his heart already numbs from the pain but slipped through a sharp pain. Like Wei clan, his elder brother really died because of him.

"Do you know why the Emperor made me the Empress? In addition to my personal reasons, there is also the help of father. Father has long reached an agreement with the Emperor. As long as he controls the court, he will abolish you and establish me. In Shen clan except for the dead Shen Da, no one regards you as relative. It's funny, you are not even as good as dog in Shen clan." Shen Qiang, who was covered in blood, squatted in front of him again. Shen Liang slowly raised his head.

"Puff!" A mouthful of blood sprayed her face fiercely.

"Why not as good as a dog? No matter how many times I die, I will still be the son of Dongling Mansion, the Empress of Qin Yunshen, you are just a concubine. You can sit still in the back position. Today, Qin Yunshen can disregard my love for many years in order to destroy my grandfather. He can also abolish you, Shen Qiang, in order to destroy the Dongling Mansion. You humiliate me and those who laugh at me, I will turn into a ghost to watch your fate!" His cold eyes, with blood and tears, staring at Shen Qiang firmly. At this moment, there is no trace of warmth in his heart. After turning into a real national disaster, if given a chance, there is no doubt that he would definitely destroy the entire Qin Dynasty.

Obviously, she didn't expect Shen Liang to resist, Shen Qiang was angry with the blood sprayed to her face.

"Beat him, beat him to death."

"Yes!"

A group of eunuchs and palace maids swarmed up again, facing Shen Liang punched and kicking his body. This time, Shen Liang didn't let out a cry of pain and his eyes with bloody tears were locked shut.

"Gouged out his eyes." Sweeping her sight on him, Shen Qiang's heart jumped and a shudder ran through her body.

"Papa…" the sharp blade came out of its sheath and the cold light slid over. Two bloody balls of flesh fell to the ground and his eyes were bloody. His eye sockets turned hollow but he still didn't sigh. He faced Shen Qiang by feeling, with bloody mouth he said;

"Shen Qiang and Qin Yunshen, even if I turn into a ghost, I will haunt you, life and death."

"Bam…." After made a vow, without waiting for others to do anything, Shen Liang slammed his head against the ground fiercely. Breaking his skull, brain and blood spilling all over the floor.

Two hours later, the Imperial study room.

"Your Majesty, there is news from the death row. Empress Shen… has committed suicide in fear of sin." It seems that the young eunuch hurriedly entered the Imperial study room. Qin Yunshen, who was reviewing memorial, was shocked. The cinnabar was dripping on the memorial and his handsome face quickly flashed with something then disappeared again, as if it had never happened.

"Prepare for the burial." After no knowing for how long, Qin Yunshen picked up another memorial, spit out the words indifferently about Shen Liang's death.

"Yes." The eunuch took a careful look at him, didn't dare to ask how to prepare burial, bowed back respectfully.

When he was the only on left in the Imperial study room, Qin Yunshen threw the cinnabar pen and leaned back, thinking about it. Shen Liang… is dead? He never thought of letting him die.