King's Regrets
The Eps 64

The next day, concubine Ning's father was dragged and thrown on the floor of the palace courtroom.

In front of him, sat a court chief and several other court officials who would try and interrogate Ning's concubine's father.

Concubine Ning's father's face was pale, as he had eaten nothing all day for fear of severe punishment, after emperor Shun saw all the evidence of crimes and tax evasion he had committed over the years.

Concubine Ning's father was also thinking about what reason he should not be punished by emperor Shun.

The head of the court looked at concubine Ning's father kneeling on the floor while looking down helplessly.

Next to concubine Ning's father stood a few bodyguards and two palace executioners carrying a large piece of wood and a rope to beat up concubine Ning's father, if he was unwilling to admit his deeds, very strong evidence is already in the hands of the head of the court.

"I'll ask you, do you confess to all your crimes?" Said the head of the court to concubine Ning's father.

Concubine Ning's father looked up at the head of the court, he then shook his head.

"No, I'm in a fitnah. I have never done that, I am a prime minister who is very loyal to the emperor. I never did that."

"Don't slap! All the evidence is here. Books of income and tax expenditure from the people, as well as your personal income and expenditure books! Are you going to keep lying to your highness with this hard evidence?"

"I really didn't do it, I was slandered. I have been defamed." concubine Ning's father continued to deny his actions in front of the chief justice.

Seeing if concubine Ning's father was unwilling to admit it, the head of the court looked at the supervisor's head and nodded his head.

One of the men carrying a piece of wood walked up to concubine Ning's father and swung the piece of block at concubine Ning's father's body several times.

"Aakhhh! Aakhs! Don't hit again. I'm really slandered, don't hit again. Forgive me!" Shouted concubine Ning's father.

Fresh blood came out from the clothes that concubine Ning's father was wearing as a result of the beam blow from the palace executioner.

"Do you still want to deny it?" Asked the head of the court again to concubine Ning's father after she was no longer beaten up.

"Check, uhuk. L am... I didn't do it. This is the cruel slander that others have thrown at me."

"Well, because with this evidence you're still in denial, I'm going to meet you with a witness who will make you no longer able to deny your evil deeds."

Concubine Ning's father was surprised, he had absolutely no idea if there would be a witness coming into the palace courtroom.

"Bring him in." The head of the court addressed one of the palace guards.

The palace guards entered the courtroom with a man in his 30s. Both the man's legs were in chains, as were his hands fastened by a rope. His body also had some injuries, such as being beaten.

Bruuk!

The palace guards pushed the man's body until he fell on the floor.

Concubine Ning's father looked at the man in disbelief, the man beside him was the one who had always helped him in committing the crimes that he had been doing.

No one knew about the man, no one even knew where the man had lived all this time. But at this time, concubine Ning's father saw her with his own two eyes, if the person who had helped her was also caught and became a witness in the courtroom.

After a witness was brought in, the head of the court continued his interrogation to concubine Ning's father.

Several times concubine Ning's father was beaten up because she still did not want to admit her mistake, even though the witness beside her had admitted to what concubine Ning's father had been doing all this time.

"No, I am the father of concubine Ning. Your noble concubine. Your Majesty must believe that I have been slandered." Said concubine Ning's father who could no longer think after being beaten up by the palace executioner.

"It seems you don't know if concubine Ning is currently in the inner palace prison, because of the crimes she had committed on the previous empress."

Concubine Ning's father's eyes rounded hearing the news about her daughter.

Not yet had Ning's concubine's father continue his words, she fell and was unconscious.

After that, the head of the court representing Emperor Shun sentenced Ning's concubine father to death and the person who had helped her. Emperor Shun also ordered to take all the wealth of the Ning concubine family, and send the entire Ning concubine family to a place of seclusion that was at the border.

While concubine Ning was sentenced to death by drinking poison, and she would do so in front of the people of the Qin state, as a sense of regret towards the empress Yan. And also for the people of the Qin state to know more about the consequences of people who dare to commit crimes to members of the royal family.

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Two days after the death sentence against concubine Ning's father and also concubine Ning came out, concubine Ning was on the arak from the inner palace prison towards the outer hall that was in the middle of the capital. His hands and feet were in chains, he was also no longer wearing the usual fine and luxurious clothes.

Above the hall was a small table upon which was a bowl of poison that concubine Ning would drink.

The folk who saw concubine Ning coming, pelted concubine Ning with rotten vegetables as well as other stale foods.

"Basic of cruel man!"

"Baseless woman is shameless!"

"Just kill you bad woman!"

Various kinds of curse of the people of the Qin state sounded alternately, as well as rotten vegetables and stale food that flew and hit the body of concubine Ning.

Concubine Ning who still could not believe the emperor's decision for her, stared at the poison-filled bowl on the table blankly.

Her tears flowed down her pale and dirty face from the rotten vegetables that were thrown at her.

"Record emperor!" Speak the head of the guard loudly.

Instantly all the people prostrated themselves to listen to the edict of the emperor.

"Because of the crimes that concubine Ning had committed against the previous empress. On this day, I Xuan Li the emperor of the state of Qin revoked the title of concubine that was on him. And after this edict was read out, Ning's former concubine had to drink the poison she had provided as punishment for her great crime."

Concubine Ning closed her eyes as the emperor's edict finished reading, her head lowered helplessly. Everything she had done for the sake of becoming a queen was in vain, even her family had vanished from the Qin state.

With tears continuing to flow, concubine Ning stared at the bowl filled with poison that was in front of her.

"Your Majesty, I want your majesty to know. Even though I died, I still admired and liked the noble sincerely. Hopefully in the next life we can meet and become a couple with many children, and live happily."

Concubine Ning raised the bowl filled with poison with trembling hands, she bit her lips which also trembled.

In one gulp, concubine Ning finished the bowl of poison and before long her body fell down, her head hitting the floor of the hall violently.

"Xuan Li, goodbye."

Consort Ning died after she spewed fresh blood from inside her mouth.

The tragic death of concubine Ning was witnessed by many. And it became a story rooted in the people of the state of Qin, about a concubine who committed many crimes in order to become a queen.

***

Xia Lian An who knew that day was the day Ning concubine was on death row, stared straight out her bedroom jade.

"Goodway concubine Ning, hopefully in your next life you can become a better human being." Xia Lian An said softly.

Now the original body owner's grudge to concubine Ning and her family has been avenged. And next, he would avenge the family of the Qing prime minister, who had killed the birth mother of the original body owner.

"Prepare Qing prime minister, you're next."