Quick Transmigration: Underdog Turns out to be Untouchable

Chapter 914: Chapter 825: Unwilling to Be a Slave 45

Nanny Yun was not afraid of death. Before she decided to do this thing, she already knew that regardless of whether it succeeded or not, she was doomed to die. Even after success, the people taking care of Jing Jieyu’s Dragon Embryo with her would also be implicated and die.

However, as long as she thought of how her child could benefit from this for a lifetime, she would disregard everything and fear nothing. No one was more important than her own child, and she could sacrifice everything for her child, ignoring the lives or deaths of others.

So now, even though she knew the glimmer of hope Nangong Shuangshuang mentioned was very slim, because if she spoke out, those behind her would never let her betrayal go. Still, this was a glimmer of hope, better than certain death.

At this moment, Nanny Yun no longer cared about how powerful and terrifying the people behind her were. All she could think about was seizing this glimmer of hope for her child!

Without much internal struggle, Nanny Yun decided to take a gamble and seize this glimmer of hope for her child. Yet, Nanny Yun still looked towards Jing Jieyu for confirmation, ”Empress, is it so, that if I expose the mastermind behind the scenes, as Miss Nangong said, you will indeed provide a sum of money for my family so they can escape from here?”

Jing Jieyu naturally did not wish to forgive the vicious family of this Nanny Yun, but she could distinguish the gravity of the situation. Knowing that uncovering the person behind the scenes was the most important thing, she restrained the murderous intent in her heart, nodded, acknowledging Nangong Shuangshuang’s previous words.

Nanny Yun’s body suddenly relaxed. She gave a bitter smile and said, ”I confess, only hoping that you will keep your promise, not failing your word.”

Jing Jieyu snorted coldly, ”You are just a knife in the hands of others. Though I abhor you, it doesn’t reach the level where I hold grudges. I promise, as long as you confess, I will give your family a thousand taels of silver, enabling them to escape the Capital City and live out their days in wealth and leisure.”

Nanny Yun smiled bitterly; she didn’t know if she could trust Jing Jieyu’s words, but she had no choice but to believe them, for this was her family’s only chance of survival. Hence, Nanny Yun promptly revealed who the mastermind was.

”Empress, you have been longing to find out who has been harming you, but once you know, what can you do? You are utterly helpless against her because the one who instigated me to do this is the current Empress Dowager!”

A single sentence was like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, leaving Jing Jieyu stunned. Her first reaction was that Nanny Yun was lying, pointing at Nanny Yun, rebuking, ”Impossible! The Empress Dowager is the Emperor’s mother! How could she harm the Emperor’s child? Nanny Yun, how dare you falsely accuse the Empress Dowager!”

At this point, instead of being flustered, Nanny Yun became calm, her face losing the previous look of distress, and she gazed steadily and indifferently at Jing Jieyu, saying decisively, ”What I said is the truth, it was indeed the Empress Dowager who instigated me.

Everyone cherishes their lives. Although dying might enable the family to gain wealth, who would willingly trade their life for family riches? I would rather my family not be rich, and stay alive with them. If I could refuse, I would have, but I had no way to evade it, and couldn’t evade it.”

Seeing Jing Jieyu still in shock, disbelief written all over her face, Nanny Yun gave a bitter smile and continued: ”Don’t say you can’t believe this, when the nanny by the Empress Dowager’s side first found me, even I couldn’t believe the Empress Dowager would have me do such a thing.

But the fact is as such. Every word I said is true. The Empress Dowager is deeply scheming, and she hasn’t given me a single cent nor my family any money, yet she offered me something I couldn’t refuse. If there is a single falsehood in what I told you, may my entire family meet a terrible end!”

This was a heavy oath for Nanny Yun. The ancients believed that there were ghosts and gods, so many people, even the malicious, dared not swear oaths because they thought pledges were made before the gods and would be fulfilled. So as soon as Nanny Yun swore, Jing Jieyu began to waver.

But Jing Jieyu still found it hard to believe that the Empress Dowager would harm a pregnant concubine and plot against the Emperor’s offspring. It was truly bizarre; the prestigious status of the Empress Dowager was granted by the Emperor, how could she harm the Emperor’s child?

The more Jing Jieyu thought, the more she found it incredible, involuntarily muttering, ”It shouldn’t be. Why would the Empress Dowager target me? I rarely visited her for morning greetings because she liked quietness and didn’t allow disturbances. There’s no reason!”

”There is a reason.” Suddenly, Nangong Shuangshuang spoke. From the beginning to the end, she was the only one not surprised, as she had already thought that this might have been done by the Empress Dowager.

Of course, it wasn’t impossible for other concubines either, but other concubines wouldn’t have such sharp means. This had to do with the current Emperor’s personality. The Emperor was considered a wise ruler, adept at handling his ministers, so he didn’t need to draw closer to them by bringing their daughters into the palace.

Additionally, the Emperor particularly disliked having high officials’ daughters in the palace, believing they were more likely to breed selfish motives, fearing these concubines would desire sons to seize the throne. Once grown, these sons might use backgrounds to form cliques and threaten his reign.

Since there were plenty of beauties in the world for him to choose from, there was no need to select the daughters of high officials. Therefore, during the selection, most daughters of high officials were dismissed and married freely.

Most of the concubines in the Emperor’s harem were daughters of minor officials or beautiful palace maids he took a fancy to, which was why the Emperor’s harem consisted mostly of low-ranking concubines, as they lacked background, low status sufficed.

Jing Jieyu looked up at Nangong Shuangshuang, dazed for a long time before speaking, ”Shuangshuang, wouldn’t it be more likely to be those concubines or even the Empress rather than the Empress Dowager? The Empress Dowager has no reason.”

”Empress, you feel the harem concubines want to harm you, which they certainly do. But have you ever thought if they have the means to harm you?

Among the harem concubines, those of low rank have humble family backgrounds, none have the capability to have Nanny Yun’s two sons become officials.

Enabling a scholar to become an official isn’t difficult; it doesn’t even require high rankings, a scholar suffices. But to make a commoner without any title an official is like having a commoner govern a group of learned scholars. This difficulty is only surmountable by someone of high power and authority.

Among the high-ranking concubines, Lady and Lianpin have ordinary backgrounds, their positions earned through the Emperor’s favor and affection. Bai Ronghua and Ruan Zhaoyi also lack backgrounds. Ruan Zhaoyi even needs to rely on Lady Xuan to establish herself as Zhaoyi in the harem.”