No one serving at Qianqing Palace dared to utter a sound.
Eunuch De Fu was the one that defended them before, so the people at Qianqing Palace did not live a very high-risk life. However, now that De Fu was sent into prison, those minor eunuchs and maids would probably have no chance to defend themselves, even if they were sentenced to death because of a badly-served tea.
They shivered in terror, their legs trembling.
That had become a normal thing in Qianqing Palace.
The King had no energy to care about those people. With a sunken expression, he thought about the Shadow Door. After he got the immortal pills, he was going to get rid of the Crown Prince and then send people to dig his eighth son out. He was going to chop that son of his into eight pieces. Then, he was going to remove the Shadow Door.
