Wang Yue had no objections. After all, Lei Chun's father was his father-in-law, and if he wasn't there when she was married, the wedding wouldn't be complete.
So, on the day Lei Chun was married, Wang Yue really did release Lei Sun. But he was out only for a short while. As soon as the wedding was over, Wang Yue sent him straight back to Jiangnan to be kept under guard.
Su Mengzhen knew why Lei Sun had gone, and from that day onward, he fell silent. He knew his Chun Er had truly left with someone else.
Wang Yue paid no mind to how the two of them felt and continued with his own affairs. He also began slowly poisoning the emperor, having the Imperial Physician note the symptoms in the medical records and stand ready for His Majesty's imminent departure from this world.
But before the emperor died, Wang Yue first made Lady Wang, the birth mother of the Prince of Yun, empress. Then he appointed the Prince of Yun Crown Prince.
Still, before the emperor's death, Wang Yue used his position to accomplish one major thing.
Cai Jing and the others, whose efforts to recruit the rebels had failed, were thrown into the Imperial Prison by the Imperial City Department. An investigation into Cai Jing's crimes began at the same time.
Under Di Feijing's swift, decisive leadership, the Imperial City Department underwent a bloody purge. So many heads rolled that no one knew how many had fallen, but in the end, the department was made entirely loyal to the emperor.
What pleased Wang Yue most about Di Feijing's work was that the purge covered not only the Imperial City Department's original ranks but also the forces of Six and a Half Hall.
The transformed Imperial City Department