"When you've enjoyed the good life for too long, you start courting death, and no one can stop you!"
"Now that the Four Kingdoms are united, the princesses hold even more exalted positions than before. The emperor's in-laws are basking in more glory than you can imagine."
"Exactly. Only a fool like Gao Jun could fail to understand the current situation and dare to do something like this."
Two hours later, the men the emperor had sent out returned.
As the emperor looked at the findings on his desk, his face grew so dark it could have dripped ink.
The contents went far beyond what Princess Jiahe had told him. His beloved daughter had been forced to watch Gao Jun and that concubine's moods just to get through her days in her own residence. After she gave birth to those two children, her life had plummeted even further...
Gao Jun frequently sent things from the princess's residence to Marquis Xuanming's Residence...
The emperor did not believe for a moment that Marquis Xuanming knew nothing about what went on in the princess's residence!
Gao Jun sent things back so often. How could the emperor believe Marquis Xuanming never asked about them?
That old bastard had deliberately played deaf and dumb...
The emperor cursed furiously:
"Marquis Xuanming, Gao Jun, you've really outdone yourselves!
You both deserve to die!
Guards, draft an edict!"
"Yes, Your Majesty."
While Song Yaoyao was still on duty at the Imperial Medical Academy, she received word that everyone at Marquis Xuanming's Residence had been executed, and Gao Jun had been sentenced to death by a thousand cuts!
Song Yaoyao was not at all surprised by this outcome.
What Gao Jun had done was not merely a slap in the emperor's face. He had challenged imperial authority