Chapter 581 Worse Than A Beast


    The door of the side hall was closed slowly. The empress released Harper''s hand and sat down at the


    head of the table while a maid served them hot tea. "Harper, I''m sorry to trouble you by bringing you


    here."


    "Your Majesty, it''s all right." Harper had the teacup in her hand. She sniffed at it, and there was an odd


    smell. With a gleam in her eyes, she took a slow sip, and said, "It''s my honor to talk with you."


    "It''s said that you are an intelligentdy. You are indeed very understanding," the empress said with a


    smile. "Matthew dotes on you. Even in his mansion, you are the one inmand. Everydy in the


    imperial capital admires you."


    "Yeah, that''s true," Harper said nonchntly. Then she suddenly rubbed her temples, feeling some


    difort in her head.


    The empress kept her eyes fixed on Harper, with an evil gleam in them. Harper looked up at the


    empress, and felt dizzy. Then she passed into unconsciousness.


    Nancy stepped forward to check Harper''s condition, and found that she had passed out. She nodded at


    the empress. "Call her over and get them changed."


    "Yes, Your Majesty."


    A woman emerged from an inner room. She was like a mirror image of Harper, identical to her in both


    face and figure. Nancy quickly removed Harper''s ceremonial outfit and put it on the woman. Then she


    clothed Harper with the maid-in-waiting''s clothes. After they left the side hall, she told another servant


    to take Harper away.


    After the woman put on Harper''s ceremonial outfit, she bowed to the empress and said, "Your Majesty."


    Her words and gestures were exactly the same as Harper''s. The empress nodded with satisfaction and


    extended her hand to the woman. "Harper, the banquet is to begin. Let''s go to the front hall."


    "Yes, Your Majesty." The woman came forward to apany the empress, smiling decently just as


    Harper did. Every step she took was proper and all of her words were spoken softly. Even the empress


    could detect no difference from the real Harper whatsoever, as if she were not an imposter.


    The moment the door opened, Forsythia hurried up to the false Harper. "Your Highness."


    She nodded at Forsythia. "Let''s go to the front hall."


    Forsythia followed herdy directly behind, leaving Fred in the rear. He was standing there with his


    head bowed. The false Harper passed him and nced coldly at him, but without saying a word.


    Fred''s shadow slowly faded to the end of the group and then disappeared in the darkness behind. A


    momentter, he reappeared with the rest of them, following those in the front, heading to the front hall.


    After everyone left, two maids propped up someone dressed like a maid-in-waiting, and came out of


    the room. "Good grief! Why did you have a rpse on a day like this? Aren''t you making trouble for


    others? Let''s hurry up and send her back."


    The two maids carried the unconscious maid-in-waiting briskly along, having the bearing of martial arts


    masters. Instead of going to the ce where the maids lived, they took her to the Cold Pce. As they


    went further and further, there was no other person along the way, except for the three of them.


    Suddenly there was a quick movement, and one of the maids tumbled and fell to the ground. The other


    was taken off guard and let go of her hand, but hit back at the neer with a backhander. But her


    attack was warded off and she was struck. Then she felt a sharp pain in her chest, where a dagger


    pierced her chest.


    Before she died, the maid was shocked to see the owner of the hand holding the dagger. When did


    Harper wake up?!


    Harper took the dagger out of the dead maid on the ground. Then she smiled at the neer. "It


    turned out the empress wanted to y a game with an imposter of me. But I don''t know exactly who is


    waiting for me at the Cold Pce."


    "Your Highness, let me have a check," Fred offered.


    "Thanks, please do." Harper looked at the first maid lying on the ground and quickly had an idea.


    Before long, Fred came back, his face livid with murderous anger.


    While Fred was away, Harper cleared away the dead maid''s body by putting some corrosive


    substances on it, and disguised the other one who was in aa as her.


    "I imagine there is some sort of big shot waiting for me in the Cold Pce," Harpermented with


    great curiosity. ''This is turning out to be quite an interesting banquet.''


    Fred gnashed his teeth wrathfully, and after a long pause, he squeezed two words from his teeth. "His


    Majesty."


    Harper narrowed her eyes slightly. Her doppelganger and the empress went to the Grand Hall, but the


    hero of the birthday banquet, the emperor himself, was waiting for her in the Cold Pce. She knew


    perfectly well about how much the emperor hated her, and she had no doubt about the depths of his


    depravity. It was clear that his purpose of waiting for her was to torture and vite her, but she wouldn''t


    allow his wish toe true.


    "Come here." Harper crooked her finger at Fred, indicating him toe close, and then she whispered


    in his ear. He nodded and quickly sent a message. A man came there in a quarter of an hour, with an


    unconscious woman in his arms. Harper pinched the woman''s chin and forced her to look up. It was


    the crown princess, Fiona.


    Harper put a pill in Fiona''s mouth and then did something to her face. She was remarkably fast, but


    when Fred saw Fiona''s face bing like Harper''s, he was too astonished to say a word. Then he


    saw Harper take off the crown princess''s coat, leaving her only in her underwear, and his eyes


    widened.


    "Hide this maid. Let''s send Felix''s wife to His Majesty and see what he intends to do." Harper took out


    a small mirror and changed her make-up. In a few moments, she looked like an ordinary maid-in-


    waiting, someone who would be invisible in the crowd.


    Fred and Harper, on each side of Fiona, carried her to the Cold Pce. As soon as they entered, the


    old emperor asked angrily, "Why are you sote?"


    "Your Majesty, there was a brief ident. Fortunately, we are safe and sound and have brought her


    here," Harper said in a rush.


    The emperor stepped forward and pinched the unconscious woman''s chin. He looked at her beautiful


    face, his fingers yfully moving on it, and said, "Put her down. You can leave now."


    "Yes, Your Majesty." Harper and Fred put the woman down on the bed, exchanged a nce with each


    other, went out and shut the door.


    Looking at the woman on the bed, the emperor gnashed his teeth out of hatred, and quickly took off his


    waistband, saying, "Harper Chu, when you betrayed me, did you ever imagine such an oue?


    When Matthew knows that you have been defiled, I''ll see if you still have the face to live. I won''t be the


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    As soon as he finished his words, he got on the bed and stripped off the clothes that were left on the


    woman. With absolutely no preliminary tenderness, he went straight to the point. At that moment, the


    woman woke up inexplicably. When she saw the man on top of her, her eyes opened wide in horror.


    She wanted to scream, but she couldn''t utter a peep.


    The old emperor was taken aback when he saw her wake up, but then he felt greater satisfaction with


    his revenge. He suppressed the struggling hands of the woman under his body, and his movements


    became rougher. He had an obscene and happy smile on his face. "You know what? Your frightened


    eyes make me want to rape you even more. This is the price of your betrayal!"


    Being totally unable to fathom the emperor''s words, Fiona widened her eyes in even greater disbelief.


    How could the emperor treat his daughter-inw like this? And how could she have betrayed him?


    However, no matter how much she tried to speak, she couldn''t make a sound. The immorality and


    cruelty of the emperor''s deeds were iprehensible.


    It was unusual for the emperor to perform so energetically in bed. He vented his anger but also felt a


    glow of satisfaction. When he saw the woman under his body crying ceaselessly, powerless to resist,


    his excitement increased and he wanted to torture her more and more. He altered his position and


    Fiona had already lost all her will to struggle. She was exhausted and weakened, so she justy


    passively, letting the emperor do whatever he wanted.


    About an hourter, the old emperor finally climaxed. He got off Fiona, wiped himself with her


    underwear, and then threw it at her face. Then he dressed himself and opened the door. As he walked


    out, hemanded, "Send her to the back gate."


    "Yes, Your Majesty."


    Harper walked to the bedside and saw Fiona lying on the bed, with hopeless and spiritless eyes. She


    sent her back to unconsciousness with a needle, and then put the ceremonial outfit of the crown


    princess on her again. She ordered a servant to leave Fiona at a ce near the Grand Hall. Fiona


    would never reveal this to anyone if no one found out.


    Then Harper pulled out the hidden maid who was her doppelganger, and made some scratch marks on


    her body. She wanted to find out what had been nned for her.


    The two of them carried the maid directly to the back gate of the Imperial Pce, where purchasers


    went through. Apparently, the n was to drive her out of the pce.


    "Fred, go and tell Matthew..."


    "His Highness ordered me to follow you closely. If you suffer the loss of even one hair on your body, I''ll


    have tomit suicide." Fred didn''t dare to leave Harper''s side. This was a crucial moment, and who


    knew how many people wanted to kill Harper?


    "Well, then you will apany me to see who is behind this."


    Both Harper and Fred put ck cloaks on themselves, as well as on the maid they carried. As soon as


    the three of them appeared at the back gate, they saw a carriage waiting for them. When the carriage


    saw them approach, someone stepped forward to bring the maid into it, and then the carriage slowly


    drove away from the Imperial Pce.


    The two of them turned around and pretended to leave, but hid in a corner. "Find a way to follow that


    carriage."


    "Aren''t you going back to the Grand Hall, Your Highness?"


    "There is another Princess Harper in the hall now," Harper said, smiling slyly. She wanted to know how


    Matthew would react when he saw a false Harper. Would he recognize her?


    "Your Highness, are you leaving the pce?"


    "I certainly am." Harper asked Fred to get two sets of eunuch''s uniforms. After putting them on, they


    quietly followed others out of the pce. After confirming the direction in which the carriage set off,


    they chased after it.