The Female Psychology PhD Who Time Traveled to the Royal Harem

"I will kill you, you demon!"

"Click!"

Among the shocked and panicked gazes of the palace attendants, amidst the obstructions and interceptions, Jiang Xinyue lightly snapped her fingers. The emperor's misty eyes finally refocused.

He raised his head, looking at the sword he had raised high, then looked around at the palace attendants, guards, and ministers who were blocking him.

What was he doing?

"Clang!"

The long sword fell to the ground, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hypnosis?"

Several trusted ministers patted their chests: "The Jin Kingdom actually has such extraordinary and gifted people? If it weren't for the timely discovery by the Empress Dowager and her early precautions, the consequences would be unimaginable."

What could be more unimaginable?

If they had handed over the real military deployment map of the Eastern Expedition Army, the three thousand strong Eastern Expedition Army would have been annihilated, the border people would have been impoverished, and would have become slaves of the Jin Kingdom, living like pigs and dogs.

Fortunately, fortunately...

The military deployment map was a fake one that the emperor had asked the painter Xie Chenghui to recreate in advance. Everything was false, a trap set against the Jin Kingdom.

However, the Empress Dowager's sacrifices for the authenticity of this operation were truly enormous.

For more than ten consecutive days, she had to face a palace full of phantoms every day and endure the emperor, who was hypnotized, pursuing and trying to kill her.

The ministers and the emperor's most trusted palace attendants and guards had all received secret edicts beforehand, stating that the emperor might go mad during these days and attempt to harm the Empress Dowager, and they had to absolutely, definitely, and without fail, stop him.

After the emissary delegation of the Jin Kingdom left, the emperor would explain everything to them.

Jiang Yankun, Jiang Hewei, and the Cavalry General were all present. They were the main forces.

During this period, except for the time they were sleeping, they were almost always summoned to the palace for meetings.

In fact, they were guarding the emperor to prevent him from going to Kunning Palace to harm the Empress Dowager.

When the emperor charged forward with his sword earlier, the three of them were at the forefront, holding the emperor's waist, gripping his wrist, and encircling his thigh.

They were well-practiced, as they had been doing this for the past few days.

However, they did not expect that after receiving intelligence that the Jin Kingdom's emissary delegation had already left the capital for several hundred miles with a guard escort, the Empress Dowager would snap her fingers and awaken the emperor.

How did she do it?

Jiang Yankun was also astonished: "Empress Dowager, do you also know hypnosis?"

His own daughter, whom he had watched grow up, now felt unfamiliar to him.

"Pfft!"

Jiang Xinyue laughed: "Father, your daughter doesn't know anything about hypnosis. I just happened to have read a few more miscellaneous books than others, so I took advantage of the arrogance of the Jin Kingdom's hypnotist and made her fall into her own trap instead."

As for how she used mirrors to make the Jin people fall into their own hypnosis, Jiang Xinyue didn't elaborate, since no one would inquire further, they would only think she was very capable.

In reality, the emperor had already been hypnotized by Jiang Xinyue before leaving for the palace banquet.

The emperor trusted Jiang Xinyue, believed in her, so hypnotizing the emperor was much simpler than hypnotizing him with Hei Yun.

However, the emperor's will was strong and extraordinary, so Jiang Xinyue hypnotized him only to tell him that no matter who hypnotized him, as long as he heard her snap, he would immediately wake up.

In her careful handling of the emperor, Jiang Xinyue had already reached the extreme.

If she wanted to use hypnosis to have the emperor abdicate in favor of the crown prince, it wasn't impossible, but it was unnecessary.

The risk assessment was too high.

The real military deployment map was something the emperor had Grand Preceptor Jing hide on a day he didn't know about, and the fake map was brought to the emperor by Xie Chenghui himself.

At that time, Xie Chenghui had said, "Your Majesty, the original military deployment map has faded a bit; I have drawn a new one."

To deceive Su Yanran thoroughly, they had to deceive themselves as well.

This was the same method Jiang Xinyue used when she hypnotized herself, telling herself that there was someone pulling her under the lake.

Those mirrors were not what made Hei Yun fall into her own hypnosis; on the day Su Yanran invited Jiang Xinyue to the imperial garden to admire the snow, when the cup fell and broke, Hei Yun had already been hypnotized by Jiang Xinyue.

Those mirrors were just to make her relax and believe she had the upper hand, thus becoming careless.

If she had been as vigilant as Jiang Xinyue, as a hypnotist, Jiang Xinyue might not have succeeded.

But Hei Yun was too arrogant, thinking that there could not be a hypnotist more skilled than her in the world, and that Jiang Xinyue's idea of using mirrors to reflect and hypnotize her was too childish, even rudimentary, and demonstrated a lack of understanding of hypnosis.

She never expected that the Jiang Xinyue she had hypnotized not only had superb professional skills but also was completely unafraid of ghosts.

As soon as the ghosts appeared, she knew they were fake and didn't believe them, so the hypnosis naturally didn't work.

Hei Yun and Jiang Xinyue almost simultaneously hypnotized each other, but Jiang Xinyue immediately realized she was being hypnotized, while Hei Yun still hasn't realized it.

Who is superior and who is inferior has already been decided.

Everyone listened with mixed understanding. Seeing the senior officials nodding continuously, appearing very intelligent, they too looked at the Empress Dowager with admiration.

They didn't dare to ask, either!

If the big shots didn't ask, and they did, wouldn't it make them look too stupid?

So, just knowing that the Jin people tried to harm the emperor but were outwitted by their Empress Dowager was good enough.

Not being taken advantage of is good enough.

The emperor dismissed everyone and held Jiang Xinyue tightly, unwilling to let go: "I saw you being killed by the Jin Kingdom's hypnotist. You became that hypnotist, which is why I was determined to kill you."

Jiang Xinyue hugged him back: "I know, Your Majesty was hypnotized by her, and whatever you did is understandable. I am not angry."

"But I am angry with myself."

He tightened his arms around Jiang Xinyue: "How could my willpower be so weak? How could I not recognize you? How could I raise my sword against you?"

Even if he was hypnotized, he shouldn't have been that way.

Jiang Xinyue caressed his back to comfort him: "Yelang, don't get too caught up in it. No one will blame you for this. I'm fine, and you've made all the necessary preparations, haven't you?"

Most importantly, she had given herself an extra layer of security by silently hypnotizing the emperor.

As long as she snapped her fingers, she could wake him up whenever she wanted.

"I will never let such a thing happen again."

The emperor nuzzled her neck: "Yue'er, I'm sorry."

His guilt reached its peak, and Jiang Xinyue couldn't help but laugh: "Your Majesty, there is always someone better than us in the world. I always accept that there are people more skilled than me. But I will never admit defeat, so I can always stay one step ahead. The Jin people are despicable, resorting to such underhanded methods. Our Great Yan is a great country, and we despise such tactics. If we want to fight, we can turn the Jin Kingdom into chaos."

Therefore, it wasn't that the emperor was weak; it was just that the Jin Kingdom was too shameless.

Jiang Xinyue conveyed this message to the emperor.