- Ruo Lan warns Ruo Xi not to displease the emperor.Ruo Lan: The emperor can promote someone when he's happy. But he can also kill someone or even their family when he's upset. So even his closest family must be careful with what they say. It's the only way to survive.
- E Ling E's Cruel and Unusual Death: Yin Zhen has him tied to horses then pulled apart.
- Yu Tan’s Cruel and Unusual Death: After she got caught by Yin Zhen for spying on him despite his repeated warnings for her to stop (he had a servant paddled repeatedly even after her bum is already nothing more than a bloody mess for gossiping about palace matters and Yu Tan is being made to watch and that is supposed to make an example out of her for her trying to commit treason. That didn’t wane her persistence down because she got to the point of still continuing this by trying to strain his relationship with his oldest son Hong Shi. Most of her reasons for spying on Yin Zhen and Ruo Xi is due to her love towards Yin Tang.). The latter is sentenced to death by being steamed to death. It serves as a Squick factor since one of the servants that were being Forced to Watch her die in a gruesome manner ended up puking on the ground.
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