"No need for formalities! I left the palace without permission." After saying this, Chen Yu pushed aside King Jing and ripped the cloth bag off the prisoner's head.

The prisoner had a dark face and narrow, cunning eyes, clearly not Gu Luo.

She immediately stepped back, pointed at the prisoner, and said, "Strip him of his clothes."

The guards looked troubled and all turned to look at King Jing.

King Jing nodded slightly, but the prisoner suddenly knelt down and pleaded, "Your Majesty, I burned that corpse to avenge you! You have treated the people kindly, distributing grain, medicine, and cotton year after year. I am deeply grateful and wish to be loyal to you. Please do not strip me naked! If this gets out, how can I face anyone..."

Shen Yu was puzzled. If this person was Yu Lang, he would never have said such a thing. However, where exactly did Gu Luo go?

She immediately rushed to the execution chamber, which was brightly lit, but there was not a single prisoner in sight.

[Your Majesty, please return to the palace immediately. Eunuch Wei has been waiting outside for some time.]

Shen Yu turned her head and saw Prince Jing walking towards her. When he stopped in front of her, she angrily slapped him and shouted, "You knew Gu Luo's true identity, so why did you still kill him! Speak! Speak!"

Shen Yu clutched at Jing Wang's clothes and screamed, tears streaming down her face. Gu Luo was Yu Lang. Gu Luo was gone, Yu Lang was gone, and she had missed Yu Lang again!

Looking at the King Jing, whose face was ashen and who no longer argued, she let go of his hand and collapsed to the ground.

King Jing hurriedly knelt down, took out a letter, and handed it to her. "Empress Dowager, this is what I found on Gu Luo. He wrote this letter before his execution; it should be addressed to you."

Chen Yu opened the letter:

I should have been dead, but thanks to the help of a foreign friend, he died in the capital in my place, and I fled in his place. Fortunately, I lived for another six months, and was able to see my beloved again. I hope... you will keep your promise and help me fulfill my promise to my foreign friend.

The letter was brief, yet Shen Yu's eyes were already blurred with tears. To see her beloved again? No wonder Gu Luo had been so intimate with her in the bedroom, no wonder he had been so determined to die, no wonder he had said he would follow the Empress Dowager in the next life…

It turns out that Gu Luo really is Liu Yu.

Shen Yu clutched the letter to her heart, looked up and wept, but could not utter a sound for a long time.

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