Chapter 215 Yixiu's Collapse
"Your Majesty, Jiang Fuhai has many more things to tell me. Besides the murder of Queen Chunyuan, there are other things. I will continue..."
Looking at the emperor's sad and angry expression, Su Peisheng didn't know whether he should continue speaking. The long confession in his hand revealed all of Yixiu's bad deeds.
"I have been married to her for many years, and I thought I had some understanding of her personality. I never expected to find out now that I never understood her at all. I am not unaware of the things she did to hurt the concubines, but every time I think of Chun Yuan, I don't want to argue with her. However, I still can't figure out the matter of Chun Yuan, and I want to ask her in person."
I don’t know what the emperor wants to hear from Yixiu. He seems to have not recovered from the fact that Chunyuan was killed by his own sister.
"Su Peisheng, go and bring that vicious woman to me. I want to interrogate her personally."
“Yeah.”
Su Peisheng quickly stood up and headed towards Jingren Palace. Before leaving, he looked at the sky and said, "The weather is going to change."
"Master, what are you talking about?"
Xiao Xiazi looked at the serious expression of the master and asked worriedly.
"It's nothing. Go to Yikun Palace in person and tell Concubine Hua and Concubine Xi that a storm is coming. Ask them to take good care of themselves."
After Su Peisheng said this to Xiao Xia Zi, he left quickly.
Although Xiao Xiazi didn't understand what his master meant, he followed his master's instructions without hesitation. In short, he only needed to know one thing: his master would never harm him.
Inside the Yangxin Palace, the Empress was quickly brought in. She still wore her usual dignified smile, as if she didn't care about anything. "Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you."
"Empress, everything Jiang Fuhai confessed is true. He murdered the concubines in the harem and killed his offspring. Most importantly, Chun Yuan's death was also due to you."
At this moment, the emperor couldn't suppress his inner anger when looking at the person in front of him. Looking at her smiling face, he really felt extremely disgusted. He actually let such a person become his queen. She really deserved to die.
The Queen did not refute any of the charges brought by the Emperor. Or perhaps, she had already thought of this outcome when Su Peisheng took her to Jingren Palace, and the reason she appeared here was just to give an explanation for her life. Perhaps, she was still unwilling in her heart, and there were some things she wanted to make clear to the Emperor in person.
Yixiu lowered her head and thought quietly for a while, then slowly stretched out her hands, revealing the jade bracelets on her wrists.
"Does the Emperor still remember this?"
She seemed to be lost in her memories, and continued talking without even thinking about the emperor's reply.
"This pair of jade bracelets was given to me by the Emperor himself when I first entered the palace. I have never forgotten what he said to me at that time: I wish I could have these bracelets and see you day and night. But everything has changed since my sister came into the palace. The Emperor has long forgotten his promise to me. I guess he doesn't want to see me anymore."
"It's true that I didn't make you my first wife at the beginning, but I did ask for your opinion at the time. It was you who said that Chunyuan was the eldest sister and that it was right for her to be my first wife."
"Should be? What is right? What if I don't say so? If I disagreed at the beginning, would the emperor change his mind? Would the emperor give up my sister to enter the palace?"
Yixiu laughed out loud as if she had heard a huge joke.
"Your Majesty, you had already made up your mind before you asked me this question. What else could I say? It was Your Majesty who held my hand, looked at the jade bracelets, and told me that if I gave birth to a prince, the position of Consort would be mine. But, Your Majesty, why, when I gave birth to the eldest prince, Your Majesty had already married my elder sister as Consort? Even my child will be forced from a legitimate son to a bastard's, and like me, he will never be able to escape the status of a bastard."
The Emperor found Yixiu's statement absurd: "You know I never care about legitimate or illegitimate children, and the Empress Dowager doesn't care about it either. The Empress Dowager is a illegitimate child, and so am I. Why are you so obsessed with legitimate or illegitimate children?"
"Now that you are the emperor, you can easily say that you don't care about the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children. But ask yourself, when you were still a prince, did you really not care about the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children? Did you really not envy those legitimate children?"
Yixiu had completely collapsed at this time. When she thought about the pain she had experienced and how it was caused by the man in front of her, she couldn't help hating him in her heart. However, this was the person she loved deeply!
"There is a distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children. This concubine and my mother are rarely respected. How could you possibly understand this?"
"How dare you! You even dare to question my words. When I was a prince, my brothers lived in harmony and respect with each other."
The emperor seemed to be irritated by something Yixiu said, and he shouted at her.
"Brothers are friendly and respectful. Has the Emperor forgotten the imprisoned prince? Has he forgotten the person the Empress Dowager begged to see?"
At this point, Yixiu had nothing to worry about. She had already seen through this man's selfishness and hypocrisy.
"How could I not understand your difficulties? That's why I have always treated you well since you entered the palace. Even though I made Chunyuan my only legitimate wife, you are only a concubine second only to her. What else are you dissatisfied with?"
The emperor didn't want to get entangled with her on other matters.
"The position of Concubine that should have belonged to me was easily taken away by someone else. The position of Crown Prince that should have belonged to my son will also belong to someone else. All the love my husband has given to her. I really want to be content, but I can't do it!"
Seeing that Yixiu still had no intention of repenting, the emperor looked at her with disappointment.
"Chun Yuan is your biological sister. How could you be so cruel? It was my fault. I shouldn't have welcomed you into the mansion."
Listening to the emperor's complete denial of their past, Yixiu's expression was full of sarcasm: "Your Majesty, it's not your fault for welcoming me into the palace. You shouldn't have welcomed my sister into the palace and favored her so much. Do you know how painful it is for me every time I see you doting on my sister? These things originally belonged to me. Your Majesty always prides himself on his intelligence, so why can't you understand this?"
"Even so, you shouldn't have killed your sister so cruelly. She was pregnant at the time. Aren't you afraid that Chunyuan and her child will come after you in your dreams?"
"If she wants to take my life, then come and take it. How could I be afraid of her? In the long nights, I always dream of my child crying to me. When he died, my sister was pregnant. Wasn't it her son who came to take my child's life? Your Majesty, you only care about my sister's pregnancy. How could you remember me and your child? He was not even three years old. He died of a high fever. How could I allow her child to be born safely?"
Yixiu's words were already madness in the eyes of the emperor: "All of this is caused by my decision. Why do you blame your sister? Your sister treated you so sincerely and was still thinking about you even at the end. And you treated her like this. Don't you feel guilty?"
"I have always wanted to hate you, but, but I can't do it..."
Yixiu broke down and cried. If she could live again, she would never know the man in front of her again and would never fall in love with him again.
"Your Majesty, as a man, naturally feels that having so many women is a blessing in life, but have you ever thought about whether we, as women, are really willing to watch our beloved men have children with other women? Why do you think Concubine Hua doesn't bear a grudge? Why do you think Concubine Xi doesn't bear a grudge? Your Majesty thinks I am so cruel, but Your Majesty, I am the only one who truly loves you!"
"You're a snake in the mouth, and you still don't repent. You're truly disgusting."
Yixiu no longer felt disappointed with the emperor's conclusion about her. She had already witnessed the ruthlessness of the man before her.
"Empress Ulanara, unblessed by Heaven, is a stunted queen, a wretch of the Imperial heir, a corrupt official, and a traitor to the court. How can she honor the ancestral temple and be the mother of the nation? She is to be demoted to a commoner and placed in the cold palace. Su Peisheng, quickly take my seal."
“Yeah.”
Yixiu no longer cared about what the emperor said. The man in front of her only cared about his power and the glory of the royal family. In the end, she had given him the wrong treatment.
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