She touched her chin and looked at the emperor with narrowed eyes, her eyes full of ill intentions.
[Is showing weakness so effective? I didn't expect that.]
[The emperor has thick eyebrows and big eyes. It turns out he likes this style.]
The emperor with thick eyebrows and big eyes: "..."
[I'm really good at reading people's minds. I told Xiao Lingyu to show weakness, but she refused to listen.]
If you had acted coquettishly with the Emperor earlier and made him happy, he wouldn't have been able to abdicate the throne to you, let alone become the Crown Prince. It wouldn't have been impossible.
emperor:"……"
Thanks, absolutely not.
"I have to do it. I don't want the throne, so I'll just have him give me the key to the treasury."
Let's just act like a spoiled brat: Please, please, please, please, is this okay, I don't care, I love you, you're the best, I want it.
[This must have made him mentally retarded.]
[Jiang's performance rule: show time.]
emperor:"……"
"Minister Jiang, you come to interrogate."
The emperor suddenly spoke, and listening carefully, his voice sounded a bit urgent.
He interrupted Jiang Zhiyu's upcoming performance. Jiang Zhiyu clicked her tongue and, for the sake of the pigeon-blood red jewelry, obediently stepped forward.
The emperor breathed a sigh of relief, barely perceptible.
The Queen Mother looked at Jiang Zhiyu who was walking towards her without any fear. She grinned, revealing her teeth stained with blood.
Even the Jinyiwei were frightened, but she didn't believe that Jiang Zhiyu was not afraid at all when she saw this scene.
Jiang Zhiyu was naturally not afraid. To be fair, at her level, she was no match for a low-level zombie.
She looked at the Queen Mother and suddenly pointed.
The Queen Mother: “???”
Others: “???”
Just when everyone was confused, Jiang Zhiyu seemed to have thought of something. He turned to the emperor with a somewhat excited tone and said, "Look, a bloody mouth!"
[It's like forgetting a word when you pick up a pen. I just kept thinking this picture is perfect for an idiom, and I almost forgot it.]
emperor:"……"
He raised the corners of his mouth slightly.
The others: “…”
So she was silent for so long just thinking about this?
The Queen Mother took a deep breath and stared at her gloomily. "Don't waste your breath. I won't tell you, and you can't kill me."
Jiang Zhiyu: “???”
She leaned back strategically, looking earnestly at the Queen Mother: "Excuse me, where does your confidence come from?"
It's fine that God protects the heroine and she can't be killed, but how come you, a cannon fodder supporting character, look more confident than the heroine?
The emperor also narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Song Shiwei.
Song Shiwei avoided the emperor's gaze guiltily.
The Queen Mother scoffed lightly, "If you don't believe me, ask the Emperor if he dares to kill me. He already hates me to death. If he could kill me, why would he go to such great lengths to restore my sanity?"
The emperor looked at her deeply, without any emotion in his eyes.
"Yes, that's right. When the late emperor was alive, he often looked at me like this." She murmured, looking at the emperor's empty eyes, as if he was missing something, but also as if there was nothing.
"Do you know why I spared your life?" the emperor looked at her impatiently. "How did Ayun die?"
The Queen Mother's pupils suddenly constricted.
The shrill screams in my memory and the two people with empty eyes and blood all over their bodies once again appeared in my mind.
"No, I don't know."
"You didn't know?" The emperor sneered. "Besides father and mother, only you and I knew that Ayun was a twin. She was with you for just half an hour, and we both drowned in the lake. And you say you didn't know?"
The empress dowager gritted her teeth, saying she knew nothing about what the emperor said.
The emperor's face turned ashen, and his eyes looked as if he wanted to eat the empress dowager alive.
[This is so troublesome. How about I just tell it directly? If the emperor asks, I can just say that He Yanting found it.]
[Yes, that’s it.]
The emperor swallowed nervously, then heard Jiang Zhiyu say, "She knows that she pushed those two Ah Yuns in with her own hands."
emperor:"!!!"
Queen Mother: “!!!”
"What nonsense! How much do you know about what happened back then? How dare you lie like that here...$&^*(^&(*^))"
Before the empress dowager could finish her words, Chao En, who was standing by, saw the emperor's expression and quickly ordered the two eunuchs behind him to shut the empress dowager's mouth.
"Go on."
The emperor's voice was relatively calm. Jiang Zhiyu continued, "At that time, the emperor had already begun to indulge in women. In order to stabilize the emperor's heart, the empress specially brought back two stunning women from Jiangnan."
"However, they were still young at the time, and the Empress also wanted to cultivate their loyalty, so she did not immediately present them to the late Emperor, but instead raised them privately."
"But one day, the current Queen Mother saw it. Because of their past close relationship, the Queen didn't hide it from her and told her everything."
The Queen Mother's face turned pale, and it was obvious that she was reminded of what happened before from what Jiang Zhiyu said now.
"Because she was good at acting, she quickly won the hearts of the two sisters. When the time was right, she lured them into a corner."
"They disfigured their faces, gouged out their eyes, cut out their tongues, and after torturing and killing them, they fabricated the story of the two sisters falling into the lake and fabricated witnesses."
The emperor's hands hanging by his side were clenched into fists, and the bulging blue veins were enough to show his suppressed anger at the moment.
The Queen Mother's fierce struggle suddenly stopped after hearing these words, and she looked at Jiang Zhiyu in horror.
"But she didn't know that when Ayun was with the Queen, she had already formed a deep friendship with the young prince."
There is no need to say more after that.
Because the queen trusted her and there was testimony from others, she did not investigate further. The young prince at the time, who is now the emperor, wanted to investigate, but due to the increasingly suspicious mental state of the late emperor, he had to let it go for the time being.
After that, the Queen died, and he was arranged to be raised by the current Queen Mother. It was even more impossible to find the previous doubts.
What's more, later on, he mistakenly thought that he had harmed the Queen Mother's child, so he put it out of his mind.
It wasn't until now that he remembered it again.
The emperor looked at the empress dowager. The young eunuch's hand trembled. He looked at Chaoen's face before taking out the cloth that was blocking the empress dowager's mouth.
Chaoen's heart skipped a beat and he subconsciously looked at the emperor's expression.
No one knows the reason for Fuping's current fate better than him.
Even if her mouth wasn't covered, the Queen Mother couldn't say a word. She just looked at Jiang Zhiyu in horror.
It shouldn’t be possible!
She had already silenced everyone who spoke about what happened back then, so there was no reason why the person in front of her would know about it!
"you……"
"Do you have anything else to say?"
The emperor and the empress dowager spoke almost at the same time. Although the emperor's tone was calm, anyone could hear the murderous intent in his voice.
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