"I don't want your forgiveness. It's fine if you continue to resent me. Just don't sleep, okay?" Yu Jingchen looked at Nan Zhiyun's pale face, and his unease gradually grew.
Nan Zhiyun didn't speak. She was held in Yu Jingchen's arms, her lips slightly curved, tears streaming down her face, and then... nothing more.
As he felt Nan Zhiyun's body slowly slump down, tears welled up in Yu Jingchen's eyes. He knelt down upon seeing this. Everyone around him also knelt. When the imperial physician arrived and saw this, he instinctively sensed something was wrong.
"Quick... Consort Shu is injured, come and take a look at her..." Yu Jingchen's voice was very soft, as if he could scare the person in his arms if he said it correctly.
The imperial physician walked over and looked at Nan Zhiyun in Yu Jingchen's arms. He had a bad feeling. But the moment he took her pulse, he was so frightened that he immediately withdrew his hand and crawled to the side.
"Your Majesty...the Empress has passed away..." The imperial physician said this with trepidation.
Without the slightest hesitation, Yu Jingchen slashed.
The imperial physician was terrified and kept begging for mercy, but Yu Jingchen showed no sign of changing his mind. On the contrary, it was fortunate that…
"Your Majesty, Consort Shu will not be pleased," Xinglai said.
Sure enough, Yu Jingchen's eyes flickered slightly when he heard this, and he changed his mind: "Drag him away."
The imperial physician, having been saved, quickly thanked the emperor and left.
Yu Jingchen held Nan Zhiyun in his arms, kneeling on the ground without saying a word. He tried to speak several times, but didn't know where to begin.
Until the Empress Dowager arrived...
The Empress Dowager watched this scene, walked over, and slapped Yu Jingchen without saying a word: "Are you satisfied now?" The Empress Dowager's voice was hoarse.
Upon hearing that Nan Zhiyun had shielded Yu Jingchen from a hidden weapon, she nearly fainted from shock. This wasn't part of the plan at all…
Looking at the little girl in Yu Jingchen's arms, her face pale, the Empress Dowager almost lost her balance several times. She pointed at Yu Jingchen, her hand trembling, but she couldn't say a word.
"Your Majesty the Empress Dowager..." An Xin had not expected things to develop to this point.
Yu Jingchen, who had just been slapped, stood there without saying a word, the handprint on his face clearly visible.
"I must take Yun'er out of the palace," the Empress Dowager said after a long time of calming down.
Yu Jingchen finally reacted: "No..."
"Yu Jingchen, are you still not willing to let Yun'er go? Don't you know she doesn't want to stay in the palace?" the Empress Dowager questioned.
Yu Jingchen fell silent. He opened his mouth, feeling like a child who had done something wrong, innocent and helpless. She didn't want to stay in the palace…
Yu Jingchen really wanted to deny it, but it was Nan Zhiyun herself who said it. Her first words were... "Let me go. I don't want to die in the palace."
Yu Jingchen suddenly felt that those words were incredibly hurtful, causing his heart to ache uncontrollably, a pain that seemed to be ripped out. The next moment, he coughed up a mouthful of blood. Before his consciousness blurred, he seemed to try to grasp something, but in a flash, everything was gone.
The moon was very round on Mid-Autumn Festival, but people had already dispersed.
On the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the first year of the Tiansheng era, Nan Zhiyun, daughter of Nan Su, who was also the Consort Shu of the Yuan Dynasty, passed away...
However… after Consort Shu's death, His Majesty issued an edict restoring her freedom. Meanwhile, Miss Nan Zhiyun was taken back to her hometown by the former Grand General Nan Su, along with the Empress Dowager…
Yu Jingchen sat in the Zichen Palace, his expression blank, while Xing Lai watched anxiously from the side. Since Consort Shu left, His Majesty had spent his days sitting like this, completely lost in thought.
"Fortunately, I regret it..."
This is the sentence His Majesty has said the most, but... what's the use now? Obviously, it's useless.
Everyone knows that after Nan Zhiyun left, His Majesty seemed to become a different person, both tyrannical and gentle...
The He'an Palace is cleaned daily to maintain its original appearance. The cleaners are always very careful when they enter, because if there is even the slightest mistake, Yu Jingchen will have them punished. Therefore, the He'an Palace has become a forbidden area of the palace.
Yu Jingchen would come every day and stay for a long time. He would also stay in He'an Palace at night. When Xinglai helped him turn off the light, he would say, "Don't turn off the light, she's afraid of the dark." Xinglai would be slightly taken aback when she heard Yu Jingchen's words, and then she would lower her eyes and leave.
They would dine in the He'an Palace. Yu Jingchen looked at the dishes on the table and said, "Don't serve fish anymore. She's allergic to it and can't eat it. Also... set out an extra set of chopsticks and a bowl." Fortunately, he knew that it was reserved for Consort Shu.
Besides, Yu Jingchen would often have people prepare some candied fruit to carry with him. He said, "She's afraid of bitterness. Although she told me she doesn't like candied fruit and that she's gotten used to the bitterness, I know that's because she's angry. How could she possibly get used to bitterness when she's so afraid of it?"
In the twelfth month of the first year of the Tiansheng era, Emperor Yu Jingchen of the Tiansheng era went on an incognito tour, reportedly heading south.
When he left, he entrusted the affairs of the court to a man named Jiang Ji, a eunuch who was very capable. Jiang Ji had now been appointed as the Ninth Prince by Yu Jingchen and had also taken over the command of the 500,000 troops in Nansu.
The traitor Yu Jing'an was also ordered by Yu Jingchen to be boiled alive, then chopped up and fed to wild dogs. It is said that on the day Yu Jing'an was executed, there was not a single piece of good flesh left on his body, not even a skin, and he was barely clinging to life.
Besides this, there was another matter: Princess Chang Le's son, Luo Yuncheng, was highly valued by Yu Jingchen and even given military power. The official reason given was that he had fought alongside the former General of Nan Su, so he was certainly adept at leading troops. Therefore, Yu Jingchen entrusted him with the important task of suppressing bandits in the northwest and quelling floods in the southwest.
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