In the dark night, there were shouts and cries of killing. The entire imperial city was lit up and blood flowed like a river.
Such noise continued all night, and in the early morning, nine funeral bells were heard, which was the sound of the emperor's death.
At this point, the young ninth prince ascended the throne, his adoptive mother, the imperial concubine, became the empress dowager, and the chief minister, Mu Chenyi, became the prime minister.
Mu Chenyi was the most famous person at that time, and the first thing he did after leaving the palace was to take his current wife, the daughter of the former prime minister, into the ancestral hall.
Yu Lingling was thrown by Mu Chenyi in front of a pile of tablets. She looked coldly at the woman kneeling on the cold ground, her eyes full of coldness.
Yu Lingling raised her eyes and saw the spirit tablet on the altar. Her eyes suddenly widened: "Mu Chenyi, what are you doing?"
On the slightly rough wooden plaque, it was clearly written: The spirit tablet of my beloved wife Lin Yushu.
Yu Lingling looked at Mu Chenyi: "She is your wife, what am I to you?"
Mu Chenyi looked at her coldly: "Of course she is a concubine. She is the wife I married with the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, and you...if you hadn't forced me so hard in the beginning, how could I give up her?"
Yu Lingling laughed out loud: "I forced you? Did I force you to get married by holding your head down, or did I force you to send her a letter?"
Mu Chenyi knelt on the ground, looking at the spirit tablet on the altar: "If you hadn't killed her, I would have wanted to redeem her and give her some silver so that she could leave the capital."
Yu Lingling sneered and was about to say something when the door of the ancestral hall was opened. Lin Yushu walked in slowly. She was wearing a gorgeous dress. Although it was plain, it could not hide her stunning figure.
Lin Yushu walked over to his own tablet, slowly picked it up, and sneered, "The tablet of my beloved wife, Lin Yushu? I'm living well, why would I need this? I feel disgusted to be the wife of someone like you."
She threw the sign into the brazier where paper was burning. The area around the sign was charred black. Mu Chenyi, regardless of the pain, pulled the sign out of the fire and looked at Lin Yushu with sadness in his eyes.
Lin Yushu sneered, "Ms. Yu, look at him. This is him. When you were powerful, he chose you and abandoned me. Now that I am powerful, he has abandoned you again. What's the use of having a man like him?"
Yu Lingling looked at Lin Yushu and remembered how she once acted superior to this woman. Even after she became the old emperor's concubine, she still looked down on her because of her father and her husband.
Now the situation is reversed. The child she raised became the emperor and she became the empress dowager.
His father was involved in treason, and his entire family was exiled or beheaded. He no longer had any rights.
Yu Lingling lowered her head and smiled bitterly. If she knew that Lin Yushu had such a background, even if she didn't want Mu Chenyi, she would not compete with Lin Yushu.
Can't win the battle.
The old emperor personally paved the way for her, who could compete with him?
Lin Yushu chuckled as he looked at Yu Lingling's lowered head and said, "If you want, I can give you a new identity and let you leave the capital. But from now on, don't show up in the capital. Do you understand?"
Yu Lingling raised her eyes and looked at Mu Chenyi. At this moment, he was wiping the burnt tablet bit by bit, not even looking at them.
Yu Lingling finally made up her mind: "I, a sinner, thank the Queen Mother for her grace."
Lin Yushu chuckled: "From today on, Yu Lingling is a dead person. You can give yourself a name."
Yu Lingling lowered her head and said, "From now on, I'll call you Lin Yuxi."
She never had the chance to choose, whether it was that she could not leave her boudoir before getting married, or who she would marry, and ultimately she could not even control her life and death.
No matter what the Empress Dowager's purpose was, she was grateful to her for giving her a chance to choose.
Lin Yushu chuckled: "Life is difficult for women in this world. Take care of yourself. I will give you a few people to protect you."
A woman who has so much money and has no ability to protect herself is like a child carrying gold in a busy market. It is extremely dangerous.
If no one protects me, I will probably die without a burial place.
Yu Lingling looked at Lin Yushu, and the corners of her lips curled up: "I, the guilty woman, thank the Queen Mother for her grace."
Lin Yushu chuckled: "Back off."
Yu Lingling had never done anything to her in her previous life. She was just a simple rich girl. She knew very well who the culprit was.
Yu Lingling left the ancestral hall. Lin Yushu looked at Mu Chenyi who was carefully wiping the tablet and sneered, "Mu Chenyi."
Mu Chenyi lowered his eyes: "I pay my respects to the Empress Dowager."
Lin Yushu looked at him, a bright smile on his lips: "Minister? Are you worthy?"
Mu Chenyi lowered his head and supported himself on the ground with his hands: "Slave greets the master, please punish me."
Lin Yushu circled around him, with her feet on his waist. Mu Chenyi supported himself, not daring to move.
Lin Yushu pulled the tablet from his arms and looked at it carefully. "You call yourself a slave, and you also call me Master. So, you should obey me, right?"
Mu Chenyi lowered his head: "Yes, please give your orders, Master."
Lin Yushu chuckled: "Burn it."
She threw the wooden sign in her hand in front of him, stood in front of him, and looked at him quietly.
Mu Chenyi's body stiffened. He had just desperately tried to rescue the sign because he didn't want to throw it away and wanted to keep it.
But now, Ayu asked him to burn it with his own hands.
Mu Chenyi pursed his lips and stroked the wooden sign, his eyes full of tenderness: "Master, please show mercy and allow me to keep this sign."
Lin Yushu looked at him: "I want to keep it..."
Mu Chenyi raised his eyes and looked at Lin Yushu in surprise, his eyes full of anticipation.
His hands were stepped on by Lin Yushu's feet, and the sharp pain made his mind extremely clear. He looked up at the indifference in Lin Yushu's eyes and understood Lin Yushu's meaning very clearly.
Lin Yushu's cold voice came from above: "No."
Mu Chenyi lowered his head, finally realizing that it was impossible for him to keep the badge. He held the badge in his arms with care, lowered his head and caressed it lovingly, and finally put it into the brazier under Lin Yushu's impatient eyes.
Watching the flames kissing the wooden sign, which was slowly being devoured by the flames, he looked at the sign, the flames reflected on his face, and he finally moved. However, his hands were firmly stepped on, and the piercing pain made him extremely sober.
He knew that Lin Yushu didn't want his name to be put together, even if it was just his wishful thinking, Lin Yushu didn't want it to be.
Mu Chenyi raised his eyes and looked at Lin Yushu: "Master, I understand what you mean. Thank you for your teachings."
Lin Yushu chuckled, squatted down, and pinched his chin with his fingertips: "Bastard slave, remember this, you are just my slave. If you dare to do anything more than that again, I will break your legs."
Mu Chenyi felt like there was something blocking his throat, he couldn't swallow it, his lips were trembling, but he couldn't utter a word.
Lin Yushu sneered: "Remember?"
Mu Chenyi lowered his head and said softly, "Yes, I understand."
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