Chapter 228 Yu'er Can't Live Without a Father Anymore
Although it is early summer in April, it is still very cold at night.
The white silk that had just been removed from the East Palace was hung up again.
In the bedroom, Zhao Yun hugged Ye Wanhe tightly in his arms, hoping she would wake up.
Zhao Yun touched Ye Wanhe's bloodless face and choked with regret, "Why did you really have to commit suicide? If you threatened to die, I would definitely do as you wish. Why didn't you even give me a chance?"
"How can you be so cruel?"
Zhao Yun said: "Wake up, if you wake up I will let you be the Crown Princess as Ye Wanhe...Wake up, okay?"
"How could you abandon Yu'er? How could you bear to abandon Yu'er?"
"I won't let you die, Wan He, please wake up, okay? Wake up..."
Zhao Yun whispered in Ye Wanhe's ear, tears falling like beads. He didn't want to believe that Wanhe would die, and didn't want to believe that her parents and child would commit suicide, but now the body was in his arms...
The candlelight in the bedroom gradually dimmed, and after it burned out, the entire bedroom fell into silence.
Zhao Yun kept recalling every detail of the past eleven years. When he first left his mother and moved into the East Palace, Ye Wanhe was by his side.
From a considerate palace maid at the beginning, to becoming his woman later.
When he found out she was pregnant for the first time, all he wanted was to ask her to abort the child. He just didn't know what to do.
Later, after learning that the nanny had given her abortion pills, Zhao Yun felt guilty about her, but he never wanted to let her go...
Now I think carefully about what I have done to her over the past seven years...
I was constantly despising her, looking down on her, doting on her, but never giving her any respect...
Zhao Yun was filled with remorse. He had clearly made her the Crown Princess, so why did he still care about her background?
Zhao Yun felt extremely regretful and blamed himself.
"I'd rather you kill me."
"If you feel that my becoming a mute slave is not enough to vent your anger, you can use other means to retaliate against me..."
"Why do you treat me like this? Why do you want to avenge me with your own death?"
Zhao Yun shed tears in extreme pain. In the dim bedroom, his vision gradually became blurred.
The sky gradually brightened.
Li Quan opened the bedroom door a little.
Queen Wei entered the palace carrying Yu'er in her arms. When she entered, she saw Zhao Yun, who was hugging Ye Wanhe's corpse and looked ashen. He no longer had the vigor and vitality of the past, nor did he have the arrogance and dignity of a crown prince.
Queen Wei walked up to Zhao Yun holding the baby in her arms. As she got closer, she saw that Zhao Yun had a lot more white hair on his head: "Yun'er, she is dead. You should mourn as soon as possible. You still have Yu'er and your mother."
Zhao Yun raised his eyes and looked at Yu'er in Queen Wei's arms. He whispered, "Fortunately, there is still Yu'er..."
Queen Wei nodded and said, "Yes, you still have Yu'er. Mother knows that you are sad, but Wan He is gone. You should have gotten over the sadness and raised Yu'er well."
Zhao Yun said in a deep and hoarse voice: "Mother, you, father and Yu'er are here. If I go with Wanhe..."
Queen Wei frowned and scolded: "Zhao Yun! Yu'er is so young, how can your mother and father protect him to grow up? Yu'er is pitiful enough without a mother, he cannot be without a father."
Zhao Yun cried helplessly, "Mom, I am the one who let her down, it's me!"
"I am the one who deserves to die. She might as well kill me... She actually chose to commit suicide... Mother, I can no longer forgive myself. I forced her to death. I should have gone to accompany her..."
Queen Wei advised, "Yun'er, no, you didn't force her to death. Don't think like that. She's gone. Do you not care about Yu'er? Even if you don't think about Yu'er's mother, you should think about her. She still has elderly parents at home. Her parents came all the way to Chang'an. How sad they must be to learn of their daughter's death. They can no longer be filial to her, so you have to be filial to Wanhe on her behalf."
Queen Wei said anxiously: "You must not have any stupid ideas, Zhao Yun, you must not have any stupid ideas!"
His Majesty, who was outside the palace, heard the noise inside and went in to look at Zhao Yun and said, "Thank goodness you studied hard since childhood, you were born to be the crown prince of Dasheng. As a man, your ambition is not to serve the country or the people, but you are going to do something stupid for a woman?"
"How do you think Yu'er, a little baby, can inherit the throne smoothly without a father or a mother to take care of him after you're gone?"
Zhao Yun lowered his eyes to look at the quiet face in his arms, bit his lips, and closed his eyes in grief.
He would rather be a mute slave, suffer in Zhu's wine shop, and sleep with cows in the cowshed than endure such heart-wrenching pain.
His Majesty instructed Li Quan who was standing beside him, "You must take good care of His Highness and do not allow him to get hurt in the slightest."
His Majesty also instructed several palace maids in Fengyi Palace to move Ye Wanhe's body from Zhao Yun's arms to the mourning hall.
However, Zhao Yun still held Ye Wanhe tightly and did not allow the palace maids to touch Ye Wanhe at all.
Queen Wei sighed and said, "Yun'er, death is the greatest thing. Wanhe committed suicide in her wedding dress. She needs to be buried as soon as possible, otherwise her resentment will linger in the world."
Zhao Yun wept and said, "I would rather she was filled with resentment and lay dying beside me. I would rather she came to me to claim her life..."
Gu Yan, who was standing at the door of the palace, heard what Zhao Yunzhi said inside and looked at Yun Xiangye who was crying silently beside him.
Last night, Yun Xiangye and her mother entered the East Palace and did not return all night. Gu Yan knew something had happened. This morning, Gu Yan waited for the palace gate to open and hurried in, only to receive the news that Ye Wanhe had committed suicide.
Gu Yan took Yun Xiangye to a pavilion in the middle of a lake in the East Palace. No one could eavesdrop in the pavilion, so it was a good place to talk.
Gu Yan looked at Yun Xiangye crying and frowned, "Stop pretending."
Yun Xiangye cried into her handkerchief, "Who is pretending? I am really upset. My sister was already so angry that her liver and stomach ached. It was not long after she gave birth to the child, and she had to be stabbed in the stomach. I don't know how much blood she lost."
Gu Yan was puzzled and said, "Your Highness has already forgiven my sister and doesn't care about my sin of feeding him poison, so why did my sister fake her death? This is a crime of deceiving the emperor!"
Gu Yan knew Yun Xiangye too well. If Ye Wanhe had really passed away this time, Yun Xiangye would not cry so calmly.
Yun Xiangye said: "Why did my sister fake her death? My sister never wanted to be Wei Zhenzhu. Now that Wei Zhenzhu is dead, she wants to be Ye Wanhe again. It's that simple."
Gu Yan said: "You heard it all just now. His Highness wanted to follow his sister. It is better to tell His Highness the truth..."
"No!" Yun Xiangye held Gu Yan's hand, "Since you have already committed the crime of deceiving the emperor, if you confess now, your sister will suffer this blow in vain."
Yun Xiangye held Gu Yan's hand tightly, looked up at him and said, "Husband, please help me hide this time."
Gu Yan couldn't stand Yun Xiangye's coquetry, and said helplessly: "You also saw how heartbroken His Highness was."
"He deserves it. How many things has he done to hurt my sister?" Yun Xiangye said, "This is called getting what you deserve."
Gu Yan sighed, "Sister's revenge is too cruel."
Yun Xiangye said, "How can it be cruel? My husband, please don't let the news leak out."
Gu Yan said: "Of course it's cruel. You can imagine how painful it is to lose the one you love forever..."
Gu Yan simply couldn't think that Yun Xiangye would leave him one day, and he didn't want to think so. Thinking of this, he hugged Yun Xiangye tightly in his arms and said, "I'll indulge you this time."
Yun Xiangye nodded and said, "Thank you, husband."
Yun Xiangye and Gu Yan returned to the outside of the bedroom, and saw Zhao Yun slowly carrying Ye Wanhe out. Ye Wanhe's face was pale...
Yun Xiangye and Gu Yan could also see clearly that Zhao Yun had a lot more white hair on his head.
Gu Yan couldn't bear it and said, "Your Highness..."
Yun Xiangye covered her lips with a handkerchief and cried, "Sister, sister..."
Gu Yan thought about it, but finally didn't tell the truth.
The news of the Crown Princess's death spread throughout Chang'an City early in the morning.
Uncle and aunt Ye had already known the news, so they could only pretend to be sick from excessive grief and refused to see anyone.
Inside Su’s Dental Clinic on West Street.
Su Zhan almost lost his balance when he heard the news of the Crown Princess' death. Xu Mengqi supported Su Zhan and said, "Husband."
Su Zhan clenched his hands and said, "He took it by force, why don't you cherish it?"
Xu Mengqi frowned and said, "Husband, don't talk nonsense."
Su Zhan entered the house, clenched his hands and slammed them hard against the wall, but he did not feel any pain in his hands.
Xu Mengqi sighed and didn't try to persuade him further. She just closed the door.
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