Nie Ming pretended he knew nothing and begged for mercy in a tearful voice:
"Sister, I was wrong. I will never dare to say anything out of turn again. I will listen to you in everything from now on. Please forgive me."
Qi An waved his hand, and the wheelchair overturned to the ground. Nie Ming fell to the ground, his injuries causing excruciating pain.
"With your tiny brain, you think you can play the imposter with me? Take a piss and look at yourself in the mirror. Do you even deserve it?"
Nie Ming's eyes widened. How did she know he remembered?
Qi An asked him, "What is it like to be the ruler of a fallen kingdom?"
Nie Ming burst into tears, no longer daring to pretend to be an innocent boy.
"Royal sister, it's all my fault. I'm sorry. I'm useless, I'm incompetent, I failed to protect Dayu."
"You have wronged the people of Dayu the most. Because of your stupidity, hundreds of thousands of people have become victims of the enemy's swords. You are the one who deserves to die the most."
Nie Ming cried, "I didn't want to either, but I had no choice."
Remembering his previous plans, Nie Ming lay on the ground, looking at him with a fawning expression, and said:
"Elder sister, I've thought it through. I don't have the ability to be emperor. Once Father dies, I will succeed to the throne, and you will oversee the country."
"You don't need to return power to me anymore. I'm willing to be your puppet, letting you remain the de facto master of Dayu. Is that alright?"
Before Qi An could answer, Nie Ming continued, "I'm crippled now, and I'll never have children in this life. When I get old, I'll pass the throne to your child."
"But Your Majesty, you must not let Xu Shize go, and that old dog Wenbin too. He is also a spy for Wumeng."
My dear sister, you don't know this, do you? That slut Wen Shuang had an affair with Xu Shize and even gave birth to a bastard child, making us both cuckolds.
"Kill Xu Shize, then find another prince consort and have children."
Nie Ming talked on and on, acting like a good younger brother who cared about Nie Yuhuang, completely ignoring Qi An's look of disbelief.
Fu Gui was utterly speechless: "Having been reborn, this guy seems even less sharp-witted. Has he forgotten what the guard called you just now?"
Qi An stepped on Nie Ming's broken leg, shattering his dreams for the future.
"Who do you think you are, you idiot?"
"Furthermore, I find your rubbish suggestions extremely unacceptable."
I?
Before Nie Ming could even process what was happening, Qi An squatted down, grabbed Nie Ming's hair, and forced him to tilt his head back.
"Open your dog eyes and see clearly, do I need a piece of trash like you as a puppet?"
Through his blurry, tear-filled eyes, Nie Ming finally saw the dragon robe on Qi An's body.
"You...you...you actually rebelled?"
"How can a woman be an empress? No one will recognize you."
Qi An smiled: "It's very simple. Just kill all those who don't admit it. As you can see, I am already the Empress."
Nie Ming still felt like he was dreaming. In just a few days, Nie Yuhuang had actually become the emperor of Dayu!
She is neither a princess regent nor a prince regent, but an empress!
Nie Ming muttered to himself, "You...you...you're a woman. How can a woman be an emperor?"
Qi An said coldly, "Since you can't speak human language, you'd better not speak at all in the future."
A flash of cold light, and the dagger was plunged into Nie Ming's mouth, severing his tongue.
Blood gushed from his mouth, and Nie Ming rolled on the ground in pain, but could not make a sound.
Qi An kindly answered his questions.
"Wenbin is already on the guillotine, and your future empress was sent to her death by a cup of poison. As for Xu Shize, he's still breathing, but he'll be gone soon."
"I will not let any of those who have bullied or harmed me get away with it, including you."
Nie Ming opened his blood-red mouth wide, and his lips moved slightly.
Qi An realized that he was referring to "Father Emperor".
Nie Ming was begging Nie Yuhuang to spare his life for the sake of his father, the Emperor, since Nie Yuhuang always obeyed her father.
Qi An sneered, "You think I'd let that old man go? Fine, I'll let you and your son see each other one last time."
Qi An carried Nie Ming to the old emperor's bedroom.
All the palace servants she encountered along the way knelt down and kowtowed, pretending not to see that she was carrying the Crown Prince, who looked like a dead dog.
They still know who the master of this palace and even Dayu is.
Before even entering the palace where the old emperor lived, Nie Ming smelled a strong, rotten stench that made him want to vomit.
Then came a wail that sounded inhuman, a hoarse and unpleasant sound, as if it had been screaming for a long time and the vocal cords had been torn.
Qi An tossed Nie Ming aside beside the dragon bed: "Father, I've brought your precious son. Aren't you happy?"
Nie Ming looked up amidst the suffocating stench and saw the "human-shaped rotting flesh" on the dragon bed.
He opened his mouth wide and spat it out.
The old emperor was rotting and recovering from head to toe, with plump white maggots wriggling in the decaying flesh, looking utterly disgusting.
If it weren't for that half of his face being intact, Nie Ming wouldn't have recognized who it was at all.
Nie Ming didn't dare to look at the old emperor, and dragged his broken leg to kowtow frantically to Qi An.
Nie Yuhuang is too terrifying; he doesn't want to become like his father.
"Kill me, please, Huang'er...kill me..."
The old emperor looked at Qi An, his one remaining old eye filled with a longing for death.
Qi An dusted off his dragon robe and said with a smile, "I have some good news to share with Father Emperor. Your proudest Huang'er is now the Empress of Dayu. Aren't you happy?"
The old emperor looked at the dragon robe she wore, and cloudy tears streamed down his face: "Traitorous minister..."
"The second piece of good news is to congratulate Father Emperor on the extinction of his lineage."
The old emperor glared at Nie Ming with eyes wide with fury.
“Your son is useless and can’t carry on the family line. In your eyes, even the princess is an outsider. So, the Nie family line has completely ended with you.”
"No……"
The old emperor roared and began vomiting blood again.
"Father, please take care of yourself. You haven't even seen the Nie family's empire change hands yet, so you can't just die like this."
Qi An looked at the trembling Grand Eunuch Fu Hai kneeling on the ground: "Take good care of the Emperor Emeritus. When he dies, you will die."
Fuhai kowtowed repeatedly: "This servant obeys the decree. This servant will certainly take good care of the Emperor Emeritus. Please rest assured, Your Majesty."
Fu Hai was filled with remorse. If he had known, he would not have helped the Empress Dowager harm the Eldest Princess.
After the heartwarming father-son reunion, Qi An took Nie Ming to the Heavenly Prison, the same cell where Nie Yuhuang was imprisoned in his previous life.
Qi An personally used a chain to pierce Nie Ming's collarbone.
Before leaving, she instructed, "Our Crown Prince is too weak-willed. I need to train him properly. Use your best skills to subject him to severe torture every day, but you must not let him die."
The jailers fell silent, trembling with fear: "Yes, Your Majesty, rest assured."
Inside the prison, Nie Ming, who had fainted from the pain, sat in a wheelchair with thick iron chains piercing through his collarbones and nailing them to the wall behind him.
Next, all sorts of tortures that would make him wish he were dead awaited him.
After leaving the prison, Qi An headed towards the princess's residence.
She should go see her beloved husband.
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