"Your Highness!"
Chu Yun was playing with a parrot in the courtyard when the colorful parrot saw Xiao Wang appear and made a sound in Chu Yun's usual voice.
Chu Yun immediately turned around and saw that Xiao Wang was followed by several eunuchs. She was slightly puzzled for a moment.
She looked closely and found that the eunuch was respectfully following behind Prince Xiao, holding a covered plate in his hand, which seemed to contain some kind of reward.
Chu Yun's lips curled slightly as he thought to himself: The prince must have gone out to find something good to apologize to me and win my favor.
At least he has some conscience!
But the next moment, the corners of her lips curled up and disappeared as quickly as lightning.
Xiao Wang nodded slightly to the eunuch behind him. The eunuch then stepped past Xiao Wang, stood upright in front of him, holding the basin, and uttered the words that would send Chu Yun to hell.
"Chu Yun, daughter of the disgraced official Du Zhang, listen to the order! By imperial decree, Chu Yun, daughter of the disgraced official Du Zhang, has been on the run for many years. Today, she is hereby granted a three-foot-long white silk ribbon to immediately commit suicide with the Prince's residence!"
What?
Let her... commit suicide?
Chu Yun stared in astonishment, his mouth agape as he incredulously processed what he had just heard.
She glanced at the eunuch, then at the stern-faced Prince Xiao, and after a moment she finally exclaimed in surprise.
"Your Highness, did I hear wrong? The Emperor ordered me to... to commit suicide? Tell me quickly, Yun'er must have misheard!"
She was so distraught that she tried to grab Xiao Wang's sleeve and confront him.
However, before she could even get close to Prince Xiao, her servants stopped her.
With the eunuch present, Prince Xiao could only suppress his affection and said in a calm voice, "You heard me right, it was indeed your father who ordered you to commit suicide. Chu Yun, I have protected you for many years, even defying your father, and now we can finally settle our score."
"Go in peace. After you are gone, I will burn paper money for you every year."
"Your Highness! Do you really want Yoon-ah to die? Have you forgotten that you once said you would protect Yoon-ah for the rest of your life? How can you let Yoon-ah die?"
Chu Yun couldn't believe she was being told to die by King Xiao, and she broke down in tears.
The eunuch standing nearby didn't want to waste any time, so he gave a wink to the servant next to him, and the servant stepped forward to grab Chu Yun, intending to take her into the house and hang her from the beam.
"No! I don't want to die! Your Highness, please save me! Save Yoon-ah! Yoon-ah doesn't want to die! Yoon-ah wants to be with Your Highness!"
Chu Yun was being held up, struggling desperately, kicking her legs, and tears streaming down her face like rain.
King Xiao turned his head away, not wanting to look at Chu Yun's face.
Just as they were about to enter the door, Chu Yun's tone suddenly changed, and his pleas for mercy turned into a tirade.
"Xiao Ziyi (Xiao Wang's full name), you are heartless and ungrateful! Do you regret being with me? You've fallen in love with Chu Yan now, haven't you!"
You revealed my identity to the Emperor for Chu Yan's sake, wanting me dead, is that it? Let me tell you, even if I die, Chu Yan will never love you again! Hahaha!
Chu Yun burst into maniacal laughter.
Yes, she thought that it was Prince Xiao who took the initiative to tell Emperor Wenjian his identity.
Because her identity had been known only to Prince Xiao for so many years without any problems, it was now exposed just as Prince Xiao was starting to develop feelings for Chu Yan. Naturally, she suspected that Prince Xiao had done it on purpose.
King Xiao was initially feeling guilty and sad, but after being scolded by Chu Yun, his face darkened.
"Shut up! Don't ruin the last image you have left in my heart!"
He was already annoyed by Chu Yan and Gao Yuanbin's situation these past few days, and Chu Yun's words were like stabbing him in the heart.
But Chu Yun was almost dead and insane, so why would he be afraid of Xiao Wang's threats?
She was almost lifted onto the roof beam, but she still kept talking.
"Xiao Ziyi, you don't know this yet, do you? When you were a child, you were bullied because Chu Yan felt sorry for you, but she was held back by her friends and couldn't help you. So she gave me a gold hairpin and asked me to help you, which is why I went."
Otherwise, do you think I'd befriend a fallen prince like you and help you? I wouldn't be foolish enough to do something without benefit! Do you regret it now? Hahaha!
"What did you say?"
Upon hearing this, King Xiao, who was in the distance, froze, feeling a buzzing in his ears as if something had collapsed.
Did Chu Yun'er help her because Chu Yan gave her a gold hairpin?
She wasn't truly kind; it was all because of Chu Yan.
King Xiao felt as if these words were a knife piercing his heart.
If that's the case, then wouldn't all my sincerity towards Chu Yun over the years become a joke?
"Your Highness, please be careful."
Prince Xiao staggered slightly, and the eunuch behind him respectfully reminded him.
"I am fine."
When King Xiao came to his senses, he wanted to go forward and grab Chu Yun to get some answers, but Chu Yun had already been hoisted up.
He struggled a few times, then died.
"No, this, this isn't real."
King Xiao muttered to himself, still unwilling to acknowledge the words Chu Yun had spoken before his death.
After the palace eunuchs left, Prince Xiao sat alone in the courtyard for a long time, thinking about many things.
As it was getting dark, a figure emerged from the corridor and sneered at him.
"Tsk tsk, Prince Xiao, you really are a good-for-nothing! I found you such a good opportunity, and you've wasted it again. Now you've made such a mess of things. What do you have to do to fight the Crown Prince?"
Zi Xing emerged from the shadows, wearing a thin, shimmering, deep purple cloak.
"If I'm a piece of trash, then what are you? Do you know that the palace eunuchs examined those witnesses and said they weren't poisoned!"
Upon hearing Zi Xing's mockery, King Xiao snapped out of his daze and returned the mockery in kind.
Didn't Zi Xing poison them and threaten them?
Why would they turn against each other?
It must be that Zi Xing's poison was ineffective and someone had cured it; she herself was also a useless person.
"What did you say? The poison is cured? Who cured them?"
As expected, Zi Xing's face darkened upon hearing this.
"I don't know, but they betrayed the Emperor and their bodies were found to be unpoisoned, which means your poison didn't control them at all."
"If they hadn't betrayed me, I wouldn't be in this state. In the end, you're just a piece of trash too!"
"Shut up!"
Zi Xing's eyes flashed sharply, and she reprimanded him in a cold voice.
Although what King Xiao said made sense, she had never been spoken to like that by a junior before, so she was naturally furious.
"Since this method doesn't work, I have another way. Let's see if you have the guts to do it!"
After a moment of contemplation, Zi Xing spoke again.
"What method?"
King Xiao asked.
Now that he is at his wit's end and all alone, why not give it one last shot?
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