Chapter 133 Dethronement
The queen's eyes went dark, and blood flowed out of her mouth, staining her plain clothes on her chest red.
"Mother!"
Lu Cheng desperately broke free from the guards and rushed over to hug the fallen queen.
"Imperial Physician! Call the imperial physician quickly!" Lu Cheng shouted in despair.
However, the emperor on the dragon throne found it extremely annoying to look at the prince who was holding the queen and looked like a madman.
"Your Majesty! The main culprit of the Lin family has committed suicide out of fear of punishment. This is the will of heaven. However, the Empress and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince cannot escape their guilt. Please judge with Your Majesty!"
Lu Cheng suddenly raised his head, his bloodshot eyes fixed on the emperor sitting on the dragon throne.
He understood everything. The love between father and son and the loyalty between ruler and subject were all bullshit!
What his good father wanted from the beginning to the end was the lives of them and their son. He wanted to completely erase all traces of the Lin family and pave the way for his beloved Concubine Qin and the Fourth Prince.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Lu Cheng hugged his unconscious mother and suddenly laughed wildly, his laughter filled with endless despair.
He pointed at the emperor on the dragon throne and said in a hoarse voice:
"My good father, what a wise and benevolent monarch! But he is a man who will put away his bow when his bird is dead, and cook away his dog when his rabbit is dead."
"Lu Bin! You finally got what you wanted. The Lin family is ruined, my grandfather is dead, my uncle is dead, and now you won't even let my mother go, and you won't let me go either, right?"
"How dare you! Rebellious son! How dare you address me by my name?!"
The emperor was furious and trembled with anger.
"presumptuous?"
Lu Cheng was not afraid at all: "So what if I acted recklessly today? Check your conscience and see how many bad things you have done over the years."
"For the sake of your dragon robe, you murdered your father and usurped the throne. To secure your kingdom, you became suspicious of loyal officials and framed meritorious officials!"
"The Jiang family is full of loyal warriors. They defended the northern border for you and made great military achievements. And what happened? You abandoned them, promoted them in name only, demoted them in reality, and left them to die in Lingnan!"
"It's because they've become so powerful that they threaten the emperor. It's because you're afraid. You're afraid of my maternal grandfather's power, afraid that my mother and I will threaten your throne. Now that the Lin family has come to you, you've thrown away even the last bit of your dignity and can't wait to take action against us mother and son!"
All the civil and military officials in the court were shocked. There were some things that everyone knew, but no one had ever dared to speak them so bluntly in the Golden Palace.
"Shut up! You evil creature! Shut up!" The emperor was so angry that his face turned purple and his chest was churning.
Lu Cheng seemed to have given up, pouring out all the resentment that had been pent up in his heart for many years:
"Three years ago, the Northern Di invaders attacked our border, and the commander of the Northern Zhen Army came flooding in with requests for reinforcements of food, fodder, and weapons. You were so stubborn and self-righteous that you believed the slander, believing that the border commander was exaggerating the enemy situation in order to demand money and food!"
"You suppressed all requests for assistance and delayed the shipment of food, fodder, and weapons to the front lines. As a result, the cities of Yunzhou, Shuozhou, and Liangzhou fell one after another. Tens of thousands of border troops fought bloody battles, but were completely annihilated due to a lack of food and fodder, and the destruction of their weapons and armor!"
"Hundreds of thousands of people were brutally slaughtered, corpses littered the fields, and blood flowed like a river. Who should be held responsible for this blood debt?
Do you dare to admit it? Are you worthy of sitting on this throne? You are a tyrant, a tyrant, and a naked executioner! "
"puff!"
The emperor on the dragon throne suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, his body swayed, and he almost fell off the dragon throne.
The bright red blood splattered on the bright yellow dragon robe and the imperial desk in front of him, which was shocking.
"His Majesty!"
"Protect the emperor! Protect the emperor!"
The palace was instantly in chaos! Eunuchs and palace maids rushed forward in panic to support the emperor.
"The treasonous son...the treasonous son..."
The emperor covered his aching chest with a pale face, pointing at Lu Cheng who was holding the queen with a crazy and happy look on his face, his eyes filled with unprecedented resentment.
"Capture this disobedient and unfilial beast who slanders the emperor and his father. Depose him from his position as Crown Prince and confine him to the Eastern Palace for life. He shall never leave without my order!"
"And Queen Lin."
The emperor gasped and looked at his unconscious wife with only disgust in his eyes.
"She will be deposed from her throne, stripped of all her titles, and imprisoned in the cold palace for life, never to be allowed out until her death!"
"Lu Bin, you will not die well!" Lu Cheng shouted loudly.
A controversy over the dethronement of the empress and the crown prince that shook the court and the country ended with a tragic scene of a father and son turning against each other and the Golden Palace stained with blood.
Queen Lin was deposed and imprisoned in the cold palace for life.
Crown Prince Lu Cheng was deposed and imprisoned in the Eastern Palace, like a prisoner.
The once-prominent Lin family completely disappeared, leaving behind only countless sighs.
Qin Xiu stood among the ranks of military generals, watching this farce of royal infighting coldly, with no ripples in his heart.
The emperor vomited blood, the prince was deposed, and the queen was imprisoned.
The situation in the court has completely changed.
Ning Pavilion.
Jiang Qingning soon received all the details of the shocking change in the palace.
When she heard Lu Cheng accusing the emperor of patricide, framing the Jiang family, and the blood debt of the loss of three cities in the Golden Palace, her fingers holding the teacup suddenly tightened.
The emperor's sins were far more serious than she had imagined.
The fathers and brothers in Lingnan, the soldiers who died in vain in the north, the people who were massacred in the three cities, and perhaps even more.
"Zi Su, what's the situation at the Anping Marquis' Mansion?" Jiang Qingning asked with a side glance.
Anping Marquis' Mansion.
Ningxiang Garden, the residence of Lady Jiang Ruyi of the Marquis of Anping, is filled with gold and jade and filled with the fragrance of incense.
“Bang!”
The crisp sound of a whip hitting flesh suddenly rang out, accompanied by the woman's suppressed groan of pain.
Bai Qingyi was only wearing a thin undershirt and kneeling on the cold and hard tiled floor.
She had her back to Jiang Ruyi who was sitting in the main seat. The skin on her exposed back was fair and delicate, but now it was crisscrossed with several fresh bloodstains, which looked particularly hideous and glaring against the backdrop of the surrounding skin.
Sweat soaked her temples and stuck to her pale cheeks. She bit her lower lip hard to prevent herself from crying out in pain.
Jiang Ruyi leaned lazily on the brocade-covered chaise longue, stroking her not-yet-pregnant belly with one hand and casually playing with a thin cowhide whip with the other.
Her makeup was exquisite, but her eyes were poisonous and contained the pleasure of sadism.
"Bitch, kneel straight!"
Jiang Ruyi's voice was sharp, with undisguised malice.
"You're just a cheap, bed-climbing bastard, and you're not worthy enough to act pitiful in front of this lady. Your husband was truly blind to be seduced by a vixen like you!"
Bai Qingyi's body trembled slightly due to the pain, but she straightened her back as she was told. In the depths of her lowered eyes, endless resentment was growing wildly.
Climbing into bed? Oh, if Jiang Ruyi hadn't planned to drug Xun Chen that day, how could she have succeeded by accident?
She just went with the flow and seized the only chance to change her fate.
But this became Jiang Ruyi's excuse to torture her every day.
She lost her right to be a mother, but Jiang Ruyi became pregnant with Xun Chen's child at once.
"What? Are you mute?"
Jiang Ruyi saw that she didn't say anything, and he got angry and whipped her again.
"Well!"
Bai Qingyi's body trembled violently, and a new bloodstain covered the old wound diagonally. The burning pain made her eyes go black.
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