Chapter 497 Have you ever lived for yourself?
The setting sun was like blood, illuminating the vast plain with a bright red hue.
On the plain, corpses were scattered everywhere and blood flowed like a river. The night wind blew gently, leaving only a desolate scene.
The black armor on Ye Jinghua's body was broken, and his hair crown was cut off by Ye Jingzhen's sword. His long hair was scattered in disarray, and he looked very embarrassed.
His weapons were confiscated and his tendons were broken. He was now being held down by the shoulders by two soldiers in silver armor, kneeling on the ground in front of Ye Jingzhen.
Behind him, there was a black mass of soldiers lined up in neat rows, all of whom were the soldiers he led.
But at this moment, under Ye Jingzhen's military order to surrender but not kill, all those who once served him have defected, more than half of them.
"Big Brother, you lose."
Ye Jingzhen stood in front of him, looking down at him with cold eyes.
"Pooh!"
Ye Jinghua glared at him with red eyes and spat fiercely.
That look was not filled with anger and unwillingness after defeat, but hatred, hatred that penetrated deep into the bones, as if he wanted to tear the person in front of him into pieces bit by bit.
Ye Jingzhen frowned and sheathed his sword: "What's with that look, big brother?"
"Ye Jingzhen, you are just like your mother, you deserve to die!" Ye Jinghua's voice was hoarse and fierce.
His words made Yun Chenglu and Gao Ziyang, who were standing by, look dark.
Both of them were about to move, but were stopped by Ye Jingzhen's eyes.
He said, "No need. Prince Heshun is still Prince Heshun, my eldest brother. No disrespect is allowed."
He said not to be rude, but his voice was as cold as ice, without a trace of emotion.
"We've been fighting all day, and the soldiers are tired. Let's set up camp and rest. I have something private to discuss with my eldest brother."
After he finished speaking, the two guards who were holding Ye Jinghua retreated as instructed.
Ye Jingzhen walked up to Ye Jinghua, held his arm with one hand, and half-dragged him towards a big tree nearby.
The afterglow of the setting sun was gradually swallowed up by the night. On the pitch-black plain, only the bonfire lit by the soldiers was slowly flickering.
Ye Jingzhen threw the half-crippled Ye Jinghua under a tree, and then sat on the ground beside him with an expressionless face.
"It's been so many years, let's talk."
Ye Jinghua's tendons were all broken, and his clothes and armor were covered in blood. He stared at Ye Jingzhen with a fierce look as if he wanted to kill someone.
"There's nothing much for me to talk about with you! The victors are kings and the losers are bandits. You can kill me or chop me up, it's all up to you!"
"Heh..." Ye Jingzhen laughed, "Big Brother, you want to die so badly, don't you want the throne anymore?"
"What I care about has never been the throne!" Ye Jinghua gritted his teeth and spoke word by word.
"What's that?" Ye Jingzhen raised an eyebrow. "To fight for Queen Chu's honor? To fulfill her lifelong wish of becoming the Queen Mother?"
"Jiang Nian is nothing!"
Ye Jinghua suddenly said harshly.
Bang!
Ye Jingzhen's face suddenly darkened. He threw a punch, knocking Ye Jinghua's face to the side.
"You don't deserve to mention her."
"Heh...heh!" Ye Jinghua laughed suddenly, "I'm not worthy of mentioning it?!"
"It's all because of her! Look at what Dakang has become now!"
"My father was so obsessed with her that he preserved her palace and painted her portrait! He even preserved her body and tried to find some kind of sorcery to resurrect her! I even heard... I even heard that my father built a life-size wax statue of her and placed it in her mausoleum!"
"Ever since Jiang Nian died, he hasn't entered the harem again! Later... later, he had someone paint pornographic pictures of him and Jiang Nian all over his bedroom, hung them up, and then had the other concubines come in blindfolded to serve him!"
"He treated all the concubines in the harem as Jiang Nian's substitutes! Including... my mother, the queen! She was the queen of a dynasty!"
"He appointed Ye Jingtian as the crown prince. Do you think it was because Ye Jingtian was suitable to be the crown prince? No! He did it for Jiang Nian!"
"Because Ye Jing is naturally more like Jiang Nian! His temperament and even his aura are similar! He is just a substitute for your mother!"
Ye Jinghua's face was distorted with anger, his eyes were red, and his eyeballs seemed to be about to burst out, and he stared at Ye Jingzhen fiercely.
"Ye Cangling wants... when Jiang Nian is resurrected, to see Ye Jingtian become the crown prince! The emperor! He's gone crazy! Are you crazy too?!"
Ye Jingzhen just looked at him indifferently until he finished roaring and gasped violently like a mad wild dog.
"I'm not the one who's crazy, it's you." Ye Jingzhen said, "You've said so much because you feel unwilling and unfair."
"What?" A rare look of confusion appeared on Ye Jinghua's face, which was twisted with anger.
"My mother was just an excuse. Ye Cangling wasn't this crazy at the beginning. You drugged him. That drug bewitches people and arouses their desires. You thought that drug would make him forget my mother, but you didn't expect that it would only make him more crazy."
"Chu He hates my mother, I know. She hates that my mother is the apple of Ye Cangling's eye. Even though her background and status are higher than my mother's, she still can't win Ye Cangling's heart."
"The day my mother gave birth to me, it was Chu He who did it. My mother suffered a heavy hemorrhage and passed away. She thought she would finally be able to gain Ye Cangling's exclusive favor, but she didn't."
"Although Ye Cangling made her his queen, she will never enter the harem again. She..."
"Shut up!"
Ye Jinghua suddenly shouted and interrupted him: "What do you know! What do you know!"
"My mother has been married to him for so many years, but she has never received his true heart! He has never taken me seriously either!"
"He even...only has Jiang Nian and her two sons in his eyes! He doesn't care about anyone else! He never even considered me his son!"
"He hates you for killing your mother, he loathes you, he distances himself from you, but you are still his son, the bastard who killed Jiang Nian! He can't shake you off, at least he still hates you!"
"But I... am just someone he can use at will, a dispensable person, just like my mother, a chess piece to help him deal with you and eliminate you. As long as I hunt you down, he will be happy!"
"Only if I kill you and deal with you will he pay attention to me!"
"So you sent people to hunt me down, and have been hunting me down for so many years."
Ye Jingzhen sighed. "You wanted to attract his attention, opposing me and my elder brother at every turn. You wanted his position as Crown Prince and even his throne. But after all these years, has it been any use?"
Ye Jinghua did not answer. He was like a defeated stray dog, with his head hanging, his lips trembling violently, and his upper and lower teeth chattering.
But he never spoke.
Ye Jingzhen: "You can't swallow this. You feel that your mother has been suppressed by my mother all her life, and even her death couldn't make Ye Cangling forget her and let her go. You are unwilling to accept this, not only for your mother but also for yourself."
"But, my dear brother, look back and see what you have done over the years."
Raising his hand to brush the hem of his clothes, Ye Jingzhen stood up. His voice was calm and cold, and it blew into Ye Jinghua's ears along with the biting night wind.
"You live for him. Have you ever...lived for yourself in all these years?"
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