He truly couldn't accept Li Wenshu's betrayal.
"The Empress is immoral and unworthy to rule the world! Li Wenshu, from this moment forward, you are no longer my Empress. Upon my return to the palace, I will announce to the world that you are hereby deposed as Empress, and the letter of divorce will follow shortly!"
He Lin only instructed Gu Qian to take good care of Li Wenshu, and without even waiting for the imperial physician to arrive, he took the remaining children back to the palace.
He Lin is gone.
He was heartbroken and left without looking back.
A desolate, bitter smile appeared on Li Wenshu's face, a smile of farewell.
Farewell, He Lin!
The imperial physician, who arrived late, carefully examined Li Wenshu's injuries, silently shook his head, and then took his leave.
"General Gu, I cannot cure the Empress's illness."
He wanted to leave, but Gu Qian stopped him.
"Did I say you could leave?"
"Senior brother," Li Wenshu shook her head at Gu Qian.
Seeing that her senior brother was about to stop her, she forcefully grabbed his sleeve.
"Let him go."
Having received permission, the imperial physician quickly slipped away under Gu Qian's icy gaze.
It's obvious that the Empress is beyond saving.
If he doesn't leave soon, and the Empress dies in his hands, he cannot bear such a guilt.
So, risking offending the general, he slipped away as fast as he could.
Gu Qian was about to give chase, but Li Wenshu was still holding his sleeve tightly, preventing him from breaking free.
"Senior brother, don't go."
"Junior Sister!" Gu Qian tried to break free and pull the imperial physician away, but as soon as he turned around, he saw his junior sister cough heavily, blood oozing from the corner of her lips.
"Senior brother, don't leave me... I'm scared to leave alone."
Gu Qian felt a pang of heartache; his eyes were already wet with tears.
"I'll be right back." He knelt down beside Li Wenshu's bed and gently brushed away the stray hairs from her temples.
"Junior sister is injured and needs immediate medical attention."
"It's too late." At this moment, Li Wenshu deeply realized the extent of her willfulness.
"Senior brother, after I die, protect my child."
"Junior sister, you won't die!" Gu Qian thought of the masked man who had just escaped. "Who took the other child? If you don't tell me, how can your senior brother search for you?"
"Senior brother, please apologize to my parents and tell them that Shu'er was wrong and couldn't be filial to them." Li Wenshu knew that the man wouldn't hurt the child, so she didn't mention his name at all.
"Junior sister, go and tell her yourself!" Gu Qian tugged at his sleeve; he had to find a doctor for his junior sister immediately.
However, he couldn't leave.
"Senior brother, after I die, bury me in the back mountains of Lingnan. That way, I can see my parents often." Li Wenshu knew she was dying, which was why she didn't want Gu Qian to leave.
“You and His Majesty are still good brothers. For my sake, for the sake of the children, don’t look for him anymore. I don’t blame him anymore, I don’t blame him.”
"Junior sister, don't talk nonsense!" Gu Qian closed his eyes in anguish. "You won't die!"
"Senior brother, take me back to Lingnan Village, take me back, right now."
Li Wenshu pleaded tearfully,
Gu Qian really couldn't bear to refuse.
"Okay, senior brother, I'll prepare the car right away."
Using the excuse of preparing the carriage, Gu Qian finally went to find a doctor first.
However, when he rushed over with the doctor,
On the bed, there was only a cold body...
The corpse.
How could this be...?
Gu Qian's heart suddenly turned cold.
His first thought was that He Lin's sword strike had just killed his junior sister.
He found it hard to accept at first.
"Junior Sister!" He could no longer hold back his tears.
He was grief-stricken, holding her lifeless body.
But then he discovered that the bloodstains on his junior sister's face were gone.
Someone has been here.
Gu Qian didn't have time to think further; he just stared blankly at his junior sister's sleeping face.
"Junior sister, how am I supposed to explain this to Master and Mistress?"
He was repressed and in pain.
He blamed himself for not stopping He Lin in time when he drew his sword.
He regretted that he hadn't been able to persuade his junior sister to face reality.
Since things can't be changed, wouldn't it be better to just obediently be her empress?
He opened her wardrobe and picked out one of her favorite dark red outfits.
"Senior brother will help you change your clothes."
Gu Qian murmured softly as he brought over a basin of warm water.
He loosened the black headband, which had been covering his eyes.
Then, little by little, they removed Li Wenshu's dirty clothes, carefully wiped her body, and changed her clothes.
After everything was finished, Gu Qian untied the hairbands around his eyes and restyled his hair.
He stared blankly at her body, his emotions in turmoil, tears streaming down his face like a broken string of pearls, heartbroken.
"Junior sister, your senior brother dares not face Master and Mistress."
About half an hour later, Gu Qian finally made up his mind, picked up Li Wenshu's body horizontally, and prepared to send her to see her master and mistress.
But just as he turned around,
He was met head-on by his master's bloodshot eyes.
Gu Qian… his mind went blank, his thoughts were a complete blank.
"Master." His knees buckled, and he knelt before Li Zheng.
"Master, my junior sister, she..."
Looking down, he saw that his master was still holding a letter in his hand.
Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a letter.
A letter of divorce!
Li Zheng's face was covered in tears.
Without saying a word, he took Li Wenshu's body from Gu Qian's arms, turned and left.
He staggered and almost fell several times, but fortunately, Gu Qian was there to support him.
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"Was that baby you brought into the palace me?" He Jinran listened to He Lin's story with a heavy heart and a gloomy face, as cold as the weather in the wind.
Seeing that He Lin's eyes were already wet with tears, He Jinran reached into her bosom, took out a handkerchief, and handed it to him.
"Don't cry."
“It’s you.” He Lin was slightly taken aback, nodded, and took the handkerchief from He Jinran’s hand.
"Jin'er, don't you resent your father?"
He never expected that Jin'er would remain so calm after hearing what had happened.
"You should have told your mother about your existing concubines before you married her."
He Jinran was not in a position to judge what happened back then, but he felt very depressed as he listened.
He Jinran squatted down on the stone steps in the courtyard, looking down and fiddling with her fingers to ease her sadness.
"It's too late to say anything now." He Lin didn't think he was wrong before.
"Father didn't know that your mother would... would leave this world so quickly that day... If Father had known, he wouldn't have left that day." He wept uncontrollably as he recalled the scene from that day.
He truly didn't know she would die.
Ever since Li Zheng took Shu'er's body away, he has been missing her.
Longing has made me ill...
"Don't you resent your father?" He Lin repeated his earlier words. Jin'er's reply indirectly determined his attitude towards him from then on.
"I resent you, of course I resent you."
"You accidentally killed Mother and then abandoned her, stripping her of her title as Empress. If it weren't for Father, how pitiful Mother would have been."
He Jinran found it hard to imagine how lonely her mother was before she passed away.
Fortunately, she still had time to tell her father about his final arrangements.
There was still time to see my grandfather one last time.
"I really hate you!"
"But the mother was also at fault."
He Jinran cried. Her mother was so pitiful. Why was she so stubborn?
If she hadn't been so stubborn, her ending wouldn't have been so tragic.
The two of them are really incompatible.
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