As the sky darkened, a cold wind rustled, and the withered leaves drifted down, making a crackling sound, creating a dark and desolate atmosphere...
"Royal brother."
She gazed into the distance, watching the golden sycamore leaves gradually fall off the branches, and pursed her lips slightly:
"Have you forgotten that as an emperor, love is a taboo?"
She slowly turned around and looked directly at him, a touch of sadness in her majestic eyes:
"Especially us."
They, these people with the surname Long, have the blood of that man flowing in their bodies. They still remember his tyranny and cruelty in their hearts. Every time they have a nightmare in the middle of the night, they wake up with palpitations and endless pain.
Thinking back...
That was when Long Chujun was two years old. She was ignorant and knew nothing. She only knew to stick to her mother every day, listening to her gentle voice humming sweet songs to coax her to sleep.
At that time, she could not have imagined that behind her mother's gentleness and love, there were countless quarrels and resistances.
The one she remembered most vividly was also the one when her father, the emperor, and her mother had the most intense argument—
She was a little naughty at that time, and wanted to give her mother a big surprise on her birthday, so she dressed herself up beautifully and quietly hid in her mother's bedroom, hiding under the bed.
Unexpectedly, she didn't wait for her gentle mother, but instead waited for her furious father who grabbed her mother's wrist and threw her onto the bed...
The emperor said, "Our queen is so free. Isn't it enough to spend the whole day chatting with the court ladies? Now, even on her birthday, she's busy running around with those beautiful ladies. She's so happy!"
The Queen Mother was quite skilled in martial arts and pushed him away. "As the Empress, it is my duty to manage the harem! As for the court ladies... if Your Majesty hadn't imprisoned those trusted officials in the Heavenly Prison without any reason, whether they were dead or alive, why would I have bothered to appease them?"
"Heh, are you blaming me for my absurd decision? Or are you feeling sorry for those young people?!"
There was a sound of fighting in the room. The young Long Chujun was so scared that he shrank his body and didn't even dare to cry.
Suddenly, there was a tremor on the bed. It must be that the queen mother was restrained and pressed down on the bed.
"Long Yu, you bastard!"
This was the first time the Queen Mother let out such an angry growl, and if you listened carefully, you could actually hear a hint of crying in it.
"When have I ever met those young men? All of this is just your baseless imagination! Those ministers are loyal to you and have never committed any serious mistakes. Why should you let them suffer the calamity of imprisonment just because of your groundless slander? This chills their hearts!"
"Why?" Long Yu sneered, then laughed in anger: "Because I am the emperor, I am the monarch! If I want them to die, they will never live!"
"Hiss--" The sound of clothes tearing suddenly rang out, gripping Long Chujun's heart.
"Let me go!!" The queen mother's voice was trembling.
Long Yu's angry voice came again: "Not willing? Why would my queen not want to?! It's your duty to manage the harem and comfort the families of the courtiers, but serving me is not one of them?! Huh?"
"Your Majesty has many concubines, and there are many sisters willing to serve you, why bother—!"
"Concubines, concubines, concubines again! My good queen would rather hang out with those rouge-faced and vulgar women than even look at me, right?!"
His face looked grim and terrifying.
She only heard him leaning over her ear, speaking word by word in that chilling voice:
"I knew that those women in the harem would not be content. So, in order to let my good queen have a good rest, I have issued an order to pluck out those noisy tongues, so that they can no longer gossip in front of the queen and can no longer distract the queen!"
"You—you bastard! They are all your bedmates! They are scheming against each other because of you, just to get your favor! How could you?! What gives you the right to be so cruel!"
"The Queen has truly been distracted by the chirping of those birds..." He said expressionlessly, his eyes filled with coldness. "I do this simply to grant my devoted Queen a lifetime of exclusive favor, to reward my Queen who cares deeply about the world..."
His last few words came out from between his teeth.
"Including those ministers... I will punish them for the crime of causing chaos in the harem. I will execute their entire families and inflict eternal infamy! I want my queen to see with her own eyes that everything she has worked for is so fragile in my eyes!
"I want my queen to understand that this world belongs only to me, and my queen is mine and mine alone! Anyone who dares to approach the queen will be damned!"
He waved his hand and turned her over. He lifted the back of her head with one hand and slowly stroked her frightened and angry eyes with the other hand, then slowly moved it down...
The voice was so hoarse and terrifying:
"I want my queen to have only me in her eyes and heart from now on...
"I want my Ling'er... From now on, she can only live by me, can only see me day and night, and enjoy the pleasure under me..."
......
After that, the Queen Mother was placed under house arrest in the Prison Phoenix Palace. The number of maids around her gradually decreased, and in the end, even Long Yu himself was the one who delivered meals to her three times a day.
He tore all her clothes to shreds, then took up needlework himself and made more clothes for her. He dressed her in them himself, ignoring her trembling body, her increasingly frightened eyes, and her desperate resistance. He put on her the golden shackles he had made himself...
Every time she rebelled, someone would disappear from the imperial court or harem. Sometimes it was a concubine she had helped, sometimes a maid she favored, and sometimes an official she had complained about for injustice...
Gradually, she no longer dared to resist, and was troubled by worries and depressed all day long.
He looked at her increasingly lifeless eyes with a smile on his face, hugged her curled up body, stroked her hair affectionately, and played with her locked ankles with a smile on his face.
This went on for five years.
She simply couldn't imagine how her mother had gotten through those five years.
She only knew that her mother was forced to give in and endure time and time again, in exchange for her father's increasingly intensified possession and more ruthless control...
The emperor's possessiveness was so strong that he didn't even allow his own flesh and blood to spend too much time with the queen mother.
The three children had only one chance to meet their mother every seven days, and the time could not exceed one hour.
And every time after they met, my father would always appear not far from the door, looking down at them condescendingly and saying coldly:
"Go and receive your punishment."
Yes, their cruel father did not care that they were only a few years old. Every time after seeing their mother, they would be whipped ten times as a punishment.
She gradually understood her father's intention.
He wanted them to give up on their own, so that the Queen Mother would only have his father.
However, the five-year-old girl had already understood the pros and cons of this through her repeated shouting and struggling.
If they do not see the Queen Mother, they will not be beaten;
But if the Queen Mother doesn't see them, she will go crazy.
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