Chapter 381 Hypocritical People
"What does the Queen Mother mean by this?" The Emperor looked angry, his clenched fists trembling slightly.
The emperor has always had a gentle and elegant image, looking like a scholar. This is the first time he has been so excited.
"Your Majesty, do you really not understand what I mean?" The Queen Mother's eyes were cold, and her tone was icy. "Or have you been so pretentious that you've even fooled yourself?"
"I don't understand what the Queen Mother is talking about!" The emperor was obviously enraged and stumbled to the Queen Mother. "For many years, the Queen Mother has not seen me as her son in her eyes or heart. I'm used to it! But the Queen Mother, could you please not rub salt into my wounds at a time like this?"
The Queen Mother met his gaze and asked, "So, the Emperor is in pain right now?"
"Do I even need to ask?" The emperor's lips trembled violently. "Has the Empress Dowager never loved anyone? In the harem, Concubine Shu was my most beloved woman. She's dead! A piece of my heart is forever missing! The pain is unbearable!"
The Queen Mother nodded, but her eyes were full of mockery.
"It's alright, Your Majesty. You can spend the rest of your life remembering Concubine Shu, just like how Your Majesty has missed the Regent day and night for the past twenty years."
The emperor seemed to have been punched. He clutched his chest in pain, tears welling up in his eyes. "Queen Dowager, please stop hurting me with these words! The death of your uncle has crushed me! For the past twenty-one years, I have felt regret every day!"
"Now Concubine Shu is dead. I doted on her for so many years, and I never said a harsh word to her, yet she still betrayed me! She would rather die outside than return to the palace! She tore my dignity and love to pieces! How could she be so cruel! How could she be so heartless! What did I do wrong?"
The veins on the emperor's hands were bulging, and he seemed to be enduring excruciating pain.
"Now, the Queen Mother is the only one around me! I don't ask the Queen Mother to love me, I just hope that we can get along like an ordinary mother and son, and that the Queen Mother can occasionally think of me and feel sorry for me! Is that okay?"
The emperor had a pleading look on his face, like a humble child cautiously asking for love from his parents.
This scene will touch even the hardest heart.
But the Queen Mother's heart seemed harder than stone. Not only was she unmoved, she even laughed.
"Emperor, I have never understood why you, the ruler of a country, always act like a victim?"
"Xiao Chuchen is dead. You were the one who poisoned him, yet you claim that I instigated and exploited you! You blame me for making you live in regret and pain! You believe your misfortune is my fault! Emperor, is this really the case?"
The emperor hesitated for a moment, his eyes moistening again. "Empress Dowager, what I said last time was just a rant. You are my biological mother. No matter what you do to me, I dare not complain. I will never mention the matter of the Emperor's uncle again. I don't want to make you feel guilty."
"That's enough!" The Queen Mother raised her voice, obviously angry.
"How long do you plan to deceive me?! I did use you to drug you back then, but I didn't hire any assassins! Do you dare to tell me the truth today? Who hired the assassin back then?!"
"Killer? What killer?" The emperor was shocked. "I don't know what my mother is talking about!"
The Queen Mother sneered, "Emperor, why are you pretending in front of me? Not only did you drug Xiao Chuchen back then, you also hired assassins from the Wusheng Sect. Your plan was flawless and you didn't intend to leave him alive at all! I don't understand. You are the emperor, you killed him, so why are you unwilling to admit it?"
The emperor's face changed drastically. "I didn't hire a killer! Someone else hired the killer! Maybe it was my uncle! It's very likely that my uncle hired a killer to deal with my uncle for the Empress Dowager's sake!"
The Queen Mother looked at the Emperor quietly, neither anxious nor annoyed. "If this can make the Emperor feel better, then the Emperor can continue to deceive himself!"
"Emperor, you are hypocritical to the extreme, terribly selfish, and yet you are so good at pretending that you even believe yourself! Xiao Chuchen was deceived by you, and I was deceived by you too! If the Prime Minister hadn't recently found out that someone paid the assassins of the Wusheng Sect to assassinate Xiao Chuchen, I would have been deceived by you forever!"
The Queen Mother stared at the Emperor with a cold gaze, "Don't ever say anything like I'm not good to you again! We are mother and son, but at heart we are the same people. We don't have true feelings for anyone! It's just that you hide it more deeply than I do, and you're more annoying!"
"Alas! In the end, my mother found out."
The emperor stood in the ruins, and his facial features, which had been distorted by grief and anger, immediately returned to calm. His slightly narrowed eyes seemed to be smiling, and the corners of his mouth that were tilted up emanated a cold aura.
In an instant, it was like he became a different person.
"This is a bit like the emperor."
The Queen Mother looked at him again, "You must remember, you are the king of a country, not an actor! I know that you live so twistedly, just because you are afraid that Xiao Chuchen will come back for revenge! You are also a coward. It has been twenty-one years. If he were still alive, he would have returned long ago!"
The emperor patted the black dust off his dragon robe with ease, "Yes, I am now convinced that he is indeed dead!"
"How do you plan to handle this matter regarding Concubine Shu?" The Queen Mother's eyes still shone with disdain. "Rumors are spreading everywhere that you've robbed and plundered, separated a couple, and wiped out the entire Xia clan! In my opinion, you're truly capable of such a wicked act."
"Indeed, it was I who did it." The emperor smiled smugly. "You can't blame me, actually. The first time I saw her, she smiled like a blooming rose. I've never seen such a happy smile in my life!"
"I can't help but wonder, how can she be so happy? Is there no trouble in her life? If she were with someone like me, would she still be able to smile so brightly and charmingly?"
"So you put Xia Jia in jail? To make her unable to laugh? And then let her enter the palace? To be with you?" asked the Queen Mother.
The emperor raised the corners of his lips in triumph. "That's right! If I want to get her and her heart, I'll have to resort to some tricks."
"Since you already have her, why do you still want to kill Xia?"
"I didn't intend to kill them at first. But after she entered the palace, I saw that she never smiled like before, and I knew I would never get her! Whenever I think of this, I feel so uncomfortable that I can't sleep or eat, and I just want to kill people!"
The emperor became excited, his eyes flashing with bloodthirstiness. "Since she likes him so much, and since he has obtained what I cannot, I will kill his entire family in her name! Queen Mother, isn't this a brilliant move of mine? Every time I think of it, I can't help but cheer for myself!"
"What a boring story!" The Queen Mother suppressed the disdain in her eyes. "What's the Emperor planning to do next?"
"Of course I'll take her back to the palace!" The emperor's eyes were filled with madness. "It's been ten years, and she's still thinking about reuniting with her lover? Dream on!"
"Not only will I take her back to the palace, I'll also posthumously confer the title of Imperial Noble Consort on her! After I die, she'll be buried with me! We'll share the same bed in life and the same blood in death!"
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