"The first time I met her was in that peach grove. She was wearing a white dress and sitting there resting, looking ethereal. There was a basket next to her with the herbs she had just picked."
"At that time, I was wounded and ambushed during the campaign to conquer the Western Regions."
“It was Lou’er. She saw me on the verge of death, pulled out the poisoned arrow, treated my wounds, and placed me in a secluded cave. She came every day to change my dressings.”
Mi Shan gazed at him silently, listening to him continue.
Unbeknownst to him, Li Shengyuan had changed his self-reference from "I" to "I".
He returned to the time when he was not yet emperor.
As he described it, the kind and touching image of that woman seemed to appear before everyone's eyes.
"She is so beautiful that it's hard not to fall in love with her. In the short days we spend together, I have already fallen for her."
"After my injuries healed, she told me to leave, but I refused. I came to that mountain every day, waiting to meet her again."
"Perhaps she was moved by my sincerity, or perhaps she already had feelings for me, but in the end, we came together."
"I was overjoyed and immediately married her into my mansion. She was skilled in medicine and was gentle and kind. Even the Empress Dowager, who had betrayed me at the time, spoke highly of her."
"What surprised me even more was that she actually had a talent for design, especially in the area of secret passages and mechanisms. The underground palace you see here was designed by Lou'er for me."
Mi Shan was deeply shocked.
Unexpectedly, this complex and enormous underground palace was actually my mother's masterpiece.
How could my mother, such a good person, have fallen for someone as ordinary as "Mi Xiuyan"?
Mi Shan harbored a slight doubt.
Empress Rouci was heartbroken and slashed two lines across his body.
"You beast! How dare you say that! No wonder every time I visit my sister, she's always busy scribbling and drawing. She's been working day and night, designing the secret passage for you! Besides that, she also has to handle all the big and small matters at your home. And what about you! You don't appreciate her efforts at all. How have you repaid her for all the effort she's put into you!"
“I know you resent me. My meeting with Consort Ru was arranged by the late emperor. Although he did not object to me choosing a commoner woman of unknown origin as my consort, he still hoped that there would be a woman by my side who could bring me power and assistance.”
"Princess Ru comes from a family of generals; her father and brother both served the country."
"But you still slaughtered her entire family later. People like you deserve to go to hell." Empress Rouci stared coldly at her. "Continue. I want to know where my sister is. Where is she?"
"Haha, after all these years, haven't you given up looking for her? She's long dead, she died in this secret passage she built herself, she died in the furnace she gave to me."
"What do you mean, the furnace?" Mi asked instinctively, her tone slightly urgent.
"It seems Consort De is also very interested in the ins and outs of this matter? Could it be that you have some connection with Jialuo Lou?" Li Shengyuan looked at her suspiciously, his voice carrying a hint of age.
Mi Shan desperately wanted to shout it out.
It's more than just a relationship!
She is my mother!
You almost killed her!
"I was just curious."
Mi Shan could only find an excuse to hide the flutter in her heart.
“Indeed, she is dead. Actually, I had suspected before that you two might be mother and daughter. But, thinking that Lou’er had died before my eyes and had no chance of survival, I knew that Shan’er, you must be an angel sent to me by God.”
Mi Shan: "..."
restraint.
Don't treat him like a person.
Just pretend he's talking to thin air.
Xie Lingyi frowned coldly. If it weren't for the fact that it concerned Mi Shan's birth mother, and that he didn't have to worry about being trapped in this secret passage, he would have stabbed this scum to death with his sword long ago.
"Don't blame me, Jialuo Lou's death was entirely her own fault!"
Li Shengyuan finally got back to the main topic.
"At first, she strongly opposed my plan to elevate Bian Lingru to the rank of Consort Ping. I know that I once promised her that I would only love her in this life, but the woman I love most in my heart is still her. I had no choice!"
"Later, perhaps I persuaded her, and she finally stopped objecting. However, since then, I have never seen her smile at me again."
"Your sister is disappointed in you! She must regret loving the wrong person and misjudging you, this scumbag."
The Empress said coldly.
Li Shengyuan felt a pang of pain in his heart, then frowned deeply: "If things could have been peaceful like this, that would have been fine, but do you know what? I've discovered that she's been lying to me all along!"
"She wasn't some ordinary woman at all!"
"They were spies sent from the Western Regions!"
"How could that be? How could my sister be a spy? She's such an innocent person..." Empress Rouci was stunned, but still couldn't believe it. "Where did you get this information? You must be mistaken."
"Ha, how could I be mistaken? After a court banquet, I received a secret letter reporting me. The letter said that Jialuo Lou was actually a goddess from the Western Regions. She disguised herself as a common woman and appeared before me at the right time in order to protect the Western Regions from my attacks."
"At first I didn't believe it either, but the man spoke in such detail and with such certainty that I sent people to investigate in secret and found out who wrote the secret letter."
"Who is it?" Empress Rouci clenched her fists tightly.
She needed to know who had played a significant role in her sister's death.
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