"His Highness intends to execute Wei Maozhen!" They knelt in the silent Buddhist hall, surrounded by flickering candlelight and heavy shadows. Sun Mian's steward spoke in a low voice.
"What is he afraid of? Why is he so determined to execute His Majesty?" Sun Mian asked, puzzled.
"Lord Sun, please keep your voice down," the steward hurriedly reminded him. "If someone with ulterior motives hears this, it could lead to your death."
Sun Mian shook his head. "Does Your Highness intend to kill even me?"
"This..." The butler was speechless. "If it were before, it certainly wouldn't have happened, but ever since you made that request, sir... it's hard to say!"
"Are you also questioning me?" Sun Mian asked. "Questioning my decision?"
"Yes!" The steward nodded slightly. "Lord Sun, why would you make such a foolish request, asking His Highness to annul the engagement?"
Now that Wei Maozhen has been defeated by Your Highness, I believe it won't be long before Your Highness becomes emperor.
"When Miss marries His Highness, she will become the Empress, the mother of the nation, and you will be the Emperor's father-in-law!"
"If Your Highness were to declare yourself emperor, would the others submit to you? Would they obey your commands?" Sun Mian sighed. "No, they would not. They would raise armies and establish their own independent regimes."
If this happens, the world will descend into chaos once more, and countless lives will be lost. My Great Xia... will perish!
Despite all his shortcomings, Wei Maozhen was ultimately able to maintain the unity of the Great Xia Dynasty, and the people were able to live and work in peace and contentment.
If Your Highness kills her!
Why..."
No one knows a daughter better than her father, and Sun Mian knew Sun Ruoxi's character best.
He wanted his daughter to marry the son of Grand Marshal Lin Wenzhong, or the Prince of Shu, but absolutely not the Emperor of Great Xia!
It's a pity that beautiful women often have short lives, and the most ruthless are those in the imperial family.
Moreover, Lin Mo was the most ruthless emperor Sun Mian had ever seen!
They massacred 400,000 Dossi allied soldiers, completely wiping out the Dossi people from the grasslands.
On the Lantern Festival, he killed three thousand Imperial Guards, and he smiled the whole time without even blinking.
Therefore, at this moment, all he wanted was to retire to the countryside with Sun Ruoxi and enjoy his later years in peace.
That's why she asked Lin Mo to dissolve the engagement.
"Then, sir, could you persuade His Highness not to declare himself emperor, but instead..."
"Restore the Zhao family's rule?" Sun Mian looked up abruptly.
“That’s right!” the steward said. “The Great Xia Dynasty originally belonged to the Zhao family!”
Upon hearing this, Sun Mian's heart skipped a beat. Return the empire to the Zhao family? Then his Sun family would be doomed!
Why?
Because the Sun family was one of the great contributors to Wei Maozhen's ascension to the throne.
If the Zhao family regains power, what good will happen to the Sun family?
At the same time, the henchmen that Wei Maozhen had cultivated over the years would also rebel.
If that's the case, it would be better to let Lin Mo ascend the throne.
"Or perhaps? Let Wei Maozhen continue as a puppet emperor, maintaining a facade of peace?"
Thinking of this, Sun Mian immediately stood up, "Carry the sedan chair, I want to go to the palace!"
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There was no light here; she was no different from someone who was blind.
Or rather, they are no different from the dead.
"Ah...Your Majesty!" Wei Maozhen thought of her deceased husband, the previous emperor of the Great Xia Dynasty, in the darkness.
She murmured, reaching out her hand to touch the cold stone wall.
She recalled participating in the imperial concubine selection when she was young, entering the palace for the first time, and meeting the late emperor for the first time.
She remembered the joke the late emperor had told, and the favor he had bestowed upon her.
"I'm so sorry..."
The dungeon was located underground in the capital city, and she dared not think about how deep it was.
She recalled the stories associated with the construction of this dungeon, the legend that the craftsmen who built it were murdered so that they could never reveal its secrets.
She cursed them all. Lin Mo, Sun Mian, the Qiu Zi people, the Arabs. She hated them for not sending troops sooner!
In the end, however, she blamed herself. "Fool!" she shouted into the darkness, "You damned fool!"
You brought this upon yourself, Wei Maozhen.
Your greed, your jealousy, your suspicion, your arrogance!!!
Lin Wenzhong's face appeared in the darkness. His face was resolute, and his smile carried a hint of mockery.
"Your Majesty, if I die, who will protect your empire?"
“Lin Wenzhong won’t rebel!” Wei Maozhen began to reflect. “Anyone could rebel, but Lin Wenzhong won’t. But why did I kill him?”
Wei Maozhen regretted it; she paid the price for her foolishness.
Thinking of her biological daughter, she just wanted to cry her heart out, but the tears just wouldn't fall.
Even in this state, she was still the first empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, her sorrow and rage frozen within her.
There is no sunrise or sunset here, you can't see anything, and you can't even make a mark on the wall.
Whether her eyes were open or closed, it made no difference. She slept and woke up, woke up and fell asleep again, not knowing which was more painful, sleeping or waking up.
When I'm asleep, I dream—dreams that are dark and disturbing, filled with bloodshed and broken promises; when I'm awake, I have nothing to do but think.
However, what she was thinking was worse than a nightmare. "My daughter..."
Time passes, days go by, or at least that's how it feels.
The only sound here was her breathing. After a while, she began to speak loudly, just so she could be heard.
"Lin Mo didn't kill me, and he won't!" Wei Maozhen began to think. "I still have a use; I can keep the court officials in check. Of course, that's assuming the ministers are still alive..."
If I die, the Great Xia will fall into chaos, and all the feudal lords in the world will rise up.
Sun Mian, he won't let that happen.
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