But today, Ji Ruchen's silence is unsettling; I know he has lost the will to live.
Half a month ago, in the Battle of Qilan Pass, Ji Ruchen's cousin, Prince Lingguang Lan Ye, who he had always relied on, died.
He didn't die on the battlefield; he was forced to his death by Lady Seser and Ji Ruchen.
On the eighth day of last month, Lan Ye went out on patrol and encountered Lady Se Se who came to persuade him to surrender.
She was told that he was the son of the King of Anguo. She was his own son and had no relation to Yiguo whatsoever.
She is not Qiu Fengren, and her name is not Lan Ye, but Lan Sijun.
Furthermore, it brought up an old incident from twenty years ago, which was related to the deceased Queen of Yi, who was also the biological mother of Ji Ruchen.
Lady Se Se was the eldest daughter of Qiu Huaishao, the ever-victorious general of Yi Kingdom. Her name was Qiu Qianyue. She was betrothed to the then crown prince, who later became the ruler of Yi Kingdom, Ji Chu, from a young age. She was the crown princess chosen by the late emperor.
Even if the crown prince is replaced, she will not be replaced.
This demonstrates the immense power of the Qiu family at that time.
However, Lady Catherine was young at the time and was framed by the Queen (then a concubine's daughter of the Qiu family), becoming a ruined woman who had lost her virginity before marriage and was abandoned.
All the wealth and glory that originally belonged to her became the property of her half-sister Qiu Lengdie, who was the best to her.
But her dear sister still wouldn't let her go, and sent her to the soldiers at the border, where she became a tool for them to vent their desires.
Later, when Anguo and Yiguo went to war, the border general, fearing for his life, raised a white flag, and she became a prisoner.
The Anguo army does not allow the presence of women.
She was chosen by the King of Anguo and brought back to the capital city of Anguo, Handan City.
At that time, the King of Anguo was still a minor prince who was not well-liked and had to earn his own military income.
Later, they had Lan Ye. Just when she decided to forget the past and start anew, her husband personally escorted her back to the Wing Kingdom.
Her third sister, Qiu Fengren, went missing, and she took her sister's place and returned to her original home.
She was diligently working as a spy for her husband, monitoring the Winged Kingdom, and she hadn't even had a chance to tell him that they were already pregnant.
She hated him and lied, claiming he was her third sister's child.
He thought that one day he would make them kill each other without anyone knowing, to avenge the years when he was used as a pawn and sent around.
But now she regrets it. She has become the Queen of Anguo, second only to the emperor, yet she has no relatives to share the joy of her success with.
So she used the pretext of persuading him to surrender to bring her son to share in her wealth and status.
Coincidentally, their conversation was overheard by Ji Ruchen, who had gone to Lan Ye to discuss a strategy to repel the enemy.
Lan Ye was unable to accept her explanation and was on the verge of a breakdown.
At this moment, Ji Ruchen appeared.
Lady Se Se told Ji Ruchen that she had sent the Empress to the largest brothel in the capital, the Hall of Delight, to watch her suffer humiliation and die.
Ji Ruchen was about to kill her.
Lan Ye shielded Ji Ruchen's attack with his own body, but was instigated by Madam Se Se to stab Ji Ruchen with his sword. Then he fled with Madam Se Se.
Later, Lady Catherine drugged him, forced him to the front lines, and coerced Ji Ruchen.
Driven to suicide, Lan Ye clutched the wound ointment Ji Ruchen had given him in his last moments before dying. It was the ointment Ji Ruchen had given him when he was first injured.
The day he died, it snowed heavily; it was the first snowfall of the winter.
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