"You like me? Your Majesty must be joking. This marriage was arranged by Ge'er and me together. We are mutually in love. Your Majesty, you say the Crown Princess is in love with you? Are you joking?"
Feng Chenjiu lowered his head, looked at the person in front of him, and warned in a low voice: "Your Majesty, you should think carefully before you speak. If you ruin the Crown Princess's reputation, I will make you pay the price."
"Why are you here? You shouldn't be back at this time. Could it be that you...?" Feng Yimu's face suddenly turned pale, as if he suddenly remembered something. Could it be that he, like himself, had also been reborn?
No wonder, no wonder this life is completely different from the last. I used to think it was just because I didn't compete or fight for anything…
Originally, I felt I had no interest in that position anymore, and that I would never have any connection with him in this life. Whether he came back early or not made no difference to him, but now…
Now he has not only returned ahead of schedule, but many of the dangerous things he would have encountered in his previous life will no longer happen. Moreover, he has also taken away the person he loves most.
"My brother isn't too stupid."
"You know perfectly well that she loved me and married me in our past life, so why are you still with her?"
Feng Chenjiu snorted coldly: "What if I'm just trying to take what's yours? My mother died because of your mother, so why do you think you can live a peaceful life?"
“My mother has already been beaten to death by His Majesty, isn’t that enough? Her climbing into his bed was an accident back then, and my mother could have left the palace.” She always told him that she almost became a free woman.
"Heh, do you think your mother was beaten to death for this reason?" Feng Chenjiu waved his hand, signaling others to throw Feng Yimu out.
As Feng Yimu watched Feng Chenjiu turn and leave, a question arose in his mind: why was his mother beaten to death?
Judging from his reaction, it seems there were other reasons for his mother's death back then.
Meanwhile, Feng Chenjiu was gripping his fist tightly. If his mother hadn't felt that the emperor favored only one person, they would never have had a chance to rise to power if the empress hadn't died.
The Empress had suffered a miscarriage after learning about her past, which resulted in her not receiving any official rank after giving birth to the prince. Without rank, she was still vulnerable to being bullied and humiliated.
She took a gamble back then and actually climbed into the emperor's bed. This time, she's going to take another gamble. She doesn't want to be forever without a chance to rise in status, and she doesn't want her son to be forever out of favor just because she's not favored.
She searched extensively and finally found a slow-acting poison that couldn't be detected with silver needles, and initially showed no symptoms. After taking it for several years, one would eventually die from bodily depletion.
In the end, the empress died, but she never expected the emperor to be so angry, nor did she expect that what she had done would be discovered, and she was eventually beaten to death.
She schemed her whole life, only to meet a tragic end. All she wanted was to live a life of privilege, to stop being humiliated at the mercy of others. What was wrong with that?
It's not wrong for her to want a better life, but she caused the Empress's death, so what's wrong with Feng Chenjiu wanting revenge?
…
While Feng Yimu had people investigate what happened back then, he also climbed over the wall into Wan Ge's courtyard.
Looking at Feng Yimu climbing over the wall, Wan Ge wondered what was wrong with these princes? Why did they all like climbing over walls so much? Should he raise the wall around his own courtyard?
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