The day Yi Mu awoke, the queen, who had long since gone mad, threw herself into a well. Her body was not discovered until three days later, by which time it had already begun to decompose.
After all, he was the heir of a nation, so he deserved a proper burial.
However, the palace had already received the news that the Empress's body was not to be buried and was to be thrown into a mass grave outside the city, left to be eaten by wild dogs and vultures.
Even though some people felt this decision was excessive, no one dared to say anything.
The regent in the palace has now become cold-blooded and cruel. He beheaded the elderly chief abbot and almost threw the top scholar to his death. What wouldn't he dare to do?
Yi Mu is not insane, but his mind has regressed by more than ten years; he is now comparable to a child of a few years old.
He doesn't remember anyone, but he's very attached to the maid who gave him the silver bell.
Perhaps it was a case of being obsessed with chicks, but the first thing Yi Mu saw was clearly Qing Yao.
But Yi Mu not only didn't get close to him, he also didn't speak to him, not uttering a single word.
He could clearly speak; he spoke to the maids, to the eunuchs, and even to inanimate objects and plants, yet he ignored Qingyao completely.
Qingyao tried everything, but couldn't get Yimu to speak.
He even despicably threatened Yimu with the maid's life, but Yimu just looked at him, his eyes showing nothing.
There was neither blame, nor disappointment, nor anger.
He seemed not to be a person, but merely an empty shell.
Qingyao was frightened by Yi Mu's behavior and never threatened him with a maid again after that.
He also promoted the maid to the rank of lady-in-waiting, making her a first-class palace maid. She only needed to keep Yi Mu company and amuse him, and did nothing else.
The fact that Yimu had lost his mind could not be kept secret. Somehow, the ministers found out about it, which gave them even more reason to demand that Yimu abdicate the throne.
After all, a child who can never grow up cannot be an emperor.
Qingyao refused. He wanted Yimu to be emperor. Even if Yimu never grew up, as long as Yimu was alive, he would be the most honorable person in the world.
Anyone who dared to object was secretly executed.
During that period, everyone in the court felt insecure.
A former deputy general under Bei Menlin stole his military seal, intending to force him to abdicate.
That very night, the man was killed, and his head was hung on the flagpole of the military camp. He died with his eyes wide open, as if he had witnessed something horrifying that shattered his spirit.
The killing of the chicken to scare the monkey—so many people died—enough to make the remaining officials understand that they shouldn't set their sights on the mentally challenged young emperor, or the deadly blade would be at their own throats the next second.
With Qingyao's current abilities, he cannot return to the Chief God's Office to take Yimu back for proper healing.
Fortunately, Yi Mu woke up. If he had remained in bed, Qing Yao really didn't know how he would have spent the rest of his lonely life alone.
He made Yimu go to the Golden Palace every day and sit on the throne.
The maid said that the emperor complained that the dragon throne was uncomfortable, so Qingyao had five or six down cushions sewn on the dragon throne.
Yi Mu couldn't understand what the ministers were discussing, but he had Qing Yao as his backer.
When the small border kingdoms heard that the emperor of Sufeng had suddenly fallen ill and become mentally unstable, they became restless again and sent troops to harass the border people.
Qingyao personally led a million-strong army and nearly slaughtered those small countries until not a single person was left.
Although he was fierce on the battlefield, he was never so bloodthirsty as to kill everyone.
I heard that Su Feng's regent forced the monarch of that small country to the top of the imperial city and asked only one question.
"Who told you that Su Feng's emperor has become an idiot?"
A country was destroyed simply because of a single sentence!
Now no one dared to show the slightest disrespect to Yi Mu, even though he had essentially become a fool.
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