It was the familiar darkness again.
"Host, I am here to tell you a story."
Su Yumo didn't open his eyes. "You speak, I listen."
She is too tired.
On the first day I came here, I quarreled with a gangster in the morning, fell into a coma at noon, and met the target of my pursuit in the evening.
The day is packed.
"Host, do you know who your original master is?"
"Ling Yue."
"That's correct."
"Let's get to the point. If I really can't hold on any longer, you'll be waiting for me to collect your body."
"Okay, system, to cut to the chase, Ling Yue is not only the inn's proprietress, she's also a princess from the previous dynasty."
"Yes, Princess."
After a day of blows, she can now accept anything, even if someone says she is a willow tree spirit, she would believe it.
"This story goes back more than 20 years."
Su Yumo: Is this what you call making a long story short?
"The princess's mother's family had been in decline for many years due to the lack of ambition among the members. Her father believed that entering the palace with a daughter would restore their family's former glory, so he sent his most beautiful daughter, the princess's mother, to the palace."
"She had already been betrothed, and after being forcibly sent to the palace, she had no intention of actively attracting the emperor's attention. Instead, she spent her days missing her lover and shedding tears."
"The emperor saw a newcomer in the palace and felt it was a novelty. In the ten days after she entered the palace, he summoned her to his bedchamber every day, which made her feel even more disheartened."
"As time went on, a large number of new people entered the palace, and the emperor had new amusements, so he gradually forgot about her."
"When the emperor stopped coming to her palace, she slowly let go of her deep love for her lover outside the palace and prepared to live a good life."
"It was at this time that the imperial physician discovered the princess's arrival. She had been drinking contraceptive soup since she had served him in bed, but somehow she still got pregnant."
"Although she was in pain, she was kind-hearted and couldn't bear to hurt the baby in her belly. She also thought it would be good to have a child to accompany her, so she carefully protected this unexpected daughter."
"Nine months later, the princess was born. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw it was a daughter, and so did the other concubines in the harem. When the emperor heard it was a daughter, he said nothing and continued to tuck himself into his tangled robes."
"The princess didn't have an official name for several months after she was born. It was only after the previous eunuch Lin reminded her that the emperor had someone choose a name."
"Ling Yue, titled Princess Chengyu."
"Is her mother still alive?"
"She's gone. When she was nine, her mother accidentally witnessed the imperial concubine and a guard having an affair. She was knocked unconscious and thrown into the water, where she died."
Su Yumo opened his eyes and sighed.
"Where's the imperial concubine? Is she dead?"
"On the first day of his reign, Li Xuanyi threw her into the water and drowned her. His body was then fed to the dogs."
A life for a life.
"Li Xuanyi knew that Lingyue's mother was drowned?"
"Yes, Li Xuanyi has spies in the palace to protect the princess's safety."
He is such a passionate person, it's rare to see such a person.
Listening to the system's story with her eyes closed, she felt like a bystander floating above the endless buildings.
In an instant, this idea popped into her mind.
Nothing is eternal, and everything that happens will eventually become a story told by others.
Compared to the entire universe, we are all small people.
One hundred years from now, our fate will be to become a handful of earth.
Thinking of this, Su Yumo sneered. The night had come, and it was not suitable for being alone.
With the little remaining consciousness, Su Yumo wrapped her legs tightly around the warm man in front of her.
"Tell me the story of Li Xuanyi."
"Li Xuanyi, the second son of the Ningguo Mansion, his mother is a fair-skinned beauty who was spotted by the Qiguo Duke in the suburbs."
"In order to get money to save her seriously ill grandmother, she agreed to become Duke Qi's concubine. In her first year in the mansion, she gave birth to Li Xuanyi."
"The Duke's wife comes from a prominent family and has a fierce personality. She dislikes the concubine and her child, and often creates obstacles for them."
"His brother often bullied him, and the Duke of Qi turned a blind eye to it, so Li Xuanyi, as the son of the Duke, didn't have a very good life."
"Is his mother still alive?"
"Yes, now it's the Queen Mother."
"After Li Xuanyi ascended the throne, the Duke of Qi went insane and was exiled to the suburbs. The Duke's wife committed suicide, and the Duke's eldest son was kidnapped and killed by bandits before Li Xuanyi ascended the throne."
Many of these should be the work of Li Xuanyi.
He looks like a weak scholar, but in fact he is a big devil.
But all the people he killed deserved to die. If it weren't for Li Xuanyi, they might have harmed many more people.
"How did the two of them meet?"
"It was a rainy day. Li Xuanyi was once again beaten out of the house by the eldest son. He didn't want to worry his mother, so he wandered the streets alone."
"After her mother's death, Princess Lingyue was practically ignored in the palace. Therefore, she often sneaked out to play, and no one cared."
"In an alley, Princess Lingyue saw Li Xuanyi, who was completely soaked. Feeling sorry for him, she pulled him under her umbrella and took him to her carriage to shelter from the rain. When the rain stopped, they parted ways."
It's romantic, two people with the same suffering meet each other.
"Then how did Li Xuanyi become emperor?"
"When they met and chatted, Princess Lingyue told him that she didn't like his father because her father treated her mother badly. She couldn't say this in the palace, but when she saw he was a stranger, she said it out loud."
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