"Your Majesty, Your Majesty is not well."
Chi Yu frowned. He didn't get enough rest yesterday, so he had a severe headache today. He covered Tang Wan's ears and looked at the anxious eunuch: "What happened? Why are you so reckless?"
The young eunuch, sweating profusely from running in the winter, swallowed hard to ease the dryness in his throat. "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager has passed away."
Chi Yu widened his eyes and even raised his voice several degrees: "What did you say?"
"This morning, I was going to deliver food to the Empress Dowager, but I found her collapsed in the dungeon. I felt something was wrong and reached out to feel her breath, but…"
Tang Wan was also woken up by the noise. She rubbed her eyes and said, "Ayu, what's wrong?"
When Chi Yu heard her voice, his nervous mood eased a little: "This little eunuch said that the man committed suicide."
Tang Wan was silent for a moment. She naturally knew who that person was. She looked at Chi Yu worriedly: "Let's... go and take a look together."
Although Chi Yu was anxious, he was still rational. He comforted her: "You are pregnant now. It's freezing outside. What if you fall? Be good. Have breakfast first. I'll be back soon."
Tang Wan also knew that it was easy for something to go wrong in the snow. She held Chi Yu's hand and said, "Then you should come back earlier. If, if he is really gone, you don't have to carry it all by yourself, okay?"
Chi Yu hugged her tightly without saying a word.
After a while, he dressed and took a carriage to the cell.
The squeaking sound of the wheels on the road made him particularly irritated.
He had walked this road many times, but never felt it was as long as today.
After an unknown amount of time, he finally arrived and followed the jailer to where the man was being held.
When he was about to push the door open, he hesitated.
He kept mentally preparing himself, thinking that maybe, maybe this person was just using some new trick, maybe she was not dead, but was just lying to him.
He took a deep breath and pushed open the cell door.
What he saw was a body covered with white cloth. He walked over stiffly and lifted a corner of the cloth with two fingers.
The woman had a peaceful face and a smile on her face. Her hair was neat in the front but messy in the back. It was probably because she didn't have time to tidy it up before she died.
The blood on her face had dried up now, and it actually looked a little funny on her face.
Chi Yu was stunned at first. He didn't expect that she would commit suicide by biting her tongue.
According to common sense, biting the tongue to commit suicide will not cause death, but if too much blood is lost, the person may die from blood loss or suffocation.
No matter which way of death, it is extremely painful and cruel.
He remembered how afraid of pain this woman was. Once upon a time, even if she had a hangnail on her hand, she would not pull it out directly. Instead, she would apply a thick layer of ointment and then cut it off with special small scissors.
But now, she chose to leave in such a painful way.
Chi Yu suddenly couldn't understand her. She was selfish, arrogant and spoiled. Why would she choose to leave in this way?
But he soon realized what was happening, and his tone was filled with panic that he himself didn't even notice: "Don't pretend, I know you're not dead. I said I won't take your life, you can rest assured."
"No need to play dead to fool me."
The woman did not respond to him, but just lay there quietly. He reached out and touched the woman's face. It was cold and icy, like biting ice, and it froze his fingers.
“Hahahahahahaha…”
A sudden laugh echoed in the empty cell: "It doesn't matter if you die, it doesn't matter if you die. Only when you die will you not hurt others."
"If you die, you can also make amends to my father."
He smiled and nonchalantly threw out a bunch of words that would have broken her heart if the Queen Mother were still alive.
It's a pity that she died and could never hear again.
After Chi Yu vented his emotions, his eyes gradually became indifferent.
"Come here, give the Empress Dowager a proper burial. Oh, no..." He originally wanted to say, "Don't bury her with my father."
However, he hesitated for a moment, then said, "Let him be buried with the late emperor."
"yes."
Chi Yu didn't know how he returned to the palace, but he developed a high fever that night and it lasted for a long time before it subsided.
In his dream, he returned to his childhood, being held in the arms of his father and mother and thrown very high. The whole family laughed happily.
He held the hands of his father, the emperor, and his mother: "We will never be separated."
But the emperor shook his head and said, "Ayu, you should go back."
He woke up instantly, his inner clothes were wet with cold sweat.
Tang Wan's pretty face was full of worry. Seeing that he had woken up, she hugged him sideways: "Ayu, you scared me to death, do you know that?"
Chi Yu was still confused, but subconsciously patted her shoulder to comfort her.
"Do you know that after you returned to the palace, you were often distracted during meals. I called you, but you didn't respond."
Her voice was filled with tears: "Your body is so hot, can't you feel it?! You scared me to death!"
"I'm sorry, I made you worry. Wanwan, she... is dead."
When he said this, his tone was calm, without a trace of emotion, as if he was talking to a stranger.
Tang Wan felt a lump in her throat and her breathing stopped for a moment.
"She bit her tongue and died. She bled so much. I don't know why, but I felt so happy. She hurt so many people..."
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