Chapter 180 Uncontrollability
"Don't come over! Don't come over! Your Majesty! Your Majesty! I am the head of the harem, I am the queen... Your Majesty! You can't treat me like this... Your Majesty..."
A mournful female voice suddenly rang out from behind the pile of rocks. Shen Yu paused for a moment, still holding the rubble in his hand tightly without moving.
Mu Yuyi, who had just approached the pile of stones, suddenly stopped. The woman in white with disheveled hair rushed directly to him. There was rotten mud in the gaps between her fingernails and her body was obviously dirty. She pulled at Mu Yuyi's sleeve and wailed.
"Your Majesty... I was wrong, Your Majesty... Please forgive me... Please forgive me! Your Majesty, please... don't abandon me..."
Mu Yuyi frowned. He pulled the woman who was trying to tear and crawl on him off and said coldly, "Where did this lunatic come from? Drag her away!"
"No - no! I won't leave! I won't leave! This is my home, my house! You are a thief! You are the thief... my prince..."
The guards who heard the sound quickly gathered here. They pulled the woman away and whispered to Mu Yuyi, "Chief, the concubines in the cold palace are all abandoned by the emperor. They are all a little crazy. In the current situation, I am afraid they are frightened."
The woman was dragged backwards and struggled to grab the stone pillar beside her. Her nails and flesh were all torn and her skin was exposed and bleeding.
She stared at Mu Yuyi closely, still muttering to herself: "It's all fake...it's all fake..."
Mu Yuyi looked extremely ugly.
The guards were very nimble, dragging the crazy woman away in just one or two minutes and throwing her into the woodshed next door. Heavy iron locks were put through the door handles, and the woman kept banging on the door, her sharp and miserable wails piercing the air and reaching everyone's ears.
"Chief, shall we continue?"
There was a hint of sadness in Mu Yuyi's eyes. He seemed not to hear the female voice. He stood there for a few seconds and suddenly walked behind the rubble pile.
The guards followed closely behind him. Mu Yuyi strode forward, and after he turned over and entered the pile of rocks, he saw only a dead river. The surrounding grass and trees were empty, and the night wind blew past, blowing away all the familiar scents that Mu Yuyi had smelled before.
There is no one here.
Mu Yuyi looked around, stared at the surface of the Dead Water River for a moment, then turned and left.
"Go back and continue searching."
"Yes." The guards took the order, turned around, and followed the leader outside.
The fire outside gradually faded away, the shadows of people overlapped and swayed, and slowly disappeared in this area. The dead water lake seemed to fall into dust, trembling and blending with the night, and for some reason it stirred up circles of ripples.
Shen Yu had already moved to another place before Mu Yuying came here. The crazy woman was making a lot of noise and holding on to Mu Yuying tightly, which gave Shen Yu a chance to escape.
Shen Yu hid in a dilapidated house that the guards had just searched. He looked outside through the window and saw that the guards had expanded their search to another palace outside the cold palace after finding nothing.
Shen Yu watched them walk away, and only stood up from his hiding place when silence returned to the entire cold palace.
It was still alert and kept an eye on Coal Ball's movements. When Shen Yu stood up, it checked the surrounding situation again.
Most of the concubines in the cold palace had gone insane, and they smashed down the wall next to the cold palace, allowing many madmen to escape. It was a mess outside, with strange noises coming from time to time.
Shen Yu approached the house where the crazy woman was locked up. He stood still behind a door and could vaguely hear heavy breathing coming from inside.
"…Jade."
The voice was small and mixed with obvious tremors, but the words he uttered were particularly clear and powerful.
Shen Yu only felt his scalp tingling. He was stunned for a moment, then squatted in front of the wooden door that was locked layer by layer: "...Empress Zhaoxian."
The person behind the door stopped breathing. At some unknown moment, her emotions collapsed, and her tone became a little tearful: "Shuyu, in this world, you are the only one who still remembers me."
Shen Yu's eyelashes trembled slightly. He only felt a dry and painful throat and could hardly speak.
Empress Zhaoxian Jiang Feiran, the first wife of Emperor Yue and now the deposed empress, married Xuan Lin, who was still a prince at the time, when she was in her teens. The two lived in harmony and shared weal and woe.
Over the past ten years, she has witnessed everything about Xuan Lin, from a prince to the Emperor of Yue, from the battlefield to the palace. The fierce wind and sand on the border battlefield tore at people's flesh and blood, and also gradually made Zhao Xian look different.
Xuan Lin used to feel sorry for the frostbite on her hands and kissed her wounds at night. But after ascending the throne, he became particularly disgusted with her rough and loose skin and regarded her as an ugly woman.
Jiang Feiran was so sharp that she quarreled with Xuan Lin several times in the palace, and the gap between them gradually deepened. Soon after Xuan Lin ascended the throne, he deposed Jiang Feiran from the throne and imprisoned her in the cold palace on the grounds that she intended to poison the prince.
Soon after this, Xuan Lin issued an edict to marry Shen Yu.
Shen Yu and Jiang Feiran have a close relationship. The time they spent planning strategies together on the battlefield was the last difficult but hopeful time in their lives.
And now... Xuan Lin ascended the throne and acted recklessly; after Shen Yucheng became emperor, his reputation as a demon spread everywhere; Zhao Xian was directly deposed and imprisoned in the cold palace.
Shen Yu didn't know how to tell Zhao Xian about what was happening in the outside world. Zhao Xian had been imprisoned in the cold palace long before Shen Yu was made queen, and she probably didn't even know what Su Yu had become now.
Shen Yu had heard that Zhao Xian was crazy, but now when he saw her again and heard her voice, he realized that was not the case.
"Shuyu, we are sorry for you." Zhao Xian tried to see Shen Yu's face through the crack in the door. She widened her eyes and engraved everything she saw into her pupils.
Her voice was dry, like a dying tree: "Before his death, the late emperor asked me to take good care of you, but I failed... Now, I am almost dying."
Shen Yu was stunned: "...The late emperor?"
"Yes... the late emperor." Zhao Xian laughed softly, and she shed two lines of tears unconsciously, "Xuan Lin has been dead for three years."
Shen Yu blinked.
"Juyu, in the seventh year of Cheng'an, Xuanlin ascended the throne. He was seriously ill at the time. Even if you worked day and night to save him, he wouldn't have lived long."
Zhao Xian looked at the light coming through the gap and said slowly, "At that time, he had a premonition that his death was approaching, so he wrote a will in advance and decided to pass the throne to the then young second prince... That edict has been in my hands all along."
Shen Yu: "The second prince drowned two years ago."
"I know, I pushed him down." Zhao Xian lowered her voice and said, "If I don't kill him, Xuan Lin will kill him after knowing it. It's better for me to do it in advance."
Shen Yu lowered his eyes, and after a long silence, he asked, "Where did you send him by faking his death?"
Zhao Xian coughed and said, "Chengyuan Mountain."
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