Chapter 502 Awakening
Xie Shang glanced at Jiang Fenghua on the bed. Was her face, her smile, and her affectionate demeanor towards him all fake?
It must be a story fabricated by Lin Yu; she knows he and Jiang Fenghua had a falling out.
But……
The next moment, he suddenly walked around the screen, turned around, and left the bedchamber. Lin Yu hadn't even realized how big of a mess she had made when she watched Xie Shang leave without a second thought.
Jiang Fenghua was being haunted by nightmares on the bed. Xie Shang's face seemed to have turned into a man-eating demon. He relentlessly pursued her, speaking harshly and sternly. She was trapped in a circle, surrounded by darkness.
At this moment, Su Tingwan, dressed in a phoenix robe, appeared before her triumphantly, her face turning vicious. "You dare to carry A Shang's child? I will make you wish you were dead! I will torture you and your child for the rest of your life! Jiang Fenghua, you will never leave here! You will be imprisoned for life..."
Jiang Fenghua pleaded desperately, "No, please spare my child. You are already the Empress, I can't threaten your position at all. I will never see him again. I won't leave, I'll stay here and never leave for the rest of my life."
Immediately following was Su Tingwan's triumphant laughter; she had her child taken away.
She desperately called for them to come back, but she seemed to have become mute, unable to utter a single word.
Su Tingwan was clearly dead; she could no longer harm her and her child. She calmed herself and told herself that Su Tingwan was dead. She struggled to her feet and rushed towards Su Tingwan's direction. In an instant, her figure turned into a phantom and disappeared into the darkness.
Suddenly, the surroundings became bright, and she could see herself clearly. Her hair was disheveled, her clothes were rumpled, and she wasn't even wearing shoes. She could imagine how miserable she looked.
She touched her belly and found it flat. Where was her baby?
Just then, she heard voices again. It was Xie Shang and Lin Yu's voices. She couldn't hear what they were saying, and all she wanted was to escape from this circle as soon as possible.
Lin Yu saw that she seemed to be having another nightmare, her brows were furrowed, her forehead was covered in fine sweat, and she seemed to be shouting something.
She took her hand. "Fenghua, are you awake?"
Jiang Fenghua felt someone pull her hand, and she suddenly opened her eyes. The moment she saw Lin Yu, she knew she was having another nightmare. She then said, "Ayu, you're back."
Lin Yu nodded, her voice choked with emotion, "Young Master."
"Why are you calling me 'young master' again? I am the Empress now." She didn't know that Xie Shang had returned. She remembered hearing a child crying before she fainted. She said, "My child, where is my child?"
"The child is healthy and doing well, so don't worry! Granny Wang has taken the little prince away, so you can focus on recovering with Granny Wang taking care of him!"
Jiang Fenghua naturally trusted Granny Wang. Seeing that Lin Yu's eyes were swollen from crying, she said, "You've cried, but I'm perfectly fine, aren't I?"
At this moment, Lianye Hongxiu and Aoxue entered the bedchamber. Their eyes were swollen from crying. The three of them had been guarding outside, and although they couldn't hear clearly what the other person was saying, they could still vaguely hear something about past life and present life from Lin Yu's mouth.
When the emperor left, his face was as cold and hard as ice in the dead of winter, making people afraid to be presumptuous.
Jiang Fenghua noticed that their eyes were also swollen. "You've all been crying."
Hongxiu said, "Your Highness, you scared us to death just now. You have been unconscious for several hours. The Emperor came, but then left."
Jiang Fenghua asked them, "What happened? Has the Emperor returned?"
So Hongxiu recounted the whole story again: "The Emperor was furious the whole time, and in the end he only kept Lin Yu."
Jiang Fenghua looked at Lin Yu, and she had a bad feeling. She knew very well what Xie Shang's purpose was in leaving the capital this time.
Lin Yu glanced at the group and said, "You may all leave. I have something to say to the Empress privately."
Jiang Fenghua said, "You all go down and help Granny Wang look after the children."
When the group saw that the Empress had woken up, and remembering that the child needed someone trustworthy by his side, they quickly left.
Jiang Fenghua stared at Lin Yu, "Tell me, what did he ask you?"
Lin Yu recounted her conversation with Xie Shang in detail: "That's how it happened. I was afraid you wouldn't wake up, so he said he would try to find a way to revive you, and the Emperor did indeed avenge you."
After hearing this, Jiang Fenghua tried her best to suppress the turmoil in her heart.
Lin Yu thought Xie Shang brought down the Su family because he was avenging Jiang Fenghua. In fact, the Su family dared to harm the Great Zhou Dynasty, and there was so much evidence of their evil deeds in front of him. Even without Jiang Fenghua, Xie Shang would have eliminated the Su family.
Su Qingqing will indeed die. Just because she was the late emperor's favorite concubine, and later ran away from the palace and even sought refuge with the Hu tribe, Xie Shang will not let her go. Right now, he is just using Su Qingqing to turn the tables on the Hu tribe, not to help Jiang Fenghua get rid of Su Qingqing.
Jiang Fenghua sighed, "Lin Yu, you've been tricked by Xie Shang. If he really believes in the past life, he'll be even more certain that I approached her from the beginning just to use him, not because I genuinely liked him. Xie Shang is sensitive and fragile; he can't accept that I don't like him, or even that I'm scheming against him."
Lin Yu was dumbfounded. "What should we do? He said he would love you well, and that he did all this for the child and for you, Feng Hua. What should we do?"
“It’s too late now. He didn’t experience my past life firsthand; he only heard it from you. He doesn’t know the suffering I endured, so he can’t truly empathize. Just like Su Tingwan back then, she kept saying she was the Empress and that he loved her. Did he really fall in love with Su Tingwan after hearing those words?” Jiang Fenghua explained to Lin Yu in the calmest tone, “He has always harbored suspicions about me. If you say these things, I’m afraid he’ll think we’re putting on an act for him.”
Lin Yu knelt on the ground, "I thought he really liked you. Knowing that someone was bullying you would make him even more heartbroken for you. And there are three children too. I was so afraid you wouldn't wake up. I was terrified, my mind went blank, Feng Hua..."
"You don't need to blame yourself. Even if you don't tell Xie Shang, he will always be suspicious of me. I don't really know how to proceed with this move. I'm so tired, I just want to sleep." She lay on the bed thinking of a solution. Xie Shang definitely wouldn't believe her anymore now.
The fact that he didn't treat her like a monster and banish her to the cold palace shows that he was skeptical. Putting himself in her shoes, if she had heard such a story, he could have easily interpreted it as Lin Yu fabricating these stories to gain his sympathy.
However, Xie Shang is very sensitive, so he probably doesn't care who his empress was in his previous life. What he cares more about is that Jiang Fenghua has been deceiving him about his feelings, which is what devastates him the most.
Whether she was human or ghost, Lin Yu was wholeheartedly devoted to her, and her intentions were good. She was unconscious and her life was in danger. Under such circumstances, Lin Yu lost his composure and revealed everything.
The reason Lin Yu is the way she is now is because she lacks a truly cold and hard heart. She doesn't have Xie Shang's cold-heartedness and indifference, which is why Lin Yu was able to trick him into revealing information.
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