Chapter 801 Shu Yan Likes Xie Shang So Much
Chang Shun tentatively said, "Your Highness, don't believe his nonsense. If Emperor Huijing really cared about you, why would he banish you from the capital to suffer in the Northwest? Have you forgotten how hard we endured those years?"
"Mingxiu and the Prince have been separated for so many years. It was all Emperor Huijing's doing, deliberately stealing your woman. He even took Mingxiu's body and gave birth to the Fourth Prince. This is our blood feud with Emperor Huijing. It is only right that the son should pay for the father's sins. Kill the Emperor, and from now on, the Xie family's world will belong to the Prince."
Chang Shun was the younger brother of Consort Chang. Back then, he thought that if his niece became Prince Kang's woman, the Chang family would rise to prominence. Unexpectedly, she ended up entering the palace and marrying the emperor.
He was overjoyed to learn that his niece had married the emperor and planned to seek refuge with her, believing that her beauty had attracted the emperor and made her an empress. Little did he know that it was Empress Cheng who had deliberately plotted to make his niece the emperor's woman.
Chang Shun thought that this was good too. Every woman in the world dreams of becoming the emperor's woman. His niece doesn't need to rely on Prince Kang, but can rely directly on the emperor. It's as if even God wants to help the Chang family.
He never expected that after he tried every means to see his niece, the emperor had already forgotten about her, who was heavily pregnant. The emperor was truly heartless and ungrateful. He wanted to ask his niece to curry favor with the emperor, but his niece only had eyes for Prince Kang.
This worried him to death. He went to the palace for a stroll but accidentally bumped into a noble lady taking a bath. When the emperor found out, he didn't ask who he was or why. Without saying a word, he dragged him away to be cleansed.
Cao De was in charge of this matter at the time, and he inexplicably became a eunuch. However, his life in the palace was not easy, as Consort Chang was not favored.
He was suppressed by Cao De for ten years in the palace and never made a name for himself. Chang Mingxiu was even more useless. Not only could he not win over the emperor, but he also went to a place like the West Palace to eat vegetarian food and chant Buddhist scriptures.
After seeing Prince Kang again, he followed Prince Kang out of Shengjing and fled to the Northwest. When he arrived in the Northwest, he learned that Prince Kang still had to rely on the wife he had married to make a living.
His Highness Prince Kang should have been a regional overlord, but he couldn't even contend for supremacy in the Northwest.
They have persevered step by step to get to this point; King Kang, you must not give up.
Upon hearing Chang Shun's words, a flash of hatred crossed Xie Kang's eyes.
Seeing this, Jiang Fenghua and Xie Shang thought to themselves: It's that old man again.
His every move was so effeminate. Could he be the old eunuch who tormented Night Shadow?
A murderous intent surged into his heart.
Consort Chang then added, "My uncle is right. The prince has suffered so much; it's time to get his revenge. Since Xie Shang has wanted the prince dead for a long time, the prince need not show any mercy."
When Consort Chang met Prince Kang at her age, she no longer cared about love and romance. Xie Kang had long since married and had children, and she herself had aged and could never return to the youthful beauty of fifteen or sixteen.
She wanted her daughter to become noble and escape her sordid identity, and the only way to do that was to change her identity. Xie Kang had seized power, and this was their chance to turn their lives around.
As for Xie Yang, what will he do? Once Kang Wang becomes emperor, she will beg Xie Kang to spare Yang'er and allow him to continue being a prince.
She said coldly, "The opportunity is right in front of us. As long as we kill Xie Shang and Jiang Fenghua, the world will change."
At this moment, Xie Kang's men had already begun preparations; they would act as soon as he gave the order.
Of course, they are members of the Earthly Fiends Sect and do not completely obey King Kang's orders. Their true master is someone else, and even Xie Kang treats them with utmost respect.
In other words, they did not obey Prince Kang of the royal family. If Prince Kang's lineage became the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, they could better control the Great Zhou and thus recover the world and unify the various countries.
“Prince Kang, don’t listen to the instigation of Consort Chang and her uncle. They have no good intentions.” Jiang Fenghua said in a deep voice, “I believe that if the Holy Ancestor Emperor were still alive, he would not want to see the descendants of the Xie family disregarding the Great Zhou and killing each other. It would be detrimental to both the country and themselves.”
She hadn't expected that Granny Wang was neither a person of the Great Zhou Dynasty nor a vassal state, and that the Earthly Fiend Sect was neither in the Great Zhou Dynasty nor a vassal state, and that Prince Kang had indeed shown her kindness.
Consort Chang was unaware of Granny Wang's existence, or rather, Consort Chang was completely unaware of the Earthly Fiend Sect. She had no access to or influence over this force.
Someone has used the relationship between Consort Chang and Prince Kang to set up a game of chess; it remains to be seen whether Prince Kang has the brains to participate.
Just then, Xie Yang called out, "Mother."
“I heard everything you said. I didn’t want anything to happen to my mother. I thought you had suffered a lifetime in the West Palace, but I never expected that you really wanted Prince Kang to seize the throne. I was just a pawn of my mother’s. For another man, for the child I had with him, did my mother really hate her son so much?” When he was a child, his mother forced him to drink his wet nurse’s milk to show Empress Cheng.
He loathed women and was even forced to kill his wet nurses, one after another.
Consort Chang was stunned for only half a second before she said, "Yang'er, your mother loves you, but you are not capable of becoming emperor. Your uncle will not mistreat you once he ascends the throne."
Xie Yang sneered, "So he is the real mother's lover. The deep affection you and Shu Lang showed in the palace was all an act."
He never knew his mother was such a good actress, and she never showed him her true self.
Shu Yan was also brought before the crowd. She was unable to escape and kept repeating, "Let me go, let me go, I am the Empress."
When she saw Xie Shang's figure, she cried out, "Your Majesty, please let me explain. I had no idea that Consort Chang and my father had an improper relationship. What they did had nothing to do with me. Please, Your Majesty, investigate thoroughly."
Her voice was gentle. "They knocked me unconscious and took me out of the palace. I didn't want to leave. If you don't believe me, you can ask Guard Aoxue. She can prove that I'm not lying."
Before she could get a response, Shu Yan glared at Consort Chang and yelled, "You keep saying you're doing this for my own good, but why did you abandon me just now? There were so many assassins, what if they had killed me? So you're selfish too, pushing your own daughter into the line of fire while you ran away."
Shu Yan recognized Xie Kang. Seeing Xie Kang standing with Consort Chang, and recalling the scene from earlier, she asked, "Why did Prince Kang save you?"
A woman's intuition is often accurate. Shu Lang had been hiding from the assassins and fighting with the soldiers, and hadn't cared about the life or death of Consort Chang. However, Prince Kang suddenly appeared and saved her.
Consort Chang looked at her daughter with heartache and said, "Yan'er, let your mother explain to you, your biological father is actually Prince Kang..."
Shu Yan was dumbfounded. She was the prince's daughter, how could this be?
Then wouldn't her relationship with the emperor be...?
She didn't believe it, and she didn't want to believe it.
Jiang Fenghua curled her lips and said to Shu Yan, "Speaking of which, Shu Ronghua is the Emperor's cousin. With this relationship, you can't marry the Emperor."
Shu Yan was the first palace woman she disliked.
Shu Yan's eyes were red. "I am not the daughter of Prince Kang, I am the daughter of Shu Lang, I am the Emperor's concubine. You are talking nonsense because you don't want the Emperor to favor me, you don't want me to get better and better. Your Majesty, you are very good to the other concubines, why do you not like me? I have never thought of competing with you for the Emperor. I just want to occupy a little place in the Emperor's heart."
The emperor didn't touch her at all that night. How could she not know whether she had been touched by a man or not?
Jiang Fenghua never expected that Shu Yan liked Xie Shang so much.
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