Chapter 219: Greed
Ye Fei frowned as she looked at Huang Rongyu, whose expression was unusually unpredictable.
Shouldn't he have shown disbelief, sadness, or even anger upon learning that someone in the royal family wanted to kill him?
But why was he so calm? It was as if he had experienced this kind of thing thousands of times before...
"Rongyu, doesn't your father dote on you a lot?" Ye Fei was puzzled and could only ask the question that was on her mind.
Huang Rongyu smiled and said, "Yes, my father dotes on me."
"Then why..."
"The one who wants to kill me is not my father." Huang Rongyu slightly suppressed the smile on her lips, a sharp glint appearing in her eyes: "It is the current Empress of Lingyun Kingdom."
Ye Fei, Yu Muhan, and Yun Fusang were all shocked at the same time.
Huang Rongyu slowly sat down cross-legged and said, "My mother is a gentle and kind woman. Once, she met a girl begging for a living outside the palace. She felt sorry for the girl's tragic plight of being homeless after losing her parents, so she brought the girl into the palace. That's how she became a little palace maid by my mother's side."
"But what the Empress Dowager didn't know was that what the little palace maid wanted most was not everything the Empress Dowager had given her, but the position of the mistress of this country... So, the little palace maid schemed to have a night with the Emperor and became pregnant."
"Afterwards, the palace maid gave birth to a baby boy. According to the physician who delivered the baby, the baby boy was surrounded by auspicious light and good fortune at birth. The emperor was overjoyed and named the baby boy the crown prince, naming him Tianqi. That woman... thus rose from a lowly palace maid to become the empress, second only to the emperor."
"The Empress Dowager is the Emperor's most beloved woman, so the position of Empress should rightfully belong to her."
Huang Rongyu smiled sarcastically, her eyes filled with hatred: "Later, after my mother gave birth to me and my sister Yingyue, she fell seriously ill and died in depression. My father still had feelings for my mother. In addition, I have a cultivation physique with two innate spiritual roots and full spiritual power. Naturally, my father's favor towards me is higher than that towards Huang Tianqi."
Ye Fei understood: "So, you naturally became a thorn in the Empress's side. Now that your mother is gone, she wants to get rid of you as well."
Huang Rongyu nodded, closing her eyes wearily: "Actually, I've experienced many assassinations since I was a child. Drowning, poisoning, falling down the mountain... Every single one of them seems like an accident, but I'm lucky and I've escaped danger every time."
"This incident is probably because I offended her in the palace last time, and she sent people to find assassins from the Ghost Assassins to kill me in a fit of anger."
The atmosphere suddenly fell silent.
Yun Fusang silently gazed at Huang Rongyu's profile. No wonder he had agreed so readily when Huang Tianqi asked him to kneel and kowtow.
On the one hand, he had no powerful backer, and he also had his younger sister to protect. Even when faced with Huang Tianqi's rude demands, he was able to endure and choose to accept them.
On the other hand, he has experienced danger and death since childhood, and perhaps he is exhausted from dealing with it this time as well.
Ye Fei raised her hand and patted Huang Rongyu's shoulder, comforting her, "Although you have lost your mother, you still have Yingyue, the Grand Elder, and us in the team."
"To you, we are your family, aren't we?"
Huang Rongyu raised her eyes in a daze and met Ye Fei's gaze.
Family...?
After a long pause, the gentle and refined young man smiled, a faint emotion flashing in his eyes: "Yes, you're right."
However, that's not entirely true either.
Xiaofei, I'm greedy.
I not only want you to be my family, but I also want you to be the one and only person in my life.
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