Feng Changye looked at the empress dowager who had her eyes closed, with a hint of sneer on his lips.
Over the years, he had always believed that the reason his mother intervened in this matter and made him break off relations with the Zhu family was because she loved him too much and was afraid that he really wanted to recognize his master's wife as his mother, so she severed his relationship with the Zhu family as soon as possible.
He thought his mother loved him...
In the end, was he just being too sentimental?
How can I love him...
The Queen Mother's love for her son was not as great as her jealousy and hatred towards the Zhu family.
If the Queen Mother really loved him, after the Emperor had helped him establish a master-disciple relationship with Zhu Huaining, the brave general who was the most courageous among the three armies, she should have put aside her personal grudges and helped him consolidate his relationship with the Zhu family, so that Zhu Huaining would join his camp and become his complete assistant, helping him ascend the throne!
However, because of her personal grudge, she personally severed the relationship between him and Zhu Huaining as master and disciple, and pushed Zhu Huaining into the camp of the third brother.
Later, in the struggle for the throne between the eldest prince, the second prince, the third prince, and the fourth prince, the other three brothers all died tragically, and the third brother was the only one who escaped unscathed.
Because, the third brother has Zhu Huaining protecting him at all costs.
During those years when they were attacked from all sides and had no one to help them, he had envied and even resented Zhu Huaining for protecting his third brother...
Because Zhu Huaining was supposed to be his master, and that protection, as solid and reliable as Mount Tai, should have belonged to him...
In the years since he ascended the throne, his relationship with Zhu Huaining has become so distant, partly because Zhu Huaining had repeatedly opposed him in order to protect his third brother.
He could not open his heart to accept someone who once supported his third brother and wanted to help him become emperor.
It was already very rare that he did not force Zhu Huaining to retire because of his personal grudge.
Thinking of this, Feng Changye looked at the unconscious empress dowager on the bed, and the sarcastic smile on the corner of his mouth became more and more obvious.
The Queen Mother always said that he was able to ascend the throne because of her, and it was she who supported him to sit on the throne.
However, he wanted to say something disrespectful -
If she hadn't held him back, his journey might have been smoother. At least he wouldn't have been forced off the cliff by his eldest brother and almost died there.
If she hadn't held him back, his father would have personally handed his hand to Zhu Huaining. Zhu Huaining would have been his lifelong master and the one who would have protected him for the rest of his life.
Zhu Huaining's prestige in the army and among the people is unmatched. If the person Zhu Huaining was protecting was him instead of his third brother, how could he have gone through so many hardships?
Even this time when Zhu Huaining surrendered to the enemy and betrayed his country—
If he and Zhu Huaining were still the close master and disciple, instead of the now strangers between king and subject, he would have believed Zhu Huaining without a doubt when the news came from the border.
Instead of impulsively deciding to execute the entire Zhu family after hearing his mother rush over and tell him that Zhu Huaining was the biological son of the Xiyuan Tribe Princess...
He admitted that it was his fault for issuing the decree impulsively, but was it really possible that his mother had no plans behind this?
He suddenly wanted to know.
In history, he listened to the instigation of his mother and, under the calculation of the King of Jin, he really executed the entire Zhu family. In the end, Zhu Huaining could not bear the blow and vomited blood and died.
What was the Queen Mother's mood when she learned that Zhu Huaining died of vomiting blood?
Are you happy that the man who married someone else is finally dead?
Or did she regret having killed the entire Zhu family, and ultimately killed the man she had always loved?
His eyes fell on the pearl necklace that had always been worn on his mother's hand and had never been taken off. Feng Changye actually already had the answer in his heart.
It should be the latter, right?
In history, after Zhu Huaining died of vomiting blood, his mother must have been grief-stricken and regretful.
I'm afraid Zhu Huaining's death has become a thorn in my mother's heart.
She has always been good at shifting all the blame onto others. So after Zhu Huaining was angered to death, would she resolutely refuse to admit that it was her fault, but instead put all the blame on him, the tyrant?
After all, it was he who ordered the execution of the Zhu family, which made Zhu Huaining so angry that he died, wasn't it?
Will she become completely estranged from him because his son, a tyrant, killed the man she loved all her life?
Otherwise, he couldn't figure out what had happened between him and his mother. How could it have developed to the point where, as Zhu Wuhuan had said, after his sudden death, his mother would rather feign illness than attend his funeral to bid him farewell...
The only thing that could keep a mother from coming to see her own son off for the last time could be hatred, right?
Feng Changye raised his hand and pressed his eyebrows again.
On the side, Zhu Wuhuan saw him rubbing his eyebrows several times.
She said to the system in her heart.
[Look, this is the third time he's rubbing his brows. He must be worried sick about his mother. His mother treats him badly, but he still cares deeply about her.]
She couldn't help but worry.
"Tell me, if he ever found out about what happened between his mother and my father, would he be so angry that he would give my father poisoned wine and kill him?"
The system said secretly.
[Of course! So, host, you have to strike first! Host, when General Zhu returns triumphantly in a month, will you persuade him to join you in the rebellion?]
Zhu Wuhuan was speechless.
This system, does it really not know how to observe people's hearts?
She said it very tiredly.
"System, look at the Zhu family. From General Zhu, who has been loyal to Da Ning his entire life, to Zhu Xuanyuan and Zhu Longyuan, who among them looks like someone who would join me in a rebellion? When the tyrant wanted to execute the entire Zhu family, Zhu Longyuan and the others didn't even consider rebellion. Now that the tyrant has pardoned the Zhu family and promoted Zhu Longyuan, how could they possibly join me in a rebellion?"
I wish my family’s integrity and loyalty could not be changed by just one daughter.
There was no way they were going to mess around with her.
The system was a little disappointed when it heard the host say this.
It thought for a moment and then spoke again.
[By the way, hasn't the host always wanted the tyrant to cripple you and send you to exile in Lingnan? Since the tyrant won't cripple you, then the host can leave on your own!]
The host is unwilling to escape alone now, simply because he is worried about implicating Zhu's family. He is afraid that after you leave, the tyrant will take action against them and kill all seventy-six of them.
[But when General Zhu returns, his illustrious military achievements will more than offset the guilt of your escape as the Queen!]
"When the time comes, just feel free to escape the palace. General Zhu is here to protect the Zhu family, so none of them will die!"
Zhu Wuhuan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he heard this.
This is a good idea.
There are so many good things in the system mall. If she completes two more tasks in the next month and redeems a few more points, she will be able to easily escape from this deep palace.
Zhu's family has the old general to protect them, so she doesn't have to worry about them being implicated by her. From now on, the sky is high and the sea is vast, and she can live however she wants!
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