At the same time, she also felt a strong sense of powerlessness.
She seems to have never helped Qi Yu. Thinking about it carefully, the reason he was initially threatened by Xia Jingfeng was because of her.
"Yu'er, I can't help you with political intrigue, but wherever you are, your mother will be there." Empress Dowager Xiaode, or rather, Madam Lin, said with unwavering determination as she helped Qi Yu up.
That night, amidst the chaos, Empress Dowager Xiaode was also evacuated by Qi Yu and mingled into the crowd leaving the palace.
Qi Yu took off his dragon robe and said to Cao De beside him in a deep voice before leaving the palace gate, "I'll leave the rest to Eunuch Cao."
"Your Majesty, please put it down. This old servant will secretly make preparations in the palace for Your Majesty's return one day." Cao De bowed deeply to Qi Yu. "Your Majesty, please also take good care of your health. As long as you are alive, you can always make a comeback."
Qi Yu helped Cao De up, and the latter, still in shock, bowed deeply to him.
"Your Majesty, you mustn't! You mustn't!"
After bowing, Qi Yu said earnestly, "Today, Qi Yu is no longer the emperor of the Han Dynasty, but merely a greedy star in the deep palace. How can Lord Cao not accept this?"
"Your Majesty." Cao De's eyes were already brimming with tears. He understood that the young emperor he had watched grow up was finally about to break free from his shackles.
The next day.
The wind subsided and the rain stopped.
The chaos in the palace also came to a complete stop. Shen Shaoyang was fighting on home ground, and his army was the largest. Not long after the thirteen warlords started fighting each other, he killed nearly half of them and forced the others to retreat.
Shen Shaoyang eagerly took the emperor's seal, but he also knew that at this time, whether he declared himself emperor or anything else, it was all illegitimate.
Then he thought of the royal grandson who had been hidden by his father in Ganye Temple.
Unfortunately, by the time he and his men arrived, someone had already beaten them to it.
No sooner had Shen Shaoyang left the palace than Cao De found Qi Yu's last will and testament from somewhere—the late emperor had a grandson who had been lost among the common people. Although he was only one year old, he was exceptionally intelligent. When he was born, the abbot of Ganye Temple witnessed a magnificent scene of a dragon soaring, and he was destined to be a wise ruler of the Han Dynasty!
Taking advantage of the chaos, Zhao Quan led the Imperial Guard back to the palace and announced to the public before the thirteen warlords could react that the one-year-old emperor, Qi Lin, had ascended the throne, with the regent Lin Sikong assisting in governing the country.
The Han Dynasty was renamed the Yushang Dynasty.
Meanwhile, the Shen family was implicated and their entire clan was exterminated. Shen Shaoyang, who hurriedly fled the capital, was the only survivor, along with a young lady from the Shen family whose whereabouts were unknown.
As for the Xia family, Lin Sikong drafted and issued a proclamation denouncing the traitors.
All thirteen vassal kings died in the palace. Taking advantage of the situation, Lin Sikong reclaimed their fiefdoms and lands in the name of the young emperor. In an instant, the imperial power of the Yu Shang Dynasty was unified like never before. The remaining six vassal kings who had not participated were filled with fear and unease.
By the time all the dust settled, it was already more than a month later.
It's impossible to say that this rebellion had no impact on the Han Dynasty. Taking advantage of the chaos, the other three kingdoms launched a war and annexed more than thirty cities surrounding the Han Dynasty.
Moreover, it ignited the fuse for a war that would last for more than a decade. However, the generals and others, who were inspired by the Tiger Tally and brainwashed by Lin Sikong and others, led their troops to resist foreign enemies time and time again, with the idea of dying for the Yushang Dynasty.
While the whole nation mourned for the young Emperor Qi Yu, the hatred towards Xia Jingfeng and the Northern Wu cavalry reached its peak. The feudal lords spontaneously formed armies to intercept Xia Jingfeng along the way and attack the Northern Wu, which caused Xia Jingfeng to suffer considerable losses.
After learning that Xia Yixin had been kidnapped, Xia Jingfeng sent people to search for her. Unfortunately, because of the heavy rain that night, the hoofprints were numerous and varied, and the group of people, whose identities were unknown, left no trace.
They were like searching for a needle in a haystack.
Adding to his exhaustion, he was attacked by the wolves of the feudal lords along the way, and half of his hair turned white. Even after returning to Beiwu, he still couldn't sleep at night, fearing that one day he would discover that his daughter had become a floating corpse.
However, in reality, Xia Yixin is indeed "drifting" right now.
Seven days have passed since the mutiny in Beijing.
Three days ago, when she woke up, she found herself on an extremely elaborately decorated pleasure boat, and apart from her and Qi Yu, everyone else on the boat was an assassin disguised as a guard.
Among them was the bodyguard Xia Yixin had known before; she only just learned that his name was An Wu.
Unbeknownst to Xia Yixin, during the two years he spent in the palace, the power Qi Yu had secretly developed was something Xia Yixin had never imagined. This was evident from the fact that, under the identity of "Huang Qi," he traveled along the canal and encountered more than a dozen ship inspections near the border of Nanlin without any incident.
The ship continued south until it reached Nanlin.
The boat was drifting past the knife-edged mountain peaks, the water rushing and the calls of unknown birds echoing from both banks.
The weather was perfect. She sat by the window, with her favorite pastries and a pot of tea laid out on the octagonal table. It was a truly poetic and picturesque scene.
It's not like we're escaping, but rather going on a spring outing.
Unfortunately, the menacing guards on the ship ruined the atmosphere.
Seeing her lost in thought, Qi Yu didn't rush to speak.
An eerie silence fell between the two.
In Qi Yu's eyes, Xia Yixin's silence these past few days was a sign of her being stubborn, since he had essentially placed her under house arrest.
She woke up a few days ago, and her life was unusually calm. The calmer she was, the more uncertain he felt.
She probably won't talk to him anymore.
Thinking of this, he felt depressed, and the tea tasted bitter in his mouth.
Xia Yixin remained silent because she genuinely didn't know what to say. When she first woke up, she found herself on a ship, far from the capital. She didn't know what Qi Yu wanted to do, but intuitively, she felt it was definitely not as simple as just escaping.
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