Chapter 280 My name is Zhou Lingyue
“No! No!”
The queen hugged Zhang Chengyan's legs tightly, tears bursting out, sobbing, "Your Majesty, Dad was just confused for a moment, he really didn't have the slightest intention of harming Darong Kingdom! The rest of the Zhou family is even more innocent, they didn't do anything bad! Your Majesty, please have mercy and give the Zhou family another chance, we will definitely sacrifice our lives to atone for our sins!"
"Atoning for your sins? Even if you have made great contributions, you can't escape death!" Zhang Chengyan's eyes flashed coldly, and he kicked the queen away again. "As for the two of you, it's too easy for you to die so easily!"
Under torture, the nun revealed almost all the secrets she knew.
Only then did Zhang Chengyan realize that as early as when she was in the palace, the queen had been cruel and ruthless, and had repeatedly murdered people.
Even the child in Jin Weige's belly, the little life that should have become his first royal heir, was brutally killed by the queen!
No wonder the queen has always been weak and had difficulty getting pregnant. This is clearly God’s retribution for her evil deeds!
Zhou Changqing was stabbed by two swords and lay on the ground, dying. He was in so much pain that he couldn't utter a word and could only moan in pain.
The queen still refused to give up and tried to struggle forward to beg for mercy, but Zhang Chengyan ruthlessly stepped on her and she could not move.
"Someone come!"
Wang Decai had been waiting on the side. Upon hearing this, he immediately stepped forward and asked, "Your Majesty, what do you want?"
Zhang Chengyan spoke word by word, "Draft an edict to depose the queen!"
The last glimmer of hope in the queen's heart was completely shattered, and she finally realized that the emperor was determined to kill them.
For the first time, she pushed Zhang Chengyan's legs away with a tough attitude, staggered to her feet, straightened her clothes and hair, and barely stood up against the pillar. This was her last bit of dignity.
"Your Majesty, don't you think you are too ruthless? If it weren't for the Zhou family's help, how could you have ascended to the throne? I have always taken your self-esteem into consideration and never mentioned this matter! Now, just because the Zhou family made a mistake, you want to kill them all. How can you be so heartless!"
"Also, after the Zhou family helped you to ascend to the throne, not only did you not give them due credit, but in addition to the position of Queen, you also suppressed the Zhou family everywhere! If it weren't for your suppression, how could the Zhou family have reached this point today! Although I am your legally married wife, when we were in the palace, how could I compare to Jin Weige? She suppressed me everywhere and despised me. Do you really know nothing about it? You clearly know it in your heart, but you pretend not to see it! It's because you have never had the slightest affection for me, the Queen!"
"I finally entered the palace and became the queen, but your heart and eyes are still filled with Jin Weige, and then there was Concubine Zhao! When did you really treat me as your wife? In your eyes, I am just a decoration sitting on the queen's throne!"
The queen screamed at the top of her lungs, venting all the resentment and grievances that had been buried deep in her heart for all these years.
We are going to die anyway. If we don’t tell you now, we will never have the chance to tell you again!
Zhang Chengyan looked down at her from above and called out her name for the first time, "Zhou Lingyue, I had no intention of marrying you at first. It was the Zhou family who took the initiative to find me and proposed that you become the queen as a condition for supporting me to ascend to the throne. I made it clear at the time that I could only give you the position of queen and a child. As for doting on you, it is absolutely impossible!"
"If the Zhou family couldn't accept it, they could have simply not supported me, but they still agreed. I have never broken my promise. I gave you the position of Queen, and I also thought about having a child with you. It was you who was not motivated enough to get pregnant, and you took medicine recklessly, which completely ruined your body."
"All of this is your Zhou family's fault, and you can't blame anyone else. I suppressed the Zhou family because they were restless at that time. You are in the palace, do you know what the Zhou family did behind the scenes? They even tried to murder the Jin family just to seize more military power! If I don't suppress them, do I have to watch the Zhou family ride on my head and do whatever they want?"
The queen was struck by lightning and could no longer hold on. She slid to the ground and turned her head sharply to look at Zhou Changqing. Her lips trembled, "Dad, is this true?"
She always thought that it was the emperor who came to the Zhou family to ask for her hand in marriage and that the emperor had feelings for her.
Even though she understood that power was involved, she still naively believed that the emperor had some affection for her in his heart.
That was why she married into the palace with great joy.
The queen stared blankly at the silent Zhou Changqing, and suddenly burst into a crazy laugh, "It turns out that I have been kept in the dark! It turns out that all of you have been lying to me! Dad, you lied to me that the emperor had feelings for me, so you came to ask for my hand in marriage. Even though I knew there were conflicts of interest, I thought that at least there was some affection, so I happily married into the palace! But the result is... The emperor said from the beginning that he would not favor me!"
The queen suddenly couldn't help wondering what her life would be like if she had not married into the prince's palace?
Once upon a time, she was also a famous talented woman in the capital, attracting many young men and countless men coming to her for marriage.
At that time, she was full of beautiful visions of love and marriage, and was looking forward to spending her life with her beloved.
But later, after marrying into the palace, she initially enjoyed some sweet time between husband and wife.
However, after Jin Weige got married, everything changed drastically!
Driven by jealousy, she began to use all means to murder Jin Weige's unborn child, and also attacked Concubine De and Concubine Hui. Anyone she felt was a threat to her position was regarded as a thorn in her eyes and a thorn in her flesh, and she wanted to get rid of them as soon as possible!
In order to get pregnant with the emperor's first child as soon as possible, she took a lot of medicine, but the result was counterproductive and she ruined her body.
In the end, even the emperor's routine favor on the first and fifteenth days of the lunar month no longer existed.
Looking back on her life, she spent the first fourteen years of her life locked up in her family, learning all kinds of rules and etiquette day after day.
The only time that could truly be called a good time was the short period of time after she married the emperor.
All together, it’s just over a month.
Thinking about it now, it seems like an illusory dream, which was gone in a flash, leaving behind only endless pain and regret!
"I really hate it!" The queen took one last look at Zhang Chengyan, slowly knelt beside Zhou Changqing, and kowtowed twice solemnly, "If there is an afterlife, I don't want to be a noble lady in the capital anymore. I only wish to be born in an ordinary family, find an ordinary husband, and live an ordinary life."
"I have been the queen of this palace for so many years. I have given the Zhou family a lot of advice and help. I have repaid the Zhou family for giving birth to me and raising me. Today I kowtow to you. From now on, our relationship as father and daughter has come to an end. I hope we won't meet again in the next life!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the queen slowly took two steps back, her eyes full of determination.
She suddenly pulled out a dagger from her sleeve and placed it across her neck, with a sad smile on her face. "Everyone thinks that I am a glorious queen, but who knows that I am just being used as a pawn by my family, hated and rejected by the emperor, and finally I have become unrecognizable and done all kinds of bad things!"
"But I never think I did anything wrong. If a person doesn't work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth! But Your Majesty, it is impossible for you to depose me today! Even if I have to die, I will die as the queen. This position of queen is the only thing that has supported me all these years. Whether I live or die, I will keep it with me!"
In her life, she never truly had love, nor was she able to give birth to a child of her own.
The so-called wealth and splendor are nothing but passing clouds and external things.
Only the identity of queen had ever given her a glimmer of illusory dignity and power.
Let her struggle in this cold palace.
Now, at the last moment of her life, she wants to defend this last bit of dignity in her own way, even at the cost of death!
"Your Majesty, you may be a qualified king, but when it comes to love, you are far from being a qualified husband, let alone a qualified man! I really wish... we had never been married!"
She no longer hesitated and swung the dagger in her hand.
The sharp blade quickly cut her fair neck.
In an instant, blood gushed out.
The deep red blood spread, dyeing her plain clothes a bright yet sad red.
Her body swayed, but she could not hold on and fell heavily to the ground. His eyes gradually blurred, but he seemed to see something extremely wonderful. The corners of his mouth slowly lifted, "My name is Zhou Lingyue..."
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