Chapter 293 You Killed Me

"If I had known this would happen, why did I do it in the first place?" Chu Heng hardened his heart and remained unmoved.

He can't keep this child.

Luo Shu burst into tears. She cried in despair, "I have lived for others all my life. Before I got married, I lived for my father and brother. After I entered the palace, I lived for the emperor... But I am a living person. I also have the life I want to live. So what if I am a favorite in the harem? Who knows the bitterness of it? I don't want to fight or argue. I just want to have a child who belongs to me alone. I can accompany her to grow up, teach her to read and know etiquette, and she will accompany me to spend long nights in this deep palace. Do you know how jealous I am every time I see you children acting coquettishly in front of your mother? But... why, why is it a boy..."

As the Luo family became more and more powerful, and she continued to be favored by the emperor but still could not have a child, Luo Shu finally realized that she was being hated by the emperor. She cleared out all contraceptives from the palace and tried her best to have a child. After that, she was afraid that she would lose the child if others found out, so she pretended to be seriously ill and stayed in bed to recuperate, and even gritted her teeth and didn't tell her brothers when they visited her.

At that time, she naively thought: as long as the baby was a girl, she could find a way to keep the child with her. However, things did not go as she wished, and all her plans were ruined by the gender of the child.

Boy, that's a boy.

As long as his existence was discovered, the emperor and the empress would kill him, and his brothers would use him to seek power. The child would have no peace in his life.

Luo Shu made a desperate bet and ended up losing miserably.

But now, before she had the chance to send the child out of the palace to become an ordinary person, Chu Heng was already standing in front of her. This future crown prince would not let the child live, he would definitely kill him.

"I'm sorry." Chu Heng whispered, then pushed her hand away and walked towards the child on the bed.

Luo Shu was shocked. She stumbled over and grabbed Chu Heng's clothes and shouted, "Your Highness, Your Highness, no, you can't kill him. He was just born and he hasn't had the chance to see the world... No, he is your brother, your blood relative, and your future citizen. Don't you love your people like your own children? Please let him go, Your Highness. I can give this child to you to take away. You can give him to anyone to raise. As long as you keep his life... Your Highness, please..."

Chu Heng pushed her away again, and reached out to the child's neck...

"Your Highness!" Luo Shu suddenly called him loudly. Her face was covered with tears, but she forced herself to remain calm and asked word by word, "Have you forgotten... that I once saved you?"

When Luo Shu first entered the palace, she was the only one favored by the emperor. All the concubines in the palace scolded her for being a foxy woman who seduced the emperor's heart, and no one was willing to associate with her. Over time, everyone said that she was difficult to get along with and was cold and heartless.

But the eleven-year-old Chu Heng once accidentally injured the legitimate son of a duke because he did not know the severity of the fight. Chu Heng had always been well-behaved and obedient, but this time he suddenly made a big mistake. The emperor was in a bad mood those days, so he punished him to kneel in the Yu Garden for a whole day, and after kneeling, he had to receive eighty strokes of the board.

The empress never cared about the emperor's decision. It was Luo Shu who pleaded for him and spared him the beating and the punishment of kneeling.

The young man remembered that kindness.

Luo Shu saw it, she stood beside the bed, in front of the child, trembling her lips and whispering: "Your Highness, the sage books you studied must have said that you should repay a favor, right?"

Chu Heng was silent.

That's what the book says, but he's not so ignorant. "I will repay your kindness in the future, but not in exchange for this child. The price is too high, I can't afford it."

Luo Shu's face gradually turned pale, and she trembled and asked, "Your Highness, do you really have to force me to do this?"

Chu Heng shook his head and told her: "You should have expected this day when you started planning all this."

Luo Shu cried, and suddenly she laughed while crying, and said while crying and laughing: "Okay, okay, Your Highness, you have grown up, and your heart has become crueler. You will be a good emperor in the future, so I will..."

Before she finished her words, she suddenly grabbed Chu Heng's hand and pushed it hard towards herself.

"Squeak--" is the sound of the knife entering the body.

In the dark night sky, a bolt of lightning struck, illuminating her determined face.

Chu Heng's eyes widened. He lowered his head and saw a dagger in his hand. Luo Shu held his hand and stabbed the dagger into his heart.

"Boom--" The muffled sound of thunder came, making people's eardrums hurt.

Chu Heng shouted in shock: "Shu Fei!"

He wanted to pull his hand back, but Luo Shu somehow found the strength to pull his hand back and push it in again. Blood flowed out from her chest and mouth...

Luo Shu's face was pale and terrifying in the lightning. Her eyes were wide open and her voice was like a ghost: "Your Highness, I saved you, but you want to kill my child. You repay kindness with hatred. How can you be worthy of me? How can you be worthy of me?"

Chu Heng's hands were shaking, the blood gushing out of Luo Shu's body was in his eyes, and these words were circling in his ears.

"No, that's not it. I'm not here to kill you... I don't repay kindness with enmity..."

Luo Shu held on to her last breath, tears mixed with blood flowed down, leaving behind her last words in this world: "Your Highness, you killed me, this is what you owe me, you must pay me back."

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Chu Heng's defenses collapsed. At the age of fifteen, although he was a martial arts expert and had learned the art of being an emperor since childhood, he had never killed anyone. And now the woman who died in front of him had once helped him.

"No, I didn't kill you... I didn't come here to kill you, how could this happen, how could this happen?"

Chu Heng's hands were covered in blood, and he was at a loss. His legs were weak and it was difficult for him to stand. But he didn't dare to fall, because Luo Shu was lying on the ground. She died with her eyes open...

It's so tragic.

Chu Heng collapsed. He picked up the child on the bed. The baby's eyes were still closed, but there was a smile on his face. He had no idea that his mother was dead.

Chu Heng held him and stumbled to go out, but was stopped by a black-clothed boy who suddenly appeared at the door: "Your Highness, don't be impulsive."

The young man walked in with his back to the light. Chu Heng saw his face clearly in the lightning, and also saw the person he trusted the most: "Zong Zhao... I, he, he is just a child who knows nothing. He is innocent, he is innocent."