Chapter 895 Past Life 3
Seeing this, the squad leader moved forward while saying, "Sir, sir, actually His Majesty said that if you hand over the item and return it, he will let bygones be bygones."
"Let bygones be bygones?"
Yun Yichen thought this was an absolute joke; how could the emperor actually believe him?
Looking at the Imperial Guard captain in front of him, who was cowering like a turtle, Yun Yichen suddenly didn't want to kill him anymore.
He slapped the other man's hand off and said, "I'll spare your life today. Go back and tell that man that he'll get his just deserts soon."
After Yun Yichen finished speaking, he kicked the man in the butt. The squad leader was able to escape from the brink of death and ran faster than a rabbit.
His gaze swept over the corpses scattered on the ground. Yun Yichen was no longer as lifeless as before. Instead, he and Zhong Lin Wuying helped the carriage up and headed back towards the mass grave.
Inside the mass grave, Xiao Rui'er sat motionless beside Gu Shuyan.
After so much time, he had come to understand what had happened: he was dead, killed by his father, and his mother was also dead, also killed by his father.
He once thought that his father disliked him because he thought he was disobedient, so he tried his best to be a good child and wanted to gain his father's approval.
However, all that awaited him was his father's cold face and his scolding.
He didn't like the mother and son; he only liked the woman called Aunt and Consort Yan. He hated both his mother and his mother.
Little Rui'er had this understanding for the first time, but he couldn't understand why his father hated them and killed them.
To find out the truth, Rui'er sat next to Gu Shuyan, waiting for her mother's spirit to come out and tell her the whole truth.
He waited and waited, but his mother didn't appear. Instead, he saw three somewhat disheveled people running towards him.
“These three people have a very strong murderous aura. They are covered in bloody light, but they are different. The one in front, although he is covered in bloody light, has a golden soul.”
Rui'er sized up the three of them, thinking to herself.
Just then, Yun Yichen finally rushed to Gu Shuyan's side.
He thought that since he hadn't seen Gu Shuyan's complete body for so long, he had mentally prepared himself to collect her remains no matter how horrific the scene.
But what lay before him were not wreckage, but Gu Shuyan's complete corpse.
"Shushu, Shushu!"
He had never dared to call her that while she was alive, but now that she was dead, he hoped she wouldn't reject his way of addressing her.
Touching Gu Shuyan's bruised cheek, a tear rolled down his face. Then, looking at the injured child beside him, Yun Yichen couldn't hold back his sobs.
“It’s my fault, I’m too late. I shouldn’t have let you and your child stay with that beast. It’s all my fault for being so incompetent, which is why you and your child have suffered like this.”
Yun Yichen pounded his chest in anguish. He was filled with hatred, hating his own incompetence and his own sense of helplessness.
"Master, please don't do this!"
Zhong Lin stepped forward and grabbed Yun Yichen's hand, hoping he would stop hurting himself.
After all, they were just two outsiders, not worth his fuss over.
"You don't understand, you all don't understand, it's all my fault, I'm the one who ruined them."
Yun Yichen shook his head, but stopped hitting himself.
After a while, he carefully picked up Rui'er and looked at his tattered clothes and the wounds all over his body. His heart ached so much that he could hardly breathe.
"Rui'er, Daddy's here, don't be afraid."
Yun Yichen's words not only startled his two subordinates, but also made a wisp of soul beside him look at him.
Children are innocent and don't understand why Yun Yichen would say that, but looking at his appearance, he really does look like himself, like a little bigger or smaller version of the same person.
"Mother, why did he say he was my father?"
When faced with a problem, the child always thinks to ask his mother first, but his mother is destined not to answer him.
"Your Majesty, this is the young imperial grandson!"
Zhong Lin thought his master had gone mad; how could he possibly say such a thing?
Wu Ying was more composed than Zhong Lin. Upon hearing this, he looked at the child's face. Although it was stained with blood, the outline could still be vaguely seen.
"Your Majesty, is the little grandson your and the Crown Princess's child?"
Wu Ying's words came out naturally, and Zhong Lin stared wide-eyed at Wu Ying in disbelief, wondering how he could ask such a silly question.
To his even greater surprise, Yun Yichen actually nodded, and quite seriously at that.
"No way! The Crown Prince isn't the little prince's biological father?"
After saying this, Zhong Lin suddenly felt that there was nothing impossible for his master, a god-like figure.
No wonder the master was so concerned about the two of them and even asked him to find a way to take care of them.
If he had known the truth earlier, he certainly wouldn't have ignored the two of them out of resentment towards Gu Shuyan.
"So, the Crown Princess's accusation against Marquis Gu isn't true either?"
Thinking back to what happened back then, Zhong Lin suddenly realized that perhaps he had wronged Gu Shuyan.
"Now you know!"
Wu Ying had mentioned it to him before, but Zhong Lin insisted that Gu Shuyan was the culprit who killed the Gu family and Xu Feng, so he wouldn't allow them to mention this matter or even this person.
Having received affirmation, Zhong Lin felt even more regretful. Coupled with Yun Yichen's dejected appearance and the young master's blood-stained body, Zhong Lin immediately knelt down.
“Master, kill me! For the past two years, I have not followed your instructions to take good care of the madam and the young master, and I have even deliberately concealed their situation.”
Zhong Lin had served Yun Yichen for many years, but this time, because of personal grudges, he harmed his wife, his young master, and even his master. He felt that his death was not a pity.
Yun Yichen clearly hadn't expected Zhong Lin to be so two-faced. He turned to look at Zhong Lin, his eyes filled with questioning and anger, but not with murderous intent.
Zhong Lin had grown up with him since childhood, and he hated him for keeping it from him. However, he was not the only one responsible for the tragedy of Gu Shuyan and her son; he was also an accomplice.
He turned around and unleashed a palm strike, knocking Zhong Lin back several steps. Yun Yichen raised his hand and looked at Zhong Lin, but in the end, he couldn't bring himself to actually attack Zhong Lin.
He punched the ground, leaving a visible crater. Then he looked at his lover and son beside him, placed Rui'er's body on Gu Shuyan's body, and then bent down to pick Gu Shuyan up.
The family of three walked out like this. Wu Ying saw this and hurriedly went to help. Zhong Lin knew that his master did not intend to kill him at this time, but he did not dare to get too close, so he could only follow behind the two at a distance.
Beside him, a little creature they couldn't see was also walking down the mountain.
"Don't be sad, your mother and I won't blame you."
As Ruier spoke, he knew he wouldn't get a response from those around him, but he still voiced his thoughts.
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