Chapter 569 The Finale!
Lan Xiyue stood up and walked towards the bed calmly.
Dongfang Ming immediately understood and stood up and stepped back silently. She sat down beside the bed and looked at the haggard man on the bed with cold eyes.
The moment Chu Xun's gaze touched Lan Xiyue's face, those originally dead and turbid eyes suddenly burst into an indescribable excitement. His skinny fingers trembled slightly as he pointed at her, and he squeezed out broken syllables from his throat: "Flash... Flash..."
"She is my mother." Lan Xiyue's voice was calm, but like a basin of cold water, it instantly extinguished the fire burning in Chu Xun's eyes, leaving only deeper pain and unbelievable sadness.
Chu Xun's eyes were fixed on Lan Xiyue's face, and his breathing became rapid with excitement: "You...you are..."
"My name is Lan Xiyue." She interrupted him, her voice like an icy spring in winter, "Now, tell me, what exactly happened between you and my mother?"
"Yueyue..." Chu Xun murmured the name, his eyes blurred, as if he saw Yun Shanshan's young appearance through her, "Yueyue...your mother...is she okay? It's me...I spoke out of turn...I couldn't go back to pick you up..." Great hope and deeper uneasiness surged in his eyes.
"She's dead." Lan Xiyue's voice was as cold as iron, and every word sounded like a hammer hitting her. "When she gave birth to me, my aunt poisoned her and she bled to death. But I've avenged my mother, and the person who harmed her has gone down to make amends."
"W...what?!" Chu Xun felt like he was struck by lightning, his whole body shaking violently. His face instantly turned from gray to deathly blue, his chest heaving violently, his breath stuck in his throat, and he was about to faint.
Lan Xiyue was quick-witted and quick-handed. She picked up the silver needle left by Dongfang Ming and pierced it into several of his acupuncture points with lightning-fast fingertips.
The silver needle vibrated slightly with the internal force, forcibly holding up his mind which was about to collapse.
After a while, Chu Xun's rapid breathing calmed down a little, and cold sweat appeared on his forehead.
Lan Xiyue withdrew her hand expressionlessly, a hint of cold sneer on her lips: "Are you excited now? What were you doing before? You knew my mother was already married, yet you still had sex with her... and then ran away without her? Is this how you call your love and loyalty?"
"No! No, Yueyue! Things are not what you think..." Chu Xun argued anxiously, his voice hoarse and broken.
"That's not the case?" Lan Xiyue interrupted him coldly, "Then what is it? Tell me!"
Under Lan Xiyue's cold gaze, Chu Xun took a deep breath, suppressed the surging blood and the piercing pain in his heart, and began to recount the dusty past full of conspiracy and helplessness in a weak but clear voice:
He was originally the crown prince of Western Chu. When the final battle broke out between Western Chu and Dongyao, he was ordered by his father to go to the front line in person to boost the morale of the army, while his sister Chu Mei served as the commander-in-chief to command the overall situation.
When he ambushed Dongyao's reinforcements in Ming Canyon, he fought fiercely with the enemy's leader. He captured her and brought her back to Xichu camp. He unexpectedly discovered that she was a heroic woman. Her unyielding pride made him fall in love with her at first sight.
He ordered people to investigate secretly and found out that she was Yun Shanshan, the daughter of the Duke of Dongyao.
When the emperor's sister Chu Mei learns about this, she intends to use Yun Shanshan as a hostage to threaten Dong Yao.
Chu Xun couldn't bear it, so he found an opportunity to secretly let her go.
However, while Yun Shanshan was imprisoned, Chu Mei secretly planted the deadly poison of the Western Chu State - the Soul-Separation Poison.
The poison takes effect slowly, and in the early stages it will cause people to have blurred memory and forgetfulness. If there is no cure within half a year, once it breaks out completely, the poisoned person will lose all consciousness and become mentally retarded.
The battle ultimately resulted in losses for both sides, with people's livelihoods suffering, and the two countries were forced to negotiate a ceasefire.
After Chu Xun returned to Western Chu, what awaited him was a palace coup carefully planned by Chu Mei.
After narrowly escaping the encirclement, his first thought was of Yun Shanshan! Her soul was about to be poisoned. If he couldn't detoxify her in time, that woman, as dazzling as the sun, would be plunged into darkness forever! He dodged the relentless pursuit of Chu Mei's men, and, gravely injured, he finally infiltrated the borders of Dongyao.
He sneaked into Yun Shanshan's boudoir at night, fed her the blood from his cut finger, and believed that his blood could restore her forgotten memories. He wanted to continue detoxifying her, but her injuries were too severe and she had lost a lot of blood, so he fainted.
After Yun Shanshan returned from the battlefield, her memory was often confused. She suddenly woke up and saw him, and suddenly remembered the past. She was shocked, but thinking of his kindness in releasing her, she hid him and treated him carefully.
Even on the day of her wedding to Marquis Wu Lan Zhenrong, she managed to bring him into the marquis's mansion.
After Chu Xun woke up, he rushed into the bridal chamber regardless of everything, pressed her acupoints, and fed her his own blood. Only then did he untie her acupoints and tell her the truth: she was poisoned by the soul-leaving poison, and only by combining the blood of the royal family of Western Chu with her could the poison be cured.
Yun Shanshan drank his blood twice and became much more conscious. She suddenly disliked Lan Zhenrong. It turned out that the poisoning had caused her memory to become confused. She immediately decided to divorce Lan Zhenrong!
However, a large number of Western Chu assassins had already been lurking in Dongyao, and their target was Chu Xun.
In order to save Chu Xun's life, Yun Shanshan had to suppress the divorce. On the wedding night and in the days that followed, she firmly refused to let Lan Zhenrong enter her courtyard.
That night, Chu Xun performed the first detoxification on Yun Shanshan... Feelings grew in the midst of danger. The two had feelings for each other, but Yun Shanshan had forgotten him after being poisoned. This time, they had intercourse to detoxify him, but also out of love.
However, the Soul-Separation Poison needs to be taken twice to be eradicated, and the second detoxification must be combined with the Xichu royal family's secret medicine "Meixinhua" to completely detoxify it.
When Chu Xun's injuries healed a little, he had to say goodbye reluctantly and promised to retrieve the Charming Heart Flower, completely cure her poison, and take her away.
Who knew this journey would last two long years! He finally found the Charming Heart Flower, but his whereabouts were completely exposed. He was frantically hunted down by the elite assassins sent by Chu Mei, who had ascended the throne as the Queen of Western Chu.
With his confidant risking his life to protect him, he once again escaped death and sneaked back to Dongyao.
This time, he learned a huge surprise: Shanshan had given birth to a son for him and named him Shenye! He was so overjoyed that he almost lost his mind.
That night, he asked Shanshan to take the Charming Heart Flower, and the two of them made love again, completing the final detoxification.
Just when he was about to take Shanshan and his son away from this cage-like mansion, the traces of the assassins were discovered!
In order not to implicate his wife and children, he resolutely led the pursuers away, intending to pick them up after resolving the problem.
Unexpectedly, he fell into an elaborate ambush, was seriously injured and captured, and from then on became a prisoner of Chu Mei, suffering inhuman torture until he was rescued today.
After listening to this bizarre and tortuous story soaked in blood and tears, Lan Xiyue's face remained expressionless, but her heart was filled with turmoil and her soul was poisoned... There was such a sinister poison in the world.
Chu Xun looked at his daughter's cold profile, his eyes filled with regret and pleading, his voice choked with sobs: "I'm sorry, Yueyue... I'm useless, I'm sorry for your mother, sorry for you and your siblings... You..."
Lan Xiyue snorted coldly, stood up suddenly, looked down at him, her eyes as sharp as a knife: "What's the point of saying this now? Take good care of your wounds! Chu Mei took away your kingdom and caused my mother to die tragically in the Marquis' Mansion. Don't you plan to take back this blood debt?" Her words were ice-cold. After she finished speaking, she turned around without hesitation and left the room resolutely.
Mo Liyuan said nothing and followed her footsteps silently.
Chu Xun felt heartbroken as he watched his daughter disappear out the door.
She was Shanshan's daughter, his and Shanshan's daughter! He actually had a daughter... Thinking of everything Shanshan had endured because of him, and how she had finally passed away, the immense pain almost overwhelmed him, and turbid tears silently slid down his withered cheeks.
In the corridor, Mo Liyuan looked at Lan Xiyue's silent and tense profile, reached out and gently held her slightly cold hand: "Yuer, don't think too much."
Lan Xiyue stopped, turned around, and looked directly into Mo Liyuan's deep eyes. She spoke clearly and firmly, word for word, "Mo Liyuan, I will pull Chu Mei down from the throne. I will make her pay with blood."
Mo Liyuan's lips curled up into a doting smile, "Okay! I'll help you."
At this moment, An Yi quietly appeared and respectfully presented a letter: "Princess, your sister-in-law has sent a letter."
Lan Xiyue was stunned for a moment, then realized that it was her sister-in-law Duoduo, and a hint of warmth finally bloomed between her cold brows.
She took the letter and opened it. Qian Duoduo's lively and vivid handwriting jumped out of the paper. He first complained that she was "heartless" for leaving without saying goodbye, then excitedly shared the interesting things about her outing with Brother Lan Xiyue, and clamored to come to see her. Finally, she changed the tone and announced with a bit of shyness and joy that she was pregnant, just one month ago, so she had to go home and could not come for the time being.
A genuine smile appeared in Lan Xiyue's eyes as she carefully put the letter away.
He walked to the stone table in the yard and sat down. With a slight thought, pen, ink, paper and inkstone appeared on the table.
She picked up her pen, dipped it in ink, and wrote a reply letter to Qian Duoduo. The words were full of concern and blessings, and she urged her to take good care of her pregnancy.
After writing, he sealed the letter and gave it to An Yi.
An Yi accepted the order and quickly disappeared in the courtyard.
A few months later, in the Western Chu Palace.
As Chu Xun secretly contacted his former loyal subordinates and worked together with the Empress Dowager who had been patiently lurking in the deep palace and was loyal to the orthodoxy, a thunderous palace coup suddenly broke out.
Queen Chu Mei's tyranny had already lost the support of the people, and the resistance quickly collapsed.
After a battle of blood and fire, Chu Mei was finally beheaded in front of the dragon throne she once took pride in, ending her bloody rule.
When the dust settled, the Western Chu kingdom returned to Chu Xun's hands.
However, this new emperor, who had experienced many vicissitudes of life, had no regrets about the throne he had lost and regained.
He immediately sought out Lan Xiyue, intending to pass the supreme throne to this daughter, to whom he owed a lot but who was tenacious and intelligent.
Lan Xiyue, holding her three-month-old, delicate and graceful son "Xiao Dudu" in her arms, simply smiled indifferently upon hearing this, her eyes revealing a sense of alienation from power and a yearning for freedom. "I'm not interested in that chair."
Beside her, Mo Liyuan stood tall and graceful, his gaze always gently fixed on his wife and children.
Lan Xiyue left the Western Chu Palace with her son and Mo Liyuan.
Under the witness and hosting of Lan Xiyue, a wedding was held for Chuchun and Chuxia. The two girls have married An Yi and Tian Yi respectively.
Lan Xiyue, Mo Liyuan, with little Dudu, and Dongfang Ming and others who had accompanied them all the way, quietly left the Western Chu Imperial Capital, which had just experienced turmoil, and headed leisurely towards the southern border.
The southern Xinjiang has warm sunshine, green mountains and clear waters.
The carriage was driving on the winding mountain road. Dongfang Ming resigned himself to holding the chubby, babbling little Dudu in his arms, with a look of doting and helplessness on his face.
The little guy opened his big black eyes, looked at the "weird uncle" holding him curiously, and spit out milk bubbles.
Dongfang Ming shook the little kid in his arms, sighed at that innocent little face, and complained in an exaggerated tone: "Oh my, my little Dudu, look at your heartless parents! You are out riding horses, showing off your affection, and then you leave your little ancestor to your uncle!"
He deliberately put on a stern face, leaned close to Xiao Dudu's ear, and lowered his voice to "complain": "Xiao Dudu, you must remember, who changes your diapers every day, puts you to sleep, and plays with you? It's your poor uncle, me! When you grow up, you must remember your uncle's kindness, be filial to him, and piss off those two hands-off bosses to death, understand?"
Little Dudu seemed to understand, and he opened his toothless little mouth and let out a crisp "chuckling" sound. His chubby little hands waved around and he grabbed Dongfang Ming's hanging hair and pulled it hard.
"Ouch! Little Ancestor! Be gentle! Uncle is going to pull all your hair out!" Dongfang Ming exclaimed exaggeratedly, his face filled with a doting smile. The sun shone on the two, one large and one small, bringing warmth. Their laughter, accompanied by the rumbling of the wheels, drifted through the green mountains and clear waters of southern Xinjiang.
Outside the carriage, Mo Liyuan hugged Lan Xiyue and rode on a horse together. They both smiled at the same time.
————————————————————The end of this book!!!
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