Hall of Eternal Life.
The door was opened, and Shen Qingwei rushed in with the guards from the Palace Front Department and surrounded the inner hall.
Gu Shichong threw away the cushion, stood up and smiled at Shen Qingwei, "Well done. Now, announce to the world for me that the emperor has passed away and passed the throne to Prince Gong Gu Shichong."
At this moment, unexpectedly, Shen Qingwei's expression suddenly changed. He raised his hand and said, "Prince Gong Gu Shichong is committing treason and patricide. Capture him!"
Gu Shichong was stunned and didn't even have time to react before he was held down by the people from the Palace Front Department and pressed to the ground.
"Shen Qingwei, what are you doing? How dare you betray me? I am the emperor, and I will kill all your clans!"
Shen Qingwei's face was stern. She stared at Gu Shichong, who was like a trapped beast, without blinking, and placed the sword on his neck.
"What? You want to kill me too?!" Gu Shichong said sternly, "Kill me and then support the young emperor to ascend the throne? Your Shen family wants to follow the path of powerful ministers? Don't forget what happened to the last powerful minister, the Ge family!"
He noticed the hesitation in Shen Qingwei's movements and the fear in her expression. Gu Shichong laughed heartily and taunted her, "Shen Qingwei, don't you dare to do it! Don't you dare to be the one who kills the king!"
At this moment, the door of the Hall of Eternal Life opened again.
Shen Qingwei looked up and saw Xue Zhiyi walking into the hall through the rain. Even though Chai Yue was holding an umbrella behind her, she didn't get wet at all, but she still left a long trail of wet footprints on the ground.
In Gu Shichong's eyes, Xue Zhiyi seemed like a completely different person. She was wearing a red dress, with her hair in a peony bun, and there was no trace of the hypocrisy and flattery she had shown to him before in her eyes.
The guards from the Palace Guards didn't stop her, but instead made way for her. Shen Qingwei, feeling relieved, called out, "Madam Lin'an."
Suddenly, Gu Shichong realized: "It's you... you colluded with Shen Qingwei?"
Gu Shichong shook his head like a sieve, as if unwilling to believe that he had fallen into Xue Zhiyi's hands. "From the very beginning, you set up a coup for me, making me and my father suspicious of each other. In the end, we killed each other, and you killed two birds with one stone and reaped the benefits... Why..."
He roared: "Why are you trying to hurt me?"
In his eyes, there was no deep hatred between him and Xue Zhiyi. At most, he looked down on a mediocre woman like her when they were engaged. Later, she was the one who changed her mind and had an affair with Huo Wuyou. Now she set up a trap to harm him. What was her reason?
Back in Jiangzhou, he did try to have Xue Zhiyi kidnapped by Xue Tingliu so that she would die at Xue Tingliu's hands, but she failed in the end. Why did she bear such a grudge, even to the point of wanting him dead?
She was just a woman. In his eyes, a woman's ambition was limited to grabbing the favor of a powerful man. Could she possibly overthrow Dayong and seize power in the court?
Gu Shichong would never understand why Xue Zhiyi did this, but he could clearly feel that Xue Zhiyi had a strong and incomprehensible hatred towards him.
Xue Zhiyi did not answer him, but walked towards him slowly with steady steps.
Speaking of the hatred in her previous life, Xue Zhiyi had never had any love for Gu Shichong, so even though she knew that Gu Shichong and Fu Rong in her previous life were in love with each other, she did not feel betrayed. What she hated was that Gu Shichong relied on the evidence she exchanged for her life to overthrow King Cheng, but then extinguished her hope and pushed her back into the abyss.
To His Royal Highness Prince Gong, it was obvious that if he only needed a little bit of insignificant charity, such as redeeming her from Chunfeng Tower and giving her freedom, she in her previous life would hold the freedom she had worked so hard to get and leave alone, no longer hindering their happiness and glory. But Gu Shichong didn't do that. He was unwilling to give even this little charity, but instead crushed her like a useless chess piece.
In fact, after being reborn for so long, she had unknowingly washed away the hatred from her previous life by the happiness and beauty she had experienced in this life, and gradually became less unforgettable than when she was just reborn. However, she still wanted to kill Gu Shichong. She could not forgive anyone on behalf of Xue Zhiyi, who died tragically in prison in her previous life - any forgiveness would be regarded as a betrayal of her previous life.
What's more, Gu Shichong's existence blocked her way. Of course she wanted him to die. She had to kill him.
But there was no need for her to waste her breath to tell him all this.
She walked up to Gu Shichong and looked down at the once high and mighty Prince Gong. This face overlapped with the cold and despicable face he had worn in his previous life when he ordered her to be sent back to Chunfeng Tower...
Xue Zhiyi took the sword from Shen Qingwei that was on Gu Shichong's neck, with murderous intent in his eyes.
However, Gu Shichong still felt that Xue Zhiyi would not kill him, and there must be room for discussion between them. What's more, Xue Zhiyi was just a woman who had loved and flattered him in the past, just a woman.
Suddenly——
He felt a chill in his throat, and then something hot flowed down his chest...
Gu Shichong opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but his throat was cut, so how could he make any sound?
He looked at Xue Zhiyi in disbelief, but saw that she still had a cold face and her eyes were full of disgust, as if she was looking at something dirty.
As if she saw that he was still breathing, she raised her sword and slashed his throat again.
He found that his head had become uncontrollable, tilting heavily backwards, curling up in an extremely abnormal position, making his head almost hang down on his back, until everything in front of him completely dissipated along with his consciousness...
Shen Qingwei looked at Xue Zhiyi. Her eyes were firm at the moment, and her face and clothes were stained with large patches of blood. Her eyes were full of disbelief and horror.
Xue Zhiyi killed Gu Shichong.
But she simply put the sword back into his scabbard and said coldly, "Every moment he lives, the risk increases. Only the dead can be most reassuring. If you hesitate when you should make a decision, you will suffer the consequences. Gu Shichong must not be allowed to stay alive."
After explaining, she comforted him, "You are young, it is really difficult for you to do this."
Shen Qingwei shook her head: "No matter how difficult it is, we have to do it. Otherwise, my father and Marquis Lin'an will be fighting on the front lines, while the people in Huajing want to kill Marquis Lin'an. If we delay any further, Marquis Lin'an will be in danger, and so will my father."
When he was in Jiangzhou, his father told him that Marquis Lin'an and Miss Xue were the benefactors who saved the Shen family, and asked him to discuss anything with them. So when he learned that Gu Shichong intended to force the emperor to abdicate, he not only told the emperor, but also told Xue Zhiyi.
Xue Zhiyi also informed him of the situation on the front line. Now the emperor wanted to kill Huo Wuyou. If he delayed any further, not only would Huo Wuyou's life be in danger, but even his father would be in danger.
So, when Xue Zhiyi asked him to help and take advantage of the infighting between the emperor and Prince Gong and his son to kill two birds with one stone, he agreed. He agreed to work with Xue Zhiyi to implement this life-threatening plan.
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