Purple Palace.
The rich scent of Western sandalwood filled the entire Zichen Hall.
As soon as Li Qingluo stepped in, she felt that the fragrance made it difficult for her to breathe. She quickly raised her hand and covered her nose with a handkerchief.
Duan Rongshi looked at the Western Region witch doctor who was kneeling beside him.
The witch doctor whispered, "If the incense is broken, it will take at most half an hour..."
Duan Rongshi: "That's enough."
"With the others, retreat."
The witch doctor quickly stood up, and soon all the people and incense in the Zichen Hall disappeared without a trace.
Li Qingluo found a chair and sat down.
Duan Rongshi walked towards the dragon bed with fluttering gauze curtains.
He pulled back the curtain.
He raised his foot and walked in lightly.
Hearing someone coming in, Emperor Yan opened his cloudy eyes.
"water……"
He wants to drink water.
However, when he saw the face in front of him, his eyes widened in horror.
"you……"
"Are you the Fifth Brother, or...the Concubine Yue!?"
Duan Rongshi didn't say anything, but just stared at him intently.
Emperor Yan raised his hand tremblingly, but could only touch the curtain.
He struggled to pull himself up.
But I couldn't use even a little bit of my strength.
Emperor Yan could only shout in fear: "Come—quickly, come—"
Duan Rongshi: "What are you afraid of, Father?"
Duan Changyan exclaimed, "Aren't you dead, Lao Wu?"
"Aren't you dead?"
Duan Rongshi: "So, if it was my mother, you wouldn't be so scared?"
"No, you should be terrified!"
"Because you are the one who actually killed my mother!"
Duan Changyan seemed to be forced to think about the past.
His bloodshot eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
"No! No, it's not me, it's not me!"
"W-What do you want to do?"
"Neither you nor your mother was killed by me."
"Your mother died in an accident."
"As for you, I simply asked them to send you out... to fight..."
"I don't want to see you..."
"I don't want to hear them forcing me to...make you the crown prince—"
Duan Rongshi: "Do you think that your self-deception can deceive anyone else?"
"Father, have you ever been truly sincere to anyone in your life?"
"Do you love your sons?"
"Which one is not your chess piece?"
"Duan Rongyin? Duan Rongjue? Duan Rongxuan? Or Duan Xiyue!?"
"But which of them had a good ending?"
"Just like you loved your mother and your son back then, but suddenly you withdrew all your love."
"He fanned the flames behind the scenes, allowing those who hated my mother to conspire together to murder her."
"Ignoring the fact that my son has been bullied, poisoned, and even murdered repeatedly in the palace since childhood—"
"When I grew up, you treated me like a knife, making me do things for you, making others hate and fear me!"
"If you are happy, give me a bite to eat."
"If you are unhappy, lock me up in the mansion and take away everything I own."
"Why do you hate me and my mother so much?"
"Is it because of that forged letter from your queen?!"
"Because of the 'truth' your spies heard from someone who hated my mother, you've truly concluded that my mother and her brother had an affair. You've even gone so far as to doubt my own background, insulting my mother's innocence!"
"Isn't that right, Father?"
When Duan Changyan heard this, he began to tremble all over.
His teeth made a clattering sound as they rubbed against each other.
His tongue was beginning to lose control.
But he still shouted with great effort: "You... are talking nonsense..."
“No…no…”
Duan Rongshi leaned over and told Duan Changyan: "I forgot to tell your father."
"I am now the emperor of Great Chu."
"He is my biological uncle, who personally passed the throne to me before he died."
"Guess why he did this?"
Duan Changyan could only stare wide-eyed.
He screamed 'Ahhhh'.
He was so angry that blood kept flowing out of his mouth, but he couldn't utter a single word.
Duan Rongshi looked at him expressionlessly.
There was even a hint of disgust in his eyes.
"My mother has never betrayed you."
"As a princess of the Great Chu, she knows what it means to be self-disciplined. She fulfilled her responsibilities as a princess, loving the people and serving the country, and she also bore you children."
"And you? Not only did you fail to protect her, but you also trusted the treacherous plot!"
"It's you who has humiliated Mother and dishonored her!"
"If it weren't for the peace of Great Chu, do you think she wouldn't be able to find a better man in the world, a man who would truly devote himself to her, or even become her legal wife?"
"You are older than her, yet you don't even know how to cherish her and betray her sincerity!"
"Duan Changyan, you should have died long ago."
"I've kept you here until now just to torture you more and make you live a life worse than death!"
"Also, Zongzheng Qingyue's son doesn't want your throne!"
He looked down at him with contempt.
Like a mountain eagle, staring at an ant.
After hearing these words, Duan Changyan realized that what he did might really be wrong.
Could it be that Yue'er, Yue'er was really murdered?
Those letters are fake, they are all fake?
The son in front of him was actually his biological son?
Of course he had doubted his bloodline.
And I have doubted it more than once.
He even convinced himself that he would give Lao Wu a life because he had a face that looked too much like her mother's.
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