"What's wrong? Could it be that the Queen Mother was stunned by my handsome face and couldn't speak for a moment?"
"You...how did you become like this now?" The Queen Mother's mouth trembled slightly, and she continued speaking.
"As the ruler of a country, you don't know how to reflect on yourself all the time, but are proud of your appearance. Aren't you afraid of being ridiculed if you spread the news?"
"Of all the monarchs in the history of my Great Zhou, you are the worst."
In response to such verbal pua, Si Muqiao smiled faintly and then spoke.
"I have always been like this, but the Queen Mother has never understood me."
"It is a fact that I am handsome. The mirror can tell me the answer. Why should I be afraid of being laughed at?"
"As for the bad one, that's even more nonsense."
"I sincerely feel that I am never worse than anyone else."
"This world belongs to me, this country belongs to me."
"Even whether the Queen Mother can leave the palace now is up to me."
"Besides, I am still so young and have a bright future."
"Every time I think of this, I wish I could wake up from my dream with a smile."
"I wonder if you, Queen Mother, have any insights after living in the Cining Palace for such a long time chanting sutras and reciting Buddhist scriptures?"
"Have you ever regretted it?"
"At this point, haven't you seen the reality?"
"What do you think I will think if you keep talking to me like this, huh?"
"You! How dare you threaten me." The Queen Mother glared at him.
"You are worrying too much, Queen Mother. I am clearly concerned about you, how can that be a threat?"
"Queen Mother, tell me, why did you trick me here?"
"I'm very busy. I don't have time to play dumb with you."
"You guys, get out first!"
In the end, Si Muqiao drove out the people she brought with her who were standing in the room.
"Your Majesty, have you ever felt that it has become increasingly difficult to control your emotions recently?"
"I have no interest in eating or sleeping."
"You feel dizzy and black out from time to time, and you can't even concentrate on reading memorials?" asked the Queen Mother.
"Hmm?" Si Muqiao's eyebrows jumped for no reason.
"I have a way to relieve your symptoms, but the prerequisite is that you have to show me your sincerity."
"Your Majesty, you have less than an hour and a half to consider."
"After tonight, there is nothing I can do."
The Queen Mother said this calmly, but Si Muqiao was furious when he heard it.
After tonight, it will be Murong Qingli’s 25th birthday.
The meaning of the Queen Mother's words was very clear.
She knew that Murong Qingli was poisoned, and if he didn't detoxify before the age of twenty-five, he would die.
So, she took advantage of tonight to trick Murong Qingli over.
She wasn't doing it to celebrate his birthday or to surprise him.
She was clearly trying to trade his chance of survival with him.
Oh no, maybe even her so-called deal is just a gimmick.
All she wanted was to watch him struggle a little bit at the end of his life, and finally fall down powerlessly.
But why?
Why did she do that?
Is this empress dowager in front of me really Murong Qingli's mother?
"Queen Mother, you are not my biological mother."
"Who are you?" Si Muqiao asked word by word with a cold face.
"Does it matter who I am?"
"What's important is how long you can continue to control this world, Your Majesty, isn't it?" the Queen Mother said calmly.
"Are you from the Western Regions?"
"The poison in my body was also planted by you since I was a child?"
"No matter what I do tonight, I will die, right?"
Si Muqiao took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and spoke calmly.
"I really didn't make a mistake. Your Majesty is still as smart as ever."
"I've let you be the emperor for such a long time, it's enough." The empress dowager straightened her body as she leaned on the bed.
"But I'm very curious. The poison in your body is so special that ordinary people wouldn't be able to detect it. How did you know?"
"Because I am unusual." Si Muqiao.
“……”Queen Mother.
"Tell me, who are you?"
"Where is my mother?" asked Simuqiao.
"I am the Queen Mother. Hasn't the Emperor always known this?"
"As for your mother, ah, that stupid woman died when she gave birth to you."
While she was talking, Si Muqiao quickly thrust the silver needle between his fingers towards her neck.
"My Queen Mother, I am sorry."
After saying this, Si Muqiao reached out and touched her face very carefully.
However, she did not touch anything resembling a human skin mask.
In other words, the person in front of him who was not Murong Qingli's biological mother was actually using his own body.
Then... there is only one possibility.
"You died in the Western Regions, but when you opened your eyes, you were reborn in the body of my mother?"
As soon as Si Muqiao said this, a trace of fear flashed across the eyes of the empress dowager who was restrained by her.
How is this possible?
Rebirth is her biggest secret.
How come Murong Qingli guessed it right at once?
No one could possibly know such a mysterious thing except herself.
Yes, she was indeed reborn.
She used to be just a dancer in the royal family of the Western Regions who was played with by others.
When I was a kid, I learned how to make drugs and also learned how to smoke.
But in the end, she still died.
Perhaps because she died too unwillingly, God brought her back to life.
Moreover, when she came back to life, she found that she had become a concubine in the harem of the Emperor of the Great Zhou Kingdom.
She had just given birth to a prince who could be used to win favor.
In order to live like a human being, she poisoned the prince, hoping to keep him under control.
Her identity was clearly the mother of the prince, but to be honest, she didn't like her nominal son at all.
Especially when he became more and more handsome and his temperament became more dignified and cold, she hated him even more.
But she was in the palace and couldn't do anything to him.
She still had to use him to consolidate her favor.
So, from time to time, she was indifferent, blamed, ignored and disdainful of him.
Including the fact that the old emperor became more and more arrogant and extravagant, and even wanted to live forever, all of which were her doing.
Her appetite grew bigger and bigger in the harem of the Great Zhou Kingdom.
At first she just wanted to gain His Majesty's favor, but later she wanted to become the empress of the Great Zhou Kingdom.
But she failed.
The person who caused her failure was Murong Qingli in front of her.
So, how could she not hate him?
Fortunately, he was poisoned.
The kind of poison that kills you once you’re over twenty-five.
Ha ha ha ha……
So, even though the journey was difficult for her.
Even if she has waited so long and remained silent for so long, what difference does it make?
In the end, she always gets everything she wants.
"Why didn't the Queen Mother refute it?"
"If that's the case, doesn't that mean I guessed right?"
"Even if you guessed it right, what can it do? Do you think anyone will believe you if you say such things?" The Queen Mother sneered.
"I believe it!" At this moment, Murong Qingli's figure flashed in from outside.
…
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