Jiang Yu had never seen such a scene before. Gu Lin's chest was covered with various knife scars, which looked quite old.
"Does it hurt?"
Under the influence of the drugs, Gu Lin was unable to respond to Jiang Yu's words. Jiang Yu pursed her lips, finding it hard to connect the battered and bruised man before her with the jovial and talkative Huo Xiang.
"You once risked your life to save Ayan's life, and I am very grateful to you."
Jiang Yu once again observed the sharp angles of Gu Lin's face with reluctance. The overwhelming sense of familiarity always made Jiang Yu's heart pound, but she still couldn't find any clues.
"Enough. If it really is him, and he has suffered so much, I..."
After Jiang Yu left, Ling Hai quietly walked in and tidied Gu Lin's clothes. "My lord, Madam came to see you just now."
For so many years, when the Lord was poisoned, it was only his subordinates who guarded him. This time, the Lady whom the Lord had been longing for had come.
Gu Lin woke up the next day when the sun rose.
"You're awake." Jiang Yu slept until the sun was high in the sky before waking up. As soon as she stepped out of the house, she saw Gu Lin standing in the courtyard. "Last night I thought you were sick."
"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. I was once poisoned by someone and need to take medicine every month to suppress it." Gu Lin's eyes were dark. He knew what A Yu had said last night and the tear that fell on his neck.
Jiang Yu nodded, her eyes filled with admiration as she looked at Gu Lin.
She admires this tenacious personality.
"During the autumn hunt, you will disguise yourself as a guard and accompany me."
As soon as Jiang Yu finished speaking, Gu Lin did not respond for a long time. Jiang Yu slowly turned her head and happened to meet Gu Lin's eyes.
"Your Majesty, you examined my body last night... If we follow the rules of our household..."
"presumptuous!"
Granny Ling stepped forward and scolded, but Gu Lin stared blankly at Jiang Yu, his knees slightly bent, and he actually knelt down in front of Jiang Yu.
Ling Hai and Ling Shan, who were hiding in the shadows, suddenly felt their legs go weak and almost fell to the ground.
All I could do was close my eyes and silently repeat that I hadn't seen anything...
"I apologize for my rudeness, Your Majesty."
Jiang Yu's face turned greenish-blue, and she wished she could immediately step forward and cover Gu Lin's mouth. She must have been blinded by greed last night to think that this man was pitiful!
"Let's pretend that what happened last night never happened."
Jiang Yu rudely kicked Gu Lin out, then solemnly instructed Ling Mama, "Never let me drink again in the future!"
But the reversal is as swift as a tornado.
That evening, when Huo Xiang stood pitifully outside the courtyard with a pot of wine in his hand, pointing innocently at the round moon in the sky, Jiang Yu opened the courtyard gate without saying a word.
What brings you here?
Gu Lin just smiled and gave the "small gift" he had prepared in advance to Granny Ling. After watching Jiang Yu dismiss the servants in the courtyard, Gu Lin filled his wine cup with wine. "Yesterday, Your Highness wanted to drink and admire the moon with me, didn't you?"
The old Marquis and his wife departed from the capital on July 16th. Ah Yu, you must be missing them...
Jiang Yu drank cup after cup. This was the first time since entering the palace that someone had accompanied her for a drink on this day.
"Huo Xiang, why don't you say something?"
Jiang Yu was a little drunk again. The moon was so round, but her parents would never come back.
"I'm afraid I might say something wrong and displease Her Majesty."
"Do you know my father and mother?" Jiang Yu raised her wine cup to the full moon, "They are the illustrious Marquis of Dingyuan and his wife."
"I am but a commoner, how would I know about the Marquis and his wife?" Gu Lin suppressed the urge to snatch Jiang Yu's wine cup and spoke in a low voice.
"Then I will tell you."
Under the hazy moonlight, Jiang Yu gesticulated wildly as she recounted her past, which she had kept hidden in her heart, while Gu Lin listened attentively, his eyes filled with Jiang Yu's image.
"And... there's one more person I can't mention, he's dead."
Jiang Yu's cheeks were flushed, and she was slumped over the table.
"Is Your Majesty very sad that he is dead?"
Gu Lin gripped the wine glass tightly, his voice trembling slightly.
“My parents are dead, he’s dead too, my brother… my brother went to fight in a faraway place.” Jiang Yu’s face was full of grievances. “I was bullied by many people… many people bullied me.”
"I'm so useless, I got scammed so badly."
With a thud, the wine glass was swept to the ground, and Jiang Yu hastily wiped the corner of her eye with her sleeve.
"In the end, I died too."
In an instant, a dark, overwhelming light flashed in Gu Lin's eyes. "What did Your Majesty just say?"
“Ayu, tell me, why did you die?”
Gu Lin took the jade pendant from his waist and stuffed it into Jiang Yu's palm, tirelessly coaxing the drunkard in front of him.
"By the grace of Heaven, the Emperor decrees: Empress Jiang has disturbed the inner palace and endangered the dynasty. I have just ascended the throne and hereby order the execution of Empress Jiang to rectify the court. I also grant a special imperial examination, which the whole country will celebrate."
After being asked countless times, Jiang Yu finally spoke softly, reciting the imperial edict that Gu Qingling had decreed her death in her previous life.
Empress Jiang...
Gu Lin, without changing his expression, tidied the stone table and then called to Ling Mama, who was waiting outside the courtyard, "Your Highness has drunk a few more cups. Please trouble Mama to feed Your Highness some hangover soup before you go to sleep."
Gu Lin remained silent throughout the journey.
Only after walking back to his own courtyard did Gu Lin lean against a tree and suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood.
"My lord!"
Gu Lin waved his hand and walked into the house step by step. Why did A Yu say that she was dead? Empress Jiang, who exactly issued the imperial decree?
Why did no one report these things to him?
What exactly did Ah Yu, whom he cherished so dearly, endure?
......
"Is Your Highness drunk again?" Ling Mama asked tenderly as she took off Jiang Yu's shoes and socks. "If the Marquis and his wife are watching from heaven, they will feel sorry for Your Highness."
Having served the Empress for so many years, how could she not know why the Empress had been behaving so strangely these past two days?
“Once a prince gets involved in military power, the emperor will… the emperor will be wary of him.” Jiang Yu smiled foolishly, “But he just won’t believe it, he just won’t believe it.”
"Your Majesty..."
"The Marquis of Dingyuan's mansion cannot destroy the foundation built by generations because of me."
In her last moments of consciousness, Jiang Yu tightly gripped the jade pendant in her hand. "Father, Mother... your daughter misses you so much..."
That night, Jiang Yu dreamed again of her past life after death.
This time was different from the previous ones; countless battles broke out and spread all the way to the imperial palace in Daqing.
Wearing a dragon robe, Gu Qingling was tied to a wooden frame, along with Gu Qingfeng and Gu Qingyao. Consort Rong, who had become the Empress Dowager, had her limbs cut off and was turned into a human pig, her face turned towards Gu Qingling.
At a command, thousands of arrows shot towards the three men's non-vital areas, causing them to bleed to death.
Jiang Yu suddenly woke up from her dream, gasping for breath.
After her death, her brother also committed suicide.
So who exactly sent people to destroy Daqing?
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