“The prince eats people and plots to harm His Majesty. Even if His Majesty captures the prince, I will not utter a single word of pleading for him.”
“To plot against His Majesty is punishable by the extermination of nine generations of one’s family. Whether the prince dies or I die, I have no complaints. It is only my newborn child who is innocent.”
"Your Majesty, I beg you... I beg Your Majesty to spare the child for the sake of your grandfather."
“He is still young, he doesn’t know anything. Your Highness made a mistake, and the blame should not be placed on the child.”
"Your Majesty, I beg you."
Yu Ruyan opened her eyes and looked at the ceiling, tears streaming down her face, her voice trembling slightly.
She knew she was too ashamed to beg him again.
But the child is innocent.
If it weren't for this child, no matter how he dealt with everyone in the Chi Prince's Mansion, including her, she would have no regrets.
But then the child was born.
"I agree," said the young Ning Yuan.
Hearing Ning Yuan's agreement, Yu Ruyan felt relieved.
"Thank you, Your Majesty," Yu Ruyan said gratefully.
She will be grateful to him forever.
She will never forget this kindness.
If she cannot repay him in this lifetime, her descendants will do their utmost to do so.
until……
This debt of gratitude will be repaid in full.
"Thank you, Your Majesty... If only I had listened to you back then..."
"I originally thought... I had married the man I loved, I originally thought that Your Highness and I were truly in love..."
"As it turns out, His Majesty was right."
Yu Ruyan's eyelids seemed to be fighting as they slowly closed, while she murmured softly, her voice as light as a whisper.
When she asked Ning Yuan to grant her marriage, he had reminded her of this.
He said that when everything happens so coincidentally, is it due to human intervention or fate?
Her answer was that even if it was man-made, it meant he did it for her.
With only her grandfather left to support the Yu family, he went to great lengths to play the hero in front of her and appeared by her side at just the right time. What else could he possibly want besides her?
The Yu family has nothing left to gain.
After she married into the Chi Prince's mansion, Ning Chi treated her extremely well, so well that she felt as if she were in a dream, and felt that she had made the right bet and found a good husband.
She doesn't crave luxury or great wealth; she only desires peace and safety.
She can live a life of luxury, and she can also accept a life of simple meals.
But--
No matter how good Ning Chi was to her, she always felt that he was somewhat distant from her, treating her not as one of his own, but as an outsider.
To put it nicely, it's about treating each other with respect; to put it bluntly...
It was just a charade.
She had no idea what he was thinking or plotting.
Occasionally, when she asked, he would deliberately change the subject.
He was the man beside her in bed, yet he felt like a complete stranger.
As time went on, she became increasingly clear that he didn't like her at all.
I don't like it at all.
She knew perfectly well what was going on, but in front of the maids and outsiders, she could only pretend that she and her husband were loving and harmonious.
She pretended for so long that she almost started to believe it herself.
In recent years, Ning Chi has begun to frequently interact with the collateral branches of the Yu family and with her maternal grandfather's former students.
She vaguely guessed what the benefits of marrying her would be.
Her grandfather was a Grand Tutor who taught emperors throughout history.
Besides the emperor, he also had many students under his command.
The students taught by her grandfather either became officials in the imperial court or served as officials in various places.
She is a member of the Yu family, and Ning Chi can also be considered half a member of the Yu family.
If Ning Chi were to ask, considering their teacher-student relationship with her grandfather, they would weigh the matter and offer him some assistance.
With their support, Ning Chi can also put up a fight against Emperor Yuan.
The Yu family's connections were the reason Ning Chi married her.
She guessed it, but dared not think about it further.
The more she thought about it, the more she realized she had been wrong.
She made those confident promises to Emperor Yuan back then, and now she's being asked to admit she was wrong? She…
It's impossible.
If it were the old her, she would have been able to let go easily and would have readily admitted her mistakes.
But now, she can't admit that she made the wrong choice.
"Your Majesty, I thank you... If it is possible... I hope..."
"I hope Your Majesty will bury me on Plum Blossom Hill, which is... the place where I first met the Prince."
Yu Ruyan said weakly, tears streaming down her face, which was as white as paper.
That was the place where she first met Ning Chi.
It was also the place where she fell in love with Ning Chi at first sight.
She liked Ning Chi back then, and she also missed herself back then.
Unrestrained and flamboyant, yet proud and principled.
But in the Prince Chi's mansion, she wore away all her former arrogance.
Her grandfather once said that she was the pride of the Yu family, that she was different from others, and that she could live as she pleased.
In the end, she became the very thing she had once despised.
She herself didn't know when it started, but she began to envy others.
The young Ning Yuan frowned instantly and immediately stood up from his chair.
"Someone come here!" the young Ning Yuan shouted, and then immediately lifted the gauze curtain.
Yu Ruyan's body was soaked with blood, and even the bed was covered in blood.
Upon hearing Ning Yuan's voice, the people waiting outside immediately opened the door and rushed in.
When the midwife saw him step over the gauze curtain, she was about to stop him, but when she glanced at the bloodstain on the bed, she covered her mouth and was shocked by what she saw.
"This, this, this is..."
"How could this be? The bleeding has clearly stopped."
The midwife trembled in surprise.
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