[Chapter 41 Chapter 288 Princess, Please Have Mercy 17]
"What? So you know, Father."
Wen Shinian smiled and approached the retired emperor. The retired emperor looked frightened, and every pore in his body was rejecting her approach.
"Stop! Don't come over here!"
Wen Shinian was selectively deaf, "Hmm? Father, what did you say?"
The Emperor: "I told you to stop!"
Wen Shinian stepped forward easily and walked to the edge of the couch.
Looking at his eldest daughter, who was sent away from the country by him as a child, standing so close to him, the emperor breathed quickly and his whole body tensed.
Why can’t we kill her even though we sent so many people?
Why was she able to come back alive and well after leaving the country?
"Father must be very angry now. Why is it that I, your son, can still live unscathed until now?"
Wen Shinian spoke softly, sat down on the edge of the couch, and reached out to force the emperor to lie down.
During this period, the retired emperor was very resistant, but due to his poor health, he was completely unable to resist Wen Shinian.
"Someone! Give me..."
"Shh~" Wen Shinian smiled and put his index finger in front of his lips, signaling the emperor to be quiet.
The emperor ignored him until Wen Shinian pulled out a dagger from his sleeve and put the cold and sharp blade to his neck.
Feeling threatened, the emperor fell silent, struggled, and disappeared.
The look he gave Wen Shinian was one of fear and shock.
It seemed as if he had never expected that the most filial child in his childhood would point a knife at him at this moment.
"Father, during those years away from home, I thought of you every day. I longed for the day when I could return and personally repay your kindness."
The dagger against the neck was pressed with a little force and immediately cut the emperor's neck.
This slight pain finally awakened the long-lost fatherly love in the emperor.
"Xiao, Xiao Nian, it's father's fault. He had no choice but to do that back then! You, you've been well-behaved and sensible since you were a child. You will definitely understand father, right?"
"Oh? Your Majesty, Father, is forced to do this because I, your son, and I look so much like you, Your Majesty?"
“…”
"Or perhaps, looking at this face of yours will remind your father of the days when I was useless and could only survive by relying on the charity of your mother?"
“…I don’t!”
In fact, what Wen Shinian said was the truth.
The retired emperor was the least favored prince at that time, and his mother was just a foot-washing maid.
After giving birth to him, she died of heavy bleeding.
He was able to climb onto the throne entirely due to the full support of the late queen's family.
It’s a pity that the emperor is a Phoenix man who is both a powerful person and a hypocrite.
When he got ashore, he first killed the family of his beloved, then pretended to be in trouble and continued to poison people in secret.
It was not until her death that the late queen saw the true face of the retired emperor.
Knowing that it was because of his misjudgment of people that the entire family died tragically, he died in anger and hatred.
Wen Shinian looks very similar to the late queen. Whenever the retired emperor sees her, he will think of the humiliating days when he was given alms.
He desperately wanted to erase this dark history, so while pretending to be a loving father, he secretly knocked Wen Shinian unconscious and sent him to a carriage to leave the country.
Unfortunately, she came back alive.
When the retired emperor heard the news, he was afraid that Wen Shinian would know the truth and harm him, so he sent assassins to kill her on the way back to the country.
In the previous life, the emperor was indeed successful.
Wen Shinian was assassinated on the road and his body was thrown into the river. No one came to look for him until his body was eaten by fish and the remaining body turned into a giant.
"It doesn't matter if your Majesty doesn't admit it. After all, I'm not here to question you."
Wen Shinian threw away the dagger, stood up and stood beside the couch, looking down at the pale-faced middle-aged man lying on the couch.
A strange curve appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"Father, your good days are still to come. You should enjoy the pain that Mother endured a thousand times over."
The former queen was poisoned to death.
Poison is tasteless and colorless, and the symptoms of poisoning are just illness.
As the person who administered the drug, the retired emperor knew it very well.
Upon hearing Wen Shinian's words, the emperor immediately became flustered.
"What do you mean!"
Without waiting for Wen Shinian's response, he had already determined the answer in his heart and struggled to grab Wen Shinian.
Wen Shinian dodged for a moment, and he rolled off the couch.
"Antidote! Give me the antidote! I don't want to die! I don't want to die!!!"
In his panic, he didn't realize there was anything wrong with his legs.
Wen Shinian looked at the disheveled and ugly man, laughed and shouted in panic.
"Someone come! Father, Father, what's wrong with you?! Someone come quickly! Call the imperial physician!!"
Before anyone arrived, Wen Shinian squatted down, staring at the emperor lying on the ground with malice, the corners of his mouth twitching silently.
"Father, please slowly enjoy the process of your body's disintegration and decay."
"Of course, please rest assured. You are my father after all. I will not let you die."
"I will make you suffer heart-wrenching pain day and night."
The palace maids and eunuchs rushed in and waited for the imperial physician to arrive. Wen Shinian stood up and left.
The retired emperor looked at Wen Shinian's departing back, became so angry that he fainted.
Within two days, news came from the palace that the emperor was seriously ill, disabled and insane.
After the Empress Dowager and the Emperor Emeritus met with misfortunes one after another, Wen Ruofang knew that this was Wen Shinian's revenge.
She told the emperor the truth and described her suspicions in a tactful way, but was punished with ten beatings by the emperor.
After this incident, Wen Ruofang also realized that without the protection of the empress dowager and the emperor, she was nothing.
So the next day, she dragged her heavy body to ask the emperor for an imperial decree to grant her marriage. As for the person, it was the man she thought was Xie Yanqing's aide in her previous life.
Wen Ruofang was thinking that since this person could become a great contributor to Xie Yanqing's ascension to the throne in his dream, even if he was just a small Jinyiwei now, he would definitely hold a good official position in the future when he grew up.
She had a good idea, but it was obvious that she had forgotten why Xie Yanqing wanted to rebel.
Because of her self-righteous admiration, Xie Yanqing was forced to become a royal consort.
Now, after having the dream of her previous life, she still followed the choice she made in her previous life.
But this time, the candidate for the imperial consort was an inconspicuous Jinyiwei.
She wanted to help others grow, but she herself destroyed their opportunities for growth.
After all, Princess Shang could not serve as an official in the court.
——
"Princess, we will be married soon."
At night, Wen Shinian was held tightly in Xie Yanqing's arms.
He used his long arms and legs to circle her, and Wen Shinian was completely unable to move.
"I know, please loosen up a bit, you're holding me too tightly."
Xie Yanqing loosened it a little bit as he was told, but after a few seconds, he tightened it again.
He buried his head in Wen Shinian's chest, rubbing his head left and right.
Feeling Wen Shinian's body temperature and breathing in her familiar fragrance, the emptiness caused by the inability to be intimate with her during the day was finally comforted.
He stroked Wen Shinian's back, his rough fingertips caressing the delicate and smooth skin under his palms.
"Princess, I'm really happy. So, let's do it again~~"
“…Ah? Still coming?!”
"Wait, be gentle! It's going to break!!!"
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