noffsinger Chapter 1101 The Unfaithful Lover 29
Chapter 1101 The Unfaithful Lover 29
Prince Chen was taken to a dungeon to meet the Empress.
That's right, the Queen has been imprisoned here all along.
"Your Highness," the Empress rushed towards Prince Chen as soon as she saw him, "How did you get here? It's the Emperor, isn't it? I knew the Emperor had imprisoned me here. He must have ill intentions to spare my life."
"Did His Majesty use my life as leverage to force you to return to the capital?" The Empress threw herself into Prince Chen's arms and wailed. "Your Highness, you're so foolish! I know you have me in your heart, that's enough. Why would you risk your life for me? Now look what's happened, neither of us will survive."
After the Empress was imprisoned here, she knew that her affair with Prince Chen must have been exposed. During this time, she kept praying that Prince Chen would not take risks for her sake. But when Prince Chen actually appeared in front of her, although she cried so badly, she was actually happy inside.
After all, this proves that she didn't love the wrong person; Prince Chen truly loved her very much.
"You useless piece of trash," Prince Chen angrily shoved the Empress away, the force so great that she fell to the ground. "It's all because of you, you good-for-nothing, that I've ended up in this state."
The Empress looked at Prince Chen in disbelief: "Your Highness, how could you do this to me? Didn't you love me? I betrayed the Emperor for you, disregarded my family, and committed acts of harming the imperial heir. I even..."
"Shut up, shut up!" Prince Chen stepped forward and grabbed the Empress's neck tightly. "You foolish woman, die now! You've brought me to this state, I'll kill you with my own hands."
The fact that he had the Empress poison the Emperor must not be revealed, otherwise it won't just be him who dies, but all his children will also die.
The Emperor was merely reducing the power of the princes; he didn't want to be branded as a traitor. Naturally, he would only keep these princes under surveillance in the capital, not exterminate them.
However, Prince Chen must die. But if the Emperor finds out that he was drugged, it won't just be Prince Chen who dies; the Emperor will not spare anyone in Prince Chen's entire household.
Prince Chen knew the gravity of the situation, so he naturally wanted to silence the Empress and prevent her from revealing that the Emperor had been drugged.
However, there was one thing that Prince Chen could never understand: how could the Emperor, who had been given a drug that would prevent him from having children, still get a woman pregnant?
As for the slow-acting poison given to the Emperor, Prince Chen was not completely baffled. He simply thought that the medicine wouldn't work that quickly, and that even if the Emperor's body had problems, it wasn't yet at the point of being critically ill.
The Empress died at the hands of the man she loved, her eyes wide with disbelief as she stared intently at Prince Chen until her last breath.
After Prince Chen strangled the Empress, a eunuch immediately entered with a white silk ribbon.
"Your Highness Prince Chen, the Empress is dead, so it's time for you to go too. The Emperor said that since you two lovers are so in love, you should go to the Yellow Springs together and become a ghost couple in the underworld." After saying this, the eunuch and another eunuch put a white silk ribbon around Prince Chen's neck.
Prince Chen was strangled to death, and after the deaths of Prince Chen and the Empress, the Emperor also announced the Empress's crimes.
The empress was deposed and sentenced to death. The men of her family were beheaded, and the women were sent to become government prostitutes.
The official statement regarding Prince Chen's death was that he died suddenly, although everyone knew that he definitely did not die suddenly, but was ordered to commit suicide by the Emperor.
But although they knew it, no one dared to discuss the cause of Prince Chen's death.
Meanwhile, the death of Prince Chen terrified the other vassal kings, who feared they might become the next Prince Chen at any moment. But now they were already at the mercy of the king, and even if they wanted to fight to the death, they had no choice.
Yan Jialuo married Gu Yanjin a year later, and at that time Gu Yanjin also passed the imperial examination with top honors.
Oh! By the way, on the eve of Yan Jialuo's marriage to Gu Yanjin, the Emperor revoked her title of Princess, so she is no longer a Princess.
Who told her to say something that would kill the Emperor's two sons? If it weren't for that, it would have happened in every prince's residence. Otherwise, Prince Lu and his daughter would probably have lost their lives too, and the Emperor would have ordered Yan Jialuo and her father to be executed long ago.
So, being an emperor isn't as carefree as it seems. At least, not just anyone can go on a killing spree, unless one doesn't mind leaving a lasting infamy in history books.
The problem is, which emperor would be willing to bear the infamy that will be remembered in history?
Being stripped of her title as a princess must have been incredibly frustrating for Yan Jialuo, and she took her anger out on Gu Yanjin, believing that Consort Fu must have said something to the Emperor that led to the stripping of her title.
The reason why Consort Fu targeted her in this way was naturally because of Gu Yanjin.
So on their wedding night, Yan Jialuo pointed at Gu Yanjin's nose and started cursing, and then Gu Yanjin slapped her hard across the face.
"Are you more awake now?" Gu Yanjin stared at Yan Jialuo with a fierce look in his eyes. "Yan Jialuo, don't forget the current situation of your Lu Prince's Mansion. If you don't want to drag the Lu Prince's Mansion down with you, then you'd better watch your words in the future. If you dare to mention my and Chunxi's matter again, then I guarantee you, I will definitely drag your Lu Prince's Mansion down with our Gu family."
Yan Jialuo stared at Gu Yanjin with eyes full of hatred, but ultimately said nothing more.
"Hmph!" Gu Yanjin snorted coldly, too lazy to pay any more attention to Yan Jialuo.
Three years later, Jiang Chunxi's eldest twin son was named Crown Prince, and she was named Empress.
"Your humble servant pays respects to Your Majesty the Empress." Gu Bingkun knelt down and bowed as soon as he entered Jiang Chunxi's palace.
"Rise, Grand Commandant Gu," Jiang Chunxi said after Gu Bingkun stood up. "Does Grand Commandant Gu know why I summoned you here today?"
"Your Majesty, I do not know," Gu Bingkun looked up at Jiang Chunxi, then quickly lowered his head again, "Please enlighten me, Your Majesty."
"Heh!" Jiang Chunxi chuckled lightly before speaking, "Grand Commandant Gu, I won't beat around the bush with you. I hope you can divorce my aunt."
Gu Bingkun suddenly raised his head to look at Jiang Chunxi, his expression both angry and incredulous: "Your Majesty, I do not know when I offended you, which led to you forcing me to divorce you."
"Grand Commandant Gu," Jiang Chunxi's eyes turned cold, "I don't think I need to remind you of the reason why you married my aunt back then! Ever since my aunt married you, she hasn't had a single day of peace in your Gu family. Don't tell me you didn't know how your Gu family's servants humiliated my aunt."
“Most importantly, has Grand Commandant Gu forgotten that my aunt drank contraceptive medicine for more than ten years?” Jiang Chunxi’s lips curled up slightly, revealing a mocking smile. “Does Grand Commandant Gu know why I returned to Jiangnan back then, and why I asked the Jiang family to send me to the Jiangnan Imperial Palace to serve the Emperor after returning to Jiangnan?”