Chapter 136 (1/2)
Chu Lingyun's heart was as painful as being tightened. Her face was as pale as paper, but she had to hold her mouth and replied, ”Prince Chen has visited Mrs. Heyi?”
The emperor nodded indifferently. There was only a sharp light in the dark eyes. ”It happened that before I broke into the luanfeng palace under the influence of drunkenness. A month later, I heard the news that your mother's concubine was happy. The child she was pregnant with was you.”
Chu Lingyun opened her eyes in disbelief. ”Father Emperor... You doubt me... You doubt Mrs. Heyi you have always loved?”
The emperor smiled and his eyes were covered with frost. ”I don't believe anyone. Is Prince Chen still stabbing me behind my back? I know best how much he loves Liu Chengyun.”
”Then you still robbed your brother's fiancee,” Chu Lingyun swallowed faintly. ”You don't believe anyone, everyone should doubt, even the Duan king.”
”Your relationship with Duan Wang is better than I thought.” the emperor narrowed his eyes dangerously. ”You have discussed many things with him in the small place of Xinyang hall. Tell me what you have said. Don't regard your father as an outsider.”
Chu Lingyun looked at him silently. The dark tide surged in my eyes, even though my father and daughter were usually close. But she never forgot that the father in front of her was a king with brothers' blood on his hands.
”Your eyes are like your mother,” said the emperor with a strange smile on his lips. ”When I told Yun Niang that I buried the whole Liu family army on the battlefield, she also looked at me with such eyes, but she was still better than you. Because her next move was to pull out the guard's sword and point it directly at my neck.”
”You......” Chu Lingyun bit her lip. Stunned, he said, ”did you deliberately kill Liu Jiajun on the battlefield?”
”I really don't like generals, especially the family of concubines,” said the emperor lightly, ”Yun Niang has only been angry three times in her life. Once I forced her to be my imperial concubine, once I threatened to kill Prince Chen, and once I punished Liu Jiajun. Although I suffered a little torture on my neck, I saw the expression on Yun Niang's face except in the dead water. It's worth it.”
Chu Lingyun followed his action of gently pulling off his collar and saw the light brown scar clearly. The alarm bell suddenly rang in her heart and looked at him in fear. She should have asked Duanwang to come together. She shouldn't face the cold King alone.
Chu Lingyun was silent for a long time and said, ”I'm not Prince Chen's child. I'm the princess of Daqin.”
”Who can prove that?” the emperor reluctantly said, ”things have been going on for so long. I have raised you as my own.”
”I was born to you. I don't know what the former Queen's nonsense is,” Chu Lingyun straightened his waist and strengthened his tone. ”But that's how you treated your biological daughter and sent her to the random burial post in the state of Qi?”
”No one can prove what the former queen said,” the emperor's eyes darkened, ”but I won't leave a princess with doubtful blood lineage around. Leave Daqin.”
”I'm leaving Daqin?” Chu Lingyun was stunned for a moment and suddenly lost his smile. ”You can tell by the words of a bloody executioner in the back palace that I'm not your child,” she excitedly pointed to the green new willows in the palace. ”Who planted the willows all over the palace for? You don't believe the woman you have loved for many years!”
The emperor turned around leisurely, ”Liu Chengyun has never loved me. Even if I hold the whole Daqin River and mountain in my hand, I know very well that she doesn't love me.”
Chu Lingyun only felt that her body fell and her mind was blank. When the former queen was there, she thought she was a legitimate princess. Instead, she found that she was the child of Mrs. Heyi, but also the daughter of the emperor's favorite woman. At this moment, facing the emperor's cold face, she only knew that she was just a gift to the state of Qi.
”You know?” the emperor lowered his head and tidied his sleeves. ”Do you have anything else to ask?”
Chu Lingyun forced herself to cheer up and squeezed out a relieved smile on her lips, ”the last question.”
”You say.”
”Has your prince chosen someone?”
The Emperor didn't expect that at the last minute, she actually asked such a question, raised her eyelids in a little surprise, ”no, do you have anything to recommend?”
”I'm just asking,” the tears in Chu Lingyun's eyes gradually gathered and smiled. ”Since there is no, this person will not be Duan Wang. I want Duan Wang to be the prince and the prospective princess to be the female official to see me off, and marry me to Daqi.”
The emperor raised his eyebrows. ”What's the matter with Duan Wang and the prospective princess?”
”The former Prince and the former queen originally made such a big gift, but now that the matter has come to this point, I still have blood thicker than water with Duanwang,” Chu Lingyun smiled. ”Please promise.”
The emperor saw that her face was calm, and the panic and surprise just faded completely. He was as calm as if nothing had happened. He was suspicious, ”you asked Duanwang to accompany you?”
”Yes,” Chu Lingyun sighed, ”I have only one wish.”
”That's OK,” the emperor thought and nodded, ”I promise you that Duan Wang and the prospective princess will send you to Daqi.”
”Then I have no more regrets,” Chu Lingyun looked at him coldly with a sad smile. ”You killed Prince Chen yourself.”
”Of course,” the emperor smiled gently, and a ray of bloodthirsty light flashed in his eyes. ”After the prospective Princess solved general Lin, I put on my armor and met Prince Chen face to face. It seems that my sword is not old, and he can't stop it for a few times.”
”Then you wiped his neck with a sword.” Chu Lingyun said indifferently.
”Yes,” the emperor curved his lips, ”his last thought was still thinking about Yun Niang. I can't kill her.”