The flowers have fallen towards the evening, falling brilliantly.
The fate of the withering world is miserable.
A woman in a palace dress sat quietly in the desolate palace. The Queen's palace, which used to be bustling and lively, now had no maids, and no one even lit a candle. When the sky darkens, shadows fall.
The emperor stepped into it slowly, each step being heavy. After all, he has been in the seventh realm for many years. Even if he can't concentrate on practice now, his physical strength is far beyond that of ordinary people. This was the first time that he felt that his body was so exhausted.
Within a day, I discovered that my two favorite women had ulterior motives. If he was just in love with the concubine, he really regarded the empress as his lifelong companion.
Unexpectedly, even she is fake.
Even standing opposite her at this moment, he couldn't recognize this face.
The queen's appearance is graceful and plump, but the woman in front of her has a thin and sharp appearance, with thin facial features, which to put it politely is not very good-looking.
I don't know the person on the other side, and suddenly my thoughts are flooding.
Looking at her white clothes as before, her expression was a bit frozen.
After a long while, he finally said: "You followed me when I was still a prince. I was not powerful at the time. How did you know that I would become the prince and then ascend the throne? If not, wouldn't you be following the wrong person?"
"The Heavenly Master can see everyone's destiny." The most familiar stranger across from him finally said: "You are destined to be the emperor. I knew it before you did."
She was unwilling to say a single word until the emperor arrived.
"So you are Yinghuo's person after all." The emperor took a deep breath and didn't come out for a long time.
When Li Chengfeng said it just now, he didn't want to believe it.
He didn't recognize this face, but the senior officials of the Supervisory Office did. Xiao Wuyan, who was personally arrested by the National Supervisory Order last time, returned to his original appearance when he was finally taken down, exactly the same as him.
Just now, Li Chengfeng went to Tianbei Prison in person to check, and Xiao Wuyan was still imprisoned there. Even if the woman in front of her is not her, she must be closely related.
But even so, the emperor still had a glimmer of hope.
Until she said it herself.
If it were the other way around, he still had hope of keeping her. If he was born in Yinghuo, there would be no possibility of his return.
"Your Majesty, you no longer need to have kind thoughts towards me. You can tell the public that Yinghuo Yao assassinated the queen and disguised herself as her. You saw through it and captured and executed her." She shook her head and said, "It's just that Hai'er is Innocent, I have never told him half the truth in these years. I hope you can treat him as normal. Even if you don't let him succeed, don't do it because of me..."
"Don't worry." The emperor interrupted her, "No matter who the mother is, she will always be my child."
The Haier she was talking about was naturally the second prince.
After a pause, the woman said: "Thank you."
The emperor asked again: "What is your real name?"
"Xiao Wuyin." The woman replied: "The Xiao Wuyan who was caught before is my twin sister."
"You two are really good at changing things." The emperor sneered. He seemed a little tired from standing. He held a chair next to him and sat down gently. "Tell me about your story."
"I..." Xiao Wuyin mumbled and said, "I was the daughter of the Xiao family when I was born. I prepared to practice the ancestral spirit fox transformation method since I was a child. It wasn't until I was twelve years old that the Xiao family was destroyed. …The Heavenly Master rescued my two sisters.”
She slowly recalled everything from her childhood until she joined Yinghuo, one by one, many of which had nothing to do with the imperial court. But the emperor still listened quietly and did not feel impatient.
"That year, the Heavenly Master suddenly said that there was an important task, and one of us sisters must do it. It may take many years without freedom." Xiao Wuyin continued, "I am the elder sister, so I naturally take the lead."
"I never expected that this matter would actually replace the daughter of the Wu family and marry the current prince."
"Ever since the palace chaos eighty years ago, the court has been extremely strict with people entering and leaving the palace. At that time, you had already established a government office outside the palace, so it was easier to penetrate than entering the palace."
"The Heavenly Master said that a long-term plan will be planned."
"Ha." The emperor smiled again, "It's really well done."
"I spent several months secretly observing the woman from the Wu family, and then replaced her the day before she married you, and she became your head wife from then on. The Heavenly Master just let me live in peace first, and would hardly give me any assignments. He only comes to me once every few years for anything, and only my sister contacts me."
"My life suddenly calmed down."
"Over the past few decades, I have really forgotten my identity. Many times when I woke up, I thought I was really the queen." She said this and smiled bitterly.
"It wasn't until three years ago when the Heavenly Master ordered me to arrange for someone to enter the palace that I realized that my identity could never be seen. I almost wanted to refuse at the time, but my sister, my identity... these things were all there In their hands, I dare not. I have been in charge of the harem for many years, so it is easy to let a woman in."
"Gong Yu'er?" the emperor asked.
"That's right, you really fell in love with her at first sight." Xiao Wuyin raised his eyes, "The Heavenly Master asked the two of us to create the illusion of a palace fight. Everyone thought that we were not getting along. But in fact, after fighting, nothing happened. It’s just Yinghuo’s chess piece.”
The emperor put his hand on his forehead and seemed a little unable to accept it.
"After that, they repeatedly targeted the Wu family. In fact, they wanted to confuse the court and make you think that Yinghuo was trying to weaken the power of the Wu family and me. This would only strengthen my position."
"This is very effective." The emperor said: "If it weren't for this stupid move, you would have succeeded."
"A faint move?" Xiao Wuyin smiled again when he heard this, "The Heavenly Master will never make a foolish move. The reason why these things happened today is because they and I are not of the same mind."
"Oh?" The emperor looked at her again.
"Since my sister was caught last time, I started struggling." Xiao Wuyin looked at the dome of the palace, slightly lost in thought, "I have lived in the palace much longer than in Yinghuo. The only thing I have They are concerned about my sister, but she is in Tianbei Prison. Why am I still helping them? "
She looked at the emperor again: "And my relationship with you as husband and wife for so many years... is not fake."
The emperor silently looked away.
"The Heavenly Master has been laying out his plan for many years, and it was finally time to launch it. He began to contact me frequently, and the person who delivered the news to me was changed to the palace concubine. But I have many spies in the palace, and after paying a little attention, I found out that Yinghuo had passed the message to her. A channel for news.”
"I once wanted to kill the concubine and become a real queen from now on, without having any contact with Yinghuo's people." Xiao Wuyin added: "But that day, I received a letter from the Heavenly Master. Tell me to get ready to destroy something."
"Then the body of the real daughter of the Wu family was dug out from the bottom of the lake. They have kept this body for so many years, which makes my hair stand on end. The Heavenly Master is demonstrating to me that as long as he thinks about it, he is still Could easily destroy me.”
"These days, I have helped them place a lot of people into the palace. Although they did not inform me, I learned from the palace concubine that a big plan will be launched at the Qinghong Banquet, and this time the plan... includes Assassin the king and kills the driver."
"So you killed her and dumped her body in Qinghongyuan, hoping to stop this banquet?" the emperor asked.
When things get here, you can already guess.
"Not bad." Xiao Wuyin admitted, "I don't dare to explain to you. I can only use this method to stop the Qinghong Banquet, and then lead to a thorough investigation in the palace. I can take advantage of the situation and clear out all the people planted by Yinghuo."
"Are you still trying to protect me?" The emperor's tone seemed a bit mocking.
"I can't tell whether I want to protect you or myself." Xiao Wuyin sighed, "But the world is like this. It's not always possible for a person to do something clearly."
"If according to your plan, the palace concubine is discovered before the Qinghong Banquet, the banquet is stopped, and then the palace is thoroughly investigated..." The emperor pondered: "It might not be a good ending."
"It's a pity..." Xiao Wuyin said: "I still can't think of something."
She never imagined that the guardian of the royal family would take her daughter to Qinghong Garden to steal chickens on this day, and found the body in advance... She also never imagined that the daughter's apprentice only spent more than an hour, When the clues were almost cut off, I thought of her.
"If it weren't for Chu Liang, this matter might have passed like this." The emperor said.
"He is also a miscalculated link in Tianshi's plan." Xiao Wuyin said: "In his expectation, the people who entered the palace at this time should be the men of Penglai Sect, and the person Jinlong found should be Yang Dragon."
"Can't he see everyone's fate?" The emperor sneered.
"Maybe... not everyone can see it clearly at any time, right?" Xiao Wuyin also smiled mockingly and said: "For example, if I am not accurate, isn't it true?"
"If everything had gone as he expected, then the world would have been his long ago, and they would not have failed eighty years ago." The emperor said coldly.
"Perhaps, he claims to understand people's hearts, but after all, he cannot understand people's emotions." Xiao Wuyin also said.
There was a long silence after that.
The two of them just sat on the chair and the other on the ground, relatively silent, until the sound of drumming sounded in the distance.
"The Qinghong Banquet is about to begin." The emperor stood up, "Mei...heh, what should I call you?"
"Call me Xiao Wuyin." The woman smiled sadly, "Our daughter of the Xiao family was born voiceless and faceless... She cannot have everything of her own and live with someone else's voice and appearance..."
"This is it, I want to be myself."
"Okay." The emperor nodded in agreement, and then said: "Xiao Wuyin, I will ask someone to verify everything you said. If you didn't lie to me, I will give you a chance to meet your sister. .”
Xiao Wuyin also stood up, walked forward, straightened the collar and sleeves of his dragon robe as usual, and said softly: "I am getting into trouble, and I can't be with you from now on. The future is going to be dangerous, but I hope your majesty will be safe." .”
(End of chapter)
