mtl008 Chapter 566: Confrontation between the Emperor and the Empress
Chapter 566: Confrontation between the Emperor and the Empress
Lan Qingwu's body went limp, and she was held up by the Divine Martial Emperor. She covered her chest, feeling short of breath. A flash of panic crossed the Divine Martial Emperor's face, and he was about to call for the imperial physician, but Lan Qingwu said intermittently, "I don't want to...see...the imperial physician! Tell them...to stop!"
The Emperor Shenwu felt as if someone was cutting his heart with a knife, causing him unbearable pain! He endured it again and again, watching Lan Qingwu's face gradually become pale and weak, and finally relented: "Stop! Make them all stop!"
Lan Qingwu slowly regained her breath. She held onto the Emperor's arm, slowly straightened up, and looked him straight in the face. "Yun Heng, two months, give me two months! Two months! If after two months... then you can kill my confidants, my clansmen, and... my children! Imprison them if you want! I will never say another word! Take my life too! You are the emperor, and under your authority, we are all ants! We—are all your ants!"
Lan Qingwu's words infuriated the Emperor, causing his chest to heave. He gripped Lan Qingwu's shoulders tightly, "You call me cruel? You're forcing me to wait another two months! On what grounds? On what grounds? Hmm? Because you're pregnant with someone else's child?"
The questioning of the Divine Martial Emperor made Lan Qingwu feel discouraged and hopeless. He said, "I know that the Dasheng Dynasty has been protected by ancient gods since ancient times. Zhou Xuheng, listen to me. I, Lan Qingwu, have only borne blood for you! All the gods of the four directions are here to listen. If I, Lan Qingwu, lie even a word, my three souls and seven spirits will immediately return to the other world and never return!"
"If you don't believe me, you can kill me now!"
"Don't say it! Don't say it!" Lan Qingwu was sleeping unconsciously in the ice jade coffin, which was the nightmare that would never go away for Emperor Shenwu.
Emperor Shenwu's eyes were reddened by the pressure, his resolute heart wavering slightly but achingly. "Okay! Okay! Okay! Lan Qingwu, I only have one question for you! Answer me truthfully. Did you and Wang Shuren develop feelings for each other during the period of mourning for the late emperor? He was the only other man you saw during that time!"
Lan Qingwu didn't want to cry anymore, but tears still flowed unconsciously. She stared at the Emperor Shenwu face to face, without any evasion. The two of them were in a subtle standoff: "Now that you have made up your mind, will you still believe what I say? Yun Heng..."
"I told you to say it! And don't call me Yun Heng anymore! I'm not Yun Heng!"
Lan Qingwu looked at the Shenwu Emperor in disbelief, then nodded and recalled the past: "The three years of national mourning for the late emperor! It was so long ago. At that time, I could only stay in the mansion. My cousin would bring me some new books as I requested. Every time he came to the mansion, he would first pay his respects to my parents. When he saw me, he would say a few words at most and then leave. His visit lasted no more than a quarter of an hour! He was adopted by an uncle from a branch of the Lan family, and I only have brotherly feelings for him!"
"Your Majesty, you sent Ru Ping to be with me at the time. Didn't she explain everything to you in detail?"
The eyes of Emperor Shenwu were deep and unfathomable. Now he could no longer trust Ruping!
Emperor Shenwu said sarcastically, "Back then you could have mourned for the late emperor for three years, but now you're pregnant in March! Lan Qingwu, if you had known this would happen, why did you do it in the first place?"
Lan Qingwu stared at the eyes of the Emperor Shenwu and said heartbrokenly: "Yes! Back then, Lan Qingwu only wanted to use these last three years to properly end our encounter! The time after that belonged only to me and my future husband's family! Back then, Lan Qingwu hoped that the emperor would look upon the three years of national mourning for his father and turn a blind eye to my mother's family and my husband's family after I got married! So, Zhou Xuheng, I did my best in those three years just to do this one thing! How could I possibly have the mind to secretly develop feelings for someone else!"
Emperor Shenwu angrily said, "You are plotting against my heart! You are actually thinking of marrying someone else!"
Lan Qingwu said sadly, "Why can't I think about it! When you returned to the imperial city and were named the crown prince, Zhou Xuheng, you chose them all: your ministers and staff, your brothers and sisters, your father, the emperor, your mother, and... your wife and concubines. You only gave up on me! You had your choices, you had your difficulties. You couldn't just leave so many lives unattended! Yet you wanted me to hear you marry, take concubines, and have children!"
"But what about me! What about me who you abandoned? What should I do? I also have my own people, parents, brothers and sisters! Even for them, I can't help but want to get married! I can't let my family be disgraced, I can't let the sisters in my family ruin their lives because of me! But I'm so scared! Why do you have to be the prince! Why do you have to be the emperor! I don't dare let my mother find a partner for me, I don't dare discuss marriage, for fear that I will bring disaster to the family!"
"During those days, I was trembling with fear all day and couldn't sleep at night! My dreams were filled with the tragic scenes of my mother's family and my future husband's family being offended by the emperor! So, I schemed against you for the first time! I want you to let my mother's family and my future husband's family go from now on!"
Lan Qingwu lowered his eyes slightly: "But I didn't expect..."
Emperor Shenwu said expressionlessly, "I never expected your verbally engaged fiancé to be such a fickle, treacherous villain! Lan Qingwu, did you really think I would have allowed you to marry someone else back then?"
Lan Qingwu slowly raised her head and looked at the Shenwu Emperor. The Shenwu Emperor stretched out his large palm to cover those clear eyes: "Don't look at me like that! You should have thought that since you first saved me, since you danced for me when you were twelve years old, I will never let you marry someone else! You were born to be mine!"
Lan Qingwu's body trembled slightly: "You...what did you do?"
"What can I do? It's just that Young Master Lin has just arrived in the Imperial City and is so dazzled by the flowers that he wants to climb the ladder. I just asked someone to investigate what kind of person he is, but I didn't expect to find a despicable and shameless person who flatters, cheats, and changes his mind according to the situation! I can only watch from the sidelines!"
And at the most critical moment, he added fuel to the fire! He allowed Lin Shaojie to take the opportunity to get to know the high-ranking officials and noble ladies of the imperial city. As expected, the Lin family easily gave up the marriage with the Lan family and gave up Lan Qingwu!
Everything went smoothly afterwards. Lan Qingwu was forced to leave the Lan family and prepare to go to the temple to pray for blessings. Emperor Shenwu could finally summon Lan Qingwu into the harem with a legitimate imperial decree!
Lan Qingwu understood what Emperor Shenwu had not finished saying. She felt cold all over, her face became paler and paler, and her strength was gradually draining away!
The Divine Martial Emperor opened his arms and embraced her, saying coldly, "Lan Qingwu, listen, I will let you live well! If you can't hold on now, I will let those around you be buried with you! Two months! I will give you two months! If this evil creature is still there after two months, I will cut everyone you care about into pieces! Wang Shuren, your clansmen, your confidants, I will make sure they die a miserable death!"