Empress Dowager Lin's face was cold and she didn't speak. Chu Huaijin looked around. Other than Granny Li, who was used by Empress Dowager Lin, there was no one else in the palace.
He laughed coldly in his heart. He finally couldn't hold it in anymore?
"I heard that the Empress came today?" He took the initiative to speak. His tone was very calm. It was as if the person who had personally forced Lin Yueying to drink the crocus was not him at all.
"Yes, the emperor knows." His indifferent attitude made Empress Dowager Lin unable to control his rhythm.
"This is not the only thing Zhen knows.”Chu Huaijin had a hidden meaning.
Empress Dowager Lin was angered by his tone.""Your Majesty, Yue Ying is the empress that you personally conferred. What did she do wrong? It's fine if you pamper her every time and force her to drink the child-avoiding soup, but now you want to cut off her path of retreat. You even destroyed the dragon child that she had painstakingly conceived.”
Chu Huaijin felt a pain in his heart. The feeling he had when he drank the crocus rose again.
Layers of regret surged out of his heart, making it difficult for him to breathe normally.
He looked at Empress Dowager Lin's face, which he had secretly hated for more than ten years. He gritted his teeth and said,""Lin Yueying is nothing. She is a daughter of the Chu family and is not worthy of giving birth to a child of the Chu royal family.”
These words pierced her heart. Empress Dowager Lin's well-maintained face flushed red. Her eyes were cold as she said,""Chu Huaijin, how dare you. Yue Ying is a daughter of the Lin family. Don't forget that this widow is also a daughter of the Lin family. You have no responsibility as a husband to Yue Ying. Instead, you are implicated in everything, blaming her everywhere, and even disrespecting this widow as an elder. You are not fit to be an emperor. This widow…this widow really regrets, regrets…"
Chu Huaijin took a step forward and stood in front of Empress Dowager Lin with his tall body. With the help of the sunlight outside the window, he cast his shadow on Empress Dowager Lin. "What does the Empress Dowager regret, regret killing my mother or regret not killing me as well?”Chu Huaijin snorted coldly. Since Empress Dowager Lin had already said this, there was no need for him to hide it anymore. He might as well pour everything out of the bamboo tube.
When Empress Dowager Lin heard him mention his mother, her heart stopped.
Chu Huaijin's mother was the most favored Consort Li.
Her maiden name was Li Ru, and the late Emperor was very fond of her. After she entered the palace, she rose from a small talent to one of the four concubines in just a year.
She was doted on every night, and after a year, she gave birth to Chu Huaijin.
At that time, Empress Dowager Lin had already been diagnosed as infertile. She watched Consort Li's son grow up day by day. When he was five or six years old, Consort Li suddenly died under her care.
Empress Dowager Lin relied on her status as the Empress and the power of the Chu family, as well as the fact that she had no children, to take away Consort Li's son, Chu Huaijin.
He had been raised by Empress Dowager Lin since he was young, but a five or six-year-old child was already sensible. He might not understand the disputes in the palace, but he had long made a judgment about the enemy who killed his mother.
He understood that even his mother, who had been favored by the late emperor, was not Empress Dowager Lin's match. He, a six year old child, was even less of a match for her.
Thus, he pretended to be naive and deliberately got close to Empress Dowager Lin. He lay low all the way until his three royal brothers were defeated by the Lin family and Empress Dowager Lin, which he used. Naturally, he ascended the throne.
Unfortunately, the late emperor died too early and too quickly, so he couldn't help him gather his power. As soon as he ascended the throne, Prime Minister Lin used the excuse that he was a young emperor and couldn't rule personally. It wasn't until he became an adult, married, and married the daughter of the Lin family that he finally managed to rule personally. The most important thing he wanted to do was to slaughter Empress Dowager Lin and Prime Minister Lin's family, whom he regarded as his enemies for killing his mother.
The first one to be used was Lin Yueying. He had made her marry him. Although she had the honor of an empress, she did not enjoy the gentleness of a wife. In addition, he had personally killed the child she was pregnant with. He felt extremely cold and happy.
Although his heart would occasionally ache to the point of twitching, he did not regret it. It was in his bones that he wanted to avenge his mother.
After torturing Lin Yueying, it was Empress Dowager Lin's turn.
"What nonsense are you talking about, aijia…how could aijia kill your mother consort. Consort Li died of her own illness, aijia knew nothing about her death.”Empress Dowager Lin's entire body was trembling, and her heart felt like it was lacking oxygen. Her breathing was heavy, and her heart was filled with indescribable fear.
She was born in the Imperial Palace and had seen countless palace fights and all kinds of killings. However, all of those were methods she had used on others. However, at this moment, the young Emperor in front of her was staring at her as if he was looking at a dead person, making her feel a chill all over her body.
The words that he was going to use to blame Lin Yueying for mistreating her were stuck in his throat, and he could not say anything for a long time.
"If the Empress Dowager has nothing to say, zhen still has something to say.”Chu Huaijin smiled coldly." The Empress Dowager hasn't been feeling well recently and has often fallen ill. Why don't you rest in the palace? Zhen will naturally have someone to take care of the harem.”
"You…Chu Huaijin, you…you've grown wings, haven't you? You even dare to take away this widow's power, you even dare to put this widow under house arrest?”Empress Dowager Lin's trembling finger almost touched Chu Huaijin's nose.
Chu Huaijin's thin lips curled up slightly. His cold smile was like the ice and snow in the winter, slowly releasing. Wherever that smile went, it was as if a layer of ice had formed.
"Zhen does not dare. There is nothing that Zhen does not dare to do. When Zhen was young, Zhen swore that in this life, I would definitely avenge my mother and let her die in peace.”
Until now, he still remembered his mother's beautiful face when she died. It had become red and swollen, and there were even yellow and thick pus flowing out of the sores. Anyone who saw it did not dare to look directly at it. Even the late emperor, who had always claimed to love his mother to the bone, avoided it when he saw it.
Only he knew that the woman who had died and turned ugly was still his mother, but they did not let him get close to him. They told him that from now on, his mother was the Empress, the woman surnamed Lin who had killed his mother.
From that moment on, he had firmly remembered that sentence in his heart.
In the depths of his heart, he was always thinking about revenge, revenge…
He frowned and smiled coldly as he approached Empress Dowager Lin. Empress Dowager Lin was so scared that she retreated and shouted outside,""Men…men, Chu Huaijin is disrespectful to this widow.”
Granny Li quickly stepped forward and blocked Empress Dowager Lin's path.""Emperor, this is the Empress Dowager, you can't be so unfilial.”
" Hmph!" Chu Huaijin snorted maliciously." Dog slave, I hate the Lin family the most in my life, and you are the second."”
He raised his leg and kicked Granny Li's chest. This kick vented all his anger towards the Lin family and Empress Dowager Lin. After Granny Li took the kick, she only had time to cry out and fall to the side.
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