Chapter 1486: Chapter 871: Rivers of Blood
The vast snow covered all desolation and the filth of the palace.
Later, when she awoke, she heard that her mother, the favored consort, suddenly fell ill last night and died in the emperor’s arms...
The burial was hurried.
The emperor never came to see her again, nor did he set any guards, but sent many treasures...
Why?
She secretly opened the coffin to take a look.
The flesh was a bloody mess, the skull shattered... it was clear she had died by smashing her head against the wall, driven by immense determination for such a tragic death.
The most beautiful favored consort of the dynasty, her glory rivaling the empress, she always loved beauty, shining like the sun...
Yet she smashed her head to pieces.
Brain matter splattered across half the wall...
A death so shocking as to make an emperor’s heart tremble, leaving him uneased for life, thus he dared not act lightly against her...
This was the simplest yet most effective means.
Yet it caused her the deepest heartache.
That day, she sat in front of the palace stairs she grew up on, burying her face in her hands, without tears, without crying, realizing her life would never find peace...
After that day, she voluntarily went to see the emperor, asked to leave, and the emperor looked at her heavily before finally agreeing.
Only the wedding ceremony was not annulled.
For it represented the royal dignity, and the emperor’s words were not to be taken back.
Nor was she allowed to have any involvement with the family of the Royal Capital or the Imperial Family, if found... killed without pardon.
This was the inevitable measure to ensure the royal secrets wouldn’t leak out.
What had to be sacrificed was her past.
Thus... the grand wedding procession became her last scarlet mark in this Capital City.
The girl she regarded as the only true friend in life became her indelible guilt, she could only watch her from afar, wearing a bride’s clothes in sorrowful waiting...
The royal Hidden Guard monitored her.
She could only leave as well.
Before leaving, she wrote a letter to the Third Prince, her closest relation, asking him to look after the Chu Family...
Those ten years, she wandered outside, never daring to go near the Royal Capital, for the Hidden Guard was always there....
She went to the borderlands, to foreign lands, to the Barbaric Wilderness Lands...
"Ten years later, after the period of filial mourning had ended, every child must watch over the tomb for their deceased parents... with the Hidden Guard withdrawn, she finally returned to the Royal Capital..."
"Then she met you"
Ye Zui watched her lying on the deck, looking at the lazy white clouds, surrounded by picturesque landscapes, yet knew that this person’s heart was barren, more desolate than the deserts she wandered over the years.
All the people she cared about were already gone.
No more attachments.
She got up, walked into the cabin, picked up the white paper on the table, and it clearly bore a message.
——The emperor is critically ill, the Third Prince has amassed military power for himself, framed the Crown Prince to prison, he envied you, do not enter the court again...
"I should have thought of it long ago"
"The emperor’s heart is unpredictable, the Chu Family was on friendly terms with me, once partial to me for the position of Crown Prince, plus over the years my followers spanned the land, wielding significant power, long since aroused the emperor’s wariness, once I was gone, he took action... the most foolish thing I did was to entrust the Third Prince.. the one who pressured you over these years, it was him, right?"
The "brother" once closest to her was in fact the one who envied her most.
Spared no effort to frame the Chu Family, conformed to the emperor’s wishes, and also bullied the friends she played with in her youth...
Back then, who in the Royal Capital didn’t know about the close ties between the Third Prince and her, along with the Chu Family’s daughter serving as the model of the Imperial Family’s clans...
She carefully folded the paper and put it in her pocket.
Put on her cloak.
Ye Zui thought she would follow the advice and henceforth stay away from the tumultuous court, but unexpectedly...
She headed to the Royal Capital.
On the day the Third Prince ascended the throne.
She fought from the palace gates to the Great Royal Court, to the Mountain of the Great Hall.
Rivers of blood flowed.
The ground littered with corpses.
Those ministers who flattered him were also the ones who once framed the Chu Family... also the ones who bullied her.
Her.
Ye Zui suddenly realized, she was looking at herself from a future generation’s perspective, yet upon seeing these despicable faces, and seeing the supreme Third Prince... the inner resentment and fear were uncontrollable, if she were still a Soul Body, she would surely slaughter this court...
No, she didn’t act, but someone did on her behalf.
The prince, once renowned as the most handsome in the world, fought his way to the Third Prince with his own strength, the thousand Hidden Guards, ten thousand Brocade-clad Guards all became a river of blood under her sword, those high-ranking masters within the Imperial Palace dared not step forward.
The ministers were more than half dead or wounded.
Everyone was terrified, watching her, radiating blood aura like a demon.
Her foot trampled on the Third Prince’s head, severing the meridians of his limbs inch by inch.
She was no longer the pitiable wretch forced to leave the Royal Capital.
Nor a normal person.
The appearance under extreme anger and murderous intent... bore a few resemblances to the High Priest.
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