The next few decades between him and Chao Ci have been thought about in Lou Yue's mind countless times in these seven months.

He carved many details and thought about many things that he wanted to do with Chao Ci.

He endured it for seven months and kept telling himself that if he endured it longer and found Chao Ci back, he would have decades to make up for it and they would have a long remaining life to spend together.

However, he never imagined that after he finally finished those things, he would get such a result.

Chao Ci... is dead?

He touched the tablet and kept groping for the place where the word "Chaoci" was engraved.

It was obviously newly carved and smelled of ink.

It was so pungent that Lou Yue's head was buzzing.

His eyes suddenly turned red, and he crawled to the raised mound like crazy and dug up with his hands.

The soldiers and Lou Yue's confidants standing nearby were obviously startled, and several people quickly stepped forward to stop Lou Yue.

"Your Majesty, let me come..."

However, before they could finish their words, Lou Yue violently pushed them aside.

"roll!"

When the man staggered to his feet, what he saw was the emperor's eyes that were as scarlet as if they were dripping blood.

He was suddenly shocked and did not dare to make any further move.

After Lou Yue pushed him away, he continued to dig the grave with both hands without looking back.

The young man still stood in front of the monument, looking at Lou Yue from a distance. There was no extra emotion on his calm face.

Although Chao Ci's funeral was organized by the boy alone, and there were no relatives or friends of Chao Ci nearby except the boy, the funeral did not require the attendance of any relatives or friends, nor a banquet, so it seemed particularly hasty.

But this does not mean that Chao Ci's funeral was simple.

The young man still built a monument for him overnight, bought the best coffin, and buried him with his own hands.

Lou Yue also dug for a long time.

There was blood on the fingertips and the nails were a little cracked, and finally he saw a corner of the black coffin.

Lou Yue was still digging nervously.

No one around him dared to move, and the young man just stood aside and watched quietly.

Let the sky get darker a little bit.

Finally, with the last trace of light, the coffin was completely dug out of the earth by Lou Yue.

The coffin was fastened with many long nails.

However, Lou Yue broke them open with his hands. His strength and his crazy appearance made all his subordinates feel shocked.

The coffin was opened.

Chao Ci had only been away for three days, and there was no rot on his body, but some corpse spots appeared on his body.

His face was blue, his lips were as pale as paper, and his whole body was stiff and as cold as a piece of ice.

Lou Yue completely ignored the fact that it was a corpse and held him tightly in his arms.

After seeing Chao Ci's body, the last trace of delusion in his heart was completely shattered.

Whether he accepts it or not, Chao Ci is dead.

Lou Yue knelt in the grave for an unknown amount of time, then he slowly walked out holding the body.

This scene is really weird and terrifying to the extreme. Even though the people around me have died on their hands, I feel a little horrified at this moment.

But the young man was as calm as ever.

Lou Yue held the body and walked to the young man.

He spoke, his voice hoarse and harsh: "Where is the child?"

The young man turned his attention to the left side of the grave dug by Lou Yue.

About a foot away, there is another small grave.

No monument was erected, because according to the custom of Dachu, children who died at birth could not erect monuments.

"Find someone to move the grave." Lou Yue said to his confidant.

…………

Later, Lou Yue saw himself in the dream bringing Chao Ci back to the imperial city.

He held a very grand funeral, the funeral of the queen and the funeral of the emperor's eldest son.

Logically speaking, the child who died at birth could neither enter the imperial mausoleum nor have a funeral. But Lou Yue still insisted on going his own way. At that time, the court was bloodbathed twice by Lou Yue, and the rest were toothless.

Tiger, of course, can't stop him.

After that, the memorial tablet and the coffin in the imperial mausoleum became the most lasting images in Lou Yue's memory.

He dealt with government affairs during the day and slept in the imperial mausoleum at night. During his reign, he created the greatest prosperity of Chu and became the most absurd emperor in the history of Chu.

But what future generations think has nothing to do with him.

After a few months, he selected a few children from the clan to raise.

Those children were all outstanding. As they grew up, Lou Yue seemed to see his former self and those brothers.

Lou Yue had no patience to wait for them to fight to the end.

He chose the best person to succeed him and abdicated himself.

After he abdicated, he returned to the imperial mausoleum as he had done every night for more than ten years.

When he was in the imperial mausoleum, he refused to let anyone in. Therefore, even if he stayed there for three consecutive days after abdicating the throne, no one dared to come in.

It wasn't until the person who was responsible for delivering food every day found that there was no shortage of food at all, and became increasingly panicked and told the new emperor about this, the new emperor led his people into the imperial mausoleum.

However, they discovered that the Supreme Emperor who had just abdicated died without any illness on the night of his abdication.

There was even a smile on his lips.

I am looking for you now, with no fear at all, only joy.

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Lou Yue never believed in ghosts and gods, but for the remaining ten years of his life, he prayed over and over again that there really were ghosts and gods in the world.

Will his speech be waiting for him on Naihe Bridge?

Probably not, Chao Ci must have hated him.

But it doesn't matter. If Chao Ci goes to reincarnate, he will go find him.

If possible, he would like to ask the so-called Ten Palaces of Yama to stop him from turning into a human being. If he were a human being, would it hurt him?

It is best to have a tree growing in front of Chao Ci's door. Chao Ci can walk by it every day. Maybe he was naughty when he was young and liked to climb on it.

But when he thought that Chao Ci would fall in love with someone else and stay together for the rest of his life under his witness, his shameful selfishness felt painful again.

Even if he harmed Chao Ci like this, he still couldn't bear to give him up to others.

This question often appears in Lou Yue's mind, and he thinks about it all night long. Even if he is so entangled, it can temporarily make him forget the pain that pierces his heart.

Sometimes he would suddenly think, what if there really are no ghosts and gods?

It doesn't matter. If a person really just returns to dust after death, then he will be buried with Chao Ci.

From now on, there is no awareness, no thoughts and no thoughts.

But when Lou Yue actually died, the situation was different from anything Lou Yue imagined.

He became a ghost, but no ghosts came to find him. He wandered as a ghost for year after year, without seeing any other ghosts, and no one could see him.

This feeling is extremely terrifying. If it were anyone else, they would go crazy in just one day.

Year after year, the hidden dangers Lou Yue had buried finally broke out.

He couldn't wait for the outcome of the fight between those wolf cubs, so even if he allowed one of them to succeed to the throne, the rest were secretly gearing up.

In the fourth year after his death, civil strife broke out throughout Chu.

The civil unrest exceeded anyone's expectations, including those who initiated it.
Chapter completed!