"Did you know? I have stopped celebrating New Year's Eve since the year when my mother-in-law passed away. I don't know how to keep up the New Year's Eve or welcome the New Year." King Bianliang narrated lightly, "The palace has been deserted these years."

"Is it because of your mother-in-law?" Shen Qiao pulled him to sit down and asked.

King Bianliang nodded.

Shen Qiao tried hard to recall the King of Bianliang in the setting of the novel, but after thinking for a long time, he couldn't find anything about the Queen Mother of Bianliang and the late emperor. This was a bit difficult.

"Can you talk to me?" Shen Qiao asked cautiously. She knew it was inappropriate to ask at this time, and it was even more inappropriate on this day, but...she really didn't want to see him unhappy.

As she said to him before, he actually looks pretty when he smiles.

She also wanted to know more about the person in front of her.

The main villain in this book.

"The mother-in-law was actually brought in from outside the palace by the emperor. I don't know the mother-in-law's life experience. After the mother-in-law entered the palace, she was doted on by the Sixth Palace. The queen and others have to avoid her."

"But I have never seen my mother-in-law smile." King Bianliang recalled, "Tell me...what kind of situation would make a person never smile?"

"My mother-in-law is very kind to me, but I always feel that these kindnesses are not of her own free will."

"How do you know she didn't do it voluntarily?" Shen Qiao didn't understand. How could you tell whether it was voluntary or not if this was good for a person?

"She will give me a lot of things that I don't like, and teach me a lot of things that I don't want to learn." King Bianliang looked up at the lamp, as if reminiscing.

"It's like you clearly wanted apples, but she gave you a basket of pears?" Shen Qiao could only think of this metaphor.

King Bianliang nodded.

"Then...did any major changes happen the year your mother-in-law passed away?"

"That year was also the annual banquet. After my father got his mother and concubine, he would invite talented people and strangers to perform in the palace every year. He even promised that whoever could make his mother and concubine smile would be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold."

"A thousand taels of gold?!" Shen Qiao took a breath, "Just to make your mother-in-law smile?"

"Isn't it incredible?" King Bianliang asked, "I also find it incredible that a thousand taels of gold can help so many people live a good life, but my father only used it to reward talented people, and it was just to make my mother and concubine smile."

"So... found it?"

"found it."

"Really found it?" Shen Qiao didn't believe it.

How could a person who had not laughed for so many years suddenly smile? Could it be that... a possibility flashed through her mind, "Is it... that the person who came is an old friend of your mother and concubine?"

"More than just old friends." King Bianliang closed his eyes and recalled, "They all said that the man was the adulterer of his mother and concubine. After the New Year's banquet, the two of them... were caught on the spot by the father."

"At that time, I looked at the two people in the bed curtain, my father who dared not come forward in the palace, and the courtiers outside the palace who were shouting that they wanted to execute my mother and concubine. I didn't know what to do for a moment."

"My father wanted to silence the courtiers, but the queen barged in with her concubines. She said righteously that she was not managing the harem well and that the mother and concubines should be left to her disposal."

"Everyone wants the mother-in-law dead."

"I heard...I heard the voice of the mother-in-law." King Bianliang suddenly looked painful, and his hoarse voice filled his whole body with a layer of sadness. "The mother-in-law asked the people next to her if they were afraid. ?”

"The man said he wasn't afraid. He said he had been looking for her for a long time. Now that she is here, he is not afraid of anything."

"Then what?" Shen Qiao had a vague feeling, and sure enough...

"Fires all over the sky spread from the mother-in-law's bed, and the entire palace was burned to the ground. Everyone was safe, only the mother-in-law and the man died inside."

"Even if my mother-in-law died on New Year's Eve, it would still be like this...but my father poured all his love for my mother-in-law into me. The queen threatened my father-in-law with the stain of my mother-in-law and could not make me his wife." Prince, please do not hand over Bianliang to me."

"What a pity...the queen's son is a waste, and her grandson is also a waste. Even if I am not the crown prince, I still hold the entire Bianliang in my hands." King Bianliang opened his eyes, with pain and cruelty in his eyes.

Shen Qiao was a little scared when he saw him like this.

She felt boundless murderous intent, but he was still a child at that time, and he had done nothing wrong. With so many people eyeing him, it would only be rough and difficult for him to grow up in these years.

If the father loves the mother, who would be willing to wander around alone?

Shen Qiao moved towards King Bianliang, stretched out his arms and hugged him, "You have worked hard these years..."

I don't know if Shen Qiao said this to King Bianliang or to himself.

But... King Bianliang froze.

He had never heard anyone say this to him. They were afraid of him and thought he was cruel and unkind. Those who knew the inside story pitied him, but no one had ever said to him: Thank you for your hard work.

At that time, he was just a child. He went to the frontier to establish his own world and win the hearts of the soldiers. The cruel and ruthless days he experienced and the days of licking blood all laid the foundation for him today.

"I know it's difficult for a person to live hard. No one helps or cares about you. You only have to keep pushing yourself, because you know that no one cares about you except yourself."

"You want to prove yourself to everyone, but when you stand at the top, looking back... you don't know who to share the joy and sorrow with." Shen Qiao patted his arm gently. , seems to be coaxing, seems to be comforting.

"However, if you have me in the future, you don't have to work so hard." Shen Qiao rested his head on his right arm and looked at the dark yard behind him, "Although I can't help much, there are some emotions and things You still need an outlet, otherwise you will choke yourself."

The following words were said to her by her best friend.

This is what she said to her when they became friends. Since then, the two have become best friends who talk about everything, sharing every bit of their lives.

"Okay." King Bianliang responded.

Shen Qiao listened to his voice and let go of him after realizing that he didn't have the aura of just now, "But, I have conditions, and I won't be your life mentor and enlightenment mentor for nothing."

"In our place, tutors like this are charged, very expensive." Shen Qiao winked at him, his meaning clearly expressed, "Do you understand what I mean?"

King Bianliang was amused.

Shen Qiao is not a money addict, at least she is not short of money in the palace. She just said these words to make him happy.

"I don't have anything else, but this money is not bad. When the time comes, just ask." King Bianliang followed her words.

"Then we've settled on this, okay?"

"Pull the hook?" King Bianliang stretched out his hand and bent his little finger, imitating Shen Qiao's previous gesture.
Chapter completed!