The snow began to fall again, fluttering like beautiful jade-colored butterflies, dancing as if drunk.
"I wonder how your Majesty would feel after seeing the Emperor's devotion to you?" Liu Dequan asked Ruo Shuiyue with a serious look on her face as soon as she stepped forward.
After staring at Liu Dequan complicatedly for a moment, Ruoshuiyue's brows suddenly furrowed. "Eunuch Liu deliberately let me see this scene, isn't it just to hear my feelings?"
"I have watched the emperor grow up, but I have never seen the emperor risking his own life for that woman. Even the previous queen and the current Concubine Ni have never done this.
Treatment, my dear, you are the first!" Turning around and looking at the snowflakes flying in the sky, Liu Dequan said with a deep look on his face.
Ruo Shuiyue was silent and just bit her red lips gently. She didn't know whether Ni Nuoer was there or not, and she didn't want to know. She just wanted to know at this moment, what was the purpose of Liu Dequan saying this?
"Although the emperor is the king of a country, he is also a human being, and he also has his helplessness. Even if he is unwilling to do some things, he must do them!"
When he said this, Ruoshuiyue felt even more puzzled, but she had no intention of interrupting him.
"Empress, I will tell you a story!" Liu Dequan suddenly turned his head and said with a complicated expression.
Ruo Shuiyue remained silent and just nodded slightly.
"There once was a prince who was extremely talented, kind-hearted, and capable of literature and military skills, but he was not favored by his father. This was because he was not the son of the woman his father loved deeply, and his father wanted to have a child with the woman he loved.
His child successfully ascended to the position of prince and no longer had any worries. He even wanted to kill his other children, and the talented and intelligent prince was naturally the first child his father wanted to kill. From deliberately framing him to
Someone was secretly sent to assassinate him, and the prince had no idea how much he suffered and how many crimes he committed before finally escaping with his life. Unfortunately, he forgot that he was just a prince, and the person who killed him was his biological father, the king of a country!
His father stopped attacking him, but turned his attention to his mother-in-law and his brothers." At this point, Liu Dequan's brows suddenly knitted together. Ruo Shuiyue still didn't speak, just quietly.
Listen. She understood that the prince he was talking about was Xiahou Yesiu.
"My dear, can you imagine? How painful it feels for a ten-year-old child to just watch his mother and concubine being insulted by the guards, and his young brothers being brutally tortured, while he is unable to move? And?
The person who gave him all the pain was not others, but his father, his biological father. This betrayal of family affection completely changed him. From that day on, he was no longer kind, let alone soft-hearted, just because he was
The enemy's softness means he is cruel to himself, so he becomes cruel and unkind, and becomes..." Thinking of the child at that time, Liu Dequan's eyes were filled with deep distress.
Although he did not participate in Xiahou Yexiu's past, listening to Liu Dequan's words, Ruoshuiyue seemed to have seen his past misery, desolation, and cruelty.
"'Adultery' with a guard is a capital crime, even if it is forced. Just before his mother-in-law was executed, do you know what he did? He actually kidnapped the woman his father loved so much in exchange for
He spared the life of his mother and concubine! Unfortunately, it gave him a deeper hatred from his father. It was normal to go against his father, but to go against the emperor, the outcome would be death! Until he was on the verge of death, he
He deeply realized the power of power. From that day on, he swore that he would take away his father's throne at all costs. So he began to bribe people's hearts and officials, and together with his uncle who was a general, he began to brutally counterattack his father's throne.
Enemy. On the day he was eighteen years old, he brutally killed the woman his father loved deeply in front of his father, but spared his father and the woman's child. Do you know why?" Liu Dequan
Suddenly he turned his head and asked Ruoshuiyue with a deep but complicated gaze.
With an indifferent smile on her beautiful face, Ruoshuiyue said lightly, "Because he wants to take revenge on his father. He wants his father to watch his most beloved child endure all kinds of torture in front of him, just like
Back then, his father made him watch his mother and brothers suffer humiliation and torture." If it were her, she would definitely do the same thing.
Hearing this, Liu Dequan couldn't help but have a bitter smile on his face. "You guys are really similar in this respect! You are not in a hurry to kill the people you hate, but you let them endure the torture and then kill them after they are too painful to live?"
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Ruoshuiyue's eyes turned as cold as ice in an instant, and she glared at Liu Dequan with a vigilant expression. "I don't understand what you are talking about!"
"I know, my dear, you know better than anyone else! My dear, do you still want to listen?" Liu Dequan said with a meaningful look on his face.
After putting away her indifference, Ruoshuiyue looked indifferent again. "Say it!"
Hearing this, Liu Dequan turned away his eyes again and recalled slowly. "Forcing the palace, taking revenge, and seizing the throne were all as he planned in advance. It's a pity that he missed his ambitious uncle."
When he arrived at the uncle, Liu Dequan suddenly turned his head and glanced at Ruoshuiyue beside him with complicated eyes.
Deliberately ignoring his gaze, Ruo Shuiyue was still staring straight at the flying snowflakes not far away. The ambitious uncle? Who was he referring to? How could she not know it.
Seeing that she had no reaction, Liu Dequan withdrew his gaze. "Hey! In fact, I have no other reason for saying this. I just hope that you can understand the emperor's helplessness sometimes, but don't let the emperor's sincerity be betrayed!"
To Ruoshuiyue's surprise, she thought he would continue talking about what happened next, but he just...
Staring at Liu Dequan with complicated eyes for a few seconds, Ruo Shuiyue finally nodded and responded. "That's natural..." That's what Ruo Shuiyue said, but how could Ruo Shuiyue not understand Liu Dequan's real purpose. He was telling her to be considerate.
While Xia Houye was repairing, he was also warning her that he knew some of her secrets. But it didn't matter. Since he would remind himself like this today, at least it meant that he had not exposed himself.
What she meant was that everything he did was just for Xiahou Yesiu. And before Ni Nuoer was removed, she would never take action against Xiahou Yesiu rashly. After all, if something unexpected happened to Xiahou Yesiu, then this
Doesn't the throne belong to her Ni Nuo'er's son? Then the entire Southern Extension Kingdom must not fall into the hands of her Ni Nuo'er? Ruoshuiyue would not do anything to benefit her Ni Nuo'er.
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"It's late at night. Your Majesty hasn't recovered yet. It's better to go back to the palace and go to bed! The old slave has to go to serve the emperor, so he's not far away!" Liu Dequan said and hurriedly saluted Ruoshuiyue.
"Go!" After waving his hand, Ruo Shuiyue said no more, turned around and walked towards his bedroom.
It wasn't until Ruoshuiyue's figure disappeared into the night that Liu Dequan came back to his senses, sighed helplessly and hurriedly walked towards the imperial study.