Duan Qingli snorted and heard a familiar voice coming from outside the palace: "I think what His Highness the Crown Prince said is reasonable."
She looked up suddenly and saw that Duan Mingxu, who was supposed to capture Jiang Ru, had returned, and he was holding someone hostage, Jun Heng.
Duan Qingli was taken aback, with a rare look of panic on her face: "Mingxu, what are you doing?"
The sword in Duan Mingxu's hand was pressed against Jun Heng's neck, and he led him to the main hall.
He said: "Auntie, what do you think I am going to do?"
Duan Qingli was shocked: "You colluded with His Highness the Crown Prince to plot rebellion?"
"rebel?"
Duan Mingxu sneered: "I have never been loyal, so how can I say that I rebel?"
He looked at Duan Qingli and said: "Over the years, I have never forgotten how you wiped out the entire Duan family."
Duan Qingli staggered: "So, you have been hating me for all these years?"
"Shouldn't I hate?"
Duan Mingxu looked at her angrily and said, "You destroyed the home I finally got and turned me into an orphan.
But you can be happy with your husband and son, why?"
Duan Qingli took a deep breath and said: "Do you think I want to kill them? It's because they can't tolerate me, they want to step on my body and rule the world, it's them who abandoned me, their daughter, in the face of power.
I didn't kill them all, I was just showing mercy. I didn't expect that I would raise a white-eyed wolf after so many years."
Duan Mingxu said: "I only know that it was you who destroyed my family. If you were a wise king, I would be willing to give up my hatred, but ask yourself, are you?
As an emperor, you should put the people of the world as your top priority, but you waste no time caring about the lives and deaths of the people, and want to attack His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Beichen for your own selfish desires. Do you know what the consequences of doing so will be?
Do you want all the people in southern Xinjiang to be buried with you?"
He clenched the sword in his hand and said in a cold voice: "Your Majesty has been obsessed with this imperial power and wealth, and it is time for you to abdicate and make way for someone more worthy.
Your Majesty, let me make a choice today, do you want the throne or your husband?"
"Duan Mingxu."
Duan Qingli's face was gloomy. She had never been controlled by others in her life. She said: "Who do you want Gu to abdicate in favor of a worthy person? You or Xiao Chengyi?"
Duan Mingxu said: "The way to make Southern Xinjiang survive for a long time is to submit to Nanyue and Beichen."
Duan Qingli said angrily: "You are trying to boost other people's ambitions and destroy your own prestige. I will never allow Southern Xinjiang to fall into my hands."
Duan Mingxu snorted coldly: "Your Majesty wants to abandon your husband? That's right. I'm afraid your Majesty has long been tired of your man, right?
Remember when you had no hesitation in becoming the enemy of the Duan family and eloping with him for his sake? Without the help of Emperor Beichen, do you think you would have been reunited today?
It's a pity that Your Majesty doesn't know how to be grateful and actually wants to be the enemy of His Highness the Crown Prince. Your glory today was given by Emperor Beichen, so let his son take it back."
Xiao Chengyi nodded: "Gu has long said that if His Majesty breaks the covenant, everything you own will be taken back, so let's start with your husband.
If it hadn't been for my father's secret help back then, your husband would have died long ago."
He looked at Jun Heng, who had a calm face throughout the whole process. He had never seen this man in his previous life, and he only knew that Duan Qingli had hated him all his life.
He seemed incompetent, but he used his own death to fulfill Duan Qingli's destiny and make her a generational empress.
Jun Heng looked up at Duan Qingli and called out in a gentle voice: "Ali."
Duan Qingli stiffened. How long had it been since she heard him call her Ali?