Chapter 1916 - 1854: Honest Admission
Chapter 1916: Chapter 1854: Honest Admission
Within the Cining Palace, an eerie silence settled, as Empress Dowager Mo and Emperor Yan sat opposite each other without speaking.
Clack.
Emperor Yan placed the teacup on the table, looked at Empress Dowager Mo, and said: "What does Royal Mother intend?"
Forcing the empress out, why did she do it, what is she planning?
Empress Dowager Mo glanced at him indifferently and asked: "Was it your order to drown Qinger?"
Emperor Yan’s eyes narrowed suddenly, his aura turning cold, and then he smirked: "Royal Mother knows quite a bit, doesn’t she!"
Couldn’t she keep to being a revered empress dowager, enjoying the honor he had brought her? Why know so much?
Empress Dowager Mo’s heart trembled: "Could it be..."
"Indeed," Emperor Yan looked at her: "It was I who ordered to kill the only legitimate son."
"Emperor!" Empress Dowager Mo’s face turned pale, suspecting is one thing, but hearing him admit it is another, it was terrifying.
"Does Royal Mother know why?" Emperor Yan asked faintly.
Empress Dowager Mo quivered her lips and said nothing.
Emperor Yan walked to her side, leaned in, and whispered in her ear: "That day, when I coerced you, Qinger was hiding in your chamber, playing hide and seek, and saw it. Tell me, should he have been killed!"
Empress Dowager Mo’s throat visibly moved, her body slightly leaning back, staring at him in horror, her eyes as if looking at a monster.
"Tell me, could this child remain?" Emperor Yan grasped her hand, placing it on his lips and kissing it.
Empress Dowager Mo fiercely pulled back, angrily saying: "You are truly mad, he was just a child under three, what could he know? He was your only legitimate son, how could you bear to harm him?"
"Royal Mother!" Emperor Yan said coldly: "It’s precisely because he was a child, he might speak carelessly, even a casual mention, do you think, what would follow? Both you and I could not bear it."
"And the gnawing of conscience from murdering your son, can you bear it?" Empress Dowager Mo sneered: "If you can’t bear it, why do it? I am your stepmother, how could you..."
"You are not! You are the woman I love!" Emperor Yan roared, gripping her shoulders: "I love you, not because you are a stepmother, nor because you helped me ascend to this throne, I loathe your identity. You are nothing but the woman I adore!"
"Beast!" Empress Dowager Mo pushed him away, furious.
"I am a beast, I only regret being born in the wrong era." Emperor Yan said with a lowered head: "Fortunately, heaven is fair, you are still mine."
Empress Dowager Mo did not wish to listen further, fearing she might vomit, she propped on the small table, turning her head away, coldly saying: "Do you think no one knows after killing Qinger? The Empress, she knows!"
"Royal Mother investigated the Empress for this?" Emperor Yan frowned.
"She not only knows about your defilement of my mourning, but even knows you killed Qinger. She hates you and my mourning, thus set that trap to watch us turn against each other." Empress Dowager Mo pulled out a stack of documents, throwing them on the small table: "She hates my mourning, wants to kill Ah Jiu, just to retaliate against me."
Emperor Yan frowned, picking up the documents and opened them, filled with confessions and the like.
"I don’t know where she got the manpower, but..." Empress Dowager Mo looked at Emperor Yan and said: "I have only one son, whoever wants his life, I want theirs."
Emperor Yan’s handsome face sank, her statement was quite suggestive.
Empress Dowager Mo said: "Ah Jiu is my life, he cannot live, nor can I!"
Emperor Yan slammed the documents on the small table: "Is Royal Mother threatening me?"
Cannot touch Ah Jiu?
Empress Dowager Mo said nothing, closed her eyes, and picked up the prayer beads in her hand.