jdhmnovel Chapter 194 Exposed
Chapter 194 Exposed
"Your Majesty...I have something to say to you alone..."
After Concubine Chun finished speaking, she glanced at Ruyi who was standing beside her.
The emperor also looked at Ruyi and the group of palace maids guarding the room.
He waved his hand and said, "Queen, you and them should go out first. I will call you later..."
"Yes, the concubine is retiring."
Ruyi didn't expect that she had bothered two people here. She bowed angrily, walked out, and told the workers to close the door.
But as she walked out the door, she looked back at the closed door and suddenly felt a sense of foreboding.
Seeing Su Lujun's evasiveness, Ruyi felt very uneasy. They had known each other since their time in the Qiandi Residence, and she knew Lujun's personality best.
If it was a trust, given the emperor's indifference to her over the years, she would never leave the emperor alone in there.
Why did she suddenly want to talk to the emperor alone?
Could it be that there are many things she doesn't know?
After everyone left, the hall became quiet.
“Cough cough… cough cough cough… cough…”
Su Lujun kept coughing. She took off the handkerchief covering her mouth and was shocked to find a small pool of bright red blood on it.
The emperor's eyelids twitched when he saw this. He couldn't understand why she became so ill in just a few days.
Although he didn't like Concubine Chun, she had been with him since he moved to the palace, and he couldn't bear to see her leave this palace.
As he got older, he felt lonely and scared as he watched people around him leave one by one.
Su Lujun put down the handkerchief tremblingly, lifted the quilt directly, and wanted to get up from the bed, but she was too weak and fell back into bed.
The emperor quickly supported her and said in confusion, "Noble Concubine Chun, what's wrong with you? Since you are sick, just rest well."
"No... I am guilty. Before I die, let me confess all the sins I committed in the past..."
She pushed the emperor's hand that was stretched out to support her, and this time, she knelt down on the ground smoothly.
"Guilt? What crime have you committed?"
Hearing this, the emperor's face changed. He seemed to have thought of something and changed his posture, sitting upright on the bed, looking at her weakly kneeling on the ground with a majestic and oppressive look.
Su Lujun was kneeling at the emperor's feet. Hearing him say this, she raised her hand, opened a secret compartment under the bed, and took out an ordinary small box from it.
She opened the box and showed the contents to the emperor.
The emperor thought it was just an ordinary doll. He took it in his hand and looked at it. He found that there were crooked stitches on it. He looked back at Su Lujun.
Feeling the emperor's gaze, Su Lujun subconsciously dodged.
Yes, she felt guilty.
After all, the cruelty to young children has been a source of worry for her for many years.
But things had come to this point and could not be reversed. She hardened her heart and said the words she had prepared long ago.
"So many years have passed, cough cough cough... I haven't had a good night's sleep. Now I can finally be free. Your Majesty, I want to apologize to you and expose someone to you... cough cough cough..."
The effect of the medicine was extremely strong. She finally finished speaking but started coughing violently.
"What crime are you pleading guilty to? Who are you going to expose?"
"Your Majesty, this story begins many years ago. Back then, Concubine Hai made this doll and asked me to give it to the Second Prince. She said that the Second Prince was the most favored by the Emperor, and if I didn't get rid of him, my Yong Zhang would never have a chance to succeed... I foolishly listened to her, and that's how I harmed the Second Prince..."
As she spoke, Su Lujun burst into tears.
The emperor's face gradually became gloomy. He looked at the doll in his hand, and then at the miserable appearance of Concubine Chun who was now barely surviving, and his heart was filled with turmoil.
For so many years, he had no idea that the legitimate son he had always valued and the candidate for crown prince he valued most actually died at the hands of this vicious woman in the harem.
"At this point, I'm not afraid anymore. This was made by Noble Lady Hai. Besides cotton, it also contains reed fluff specially prepared for the Second Prince. The Second Prince wasn't killed by the reed fluff that flew into the room. It was this kid... cough cough cough..."
At this point, Su Lujun began to cough uncontrollably, and the blood she coughed up dripped onto the ground, mixed with her saliva.
The emperor was so shocked that he was speechless. He had never expected that the death of the second prince was related to the weak Concubine Chun in front of him.
"In other words, my Yonglian died in your hands?"
The emperor clenched the doll in his hand and looked at Su Lujun with cruel eyes.
He valued the Second Prince so much back then and hoped to hand over the country to him, but he never expected that in the end he would end up dying tragically for no reason.
"These were absolutely not my original intentions. I was instructed by Noble Lady Hai. She did this to avenge the Empress, the former Concubine Xian, and to pave the way for Concubine Xian to become the Empress..."
"The eldest prince and Yongzhang definitely didn't intend to hold back their tears in front of Empress Xiaoxian. It was Concubine Hai who specifically pulled the fifth prince aside and told him not to cry in front of the children. I was stupid and had no idea what to do, so I fell into her trap. But who would have thought that in front of Empress Xiaoxian's coffin that year, it was the fifth prince who cried the most sorrowfully..."
Su Lujun was almost overwhelmed with grief when he said this. He gasped for breath and leaned on a small stool beside him to support his shaky body.
She looked at the emperor with bloodshot eyes and a serious expression on her face.
Hearing this, the emperor frowned.
The incident that year caused the eldest prince to die of fright. This was his first child, and he was heartbroken. He even regretted saying such words to him.
Unexpectedly, there was someone behind this who did it deliberately.
"Do you have any evidence? If so, does the Queen know about what happened back then?"
The queen he was referring to was Ruyi.
If it is true as he said, that what happened back then was all done by Concubine Hai, and everything was just for the Queen, then the Queen must also be involved in these dirty deeds.
He thought of the Queen's grief when the eldest prince Yonghuang died. Was all this just a show?
Moreover, the eldest prince even stayed with Ruyi for a period of time. Even a tiger wouldn't eat its own cubs. If all this is true, then what about the queen...
The emperor fell into deep thought. He couldn't believe all this. After all, he and the queen had been in love for several years, otherwise she wouldn't have given birth to three sons in just a few years.
They knew each other when they were young, and Ruyi used to be the one who understood his thoughts the most, but now...