She Holds the World After Being Reborn
Chapter 294 - 293: I Just Want to Be the Emperor, What’s Wrong with That!

Chapter 294: Chapter 293: I Just Want to Be the Emperor, What’s Wrong with That!

The Emperor didn’t bother to hide his murderous aura at all.

He began to regret having left Yan Wanqing alive, allowing her to say too much. He shouldn’t have been curious to see such a person weep and beg desperately.

She and her father were alike, both incredibly stubborn!

He could not keep her alive any longer. It was time to kill her.

The Emperor, believing out of sight was out of mind, closed his eyes.

Everyone thought that Yan Wanqing would be killed on the spot.

But there was a deadly silence.

No soldier made a move.

The Emperor opened his eyes, and the group of sword-carrying soldiers remained motionless.

Yan Wanqing cocked her head toward the Emperor, "Your Majesty, let Wanqing finish speaking before you take action."

By then everyone knew that the Emperor had lost control of the situation.

Zhang Lanyi stood in the middle of the steps, she sighed in relief, her eyes slightly warm, and she began to cry and laugh.

She had almost thought that the wretched girl would die.

Thankfully, she had not.

After taking a few steps, she felt a sharp pain in her abdomen; she slightly frowned and endured it.

At that moment, Yan Wanqing also clapped her hands like the Emperor did: "Bring them in!"

There was a commotion outside the hall, and Yan Li’an, leading Mr. and Mrs. Wang, walked in.

Yan Li’an looked disdainfully at the seated Emperor, his scorn plainly visible in his eyes.

When the faces of Mr. and Mrs. Wang were revealed, many court officials were frightened to the point of collapsing.

Mr. Wang, in particular, was like a boneless mollusk, collapsing on the ground.

"So, so... everything she said was true," Mr. Wang said in a daze, shaking his head.

At that moment, his beliefs collapsed completely, and Mr. Wang even lost his will to live.

For a scholar who had spent years studying intensely, hoping to earn recognition, nothing could be a greater blow.

Even when he had pushed his first wife down the well years ago, he had never felt such terror.

The sky was falling.

No.

His world had already collapsed.

Mr. and Mrs. Wang didn’t even need to speak; the loyalty of the court was already completely lost.

From this day on, the Emperor would no longer command any respect.

He was no longer calm and composed, and in a furious state he stood on the platform and shouted, "Yan Wanqing, you are guilty of insolence and disrespect to the crown! Your crime warrants death! Guards, kill her for me!"

No one moved.

The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind, and Yan Wanqing was that oriole.

She even had the leisure to look at Song Huaxu, "National Master, you always listen closely to His Majesty’s commands. Will you step in for His Majesty today?"

Make your move, and then she could rightfully kill him!

The Emperor finally remembered that he had one unfathomable ally.

Thus, he spoke, "State Preceptor, you killed her for me! I shall reward you handsomely!"

Unexpectedly, Song Huaxu just gave him a cold glance, "You called me here just to see how you fall from the imperial throne?"

"A loser holds no ground for negotiation."

"You are finished."

With these words, the Emperor stumbled and fell from the steps; too old, he rolled down and lay sprawled on the ground, unable to get up, utterly disheveled.

Yan Wanqing’s eyes, clear and bright, were fixed upon the emperor lying before her.

"What a pity, the National Master refuses to make a move." she said softly, stating this cruel truth, "Now, Your Majesty is truly alone."

"Nonsense! I still have the Crown Prince!" the Emperor recalled that today the Crown Prince was also entering the capital, "My Crown Prince, brave and good at fighting, can defeat thousands alone, Yan Wanqing, your little tricks are nothing to him!"

"It seems like the first time Father praises his son before his ministers." A serene voice came from behind a pillar, and only then did everyone realize that the Crown Prince had been standing there for who knows how long.

Seeing Xiao Pingfeng, a glimmer of joy passed through the Emperor’s eyes, and he hurriedly scrambled up and walked toward him, "Crown Prince, quickly save your father!"

But after just two steps, he abruptly stopped.

"No, you... you two." His gaze shifted between Xiao Pingfeng and Yan Wanqing, finally ending with a desolate smile, "I am the fool indeed, oh, I am the fool!"

"The two of you have been in cahoots all along! Xiao Pingfeng, you disaster! You turn your elbows outward, you scoundrel, I should have strangled you in your cradle!" the Emperor cursed loudly.

Xiao Pingfeng’s dark eyes flickered.

Strangled in my cradle, huh?

Ha...

"If that medicine hadn’t been drunk by the Empress Dowager, it was supposed to be me who died, right?"

Xiao Pingfeng gave a self-mocking laugh.

A birth not blessed, I should have died in the womb.

"What is the Crown Prince talking about?" the Empress slowly descended the steps, her tone incredulous.

Xiao Pingfeng closed his eyes, then slowly reopened them, bitterness in his dark pupils as he disclosed the events of that year.

"Actually, that bowl of medicine was prepared for me; my father did not want my mother to give birth to me. He thought my birth would steal all his imperial luck, so he had Imperial Physician Zhang prepare an abortifacient. However, it was unexpected that at that time, the Empress Dowager was also in my mother’s palace and mistook it for a medicine to stabilize the pregnancy, drank it, and miscarried. In order not to expose his own plot, using the affair between the Empress Dowager and Cao Man as a pretext, he flew into a rage and ordered the execution of everyone in the Imperial Medical Bureau. The Prime Minister, tasked with investigating this event... to save the Empress Dowager’s life, the Prime Minister requested to leave the capital, and then he was assassinated on the road to report back by my father’s men..."

"So this is the truth..." Zhang Lanyi had always thought it was the Empress Dowager who caused her father’s death, with the Emperor being the executioner.

But she hadn’t realized that from beginning to end, it was the Emperor who instigated it all.

"What wrong did my father do!" Zhang Lanyi beat her chest and stamped her feet, unexpectedly coughing up a mouthful of fresh blood.

Yan Wanqing was so alarmed that she immediately went forward to support her, "Empress!"

Zhang Lanyi paid no heed to her own health, her eyes fixed only on the Emperor, "Tell me, what wrong did he do? What wrong did everyone in the Imperial Medical Bureau do? You, for your own selfish desires, killed all those people in the Imperial Medical Bureau, you truly do not deserve to be the Emperor!"

"I do deserve it! Who dares say I do not deserve to be the Emperor!" the Emperor sneered, his hair disheveled from the fall, his steps unstable but his eyes exceptionally bright, "In all the land, no one is more deserving to be Emperor than I!"

"I rise at the rooster’s crow to review memorials, ruling for decades without ever daring to slack, yet you all kept urging me to have a son, to establish a Crown Prince!" the Emperor’s hateful gaze fell upon the ministers, especially those old officials, "When I was in my prime, full of spirit, you pressured me to marry over and over, and then pressured me to make him the Crown Prince! And what about me? How hard did I work to get this position, and how diligently did I support the realm? What am I?!"

He trembled, pointing at himself, "What am I?! Tell me!"

Under his white, grizzled hair, tears streamed down the aged Emperor’s face.

"All I ever wanted was to be the Emperor, perhaps for a bit longer, what did I do wrong?" he suddenly burst out in anger, "My downfall today is all thanks to you!"

"It is you who should die!" he shouted loudly.

At this moment, more than half of the court officials were already dead or wailing in mourning, the great hall filled with an overwhelming sense of desolation, the ruler no longer commanding respect, the ministers no longer obedient.

It seemed everyone had erred, yet it also seemed no one was at fault.

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