The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 592 - 592 Empress Dowager 286 Arrives (One More Update)

Chapter 592: Empress Dowager 286 Arrives! (One More Update) Chapter 592: Empress Dowager 286 Arrives! (One More Update) Lady Tang was just a woman confined to her home, with little worldliness or cunning. When accused by Tang Yueshan, she felt wronged and protested, “I didn’t… I didn’t want to kill Mingming…”

“So why this knife…” Tang Yueshan’s gaze fell on the dagger shimmering in Lady Tang’s hand. Suddenly realizing something, he quickly turned to the servant boy kneeling on the ground with confused eyes and kicked him, “Bastard! Are you trying to kill Mingming?”

The boy, already not knowing anymore, collapsed to the ground and spat out a mouthful of blood, only managing a silly smile, “Kill…hehe…kill the young master…”

This boy was raised in the household, and it was Tang Ming who asked for him to serve. How could anyone have suspected that a disaster was being cultivated right at their side?

“Who ordered you to kill the young master?” Tang Yueshan asked coldly.

The drug Gu Jiao had administered hadn’t worn off. He was barely conscious, so he would subconsciously answer anything he was asked.

He said dumbly, “The…the lord…the old master…”

Even though Gu Chengfeng knew the outcome, hearing it again gave him a renewed sense of shock. He wanted to understand what was going through Gu Jiao’s mind, so he turned to look at her.

Gu Jiao’s expression was calm as a still lake.

Does this girl have no feelings at all? Is she even human?

After cursing Gu Jiao in his mind, Gu Chengfeng focused his attention back on Tang Yueshan and the others.

The room’s door was wide open, allowing the delicate moonlight and the lantern’s candlelight to suffuse the room with cosy light.

Upon hearing ‘the old master’, both Tang Yueshan’s and Lady Tang’s faces changed dramatically.

Tang Yueshan was both shocked and angry, whereas Lady Tang was also shocked, but had a glimmer of anger which was quickly overshadowed by a wave of immense sadness and guilt.

Feeling weak, the dagger slipped from her hand and clattered loudly to the ground.

The next second, she covered her face with her hands and knelt on the floor, sobbing painfully, “He knows… he knows it all…”

She was trembling all over, tears streaming through her fingers, and her suppressed voice was teeming with unending agony.

Initially engulfed in tremendous fury, Tang Yueshan froze after hearing her lament.

He put away his anger and slowly approached Lady Tang, kneeling on one knee in front of her. His expression softened considerably.

Gu Chengfeng became vaguely aware of something awry as he saw this. As he had never experienced such a thing before, and heard about it infrequently, he didn’t immediately understand.

Gu Jiao was almost clear about it, though.

Tang Yueshan reached out. He hesitated for a moment, but then decided to place his hand steadily on her shoulder and gently pat her, “You…you stop crying.”

Lady Tang only wept louder.

It was as if all the grievances of her life had come pouring out.

“It’s my fault… It’s my fault… I’m too ashamed to live… It’s all my fault…”

Gu Chengfeng looked at Gu Jiao, his gaze asking: What’s happening?

Gu Jiao: See for yourself.

Gu Chengfeng: “…”

So he watched, grumbling about Gu Jiao’s reticence.

Lady Tang was inconsolable, as though her heart was being torn apart.

Rarely, Tang Yueshan showed a trace of helplessness. He didn’t know how to comfort her, and it took him quite a while to system out a few words, “It’s not your fault.”

Lady Tang was sobbing so hard that she could hardly breathe, “How is it not my fault… I shouldn’t have… I shouldn’t have…”

She shouldn’t have done something. But what?

Even on a night like this, and in a setting where old wounds were being laid bare, she still found it hard to talk about the past.

She was married into the Tang Family at sixteen, and by seventeen, she was a young widow. The first year of their marriage, they had some enviable moments, but fate had other plans and her husband was paralyzed due to a horse-riding accident.

At first it doesn’t seem to matter, but one year, two years…

She was a living person, she needed comfort too, she couldn’t stand the loneliness…

Tang Yueshan was thicker-skinned and could speak out. He sighed, “How can you be blamed for what happened then? I forced that on you.”

The story is long, but on one occasion when he was returning home, he unintentionally caught his sister-in-law and another man enjoying a show together, their intimate behavior indicating there was an affair.

He was young and fervent then and had also had a few drinks with his comrades. His mind was not too clear, so he rushed up and beat that man, before questioning his sister-in-law about why she could betray his brother.

Could she not endure the loneliness?

Did she enjoy hooking up with men too much?

Did she even…

In conclusion, he said a lot of vitriolic things, whether it was his sister-in-law’s struggle that muddled his heart or liquor clouding his mind, it did not matter.

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