You have asked for permission to marry, why should I restrain myself?

An Guo, the ninth year of Yuanxing.

Lin Zhaoyue, the former Queen of Anguo, died tragically in the cold palace at the age of 26.

On the first day after the New Year, the ceremony of enthroning the queen was grand and magnificent.

The deafening sound of ceremonial music stopped the moving clouds and spread from the Golden Palace to the dilapidated cold palace.

A sickening smell of decay wafted into my nose, and a skinny woman with sunken eyes was sitting on a haystack.

She was wearing a plain dress, which was draped loosely on her body, making her look like a skeleton. At her feet was a broken bowl filled with slop.

The sound of the solemn ceremony and music hit my eardrums, causing them to buzz with pain.

"Cough cough..."

The woman covered her chest and face and coughed violently, as if she wanted to cough out her lungs.

The coughing sound echoed in the empty cold palace. Lin Zhaoyue heard the palace maids cursing outside the cold palace:

"Cough, cough, cough. You just keep coughing all day. Why don't you die sooner? You've been banished to the cold palace, but you still think you're the apple of the Duke's eye!"

"That's right. She is just a hen that can't lay eggs, but she still dreams of becoming the queen of a country. It's just wishful thinking! I heard that today's ceremony of crowning the queen is more grand and magnificent than that of Queen Wenrou. It's a pity that I can't witness it in person because I have to protect this bitch..."

The cough was intermittent, and a strong smell of rust came from the throat. The ears only heard a buzzing sound, and nothing else.

When she looked up, her handkerchief was already stained with blood and her consciousness began to become blurred.

After a year in the cold palace, the tuberculosis had already drained her body.

Lin Zhaoyue felt that she could not resist tonight.

After wiping her mouth, Lin Zhaoyue leaned against the wall, breathing evenly, her hand unconsciously touching her stomach.

In fact, she had been pregnant, but something unexpected happened when the baby was eight months old and it was born stillborn.

When she was still the Crown Princess in her early years, she blocked a fatal arrow for Xiao Ying when he was assassinated, which injured her uterus. It was already difficult for her to conceive, and after that accident, she could no longer get pregnant.

Although Lin Zhaoyue did not have solid evidence, she knew that the accident was caused by Liu Yiyi. She asked Xiao Yan to investigate the matter thoroughly, but he just looked at her distantly and said indifferently:

"I will compensate you well."

Only then did she realize that after knowing each other for ten years and being married for eight years, she had never been able to warm his heart.

In Xiao Yun's heart, there is always only Liu Yiyi.

So when the Northern Jue invaded and her father and brother were isolated and helpless at Beiyang Pass, he did nothing even though she knelt in front of the Yangxin Palace and knocked her head until it was broken.

His father and brother died in battle and the North Gate was breached, causing the Northern Jue to attack eleven cities in a row, resulting in countless casualties.

After Marquis Xuanping led his troops to repel the Northern Jue people, a letter slandering his father and brother for treason was presented to the emperor, and the entire Lin family was executed.

A total of 110 members of the Lin family were beheaded in Wumen as a public display!

That day, blood flowed like a river on Wumen Street, and the entire street was dyed red with blood...

Lin Zhaoyue couldn't remember what happened that day. Whenever she thought of that day, she only remembered a suffocating red, and Xiao Yan gently coaxing Liu Yiyi beside her and telling her not to be afraid...

A tear fell from Lin Zhaoyue's sunken eyes. She began to tremble all over, her eyes desperate and vague.

Is she going to die like this?

Not reconciled, so unwilling!

She had not cleared the name of her father and brother, nor restored the innocence of the Lin family. She did not want to die...

"Cough cough cough..."

Lin Zhaoyue felt severe pain in her chest and before she could cover her mouth with a handkerchief, she spat out a large mouthful of dirty blood.

The blood splattered on the ground, on the dress, and all over the floor.

After vomiting, my consciousness became more blurred.

Lin Zhaoyue raised her hand with great effort to wipe the tears from her face. The tears melted on the back of her hand. She began to vaguely recall the time a few days ago when Liu Yiyi came to her in a phoenix robe with a big belly, looking at her triumphantly with a smile of victory on her face:

"Sister, do you know why the entire Lin family was executed? Because Brother Yin wanted to depose you and make me the queen. I told Brother Yin that I was afraid that deposing you would displease Duke Fu. In addition, your Lin family holds a large number of troops. Everyone in the court wants to get rid of your Lin family as soon as possible. Brother Yin found a reason to execute the entire Lin family. He asked someone to forge that letter."

It turned out that he had forged the letter!

Lin Zhaoyue's desperate eyes burst into a strong hatred, and she clenched her teeth tightly, wishing she could tear the person into pieces.

Xiao Yan, you are so heartless!

There is no one in this world more ruthless than him.

Not to mention that his father had followed the late emperor to conquer the world, even when he was demoted to a commoner, it was the Lin family who supported him unhesitatingly and helped him return to the East Palace and ascend the throne.

But in the end, the entire Lin family was executed by him!

Liu Yiyi also said:

"Do you know why Brother Ying married you? Because my mother's family was not prominent at the time, and he was afraid that he could not protect me. He needed someone to help me block all the harm, and you, the jewel in the crown of the Duke of Zhenguo, are just the right person.

If I had known that I was the daughter of Marquis Xuanping, you wouldn’t even have the chance to be a stepping stone for me…”

It turns out that she was just a stepping stone to his sweetheart!

In fact, Lin Zhaoyue should have thought of all this earlier!

She should have thought of this earlier when Xiao Yun brought Liu Yiyi to the Eastern Palace and indulged her in every way!

Liu Yiyi was picked up by Xiao Yan's master and they were childhood sweethearts.

It was her appearance that ruined their marriage, because it was she who asked for the marriage between Xiao Yan and her.

But if, when she was clinging to Xiao Yan, he had just said that he had a lover, she would never have rushed to marry him no matter how much she liked him.

When my father Lin Cheng'en was young, he was a good friend of the late emperor and followed him in his campaigns, making him a great success.

Your Majesty has rewarded the Lin family to the utmost and promised that Lin Chengen's children could marry into the royal family as a token of your grace.

Before asking the emperor to grant her a marriage, she had asked Xiao Ying whether he was willing to marry her. Xiao Ying didn't say yes or no at the time, so she assumed that he was reserved and acquiesced.

But who would have thought that on the wedding night, he left her alone in the empty room, and even on the next day, he took Liu Yiyi directly to move into the East Palace.

Her personal maid Qingzhu couldn't stand it, and when she saw Liu Yiyi not hello to her, she said something, and Xiao Yan ordered someone to slap her to the ground. She was slapped twenty times in the face without any distinction of status, and for a while, she became a laughing stock in the entire capital.

Now that I think about it, Xiao Yan wasn't really punishing Qing Zhu; he was clearly slapping her in the face.

Lin Zhaoyue regretted it!

She shouldn't have fallen in love with Xiao Yan.

If she had not fallen in love with Xiao Yan, her father and brother would not have died, and the Lin family would not have died.

She was wrong!

If she had not fallen in love with Xiao Yan, the Duke's Mansion should still be fine now, and her father, brother, mother, sister, and Qingzhu should still be by her side.

Her father and brother will find a good husband for her, they will treat each other as equals, have lovely children, and even after they are sixty years old, have many children and grandchildren.

She is the apple of the Lin family's eye. She should be happy and could be happy!

But after marrying Xiao Yan, her Qingzhu was beaten to death with clubs, her fetus died in her womb, and the entire Lin family was executed...

Her heavy eyelids slowly closed, and the last bit of strength could not support her frail body, and Lin Zhaoyue fell limply onto the haystack.

The deafening sound of the ritual music continued, and outside, light snow began to fall without anyone noticing.

Lin Zhaoyue just felt that it was noisy and cold...

In front of Jinluan Palace.

Thousands of soldiers and civil and military officials lined up on both sides of the palace road. As the majestic bells rang, Liu Yiyi, who was wearing a black phoenix robe with gold thread and had a big belly, walked slowly towards the main hall with the help of the ceremonial officer.

On the dragon throne, the emperor sat in a dark black and red gold dragon robe. His delicate and handsome face had no expression, and his thin pink lips were slightly pursed, looking breathtakingly beautiful.

The cold snowdrops fell on the man's stern brow. He raised his head and looked up at the white sky unconsciously.

I vaguely remember that someone who is afraid of cold hates snowy days the most.

"Zhao Zhao..."

Before her consciousness completely faded, Lin Zhaoyue seemed to hear someone calling her.

who is it?

Why does that voice sound so familiar?

Lin Zhaoyue wanted to open her eyes and take a look, but her heavy eyelids refused to open no matter how hard she tried.

Before the last bit of body temperature disappeared, Lin Zhaoyue thought:

If she could do it all over again, she would never fall in love with Xiao Yan again...

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Lin Zhaoyue died on the day Xiao Yun made Liu Yiyi his queen...