No, I was just a concubine, how did I become the queen?

"Princess Heshuo Huaike passed away, and her mother Geng committed suicide out of excessive grief. Please choose one?" Su Peisheng pointed to the three young eunuchs behind him.

Geng was not willing to do that. She shook her head and said, "Whose idea is this?!"

"The Empress said I'm the Crown Prince's half-mother. How dare you do this to me?!"

"Aren't you afraid that the Crown Prince will find out and punish you?!"

Su Peisheng did not answer, but gave a look to the young eunuch who was serving the poisoned wine, and the others put down the trays in their hands.

Geng's arms were tightly clamped by two eunuchs, and the sleeves of her clothes embroidered with gold thread were pulled askew, revealing half of her pale wrists.

Another young eunuch, holding a cup of poisoned wine, slowly approached Geng.

She stared at the dark poisoned wine in front of her and suddenly burst into a shrill scream: "Let me go! I want to see the Queen! She promised to protect me for the rest of my life!"

The sound hit the empty palace wall, startling the swallows' nests between the beams and causing them to fall to the ground.

Su Peisheng lowered his eyes and said sarcastically, "If I go to accompany the princess today, won't my life be safe?"

Geng wanted to say something else, but the eunuch pried her mouth open and clamped her throat.

The cold porcelain bowl was forced against her lips, and a small amount of poisonous wine flowed down the corner of her mouth, leaving bright red marks on the moon-white satin.

Geng coughed violently, a deathly sob coming from her throat, and suddenly she remembered the rainy night half a year ago.

Wu Yunzhu huddled in her arms, crying bitterly: "Mother, I'm hungry..."

At that time, she patted Wu Yunzhu's back, the red nail polish on her nails glowing an eerie red in the candlelight: "If it's edible, who can get sick from it?"

At this moment, severe pain surged up from her stomach, and she finally understood what kind of desperate situation she had pushed her daughter into.

"I gave you a choice. Why didn't you choose Bai Ling?" Su Peisheng looked at her with pity, shook his head and sighed.

Ming Ming Ling was blessed. Her death was not so painful and her body was neat and beautiful.

If he had to make the decision, he would have to choose the simplest poisonous wine.

However, when the poison takes effect, it will penetrate the intestines and stomach, causing extreme pain. It will take most of the day to die in pain.

By then, the eunuchs will have to spend a long time cleaning up the blood and other filth.

What a sin!

Geng pinched her throat and tried desperately to vomit out the poisonous wine by dry heaving.

Su Peisheng stopped him, saying, "Don't vomit anymore. We'll have to replenish your body after you vomit."

"There's a big pot of poisoned wine here, plenty!"

Geng didn't even dare to pick her throat anymore, and her stomach began to hurt, the kind of pain that pierced her heart and bones.

Only at this point did she truly regret it.

Why did he have to get involved between Wu Yunzhu and his wife? If they could go to Maocheng together, this wouldn't have happened.

Wu Yunzhu may have given birth to a child by now, and the couple is living in harmony.

And she could continue to live a life of luxury and keep a few strong young guards.

This kind of life could have been her daily routine, but now it seems like something from her previous life.

The medicine took effect quickly.

"It hurts..." Geng curled up on the ground, clutching the collar of her clothes tightly over her heart with both hands.

The poisonous wine rushed through the blood vessels like boiling iron, and the stomach and intestines seemed to be gnawed by millions of centipedes.

She recalled her youth in the Qiandi Palace, when all she wanted was to live a good life until old age.

No love, no children, none of that matters, she just wants to be alive.

But life was so hard. Li, who lived with me, was not easy to get along with, and Fu Jin was even more unreasonable.

Later, I got the Black Cloud Pearl and became good friends with the Queen. Those days were really happy.

When did it change?

Was it after the Fourth Master became a real dragon and the whole family moved into the palace?

As a prince's concubine, she can be obedient and perhaps live a happy and healthy life with Wu Yunzhu.

But after entering the palace, she changed...

"If..." Her nails dug deep into the cracks of the blue bricks, blood seeping out of her fingers, "If there is a next life..."

"I only want...only the Dark Cloud Pearl..."

The pain suddenly intensified, she arched her body, and a fishy-sweet blood foam rose in her throat.

In a trance, she saw the Black Cloud Pearl jumping towards her, but just as she was within reach, it turned into a pool of blood, winding into a terrifying shape on the ground.

Doesn't she want to be her daughter again in the next life?

"If I had known this would happen..." Geng used all her strength to crawl towards Wu Yunzhu's bed, her eyes bloodshot, "I should have let them... live a good life..."

With this thought in mind, the light in Geng's eyes slowly faded, her body trembled violently, and black blood oozed from the corners of her mouth.

As her last breath faded, her fingers were still stretched out toward the bed, her knuckles bluish-white.

That was the last time in her life that she tried to hold on to something.

Unfortunately, I couldn't catch anything.

"For the princess's sake, clean her up," Su Peisheng instructed the eunuch and hurried to report to the Fourth Master.

Lin Mingyan was listening on the side, and when she heard the word "half mother", she sighed.

I was really grateful to her at the time, just like in modern times, if a child is rescued, people will treat them as their reborn parents.

But she ignored the fact that the situation was different at this time. Since Geng had gotten the job of housekeeper, it was her responsibility.

If something had really happened to Honghui, she would not have been able to save her life, so she tried her best to protect him.

Because of this sentence, Geng became more ruthless and harmed both mother and daughter.

Today, Lin Mingyan also felt a little sad: "If..."

If only she hadn't said that.

If only she hadn't been so special to Geng later on.

if......

"Bury them properly, and light a perpetual lamp for them and their daughter at Huangjue Temple, and don't stop burning incense." The Fourth Master knew that Lin Mingyan was blaming herself, so he took over the conversation.

He knew how soft-hearted Cha Cha was. Even though others had bullied her, she still thought it was her fault.

However, this is not Cha Cha's fault, it is the human heart that is wrong.

The fate of Wu Yunzhu and her daughter is heartbreaking, and Nara Xingde felt bad holding his newborn son.

It was obvious that he no longer had any feelings for Wu Yunzhu, but the tears still kept falling.

He recalled the first time he saw her in the Imperial College. She was wearing a grass-green palace dress and walked towards him slowly, as if stepping on his heart.

From then on, his eyes were fixed on her...

They had countless chances to be together, grow old together and have many children and grandchildren, but in the end they were separated by life and death.

If he had chosen to speak out during the Chinese New Year, would the outcome have been different?

But in this world, there are no ifs...