The real daughter died tragically and was reborn, and the whole family cried and begged for forgiven

He spoke the cruelest words in the coldest tone, like a ghost claw pulling Concubine De into hell, where she could never turn over again.

"No... the disaster will not affect my family. Duan Rongshi, you have already harmed your brother, why are you still not willing to let us go?"

If someone else said this, Concubine De might think it was just bluffing.

But he is Duan Rongshi, the Yama God of Death feared by everyone in Daliang!

Even Concubine De, who was in the deep palace, had heard about the good things he had done in the past.

How could she not be afraid?

In addition to her son, she also has the kindness of her mother's family to repay.

She can't drag down the entire banker anymore.

Defei cried so hard that her nose and tears were streaming down her face.

She climbed forward, grabbed Duan Rongshi's clothes and begged, "Xiaowu... please, look at how Mother Zhuang held you and coaxed you when you were little. She even played with you on the swing and with grasshoppers, and helped you learn to walk..."

"I taught you to speak..."

"I even sent you to the upper study..."

"Please, for the sake of these feelings, don't touch our banker, okay?"

"I am willing to bear all the mistakes myself."

"I am willing to die, and I only ask you to spare Xiaoliu's life and spare our banker!"

Duan Rongshi pulled out the hem of his clothes with a look of disgust on his face.

"Friendship?"

"That was before you viciously used your innocent appearance to kill my mother!"

"Mother Zhuang, do you still remember that you called me 'Sister'?"

Concubine De's expression froze.

Her memories seemed to have drifted away completely, drifting back to when she was thirteen years old and had just entered the palace.

"You, are you the princess of Da Chu? You are so beautiful."

"Thank you for saving me today. If it weren't for you, I would have made a fool of myself again."

"Really? I, can I call you by your name? Otherwise, I'd better call you Sister Qingyue?"

"Sister Qingyue, your place is more lively. No one has been to my place for ten days or half a month. That's why I like to come to your place."

"Sister Qingyue, you and the Emperor are like my sister and brother-in-law. I'm so envious."

"Sister Qingyue, is this the osmanthus wine you brewed yourself? It smells so good!"

"Sister Qingyue, the Emperor just drank some wine. I was planning to help him to the couch to rest, but he knew I wasn't you and pushed me away. The Emperor is really going too far!"

"Sister Qingyue, is this your child with the Emperor? He's so handsome. He looks just like you."

"His name is Ah Shi? Little Ah Shi, I am your Zhuang Mufei. I will treat you well in the future, just like your mother treated me well."

"No... Dad, Mom, I, I don't want to compete for favor. Sister Qingyue and the Emperor are deeply in love, and no one else can come between them. They are so loving, how could I do something to ruin their relationship?"

"I'm close to her... but if I do this, I'll lose Sister Qingyue!"

"Father and mother, please get up—Okay, I will go and ask Sister Qingyue for help."

"Sister Qingyue, I'm already nineteen... Can I ask you for a favor? I want to be favored... Is that okay?"

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty—please have mercy on Ling'er! Ling'er knows that you and Sister Qingyue are deeply in love, but Ling'er just wants a child—Your Majesty!!"

"Wow, sister Qingyue, His Majesty doesn't want me."

"Sister Qingyue, I've finally figured things out these days. I know you've tried your best to help me, but I can't force His Majesty, right?"

"You are the only one in His Majesty's heart. He hasn't touched any of the other women in the harem over the years. He wants to keep his body for you, and his heart is only filled with you. If I force him, won't it hurt our sisterly relationship?"

"Don't worry, I will persuade my parents at home."

"Father, Mother... I'm leaving this matter in your hands. These are all written by Concubine Yue. You must have an expert copy the letter so that His Majesty cannot tell the difference between the real and the fake."

"Father and mother, His Majesty believes it, he believes it!"

"Father and Mother, don't be anxious. Once His Majesty no longer has Zong Zheng Qingyue in his heart, I, Zhuang Ling'er, will become the most special person in His Majesty's heart."

"Sister Qingyue, please come with me. His Majesty is coming to kill you—"

"It's true. I saw him holding a sword and smashing all your letters into pieces. Now he is heading towards Guifu Palace. Sister Qingyue, I don't want you to die, wuwuwu..."

"Sister Qingyue, this is not my fault."

"Who allowed you to monopolize His Majesty all the time? It's impossible for you to share a little of His Majesty's grace with us? Ultimately, it's because His Majesty doesn't love you enough."

"Zongzheng Qingyue, I don't want to meet you again in my next life."

A bucket of cold water poured down over my head.

Concubine De shuddered and woke up from her memories.

Li Qingluo dropped the bucket and dragged the dripping Defei backwards.

"Your name is Zhuang Ling'er, right?"

"What happened to your Majesty, Empress De? Even at this point, you still refuse to tell us?"

Concubine De: "No...I can't say..."

"I told you, but you're still going to die..."

"They still won't let me go..."

She muttered to herself, and her expression became terrified.

She looked up at Duan Rongshi in front of her.

That face gradually overlapped with the person in my memory.

She screamed, covered her ears, and banged her head hard on the ground: "I was wrong, I am sorry to Sister Qingyue, it was Ling'er who was wrong——"

"Please spare me, I don't want to do this, I don't want to do this—"

"Over the years, even though I have deliberately pretended to be Sister Qingyue, I can never compare to her beauty and grace back then."

"I'm just an imitator, and all this is my karma."

"She is a cold fairy, and I am just an idiot who puts on an act so well that even I believe it - haha, hahahaha -"

"Sister Qingyue, wuwu..."

"Sister Qingyue died so tragically."

"That day, among all the concubines in the palace, the Queen Mother, and the Empress... who was absent?"

"They deliberately kept Ah Shi in the upper study, and then... everyone killed Sister Qingyue together!"

"There's a baby in her belly."

"That child, although she's a little princess, Sister Qingyue has already chosen a name for her."

"Haha, they died together."

"They, mother and daughter, lost one body and two lives. They were forced to death by everyone—"

"Haha, hahaha..."

Defei was singing, laughing and crying, when she suddenly raised the osmanthus hairpin in her hand and stabbed her neck hard.

puff--

Blood suddenly gushed out like a column of water.

She collapsed in a pool of her own blood.

Die with eyes open and eyes open.

Li Qingluo looked at this scene and felt deeply frightened by the intrigues in the deep palace.

Duan Rongshi grabbed her hand and quickly hid aside.

When Eunuch Xiao Wang and the others woke up, they realized they had been ambushed and quickly got up in horror.

"Who? Get out! You dare to attack me in this cold palace? Are you tired of living?"

"Ah! Father-in-law, look—"

When the eunuchs saw that Concubine De was dead, with a golden osmanthus hairpin still stuck around her neck, they were so frightened that their faces turned pale.

"She, she's dead."

"Was he forced to death?"

"No, she hanged herself. She stabbed herself."

"Spit! Bad luck!"

"She's dead anyway, let's go!"

"Wait, this hairpin... Grandpa, it's made of pure gold, pure gold!"

Little Eunuch: "Are you going to die? How dare you take something like this? Can't you see clearly? That's an osmanthus hairpin!"

"If you want to be haunted by evil spirits, go get it!"

After saying this, Eunuch Wang ran out of the cold palace.

A hand hesitated for a long time in panic, but finally pulled out the hairpin, then quickly wiped it on Defei's body and hid it in his arms.

……

Li Qingluo accompanied Duan Rongshi back to Guifu Palace.

She held his arms with both hands, and his tall figure was swaying and almost unable to hold on.

Just before entering the main hall, he turned around and sat on the roadside as he could no longer move.

"Your Highness."

"The ground is hot and humid at night. How about we get up and sit inside?"

Duan Rongshi's eyes were dull. He nodded several times without shaking his head, but he couldn't get up.

Li Qingluo tried his best but couldn't drag him away.

With red eyes, she squatted down and held his face in her hands: "I know you're very sad. I don't know how you managed to survive all these years... but at least one of you died, right?"

"Your mother in heaven would be very pleased to see you living so well."

Duan Rongshi shook his head, lowered his head, and still said nothing.

Li Qingluo: "Okay, okay... If you don't want to move, then just sit here. I'll get you a blanket."

She stood up and was about to leave, but Duan Rongshi grabbed her wrist tightly.

"Don't……"

"Luo'er, don't leave."

"Don't leave."

He exerted a little force and pulled Li Qingluo into his arms.

His broad arms almost held her in his embrace.

And she didn't even utter a sound.

Just with red eyes, she sat quietly with him.

She patted his back gently from time to time, without saying a word or daring to move.

However, the silence at this moment had already fallen into his heart as gently as the gentle rain.

"My mother is the most gentle woman in the world."

"But her gentleness is very powerful. Her heart is the strongest I have ever met."

"Everyone says she is a fairy who has come down to earth from aloofness. But no one knows that her beauty is only the most insignificant thing about her."

"When I was young, I was the most beloved son in my father's arms."

"My father will lift me above his head and let me ride on his back."

"He was the Son of Heaven... but he was just like any other father, patiently teaching me and lovingly accompanying me. Even though this made me ostracized and isolated by my brothers in the Upper Study, as a child... I was truly the happiest child in the palace."

"My father dotes on my mother as well. He respects her as if she were his wife. He even told her that he wants to gradually disband the harem and even depose the queen, so that from now on, only my mother will be in the three palaces and six courtyards."

"My mother knew that this was a ridiculous act that would cause great uproar in the imperial court, so she immediately stopped my father. He must not do this."

"She knew that she had the emperor's hand all to herself, so she often urged him to visit other palaces and see the concubines there."

"She said that even if the emperor favored someone else, she wouldn't mind. Because that's what a father should do."

"For the sake of national stability and the peace of the court, Father should also favor them."

"My father used to be angry with my mother because of this. He felt that my mother was pushing him away and didn't want him anymore."

"Mother always manages to appease Father with just a few words."

"Luo'er, you may not know that the me when I was young and the me now are completely different people."

"Because of my mother's teachings, I loved to laugh when I was young and didn't like killing. Even stepping on an ant on the roadside would make me feel guilty."

"Until... when I was six years old, I left school and was kept by the tutor."