Who is the white moonlight these days? We are just following the plot

"Li Zhao, don't hurt Xiaoying. This was all my idea. She refused to do it, so I forced her to do it." Wen Yuan pleaded in a trembling voice.

She still had a delusion in her heart that Sakura might still be alive.

Li Zhao clenched his fists, the veins on the back of his hands bulging with terrifying arcs. He tried his best to suppress the anger in his heart and stared straight at Wen Yuan: "Why do you do this?"

Li Zhao couldn't understand why Wen Yuan was so cruel when this was their child.

Ever since he found out Wen Yuan was pregnant, Li Zhao was so overjoyed he didn't know what to do. He couldn't sleep at night, imagining what the baby would look like. The little one would have Wen Yuan's eyes, his mouth, and a nose that was a combination of theirs. He was chubby and incredibly clever, and everyone who saw him loved him.

This was his first child, and he wanted to make him the crown prince, teach him personally from a young age, and not let him suffer any grievances.

Then...after he unifies southern Xinjiang, he will make Wen Yuan the queen.

He has such good intentions, why is Wen Yuan unwilling to wait a little longer?

I hate him so much that I don't even want a child.

Li Zhao's anger finally broke, and he said coldly, "Xiaoying is plotting to murder the heir to the throne. According to the law, she shall be executed immediately."

Execute immediately!

These four words made Wen Yuan fall into the abyss. She stared in disbelief, feeling so heartbroken that she couldn't breathe: "She...it's not her fault, it's me...I'm the one who deserves to die. You killed her, you actually killed her!"

Wen Yuan grabbed Li Zhao's robe, her face distorted with hatred as tears streamed down her cheeks. "Li Zhao, I hate you."

"Wen Yuan!" Li Zhao was hurt by her words. He lowered his eyes to look at her: "She wants to harm our child. Shouldn't I kill her? I wish I could cut her into pieces."

"I'm the one who wants to kill our child!" Wen Yuan gritted his teeth and said, "From the beginning to the end, I'm the only one who doesn't want this child."

She hated Li Zhao, and hated herself even more.

This was a feudal society, and the people of the harem were trapped within the walls, with no control over their own lives. Li Zhao's spies were everywhere in Yonghe Palace, and she should have known that Xiaoying's every move was being monitored.

How could she be so stupid as to let Sakura take such a big risk.

Xiaoying is dead. She is not Ji Xingyao. She doesn't have a second life, and there is no huge reward beckoning her. Dead is dead.

She lost her life because of her momentary lapse of judgment.

Wen Yuan cried so hard that she was out of breath.

She could still comfort herself that Ji Xingyao was dead, but she couldn't accept Xiaoying.

"Li Zhao, I hate you. I should have left, not stayed. I should have just walked away and put an end to it all."

Wen Yuan's mind was blank, and he was mumbling nonsense that Li Zhao couldn't understand.

"You want to leave? Where to?" Li Zhao asked sternly.

"I want to leave the palace. I don't want to see you. I don't want to see any of the men in the Li family. I don't want to see any of them."

Li Zhao's cold eyes seemed to cut back and forth on Wen Yuan's body. He sneered, "Don't dream of leaving the palace. Wen Yuan, marry me. You will be a member of the Li family in life and a ghost of the Li family in death. I want you to be tied to me in this life and the next."

"Somebody come!"

Eunuch Zhou hurriedly opened the door: "Yes."

"Replace all the slaves in Yonghe Palace with those in Suhe Hall. From now on, everything the Imperial Concubine says and does must be reported to me. If there is any omission, you will be beheaded."

"Yes, we'll do it right away."

"and many more."

Eunuch Zhou was about to leave when he was suddenly stopped by Wen Yuan.

"Your Highness." Eunuch Zhou glanced at the emperor's expression and replied to Wen Yuan in a low voice.

"Where is Sakura's body? I want to see her."

"This... Your Majesty, we don't know either." Eunuch Zhou didn't dare to speak carelessly and could only reply that he didn't know.

Wen Yuan's heart sank little by little, tears rolled down her cheeks and fell on the back of Li Zhao's hand, burning her heart so much.

Li Zhao's voice was devoid of any warmth: "Instead of asking him, you might as well ask me whether I should execute her entire clan."

"Then you might as well kill all nine members of my Wen family." Wen Yuan looked up at him, his eyes full of despair.

"Wen Yuan, don't try to touch my bottom line. Some words, once spoken, cannot be taken back. The Grand Tutor is living out his days in Yangzhou. Are you sure you want to disturb his peace?"