The Return of the King: A Generation of Prodigies

"I, the Empress, have been so kind to you that I cannot possibly repay you in this lifetime. I only wish to repay you in my next life by tying the knot with a grass and a ring."

Li Chaohui stood up without waiting for Shen Tianjiao to speak, and pulled out a jade hairpin from her head.

She handed the jade hairpin to Yan Yu and said, "The Queen can send someone to the richest man in Jiangnan, Xue Wuhui."

"Give him this jade hairpin, and he will hand over what the Queen needs. In addition, all the money in his Xue family will be given to the Queen for her to use as she pleases."

"He is the one my uncle left me. We have an agreement that no matter who comes to him with this jade hairpin, he will obey that person completely and unconditionally."

"If he refuses to obey, the Queen can kill him at will."

Li Chaohui's jade hairpin is not an ordinary hairpin. It was made by her uncle Ye Xingchen himself. It is also a token of communication between Li Chaohui and Ye Xingchen's old subordinates.

So no matter where Li Chaohui went or what she encountered over the years, this jade hairpin was always worn on her head and was never taken off.

"Do you have any unfulfilled wishes?"

Li Chaohui didn't say anything else, but Shen Tianjiao already knew that she was ready to die.

Just as Li Chaohui said just now, if her rebellion fails this time, she will die.

There are too many aristocratic families and powerful people behind her. These people's support for Li Chaohui is not in vain. They all have their own purposes.

If Li Chaohui's rebellion succeeded this time, these people would become meritorious ministers who supported the emperor, and there would be a lot of power, fame, wealth and benefits waiting for them.

However, if Li Chaohui's rebellion fails this time, none of these people will be able to escape and will all be liquidated by Shen Tianjiao.

Although Shen Tianjiao will not eliminate all these people at once for the sake of political stability and national security.

But sooner or later these people will have to pay the price for their disloyalty and evil deeds.

Now that Li Chaohui has been completely defeated and has become Shen Tianjiao's prisoner, the retribution for those people will soon come.

Even if she lost, Li Chaohui didn't have to care about what those people thought. After all, those people volunteered to follow her in rebellion, and Li Chaohui did not force them to do so.

But now Li Chaohui had to give priority to those people, because her daughter was found, and she had to find a way out for her daughter and not let anyone hurt her.

Now that Li Chaohui is dead, those people will no longer be able to trouble her or take revenge on her.

But Anping is still alive, and those people will transfer all their hatred for Li Chaohui to Anping.

Although Shen Tianjiao had promised to protect Anping for the rest of his life, she was still unable to prevent the sinister intentions of those people.

Anping is Li Chaohui's only child, and the only one who can make Li Chaohui, and the person in this world who can make Li Chaohui give up everything regardless of everything.

So no matter what, Li Chaohui must make plans for his daughter.

If she died in this duel with Shen Tianjiao, it would mean that she took away all the secrets and left no evidence for Shen Tianjiao.

In this way, even if Shen Tianjiao knew that those people were involved in the rebellion, because there was no witness Li Chaohui to personally confess, Shen Tianjiao, the queen who was in charge of the country, could not openly confiscate the property of those people and punish them.

This means that Li Chaohui used his own death to save the lives of those people.

Li Chaohui has done this much for those people, so naturally those people will not make things difficult for her daughter anymore.

In this way, Anping will not be disturbed in any way and can live her life in peace and peace under the protection of Shen Tianjiao, just as Li Chaohui wished.

Although Li Zhaohui is not a good person, he can even be said to be an evil person who will do anything to achieve his goals at the cost of other people's lives.

But she is not a good person, but she is a competent mother.

For Anping, she can give up any struggle and stop opposing Shen Tianjiao.

For the sake of peace, she can give up any rights, even at the cost of her own life.

Just to exchange it for Anping to live a good life.

"Queen, I have something to ask of you."

Even if Shen Tianjiao didn't ask, Li Chaohui would tell Shen Tianjiao what he wanted.

For a dying person like her, she believed that Shen Tianjiao would not refuse any of her requests, not to mention that this request was not a request at all to Shen Tianjiao.

"Chun Niang, the one who has always been by my side and served me."

"Please Queen, don't kill her or imprison her because of me."

"She followed me all her life, suffered a lot and never had a single day of happiness. She dedicated her whole life to me."

"So I beg the Queen to spare her life and let her stay with Anping for the rest of her life. Let her live on."

Li Chaohui's first request really surprised Shen Tianjiao.

Shen Tianjiao never expected that the first thing Li Chaohui asked her for was for Chunniang.

However, if Li Chaohui knew that Chunniang, who was with her now, was just a substitute, and the real Chunniang had already been arrested and imprisoned in the Ministry of Punishment for poisoning her, what would he feel now?

It seems that it is time to find out Chunniang's purpose in staying with Li Zhaohui for so many years, taking care of him wholeheartedly, and at the same time poisoning him.

"Okay, I promise you that I can let Chunniang go, and let her stay with Anping to take care of him in the future."

Shen Tianjiao couldn't bear to further provoke a mother who was ready to die for her daughter's safety.

Sometimes, the truth of a matter doesn't matter at all.

"Thank you, Queen, for your help."

Since Li Chaohui dared to ask Shen Tianjiao like this, she was confident that Shen Tianjiao would agree to her request.

Sometimes, people don't need any reason to believe in someone; they can know it just from their feelings.

"The second thing I asked of the Queen is not a big deal."

Li Zhaohui suddenly paused, sighed, and then continued, "I beg the Queen to help me burn a stick of incense for the Grand Empress Dowager, my mother, when we go to the ancestral temple to worship our ancestors tomorrow."

"Tell her for me that her unfilial daughter, Li Zhaohui, was wrong. I didn't serve her wholeheartedly in this life. I didn't act like a good daughter. I caused her so much worry and broke her heart."

"In the next life, I am willing to be her daughter again and make up for what I owe her in this life."

"After I die, I won't be eligible to enter the imperial mausoleum or the imperial temple, so I can only ask you to tell her these words on my behalf."

Li Chaohui's second request shocked Shen Tianjiao to an unbelievable degree.

The Grand Empress Dowager, Li Chaohui's biological mother, severed all ties with her after she learned that she was not her biological daughter.

Especially after being instigated by Ye Xingchen and accused of having the Empress Dowager kill Li Chaohui's biological mother, Li Chaohui intensified his opposition to the Empress Dowager.

Until the death of the Empress Dowager, the mother and daughter, who were enemies, had never made peace. But now Li Chaohui would actually make such a request. Anyone who heard it would be shocked and feel incredible.

But in fact, Li Chaohui's feelings for the Empress Dowager were very complicated and entangled.

She grew up by the side of the Grand Empress Dowager and never thought that she was not her biological daughter.

She simply could not accept this cruel fact, so after she found out that she was not the Empress Dowager's biological daughter, she reacted so violently, shouting and clamoring, wanting to sever the mother-daughter relationship with the Empress Dowager.

Because she couldn't accept that she was not her mother's biological daughter. Her mother loved her so much, protected her, and gave her love and warmth that no one else in the palace had ever given her.

Even her father, who was said to be extremely fond of her, could not replace her mother's place in her heart.

The reason why she had such a quarrel with her mother was actually just because she wanted to get more attention and love from her mother to make up for the fear and anxiety in her heart.

As for what her uncle Ye Xingchen told her, that her biological mother was killed by her own mother, the Queen Mother, Li Chaohui didn't believe it at all.

To be more precise, instead of letting Li Chaohui believe that it was her mother who killed her biological mother, it would be better to let her believe that it was her father, Emperor Gaozu, who poisoned her biological mother after weighing the pros and cons for the sake of his own interests.

And she has always known that Ye Xingchen told her that it was the Empress Dowager who killed her biological mother, but it was just to arouse the anger in her heart, let her heart be blinded by hatred, completely break with her parents, and then better control and use her.

How could a person who has received the best education since childhood be a fool?

But she was too young back then. Not only was she blinded by momentary hatred, but she was also blinded by the pie that Ye Xingchen painted for her, and her heart was blinded by power and desire.

From that moment on, she fell step by step until there was no turning back.

The two people she owed the most in her life were her daughter Anping and her mother.

Li Chaohui now dared not imagine what price her mother had paid to save Anping for her and allow Anping to survive.

Li Chaohui will never have the chance to repay this favor in this lifetime, and can only hope that she can renew her mother-daughter relationship in the next life.

By then she will definitely be a good daughter and will not make her mother sad again.

Although she was very surprised, Shen Tianjiao still agreed to Li Zhaohui's request.

"Okay, I will personally go to the Imperial Ancestral Temple, burn incense and pray before the tablet of the Grand Empress Dowager, and tell her everything you said."

"Thank you Queen."

Li Zhaohui looked up at Shen Tianjiao and continued, "I have one last request. That is to ask the Queen to have a cenotaph built for Anping's father. This will also be considered as putting an end to a wish that has been on my mind for many years."

"Also, bury my remains by the Linjiang River in Huainan. Huainan is where my mother was born. I failed to fulfill my filial duties during her lifetime, so I want to accompany her in this way after my death."

Li Chaohui's request still made Shen Tianjiao feel incredible.

Shen Tianjiao originally thought that Li Zhaohui would ask her to give her a complete body and then bury her and Li Zhao together.

After all, for the sake of Li Zhao, Li Chaohui was willing to risk his own life to force Emperor Gaozu to marry her.

But it is really puzzling that she would make such a request now.

The reason why Li Chaohui made such a request actually stemmed from the guilt in her heart.

She knew very well how Li Zhao died.

She also knew in her heart that the man she loved actually never loved her from the beginning to the end.

The reason why that man chose to stay by her side was simply because he was forced to do so by the situation.

When she was alive, she never had the love of that man, and after she died, she didn't want to have anything to do with that man anymore.

From now on, they will go their separate ways and never have any entanglement again.

"Okay, I will agree to all your requests."

For a dying person, Shen Tianjiao felt that there was nothing more for her to worry about, and the conditions proposed by Li Chaohui were not excessive demands.

So Shen Tianjiao was still willing to meet her conditions.

"Thank you, Queen, for your help."

Li Chaohui raised a bitter smile. She had struggled all her life, but in the end, she deliberately sent herself to the guillotine.

Her life is really sad and ridiculous. As Yunli's eldest princess, she can finally break free from the constraints of this identity and become a free person.

"Queen, the following scene is not suitable for you to watch. Please avoid it."

Shen Tianjiao didn't say anything. She looked up at Li Zhaohui, turned around and left with Yan Yu.

After Li Chaohui watched Shen Tianjiao's back disappear, she turned and walked to the edge of the city wall. She looked at the palace behind her for the last time, then turned around to look at the world outside the imperial city.

After doing these things, Li Chaohui walked towards the stairs of the city wall, and from there she walked to the wall of the city wall. Without any hesitation, she jumped down.

Yunli's legendary figure, the eldest princess Li Zhaohui, ended her life in this way.

When Shen Tianjiao, who was walking down the city wall, heard the loud noise, her body suddenly shook. She knew that Li Chaohui was dead.

Yan Yu, who sensed that Shen Tianjiao was in a bad mood, no longer cared about the rules. He stretched out his hand and held Shen Tianjiao's hand.

Shen Tianjiao did not let go of Yan Yu's hand, but instead held it tighter.