emperor of a dynasty

In the autumn of the 20th year of Qin Wangqi, the prince offered his troops to rebel and was captured in Yongguan.

Qin Palace Imperial Study Room

The Changxin lamp in the room was dimmed, all the palace guards and guards retreated, only Murong Xian was left kneeling in front of the hall with bloody clothes and disheveled hair.

A few days ago, he was still the crown prince of this country with one man under one man and above ten thousand men, but now only because of the defeat of Yongguan, he has changed from a high-ranking crown prince to a rebellious minister and traitor who is scolded by everyone, and everyone in the world can punish him.

Are you willing?

No, he is not reconciled.

Murong Xian lowered his head, and the hand by his side was hanging limply, heh, no wonder the waiting guards all retreated, so he was already useless?

...That's fine too, Murong Xian thought to himself, after being abolished, there will be no possibility of major events. In this way, maybe that person will be able to take his life without any consideration. The father who asks about the world.

Just as she was thinking about it, a woman with a jade crown and a black dress came out from the screen of the room with an indifferent face. She was over forty years old and still looked very young, but she could no longer find the innocence of her youth on her face. .

Seeing the man kneeling under His Highness, she didn't seem to be surprised by his embarrassment. After quietly looking at him, she asked, "Do you regret it?"

What responded to her was an arrogant laugh. This was the first time she had been treated like this since she succeeded to the throne. The cold eyes and ridicule she received when she was young were recalled to her again at this moment, and what brought her this experience was unexpectedly his own son.

That son who has been well-behaved and weak since he was a child.

Mu Congcong walked to the throne in the hall and sat down, then looked at His Highness's kneeling son with serious flaws, and asked, "No regrets?"

"Regret? Why do you have to regret?" Murong Xian looked up at the unattainable mother who was sitting on the throne, and asked, "I said I regretted it, so can my mother let me go?"

"You still expect Gu to let you go?" Mu Congrong seemed to have heard some joke, and chuckled twice, "From the moment you rebelled, there is no turning back for you."

"Since that's the case, mother, let's give my son a good time." Hearing this, the expression of the person kneeling under His Highness remained unchanged, but said generously.

After hearing what her son said, Mu Congrong was actually surprised for a moment. She thought he would beg her, that as his mother, she would let him go after he did such a treacherous thing.

But he didn't, but asked her to give him a good time.

Mu Congxian looked at her son seriously, and in her impression, this was the first time she saw Murong Xian with such a free and easy appearance.

She hated Murong Xian, it was true, only because at that time she was still fledgling and needed an heir to help her win the throne, so Murong Xian was born.But it was also because of him that she could no longer express her feelings to that person.

How can this make her not hate?Besides, this child is so much like her, every time she sees his cowardly and cowardly appearance, she can't help but think back to the years before she succeeded to the throne, there was no flattery, only intrigue , there is no deep affection, only intrigue.

At that time, she was also like Murong Xian, except that she was as timid as a mouse, and she was just trying to survive.She hated Murong Xian, but in the final analysis, she hated her weak and incompetent self even more. After sitting on the throne for more than twenty years, she hated her incompetent self even more.

... Hate myself for being stupid, hate myself for being stupid, and then let that person work for her for more than ten years. After finally waiting for her to grow up and be capable, when she wanted to repay that person, the other party said that she was not happy with her.

She was nice to her only because she was my aunt's only niece.After the song fell apart, she would never be able to meet her again. This was the thing she hated the most and was the most helpless in her life.

Not loving someone is often that simple and direct.

"Tell me," Mu Congcong collected his thoughts, looked at His Highness's kneeling son, and asked, "I just want to know why."

"Why, Gu's own son, betrayed Gu."

His Highness Murong Xian seemed to have heard something funny, "Why?" He raised his head with a smile, and looked coldly at the woman sitting on the throne, "Mother, don't you know why?"

"Because the child wants that throne."

Hearing this, Mu Container sneered, and said coldly to His Highness Murong Xian who was kneeling, "You want to be king? Since you want to, then you should use your ability to ask for it.

It's your blessing if you are willing to give it to you, if you don't want to give it to you, you can only admit it, but if you come to snatch it - then you should die! "

"My mother came up to ask for it, so will my mother give it to me?" Murong Xian laughed a few times, then stood up angrily, met Mu Congcong's gaze, and said word by word, "Have you ever had this in your mother's heart?" This son of mine? Since I was born, did my mother accompany me for a day? Did she ever say a word to me? If I didn’t rebel, how would my mother know that there is another one in the Great Qin clan that you have forgotten for more than 20 years? son?

Mother—my mother and I came up to ask for the throne, will mother be willing to give it to me? "

"Heh..." Mu Congcong sneered, "Gu really thought you would have the guts to grab the throne, but after all, you're just a yellow-haired boy who hasn't grown up. Guess... oh——you want Gu Agree with you?" Her voice was very low, but the words she said pierced Murong Xian's heart like a sharp knife.

"Do you want Gu to agree with your identity, your status, and your crown prince?" Mu Congcong propped his face with his left hand, looked contemptuously at His Highness's kneeling biological son, and smiled, "But these It was given to you by Gu, and since Gu can give it to you, Gu can take it back, why? Do you think that since you are Gu's only son, Gu won't kill you?"

"Of course my mother can kill me, kill me, my mother still has a few nephews, and if I kill those nephews, my mother still has the entire Murong family. The world is so big, I can finally choose a child who will satisfy my mother." " Murong Xian knelt down and choked sadly, "And I, I... It's just a mistake, a mistake that my mother has always wanted to correct."

Mu Congxian didn't speak, or she didn't know what to say, she was speechless when faced with Murong Xian's questioning.

Yes, she doesn't want to see this child, but it doesn't mean that she has no expectations for this child. Once upon a time, she also picked up the young him and watched the cherry blossoms in the courtyard of the East Palace, and happily shared the growth of the young child with others. It's just that later, I don't know when, slowly, she got used to ignoring such a young him.

"Would you not beg Gu?" After a while, Mu Congcong asked His Highness's people, "Wouldn't you beg Gu to let you go?"

"My son, please give my son a good time." The child in her memory who was walking behind her with short legs suddenly grew up without her noticing, and became the person she now regards as her enemy. look like.

The child stood up straight, with blood on his clothes, with his head raised, with a calm expression on his face, "My son just wants to die, so as not to disgrace Murong."

After a while, she heard herself say:

"it is good."

Jin Yuwei took the rebellious prince down for a long time, the Imperial Study Room is not big, and it was only autumn, Mu Congcong sat there for a long time, for some reason, suddenly she felt that the palace was a bit too spacious, did not know why It's not because of sitting for too long, but I also have a cold.

Coming out of the imperial study room, Mu Congcong scattered the palace people, and walked aimlessly in the palace alone, thinking about many things that she hadn't thought of before, walking slowly, for about a long time, she was a little tired, stopped I stepped down and looked up, and I didn't know when I came to Jiaofang Palace. The palace guard at the door saw her coming, and immediately came forward to greet her:

"See Your Majesty."

Mu Congkong opened his mouth, wanted to say excuse me, then turned and left, but before he could leave, the gate of Jiaofang Palace opened, and a man in blue clothes with black hair and clear eyes came out holding a lamp.

Others saluted and said, "I have seen Wang Jun."

Mu Congcong didn't move, just looked at the man standing on the three steps, and after a while, she found her voice, "You...why did you come out?"

"Your Majesty," that person's appearance is still the same as it was many years ago, except that his temples have been dyed with a little white hair. He looked at her with cold and distant eyes, completely no longer infatuated with love when he was newly married. He said, "Ah Xian , was killed by you?"

It wasn't a question sentence, but a simple statement, which instantly made Mu Congcong feel ashamed and unable to argue.

When she was newly married that year, she said that she wanted the throne. He smiled and said nothing, and not long after, he used his family connections to work for her in the court.

She said she would remember his kindness, but he just said nothing.

Now more than twenty years have passed quietly, she thought she didn't care about it, but when she thinks about it now, it seems that she was the one who forgot it first.

Forget that when it was raining during Qingming that year, she was the first to say that she would marry him.

"Gu..." Mu Congkong opened his mouth, the rest of the words stuck in his throat, he couldn't say anything.

The man stood on the steps without moving. With the help of the palace lantern on the stone wall, Mu Congcong saw the pain and sorrow in the eyes of the other party, but it was only for a moment, and the next moment, the man returned to the appearance of that handsome young man again, with cold eyes , There is no extra words, I just said "Yeah" and turned around to leave.

Seeing that he was about to leave, Mu Congcong felt an impulse for some reason, and shouted, "Stop!"

The man stopped as he said, and turned his back to her.

Mu Rongrong said, "Xian'er is gone, your father...do you have anything to say?"

Hearing this, the man turned his head sideways, lowered his eyes, and said calmly, "The king will always have a new heir."

"But he is an orphan... the first son." She didn't know why she said that, but she just thought about it and said it.

Yes, even though Murong Xian was wrong, he was also her only child...but she killed him without hesitation.

"Mu Cong." The man suddenly called her name, and he didn't know why he was originally tall and straight, but at this moment, he showed a bit of a stoop, "In these years, I have often thought, The king didn't appoint you as heir, maybe I and Yan Xiang wouldn't end up in such a state."

He mentioned the woman who made the whole Qin country taboo, with a calm and indifferent tone, "It's all wrong in the end."

"Then you know, for this throne, I killed my mother, my teacher, and my son..." After a long while, Mu Congcong said softly, "And these are all what I want?"

The man didn't answer her, and left with the lamp, leaving her standing silently in front of the Jiaofang hall.

Are these what she wants?

No, no, in the beginning, all she wanted was to get the respect she deserved.

No one would have expected that after so many years, she would cross the road, and there would be no woman with a calm face beside her who gently called her "Your Highness".

She thought quietly, it was all wrong.