A rebellious minister forced me to be a foolish king

Chapter 589: Dream Broken in Lanling
Gao Changgong rushed out towards the white light, but when he stepped outside, what greeted him was not the dawn, but a magnificent, solemn and dignified hall.

I heard an excited voice reading an imperial edict, saying that my own Great Qi was annexed by the Northern Zhou, and Tiannu Khan ascended the throne and unified the north after the Northern Wei, continuing the glory of the Han Dynasty...

Looking up at the sound, Gao Changgong saw that the person above his head was indeed his wife sitting on the dragon throne and becoming the emperor.

But she is no longer his wife.

Every step he took was covered with red carpets, with golden carpets embroidered with dragons and phoenixes. On both sides stood civil officials and military officers in official uniforms, armor and tunics, each holding a tablet and looking at him with squinted eyes.

Gao Changgong didn't recognize any of these blurry faces. As the Prince of Lanling of the Great Qi State and the Minister of Personnel, he was naturally not afraid of such stares, but walked more proudly.

As the ceremonial officer read the imperial edict loudly, Gao Changgong suddenly had a new memory in his mind. It turned out that he now had 400,000 elite soldiers of the Great Qi Kingdom, and had surrendered to the empress with the Gao family who held the imperial seal. At this moment, he was being conferred the title in the main hall, listening to the ministers discussing the matter of establishing a queen with the female khan.

This dream was so beautiful. Gao Changgong walked to that station and looked up at the nine-story white marble dragon-carved steps. In the eyes of the empress who looked down on the crowd, there was only him at this moment.

At this moment, Gao Changgong hoped that this was not a dream.

As a result, because he held military power and was a relative of the former Qi royal family, everyone was afraid that he would pretend to surrender and plot to usurp the throne, so they tried to stop him from becoming the queen, but he endured it.

As a result, the empress who had been in love with him since childhood just looked down at him from a high position on the dragon throne. She even suspected that he had rebellious intentions and forced him to hand over the imperial seal and took away his military power.

Although she had the same beautiful baby face, perhaps because the features of the goddess Khan in front of her had grown, she looked more heroic. Her eyebrows were sinister, majestic and fierce, and her eyes were extremely cold, as sharp and ruthless as a knife.

Gao Changgong didn't dare to look her in the eye, but he could feel that every inch of his flesh was being cut and peeled off by her, like a thorn in his back.

Gao Changgong knew that military power was the guarantee of his survival. If the Gao family's soldiers fell into the hands of others, the Gao family would be at the mercy of others! In order to protect himself, he refused to hand over the military power, which made the empress suspect that the Gao family had the intention of rebellion. He was the most courageous god of war in the Gao family. Once he died, the Gao family would never be able to stir up trouble again.

Gao Changgong did not give her the imperial seal, saying that he had given it to her a long time ago. However, she did not listen at all and said that the way of an emperor is to make choices. If he is not obedient and abides by the rules of being a husband, she will not marry him but give him up.

Afterwards, someone came with Her Majesty the Goddess's Chixiao Sword and a cup of poisoned wine, and announced the decree to sentence Lanling King to death.

Gao Changgong naturally didn't believe that she would sentence him to death, so he pushed aside the messenger who announced the decree and went to see Her Majesty the Goddess, but was ridiculed:
"How can you see the Emperor whenever you want? I say, Prince Lanling, your Qi State is gone, and you, a surrendered general from an enemy country, really think you can be the Empress of our dynasty? His Majesty said he didn't want to see you, but you didn't know how to kill yourself. Are you waiting for His Majesty to come in person?"

So she even wanted to kill herself, rather than see him for the last time?

Gao Changgong felt chilled and reached out stiffly to take the poisoned wine. Looking at the blood-red liquid in the cup, there was only self-mockery on his face.

"She doesn't believe me?"

He couldn't tell whether this was a dream fabricated based on his deep-seated fear, or based on Yuan Wuyou's true heart, tearing off her heartless disguise and revealing her cruel choice to him.

So he drank the poisoned wine, thinking that death would put an end to the illusion, or that if he really died, all emotions would be gone and everything would be over.

As a result, Gao Changgong did die, but not completely. After he watched himself die, the Empress realized that she had wrongly blamed him. It turned out that on the day of the surrender, he had given her the Gao family's jade seal and two pearls as a token of love, in a mother-of-pearl box.

But she knew that the mother-of-pearl box contained a token of their love, and she had never opened it.

She killed the person who loved her the most with her own hands.

Later, the Goddess Khan ruled over a vast territory, but she was extremely lonely. She had lost her beloved, and could only search the world for substitutes who looked like him one after another. Holding the ghost mask and armor he left behind, she missed their past.

Gao Changgong was clearly dead, but he still felt heartbroken. He felt relieved when he saw her regretting so much. He actually felt sorry for her when he saw her finding replacements who looked like him and had the same temper as him, but they could not replace him and were not him.

Maybe if he didn't die so stubbornly, the two of them would have a good ending. Maybe if he had a softer temper and wasn't so stubborn, the misunderstanding could be resolved and they wouldn't be separated forever?
Gao Changgong then realized, something was wrong? It was Yuan Wuyou who didn't believe in his loyalty and sentenced him to death, but she still looked like she was infatuated and repentant? If she really loved him, why would she kill him and try to find his shadow in one substitute after another?
This little bastard, bitch, is also a tyrant!
"Chang Gong? Gao Chang Gong!"

Someone was calling his name again and again in his ears. The voice was urgent and firm, like the sound of a bell striking at his heart.

Gao Changgong felt as if his eyelids were glued shut, and even pulling them open was very strenuous, until the voice in his ear became clearer, calling anxiously but gently: "Fourth brother, wake up... My silly husband, who are you thinking about in your dream?..."

He seemed to be shocked all over and suddenly woke up.

This morning's sky was covered with gloomy black clouds that almost pressed down to the ground. You could smell the dampness of the coming storm with every breath.

In order to avoid the raindrops carried by the wind, Yuan Wuyou held the sleeping ghost-faced man in his arms and sat on the ground with his back against the rockery.

Yuan Wuyou heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the man in his arms' long eyelashes trembling and opening his pair of dark, round eyes.

As soon as she woke up from the illusion, she found Gao Changgong, wearing a ghost mask, lying beside the rockery. His three-pointed, double-edged spear was thrown aside, and he was unconscious. She knew that he had also entered the illusion.

After making eye contact with the man who had just woken up from a nightmare, Yuan Wuyou saw the look of shock and astonishment beneath his hideous ghost mask, and he knew that his guess was correct.

She lowered her eyes and chuckled, "What nightmare did you have?"

It would have been better if she didn't ask, because her first question hit the nail on the head.

Gao Changgong's eyes immediately drooped, and his eyelids turned red. Then he found himself lying on the girl's muscular thighs, and he quickly jumped up! He shook his armor and sat up from her arms. At the same time, he found that he had been frightened by the nightmare and was sweating coldly. Now his back was still wet and sticky to the armor on his body.

So the two of them sat facing each other.

Even when sitting cross-legged, Gao Changgong was still half a head taller than her.

The ghost-faced man stared at her with his wet dark eyes, aggrieved: "In my dream, you didn't believe me and killed me with your own hands."

"Ah?" Yuan Wuyou's heart skipped a beat. "Even if I don't believe you, I can't kill you with my own hands. What happened in the dream? How could I be such a jerk?"