White Fence Dream

Chapter 289 Night Confrontation
Night fell, covering the earth, and the capital city became even more bustling in the night.

As the troops galloped and the city gates were closed, the Li family, the Shangguan family, and the Dongyang Marquis Mansion were also besieged. Many officials were arrested from their homes and offices, and the news of the changes in the imperial city finally spread.

"Bai Fei actually did such a thing!"

"The little prince is fake!"

"It's not surprising actually. We've long said that Your Majesty can't have children. So it must be strange that you suddenly have a prince."

"Tianye, is your Majesty okay?"

Countless people recalled the old incident when Empress Jiang was executed. It also happened suddenly. Several ministers and Prince Changyang led troops to surround the imperial city and executed Empress Jiang who had deceived the late emperor. The late emperor passed the throne to Prince Changyang.
Although it is said to be a thing of the past, it is actually only a few years ago.

Besides, things have only just settled down.

Countless people prayed in fear in the dark night, hoping that fewer people would die this time and that it would end quickly.

Compared to the panic, noise and chaos outside, the night in the imperial city was orderly and quiet.

There was no more noise in Hanliang Palace, it was as quiet as a deserted place. The original eunuchs and palace maids had all been captured, and the new ones had not yet been selected. The Wanqi Battalion was stationed here, and the imperial doctors and court officials took turns on duty.

The King of Chu personally served the emperor.

The drowsy emperor slowly opened his eyes, the night made him look a little dazed, but the next moment terrible memories came flooding back, and his face turned painful.

"Those thieves!" He shouted hoarsely and struggled to get up, but then burst into coughing violently.

A pair of hands reached out in time to support him and patted the emperor's chest.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. All those thieves have been caught. Not one of them can escape."

Hearing the voice, the emperor looked over with his dim eyesight and saw the young man's face was fair and bright under the light.

"Li Yu." The emperor murmured.

Li Yu responded yes, and quickly raised the emperor's pillow, then picked up the medicine bowl from the table beside him.

"The imperial physician has instructed His Majesty to take the medicine once he wakes up," he said.

The emperor's expression changed, and he looked around the hall, which was empty.
The eunuchs and palace maids are fine, but it may be that the harem has been controlled by Bai Ying for too long and no one can be trusted.

But where are the courtiers? None of them?

Also, he coughed so loudly just now, but no doctor came.
The emperor looked at Li Yu, who was sitting beside the bed, lowering his head and testing the temperature of the medicine with the back of his hand.

"You" He moved his lips, about to say something, but then stopped.

"Your Majesty, are you asking me if I am not a good person?" Li Yu asked with his head down, then raised his head.

The emperor's face looked very ugly, and his body was shaking slightly. It was unclear whether it was caused by his emotions or poisoning.

The incident happened suddenly, and he has always been concerned about what Bai Ying and Zhang Ze did, but in fact, there were many strange things about Li Yu, the King of Chu, who was present at the time.
"For example, since I knew that Bai Ying was doing evil, why didn't I tell Your Majesty in advance?" Li Yu asked, smiled, and handed over the spoon.

Yes, thinking back now, it was clear that the King of Chu had been prepared to deal with it.

But he kept it secret from the emperor.

If he had been told earlier that he was wary of Bai Ying, he wouldn't have ended up like this.

But now Concubine Bai is plotting a rebellion, the little prince is a fake, he has been poisoned and will die soon, who will benefit the most?

It was the former eldest grandson of the emperor, Li Yu, whose status as a royal son was restored by him!
It is true that Bai Ying intended to harm him, but it is also true that Bai Ying testified that the King of Chu had ill intentions!
The real fight was between these two people, and their goal was to get rid of this emperor.

The emperor looked at Li Yu with red eyes, raised his hand and flicked the spoon that Li Yu handed over to the ground with a crisp sound.

There was still no one else in the bedroom.

"Your Majesty, although I do have bad intentions and have hidden many things from you before, there is no need to harm you now." Li Yu said, "This medicine is not poison, and it will not make your condition worse. It is indeed a good medicine to relieve your body."

The emperor didn't listen to what he said, he just gasped: "Why why don't you——"

"Why didn't I tell your majesty that Bai Ying was doing evil?" Li Yu took over and looked at the emperor. "Would you believe me if I told you? I am your nephew in name, but we have never had any contact. If I suddenly told you that Bai Ying replaced the little princess and gave you a fake prince, what would you think?"

The emperor shouted, "Don't worry about what I think. How can you not say it?"

"Why should I say it? Why should I take the risk? It's not easy for me to survive!" Li Yu suddenly raised his voice, his expression cold, "It's your stupidity, your suspicion, your indecision, and your ruthlessness that led to this end today. Why should I take the risk for you? Why should I die for you?"

The emperor looked at the young man sitting beside the bed. His expression was calm, but his words were so vicious.

He trembled, wanting to refute and rebuke, but in the end he only spat out a mouthful of blood.

Li Yu picked up a towel and wiped him.

The emperor pushed him away with an angry look in his eyes: "Treason, you are also a treasoner."

Since he pushed it away, Li Yu didn't wipe it for him again, but wiped his own hands instead.

"Treason." He chuckled. "Did your grandfather scold you like that back then?"

The emperor glared and was indignant: "It's all the fault of the late emperor! Who made him so absurd and foolish that he wanted to hand over the Great Zhou to a woman, a witch queen? If I don't become the emperor, I will die." If the throne really passed to Queen Jiang, he, a son of the Li family, would definitely not survive.

Thinking about the past days and then thinking about today, he didn't expect that even though he became emperor, he still couldn't escape death.

The emperor uttered a sob.

"I just want to live. I don't want to be an emperor at all."

At this moment, he really wished he was still in his fiefdom, still living a noisy life with Ayuan.

Li Yu was silent for a moment.

"But I want to be this emperor." He said, looking at the emperor, "I must be this emperor."

The emperor looked at him, seemingly without the energy to curse, and let out a strange laugh: "So, Bai Ying was also deceived by you, you are killing someone with a borrowed knife, and you are clean yourself."

Li Yu said calmly, "She has to draw her sword first before I can borrow it." He stood up and said, "But there is one thing that is good news for Your Majesty."

He has good news now? The emperor laughed at himself and saw Li Yu walk to the end of the couch, leaning over and extending his hand.
The emperor's vision was blocked and he could not see his feet. He only saw a smile on Li Yu's originally gloomy face.

"Nannan, you're awake."

"Why aren't you talking now that you're awake?"

"Are you chewing your fingers secretly again?"

As he spoke, Li Yu leaned over and picked up a baby girl.

Oh, it's the child of the maid, the emperor thought. Li Yu actually brought the child with him at this time. It seems that he really raised the child personally like him.
Thinking of the child, the emperor felt heartbroken and almost couldn't breathe.

Bai Ying!

Bai Ying!

How could you humiliate him like this!
His children, his children, he had no children—

"Your Majesty." Li Yu's voice sounded, "This is your daughter."

The emperor was stunned and his body stiffened. He then looked at Li Yu sitting on the bed holding the child. The baby girl was looking at him with her big eyes.

"Bai Ying and Zhang Ze were going to get rid of their daughter, but she was saved by A Li, Bai Ying's sister," Li Yu said. "We have been raising her ever since, pretending she is my daughter."

He smiled when he said this, and reached out to take the baby girl's hand away from her mouth to bite.

This is his daughter?!
Yes, although the little prince was fake, Bai Ying’s childbirth was real, he had a child, he had a child.

The emperor tried to stand up, but the baby girl suddenly threw herself at him and he fell back. He felt soft hands caressing his face and heard babbling sounds in his ears.

"Be careful - her -" Li Yu shouted, reaching out to pick up the baby girl.

But the emperor had already closed his eyes in advance and held the baby girl's hand that was reaching towards her eyes.

"——She likes to pick people's eyes lately."

Li Yu had just finished speaking.

The emperor blurted out, "Baolang, too. I'm used to it."

My heart ached again as I said this.

But unlike Bao Lang, the baby girl who was stopped did not cry loudly, but lay down in front of him, opening her mouth to bite his hand.
"This child." The emperor murmured, reaching out to help her lean against him, and looking at the baby girl's face bit by bit, "Looks like..."

"Looks like you, Your Majesty." Li Yu took over the conversation and looked at the baby girl with a smile on his face. "Ali complained that she looked like me and not her. I also think she looks like me. In fact, Your Majesty and I are somewhat similar, so Nannan and I are naturally similar as well."

The emperor reached out and gently stroked the baby girl's face. The baby girl babbled to him. The emperor couldn't help but smile and responded. The baby girl became even happier and waved her little hands.

The emperor looked at it and suddenly burst into tears: "Father is so sorry for you. He never raised you for a day——"

"Nannan has never been wronged. What I said before was true: I personally raised the child just like Your Majesty." Li Yu said, "What Baolang has, Nannan also has."

The emperor looked at his daughter's pink face: "She"

"She hasn't been named yet. Ah Li and I just call her Nan Nan." Li Yu said, looking at the emperor, "Your Majesty, please give her a name."

The emperor looked at the babbling child and said, "I need to think carefully about giving her a good name." Then he looked at Li Yu and said, "Can I take medicine now? Don't you say you should take medicine when you wake up?"

Although this medicine may not save his life, it can make him feel better and spend more time with his children.

Of course, this statement naturally has another meaning. Li Yu looked at the emperor quietly, stood up, picked up the bowl of medicine from the table, tested the temperature, and said, "It's cold."

After saying this, he made his announcement to the outside world.

"Someone is coming."

As he spoke, the quiet night was broken and countless footsteps came from outside the hall.

On the third day of September in the sixth year of Xingping, the emperor abdicated due to serious illness and passed the throne to King of Chu Li Yu.