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Chapter 240 Ji Honghai died for the sake of the empress
Not long after Qiuyue left, Chu Yan came to Zhongcui Palace half an hour later.

It was mid-afternoon, and the sun was bright and bright, shining on the ground through the windows of the palace, forming bright spots of light.

In this peaceful atmosphere, Chu Yan stepped into the main hall of Zhongcui Palace.

In the hall, Zhao Shu sat quietly on an exquisite chair.

She was wearing a gorgeous dress embroidered with exquisite patterns, and her head was adorned with pearls, shining brightly.

These decorations were all worn by her when she became a concubine. Although more than ten years have passed, she still exudes a noble and elegant atmosphere.

"Your Highness."

When she heard footsteps approaching, Zhao Shu raised her head and looked at Chu Yan. There was a hint of sadness in her smile, as if she was hiding endless thoughts.

"In half a month, it will be the wedding date of His Highness and Yingying."

Zhao Shu said softly, her voice calm and gentle.

Her eyes fell on a jade bracelet on her wrist. The jade bracelet was ordinary and nothing special, but she cared for it like a treasure.

Chu Yan walked into the hall and sat down beside him. His expression seemed calm and calm. Compared with before, his temper has indeed become much gentler during this period of time, and he treats people and things with less emotional fluctuations.

"I see you alone, do you have something important to do?"

Chu Yan's tone was calm, as if he had already guessed why Zhao Shu wanted to see him. .

Zhao Shu nodded slightly, and asked with firm eyes: "How does Your Highness plan to deal with Prince Liang?"

Shortly after Chu Yan woke up, he imprisoned King Liang in prison.

Zhao Shu was unable to enter the imperial prison, so she naturally had no way of knowing the current situation of King Liang. But she knew very well that King Liang killed Cui Ying, and with Chu Yan's character, she would never let him go easily.

She looked at Chu Yan, waiting for his answer.

Chu Yan did not respond to Zhao Shu. He just turned his head slightly and cast his gaze towards the distant scenery.

There was a hint of indifference in his voice: "When I was a child, I lived alone in Zhongcui Palace. Concubine Xian did give me meticulous care like a mother."

"However, Gu can still clearly distinguish the difference between sincerity and falsehood."

"I just don't know when exactly everything started to change. Or maybe, from the beginning, it was all just wishful thinking."

After hearing Chu Yan's words, Zhao Shu silently put her hand on the jade bracelet on her wrist.

She smiled softly, and then slowly said: "For me, Your Highness is my closest relative."

There was a trace of complicated emotions in her eyes: "I have always thought that if one day, when His Highness grows up, he suddenly realizes that the 'mother' he has always called is the murderer of his biological mother, then he will Wouldn’t you feel pain and sadness?”

Accept her, the so-called murderer, as a mother.

"Actually, I have never thought about killing you, let alone taking action against you. After all, you have grown up by my side since you were a child, and I treat you like my own child."

There was a hint of sincere emotion in Zhao Shu's voice.

She had a bad life, she lost two children one after another, and then she got pregnant, and she knelt in the snow for a long time, and then she miscarried again.

Maybe she was destined to be childless in her life, otherwise she wouldn't have lost so many children.

Therefore, Yangyang's daughter was treated as her biological daughter, and even Chu Yan was indeed treated as her biological son at that time.

It's a pity that they are destined not to get along as mother and son forever.

Zhao Shu stood up and said firmly: "When I learned that you planted a love charm on her, I really had murderous intentions." She made no secret of her thoughts about Chu Yan.

"He destroyed my whole family and killed my closest relatives. Of course I was full of hatred for him, but I had to pretend to be affectionate and unrepentant and spend every night with him. This feeling makes me extremely sick!"

Zhao Shu walked up to Chu Yan, looked directly into the man's eyes and said, "I really want to disturb Dashuo and let him witness everything he cherishes being destroyed."

When she first planned all this, Zhao Shu did not have high hopes for success.

After all, her family has been destroyed. Without the support of her family, how can she have the power to achieve her goals?

However, fate always seems to be full of drama.

Just when she felt desperate, she unexpectedly noticed Ji Honghai.

The person he inadvertently saved has now grown into an important minister of the country.

What was even more unexpected to her was that she was keenly aware of the emotions in Ji Honghai's eyes when he looked at her.

It is a kind of hot and deep attachment, and only women can understand the deep meaning contained in it.

He is interested in her.

Ever since, she cleverly took advantage of Ji Honghai's deep affection for her, saying that as long as the work was completed, she would fulfill all his wishes, even including sacrificing herself.

However, Ji Honghai did not need anything in return. He once said, "What the lady pursues is what I long for."

All he wished for was for her to be happy.

"Ji Honghai is dead." Chu Yan leaned back slightly, staring at Zhao Shu, and said softly.

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Shu's face turned stiff instantly, obviously shocked by the sudden news.

Chu Yan paused and then said: "He was involved in many things, but he succeeded in getting the empress to distance herself from these things."

Ji Honghai has neither a wife nor children, and he has no other relatives at home.

Zhuo Jun has been struggling to find a way to force him to reveal the truth, so he can only delay time in this way.

But he never expected that that day, when no one was paying attention, he swallowed a piece of burning charcoal with difficulty.

By the time someone discovered him, he had already died for a long time.

"The imperial concubine is aware of the methods of imprisonment."

After listening to Chu Yan's words, Zhao Shu staggered a little, took a few steps back and held on to the handle of the chair behind her, with a sad expression: "He died for me."

As Chu Yan said, no one knows the methods of imprisonment.

There are even rumors among the people that when you go to the imperial prison, you will be guilty even if you are innocent. He was afraid that he would not be able to withstand the harsh torture of the imperial prison, so he chose to commit suicide.

"For Yingying's sake, I won't do anything to you, but you really wanted Gu's mother to die. This is an indisputable fact."

It was Emperor Qi who did all this, but Concubine Xian and Concubine Shu played a crucial part in it. Concubine Shu is now imprisoned by him in Prince Liang's mansion.

He gave her supplements every day, and he didn't care whether she could eat them or whether she over-supplied them.

This was the suffering that his mother had suffered, so how could he let her go.

"It was me who did something unforgivable to the Queen, and it was also because I didn't know people well that I harmed the Zhao family and the Pei family. I deserve to die."

After listening to Zhao Shu's words, Chu Yan raised his eyes and looked at her and said, "My queen is better than them. At least she knows that she deserves to die."