eurekapd Chapter 261 Breaking off relations
Chapter 261 Breaking off relations
"Your Majesty is overthinking. I was just distracted for a moment and I'm not dissatisfied. If you don't like Xiao Lingzi, Your Majesty might as well send him somewhere else, even if it's just as hard labor, it's better than Your Majesty always bothering to go to Yikun Palace."
Ruyi said coldly.
Ruyi knew in her heart that the emperor's harassment of Ling Yunche had reached an almost abnormal level.
She really couldn't stand the emperor's unreasonable torture of Ling Yunche. Every time she saw Ling Yunche suffer, her heart felt like it was being cut by a knife.
She couldn't wait to resolve this farce.
Hearing her finally speak out her true feelings, the emperor sneered.
"Oh, Queen, are you feeling distressed already? Or are you unhappy that I came to Yikun Palace to accompany you? Which concubine in this palace doesn't look forward to my visit? Only you, Queen, wish I could go somewhere else..."
He was waiting for this day, waiting for her to be unable to bear it anymore and jump out in resistance.
Yes, she was thinking about someone else, so naturally she didn't like him coming.
The emperor spoke with a sarcastic expression, a surge of jealousy and resentment rising in his heart.
His cruelty towards Xiao Lingzi grew stronger and stronger. Instead of feeling relieved by the torture these days, he hated Xiao Lingzi more and more.
"I simply cannot bear to see Your Majesty being so mean, nitpicking and targeting a servant. You always advocated leniency towards your servants. Have you forgotten that now?"
Ruyi said this coldly, staring straight at the emperor without a trace of fear in her eyes.
The anger that had been pent up in her heart for the past few days suddenly burst out. She had been suppressing the anger and dissatisfaction in her heart for a long time as she watched the emperor's various difficulties with Ling Yunche.
She couldn't understand why the emperor who once claimed to rule the country with kindness had become so narrow-minded and cruel.
This is not the Hongli she loved back then.
Hearing her say this, the emperor became a little angry and embarrassed.
His face turned red instantly. He could not tolerate Ruyi's open contradiction to him. He looked at the palace maids around him who were shrinking like quails.
He really couldn't bear it anymore.
bang-
The emperor flung down his chopsticks, sweeping the table full of delicacies to the ground. Countless porcelain pieces shattered, making a crisp sound that sounded like the emperor's angry roar.
Porcelain fragments flew everywhere.
The couple faced each other in silence as if no one was around.
"Your Majesty, please calm down. Your Majesty, please calm down..."
In an instant, all the palace maids knelt on the ground.
The palace was filled with fear and panic, fearing that the emperor's wrath would extend to them.
His body was trembling, and he didn't dare to look up at the emperor and the empress. He could only beg for mercy in a low voice.
"Get out."
He glanced at the palace servants kneeling on the ground and roared loudly.
When the palace servants heard the emperor's order, they stood up in a hurry, lowered their heads, and carefully left the palace as if they had been pardoned.
After all the palace people had scattered like birds and beasts, the emperor took off all his disguises. The anger on his face no longer needed to be concealed, and his eyes revealed an almost crazy possessiveness and jealousy.
He stood up and walked in front of Ruyi, looking down at her. Then, he reached out and strangled her neck, with veins bulging in his hands.
He was very strong and held Ruyi's neck tightly, forcing her to look up at him.
"Be merciful to me? Queen, are you asking me to forgive the man who coveted my throne? Or are you just feeling sorry for him? He's actually your adulterer."
The emperor spoke through gritted teeth, and every word seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth.
He looked into those eyes and spoke angrily.
He hated it, he hated these eyes that looked at him without love.
He wanted to dig it out.
An overwhelming feeling of suffocation came over Ruyi. At that moment, she felt as if she was in a dark abyss, unable to breathe and unable to escape.
The emperor's hand gripped her neck tightly like an iron clamp, with astonishing strength.
Her face immediately turned red, like a ripe apple, and the red quickly spread from her cheeks to her ears and neck. Every inch of her skin was covered in this painful color.
Ruyi's eyes were bloodshot, wide open with fear and pain, and her look was full of panic and helplessness.
This sudden action frightened Ruyi. Her brain went blank for the first few seconds and she was completely unable to understand what was happening before her eyes.
By the time she reacted, she started to struggle.
Her hands instinctively reached out for the emperor's arms, trying to pry them free. Her movements were frantic and hasty, with no clear pattern. Her body twisted and thrashed as she struggled.
In a panic, all the armor on her hands that represented her dignity fell off.
Even her carefully maintained nails were broken a little. The pain of the broken nails and the feeling of suffocation in her neck intertwined with each other, making her even more miserable.
"Emperor...Emperor..."
Ruyi struggled to squeeze these words out of her throat, her voice weak and hoarse, filled with endless fear and pleading.
Hearing her struggle, a trace of disgust flashed across the emperor's face. He threw her away like garbage and swept her to the ground without mercy.
Ruyi was knocked to the ground by his big movement, and her body fell heavily on the cold ground with a dull sound.
Her hair was a little loose, and the strands of hair were scattered around her face, making her look particularly disheveled.
The brief suffocation forced her to breathe in big gulps, her chest heaving violently, and every breath was accompanied by a painful cough.
Her face was still flushed, and there was still fear and despair in her eyes.
Her hands trembled as she supported herself on the ground, trying to keep her body balanced, but she found that her strength was almost exhausted in the struggle just now.
The emperor looked down at her as she half-lying on the ground and gasping for breath, without a trace of pity in his eyes.
Seeing her in a state worse than death, the resentment I had felt these days was slightly relieved.
As his queen, Ruyi should belong to him wholeheartedly and should not have any feelings for other men.
She deserved it.
"Queen, I believe I have treated you well, why do you treat me like this?"
Just one sentence expressed the hatred in the emperor's heart.
"Your Majesty, I don't care if you believe it or not, but Ling Yunche and I only had a relationship beyond that of a man and a woman, and nothing else has gone against the rules."
Ruyi raised her head and looked at the emperor with a firm gaze. Although her voice was a little hoarse, it contained a coldness that drove the emperor crazy.
The couple both hated each other's indifference, but responded to each other's madness with indifference.
How can this not drive people crazy?
In her heart, the friendship between her and Ling Yunche is pure. It is the warmth of mutual support in this cold palace, and it transcends the love between men and women.
They knew their status was different, so they never overstepped the boundaries.
"How dare you lie to me!"
The emperor roared angrily, picked up a porcelain bottle beside him and smashed it to the ground.
bang-
In an instant, porcelain fragments flew everywhere and just brushed past Ruyi's face.
The sharp porcelain shards scratched a bloody mark on Ruyi's face. By the time Ruyi realized what was happening, her face was burning with pain. Bright red blood slid down her cheek, and the warm liquid fell to the ground in large drops.
Ruyi's hand trembled, and when she touched her cheek, what she saw was a bloody red.
She looked up at the emperor without saying a word. Her cold look frightened the emperor.
The sound of shattering dishes filled his ears, and the emperor felt that he was terrifyingly calm.
Is it just something beyond the relationship between a man and a woman? The emperor asked coldly in his heart.
But what about him and her back then?
Like brothers?
Back then, she treated him like a brother, but in the end, didn't she willingly become his concubine?
Same approach, do you really think he can't see it?
Ruyi's current relationship with Ling Yunche is similar to his relationship with her back then. After more than 20 years of marriage, he knows her thoughts very well.
She was in love with Ling Yunche, but she was just being stubborn and unwilling to admit it.
If she were not bound by her status as queen, she would probably be eager to marry him, right?
Looking at Ruyi's flat denial, the emperor suddenly felt a little bored.
"Why are you looking at me like that? What? Do you want to kill the king? Ruyi, don't forget, everything you have now is given to you by me. I can take it back at any time and leave you with nothing..."
He said in a cold voice, mentally counting the favors he had bestowed upon her.
The Queen's imperial seal.
The first-class dukedom of the Ulanala Mansion.
And there is her proud legitimate son.
He can take all of these back.
"Hmph, Your Majesty."
Ruyi raised her head slightly, a hint of determination flashed in her eyes, and she counted her inner thoughts bit by bit.
"You know, I have never sought wealth, power, or status. All I seek is a young man whose heart and eyes are devoted to me. One with whom I can confide my feelings under the moon and flowers, and who can share an umbrella with me in the wind and rain. Your Majesty, do you remember why I changed my name from Qingying to Ruyi?"
Ruyi's eyes were fixed on the emperor, trying to find the shadow of the young man whose heart and eyes were once filled with her.
It’s a pity that the ruthless man in front of him is completely different from the one he was back then.
"The 'Yi' in 'Ruyi' represents a once-in-a-lifetime feeling, something we once shared and engraved in our hearts. Back then, we wrote these characters with our own hands, filled with the purest love for each other. Are all the promises you made to me now meaningless?"
When she spoke of this once-in-a-lifetime feeling, Ruyi's voice trembled slightly, like a fallen leaf shivering in the autumn wind, carrying endless sadness and helplessness.
Memories of the past came flooding back like a tide. All those sweet and bitter moments turned into sharp blades at this moment, piercing her heart.
"Ruyi, wake up!"
The emperor frowned, his tone filled with impatience.
"I'm fifty, and you're over forty. Time has changed a lot. Don't you have anything else besides that illusory feeling of love once in a lifetime? What's needed in this harem is a balance of pros and cons, a stable and peaceful life, not these childish things you keep talking about."
Is Ruyi crazy?
You are already in your forties or fifties, why do you still hold on to the youthful love you had when you were fourteen or fifteen?
Has she been living in these things all these years?
The Queen is crazy!
The emperor's mind was full of this thought.
"Your Majesty, please stop deceiving yourself. When Empress Fucha was here, she was a virtuous queen, and you sought sincerity. Now I have sincerity, but what about you, Your Majesty? You are seeking a virtuous queen again. If Your Majesty really liked Empress Fucha, why did you say those words in the first place, making Empress Fucha, no, Fucha Langhua, die with regret?"
Every word Ruyi said was so eloquent that it almost touched the emperor's lungs.
Empress Fucha is the pain in the emperor's heart.
Especially Ruyi, the one she cannot mention the most.
The emperor slapped Ruyi in the face almost subconsciously.
With a slap, Ruyi was knocked to the ground again.
The wound on her face had signs of clotted blood, but following the emperor's movements, the wound instantly burst open, and blood continued to gush out.
"In that case, don't blame me for not giving you face!"
The emperor thought that he had done his best as a couple.
If it were someone else, they would have chopped the adulterous couple to pieces with a knife.
If I had known earlier that he would not be a wise ruler, but a tyrannical emperor who would kill anyone he disliked, I would have been fine.
Even if this was the queen he personally requested.
At this moment, Ruyi was like a bloodthirsty ghost from hell, with empty eyes. She was stunned for a long time before she slowly sat up, covering half of her swollen cheek.