eurekapd Chapter 202 Confession Bureau
Chapter 202 Confession Bureau
In Qingyue Pavilion, Lu Wanyi was wearing a royal blue chest-length skirt that Shen Zhiyao had someone make for her. It looked very different from her usual white clothes and made her look more charming.
For two consecutive days, except for paying respects, eating and sleeping, she sat here quietly, like a stone statue, just like her heart that seemed half dead.
Bao Luan has disappeared for five consecutive days. Yuquan Palace announced that he had contracted a severe cold and was still in isolation for treatment.
But Lu Wanyi knew that the truth was most likely exposed.
They had just met in Qingyuexuan the night before he disappeared. Even if he really had caught a cold, Bao Luan did not leave the agreed signal as agreed. This was enough to explain everything. The day of doom and gloom was coming.
Given the emperor's suspicious character, even if he allowed her to live, her final destination would most likely be the cold palace or Cheng'en Temple. It would be better for her to die.
In the past few days, Lu Wanyi wanted to confess to Shen Zhiyao several times, but every time she saw her cheerful smile, she held back.
There are some things that the less Shen Zhiyao knows, the better. Ever since the day she and Bao Luan joined forces to plan, every day has seemed like a gamble for her. Why should she implicate Jin Shuyi when she is already half buried in the ground?
"The Emperor has arrived..."
Just as she was thinking about it, she heard the eunuch guarding the door outside Qingyuexuan singing, and Lu Wanyi raised a bitter smile.
More than a year later, the emperor came here again for this matter.
"Your Majesty, your servant pays respect to you." Lu Wanyi bowed, but her voice was unusually calm.
Bo Muxi was wearing a black robe embroidered with golden dragons, but it made his face look particularly pale.
"Stand up." Bo Muxi's voice was very cold. He closed his eyes and waved his hands, saying, "Everyone, go down..."
Everyone looked at each other, feeling strange, but they had to leave obediently. Even Lin En left tactfully.
After Lin En left the main hall, he stood at the door and guarded the door himself. All other outsiders were sent away to prevent nosy people from eavesdropping.
Bo Muxi looked coldly at Lu Wanyi with his narrow eyes, and there was a hint of sadness in his black pupils.
Lu Wanyi also looked at her quietly, and tears flashed in her eyes as she exchanged glances with the emperor.
"Oh!" Bo Muxi sighed heavily as he thought of the past.
Lu Wanyi looked at him deeply, as if she wanted to get closer, but she failed to take action.
Is there really no emotion at all? Not necessarily.
Bo Muxi suddenly turned his head away, no longer looking at her, and asked in a cold voice: "Are you familiar with Bao Luan from Yuquan Palace?"
When Lu Wanyi heard Bao Luan's name, her mentality completely collapsed. Her face, which had just seemed calm, turned pale in an instant. At this point, it seemed that she could only wish to die.
"Familiar..." Lu Wanyi admitted generously.
"Haha..." Bo Muxi sneered and looked up at the ceiling: "He refused to betray you until the moment of his death, but you... admitted it so straightforwardly! Didn't he suffer so much in vain?"
already dead?
Lu Wanyi felt sad and smiled, "I never intended to deceive the emperor..."
"It has come to this! It's not called cheating!" Bo Muxi sneered, as if he didn't want to look at her any more.
"Lu Wanyi, you are really capable... You can make a eunuch betray his master and be willing to die for you without asking for anything in return... You are worthy of being a woman I have favored, you are so capable..." Bo Muxi's tone was full of contempt.
Lu Wanyi, who seemed very calm just now, changed her expression several times when she heard the emperor mocking her in this tone.
Her heart finally died completely, and tears slowly overflowed from her eyes, but they did not last long before she wiped them away stubbornly.
She looked up at Bo Muxi and said coldly, "Your Majesty, it's not just me you're mocking."
And yourself...
"Since I entered the palace, I have been serving the Emperor with all my heart. I just calculated in my mind that it has been 1,337 days in total! And the days that have truly made me feel happy are less than 100 days!"
Bo Muxi finally looked at Lu Wanyi, but his eyes were still full of anger: "Am I not good enough to you?"
Lu Wanyi froze for a moment, then smiled sadly: "At the beginning, it was very good, but the beauty is short-lived, and it all depends on the charity you give in your mood. Is this what you call good enough?"
"Let me ask you! Have you and Bao Luan done anything else excessive?" Bo Muxi's eyes were full of hostility.
"Your Majesty, are you questioning me now out of your concern for me? Or are you just possessive of what a man owns?" Lu Wanyi's eyes were full of tears, but her voice was colder than the emperor's.
Bo Muxi didn't expect that she didn't rush to explain, but dared to question him instead. He was so angry that he blurted out: "How despicable!"
As soon as these words came out, both of them were stunned.
"Haha, I am very mean... so mean that I actually believed that you really loved me... so mean that I once prepared for the arrival of the child with great anticipation, and in the meantime I was complacent with the small gifts you occasionally sent me..."
"Whenever I had morning sickness, I didn't think about how I could get promoted to a higher level as a mother by having a child, but just the happiness of having a child for the one I love..." Lu Wanyi said self-deprecatingly.
No concubine had ever dared to talk back to him like this. Bo Muxi grabbed the teacup on the table and threw it to the ground, making a dull sound, just like the emperor's roar that he was unable to vent at the moment.
After a stalemate, Lu Wanyi finally didn't want to die in such humiliation, so she smiled bitterly and said, "Whether you believe it or not, I have never done anything to let the emperor down, and I haven't even had that thought..."
Bo Muxi was stunned when he heard this, and the hot feeling in his heart seemed to be cooled down a lot by this sentence.
Lu Wanyi caught his change and finally lost control, she shed tears and said: "Your Majesty, what you care about most is your dignity as a man!"
"But you clearly know everything... How did my child die? I even lost my qualification to be a mother because of this! But what about you? In order to protect the Zhao family, for the queen mother's face, and for the reputation of the second prince, you let me..."
"Your Majesty, what am I? Am I just a sacrifice in your weighing of pros and cons?"
"How can I not blame you? How can I not hate you? Yes! I am already tired of pretending, and I don't want to pretend to be gentle and virtuous anymore..."
"Shut up! Stop talking!" Bo Muxi interrupted Lu Wanyi. He didn't want her to continue talking, and he didn't want her to destroy herself.
Lu Wanyi sneered: "Instead of saying that Baoluan betrayed his master for me, I might as well tell you why he betrayed his master! Why did he associate with me, and what exactly did he and I conspire against each other!"
Bo Muxi's expression changed, and this time, he did not stop him.
Lu Wanyi narrated how she met Bao Luan, how Bao Luan's mother died because of Concubine Zhao, and how they took advantage of Concubine Zhao's harming others to harm Concubine Zhao.
Some of the plots in it are exactly the same as what Baoluan described when he accused Concubine Zhao in the Ministry of Punishment!
Bo Muxi was stunned when he heard this, but his violent look gradually relaxed and even showed a hint of guilt.
After Lu Wanyi finished speaking, she wiped her tears with a handkerchief and looked as if she was determined to die.
A trace of pity emerged in Bo Muxi's heart. He wanted to help Lu Wanyi, but he withdrew his hand in the end...
This woman is too dangerous. Her hatred and actions cannot be forgiven by me.
"Even if you have a thousand reasons, you are still extremely wrong to collude with the eunuchs to do evil in the palace..." Bo Muxi gritted his teeth and said cruelly as he looked at Lu Wanyi, who was feeling broken in front of him.