coobybook Chapter 369 Didn't Lose
Chapter 369 Didn't Lose
Yuan Cuo glanced at the bedside, which was enough to say he had seen it.
He shifted his attention back to Liu Yuechu.
"This is our child, how can you not care at all?" Liu Yuechu complained, her brows furrowing slightly.
Yuan Cuo held her in his arms, "Does it hurt?"
"Fortunately, Physician Sun arrived in time..." Liu Yuechu also knew what had happened.
Originally, Granny Fang didn't want to talk about it, but she couldn't resist Yuwen Chan's desire for credit, so she told him everything right by the window.
Granny Fang was initially worried that Liu Yuechu would be frightened, but Liu Yuechu already knew what was going on and wasn't particularly surprised.
"I will be truly grateful to Sect Leader Yuwen, don't worry." Yuan Cuo was not sarcastic at all, but very sincere.
"There might be an ulterior motive behind this, otherwise they wouldn't have targeted me to force you to compromise with the Chu Kingdom. So what else happened? Don't worry about me, it's best to tell me everything." Liu Yuechu was a little tired, but still couldn't fall asleep peacefully.
The Liu family almost became prey in the wolf's mouth. She needed to know the whole story in order to know how to make arrangements and how to deal with the series of troubles that followed.
Yuan Cuo looked distressed. "You don't trust me? I will handle all matters well and won't make the same mistake again."
“We are husband and wife, and we are of one mind. I don’t want to be a woman who only relies on your shoulder for protection. Besides, one person’s strength can’t compare to the strength of the two of us.” Liu Yuechu’s voice was even more subdued. Her voice was a little hoarse at this moment, and she was indeed exhausted.
Although Yuan Cuo was unwilling, he understood that Liu Yuechu was not one to give up easily.
He explained that his identity had been exposed and that the Crown Prince was behind it all. "...Right now, it depends on the attitude of the palace. I can stay home and quietly keep you company."
"So you joined forces with Yan and Meng to seize Chu's territory? And this time, the people of Chu bribed the emperor's uncle Deng Qi to bring my father back and force me to sever ties with you, and then used the child in my womb as a threat to make you make concessions to Chu?" Liu Yuechu understood the gist of the story and figured it out.
Yuan Cuo rubbed her temples. "My woman, how can you be so clever?"
Liu Yuechu was shocked by the shamelessness of the Chu Kingdom and the incompetence of her father. "So, you don't intend to acknowledge the Chu Emperor as your mother?"
She already knew the identity of his birth mother and did not blame him for not telling her.
Yuan Cuo nodded. "Why should I acknowledge her? When she abandoned me, she severed this bond between mother and son. Besides, I want the State of Chu. I don't need her charity. I can take it back little by little."
Liu Yuechu could hear the resentment in his voice.
Although I knew Yuan Cuo was ambitious, I still underestimated him.
"No matter what you decide, the children and I will support you." Liu Yuechu put a sense of security in his heart. She was so tired that she seemed to faint and closed her eyes and fell asleep in his arms.
Yuan Cuo held him like that, patting him gently.
Yuwen Chan couldn't wait any longer and had Granny Fang go in and drag him out.
"What's next? You need to have a plan." Yuwen Chan looked at Yuan Cuo, very dissatisfied. "You weren't sincere enough with her either. You didn't reveal such an important identity sooner. If you had, would she have been stuck in this stalemate?"
"So you knew about this all along? Why didn't you tell her? You weren't being sincere either," Yuan Cuo retorted immediately.
"...How long has it been since I assumed the position of sect leader? How could I possibly know that the Chu Kingdom is controlled by a woman?! Moreover, this woman is too cunning, always appearing in the world as a man." Yuwen Chan sneered.
Yuan Cuo: "You don't know, how could I know?" He was just an ordinary commoner from the Great Qi, and he only learned about this shortly before the negotiations.
Yuwen Chan didn't know how to refute it for a moment. "Then tell me what to do next. If you can't handle the Crown Prince of Chu, I can help you."
“No need,” Yuan Cuo refused, handing him the strategic direction he had already prepared.
Just as Yuwen Chan was about to take it, Yuan Cuo pulled it back.
"What do you mean?" Yuwen Chan asked coldly and angrily.
Yuan Cuo: "I just had twins, a boy and a girl. You are the patriarch of the Meng Kingdom, why don't you give me some congratulatory gifts?"
Yuwen Chan: "..."
"I, the sect leader, will not let Yuechu and her child down. Anyway, if you can't protect them, I will take them to Mongolia for protection. I don't mind raising these twins as princesses and princes of Mongolia."
He snorted coldly, snatched the booklet from Yuan Cuo's hand, and turned to leave.
Yuan Cuo watched him stride away, but he wasn't angry. He just muttered, "Wishful thinking."
The Liu family held a grand banquet to celebrate the birth of their two young masters, completely ignoring outside affairs.
Outside the Liu family, however, Chu Lan's words had already caused a huge upheaval and turmoil.
Who would have thought that Yuan Cuo was actually the son of the Chu Emperor, and even more so, the son of the Qi Emperor Xiao?!
The people from the Court of State Ceremonial argued for a long time before being stopped by someone urgently dispatched from the palace. They were told to rest and discuss it again the next day.
When Emperor Qi Xiao heard about this in the palace, he was furious.
"I never imagined that I would be betrayed by my own son, especially by the very crown prince I had painstakingly raised!"
He picked up the long sword behind the throne and headed straight for the Eastern Palace.
He really wanted to kill Qin Mushuo with a single blow!
Cheng Hai knelt on the ground, hugging Emperor Qi Xiao's legs and pleading, "Your Majesty, please calm down! Your Majesty cannot harm His Highness the Crown Prince at this time. There are still people from Yan and Meng watching outside!"
Chu Lan and the Chu Kingdom's delegation were left outside the capital, while the Yan Kingdom's envoy and Yuwen Chan had already entered the city and were resting at the post station that the Honglu Temple had arranged in advance, waiting for Emperor Qi Xiao to meet them.
Emperor Qi Xiao still picked up his knife and swung it wildly!
The precious ornaments in the imperial study were smashed to pieces, the entire room was hacked to pieces, and memorials were scattered everywhere.
Cheng Hai had been hit hard on the back several times, but he still clung to Emperor Qi Xiao, refusing to let go. "Your Majesty, please, Your Majesty, calm down..."
Emperor Qi Xiao finally ran out of strength.
The hand holding the knife loosened, and the long sword fell to the ground.
"What sins have I committed?!"
"How can I face my court officials? How can I face the people of Great Qi?"
"And Ru'er, why does she treat me like this? I did not betray her back then, and I even protected her as she left Daqi. Yet she actually had an affair with my son, trying to annex and take over Daqi?"
Emperor Qi Xiao collapsed to the ground, filled with bitterness.
The emperor's eyes also welled up with tears, filled with resentment, bitterness, and despair. More than twenty years of longing and affection had vanished in an instant.
"Your Majesty, Minister Yuan did not heed the instigation of the State of Chu. He even helped you conquer the State of Chu! You did not lose..." Cheng Hai had to remind him.