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Chapter 538: The Imperial Concubine is Pure and Elegant (289)

Chapter 538: The Imperial Concubine Is Pure and Elegant (Two Hundred and Eighty-nine)

Liang Yu said without hesitation: "Impossible, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince cannot be dead!"

"Why can't they die? Wu Lan sent a message saying that Cui Li and her son were poisoned to death by the fumes in the palace."

How could Ji Wei allow her daughter to react like this? She had been wanting Cui Li and her child dead for nearly twenty years. From the moment Cui Li became pregnant, she had predetermined her own death: to die in the cold palace, watching her life slip away. But Cui Li was lucky. She survived the palace, was captured by Qi, and was hunted down by Ji. She even became the Queen of Liang, keeping her under siege.

Over the years, Ji Wei had rarely felt the pleasure of getting what she wanted, and now that she knew Cui Li and her son were dead, she could finally be happy for a moment. But this rebellious girl was against her, saying things she didn't like to hear.

"Empress Cui and the Crown Prince have so many people protecting them, how could they possibly die? Especially the Crown Prince, he is the heir apparent to the throne, nothing will happen to him. Mother, please listen to me and don't do anything that will endanger your life! I really don't want to see you sink deeper and deeper!"

This remark angered Ji Wei again, causing her to leave in anger.

"Eat it or not, if you don't want to eat, then go to hell! You go hungry for a meal, and Ping'an will not eat or take medicine for a meal. I want to see who will give up first. I really don't know what I owed you in my past life? You are here to bring trouble to me. Not only do you not help me seize the throne, but you also hinder me."

The gate was closed again. Liang Yu couldn't get out and was disturbed by Ji Wei's words. She always felt that a drastic change was about to happen in the palace. Perhaps being imprisoned in this small side hall could be considered as avoiding the bloodshed.

Since traveling to this era and becoming a princess who died young, Liang Yu knew that she had gone back thousands of years. Didn't she also want to change history?

But firstly, Concubine Ji had been unkind to her by abandoning her own weak son, showing she had no motherly heart. Secondly, Liang Sheng's father, the Emperor, had been quite kind to her. He had never pressed her to marry, nor had he intended to use her to win over ministers and princes. He had long since said that her marriage was hers, and even if she didn't marry, she would still enjoy a life of honor as a royal princess. Liang Yu felt that monarchs as enlightened as her father were rare, and since she was living a good life, why should she change?

Thirdly, the history Liang Yu knew was actually just the official history, which was embellished by historians and might be very different from the actual history. It was not something she could change just because she wanted to.

For example, in history, Emperor Liang Sheng unified the country and was deeply in love with his empress, Cui. Later, Empress Cui died of a serious illness, and Liang Sheng passed the throne to his beloved son Liang Yan. But to be honest, Liang Yu felt that Empress Cui and her son's retreat to the temporary palace did not seem like the kind of people who were favored. If they did not harbor resentment, why would they have left the palace and preferred to stay there?

Liang Yu had never come into close contact with the Empress or the Crown Prince. During important sacrificial ceremonies, the Crown Prince only appeared from a distance; she had never even seen his face clearly. Sometimes, Liang Yu even wondered if Empress Cui and her son really existed. But they didn't. The Liang Yan who ultimately ascended the throne in history couldn't have simply appeared out of thin air.

Alas, she couldn't get out, so it was useless to think more.

She slowly shed tears. She only hoped that her brother would be safe and live well. If he died in the palace, she would be overwhelmed by guilt even if she were alive.

"Come here, I want to eat."

Liang Yu's worried brother, Ping An, was imprisoned in a secret room, taking his medicine and eating his meals with great cooperation. After all, his captors wouldn't feel bad for him if he tortured himself, and he was still hoping to see his sister. He sat on the bed in the secret room, wondering if his master, Qiao Zhi, would come to save him. But then, remembering how he had drugged his master and taken his sister away from the Medicine Valley, he felt guilty and didn't dare to see Qiao Zhi.

The air in the secret room was turbid, and he couldn't help coughing several times. He couldn't help but smile bitterly, thinking that he was possessed by a demon. After knowing that he had been abandoned by his biological mother, he wanted to return to the palace to ask her why she gave birth to him but didn't raise him. But now in the secret room, he suddenly realized that some people were destined not to have a mother-son relationship. He shouldn't force it, and there was no need to force it.

Staying in the dim secret room, counting the time according to three meals a day, Ping An thought he would wait for his biological mother, but he waited for someone else.

"Is it you? What are you doing here?"