latelenovela Chapter 628 The First Person Who Gave Him Warmth
Chapter 628 The First Person Who Gave Him Warmth
Wu Xin personally stepped forward and slapped Shu Ronghua twice, and then asked other eunuchs to beat Shu Yan until her face was swollen and her mouth was full of blood.
Shu Yan kept begging for mercy but no one listened to her. She wanted Helan Yanran to take the blame, but Wu Xin didn't give her a chance.
Xie Shang asked officials from the Ministry of Clan Affairs to investigate the case. Zhu Zhenzhen and Madam Liu were suspects and were also taken away by the officers and soldiers from the Ministry of Clan Affairs.
Jiang Fenghua did not stop them. He thought that detaining them first might be the best way to protect them.
As New Year's Eve approached, someone died in the palace and everyone was trembling with fear.
The emperor really listened to the queen's advice and set up the mourning hall for Concubine Zhang Jing and Concubine Pan in Shoukang Palace. What was even more shocking was that the Empress Dowager lived in Shoukang Palace, but the emperor did not move the Empress Dowager to another palace and even sent the Imperial Guards to guard it strictly.
It is more like obedience than suggestion. The Emperor listens to the Queen. Now who dares to offend the Queen, let alone express dissatisfaction?
Jiang Fenghua was worried and sent people to guard Shoukang Palace. She and Xie Shang returned to the imperial study.
Seeing that she hadn't said a word the whole way, Xie Shang took the initiative to explain when he entered the imperial study: "I didn't tell you the truth because I was afraid you wouldn't be able to accept it."
"You are the one who feels guilty and can't get over it!" Jiang Fenghua directly exposed him, "At the beginning, Jiang Fenghua married Prince Heng as his princess, but Prince Heng didn't like her. When Prince Heng found out that he liked Jiang Fenghua, Jiang Fenghua told him that she didn't like him either. Doesn't it sound very funny?"
Xie Shang was stunned, "Who told you this?"
"You're afraid that I'll know that there are other women in your palace who are pregnant, so you hide them all. Are you planning to lie to me forever?"
"No."
"Let me guess. You plan to let them give birth to the baby and kill the mother while keeping the baby." Jiang Fenghua said coldly.
Xie Shang frowned, furious. "Jiang Fenghua, you think so of me. I am so dark and vicious in your heart. I lied to you because I was afraid you couldn't accept it. What you want is a lifelong partner. No matter before or now, I can't give you a lifelong partner. I'm afraid you will leave again."
Jiang Fenghua said coldly: "You know you can't give it to me, why do you still come to me? I am living a good life outside."
"The person I love has always been you, and only you. Can't you feel it? You forgot. I can explain. I can slowly tell you that they entered the harem to fulfill their mission. Their mission is to give birth to an heir. The royal family needs an heir. I have never treated them and their families unfairly. Have I done anything wrong? You never cared about these things before."
Jiang Fenghua was furious. "I didn't care about these things before. I didn't care how many women you had and how many heirs you had. Since you liked Jiang Fenghua so much at that time, why did you quarrel with her every day? You wanted her to love you, but you also wanted her not to care. Why should she put herself in a difficult position? Didn't she also give birth to three heirs for you? She also made contributions to your royal family. What's the difference between her existence and the deceased Concubine Pan and Concubine Zhang Jing? Just treat her as dead. Why do you want to bring her back?"
Xie Shang slowed down his voice, "Ruan Ruan, I'm sorry, that's not what I meant. The children between you and me are different from their children."
"What's the difference? The child I gave birth to is also the heir to the throne, and I am also giving birth to descendants for the royal family."
"It's different." Xie Shang didn't know how to explain it clearly. He held her in his arms and said, "Ruan Ruan, I love you. Even if you don't have children, I still love you."
"When I saw them dying in childbirth, or even dying in front of me, I wished I could go back to the time before I lost my memory. At least then I could establish a reputation as a "virtuous queen" like before and arrange for them to safely give birth to the royal heir. No one would be killed because of me. Zhang Jingjing believed in me until she died, but I forgot about her. Do you know how I felt? I thought she was killed because of me."
She felt nothing but fear when she recalled the bloody and horrific scene. What was ridiculous was that Xie Shang only regarded them as tools to produce royal heirs. They used their lives to produce children, but they were just tools.
How sad it is to be a woman!
If Xie Shang doesn't like her, is she also a tool for him to have children?
What she didn't know was that if she had no value, she wouldn't even be able to be a tool for giving birth to children. This was the reality of marrying into the royal family.
The emperor loves her but not them, and she doesn't know whether she should be happy or not.
When she sees Concubine Gao and Concubine Song in the future, will she want to live with them in love and affection?
It seems that Jiang Fenghua’s best choice was not to love him.
Nanny Wang told her everything, about Concubine Su, Concubine Ye, and Imperial Concubine Tang, and even why Zhu Zhenzhen had become crazy. Nanny Wang was not trying to help Zhu Zhenzhen at all, but was only taking extra care of her because she was moved by Nanny Liu's loyalty.
When she heard this, she couldn't quite understand her previous behavior, why she had to compete for favor, fight, and seize. Now she finally understood that she could only live a more comfortable life by choosing not to love.
Who made Xie Shang the emperor?
She said calmly, "I want to find out the real cause of their death. No matter who did it, I will make her pay the price."
Xie Shang didn't expect that Jiang Fenghua, who had lost his memory, would still help them.
Xie Shang said again: "Ruan Ruan, the Empress Dowager may have returned to the capital to seize the throne for Prince Kang. She returned to the palace, so I let her live in Shoukang Palace. I didn't expect that she would hold a tea party as soon as she came back and cause such a big incident."
"Isn't she your great-grandmother? She wants to seize the kingdom of your Xie family?"
Xie Shang added: "There are still many things I haven't had time to tell you. I was afraid that you couldn't handle it. It's not that I didn't want to tell you, but I didn't expect her to act so quickly and not consider the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren."
Jiang Fenghua thought to himself: It’s this sentence again.
She saw that Xie Shang's eyes were full of coldness, and there was a cold light in his deep pupils, as if there was no emotion at all. No wonder she was so cold to his mother. Is there really no family affection in the royal family?
Xie Shang told Jiang Fenghua about the dispute between his father and Prince Kang.
Jiang Fenghua felt upset after hearing this. It turned out that his father had no mother-son love or brotherly love in his life.
No wonder he was so cold and heartless to the women in the harem. Empress Dowager Cheng didn’t really love her son, did she?
He was the son of the previous emperor, so Empress Dowager Cheng considered him in everything, just for the sake of him becoming emperor.
Xie Shang is really pitiful.
Jiang Fenghua asked him, "With so many women, including your favorite concubine Su, why do you say you only love me?"
"Because you are Jiang Fenghua, I only love you. Even if Jiang Fenghua doesn't love me, I still love her." The reason why he really fell in love with Jiang Fenghua was that she was the first person who gave him warmth.
She felt that he was hiding something from her. He could accept that she didn't love him. Was there something wrong with him?