He favored his concubine and I cut off my wealth. Everyone in the mansion was in a panic.

Mo Wansheng and Lu Tingyu were a loving couple, and they had a deep affection for each other. Not long after, she became pregnant with Lu Yan.

The late emperor could not bear to see the Jing'an Palace gradually recover its former vitality, and had secretly attacked Mo Wansheng several times. Fortunately, this time, Lu Tingyu was prepared and Mo Wansheng was safe and sound.

However, these crises also made Lu Tingyu more aware of the urgency of the matter. In order for Mo Wansheng to give birth safely, Lu Tingyu took Luohui from Tan Ji.

Although the Luohui poison was cruel, it also had an advantage. It would not cause too much harm to Mo Wansheng and the baby in her belly in the early stage.

Unexpectedly, Mo Wansheng actually thought of the same thing as him.

The two poisons collided, and the toxins in Mo Wansheng's body broke out prematurely, but half of the toxicity was accidentally neutralized, and finally a balance was formed in Mo Wansheng's body.

When the late emperor learned that the toxins in Mo Wansheng's body would endanger the fetus, he calmed down, and Mo Wansheng asked Jing Ma to secretly contact Rong Heng, who had met her once before.

She would not let her child have any mishaps.

Such a quiet life lasted until Mo Wansheng gave birth.

Jiang Lingyi, who could not bear to see Lu Tingyu's love affair, told her Chu Lingxiu's identity, and secretly put the Zi Shi Jin from Yun Cheng into Mo Wansheng's ginseng soup.

Later, Mo Wansheng had a difficult delivery and gave birth to Lu Yan after a narrow escape, but both mother and son were tortured by poison.

And during the years when Lu Tingyu disappeared, he did not secretly cultivate power as Lu Yan thought, he was really looking for a way to detoxify.

However, he never found it.

Mo Wansheng knew that the royal family wanted to kill Lu Tingyu and Lu Yan, and was willing to die in pain.

Because the whole Shengjing knew that she and Lu Tingyu were in love, so if she died, Lu Tingyu could completely fade out of the emperor's sight on this ground. As for Lu Yan, a weak prince, he would not be feared by the royal family.

Mo Wansheng was right. The late emperor just couldn't bear to see the Jing'an Palace have a good life.

After Mo Wansheng's death, Lu Tingyu fell into grief, Lu Yan lost his mother, and the late emperor never attacked the Jing'an Palace again.

Later, not long after, the late emperor also died of illness.

Before his death, the late emperor told Chu Nanchen that the reason he targeted the Jing'an Palace was because he knew that Lu Tingyu's father had long been rebellious, and the Jing'an Palace also had the capital to rebel.

As for Jiang Lingyi... He also knew that Jiang Lingyi and Lu Tingyu had a deep relationship, but he could not tolerate the Jing'an Palace and the Jiang Guogong Mansion getting married, which would be a greater threat to the royal family.

Jiang Lingyi can only and must marry into the royal family.

After the emperor finished speaking, there was silence in the room.

The emperor looked up at Lu Yan, "Ayan, the years of grievances between the royal family and the Jing'an Palace will end from your generation, okay?"

Lu Yan was silent for a long time, and finally nodded and said "OK", but his eyes fell on the emperor and the queen with lifeless eyes beside him.

The emperor understood immediately and said with a sad smile: "Don't worry, everyone involved in your mother's death will pay the price, and I and the queen are no exception."

The emperor's time is short, and the queen has committed serious sins and should be buried alive with him.

Lu Yan stood up and took Shen Qing away.

Outside Yonghe Palace, corpses were piled up.

Lu Yan asked Li Ze to take people to pick up the bodies of Lu Tingyu and Zhusha Louye, and then walked towards the palace gate together.

Everything is over, and he and Shen Qing should go home.

Until only himself and the queen were left in the palace, the emperor sighed to her: "Queen, do you really think that if Lu Tingyu wins today, Chu Lingxiu can sit on the throne, and you can continue your relationship with him?"

The queen's eyelids moved, and a hint of sarcasm appeared at the corner of her mouth.

In the past, the queen did think so.

So she forced Lu Tingyu to meet with her in Chenglu Temple every six months in the identity of Chu Lingxiu, just to make Lu Tingyu remember her all the time. As for Mo Wansheng, she was a dead man, and she was disdainful and had no interest in competing.

Then, she sent Yun Cheng to Lu Tingyu to serve him, just to make him more powerful and to enter the palace one day earlier to help her get rid of it.

Until now, the queen knew that Lu Tingyu's compromises over the years were just illusions. He was using his own hands to eliminate dissidents step by step and weaken Chu Nanchen's power step by step; at the same time, he also used the emperor's hand to eliminate his own power step by step.

In Lu Tingyu's eyes, Jiang Lingyi was no different from a chess piece.

Thinking of this, the queen's heart was filled with pain.

Ha! After years of calculation and planning, it turned out to be a joke in the end.

The queen couldn't help but think that if she had accepted her fate and become Chu Nanchen's crown princess and queen, then her son would become the future emperor, and she would have no worries in her life.

But she was greedy.

She wanted to hold power and have her lover by her side.

So in the end, she lost everything.

…

When Shen Qing and Lu Yan returned to the Jing'an Palace, the sky was just turning pale.

The snow had stopped falling at some point, and the darkness in the sky had also dissipated.

Lu Yan held Shen Qing's hand tightly and walked into the palace together.

After a sleepless night, Shen Qing's eyebrows were already slightly tired. Lu Yan took off her outer coat full of cold air and wanted her to take a nap, but Shen Qing shook her head.

With so many things happening, Shen Qing couldn't sleep at all. Even if she slept, it was to deceive Lu Yan.

Shen Qing had done this several times recently.

Seeing this, Lu Yan didn't force it. He asked Shen Qing to take care of herself and then went to prepare for Lu Tingyu's funeral.

Shen Qing called Chan Yi and asked her to leave the house with Li Ze now and prepare three coffins, especially for Lu Tingyu, which must be the best.

Although Lu Tingyu was full of bitterness, it was an indisputable fact that he had rebelled, so Lu Yan could not hold a funeral for him in a grand manner, but Shen Qing still wanted to make this funeral as decent as possible.

After explaining the most important things, Shen Qing looked at Haitang and Mujin and asked about the situation of Wu Liehou's father and daughter and Qi Yichuan. When he learned that they were not in danger of life, he did not care anymore.

As for Tan, before leaving the palace, Shen Qing still chose to tell Qi Lie where Tan's body was.

Originally, Shen Qing planned to let Tan die, but after learning the truth of the matter, this idea disappeared.

When he dealt with everything and went over, Lu Yan had already ordered people to build the mourning hall.

At this time, Lu Yan was standing in a corner, staring at the white silk flowers in front of the mourning hall in a daze.

Shen Qing put a cloak on him to block the biting cold wind in the morning.

"Jiaojiao, ten years ago, the day when my mother was buried was also like this. The heavy snow stopped for a while, and everything was white."

There was no emotion in Lu Yan's voice, but Shen Qing could hear a deep sadness in it.

At the age of eighteen, Lu Tingyu was alone.

Twenty years later, Lu Yan was eighteen and lost his parents again.

Although the struggle between the royal family and the Jing'an Palace stopped in Lu Yan's generation, what had happened could not be reversed.

The tragedy of Lu Tingyu's life and the innocent death of Mo Wansheng were a foregone conclusion and could not be changed.

Shen Qing grasped Lu Yan's cold fingertips and used the warmth of his palm to dispel the coldness for him, "After ten years of separation, my father can finally see my mother again. I believe he is also happy."

Lu Yan lowered his eyes, and his eyes, which were almost covered by frost, slowly melted.

With a gentle pull, he pulled Shen Qing into his arms.

Shen Qing wrapped her arms around his waist, and suddenly felt a drop of warm liquid slide down her neck into her heart, and then hit her heart hard.