After having sex with a fake eunuch, I became the queen

As Xue Feng said, a very lively face appeared on the dead head. Although the face was pale and the eyes were closed, it looked like a living person resting with eyes closed, peaceful and serene.

It was exactly the same as the face of his mother that Ji Yin had longed to see again and that always appeared in his dreams for many years... It was actually his mother's head. Eighteen years had passed, and it was still preserved so well.

No matter how much Ji Yin repeatedly reminded himself to stay calm beforehand, when that lifelike face appeared before his eyes, his heart still trembled violently, a moment of emptiness flashed through his mind, and tears welled up in his eyes.

"After so many years, he still recognized my mother. It must be Ji Ji'er who has returned." Xiao Qian observed Ji Ji'er's reaction and made a conclusion immediately.

"Why do you want to preserve my mother's body like this?" Ji Ying asked.

"Oh! I really can't believe it! I clearly stabbed the knife into my heart back then!" Xiao Qian answered the question irrelevantly. Perhaps it was because he was deeply touched after confirming that Ji Yin was alive, and he only expressed his regrets to himself.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your mercy. You didn't pierce my vital point, but only stabbed a non-fatal acupoint on my chest (Note 1)." Ji Ying followed Xiao Qian's words and made a hypocritical gesture of thanks, with a hypocritical gratitude in his tone.

"It seems that my knife skills are really not good enough! Alas! It's because you, Ji'er, are not destined to die." When the Queen Mother said this, the expression on her face was a rare display of true feelings, and there was not a bit of tenderness or affectation - her face was full of regret, as if she really wanted to go back to that moment and cut the knife that had stabbed into Ji'er's heart a few more times.

"The Queen Mother has not yet answered me, why did you save my mother's head?"

"Hahaha." Xiao Qian suddenly laughed out loud after hearing this, with some arrogance and contempt in his laughter, "Saved your mother's head? I hated to see her when she was alive, but now we are separated by the Yin and Yang and don't have to see each other again. Why should I do this? The one who saved your mother's head must be someone else."

"Someone else? Who could it be?" Ji Ying suddenly became curious and asked anxiously.

"Of course it's your lifesaver, Er."

"My savior? Which savior are you referring to?"

"He's the lifesaver who rescued you, Yu'er, from the palace!"

"What? The person who rescued me from the palace? Who is that person?" When Ji Ying heard her say this, his tone became more anxious, and his eagerness to know the answer was clearly written on his face.

"What? Xi'er, don't you know who rescued you from the palace? Someone actually did a good deed without leaving a name. Hahaha!" Xiao Qian laughed contemptuously again.

Ji Ying didn't say anything, just waited for her to reveal the answer.

"Qian'er, you finally asked the right person. Fortunately, I found out in time and can help you solve your doubts."

"Then tell me quickly!" Ji Yin urged patiently.

"You asked at the right time, my dear. I had just found out the truth and you came to ask me right after that." Xiao Qian continued to keep the suspense slowly.

Ji Ying stopped urging her and continued to wait for her follow-up.

"Back then, I handed the bodies of you and your son to Fan Mingchu to deal with. As a result, one of you came back alive, but he kept the head of the other one and made him into a human head toy!" Xiao Qian's words were like a thunderclap exploding in Ji Yin's ears, causing his head to buzz continuously after he heard them.

"Isn't it unbelievable? You all must have hated Fan Mingchu to death, but you didn't expect that he would do such a great thing for you. Not only did you not expect it, I didn't expect it either. I always thought he was the most loyal dog around me. It was because I trusted him so much that I handed over the bodies of you and Concubine Ling to him without any suspicion. A few days ago, when I heard that you might still be alive, I began to feel that there was something wrong with this man. After the city was captured, the Restoration Army spread the word that you were not dead and you were still alive, so they sent guards to capture him and interrogate him thoroughly. They happened to see him talking to himself in front of your mother's head. He was completely confessing! After being caught in front of me, he admitted it without saying a word."

"What! Where is Fan Mingchu now? Why is he doing this?" The thunder in Ji Ying's mind still did not stop.

"Alas! I have always believed in not employing people I doubt, and trusting people I employ. Trusting such a person is the biggest failure of my life, so I punished him personally before you arrived."

"What? You mean he's dead?"

"He's a traitor, and even death is too easy for him." Xiao Qian said, and turned his head to one side, his eyes pointed to a certain place: "Yu'er, your savior is right there. You haven't seen him for many years, right? Do you want to go over and see what your savior looks like now?"

The old woman didn't know that Ji Yin had already sneaked into Longchang Palace and met Fan Mingchu, so she asked this question.

Ji Yin quickly glanced in the direction of her gaze, and at the same time used his peripheral vision to lock onto the every move of the guard beside the old woman, in case of a trick and a sneak attack. On the floor in the direction Xiao Qian pointed, a few feet away from them, there was a body lying motionless. Judging from the clothes, it was a eunuch, and from the accessories, it was a high-ranking eunuch. Although Ji Yin couldn't see his face, he immediately recognized from his clothes and body shape that this person should be Fan Mingchu without a doubt... This person who made him hate to the bone turned out to be his lifesaver who had always been beyond his solution, and had been punished by Xiao Qian himself.

After Ji Yin identified the corpse, he did not follow the old woman's advice and go forward to "pay a visit" to his benefactor. Instead, he stood there without moving an inch. After looking back, his eyes were once again fixed on Xiao Qian and his guards.

"Could it be that Fan Mingchu once coveted my mother, so he took the opportunity to deal with the corpse and kept my mother's head as a souvenir?" Ji Yin thought about it and felt that this was the only explanation that made sense. However, even if he could imagine this extreme method, he would never do it. He actually didn't let the deceased rest in peace.

"Rather than saying that he coveted your mother, it would be better to say that your father stole someone else's love first." Xiao Qian replied with some contempt in his tone.

Ji Yu did not say anything, but a hint of surprise appeared on his face. Then he looked at the person who spoke with an eye that showed he was eager to hear more.

"Fan Mingchu's original name was Huang Fu. When he was young, he was a talented prodigy in Jinling Prefecture. He wanted to take the imperial examination and enter the official career. At the age of fifteen, he ranked first in the county examination. However, he was tripped up by someone and was disqualified from participating in the provincial examination. Otherwise, such a talented and gifted person might have been able to enter the top three in the palace examination, or even get the top prize or something. Yu'er, do you know who this villain is?" Xiao Qian was actually very good at telling stories. He stopped talking as soon as he told the beginning of the story, wanting to know what would happen next.

Ji Yin was indeed attracted by the story. He shook his head to indicate that he didn’t know and would wait for further developments.

"It's your father, Emperor Jingxuan!" After Xiao Qian revealed the answer, he paused again. Perhaps he felt that this was a reversal of a story or the beginning of another story, and that he needed some storytelling skills to set the mood.

Ji Ying continued to listen attentively.

"Your mother, Wu Yun'er, is also a well-known talented woman in Jinling Prefecture. The Wu family and the Huang family were old friends. Wu Yun'er and Huang Fu have been engaged since childhood, and they have been childhood sweethearts. Because your mother is two years older than Huang Fu, the two families agreed that they don't have to wait for the palace examination and can get married after the provincial examination." When Xiao Qian mentioned Ji Yin's mother, his eyes moved to the head beside him, and the hand supporting the head gently stroked a strand of hair on the head.

Her action made Ji Yin's heart tremble, for fear that she would do something destructive to the head.

"Your father was born to be a person who loves to write and enjoy the pleasures of life, so he loves talents. He admires talented men and naturally likes talented women. Jinling Prefecture is a place with a strong scholarly atmosphere. Your father often went there incognito to participate in the Cailou Poetry Competition held on the eve of the New Year (Note 2). During one of the poetry competitions, he was attracted by the amazing talent of Wu Yuner, who came to participate in the poetry competition, and he wanted to take her into the harem. Later, he found out that this talented woman had already been engaged, so he decided to make trouble to disrupt it. Because he heard that the man was participating in the After the provincial examination, the two wanted to get married, so they asked someone to instruct the officials in charge of the provincial examination qualification review to find a random reason to cancel Huang Fu's provincial examination qualification. If he couldn't even take the provincial examination, how could he get married. As for the reason, it was actually related to me, saying that Huang Fu, the student, was a distant relative of mine, and they wanted to avoid suspicion of being a foreign relative. Hahaha, even I didn't know I had such a distant relative. It's ridiculous! "After Xiao Qian finished telling this story, as if to continue to set the mood, he started laughing again.

"So since Fan Mingchu can't take part in the provincial examination, their engagement will be cancelled?" Ji Yin asked.

"It was Fan Mingchu who took the initiative to cancel the marriage. He was proud of his outstanding talent and giftedness. His family had high hopes for him since he was a child. He was a very face-conscious person, so he naturally couldn't accept the outcome of not being able to take part in the provincial examination. So he felt ashamed to marry the talented woman from Jinling Mansion. This incident was a big blow to him. Later, Wu Yun'er was summoned to the palace, so he asked someone to inquire about the whole story. Only then did he know that it was the current emperor who broke up his good marriage for his own selfish interests and ruined his ideals and future."

"So he entered the palace and became a eunuch, intending to take revenge on his father?" Ji Yin followed up with the conversation.

"Yes, he was young and talented at the time. He changed his name and fabricated another identity for himself, and entered the palace smoothly. Your father naturally didn't know who he was. Your mother thought that he had to take this alternative career path because he couldn't follow the regular official career path. She didn't know his true intentions, so she didn't reveal his true identity to your father. When she found out later, it was too late."

"Could it be that his revenge is to help Your Majesty the Queen seize power?"

"Since your father has destroyed everything for him, he will take revenge. He wants to destroy everything your father has, his kingdom, and the time he and your mother had together. But as a lowly eunuch, he has little chance of even seeing the emperor, let alone taking revenge on him. In the end, he still has to rely on me. After seeing clearly the various camps, he took the initiative to show his goodwill to me and said he wanted to work for me. What he wanted happened to coincide with what I wanted, and he was a useful talent, so I accepted him and gave him the opportunity to show his talents in front of Emperor Jingxuan to win his favor and trust."

After entering the palace, Ji Yu saw Fan Mingchu's sanctimonious appearance as a scholar, and he had always been puzzled. Why did his father, who had been kind to him, turn against him and join Empress Xiao's camp? Today, his puzzlement was finally solved: "Fan Mingchu wanted to destroy his father's kingdom in order to avenge his father. This is too cruel!"

"To him, isn't passing the imperial examination his kingdom? A trumped-up reason prevents him from taking the imperial examination for the rest of his life, and his entire kingdom is destroyed. Why shouldn't he retaliate? Your father deserves it. He has destroyed other people's marriages and ruined their futures. Retribution is inevitable." Xiao Qian seemed to be very disapproving. Although he had punished the traitor with hatred, he still spoke up for him angrily.

"Since Fan Mingchu hates my father and mother so much, why did he save me?"

"After I took Fan Mingchu in, I was always worried that he still had feelings for your mother, because people with feelings in their hearts are always soft-hearted. In order to prove to me that he was no longer interested in women after his death, he publicly reported the concubines and palace maids who showed him favor. He also told me that since he knew that it was because of your mother that his future was ruined, he hated your mother to the core and no longer had any thoughts about her. Those who ruined his future were his enemies. I actually believed him."

"Your Majesty, do you mean that he saved me because he still had feelings for my mother?"

"Fan Mingchu really hated your father, but his hatred for your mother was probably just out of love, or he couldn't even tell the difference between love and hate, otherwise he wouldn't have left his head behind. That's why I say that people with love in their hearts that can't be broken off should never be used." When the old woman said this, she had an expression of regret on her face.

After hearing what Xiao Qian said, Ji Yin quickly glanced at the body of his benefactor not far away. He really hoped that he was still alive. There were some things he wanted to ask him.

(End of this chapter)