Her guards

Chapter 278 Dissection
That maid.

The emperor now recalls that he can't even remember her face.

He had known from the beginning that she was a maid, so he paid no more attention to her.

When she appeared before him, she was silent and barely uttered a word.

The only time she spoke more was when she stopped Heisei from taking away all the female companions at the National Academy.

She stepped forward to stop the Empress from questioning her, and instead uttered a series of sharp rebukes.

"...Your Majesty, when you first stormed the capital, wasn't it because the previous emperor was incompetent and the treacherous officials were wicked..."

"...Your Majesty, you became the Son of Heaven precisely to bring order to the world and peace to the people, didn't you?"

These questions left him both moved and excited.

This was the first time he had ever looked at the maid properly.

She was elegant and refined, like a true scholar.

Unexpectedly, she turned out to be... a prince from the previous dynasty.

This descendant of the former Mo family had been by his side all along.

She must also know that she is investigating the remnants of the Mo family, right?

You must find him ridiculous and smug!
“She didn’t kill me,” the emperor said coldly. “She knew that even if she killed me, she wouldn’t be able to secure her throne.”

“Your Majesty, why don’t you think that she doesn’t want to fight for the throne?” Yang Luo said.

The emperor laughed and looked at Yang Luo kneeling on the ground.

"As a descendant of the Mo clan, even if she doesn't fight for power, others will use her to create chaos in the world!"

"I know that what Zhu Yunxiao said is a lie, but I accept it and am willing to pretend that you don't know it and not investigate you any further. Let's just let this matter go."

"I never imagined you would be so absurd, killing Zhu Yunxiao and then coming to threaten me!"

At this point, the emperor sighed again.

“It’s my fault that you and your daughter were in danger. She saved your life, and you trusted her completely and were deceived by her.”

"I do not blame you."

"It's my fault for not teaching you; you don't understand anything."

As soon as he finished speaking, Yang Luo, who was kneeling on the ground, laughed.

“Your Majesty, you are overthinking it,” she said. “Although I did not have a father to teach me, I have a mother.”

She looked at the emperor.

"I didn't have a father to teach me how to be an emperor, but I had a mother to teach me how to be a person."

"Don't assume that I was deceived and blindly repaid someone's kindness just because you think you're an emperor."

“I knew from the beginning that her background was strange.”

"I even know that she saved me, but not really just to save me."

"But so what? Who in this world doesn't have selfish desires? I don't need to know what the other person is thinking; I just need to achieve what I want."

“I am not here to persuade you, much less to instruct you on how to be an emperor. I simply want to tell you what I did and why I did it.”

She started her story from the time she first met Mo Zheng, of course concealing the fact that she had been reborn, and only saying that her various analyses of the situation of her relatives in the capital were all speculations.

"Although I have noticed many suspicious points, I still keep him as my guard. Your Majesty, is this the best way for me to save my own life?"

"She revealed her true identity to me, and I immediately switched identities with her. Your Majesty, isn't this the best way for me to conceal my identity and protect myself?"

"She revealed her true identity to me, and I still used her identity. I have finally met Your Majesty. Is this the time for me to finally get my revenge?"

She looked at the emperor and smiled.

“Back then, if you admitted that you killed Yang Tong, I would have helped her kill you, and that way my great revenge would have been achieved, and I would have gotten the result I wanted.”

“If you have nothing to do with my mother’s death, but she still wants to do it out of selfishness, I will protect you with my life. Even if you come alone, you will definitely have guards by your side. She will not be able to succeed easily by herself, and she will die immediately.”

"Even if you question me, if I produce the birth certificate you gave me back then, and we are related by blood, you will surely save my life."

"In this way, I not only eliminated the threat of her, but also got back to my father."

Listening to the young girl's story in the palace, the emperor's expression was complicated. This was the first time he had heard his daughter recount the details of her journey, and the first time she had shed her obedient smile and soothing words to lay bare herself to him.

He saw her trembling fear, her ruthless gloom, and her reckless audacity.

She asked him if she had done the right thing along the way, and he was somewhat at a loss for words...

If it were him, in that situation, he might have made the same choice...

"As for killing Zhu Yunxiao this time, it is a choice I have to make."

Yang Luo looked at the emperor and said coldly, "It's not that I'm truly willing to risk my life for Asheng. If Zhu Yunxiao doesn't die, I will surely face certain death in the future."

“He has exonerated me now, but his words are full of loopholes. Your Majesty, you yourself have doubts. You only spare me now because I am your daughter, but what about later?”

"If Zhu Yunxiao can use this to blackmail me in the future, Your Majesty will distance yourself from me because of it, and I will also become enemies with the Chai family. How can I have a good life in the future?"

After saying this, she looked at the emperor and smiled again.

"Your Majesty, do you think that eliminating Zhu Yunxiao to cut off any potential threat would be in my best interest?"

Looking at the smiling face of the kneeling girl, the emperor was momentarily at a loss for how to react.

His body was covered in blood, his face was all smiles, and his mind was full of thoughts... like a madman.

Yang Luo sighed softly.

“Your Majesty has always called me Luoying, but I have never responded, because Luoying is just the Luoying you imagine, while I, Yang Luo…” She looked at the emperor, “ am someone who suddenly lost her mother, suddenly fled, suddenly learned of another identity, and has been trying to figure out how to survive.”

The emperor slowly exhaled, looking exhausted: "You don't need to say these things, I won't blame you..."

“I’m not asking Your Majesty not to blame me,” Yang Luo said.

The emperor's eyebrows shot up: "After all that, you're still going to plead for that person?!"

Yang Luo looked at him but did not answer directly.

“Although I have met Your Majesty for so long,” she said, “I don’t really know what kind of person you are. But I think that you must be an extraordinary person to have conquered the world. Before you became emperor, you must have done many things that seem unbelievable but were necessary to do during your conquest of the world.”

The emperor felt a slight pang of melancholy. Conquering the empire was certainly not a pleasant process; he was constantly forced to do things against his will. His thoughts were far more complex than those of the daughter before him…

"I am a woman, how can I accept someone like this by my side?"

Yang Luo said, "Kneel up straight and bow to the emperor above."

"As the emperor, can't you allow such a person to live?"

"Moreover, what she is doing now is also in your favor."

……

……

In autumn in Longxi, the wind howls and the sand stings your face.

The sounds of fighting coming from Gangu ahead gradually subsided after three days and three nights.

A sound of horses' hooves rushed over from the sandstorm further west.

Upon seeing the figure leading the way ahead, the people hidden in the hills and ravines jumped up immediately.

"Ah Sheng—"

Huang Chengling shouted happily.

The approaching horses slowed down, and Mo Zheng pulled down her headscarf, revealing that her body was stained with blood, and her face was also splattered with it.

"The troops from Wucheng have retreated; they dare not come to support Wei Cui," she said with a smile, looking ahead. "How is it? Have Wei Cui's men launched a surprise attack?"

Huang Chengling shook his head: "No, we've been guarding this place the whole time."

Mo Zheng frowned slightly and looked towards where Gangu was.

"They actually held out for so long?" she said.

As they spoke, several people came rushing from the direction of Gangu.

"Uncle Hei—" Mo Zheng waved hurriedly.

Uncle Hei jumped off his horse: "The Wuyang army has breached Gangu, and a search of the city revealed that Wei Cui has already fled."

Ran?

Huang Chengling quickly said, "They didn't come to our side."

Mo Zheng's expression faltered slightly: "They didn't come to Wucheng either, then..."

She suddenly thought of something and looked behind Uncle Hei.

Where is Wei Jiao?

Uncle Hei was taken aback: "He complained that he couldn't take the city and couldn't seize command of the Wuyang Army, so he said he was coming to find you. What, you didn't come?"

Huang Chengling found this absurd.

It was normal for them to tie up Wei Jiao and take him to Gangu City to threaten Wei Cui.

But how can we let him run around like that?
Since Wei Cui has run away, of course Wei Jiao will run away too!
"It would be better if he ran away," Mo Zheng murmured.

I'm afraid Wei Jiao will deal with Wei Cui himself.

Upon discovering that Wei Cui had run away, he didn't reveal a single word and chased after her alone. Was he deliberately abandoning her as revenge?
Damn it!
(End of this chapter)