Chapter 90 – Thunderstorm (below)

A bolt of lightning swept through the dark clouds above Kyoto, moments later, a muffled thunderclap rang out, shaking the entire palace began to tremble, a crashing downpour fell, wetting everything in the imperial city, the rainwater converged under the palace in a very short period of time, flowing downwards along the gaps between the glazed tiles, the sound was extremely loud.

At this time is still spring, if there is thunder, should also be dry thunder boom, and like this thunderstorm weather, can not help but appear a little sudden and weird, do not know whether the heaven in anger, or the son of heaven has been angry.

The emperor walked into the gate of Guangxin Palace, turned back and slowly closed the palace door, and then took a hair band from his wrist, meticulously tied up his drenched hair, meticulous and uncluttered, not as good as his mood at this time.

The Rapunzel half leaned on top of the short couch and looked at him and suddenly ate and laughed.

In today’s moment, the empty Guangxin Palace suddenly appeared such a burst of silver bell-like laughter, laughter in the sound of the wind and rain echoed, although crisp, but could not hide, passing around, appearing unusually bizarre.

The Emperor’s face remained unchanged, slowly walking forward, walking to the short couch before the Eldest Princess.

Behind him, a straight wet footprints, the distance between each footprint was so even, the line formed by the footprints, as if drawn straight.

Not silent for a long time, the emperor looked at Li Yunrui indifferently and asked word by word: “Why?”

Then the eldest princess Li Yunrui fell into silence.

She frowned her pretty brows, her greenish fingers gently tapping the short couch beside her, her watery pupils flickering with doubt and innocence like a young schoolgirl’s.

She seemed to be thinking, seemed to be wondering, seemed to be at a loss for words.

However, she finally raised her head, tilted her face, looked at the man with the greatest power in the world in front of her with a calm face, her vermilion lips slightly opened, her jade teeth gently parted, and gently said, “What why?”

At this time from the emperor asked those three words, has passed a long time, and the emperor seems to be very patient to hear the answer.

Not waiting for the emperor to continue to pursue the question, Li Yunrui suddenly sucked in a mouthful of cool air, blinked his big eyes, covered his lips with his hand, and said, “You are asking why?”

“Why?”

She suddenly laughed and stood up, standing across from the emperor without showing any weakness, staring sharply at him with those two resentful gazes, asking word for word, “Brother emperor, are you asking why sister hasn’t married yet when she’s in her thirties? Or are you asking why my sister shamelessly seduced the Scholar at the age of fifteen? Or are you asking why my sister has raised so many faces?”

She gently bit her lip and took a step closer to the emperor, staring into his eyes and asking in a tone that was cold to the bone, “Why? Why did Eldest Princess Li Yunrui let go of her years of glory, wealth, and light and easy-goingness, yet she had to take care of the inner treasury for the court for so many years? Why does she, this fool, have to forcibly suppress her disgust and collect talents for the Emperor of Qing? Why did she have to labor to deal with the other kingdoms? Why did she secretly form a Junshan Society to kill people that the Emperor was inconvenienced by, to engage in conspiracies that would dishonor the court?”

“Why?” Li Yunrui stared earnestly at the emperor, flicked her cloud sleeves, and said pointedly, “Brother Emperor, why do you think it is? Why would I be so stupid to such an extent? Why is it that you are the most honorable and brightest character in the entire world, but I am willing to become that darkest character behind you? Why do I have to bear all this fame?”

The Emperor was silent and cold, looking at her pitifully.

The Rapunzel suddenly laughed nervously, “Isn’t it all for you? My dearest brother, you want to be famous in history, those dirty things, then must be borne by others …… But have you thought about it, what about me?”

“What about me?”

The eldest princess angrily grabbed the emperor’s dragon robe and said hatefully, “I also have to ask you why! Why did you take away everything that belongs to me! Why don’t you have any affection? Look at that illegitimate son of yours …… You took everything from me and gave it to him …… Why? I know all of it will be gone, and I’m willing to do it, as long as you are …… But it can’t be him! Why is it him!”

Li Yunrui gasped twice, then swiftly calmed down, glanced at the emperor with a pitiful gaze, and slowly said, “It’s a pity that …… that bastard son of yours is still only willing to be surnamed Fan.”

The emperor looked at her in silence, and after a long time slowly said, “You are crazy.”

“I’m not crazy!” Li Yunrui screamed angrily, “I was crazy for the previous ten years or so! But today, I’m not crazy!”

“You’re crazy.” The emperor said indifferently, “You’ve asked so many why’s, as if the root cause of all this is on me, but have you thought about it, your preference for power has reached a monstrous level.”

“Monstrous?” Li Yunrui frowned, flashing an expression of contempt, “A woman wanting power is a deformity, then what are you, the person with the most power in the world, considered?”

“Unbridled!” The emperor squeezed out extremely low words from his throat and waved his hand to strike.

Rapunzel tilted her face, looking at him indifferently, looking at his palm, not caring at all.

“Everything you have is given to you by me.” The emperor slowly withdrew his palm and said coldly, “I can easily take it all back.”

“Everything I have is what I have earned by my own efforts.” The eldest princess looked at him coldly, “If you want to take it all back, unless you kill me.”

Another clap of thunder sounded outside the palace, and the storm seemed to have gotten heavier. The emperor looked at his sister, suddenly laughed, but the laughter carried a cold to the extreme flavor, “Could it be …… that you think that I …… can not spare to kill you?”

“Of course you shed.” Eldest Princess Li Yunrui’s eyes suddenly flashed a hint of mocking flavor, “Is there anyone in this world that you can’t spare to kill?”

The emperor, who had been calm, was suddenly stabbed somewhere deep inside by this look.

Li Yunrui coldly looked into his eyes and said, “Brother emperor, wake up …… don’t always disguise yourself as the most affectionate person in the entire world, I think you have already been to the eastern palace and shown your loss of temper, it seems that you have been wounded deep down inside… …But who to fool? Don’t lie to yourself, you’ve been waiting to remove me, you just feel indebted to me deep down, so you need to find a reason to convince yourself.”

She spoke meanly, “Yes, just convince yourself …… so that you can feel that killing your own sister with your own hands, the one who followed you since childhood and grew up to give countless more years of her life for you, wasn’t your problem either, but it was just me… …damned!”

When he said the word damned, Li Yunrui’s voice sharpened.

And the emperor had closed his eyes when he heard the word donggong and said slowly after a long time, “After all, you are my own sister, the one that mother empress loves the most. If it is not to this point, I will in any case to protect you all the world’s wealth and prosperity …… you chaotic dynastic program, burying private soldiers, using the Ming family, the group Junshan will, which one is not the great crime of deceiving the king, however, what are these counted …… you are, after all, I am my own sister, I love my sister since childhood, I do not sin you. I do not sin you, you will not be guilty of …… these years whether you betrayed the speech ice cloud that boy, or want to assassinate Fan Xian, I do not blame you. Because …… I don’t think these things are a big deal.”

He opened his eyes, and his eyes had already calmed down, “But you shouldn’t have meddled amongst those nephews of yours …… Lao Er has already been taken on a crooked path by you, even though it’s still well covered up on the surface.”

Li Yunrui interjected with a sneer, “Your own son, was driven mad by yourself.”

“What about Chengqian?” The emperor stared hard into Li Yunrui’s eyes, “Do you know that he is the crown prince! He is the next emperor that I have carefully nurtured! I am going to lay down a great kingdom, so I want this child to guard it for me for ten thousand years……. If you assist him, I will only be happy, but you are confusing him!”

Another muffled thunder rang out in the sky, the sound was not how loud, but it shook the palace of Guangxin Palace, yet right in the midst of this heaven and earth’s might, the emperor’s angry voice was still that sharp, piercing into the ears of the eldest princess.

Electricity seeped through the window, dazzling Guangxin Palace brightly for a moment, in this moment, the emperor stretched out his stable right hand, strangling the eldest princess’s throat, pushing forward, stepping all the way through the short couch, pushing through the screen, this Qing’s most beautiful woman against the palace wall, veins between the fingers are exposed, is exerting force!

Rapunzel breathing is a little difficult, but did not call for help, did not beg for mercy, just coldly drooping pity looking at the angry middle-aged man in front of her, white as a swan neck was choked by that hand, the blood flow is not smooth, so that her face reddened, but instead, more a touch of bizarre and moving beauty.

“I …… have never thought of changing the first …… all, just for the future of Chengqian, because my Jiangshan, need a lenient and powerful monarch to inherit, and all this . …has all been ruined by you!” The Emperor roared angrily, “Why!”

The red-faced Rapunzel’s eyes flashed with a hint of doubt, followed by insight after realization, she smiled and gasped, “So …… this is all a trick you’re putting on, so it turns out that Fan Xian is also being toyed with by you, and I think he’ll die a much worse death than I will in the future.”

Her body was strangled on top of the palace wall, two toes tiptoeing on the ground very barely, looking very miserable, biased at this time, she laughed with great difficulty, “Just you surely won’t let Chengqian succeed to the throne any more, are you prepared to let Fan Xian be the emperor …… No, emperor brother, I do know you, you’re dead set on not letting Fan Xian come out on top.”

The Emperor’s hand eased a bit when he heard these words.

The eldest princess looked at him, amusedly, teasingly, and gasped, “Brother emperor, you’re too suspicious, you’re too good at disguise …… You want to hone the crown prince, but you’ve scared the crown prince into a rat …… He thinks that at any moment he could be You removed, how can he not be afraid, how can he not need a reliable embrace like me?”

The embrace …… of the eldest princess Li Yunrui seemed not to be afraid of death at all, one after another, stimulating the emperor’s eardrums.

The emperor stared at her and simply asked, “Why?”

“Why?” Li Yunrui suddenly struggled under his palm, which only ended up adding to the pain in vain, and she screamed in a shrill voice of rage, “Why? There is no why! He likes me, that’s the reason …… This Palace likes to play with him, play until it hurts you, make you despair ……”

She nervously ate and laughed, “I realized today that your despairing pain is greater than I thought, and I am satisfied.”

The Emperor looked at her woodenly and said slowly, “He likes you?”

“No?” Rapunzel’s beautiful cheeks filled with the color of scarlet, in the occasional bright electric light looks particularly seductive, she gasped, proudly said, “This world does not like the man …… of this palace have?”

She looked at the emperor’s face that was close at hand, suddenly stunned, and somewhat obsessively raised her powerless right hand and stroked it on the emperor’s face, saying in a tone filled with a fascinated look, “Brother emperor, you also like me.”

“Shameless!” The emperor smacked down her hand with one hand.

Li Yunrui, however, wasn’t how angry, just gasped and said firmly, “You do like me …… only that I’m your sister, but …… so what? Liking is liking, even if you hide your heart at the foot of Dadong Mountain and inside the sea, it will still be found by yourself, the heart cannot be lost.”

“Not all men are moved like wild beasts.” The emperor looked indifferently at his sister who was breathing more and more rapidly, “Not all men will bow under your skirt. Women, never think that you will stand on top of men.”

“You mean Ye Qingmei.” Li Yunrui suddenly spat at him viciously, “I’m not her!”

“You will never be as good as her.” The emperor suddenly came to her ear and said, “Even if you tossed and turned for so many years, you’ll never be as good as her, you’ll never be able to match her position in my heart …… You yourself are clear about this.”

Li Yunrui’s face suddenly flashed a hint of deathly gray, as if he had been struck by these words at his deepest vulnerability.

A hint of cruelty flashed in the emperor’s eyes as he continued to whisper in her ear, “You can only ever chase after her footsteps, but …… you can never catch up. Now she and my son are going to receive everything you have, are you in pain?”

Li Yunrui struggled up and stared at him with a stern hateful gaze.

“You are not even as good as that bastard son of mine.” Thunder rumbled outside the window, the words the emperor whispered in the Princess’s ear fell on the Princess’s ears, but it was even more alarming than the thunder outside the window, “You said earlier that you can toy with all men, why don’t you go toy with him?”

Li Yunrui’s gaze gradually calmed down and said with immense difficulty yet calmness, “He is Wan’er’s husband.”

The emperor looked at her with mocking viciousness, “You even dare to lay hands on your own nephew, and you still know words like shame?”

The eldest princess did not show any weakness and looked at him pitifully, “There are three of us siblings, yet there are two of us who are crazy, I don’t know, do you know? If you really knew, you wouldn’t have snatched your subordinate’s sweetheart, into the palace as a consort back then!”

The sound of wind and thunder outside the palace suddenly stopped, and there was a deathly silence inside and outside.

The Emperor’s palm was firm and unmoving, strangling the fragile throat of the Eldest Princess, and he did not speak for a long time.

“Back then, during the Northern Expedition, you were severely injured and your entire body was stiff and unable to move.” Rapunzel coughed, viciously fastidious said, “It is Chen Pingping thousand mile raid, risking heavenly danger to save you from the mountains in the north to save you out, it is the year of the eastern barbarians slave girl Ning Cai Ren along the road to serve you as a wooden man, how difficult along the way, Chen Dean himself can only drink horse urine, eat horse meat …… can be To such two benefactors, what did you do? You know that Chen Pingping likes Cai Ren Ning, Cai Ren Ning also admires Chen Pingping, you as a master, but you cut a knife, robbed Cai Ren Ning …… Emperor brother ah, do not think that I was young at that time, I did not know about this matter, why is the mother queen so furious? Is it just because of the identity of Ms. Ning? Why was she put to death? If it wasn’t for Ye Qingmei stepping in to intercede, Talented Lady Ning and the Grand Prince would have long since ceased to exist……. Do you know such a thing as integrity and shame?”

“Don’t say nonsense like Chen Pingping is a eunuch!” The eldest princess said viciously, “You think you are cleaner than me?”

However, to Li Yunrui’s disappointment, the emperor didn’t seem to be much shocked and disturbed, he just looked at himself indifferently.

The emperor slowly increased the strength of his palm and said word by word, “Before you die, you still haven’t forgotten to provoke the relationship between me and Dean Chen, Yunrui, I still really appreciate you, so I …… can’t keep you.”

In the middle of the East Palace, that poor mother and son are still in fear, the Prince with a pale face is much better than the Empress, although he knows that what he is about to face is also an extremely horrible downfall, however, he is after all the son of the Emperor of the Kingdom of Qing, and he has always been cultivated as if he was the next Emperor, the terrible composure and calmness in his bloodline is working at this moment.

He wanted to save himself, first of all, he had to save the eldest princess, and the crown prince knew clearly that there was only one person in this palace who could save someone under the sword of his seething father.

And it was simply impossible for His Majesty to tell that person the truth; His Majesty, who served his mother to the highest degree of filial piety, couldn’t possibly allow a royal scandal to harm the old man’s body.

So the Crown Prince knew he still had a chance of survival.

However, the Eastern Palace had long been surrounded by people led by Eunuch Yao, there was no way to get in touch with people outside the palace, and even the cronies that the Empress and the Crown Prince had cultivated in the other palaces on a daily basis simply couldn’t get close to this place in the middle of a thunderstorm.

“Set the palace on fire.” The Crown Prince turned around and looked at his wasteful mother, who had long been in sixes and sevens, and said fiercely, “Even if it rains, we must burn this palace down!”