Use a substitute on your wedding night to scatter the ashes of your entire family

Xiaojiu told him that in his dream he died at the age of forty, five years later than the imperial doctors' prediction that he would not live past thirty-five.

But after his death, the woman lay beside him, clasped her hands with his, and accompanied him to the underworld.

Gu Xingcheng took her hand and led her out of the imperial study.

"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother's Cining Palace is to the east, so you should go that way."

Gu Xingcheng tugged at Zhai Shuhua's hand and pulled her to his side: "I'll take you back to Kunning Palace first."

"Hmm? I can go back by myself. Mother should be waiting for you now."

Zhai Shuhua didn't understand why the emperor, who was so busy, insisted on sending her back to the palace today.

The palace maids and eunuchs behind him smiled, saying that the emperor and the queen had a really good relationship.

"It won't take long." Gu Xingcheng said softly.

Zhai Shuhua blushed slightly. Seeing that the palace maids and eunuchs following behind them were laughing secretly, she gently patted Gu Xingcheng's arm and said, "There are people following behind us."

A quarter of an hour later, they entered the bedroom of Kunning Palace. Gu Xingcheng let go of Zhai Shuhua and went straight to the dressing table.

Zhai Shuhua looked panicked, and hurriedly took two steps to block Gu Xingcheng: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, this is my dressing table, and inside are some jewelry, rouge, eyebrow pencil and other things. Nothing, nothing fancy."

"Step aside."

"emperor……"

"I told you to get out of the way!" Gu Xingcheng stared at Zhai Shuhua with his almond-shaped eyes, with anger in his eyes.

The eunuchs and maids serving in the palace looked at each other in bewilderment. The Emperor and the Empress had been married for more than ten years and they had never seen them quarrelling. Let alone the Emperor being angry with the Empress like he was today.

Moreover, they both came here holding hands just now, how could this be...

Several servants looked at the palace maid who came back with the two of them. The palace maid was also at a loss and shook her head slightly at them.

"Your Majesty, must you do this?" Zhai Shuhua's voice was choked with sobs, but she still stood in front of the dressing table and refused to give in.

"Yes, it must be so! I told you to get out of the way."

"emperor!"

"Heh!" Gu Xingcheng sneered and actually used some force to push Zhai Shuhua away from the dressing table.

Zhai Shuhua staggered and nearly fell to the ground.

Gu Xingcheng resisted the urge to help her. He raised his hand to open the dressing table, reached in, and pressed the innermost part. A small secret compartment popped open with a click, and an exquisite porcelain vase fell into his hand.

Zhai Shuhua was in tears, but he still found out.

Gu Xingcheng tightly clenched the porcelain bottle in his hand, even making a creaking sound, and glared at Zhai Shuhua: "Queen, tell me, what is this!"

Gu Xingcheng had never called himself "I" in front of Zhai Shuhua, and even when he was the crown prince, he never called himself "this palace" in front of her. The two of them had always been deeply in love.

Not to mention, not only was she called "Queen" at this moment, but the tone was so cold.

It can be seen that he was really angry.

Zhai Shuhua pushed aside the maid who was supporting her and slowly knelt down towards Gu Xingcheng: "Your Majesty, please don't ask any more questions."

"you do not say?"

"Yes, I won't tell you."

"Okay!" Gu Xingcheng pulled out the stopper from the porcelain bottle. "If the Queen doesn't say anything, then I will drink it!"

Zhai Shuhua's face changed drastically, and she rushed over in fear. The sound coming out of her throat was like a broken gong: "No!"

But she was just a woman after all. Although Gu Xingcheng had been infected with the cold since his mother's womb, she was not a weak woman who could take things away from him.

"Your Majesty, please don't, I beg you, please don't..." Zhai Shuhua knelt on the ground, her throat bitter and tears rolling down her cheeks.

Gu Xingcheng put the porcelain bottle to his mouth and asked her, "Shuhua, tell me, what is in it?"

"It's poison, it's poison. Your Majesty, this is what I prepared for myself." Zhai Shuhua knelt on the ground and cried loudly.

The eunuchs and maids in the palace were shocked. When did the queen hide such a poison in the dressing table?

"When did it happen?" Gu Xingcheng's voice trembled as he slowly walked forward and helped the woman up from the ground.

"The day we decided on our marriage." At that time, she hid behind the screen, looking at this gentle man, but her heart had already been pounding the moment she first saw the prince two years ago.

Tears rolled down slowly from the corners of her eyes and dripped onto the back of Zhai Shuhua's hand, burning her heart and causing it to ache.

"So, if I die one day, you will drink it and go with me, right?"

"Your Majesty, without you, I can't live, and Shuhua can't live."

The eunuchs and palace maids in the bedroom retreated silently and closed the door without a sound.

Gu Xingcheng used all his strength to throw the porcelain bottle out of the window, then hugged the woman tightly: "Shuhua, I want you to live, live well. No matter if I die tomorrow or live to the age of thirty-five, you must live!"

"Ah Cheng……"

Gu Xingcheng let her go and looked straight at the woman in front of him: "If you don't agree, I will follow the example of ordinary people and give you a divorce letter. From now on, you, Zhai Shuhua, are no longer my Gu Xingcheng's wife."

Zhai Shuhua's face turned pale and she clutched Gu Xingcheng's clothes tightly: "Ah Cheng, you, you want to divorce me?"

"Yes, if you can't do it, I will write a letter of divorce. From now on, you and I will never see each other again, let alone be buried together."

Zhai Shuhua was heartbroken, she knew that this man said these words just to keep her alive, but without him, life would just be a struggle.

"Ah Cheng……"

"Come here, prepare the pens and ink!"

"I promise you, Ah Cheng, I promise you everything... I promise you everything."

Gu Xingcheng smiled and took the person into his arms again.

When we arrived at the Cining Palace, it was already two hours later.

Empress Dowager Shu sat alone in front of the window, looking out, not knowing what she was thinking.

Gu Xingcheng was about to pay his respects to Empress Dowager Shu when Aunt Ning Ru shook her head slightly at him. Seeing that the Empress Dowager didn't seem to notice this side, Aunt Ning Ru walked out quietly.

"Aunt, the Queen Mother..."

"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you. Your Majesty, the Queen Mother," Aunt Ning Ru sighed softly, "has been sitting here for two hours since she learned that the Ninth Prince had volunteered."

"Not a word?"

"Not really. Before leaving the palace, His Highness the Ninth Prince came over with the Prince Rui. Alas, His Highness the Ninth Prince didn't say anything. He just knelt down and kowtowed to the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother then turned around, helped His Highness the Ninth Prince up, and said, 'You go, Mother understands', and then she sat there again."

Gu Xingcheng looked at his mother who was sitting on the windowsill. She married his father as the empress at the age of eighteen, but his father had many concubines in the harem. After Concubine Chen entered the palace, he allowed her to attack his mother and suppress her everywhere.

From the moment he was born, this son exhausted his mother's efforts.

So, she had to send Xiao Jiuer away.

He hadn't seen his son for more than twenty years.

In the past thirty years, she has never had a single day of her own.

He is the one who is sorry to his mother.