"Mother, I'm sorry. I failed to protect the Xiao family's kingdom."

Dark clouds were gathering over the city. A man was holding a long sword and wearing a blood-stained dragon robe. When a sharp arrow flew through the air, he looked behind him as if he had sensed something. A rare touch of tenderness flashed across his paranoid and crazy handsome face.

"Mother, I think I saw you."

"If there is an afterlife, I don't want to be an emperor anymore. I just want to be my mother's child!"

"Zheng'er..." Zhu Yue's soul, which had been floating behind the man, trembled violently. She tried to block the sharp arrow for the man, but missed.

why!

Why did God do this to her!

She was obviously dead.

Zhu Yue was assassinated on her birthday.

In order to protect her child, she used herself as bait and died together with the assassin.

But her soul continued to wander, and she witnessed her two sons, one of whom became a paranoid and cruel tyrant for the sake of the time-traveling girl, and the other, for Bai Yueguang, collected countless substitutes and turned against his brother.

The innocent and lovely little daughter, when she grew up, disregarded the etiquette and Buddhism and poisoned her prince consort, just to pursue a pure and simple Buddhist son.

In the end, both sons were killed by the rebels' arrows, and the youngest daughter even became a military prostitute.

"No!" Zhu Yue saw her little daughter could not bear the humiliation and wanted to commit suicide by drinking poison. She cried out in pain again. A warm tear fell on the back of her hand. The long-lost warmth made her look at her hands in a trance. Not only were there no wounds, but their fingers were as white as onion roots.

Zhu Yue was a little stunned. Before she could figure out what was going on, she heard the woman yelling, "Xiao Jingzheng, I will never love you even if you lock me up until I die."

The man's deep voice was chilling: "Then don't even think about leaving me! No one is allowed to let her out without my permission!"

Zhu Yue followed the sound and walked into the palace, only to see a large number of palace maids and eunuchs kneeling on the ground, with only a tall bright yellow figure standing there.

She couldn't help but call out: "Zheng'er, is that you?"

The bright yellow figure froze for a moment, then turned around abruptly and saw Zhu Yue. After a moment of distraction, he flew into a rage and asked, "Who are you? How dare you pretend to be my mother and call me Zheng'er!"

Zhu Yue didn't expect that he still remembered what she looked like.

She looked at the man's familiar eyebrows, eyes, and nose, and her heart was also shaken: "I am your mother."

"Be bold!"

Xiao Jingzheng's eyes were about to spit fire, and his face was as gloomy as ice, "You don't know whether to live or die, who sent you here?"

His mother died in the fire fifteen years ago. Even if she were still alive, she would not look so young.

"Take her away and torture her to extract a confession!" Xiao Jingzheng coldly ordered the eunuch Hong Fu beside him.

"How dare you!" Zhu Yue glared at Hong Fu fiercely. Just one look made Hong Fu, who was about to take action, extremely frightened and he dared not move forward.

"Useless thing." Xiao Jingzheng was furious. He took a few steps forward and grabbed Zhu Yue's neck. "Don't think that I won't execute you just because you look like my mother..."

Zhu Yue interrupted him with a slap and shouted, "Who taught you to speak to the Queen Mother like that?"

Xiao Jingzheng was stunned by the beating.

This familiar slap and tone... are exactly the same as when I was unhappy and punished the palace maids and my mother lectured me.

Zhu Yue brought out her former dignity again, staring at Xiao Jingzheng inch by inch, "Who taught you to interrogate people and torture them to extract confessions? Your father personally went up the mountain and invited a great Confucian sage to be your tutor and teach you how to be a benevolent ruler, but you have learned nothing from him?"

"I..." Even though Xiao Jingzheng became the emperor, he still couldn't help but tremble at this momentum.

In particular, it was the Queen Mother who secretly told me that my father had personally gone to the mountain to invite a teacher. My father had high hopes for me, but he didn't want me to become arrogant because of his favor.

Now I am the only one who knows about this.

Could it really be the Queen Mother?

Zhu Yue also knew that this was a strange and mysterious matter, so she steadied her tone and added, "When you went to escape the summer heat that year, you secretly hid a small cage of crickets under your father's throne. You didn't dare to take it out afterwards, so you asked me to get it for you."

She also told many little secrets that only the mother and son knew.

Seeing Xiao Jingzheng's eyes becoming more sinister, Zhu Yue sighed and said, "You and I can also do a blood test."

Although, when her soul was guarding Xiao Jingzheng's side, she had already learned from the time-traveling girl that the blood test was fake, but the most urgent task was to make Xiao Jingzheng believe that she was his mother.

Xiao Jingzheng stared at Zhu Yue's face, his eyes dark, "Okay, then I'll let you die a worthy death."

Hongfu immediately went to fetch a bowl of water.

Xiao Jingzheng cut his finger first.

Zhu Yue was a little afraid of the pain and was hesitant to do it.

Xiao Jingzheng thought she was just feeling guilty, so he grabbed Zhu Yue's hand and stabbed her fingertips.

"Hiss..." Zhu Yue couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, and her slender eyebrows were wrinkled.

"Oh, you won't cry until you see the coffin." Xiao Jingzheng was upset to see that she was still imitating her mother. However, when he lowered his head, he saw the two drops of blood in the clear water merged at the moment of contact.

His pupils trembled like an earthquake, "This is impossible!"

Zhu Yue had foreseen the outcome, so she threw away the dagger and asked impatiently, "Where are your brothers and sisters? When will you ask them to come to the palace to see me?"

Xiao Jingzheng's mind was in a mess, but his eyes were like sharp arrows shooting towards Zhu Yue.

"What are your intentions?"

Zhu Yue couldn't help but frown: "Why don't you believe me?"

When I was a kid, I believed everything she said.

After becoming an emperor, he became suspicious.

Hong Fu, who was standing by, reminded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Aunt Qin is still alive, maybe..."

Xiao Jingzheng immediately said in a deep voice: "Send someone to the Queen Mother's Mausoleum to ask Aunt Qin to return to the palace."

However, it would take until tomorrow to travel back and forth from the Imperial City to the Empress Dowager's Mausoleum.

"You..." Xiao Jingzheng looked at Zhu Yue, not knowing what to do with her for a moment.

Zhu Yue was not shy and asked, "Where do I live?"

In order to drag the assassin to her death, she set fire to her own bedroom with her own hands. After that, her soul followed Xiao Jingzheng, and he did not order anyone to repair it. It is estimated that it no longer exists.

Xiao Jingzheng said coldly: "Side hall."

Zhu Yue opened her mouth to refuse, but when she met his unquestionable eyes, she said helplessly, "Okay."

She was the great Empress Dowager Zhu, who was the most favored among the six harems during her lifetime and was posthumously honored. How could she have ever suffered such injustice?

But Xiao Jingzheng was the emperor, and he was merciful by not letting her live in the Heavenly Prison.

Moreover, the side palace where the emperor lives is not bad either.

Zhu Yue might be too tired and had a good sleep all night.

When she opened her eyes the next day, it was already bright outside. She stood up and raised her hand as usual to ask someone to change clothes.

The person who came forward to serve was an old maid.

Zhu Yue didn't take it seriously at first, but when she sat in front of the dressing mirror and saw the man's hair tied into a cross-shaped style that made her extremely satisfied, she realized something was wrong.

"You are Yuqin." She turned around in great joy and looked carefully at the old nanny's face. She looked about 70% similar to the head maid in charge of her back then.

"Your Majesty...I really see you again." Aunt Qin's eyes were already filled with tears and she was about to kneel down.

Zhu Yue hurriedly supported her and said, "What are you doing? Hurry up and get up, so I can take a good look at you."

Zhu Yue was also extremely excited to see her old friend again.

At this moment, she heard a heavy cough and looked up. Xiao Jingzheng, wearing a dragon robe, was standing not far away. He looked at her with a complicated expression, as if he wanted to come forward but didn't dare to. He looked a bit like the cute he was when he was a child.

Zhu Yue couldn't help laughing.

She was thinking about whether she should go up and hug him like she did when she was a child, when she heard the palace maids screaming outside.

The maid ran in in a panic and reported: "Your Majesty, Miss Su jumped down from the attic!"

Zhu Yue's eyebrows jumped, and he almost forgot about the imprisoned time-traveling girl.

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