Chapter 641: 307 The Truth Revealed (third update) _3 Chapter 641: 307 The Truth Revealed (third update) _3 “Help me up.” The Emperor wasn’t accustomed to lying down when talking to people.
Gu Jiao helped the Emperor sit up and provided him with a cushion for his back.
Capital City was hot during the day, but it had a bit of chill at night.
The Emperor’s original clothes were not suitable anymore. His body shape was similar to one of Gu Yan’s hidden guards, so Gu Jiao brought a new set of the hidden guard’s clothes for him to change into.
Gu Jiao turned up the oil lamp: “Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere? Are you hungry?”
The Emperor shook his head with a pale face and haggard expression: “I am fine… Where did Eunuch Wei go?”
Gu Jiao replied, “He got injured, he told me to go save you and not to worry about him. When I went back to look for him, he was already gone.”
“I hope he has escaped instead of being captured by those people.” The Emperor closed his eyes. Eunuch Wei had served him for over twenty years, tantamount to much more than an ordinary servant.
It could be argued that it was his oversight—he had ventured outside the palace several times without incident and thought it wouldn’t matter if he was accompanied by fewer hidden guards—unaware that it provided an opportunity for the enemies.
“Why did you save me?” The Emperor suddenly asked.
Gu Jiao stared at him with a puzzled expression.
The Emperor felt a stabbing pain in his chest under her gaze. He averted his face and said weak, yet resentfully, “Isn’t it to your advantage if I died? Or do you think…..by saving me again, you would earn my trust once more? Let me make it clear to you, don’t waste your effort, I won’t be fooled.”
Gu Jiao gazed at him steadily. Her initial puzzled expression gradually turned to surprise, and when the surprise faded, there was a hint of understanding.
Without saying a word,
Without offering any defence,
She just silently stood up, placed a painkiller and a glass of warm water on the bedside table, then got up and left.
The way she opened and closed the door was so gentle and calm, as if she was without any temper.
Yet, that silently disappearing figure mysteriously made the Emperor’s heart ache.
He knew it was not like that, he needed to survive, not just to earn his trust. If she hadn’t appeared, he would have been dead under the assassin’s blade. What trust can be earned from a dead person?
But he just couldn’t control his anger. Ever since Ning An left, he hadn’t met anyone who could touch his heart for many years. The moment he thought about his favored little healer siding with Empress Dowager Zhuang, he was filled with rage.
In fact, he also understood that it was not her fault. After all, she had known Empress Dowager Zhuang first and he was the latter one.
However, his spoken words were hurtful.
Perhaps intimacy only amplifies the ability to inflict emotional pain.
It’s probably for the best—it’s better to have a brief pain than to suffer long-term agony.
Since she had chosen Empress Dowager Zhuang, it was inevitable that he and she would sever their ties.
How miserable his life had been. The people he cared about were taken away one by one by Empress Dowager Zhuang, first it was Ning An, then the little healer. He wondered who would be next.
Fortunately, he didn’t have anyone else he cared about.
No, wait, there was one more.
This person would never betray him. This person and Empress Dowager Zhuang had been mortal enemies since the previous Emperor’s reign. He had banished Empress Dowager Zhuang to the Cold Palace, while she had exiled him to the frontier lands.
Anyone could join Empress Dowager Zhuang’s faction, but he would never!
Thinking of this, the Emperor finally felt some reassurance in his heart.
The Emperor was seriously injured and couldn’t return to the palace, naturally he missed the court meeting the next day. But the court was not in disarray, nor was there any turbulence in the Capital City.
The Emperor was not surprised, after all Empress Dowager Zhuang was presiding over the court. She was like a Seagod’s Needle anchoring the Zhan Country. With her in place, the emperor himself almost seemed superfluous!
Thinking of this, the Emperor’s hatred for Empress Dowager Zhuang intensified!
People like Xiao Jieting were unaware of a sick person in the house. After eating, the three of them went to school.
Xiao Liulang also went to the Hanlin Academy for his shift, and Gu Jiao went to the Medical Hall to fetch some calming herbs.
She was there to return a basket, and hearing some noise in Granny Huo’s room while passing by, she thought Granny Huo had returned.
She was ecstatic, placed the basket with dishes on the stone table, and quickly walked over: “Granny Huo, are you playing leaf cards?”
But upon opening the door, she saw not Granny Huo, but a handsome and tall middle-aged man.
Even though the Emperor’s appearance could not compare to Marquis Xuanping, he was still a comely, fine-looking man.
Aunt Liu’s eyes gleamed green!
The Emperor’s eyebrows twitched!
“Are you, are you Granny Huo’s son?”
The Emperor’s eyebrows furrowed: “You’ve mistaken me for someone else.”
He was the Son of Heaven, a real dragon, how could he possibly be a plain folk woman’s son?