The prince of love, the wealth has come to me

Chapter 194: The Dust Settles

"Luo Shan often delivers gifts to the Luo residence. The maids who deliver the gifts are all arrogant and proud, as if they are some great person. But I, the young lady of the Luo family as they say, can only hide in the room and lie on the crack of the door to look out."

"They sent the things that Luo Shan sent to the mansion to my room and told me to pick whatever I liked. Ha, like it? I just feel disgusted."

"The longer I stay in the Luo family, the more uncomfortable I feel. It reminds me all the time that while I was sleeping in the open and being bullied, they were enjoying wealth and glory."

"But why?! Is it because I was born first?" Li Yi growled. The hatred in her eyes when she looked at Luo Shan was no less than Luo Shan's, and even stronger.

Luo Shan didn't say anything, but it was obvious that her eyes showed guilt when Li Yi said this, even though she had been tortured for half her life.

Luo Shan was already very weak, and she had managed to hold on to her last breath to see them. Now she was exhausted. Seeing her staggering, Emperor Qianyang immediately stepped forward to support her.

Seeing the emotions in her eyes when she looked at him, Emperor Qianyang turned his head away. Things happened too suddenly and he didn't know how to face her for a moment.

"Eunuch Liang, help... the Queen Mother down to rest."

"Yes." Eunuch Liang carefully helped Luo Shan to the side hall to rest.

Li Yi looked at Luo Shan's back, took a long breath, and said self-deprecatingly, "Later, Li Zhongyu heard the news from Shengjing that Luo Shan had been promoted to imperial concubine, so I found an excuse to come to Shengjing."

"I just wanted to see what Luo Shan was like, why I couldn't compare to her, why she was chosen instead of me."

Li Yi's words showed that she was still resentful about her parents leaving Luo Shan behind and sending her away.

"The moment I saw her, I suddenly felt ashamed of myself. We look exactly the same, but I was bullied and had to kowtow, while she was high and mighty, elegant and graceful. We are two different people with different fates."

"Li Zhongyu said, since we look the same, why should she be the imperial concubine and not me? Yes, why can't it be me?"

"So we had the plan of using someone else as a substitute. I pretended to be gentle and kind for a long time and gained everyone's trust. If it weren't for those nightmares reminding me, I would have thought that I was really a respected female official."

"Li Zhongyu said that I deserve the best, and I should be the most noble woman in the world, so I want to take the queen position and let the Luo family see that I am no worse than Luo Shan, and then I will abandon the queen position."

"But the emperor likes Imperial Concubine Yu, and the entire harem is like nothing. As long as Imperial Concubine Yu is here, no one else will ever have a chance."

"So I put medicine in Concubine Yu's beauty soup. The medicine is a secret medicine I bought from a wandering doctor. It is colorless and tasteless. The symptoms are similar to those of a cold. It can be fatal within a month."

"But I didn't expect Concubine Yu to be so weak. She died in just a few days."

"What happened later was just as Luo Shan said. She trusted me very much. The guards, eunuchs, and maids in the palace all listened to me, so I transferred them away to replace her."

"During those days, I observed her all the time and paid attention to her everywhere. I was very familiar with her every move and rehearsed it over and over again in private. After I replaced her, I said that Li Yi had left the palace and got married, and no one noticed anything unusual."

"The days passed peacefully. I changed the jewelry shop that cooperated with the palace and chose Li Zhongyu's Treasure House."

"But because he was afraid of being discovered, he took a long time to come to see me. I thought it was because of my status as a concubine that blocked us, so I wanted to fake my death and leave the palace."

"Anyway, I have tasted the power. Luo Shan has also experienced the torture I have endured. It will be boring to stay any longer."

"But the more power one gets, the greater one's ambition becomes. Li Zhongyu changed his mind and said he wanted our son to be the emperor. That way, we would have tremendous power and could be together forever."

"He began to come to the palace more frequently, until one day he was almost seen by the emperor. From that day on, the emperor seemed to start to doubt me, and he tested me with words many times."

"Li Zhongyu said that if he found out, we would be dead, so I put a slow-acting poison in his food. He was too exhausted to care about me."

"But he was still worried, and before he died he even wanted me to be buried with him."

"I told him that if I died, the people behind me would definitely kill Xiao Mingchen. He didn't dare to take the risk, so he made a deal with me. He let me take the position of Queen Mother, and I would not kill Xiao Mingchen until he came of age."

"It was only later that I found out that I had injured my body in childhood and could not get pregnant." Li Yi said, reaching out to touch her belly.

Xiao Mingchen had a blank expression on his face, and his hands were clenched into fists. The two people closest to him were killed by the vicious woman in front of him. The most hateful thing was that he couldn't bring himself to do it to her.

Aside from trying to kill him multiple times as an adult, she did warm up her childhood.

When others said, overtly or covertly, that he had a hard life and his parents were unlucky, when he was sick with a high fever, and when he was injured while practicing martial arts, she was always the one who stood in front of him gently and firmly.

During those years, he really treated her as his mother and truly respected and loved her.

But in the end, he realized that all the suffering he had experienced was caused by her.

Ling Yueqing knew his forbearance and the torment in his heart.

She held Xiao Mingchen's hand and whispered softly in his ear, "Achen, you don't have to do it yourself, just leave it to me."

Ling Yueqing has never been a person with a heart of a saint. She will not forgive the evil deeds committed by a villain in her adulthood just because she was hurt in her childhood.

Li Yi had both hatred and gratitude towards Xiao Mingchen, but to her, it was nothing. She would "take care" of her well. From now on until she gave birth, she had plenty of ways to make her pay for the mistakes she had made. As for the child, don't forget, she was a doctor and would definitely not hurt the child and would let her be born safely.

Now that the matter has become clear, Li Yi, Li Zhongyu and Emperor Qianyang have been handed over to Prince Zhan's Mansion for handling. It has been announced to the public that the Queen Mother is going to the temple to pray and will not see any outside visitors for the time being. Everything will have to wait until Luo Shan recovers.

Suddenly, Ling Yueqing remembered that when she went to Baoyuantang before, the owner behind the scenes always wanted to give her the so-called fate item. Since the owner behind the scenes was Li Zhongyu, it seemed that this fate item might not be a good thing.