Blissful Days After Widowhood - Chapter 248

Eighteen-year-old Prince Lie ascended the throne and became Emperor Lie.

It took him two years to secure the throne, and after he was stable, he began to liquidate old accounts.

Only then did the world know that Emperor Lie’s amiable character in the past was entirely a disguise. The real him was a ruthless leader that would be vindicated when he beheaded the abolished Emperor and the remnants of the previous dynasty.

The courtiers who persuaded Emperor Zhengyuan to abolish the crown prince were sent away by him one by one, ranging from relegation to exile in the worst cases. The civil servant who doubted his background even got his tongue pulled out…

But he also had the means, and if the person had dealt with him, his means of torturing would emerge endlessly, but it would not implicate those who had not violated him. He clearly rewarded and punished people and could be called a wise ruler.

Later, he promoted a group of students from poor families, and managed the new dynasty, which had just been founded and was still waiting to be revived, to be as good as the previous dynasty when it was at its peak.

Such a monarch who was sure to retaliate but had thunderous means, from court to palace, there was no one who was not afraid and respected him.

There were also many courtiers who begged forgiveness as being old, faint-hearted after committing a taboo against him.

He painted portraits of himself when he was young, showing them one by one in front of people, and smiled contemptuously, “When I was young, I was a wanderer, fighting with dogs for food.”

No one had dared to intercede with him in a sympathetic manner since those portraits were exhibited.

The child in front of her looked about five or six years old. He didn’t look very much like Emperor Zhengyuan, and he looked plump and rounder than the five-year-old portrait that Emperor Lie painted for himself. But the overall outline was exactly the same. Shen Hanchun would never admit the wrong person.

She had stayed in the palace all her life, and her reverence toward Emperor Lie had been carved into her bones.

After kneeling down, she was sweating like pulp and shaking like chaff.

Gu Ye tilted his head and muttered, “You’re strange. You should pick up the box that you dropped. Why are you kneeling?”

Shen Hanchun dreamed of going back to her previous life. Because she was fond of Wu Qingyi, she didn’t want to stay in the palace for a lifetime, so she dredged up and down, and wanted to leave the palace as soon as possible.

With her ant-like existence in the palace, she didn’t expect Emperor Lie to discover her intentions and meet her. At that time, he casually said while looking at the memorial, “You’re strange. You don’t want to be in the palace. If you want to leave, it’s better to come and ask me, what are you giving bribes for?”

Only then did Shen Hanchun know that Emperor Lie was investigating the matter of bribery and dereliction of duty in the palace at that time.

When she heard such words, she thought that Emperor Lie would give her grace and let her out of the palace.

Unexpectedly, his next sentence was, “You are a person with merit in following the retired Emperor. Since you don’t want to be in the palace, go serve the retired Emperor in another courtyard.”

Since then, Shen Hanchun had gone from being a palace doctor to a doctor of another yard.

Although she was also a doctor, her status had plummeted. When the retired Emperor was sick, she also saw the imperial doctor for herself.

Since she was banished from the palace by Emperor Lie, the palace servants in the other courtyard treated her more harshly, so that she had an incurable disease before she reached the age of forty.

“Hey, I’m talking to you!” Gu Ye scratched his head irritably.

That woman was too strange. She seemed to be looking at him, but she seemed to be looking at another person through him.

He didn’t mind her kneeling. It didn’t matter to him if her knees broke. But his mother was very soft-hearted, if she saw it, she would definitely think that he was bullying people.

Shen Hanchun fainted from fright.

Gu Ye quickly stood up and said to the servants next to him, “You have all seen it, it has nothing to do with me.”

If there were servants to testify, she would never complain to his mother.

The servants only knew that there was a young master who didn’t come back, but they didn’t know his specific identity very well, but Shen Hanchun was indeed dizzy. 

“It has nothing to do with the young master, Miss Chun passed out by herself.”

Gu Ye nodded, let the servant lead the way with his hands behind his back, and then went to find Gu Yin and Mrs. Wang.