“For my mother, your Lady! For my youngest brother, who had been heartlessly murdered immediately upon birth!” Lei Xi exclaimed, his head raised and his chest puffed up.
“What?” The Emperor was surprised.
Lei Xi immediately went on to say: “That year, Lady Concubine Cheng had just given birth to the Fourth Prince Lei Fan, but she had passed on due to a difficult birth. Few days after, the Empress had then taken in my Fourth Brother to raise him. At that time, my mother’s chambers was nearest to the Empress’ and hence, she would often go over to the Empress’ chambers to receive the Empress’ instruction.”
“Shut up! Lei Xi! What kind of intentions are you harbouring! ? What are you trying to say here! ? Your Majesty! Your Majesty! You must not listen to the lies Lei Xi is spouting! Everything that happened today must have been orchestrated by Lei Xi! He was the one who abducted all the servants in your Lady’s palace! He obviously holds treacherous intents!” The Empress had immediately upon hearing Lei Xi’s words, suddenly felt an ominous sense of impending doom over her head. She had a very strong feeling that she must stop Lei Xi from continuing on, or she would be in bigger trouble!
The Emperor completely ignored the Empress’ cries and just turned to Yuan Biao and said: “Stuff up that howling slut’s mouth! I do not wish to hear the slut’s voice again!”
Yuan Biao immediately stepped up and used a handkerchief to fully stuff up the Empress’ mouth!
The Empress could only make muffled grunts as her eyes glared fixedly at Lei Xi, looking like she wished for nothing more than to shred him into a thousand pieces!
Lei Xi laughed out coldly and said: “The Empress had really overestimated my abilities. If I had been capable of such to drag you down your high horse, I wouldn’t have waited till this day to tell Father everything.”
“Lei Xi! Tell me more!” The Emperor had a feeling that what Lei Xi was about to say next was going to be highly important.
Lei Xi continued: “That day, my mother heard that the Fourth Prince would be brought into the Empress’ Palace and she dragged me along to go see my youngest brother. But I was mischievous and wilful then and I ran off once we came to the Empress’ Palace, never for a moment thinking that that’s day’s parting, would turned out to be an eternal one!”
“Your son I, was very young then, and I was hiding in the Empress’ Palace’s backyard in play when I saw a scene which I would never ever be able to forget my entire life!” Lei Xi suddenly turned to stare in rage at the Empress when he got to this point in his narration of events, looking like he wanted to tear the Empress apart.
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Chapter 934: “Slap with Borrowed Hand – Second Form (4)”
Lei Xi had at that time been very young, and hidden behind the rocks that were alike to miniature mountains in the garden, had suddenly witnessed his own mother tied up and held down by several eunuchs in the backyard, with the Empress and her lady in waiting following behind.
Within the lady in waiting’s arms, was a blood covered little infant.
That infant was the Fourth Prince who had just been brought into the Empress Palace, Lei Fan. Lei Xi had been overcome with terror then, seeing his mother being bound up, he had wanted to rush out. But he realized then that as a tiny little prince like himself, even if he had run out to confront them, he would not have been able to achieve anything and so he had endured the consuming fear eating at him as he stayed hidden.
And right before his eyes, his mother had then been strangled to death by a eunuch with a rope put around her neck. Finally, his mother’s lifeless body had been tied to rocks together with the Fourth Prince and thrown over into the lily pond in the backyard.
“Your son, I have known that I do not possess the ability to avenge my mother, but I have been not been willing to continue to keep this secret forever buried, and just waited patiently! I waited for the day that the Heavens opens His eyes, to allow him to avenge his mother and his Fourth Brother! This is the day! Your son, I, have finally waited till this day!” Lei Xi’s face was filled with the outpouring of grief that he had held in for such a long time. He has always been more intelligent than many, but he had had no choice but to turn himself into a timid and cowardly prince, all of it to avoid raising any suspicions onto himself from the Empress.
From the most intelligent of the princes to become the most useless prince, Lei Xi had endured the fear and torment without a saying a word of it to anyone, but merely to wait, and he had finally waited till this day came!
“Ungh! !” The Empress’ eyes were wide as she struggled, wanting to stand. But Yuan Biao stood over her holding her down in a tight grip.
Lei Fan stared in disbelief at his Third Brother that he had despised the most all this time, unable to believe what he was hearing from Lei Xi’s mouth.
“Lies! You’re lying!” Lei Fa was in a panic. He immediately knelt before the Emperor, sobbing tearfully as he said: “Father! Father! Third Brother is just purely slandering me! If what he says is true, how did your son, I live till today? Third Brother must be jumping at the opportunity when he saw Mother fallen from grace and wants to use this chance to slander me!”
The Emperor’s brows knitted up deeply. Lei Xi’s words had indeed astounded him greatly.
The year when Lei Xi’s mother had died, her body had been discovered in the Imperial Garden’s shallow fish pond. But as they had discovered it rather late, Lei Xi’s mother’s body had been soaked in the water for a long time and had completely deformed, making it impossible for them to identify the body at all. They had just based it on the clothes and things the body was wearing then.
Lei Xi cast a cold stare at the sobbing Lei Fan.
“Bastard child! You still persist in fooling Father with your trickery?”
Lei Fan immediately said: “That is just pure venomous slander!”
Lei Xi suddenly stood up and looked directly at the Emperor to say: “Father! Your son, I know what is holding Father back. But I know of a way that can prove what I am saying here is the absolute truth!” Upon saying that, Lei Xi secretly gripped the porcelain bottle hidden within his sleeve, his gaze discreetly swinging over Lei Chen.
The bottle had been given to him by Lei Chen. He did not know what it was, but Lei Chen had told him, with this bottle, they would be able to ensure that Lei Fan would be irrecoverably doomed!
Having witnessed his own mother brutally murdered, Lei Xi had kept that secret to himself in torment for many years, how could he give up on this one and only opportunity for revenge presented right before him?
Even if he did not know what the bottle contained, he was willing to gamble it all on this one chance!
Lei Xi suddenly charged at Lei Fan kneeling upon the ground. Lei Fan screamed out in terror and stretched out his hand to push Lei Xi away from him. But Lei Xi completely ignored the wildly waving arms and just opened the stopper on the porcelain bottle and ferociously leapt onto Lei Fan, pouring the liquid within the bottle entirely onto Lei Fan’s face!
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“I will not let a bastard child like you to continue to bring harm to the Imperial Palace!” Lei Xi said, staring viciously at Lei Fan.
In the instant the cool fluid splashed onto Lei Fan’s face, the bone structure and flesh on Lei Fan’s face began to shift severely!
In shock, the Emperor suddenly stood up from his throne as he stared in surprise at Lei Fan who was writhing and howling on the floor, his gaze staring unwaveringly in disbelief, locked on Lei Fan’s face!
He saw the handsome features on Lei Fan’s face, twisting up and changing at an incredible pace!
The countenance was silently changing, gradually changing into a face that the Emperor found both foreign and highly familiar at the same time!
That face, was very much alike to the Empress currently within the main hall, and in the region in between the eyes, traces of the Prime Minister’s f
eatures could be seen.
Completely stunned, the Emperor fell back onto his throne greatly flustered. He looked in utter disbelief at Lei Fan whose face had completely changed, his mind whirling in chaos.
The face from his face caused Lei Fan to continue to writhe on the ground howling incessantly, while Lei Xi stood smiling indifferently beside him, admiring the scene at his feet that brought him great joy!
“Father! This spawn of evil used extraordinary methods to change his looks and once this medicinal fluid is splashed on his face, it will neutralise it! Your son, I had been disrespectful before Father today, I plead for Father to punish me to redeem myself! I beg that Father look carefully at that face! He could not possibly by my Fourth Brother, and even less likely that he is your child! It is obvious he is a bastard child born from the Empress’ and Prime Minister’s insidious illicit scandal!” Lei Xi suddenly knelt down onto the ground, pleading with the Emperor in a loud voice.
The Emperor began to tremble with rage, as the last glimmer of hope in his heart was completely extinguished.
Lei Fan’s face on its own, had become the most irrefutable proof, and no further explanations or evidence was required to ascertain without any doubt, his real identity!
“Bravo….. Bravo….. Ah, Empress. My Empress. I have not treated you badly! And even at such a juncture, you persist in lying to me! You really think I am that gullible?” However strongly hopeful the Emperor had felt towards Lei Fan before, the hatred spilling out from his heart now was at least tenfold!
The son he had favoured upon the most, was not his child, and definitely not from his once most beloved woman!
He had spoilt him for so many years, doted on him for so many years, even devising up all ways and means to push Lei Fan up to assume the position of Crown Prince, to inherit everything the Fire Country held.
But in the end, what had he really done?
He had nearly gifted the entire country and his fortune to a bastard child!
“Guards! Arrest this venomous woman, the bastard child, and the guilty official and throw them into the dungeons! I do not want them to die so easily! I want them to die under a thousand cuts!” The Emperor’s jaws were tightly clenched up, his face had turned a little pale. It could be seen from here just how intense the hatred and rage he was feeling at the moment.
Due to the agonising pain, Lei Fan was curled up in a ball as his body twitched in spasms. He wanted to plead with the Emperor to spare his life at least, but he could not even summon up the strength to speak.
Yuan Biao immediately summoned several Imperial Guards, ready to drag the Empress and the others and thrown them into the dungeons.
But the Empress had at that moment, suddenly seemed like she had lost her mind as she broke free of Yuan Biao’s grasp. She tore the handkerchief out from her mouth, suddenly breaking out into an almost maniacal bout of laughter as she said: “Hahaha! Hahaha! Your Majesty, Your Majesty. You say I am venomous? Your Lady’s venomous ways were caused by your own hand! Your Lady was the revered Empress, but when have you given this Empress the dignity an Empress deserved? You favoured Lady Cheng, cherishing her so preciously in the palm of your hand. When a conflict arose between Lady Cheng and me, your Empress, you did not bother to find out the truth and indiscriminately berated me before everyone in the Imperial Palace over her!”
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Chapter 936: “Slap with Borrowed Hand – Second Form (6)”
“You have single mindedly shielded that hussy! How can I let that hussy have her way! ? Your Majesty! Lady Cheng’s death! The Fourth Prince’s death, were all caused by your own hand! If you had not specifically only just favoured Lady Cheng alone, had not thrashed the dignity of an Empress under your foot, would I have turned into such a state?”
“Shameless slut! You still dare to spout such nonsense!” The Emperor was so furious he stood there pointing his trembling finger at the Empress, shouting at the top of his voice.
The Empress instead seemed to have lost her mind and she suddenly laughed out hysterically!
“Spouting nonsense? Your Majesty! Since things have come to this juncture, your lady does not need to hide it from you anymore! Do you know why none of the concubines in the Imperial Harem had not been able to conceive in the past ten years? Why the Second Prince although married for so many years, had not been able to share any news of bliss? Let your Lady tell you now! Not only you, but all your sons! Have already lost the ability to reproduce! Your Lady was the one who poisoned you all! Besides my own son, no one would be able to inherit the Fire Country’s throne!” The Empress laughed maniacally, spilling out all the venom she had kept hidden within her heart all this time.
The Emperor stared wide eyed, in utter disbelief at the Empress.
“You! You wicked woman! Till this moment, you are still thinking of protecting your own son! But, even if Lei Chen is born from you, so what does it matter! In his body, my blood still flows within! I believe, Lei Chen having clearly witnessed your vicious and venomous nature today, would be deeply ashamed to have a mother like you!” The Emperor had in his frantic fluster, turned to look at Lei Chen. The Empress’ words had greatly terrified him. Judging from the Empress’ venomous and insidious mind, it was highly possible that she had really done all that she claimed, or why had all the concubines in the Imperial Harem, not a single one of them had been able conceive and give birth to a single prince or princess?
And if the Empress had truly committed that deed, the only one she would have spared would only be her own son, Lei Chen.
Lei Chen lowered his head, and did not say a single word.
But the Empress was still laughing hysterically. “Lei Chen? Hahaha! Your Majesty! Your Lady firstborn had passed away long ago! Lei Chen is merely an illegitimate bastard, born from the illicit affair between one of my palace maids and a guard! Hahaha! Your Majesty, Your Majesty! You and all your sons will be childless and your bloodline dies in this generation!”
The Emperor sucked in a cold gasp, his eyes slowly shifting from Lei Chen to the Empress.
“You are lying! You must be lying!”
The Empress replied: “At this point, does your Lady still need to lie? If Lei Chen is truly your Lady’s son, would I have stood by and done nothing while Your Majesty slowly pushed him nearer into the abyss, trying to force him to give up his position as the Crown Prince?”
The Emperor’s shoulders suddenly slumped, everything before his eyes now was just one great calamity. The country’s current Crown Prince, and the Crown Prince he had wanted to install, were actually both not his biological offsprings!
And the only two sons he had, had been poisoned by the Empress and no longer able to produce offsprings, and throughout their entire lives, they would not be able to produce an heir!
“Your venomous slut! I am going to kill you! I must surely kill you!” The Emperor roared as he stood up, almost wanting to swallow the Empress alive.
The Empress was still laughing, her laughter sounding mournful.
“Throw all of them down there! Imprison the two bastard children as well! I want to tear them apart!” The Emperor’s chest was heaving heavily. The successive blows suffered was making the Emperor gasp for air.
Lei Xi had avenged his mother, but he had not expected things to take such a drastic turn. All the actions he had taken, had been arranged by Lei Chen. He had thought that Lei Chen wanted to uphold justice over family ties, but he had not thought that Lei Chen himself would be dragged right into the turmoil as well.
In fact, if Lei Fan’s identity had not been revealed, the Empress would not have fought and struggled to drag everyone down with her. To protect Lei Fan, she would not have revealed a word about the secret behind Lei Fan’s birth.
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But the bottle of medicinal fluid that Lei Chen gave to Lei Xi had completely crushed the Empress’ last ray of hope.
Lei Xi found that he could not underst
and why Lei Chen would do this.
Lei Chen raised his head looking highly forlorn as he stared at the Imperial Guards rushing into the main hall, quickly surrounding him and Lei Fan heavily.
In his heart, he was laughing bitterly at himself.
The Emperor had clearly overheard the truth about the secret behind Lei Fan’s birth from the Empress herself previously, but he had still chosen to believe Lei Fan based just on the face he carried. But when the Empress had just revealed the circumstances about his own birth, the Emperor had not doubted it at all, and had not even hesitated in the slightest or suspected otherwise before he had adamantly judged him guilty.
No questions, not a single attempt at verification, before he believed everything!
As expected, in the Emperor’s heart, he was nothing at all.
The little sliver of yearning in his heart for that slightest bond between father and son to exist, had just been heartlessly severed.
The Imperial Guards had already come to stand right beside Lei Chen, and it was seen that Lei Chen would be grabbed the very next moment.
But right at that moment, a clear voice tinged with a cold tone suddenly rang out within the main hall.
“Your Majesty is really resolute and merciless in ordering executions.”
“Who is that?” The physically and mentally exhausted Emperor suddenly turned to look towards the voice, and saw the person who had gone missing for a long time, Jun Xie, suddenly standing in a corner of the main hall. No one had noticed when he had come into the main hall at all!
In the instant that he saw Jun Xie, the Emperor gasped loudly and his eyes suddenly filled with alarmed.
“Jun Xie! How did you come in here! ?” The Emperor stared at Jun Xie, his voice growing shrill.
Jun Wu Xie walked slowly to the centre of the main hall and swept her gaze over the chaotic turmoil within the place, then she slowly said, seemingly in no big hurry: “I heard that Your Majesty was looking for me, so I came here to see Your Majesty.”
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