Chapter 1601: Chapter 1594: Li Yunshu Conferred as Queen

"Is that so?"

Qin Muyan’s mouth curved with a cool, thin smile.

He originally thought that just from that one time, Rong Yun had become pregnant, and Shunshun was a blessing from God, a mercy from the heavens towards the Imperial family of the Great Wei Dynasty.

But...

This mercy seemed somewhat laughable.

In the ancestor hall, the officials argued for half a day, everyone bitterly criticizing Rong Yun, no one believing in her innocence, her cries, the cries of the child in her arms, all like demonic sounds, insanely torturing Qin Muyan.

"Enough, be quiet, all of you!"

Qin Muyan stood in front of the dragon throne and roared in fury.

The ancestor hall fell silent immediately, everyone knelt down, "Emperor, please calm your anger."

No one dared to speak, Rong Yun had already cried herself hoarse.

Holding her child, she knelt on the ground, inching forward on her knees, begging Qin Muyan, "Can’t you stop being angry? I’ve done my best to protect myself. The child has nothing to do with anyone else, didn’t you say... he looks the most like you?"

"Qin Muyan, you love me and Shunshun the most!"

Rong Yun knelt below the steps, crying heartbrokenly.

The child in her arms also seemed to be crying his life out, with one sob following another.

"I trust you very much." Qin Muyan scoffed coldly, his eyes full of bitterness.

But because he trusted her, he knew that when a grown man wanted to defile Rong Yun, she had no power to resist.

How could she be innocent then?

The child in her arms, how could it prove that he was his, and not the result of being violated?

And she hid it from him, carrying a big belly, and only came back to the palace close to giving birth to let him know.

That moment, his surprise...

Qin Muyan felt as if his heart had been fiercely stabbed, numerous arrows shooting towards him, as if he was riddled with holes!

No place to escape!

The court officials were endlessly arguing, Qin Ge also pressing Qin Muyan.

In the end, Qin Muyan waved his hand, "Enough... Strip Rong Yun of her empress position, demote Qin Yu to a commoner, and confine him outside the palace!"

"Qin Muyan! Why..."

Rong Yun gathered her last ounce of strength to stand up, she rushed up the steps, "Qin Muyan, didn’t you trust me? Why are you doing this to me? Why... don’t you believe Shunshun is your child? No! We are wronged! Qin Muyan!"

Qin Muyan did not dare to look back, didn’t dare to see Rong Yun’s tear-stained face.

He was afraid.

He feared that if he looked, his heart would soften, that he would not be able to part with her.

His heart, it hurt so much!

"Qin Muyan!" Rong Yun knelt on the ground, holding onto his legs pleading with him, "Look at Shunshun, okay? He looks a lot like you, he’s your child! He’s our child! Don’t send him away!"

"Qin Muyan!"

Rong Yun had cried many times, but never once like now, so piercingly, with a fierce demeanor that came from being a mother.

She could not let go, could not release Qin Muyan!

Once she let go...

Her Shunshun would become a bastard!

"You still want to deceive the emperor?" Qin Ge also cried out of anger, her eyes red as she pointed at Rong Yun, "You couldn’t even protect your own chastity, and now this child... you still plan to deceive the emperor to snatch the empress and crown prince positions?"

"I never cared for these positions in the first place!" Rong Yun turned around, her eyes filled with resentment as she looked at Qin Ge, "Qin Muyan loves me, what does it matter whether I become the empress or not?"

On her way back to the palace, Nanny Yan told her countless times that she must secure her position as the empress.

At that time, she had only one thought: "Qin Muyan loves me, it doesn’t matter whether I’m the empress or not."

All she wanted was his love!

Qin Ge was shaken by her gaze.

Qin Muyan gritted his teeth and ordered, "Take her away!"

A palace guard came and dragged Rong Yun away.

Qin Ge also came back to her senses from that look, but she seemed to sense something, an emotion not easily captured, which quickly dissipated.

Rong Yun was sent out of the palace overnight. The position of empress that originally belonged to her and the position of Crown Prince that belonged to her son, all came to nothing.

In one day, the entire Wei Palace was overturned.

When everything returned to quietness, Li Yunshu stood on the palace wall, looking down at the unlit Zhi Luo Palace, laughing wildly and recklessly, "Hahaha! Rong Yun, what does it matter if you gave birth to a prince? I’ll let you be happy for a few days, but in the end, you still ended up being driven out of the palace! Your people, once I ascend to the empress’ position, will be executed one by one for you to see!"

She imagined Rong Yun’s miserable and fragile appearance, watching her own people dying one after another, continually bowing her head to beg for mercy, crying her heart out to beg her, even kneeling in front of her, licking her shoes, just to plead for their lives to be spared!

"Haha! Hahahaha!"

Just thinking about it made Li Yunshu break into uncontrollable laughter.

As soon as Rong Yun left the palace, the harem became her world!

"Mu Yan, brother, you will be mine too!" Li Yunshu gazed obsessively in the direction of the ancestor hall.

The lights there were the brightest, also the focus of her heart and mind.

That was where Qin Muyan was.

She would eventually go there, accompanying him day and night, forever in his arms, forever in his heart!

After Rong Yun was expelled from the palace, the empress position remained vacant. Due to issues regarding the prince’s lineage, the courtiers constantly pressured Qin Muyan, urging him to appoint a new empress soon, to fill the harem, and bear pure bloodline of the Imperial family of the Great Wei Dynasty.

Qin Muyan was annoyed and almost fainted in the ancestor hall.

After resting, he drafted the imperial edict for the new empress and through the Ministry of Rites, selected several women from official families with clean backgrounds to enter the palace as concubines.

Xie Qingyi felt especially heavy-hearted when she received the imperial edict.

The empress she was supposed to protect, Rong Yun, had turned into... Li Yunshu!

November 7th, the grand ceremony for appointing the empress.

The date predicted by the Imperial Astronomers, where the lucky stars shine brightly, and even the sunlight was exceptionally splendid.

The civil and military officials gathered early in the palace, standing according to their rank, dressed in court attire, holding jade boards, with solemn expressions.

Qin Muyan, dressed in a bright yellow dragon robe, stood at the bottom of the long steps, facing him from the palace road was Li Yunshu, dressed in the empress’ ceremonial attire, wearing a phoenix crown, noble and dignified, walking toward him accompanied by the palace ladies.

Qin Muyan’s gaze was momentarily dazed. In his mind, he pictured that petite girl, walking towards him dragging her long skirt.

She was too small, any ceremonial attire would look oversized on her, thus as she walked towards him, her steps would be unsteady, she might even pout, and while walking she might quietly complain, "Why is this skirt so long, this phoenix crown is so heavy too!"

"Qin Muyan, my neck is so sore..."

He seemed to hear the spoiled voice of the young girl.

"Emperor? Emperor..."

Li Yunshu had already reached in front of Qin Muyan, calling him several times, but he didn’t look at her.

"Emperor!"

Li Yunshu had no choice but to raise her voice a bit.

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