"Empress Jin, you stay, you stay." Murong Zheng's words no longer had the usual commanding tone. Instead, they were weak and whispered requests.
Concubine Jin looked back at him, her calm expression cutting his heart like a sharp blade.
Once upon a time, Concubine Jin looked at him with deep affection, but now...
Even though the affection she had before was gone, Concubine Jin still stayed. She looked at Murong Zheng calmly, as if the person in front of her was not her husband, not the emperor of the Great Zhou, but a stranger.
Even without a word from Concubine Jin, Murong Zheng felt a piercing pain.
He still remembered that when Concubine Jin came out of his palace for Murong Kai, he rushed over anxiously. When he saw her, her eyes were not as cold as before.
Between Concubine Dong and Murong Kai, he chose Concubine Dong, which hurt her heart and also ended her last bit of love for him.
Now when he thinks back to that day and his choice, he feels chilled to the bone.
Why would he abandon his own son and choose a woman who was already good for nothing
What’s even more ridiculous is that he had been pampering that woman for more than ten years.
Murong Zheng's mind was filled with the disappointed look on the face of the Empress Dowager when she left. She had always looked at him with love, until Concubine Dong appeared. The look in her eyes when she looked at him became more and more disappointed, more and more disappointed...
"I'm sorry." Murong Zheng spoke with difficulty. It had been nearly twenty years since he ascended the throne, and he had never apologized to anyone in all these years. But when facing Concubine Jin, the remorse in his heart was like the surging waves on the bottom of the sea.
"It's all over." Even though she knew how heavy the apology of a king was, Concubine Jin's expression remained calm. The feelings in her heart back then had long been consumed behind the locked palace gates. Her only hope was that he would go up to her and treat their child well. However, she didn't expect that on the first day she came out of the palace, she would see him disregarding the life of his own child in order to save the life of the person he loved.
All the expectations and hopes were shattered to pieces in that instant.
No amount of guilt or apology can make up for it.
"If Your Majesty has nothing to say, I will go back first. You should have a good rest." Concubine Jin's expression remained calm. After she finished speaking, she turned around and was about to leave.
"From now on, I..."
Murong Zheng wanted to make a promise to Concubine Jin, but he didn't know what kind of promise he should make to comfort Concubine Jin's already cold heart.
"Your Majesty, you should have a good rest. I have been living alone for these years and am no longer used to having someone else in my life. If Your Majesty really wants to make amends, then you have to choose between Akai and your favorite concubine. Your Majesty, since I once risked my life to save yours, please choose Akai."
Concubine Jin's words were chilling, like a blade piercing Murong Zheng's heart.
At the beginning, when I chose Concubine Dong without hesitation, I never thought that one day, when I thought of that scene again, my heart would feel like it was being tortured to death.
How could Murong Zheng not be good to Akai? That child was born to the woman who loved him, and that was the continuation of their blood. However, he could not agree to Concubine Jin's request. He owed her too much, and he had to make up for it. He had to spend the rest of his life to pamper her, give her a position, and give her a worry-free life.
Even though, she doesn't need it anymore.
"You are my Concubine Jin. As long as you are my concubine, I will not let you be lonely." Murong Zheng seemed to be making a promise. Even though the assassin himself was weak, he wanted to struggle to get up and hold her in his arms, so that she would never be lonely again.
"If the emperor insists on doing so, I will have to lock the palace door again." Concubine Jin's words were as cold as jade, shattering all of Murong Zheng's imaginations of the future like hail.
She is even cutting off her own path to redress...
After Concubine Jin said this, Murong Zheng realized that the wound he left in Concubine Jin's heart was much deeper than he thought.
(End of this chapter)