After only being in bed for a few days, His Majesty's hair has turned a lot gray and his eyes are sunken. At this moment, he is holding Lu Chen's right hand tightly, as if he is about to sit up slightly from the bed. The hope in his eyes turned into luster, almost the only thing shining brightly on his face.
Lu Chen just looked at him deeply.
For so many years, he has always looked up to his father.
He allowed himself to be arrogant and do whatever he wanted. Even if everyone in the public praised his brother, his father never changed his attitude.
Over the years, many, many people have felt that there was something so good about him that made His Majesty the Emperor let such a good diamond go instead of a rotten stone like his.
But they are not him, and they will never know the secret that he has hidden in his heart for so many years.
"I want to see him!" The rough breathing voice woke him up from his memory. Lu Chen watched helplessly as his father, the king of the empire, looked exactly like an ordinary helpless old man, with a look of emptiness and helplessness on his face. Help, it seems that only by clenching the palm of your hand can you protect this only possibility.
Lu Chen's eyes suddenly became as heavy as stagnant water, and he just looked at him calmly.
The admiration, surprise, and admiration of the past seemed to have all faded away. There was no warmth, and it was cold and cold.
If his gaze like this were seen by anyone outside, they would probably doubt whether the simple-minded His Highness whom I thought before was a figment of my imagination. How could it be possible? In one thought, his whole person seemed to have changed.
"Don't worry, after so many years, I also want to see him properly." With a touch of coldness on his lips, he slowly held his father's hand. Unfortunately, there was no warmth in the palm of his hand. The emperor seemed to suddenly react and stared at him blankly: "You, you... know who I... am talking about?"
He just couldn't help himself, and the repeated high fevers for nearly a week had burned away all the calmness in his heart. No one is more aware of the possibility of running out of oil than himself. It was a feeling of watching his body decay step by step. The premonition of becoming more and more depressed made him realize that he might not be able to hold on for much longer. But what to do? He still had unfulfilled wishes. He had been waiting for so many years. Now that Lu Chen had finally grown up, he thought he finally had hope, but it was still too late.
"How could I not know?" Lu Chen lowered his head, put his palm back under the mattress, and smiled slightly, but there was no smile in his eyes. "I found out on my tenth birthday."
At that time, he was still a kid jumping up and down. Lu Ming was even younger and still learning Chinese. No one compared him with his younger brother all the time. His father had not yet sat on the throne. Like him now, he was still just a human being. The prince has his own mansion.
But his father was never happy to see him. He always stayed alone in his bedroom and walked around alone.
Neither the mother nor the princess can appear in his bedroom without being summoned by him.
At that time, I just felt strange.
Until the day of his tenth birthday, everyone celebrated grandly at his birthday party. His father faced the guests with a graceful attitude, but the smile on his face was not obvious. So he sneaked into his father's bedroom, hoping to find out It was a secret that my father always stayed in his bedroom and never came out.
What on earth could make my father so nostalgic for his dormitory? They were never allowed to enter and exit at will.
Later, he finally found the thing on the bedside table.
a photo!
Under the dim light, he stared at the photo. On it, a woman with silver hair and silver eyes was holding a boy with the same hair color and skin color. She seemed to be smiling at the visitor, with the corners of her lips raised sweetly. She was so beautiful. describe!
In the photo, that woman is as beautiful as a stream of light, with silvery eyes and translucent eyes, just like the snowy scene in the North, which is breathtaking. And the boy sitting on her lap was so small and handsome. He was even more difficult to look away from than her brother Lu Ming, who was praised to the heavens.
The photo had obviously been touched frequently, and the corners were slightly curled, but it was always clamped there, tightly attached to the head of the bed. It seemed that no distance could be closer than this.
Silver hair, silver eyes…
At that moment, he suddenly remembered that he had actually seen the woman in this photo when he was a child.
How could I forget it
Even though he was just a child, he could never forget a woman who was so beautiful that she could almost conquer a country. What's more, she was the culprit that caused her mother to become seriously ill and almost suffer from depression! Oh, no, all of my father’s women almost went crazy because of this woman with silver hair and silver eyes!
She lived in the harem with her father for a short time, but everyone around her seemed to be afraid of her. Everyone took a detour, and the woman in the backyard looked more and more haggard. At that time, my father never came to visit the other women in the backyard once, but stayed with the silver-haired woman all day long.
However, the time was not particularly long, just like a storm, it came and went in a hurry, and soon, the woman suddenly disappeared!
It was like disappearing without any reason and never being seen again.
At that time, my father seemed completely crazy, his temperament changed drastically, and he was so violent that he directly slaughtered countless slaves.
It took a long, long time before it calmed down.
However, the palace servants who served that woman later died one after another. The death was so tragic and chilling.
After death, no one will speak again.
When he heard the news one day that his grandfather had passed away and his father suddenly became the "father", everything seemed to have returned to the way it was before that woman appeared.
Just like the dewdrops that appear on the branches in the morning, they never appear again after the sun rises. From then on, that woman became missing in the memory of all the women in the backyard.
No one wants to mention it, and no one wants to remember it.
In the entire palace, perhaps not even the mother knew that the silver-haired woman who mysteriously appeared and then disappeared suddenly had a son with his father!
The photo his father had hidden for so many years showed the person he cared about the most.
Now, my body is no longer what it was before, and seeing the infighting in the royal family in full swing, all my scruples have been let go, right
For so many years, my father had been thinking about that person, but in the end, he couldn't hide it anymore.
For a moment, the emperor did not dare to meet Lu Chen's eyes. There were so many things hidden there that he couldn't bear it for a while.
Lu Chen didn't want to stay any longer. He stood up and used his uninjured right hand to cover him with the quilt on the bed: "Don't worry, I've helped you hide this secret for so many years. It's daytime now, and there are many people talking. , at ten o'clock tonight, I will definitely do what you want."
The temperature of the air conditioner in the palace was turned on a bit high, probably because he was afraid that His Majesty the Emperor's body would not be able to bear the slightest bit of coldness. But at this moment, the Emperor looked at Lu Chen and turned around. His left hand was tied with a bandage and fixed in a shoulder sling. It was clearly not The particularly cold gesture made his heart sink slightly.
He wanted to ask how he knew about the other party's existence. But I found that at this moment, there was nothing to worry about.
Lowering his eyes slightly, he fell into coma again. This time, in dizziness, he seemed to have returned to his youth and saw her and their son...
However, tears fell from the corners of his eyes unconsciously. He clearly knew that this was all a dream. Because she was already dead, how could a dead person appear in front of him with such a smile like a flower? Just like for so many years, he could only take a good look at her and their son in his dreams...
Hemo left the palace, summoned his captain of the bodyguard, lowered his head and said a few words.
He has been serving Lu Chen since he was a child. The captain of the guard could hardly believe how shocking the content of the master's words with a calm face in front of him was!
However, he quickly concealed the shock on his face, lowered his head, walked quickly outside, and followed Hemo's instructions to the old residence of His Majesty the Emperor when he was still a prince.
It was getting late, but the place was deserted. Except for the necessary servants and servants, the whole house seemed to be without any vitality.
He looked down at the note in his hand, took a deep breath, walked to the door step by step, and pressed the doorbell.
"Who?" the guard's voice sounded from inside, as if he didn't recognize him, the heir apparent.
He frowned subconsciously, but didn't say much. He just handed the note in his hand to the other party: "Your Highness asked me to pass it to your master."
A look of surprise flashed across the other person's face. After the emperor ascended the throne, the house was completely idle due to its mediocre location. Over the years, only a few old servants were left to clean, and they were inconspicuous in the imperial capital. One day, someone would come to his door and deliver a note to his master.
The guard took the note but didn't read much. The other party was dressed like a royal guard, which clearly showed his origin. The guard closed the door silently, turned around, clutched the note and ran quickly to the hall of the house...
On this day, Lu Chen sat quietly in his room alone, without eating anything, and quietly watched the sky, from sunset to darkness, passing by minute by minute, sliding by second by second. , no one knows what he is thinking, no one knows what he is looking at...
When the imperial doctor came to change the dressing at nine o'clock, he saw that the lights were not turned on in his room. He was bathed in the moonlight and looked out the window expressionlessly. For a moment, he felt the coldness creeping up from the soles of his feet. , I felt cold all over, and I was so scared!
The wound on the left arm was severely infected due to the special lead content of the armor-piercing bullet. Even with the best wound medicine, the wound could not avoid ulceration.
Every time the dressing was changed, the basin of water would be dyed red. Just looking at it made me feel heart-scratching pain.
The second princess originally heard that Lu Chen had not left the bedroom today and felt strange. She also heard that he had not eaten anything tonight, so she made some midnight snacks by herself and sent them over. As a result, as soon as he entered the door, he saw the basin of red blood on the doctor's hand, and his face turned pale with shock.
He rushed to Lu Chen and was about to speak, but saw the other person's expression was indifferent.
"What's going on?" She watched in fear as her son put his coat on his body with his right hand and leaned quietly against the window, as if he was looking at something.
"Nothing." Lu Chen replied calmly, not wanting his mother to be involved. So many years have passed, why let her feel pain again. At this time, he suddenly envied Leng Yiyao's character. Even if everyone in the Leng family was so indifferent to her and did all the harm they did, she could not care less and even turn around and trample those people under their feet. Everyone in the empire said that women should be submissive and virtuous, but he wished his mother could be more like Leng Yiyao. At the very least, no matter what happened, she wanted to smile and look at everything calmly!
"I heard from people below that you didn't eat anything at night. How can this be okay? Your body is already injured, how can you maintain good health if you don't eat." The second princess smiled, thinking that it was probably because the royal family was too busy recently, and her son in a bad mood. Fortunately, I presented him with something I had made with my own hands. "This is what my mother made by herself, at least try some of it."
Lu Chen stayed at the window and was about to speak. Suddenly, his eyes paused and fell on the long corridor in the distance.
The second princess only felt strange and subconsciously moved closer to see what was going on. The next moment, her whole body suddenly stiffened and her expression was crazy!
"That hair color!" She suddenly trembled, and the supper she was holding with trembling fingers fell to the ground with a "snap".
The entire corridor, which had been eerily quiet, suddenly echoed with a harsh noise.
The man in white fur, as white as silver snow, suddenly stopped.
After a long time, he turned around and looked this way.
At that moment, Lu Chen suddenly tightened his grip on the window edge! The second princess felt that the sky was about to fall!
It's true! That person's hair, that person's eyes! You can’t go wrong! You can’t go wrong!
It's that vixen's bastard!
He's the bastard of that vixen!
How could it be, how could there be no guards in the palace for no reason
Where are the people! Are they all dead
I didn't see anyone breaking into the palace!
"Bitch! Bitch! She's actually pregnant!" The second princess's voice became more and more trembling as she was on the verge of collapse. She seemed to be going crazy and was about to pounce on her, but was stopped by Lu Chen behind her.
"Mother!" He lowered his head and held her shoulder tightly with his right hand!
"It's that person, isn't it? It's that vixen's bastard, isn't it!" Why, even after so many years, that bitch still refused to let her go! Isn't she already dead? Why would there be such a person, with the same eyes and hair as her, appearing here! "Come here! Catch him! Catch him!" She suddenly screamed, her pupils dilated, and at that moment, her hair suddenly fell down, leaving only ferocious tears on her face.
However, it was obvious that she screamed so loudly, but there was no sound at all around her.
The entire palace seemed to have fallen into an eerie silence. No guards, no servants, no response!
"Devil, devil!" The second princess's expression became more and more crazier, her voice was sharp, as if she was trapped in many demonic obstacles.
M stood in the corridor, letting the moonlight shine on him.
At that moment, the pure white silver fox fur coat, against his heavenly face, made people feel unattainable.
Looking at the window, the mother and son were in a state of confusion.
M smiled indifferently, his eyes were bright and smooth, but if you look closely, you can see that there is something majestic in his eyes...
At this moment, Lu Chen watched the other party's mocking smile and felt like his whole body was being torn apart crazily.
The original Lu Ming was nothing. Compared with this one, I'm afraid he couldn't even make a splash with jealousy...
Only now did he finally understand. Why couldn't Lu Ming please his father after all these years of hard work? With pearls and jade in front of you, what else in the world is worth worrying about
Regardless of appearance or temperament, they were as far apart from this person as a chasm.
In that photo, the handsome and cute little boy looked like this when he grew up...
"Another demagogue bitch! Why, why do you have to get involved again! Didn't he die back then? Didn't he die!" The second princess had completely fallen into her own memories, muttering silently, as if her entire mind had been lost. It's all starting to become unclear.
Lu Chen took a deep breath, his eyes full of darkness. For a long time, he slowly pressed his mother's head onto his shoulders: "Don't look, mother, don't look."
Don't look at those past, those memories.
That woman is dead. Now, she is just an illegitimate child whom her father cherishes deeply. She is invisible, has no identity, no status, and exists like a pitiful creature.
Just like him, he had lived in glory for so many years under the title of heir to the throne. In the end, he realized that he was just a pawn in the palm of his father's hand. The person in front of him was the one his father truly longed for. son!