Does your husband only love his wife?I turned around and left the house to marry a villain

"That's what happened. I didn't kill Dong Fang. She jumped into the river and committed suicide. Your Majesty, you can't blame me for this life. After all, I, He Yuanzhou, don't know how to swim and I didn't dare to go down to save her. Dong Fang wanted to die on her own. It's not my fault."

He Yuanzhou told Xie Jinyun everything about Dong Fang and him.

After finishing speaking, He Yuanzhou not only did not show any regret, but instead smiled playfully and murmured, "Dong Fang, this woman Dong Fang really overestimates her own abilities."

Xie Jinyun's eyes darkened, and he said in a cold tone: "Qingtang loves gentlemen."

When He Yuanzhou heard the word "Qingtang", his body suddenly stiffened, his laughter stopped abruptly, and he turned to look in the direction of Xie Jinyun again.

Xie Jinyun continued, "But the gentleman she loves is consistent in his words and deeds, has the world in his heart, and is lenient to the people. Do you understand what I just said about you not respecting women? If you still don't understand, then I will say a few more words, which are also what Qingtang asked me to say to you, 'The ideals, ambitions and beliefs of an official are to contribute to the public, not to seek personal gain. He Yuanzhou, I look down on villains.'"

No matter how many words others say, they are no match for Chen Qingtang's few heart-piercing words that can make people collapse.

He Yuanzhou seemed to have forgotten the pain. He slowly sat up from the straw mat, his body straight, and tears gradually welled up in his eyes.

The cell door slammed shut.

He Yuanzhou, who was deeply shocked, shuddered suddenly, and quickly crawled towards the cell, shouting frantically: "No, I am not a villain, I am also a gentleman, I could be a gentleman, Queen, Queen, please don't go, please don't go, I want to see Miss Chen again, let me see her again, I still have a lot to tell her..."

In the cell, He Yuanzhou's heart-wrenching screams echoed, but no one came to respond to him.

The Chen Qingtang he mentioned didn't want to see a villain like He Yuanzhou again.

He insulted Dong Fang, murdered Sun Qianqian, and tried to take someone else's wife. Chen Qingtang shuddered whenever he thought about the fact that he had been targeted by such a person.

On this side, Xie Jinyun had not yet returned to the palace, and on the other side, Gu Changning had already received news that He Yuanzhou had humiliated Xie Jinyun.

His eyes were cold and murderous, but his voice was light and he said, "After the queen left the prison, she took He Yuanzhou to the lotus platform in the imperial capital, used his blood to feed the lotus platform, and then tortured him to death."

"Yes." Xiao Zhi received the order and immediately walked out of the Daxing Palace.

As soon as the Queen's carriage left the Heavenly Prison, Xiao Zhi and his men rushed into the cell, dragged He Yuanzhou, who was shouting, out of the Heavenly Prison, and sent him to the Lotus Platform overnight.

At dawn, the people of the imperial capital saw a bloody man tied to a wooden stake on a lotus platform.

His blood soaked his clothes, forming blood beads that dripped onto the lime-colored lotus petals.

The lotus platform was used by the Chen people to offer sacrifices to the sky.

Now, the lotus platform, which had a monotonous color, was dyed red by He Yuanzhou's blood.

But the common people of Chen Kingdom not only did not think this scene was cruel, but they knelt on the ground to worship, and directly used He Yuanzhou as a sacrifice to pray to God - may the new king be wise, punish the treacherous and corrupt, and bring peace and prosperity to the country!

At the same time, several large families were raided in the imperial capital.

Seeing that the people of Chen State were in high spirits, Gu Changning decided on the spot to drag a few heads of noble families to the Lotus Platform and sacrifice them to the heavens by means of slow slicing, in order to liven up the people's spirits and also serve as a warning to others.

And those who were killed by Gu Changning were all treacherous officials who had followed Tuoba Zhao and the Tuoba royal family in plundering the people and did not treat the common people as human beings.

The imperial capital on this day became their purgatory and a day of carnival for the people.

But it’s not over yet.

After dealing with the treacherous ministers, we still have to deal with the Wei, Yuan, Wang, and Tuoba families.

The first thing Gu Changning did when he woke up every day was to think about which noble family or minister he would deal with that day.

It was not until 80% of the officials from Yan State were replaced in the court of Chen State, 60% of whom were talented people promoted by Gu Changning from among the literati, and the people below no longer made any dissenting remarks that Gu Changning gradually restrained himself.

Among them, Xie Jinyun advised: "Your Majesty, if the water is too clear, there will be no fish; if the person is too strict, there will be no followers. If the court is full of ministers who are satisfied with the emperor, they will have no choice but to agree with the emperor in everything and dare not go against the emperor's will, for fear that they will be beheaded one day."

"You have dealt with most of the noble families and factions of Chen country, but you cannot kill them all. Just like the chess game in front of us, if the white pieces are too strong, they can march straight to the black palace, kill the generals, break through the gates and kill the king. But if the black pieces are too strong, they can also swallow up the entire white pieces."

Gu Changning looked down at the chessboard in front of him.

Only then did he realize that the chessboard was almost full of Xie Jinyun's black pieces, while his white pieces were very few.

At this moment, Xie Jinyun ate up his three white pieces right in front of him, leaving him completely isolated and helpless.

Xie Jinyun said: "When a dog is cornered, it will jump over the wall. The emperor has been killing madly recently, and the old party members of Chen State have been scared out of their wits. They are in a state of panic all day long, but they have given power to the new nobles of Yan State. If one day, the new nobles supported by the emperor become those treacherous flatterers on the lotus platform, and they protect each other, then the emperor will not be able to hear another voice."

After hearing this, Gu Changning placed a white chess piece directly into Xie Jinyun's encirclement and said, "I'm just thinking about finishing off those people as soon as possible and returning to Yan State as soon as possible. Madam, don't worry, I know what I'm doing."

As he spoke, he picked up his white pieces. It was a suicidal chess game, but he was having a lot of fun. "I was a hostage in Chen State for ten years. I witnessed how these high-ranking officials and children of aristocratic families bullied the common people. Jin'er, have you ever..."

He looked up at her, swallowed the words back when they were on the tip of his tongue, thinking that what the superiors of Chen Kingdom had done would insult Xie Jinyun's ears.

Xie Jinyun asked: "Husband, I have seen too many ugly faces and experienced too many dangerous things in this life. Is there anything else that you are not comfortable telling me?"

Gu Changning took a deep breath, put down the chess piece and said, "I once saw a young man from a noble family abduct three civilian women. They were three sisters from a poor family. They were favored by the playboys, but they refused to obey, so these people..."

Gu Changning had just arrived in Chen State at that time. He saw with his own eyes the three sisters being stripped of their clothes, then forced to wear dog skins, forced to crawl on the ground, and paraded around as a warning to others. A dog chain was tied around their necks, and they had no power to resist at all.

He had tried to stop them, but was humiliated and beaten by these playboys, which also caused harm to the guards and followers around him, and even death.

The guards he brought with him were all tortured to death by the royal family and the aristocratic families, but no one from above dared to intervene.

This is the situation in Chen State. The people have no human rights, ministers protect each other, Prime Minister Yuan controls the government, and an eldest princess plays with the court.

Xie Jinyun was shocked and heartbroken after hearing what Gu Changning said: "What happened to them afterwards?"

"They were played to death by those people, and then thrown into a brothel like a piece of rag. They spread rumors that they were prostitutes and threw them into a mass grave on a trumped-up charge. Their families were not allowed to clean up for the three sisters." Gu Changning walked to Xie Jinyun, hugged Xie Jinyun in his arms, and said, "So those I killed were all people who deserved to die. They should know in their hearts that as long as I can live and return to Chen Country, they will definitely die!"

Xie Jinyun put her hand on Gu Changning's arm and leaned quietly in his arms.

At this time, Jiang Huai walked into the palace: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Li Qiulian is making a scene in the cell."

Gu Changning: "What is she making a fuss about?"

"The people in the cell said that Li Qiulian wanted to be released. She didn't like staying in the cell and asked the emperor and the queen when to let her out."