Rebirth of the Merchant Woman's Revenge

Wang Zhuo raised his head after hearing the emperor's words. He still had the same gentle smile as usual, "Your Majesty, please take care of yourself. I have no choice but to do this."

"You had no choice? Who forced you to do this? You actually had the intention of rebellion more than ten years ago. It's really abominable... cough cough..."

When the emperor got excited, he immediately started coughing uncontrollably. Li Junsheng and Eunuch Chengping hurried forward to help him calm down.

Wang Zhuo waited until the emperor calmed down and stopped coughing before continuing, "Does the emperor know who Ze'er's mother is?"

As soon as this question was asked, not only the emperor was curious, but even Li Junhao and Li Junsheng behind him couldn't help but look at Wang Zhuo curiously.

This was even more true for Li Junze at this moment. He had lived for so many years, but he had never asked who his mother was.

However, before he could continue, the emperor became excited again, "You...you are so bold..."

He seemed to have guessed a terrible possibility and could not help but grip the armrests of the chair tightly, until his knuckles turned white.

"Hahaha, your Majesty, it turns out you are afraid of things too..." Wang Zhuo seemed to have gained great satisfaction from the emperor's frightened expression, and his laughter became more and more unbridled.

The kneeling posture that was originally quite proper was now a little crooked, "Your Majesty, when you killed his brother, did you ever think that one day in the future, you would love her child as your own son for more than ten years?"

Li Junhao's frown suddenly jumped. Wang Zhuo actually dared to do such a thing?

He had already thought of a possibility, and there was a high chance that he was right.

"Ze'er, is this your child with...Princess Mingyue?" the emperor asked with difficulty in his old voice, and he was already out of breath after asking.

Li Junze and Li Junsheng both opened their eyes wide at the same time. Princess Mingyue? The traitor? The princess who was forbidden to be mentioned in the palace?

Wang Zhuo smiled miserably. The corners of his mouth were still smiling, but his lips were already red with blood. "Yes, Your Majesty, I know everything about your persecution of the two siblings. After all these years since you seized the throne, can you feel at ease?"

Princess Mingyue is the emperor's elder sister. She also has a younger brother from the same mother, who was the crown prince at the time.

When the emperor was still a prince, he already had great ambitions, and eventually, under his various manipulations, especially with the support of his maternal grandfather's family, they finally found the former prince's fault and killed him directly on the way to capture him.

However, Princess Mingyue escaped mysteriously and no trace of her could be found no matter how hard the search went. It turned out that she was taken as a concubine by Wang Zhuo.

"Hehe, Wang Zhuo, you are very good, you are really very good. I have always been considerate of you as Yuyan's father and Ze'er's grandfather, so I have been patient with you. I didn't expect that you have already had such thoughts about me..."

Wang Zhuo glanced at Li Junze, his eyes full of pity, "Back then, my love for the eldest princess was always hidden in my heart. Fortunately, God had a vision and I accidentally saved the eldest princess, and that's how Ze'er was born."

"Unfortunately, the eldest princess' body was poisoned when she was being hunted down, which damaged her to the core. So she left us when she gave birth to Ze'er."

"And all of this is to blame on you, Your Majesty. If you had been content with your duty, how could such a tragedy have happened?"

Wang Zhuo kept on talking, and actually blamed all the mistakes made that year on the emperor.

After hearing this, the emperor laughed out of anger. Looking at Wang Zhuo and Li Junze kneeling on the ground, he said, "Be content with your duty? If I had been content with my duty, I might have been persecuted to death."

Not much is known about the palace coup that happened back then, and the old people in the palace have basically been purged several times, but it is not difficult to imagine how fierce the fight between the two was back then.

However, the winners take all, and in the end, the emperor won the final victory, and the truth of that year was no longer important.

"Shouldn't you die? If you didn't want Ze'er to take the position, you would have died long ago." Wang Zhuo said this with gritted teeth. At this moment, his face was filled with murderous intent, and there was no trace of smile from before.

"How dare you, a traitor like you, say such things? Xie Ziming, what are you waiting for? Take them out, take them out..."

The emperor seemed to feel a little guilty, and he gasped and shouted to Xie Ziming in the distance. After hearing this, the latter immediately brought two guards over and grabbed Wang Zhuo's left and right arms.

"Hahaha, what's wrong? Are you feeling guilty? Haha, the poison I used on you has no antidote. I'll leave first. The princess and I will be waiting over there for Your Majesty to come over. We'll continue arguing..."

Wang Zhuo's hands were being dragged, but he still didn't stop laughing. He laughed even more crazily. However, when he glanced at Li Junze, he finally revealed a look of shame.

After all, it was because of his own incompetence that he harmed Ze'er.

As Wang Zhuo was dragged away, his cries became quieter and quieter. Given Wang Zhuo's current physical condition, it was estimated that he would not be able to leave the palace.

Li Junhao watched their argument coldly. After all, the emperor felt guilty about the incident that year, but Wang Zhuo's actions back then were indeed extremely treasonous.

The emperor looked with a grim face at Li Junze, who was still kneeling on the ground and trembling with fear. No wonder he looked like him, it turned out that he had the blood of the eldest princess.

Hearing that there was no more movement, Li Junze secretly raised his eyes to look at the emperor and said nervously, "Father...Father, I have never done anything to let you down. I know nothing. Please have mercy on me."

He was completely panicked and didn't know what to say. It was hard for Wang Zhuo to have planned for him for so long, but in the end he turned out to be such an irresponsible and cowardly person.

The emperor let out a long sigh, looked back at Li Junhao and Li Junsheng, and then turned around and said, "Look, this is the eldest princess's son. He still wants to call me father, hehe..."

After he said that, he actually burst into laughter, but he ended up coughing violently again while laughing.

When Li Junhao saw Little Eleven helping his father to pat his back in a very professional manner, he wanted to step back and leave without making a sound.

After all, things have developed to this stage, and they have completely controlled the development of the situation. As for how to deal with the aftermath, it is ultimately something that the emperor and the prince should consider.