Chapter 107: Bedwetting
Chapter 107: Bedwetting
Xu Ling'er didn't know much about the Queen.
Only some information was extracted from the emperor's insulting words. The emperor found that the queen's coffin was empty, so he concluded that she was faking her death.
Over the years, he has been looking for the whereabouts of the queen.
As an outsider to the relationship between the emperor and the empress, and a victim of anger because of her appearance, Xu Ling'er analyzed that the emperor's hatred for the empress was due to love.
The emperor abused these substitutes, but was obsessed with them. Once, when he was drunk, the emperor hugged her and begged her, saying that as long as she came back, he would do anything she wanted.
The emperor couldn't let go of the queen; he still had feelings for her.
The experience in the palace made her feel ashamed and scared. In her heart, the emperor was a very powerful and terrifying existence.
She was worried that Qiao Xi was no match for the emperor and could only place her hopes on the queen.
Qiao Xi watched her write word by word on the palm of her hand, and the shock in her heart gradually subsided.
"Thank you for telling me the news. Don't worry, we will be fine."
She didn't think that the Queen could really help them after her return.
She saw clearly how cold the Queen was towards the Prince.
However, she also understood Xu Linger's kindness.
Seeing her trembling violently just thinking about the past, Qiao Xi knew how much Xu Ling'er didn't want to think about or mention the past.
She held Xu Linger's trembling hand and said, "I will definitely kill him."
End your nightmare.
Xu Ling'er pursed her lips to suppress the tears that were about to fall, and used her other hand to gesture to Qiao Xi to be careful.
Qiao Xi nodded, suddenly hugged her, patted her back, and said, "Don't be afraid, the border is our territory now.
Xu An is no longer a child. He has grown into a man of integrity. He is the King of Southern Xinjiang and can protect his elder sister.
Bixiang is dead, and Cao Ying will die too.
That person is not as powerful as you think. If his virtue does not match his position, he will surely suffer disaster. His good days are over.
You should stay well in southern Xinjiang and wait for our good news."
Xu Linger couldn't hold back her emotions anymore after suppressing them for so long and burst into tears.
Her voice was damaged, so her crying was miserable and shrill, but Xu An outside was laughing with red eyes.
He knew that his sister had a shadow in her heart, but as a man, he did not dare to ask, nor could he ask about what his sister was doing in the palace.
Even as a grown man, he couldn't give his sister a safe hug.
He could only try to make his sister happy, but with little success. He couldn't sleep well at night, for fear that his sister would do something stupid.
Now that he heard her cry, he felt much more at ease.
Xu Ling'er cried for a long time, and then took out a purse from her waist.
That was the tranquilizer the doctor prescribed for her. She deliberately complained that the medicine was hard to drink and taught the doctor to make it into pills.
Then, while no one was paying attention, she collected the daily tranquilizing pills.
She had been saving them for about ten days and planned to save them for a month so that she could condense and melt these pills into one, which would almost allow her to die in her sleep.
The method of making medicinal soup into pills was something she learned from her stepmother Cao Ying when she was helping her.
She wrote again on Qiao Xi's palm, "At first, I was trying to survive because I couldn't let go of An'er. Now that I know he's doing well, I'm worried that the emperor will find out about me one day, and that will implicate both you and him."
There were also those unbearable experiences in the past, which would replay in her mind as soon as she calmed down, making her feel ashamed to live.
Qiao Xi asked her to help manage Huiminyuan. She felt as if she had a reason to live. Qiao Xi said that Xu An could protect her. Only then did she realize how unwilling she was.
I'm unwilling to die like this.
Cao Ying and the emperor are not dead yet, why should she die?
As she lay in Qiao Xi's arms and cried bitterly, she forced herself to think over all the memories that she dared not face but kept popping up from time to time.
The emperor thought she did not look like the empress enough, so he covered her face with the empress's portrait during the ceremony, nearly suffocating her to death.
She made a sound, and he despised it and asked someone to destroy her voice.
She pursed her lips and tried to hold it back, but he scolded her for being reserved and used humiliating methods to force her to speak.
He called her a slut and forced her to do all kinds of embarrassing and undignified actions.
After her miscarriage, her body was not well, and he thought she was dirty and decided not to touch her again.
She thought she could finally escape his clutches, but she didn't expect that an even more tragic end was waiting for her.
He forced her to have sex with other men like a spectator.
Afterwards, he accused her of infidelity and punished her with instruments that were worse than death...
After facing one thing after another, she believed what Qiao Xi said. The devil was not as powerful as she thought.
He only knows how to bully women with the power in his hands. She shouldn't be afraid of a man who only knows how to bully women.
He has his brother, Qiao Xi and the others to protect him, so it would be difficult for him to take her away. She shouldn't be afraid.
After crying and thinking for a while, she suddenly felt a lot more courageous and felt that the past was not so scary anymore.
"I won't do stupid things again. I want to live and live well."
She wrote carefully on Qiao Xi's palm, stroke by stroke, and tears fell all over Qiao Xi's palm.
After staying in Liangzhou for two days, Qiao Xi and Su Heting returned to northern Xinjiang.
Lai Chijiao stayed temporarily to help Xu Linger treat her throat.
When Su Heting learned that the queen might still be alive, he said nothing. He just felt as if a piece of his internal organs had been dug out, and a cold wind poured in, making his whole body extremely cold.
Qiao Xi hugged him tightly.
She vaguely understood why the emperor's attitude towards the prince changed five years ago, and even suspected that the prince was not his child and could not tolerate him.
Perhaps it was because the emperor discovered that the queen's coffin was empty, and he concluded that she was faking her death, or even ran away with another man.
Because of the love for the paranoid emperor, they took their anger out on their children.
If the queen really faked her death, then when she fled the palace, did she think about the prince's fate?
After learning of the prince's tragic death, did she do anything for him?
No!
She did nothing and has not appeared since.
If she could think of it, how could Su Heting not think of it?
His mother abandoned him without caring about his life or death, and even implicated him.
"Xier."
On the first night back in northern Xinjiang, Su Heting called out to them as the couple went to bed.
Qiao Xi put her arms around his waist and said, "I'm here."
She knew he must be feeling sad, so she wanted to comfort him.
"I know why the emperor accepted me back without verifying my identity."
Su Heting's voice was calm and no emotion could be heard.
"He believed that the Queen Mother was alive, so he wanted to take me back to lure her out.
But why is he so sure that the Queen Mother will come out?"
The Queen Mother didn't care about him back then, so why does the Emperor think that the Queen Mother would care about his second brother?
This was the first time Su Heting mentioned this matter after learning that the queen might still be alive.
Qiao Xi perked up, "Maybe he's not so sure, but he's been searching for her for so many years and hasn't found her yet, so he doesn't want to miss any chance."
After saying that, she regretted it.
She didn't want the Crown Prince to think that the Queen cared more about the Second Prince than him.
But when these words were spoken, it seemed as if the queen didn't even care about the second prince, and she didn't care about her two children at all.
Not much better than that.
Qiao Xi hurriedly explained, "Perhaps the emperor said those words because he was crazy. The queen is actually in the imperial mausoleum."
After saying that, she wished she could bite herself to death.
Doesn't this mean that the queen is dead?
In the prince's heart, he still hopes that the queen is alive.
She simply kissed Su Heting on the lips.
Since nothing I say is right, I'll just stop talking and appease her with my actions...
An hour later, there was a bang in the room and Su Heting was kicked to the end of the bed.
Qiao Xi rushed into the bathroom in a panic, wrapped in a quilt.
After slamming the bathroom door and locking it, Qiao Xi quickly threw her bedding onto the ground.
A dark mark on the bedding was exposed in front of her eyes. Qiao Xi squatted on the ground with her face covered, feeling ashamed.
She wet the bed.
She's so old, and she still wets the bed.
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