Chapter 945 Final Kill
Lin Mengya’s words tore through the pretense of the Emperor.
He stared coldly at the woman in front of him with ferocious eyes.
“How dare you!”
The Emperor was a man of great authority. When he was angry, all the officials in the court were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and shivered.
But at this moment, the woman in front of him didn’t look intimidated at all.
“Don’t be angry. My husband is in charge of all the troops inside and outside the Capital City. What do you think your chances are?”
Lin Mengya was dismembering the backing of the Emperor of Dajin little by little. He had lost the support of the people as well as the protection of the loyal officials and generals, and even the maids and eunuchs inside and outside the palace had already abandoned him.
Now, he was not an emperor. He was just an old man struggling on the verge of death.
“You’re rebels. Do you really think you can control everything?”
The Emperor refuted, but he knew Lin Mengya was telling the truth.
“Well, I’m truly scared. Your Majesty, are you going to slander my husband like you forced my father just to secure your position? Your old tricks don’t necessarily work. Do you think we’ll care, Your Majesty?”
Lin Mengya stood still beside the Emperor of Dajin and raised her eyebrows to watch his dying struggle.
“I am the emperor! As long as I remain in power, I cannot tolerate the sight of traitors like you defying me. Guards, take her out and kill her!”
The Emperor was driven mad with rage. He had always fancied himself to be a gentleman, but now he seemed to have gone mad.
Lin Mengya looked at him with a cold smile. He really looked like the Crown Prince now.
In the end, only the Crown Prince resembled him the most.
They were alike in both looks and character.
The study was quiet. No guards, eunuchs, or maids appeared.
Only then did the Emperor of Dajin realize that the things he had been so proud of had long been out of his control.
His face darkened, and he turned to look at her.
Finally, all the pretenses he had put on over the years were shattered. He looked at Lin Mengya as if he really wanted to kill her.
“I advise you not to do that. I don’t know if your favorite daughter-in-law Feng Zidie has reminded you that she is from a family of great doctors, and I am the disciple of the Saint of Poison. Everything in the world can be poisonous. How long do you think you can hold on, Your Majesty?”
Lin Mengya smiled faintly, but her words were cold as h.e.l.l.
The Emperor’s heart skipped a beat. He wanted to move, but he found that his hands and feet were no longer under his control.
The anger and fear in his heart made him try his best to move his body. But when he exerted all his strength and the blue veins on his forehead were bulging, he found his hands and feet were still heavy and he could not even move his fingers.
“I am the emperor! I am the emperor! You rebels, don’t try to usurp my country!”
Only his mouth and brain were still functioning now.
At this moment, he was about to go crazy. Even now, he refused to admit that he had been tricked by a woman.
“Your Majesty, the throne had never been yours alone. Dajin belongs to tens of millions of people. You’re no longer fit to be the emperor. Someone will replace you.”
Lin Mengya said softly. In fact, the Emperor of Dajin was an emperor with dreams and ambitions when he was young.
But power was indeed effective in eroding a man’s heart. In just a few decades, he had become what he was now. It was indeed difficult to preserve his integrity in his later years.
“Haha, I… I can’t believe I got beaten by my own son. Good! I will give up the throne. But you’re not going to get what you want!”
The Emperor was burning with anger.
He gritted his teeth and said with hatred.
Lin Mengya frowned slightly, but she gracefully walked away from the Emperor of Dajin.
“Your Majesty, I thought you might be shameless, but I can’t believe that you’re the one who came up with such a foolish plan.”
Lin Mengya turned around with pity in her eyes.
Her voice was soft, but her words were sharp like a blade, cutting off all of the delusions of the Emperor.
“Do you mean the imperial edict that conferred me the t.i.tle of the concubine of yours? Or is it the secret edict about pa.s.sing the throne to Long Qinghan?”
The Emperor stopped struggling, and he froze. His eyes seemed to have lost their vitality in an instant and became puppet-like eyes.
Lin Mengya lowered her head and sighed softly.
“I came in a hurry today and didn’t bring any poison with me. Besides, it took a long time to acc.u.mulate your poison. The prince and I are busy, and we don’t have time to waste on you. Oh, by the way, I almost forgot one thing.”
Under the blank gaze of the Emperor, Lin Mengya went to his desk once again.
She took the jade seal on the desk with her bare hands and looked at it over and over again before she turned around and said,
“Come in.”
Then Baili Wuchen, who was dressed in black clothes, walked in.
By now, the Crown Prince had been executed. With his secret help, the most stubborn people had already been caught in one fell swoop.
However, Baili Wuchen’s ident.i.ty was a little awkward. Long Tianyu had said that Baili Wuchen probably would not get ahead in the imperial court in this life.
Because no matter how great his contributions were, in the eyes of those officials, he was still a traitor.
Even if they were allied now, they would not easily believe Baili Wuchen in the future.
He decided he’d rather live in darkness for the rest of his life than be ostracized by others.
Baili Wuchen was a smart man, and he knew clearly that Long Tianyu would trust him most, even if he became a shadow in the dark.
As they said, a man was ready to die for his bosom friend. Even if he would never see the light of day, so what?
“How… How dare you betray me?”
The moment Baili Wuchen entered the door, the Emperor of Dajin’s eyes widened as if he had seen a ghost.
“Your Majesty, you’re wrong. From the beginning to the end, the only person I’ve been loyal to is Prince Yu. It was before, now, and it will be the same in the future.”
Baili Wuchen, who had gotten rid of the Crown Prince, did not need to pretend anymore. Even if he lost one of his eyes, he had been trained to be as sharp as a knife.
Although there was no gloomy look on his face, he looked more handsome and serious.
He had been gentle in the past, but now he was sharp and experienced.
He looked calmly at the man on the throne with his brown eye. The Emperor was the one who had discovered him and sent him to Prince Yu.
He still remembered the last sentence the Emperor had said to him.
From now on, you only need to be loyal to the Third Prince alone.
He remembered it. Thus Long Tianyu was the only master in his life.
Unfortunately, the Emperor didn’t know and had always thought that he was a secret p.a.w.n by Prince Yu’s side.
Thus, the moment the prince became suspicious of the Emperor, he had become Prince Yu’s spy around the Crown Prince and the Emperor.
Now, the two imperial edicts were in his hands.
He took out the two imperial edicts from his arms and threw them into the brazier not too far away from him under the shocked and angry gaze of the Emperor of Dajin.
Baili Wuchen’s face was as pale against the light of the fire. He looked calm. He was no longer the handsome young boy in the eyes of the Emperor of Dajin.
“You… You…”
The Emperor was furious. He felt a tightness in his chest and then spat out a mouthful of blood.
He had never expected that his most trusted son and subordinate would team up and betray him.
He was like an ancient tree that had endured countless seasons. Finally, all of his life force was sucked out of him in winter.
With the rapid decline, there was no chance for him to shine with new life.
Lin Mengya did not feel sorry for him when she saw that his eyes were lifeless when he was sitting on the throne.
The Emperor had brought it on himself. Anyone who made a mistake had to bear the consequences.
Even if he was once the emperor of a nation.
“I… I just want to guard my ancestors’ land and Dajin’s foundation for a hundred years!”
The Emperor said in a low and hoa.r.s.e voice. He sounded a little unwilling.
Lin Mengya picked up the jade seal and stamped it on the other two imperial edicts taken out by Baili Wuchen.
After it was done, Baili Wuchen left the study in a hurry. Only Lin Mengya and the Emperor were left in the study.
“Don’t you understand? As an emperor, there is nothing wrong in defending your territory. But you forgot your responsibility and purpose a long time ago.”
Lin Mengya did not sympathize with the Emperor of Dajin at all. It was not only because the Emperor of Dajin had acquiesced in or even indirectly partic.i.p.ated in the poisoning and killing of her mother. It was also not because he played tricks on politics and ruined the Lin Family.
It was because the Emperor had forgotten the heavy responsibility of being an emperor as well as the vows he had made when he ascended the throne.
“What do you know? If I get the relic of the Guwei State, the whole world will be mine. I am right. I’m doing this for the people and the world!”
Unexpectedly, the Emperor was still so stubborn at this moment.
Lin Mengya frowned slightly and looked disgusted.
“Fight for hegemony? What do you think the relic of the Guwei State is? No matter how precious it is, it’s just a stone. Look at your country and your people, what kind of lives they are living?! If you really want to be the ruler of the world, then you have to work hard to make your people the strongest among the countries. By then, the world will be under the control of the Long Family sooner or later. Unfortunately, you’re just a mediocre man who has done harm to the country and its people.”