Free Web NovelChapter 1825: Chapter 599: Upstream
The other can be considered her kind, yet not truly her kind.
After mocking herself, an immeasurable resentment grew within her chest.
Chu Ming’s eyes turned crimson and vicious as she looked towards the north.
She was already dead, becoming a corpse!
Why do Emperor Jianyuan, that Yu Kunlun, and her father still get to live well?
They all should die as well! They should be buried underground, meeting the same fate as her.
Among the officials, Lu Chen, known as ’Sword and Dream’, stared blankly at the imperial steps.
He looked at the Zhai Clothes Phoenix Crown on Lu Luanti, his expression a mix of emotions.
In his heart there was surprise, reluctance, pain, anger, relief, and lament.
Before today, he hadn’t received the slightest whisper, never imagining such an occurrence.
This fundamentally did not conform to the rites.
——No consent was sought from him, the father, nor were the three letters and six etiquettes observed!
However, Chu Xisheng announcing Lu Luanti as her Vice Empress, equal to an Empress, at the founding ceremony, made him exceptionally satisfied.
This was much more grand and formal than any of the three letters and six etiquettes.
Behind him, his brother ’Master Peacock’ Lu Yuan was utterly shocked: "What on earth is happening? Brother, did His Majesty mention this to you?"
Seeing Lu Chen shake his head slightly, he felt even more baffled.
Lu Yuan could only shake his head, marveling: "This is too reckless, isn’t it? There wasn’t a hint beforehand. It seems even the Cabinet ministers are very surprised. Only this His Majesty, as the founding monarch, with unmatched martial prowess, can act this way without restraint."
As he spoke, he lamented and cast his eyes at Chu Yunyun to Chu Xisheng’s right: "Time flies, light flows away quickly, the ancients do not deceive me. When you first brought this child, Luanyi, back, she was only as big as my small arm, so tiny, soft, gentle, I feared holding her might hurt her. Now in the blink of an eye, this child has grown up and married.
However, this truly exceeded my expectations. Never thought the General of Northern Town would be so magnanimous. I thought she—ah, I thought Li’er was entrusting her to the wrong person, how heartbroken she might be in the future."
He dared not utter the words ’jealous woman’ in front of Chu Yunyun, not even using Secret Communication.
Someone like Chu Yunyun, a supreme master, has Five Senses Spiritual Consciousness keen to the extreme.
Merely speaking her name within a thousand miles might be sensed and tracked by her.
Lu Yuan dared not gamble on the consequences of saying those two words.
Of course, Chu Xisheng’s courage also astonished him.
Unexpectedly this guy didn’t fail Luanyi.
Three empresses standing together, not every man dares to speak before a peerless powerful figure like Chu Yunyun.
Chu Yunyun not killing Chu Xisheng showed her true generosity.
"However, I still feel that His Majesty is a hero but certainly not a good match."
Lu Yuan’s eyes showed worry: "Li’er will have tough days ahead."
Those two women beside Chu Xisheng were too strong, one unrivaled in martial arts, and the other an Eternal God.
"Aren’t you being too meddlesome!"
Lu Chen placed his hand on the saber at his waist, his face cold and stern: "No amount of money can buy the heart’s desire. It’s the road she chose herself, as long as she likes it. Why care about how her future will be."
Hearing this, Lu Yuan secretly smirked.
If not that his brother was already unable to defeat Chu Xisheng, he feared he would’ve beaten Chu Xisheng to vent his anger today.
However, Lu Chen’s next words made him solemn.
"Brother Yuan, do you feel that Li’er’s expression seems a bit off?"
Lu Yuan looked carefully, then frowned: "There’s a somewhat distracted look, today being her joyous day. Could it be she’s unhappy in her heart? Or was she mistreated?"
Was she dissatisfied with the position of Vice Empress assigned by Chu Xisheng?
Lu Chen fell into thought: "Just now while waiting outside, Jian Cangfeng specially mentioned to me that in recent days, rumors have spread everywhere, saying Luanyi is the posthumous daughter of the Crown Prince, and it has been widespread, creating a stir——"
His pupils suddenly widened: "Brother Yuan, help me find out the source of this rumor, who exactly is spreading the news!"
No one knows a daughter better than her father.
He knows how infatuated his foolish daughter is with Chu Xisheng.
This time Luanyi inexplicably became Chu Xisheng’s Vice Empress, brought over by Chu to receive the ministers’ homage, must have been because that scoundrel used some dastardly means.
Yet Lu Chen knows, even if Lu Luanti appeared unwilling on the surface, in her heart she must be secretly delighted and overjoyed.
Why then did she show such an expression?
"Isn’t this good?" Lu Yuan tilted his head, asking with a puzzled expression: "This is just a fact, Li’er was indeed the Crown Prince’s orphan."
"It’s not good!"
Lu Chen shook his head expressionlessly: "The Crown Princess Consort explained to me before her death to let her be an ordinary girl, living her life safely is a blessing. The Crown Princess Consort said that this was also the Crown Prince’s wish, that he would rather his descendants be born in ordinary families."
Back then, the Crown Prince died from poisoned wine, and two months after the Crown Prince and Empress’s death, the Crown Princess Consort was executed by Emperor Jianyuan’s decree.
Lu Chen still remembers in that Heavenly Prison, the earnest instructions from the Crown Princess Consort to him.
Lu Yuan immediately understood the meaning: "Are you worried that someone might use Luanyi’s name for something?"
Others assumed Lu Chen, as the forces under the Crown Prince, was always opposing the Daning Court, serving as a treasonous rebel for close to twenty years, must have been a loyal subject of the Crown Prince.
