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Chapter 135 Can't Bear to Leave (1)
Chapter 135 Can't Bear to Leave (1)
Chapter 135 – Can’t Bear to Leave (1)
Cities situated on the border were a different circumstance. Even if she slightly tampered with the troops in these cities rather than the capital, and Mo Linyuan died, she would not be suspected for it. Afterwards, she would lead the army to defeat the Yue country and seize back their lost territory! With such a great victory, who would dare to say anything against her when she wishes to become the emperor?
This was truly a massive opportunity, for a woman like her, who wholeheartedly wants to ascend the dragon throne!
Besides, what’s so difficult about a little marching and one-sided fighting? Her Mo Country was richer than the Yue country—so, to begin with, how could she lose this battle?
Thinking this way, she threw the battle report in front of everyone the next morning and finally agreed to the minister’s request for the crown prince to return to the palace. She even personally had him attest as the new emperor!
This sudden turn of events left everyone at a loss as to whether they should rejoice or worry.
Mo Linyuan was about to be brought back, but very soon, the empress dowager was going to push him out to die in a battle!
During that time, the crown prince would inevitably die at the border. Others then would only say that his skills were truly inferior to hers and he justly deserved to die for the proper emperor to come out. No matter what, his death would never point back to the empress dowager.
The Prime Minister was suspicious. After all, he knew that the Yue country had just gone through a civil war. How would it have the luxury of time to provoke them, who was a far bigger nation?
But the battle report entailed that Ye Li’s army was completely taken over with this new emperor. Afterward, the new emperor led a massive army of a hundred thousand, capturing the two cities at the border within three days.
What they didn’t know was that…the two cities’ gates were opened by someone from the Mo Country. With this unexpected news, the Prime Minister’s men wanted to rush back to the empress dowager to report, but by the time they returned, it would be too late.
On the same day, the empress dowager personally brought Mo Linyuan to the imperial palace and had him hastily ascend the throne as fast as he could. Mo Linyuan acted like an ignorant and foolish person; even when the empress dowager was forcing him to go to a battlefield to fight against a hundred thousand soldiers, he still looked as if he didn’t understand a single thing. No matter what the empress dowager said, he nodded, acting like a puppet under her absolute will.
The empress dowager felt immensely proud for her cunning mind. True enough, how smart could a child who had never received any form of education be?
And at the face of this sinister deception, all the old ministers could only wring their hands.
How was this sending the emperor to the battlefield? This was clearly sending him to an early death!
The empress dowager making Mo Linyuan lead only a troop of soldiers against one hundred thousand troops…If they left the capital, the consequences would be dire.
Yet, insidious it may be, she didn’t do anything to remedy it. The empress dowager used the Mo Country’s old tradition of cutting off all avenues of retreat for the emperor’s ascension of the throne by making Mo Linyuan swear his meritorious deeds.
It was on this very same day that the empress dowager also sent Mo Linyuan out of the capital. Above the city gate and under the watch of numerous officials and the common people, Zhao Yunqin pulled Mo Linyuan along with her as she played her part as the empress dowager. “He just come back and is now leaving… My royal grandson, this royal grandmother is really reluctant to part with you.”
Mo Linyuan, who was wearing an emperor’s battle robe of a gold-embroidered dragon on a white cloth, smiled upon hearing this. And because he was still young, despite his handsome appearance, he gave of a harmless aura when he smiled.
“Are you really reluctant to part with me?” The young and elegant voice startled Zhao Yunqin. In spite of her age, she retained her sharp features– a trace of killing intent flashed across her face as she heard this. However, her raised eyebrows quickly softened as she spoke in sincere tone.
“I truly can’t bear to part with you. After all, you only just came back, and this empress dowager hasn’t even looked at her lost grandson properly. The battlefield is already too treacherous, and if something were to happen to you…this empress dowager couldn’t imagine how miserable that must be.”
After she finished speaking, she covered her face with her sleeve as if she was crying. The child in front of her was about to die soon, moreover he was going to die as her stepping stone.
When Mo Linyuan heard this, he laughed lightly, his almond-shaped eyes narrowing at her, as if he was extremely happy.
“Then you don’t have to be sad.”