Gifted Bride of the Sinned Prince

598 Wished to be disappeared [Bonus chapter]

Xiaoming went to see his mother and found her taking the evening tea. He bowed to her before taking a seat. Zhu Liling asked the servant to brew tea for the King as well.

Zhu Liling placed the cup on the saucer and asked Xiaoming why he came to her manor despite knowing the fact that she didn’t want to see him.

“To check if Mother isn’t doing something wrong,” Xiaoming remarked. The tea server had placed the teacup before Xiaoming on the table and stepped back.

Zhu Liling frowned to hear his remark and asked him to drink the tea.

Xiaoming sipped the chrysanthemum tea and gently placed the cup on the table.

“The King should not speak something baseless against me,” Zhu Liling warned him.

Xiaoming chuckled to hear his mother’s statement. “I would not have said such a big thing if I had no surety,” he affirmed and put his hand inside his inner pocket.

He placed a piece of paper after unfolding it on the table and put his finger over the seal which only the Queen Dowager possessed.

Zhu Liling looked at the paper and flinched. “What is it?” She asked.

.....

“Mother should read aloud and tell me why she gave this to her confidant,” Xiaoming demanded a truthful answer from his mother.

Zhu Liling fiddled with her fingers and said, “I do not know about this. The King should not bring such matters to me.” She plainly refused her involvement with any such matter that was mentioned in the document.

“Mother, don’t make me imprison you for a lifetime,” Xiaoming’s fists tightened and his jaw clenched. He wanted his mother to be true to him.

Zhu Liling didn’t say anything when Xiaoming rose to his feet.

“I wish I could give severe punishment to my mother. I wish I had carried a little bit of cruelty in me as you carry for me,” Xiaoming said and scrunched his eyebrows. He asked Huang Xi to come in, who did with Zhu Liling’s confidant.

Huang Xi pushed her and she got on her knees. “Why did Mother send Hai Rou to the Eagle pavilion? How come Mother knows that in the Eagle pavilion, one can get the deadliest poisons?” He questioned Zhu Liling, who gulped.

Zhu Liling gazed at Hai Rou, who was caught so easily.

“I do not know what the King is saying,” Zhu Liling asserted. “Hai Rou has been in my manor for many years. She might have used the seal to accuse me. The King should investigate properly before making such an accusation about his mother,” she stated.

“Hai Rou, tell us the truth,” Xiaoming asked her to speak.

Hai Rou had not accepted her crime till now. Xiaoming thought that seeing Zhu Liling leaving her side, she might speak the truth, but the opposite happened. Hai Rou took the entire blame on herself. She told them how she wanted to destroy the royal family by taking Queen Dowager as her shield.

“Please punish me to death, Your Majesty,” Hai Rou said and lowered her head.

Huang Xi looked at Xiaoming, who asked her to take Hai Rou away. Huang Xi dragged her out of the chamber while Xiaoming stayed in the chamber.

“Mother will not stay in the palace. I will send her far away from here,” Xiaoming announced her decision to her.

Zhu Liling frowned to hear his sudden decision. “The King cannot send me away!” She spat at him.

“I can. I will have to do this to stop my mother from committing crimes like my father,” Xiaoming pronounced. He told her he didn’t believe what Hai Rou told them.

“I will raise the matter in the imperial court,” Zhu Liling stated.

“Mother cannot do this. She should not forget that I am the supreme ruler here. Mother will leave the palace in the evening. As an ideal king, I should throw her into prison, but my heart doesn’t allow me to be merciless on my mother. I truly wished that she could see the truth and stand with it,” Xiaoming said. He was infuriated at his mother, but he could not either show that anger.

Zhu Liling quickly stood up from her place and held Xiaoming’s arms. “I did nothing, Your Majesty. Please do not send me away,” she pleaded to Xiaoming. However, he didn’t listen to her this time.

“I do not have any faith in my mother anymore,” Xiaoming stated and pushed her away. “I am disappointed in both my Father and my Mother. You chose to be loyal to a man who took so many lives and manipulated a child in his way. You chose to poison me because I stood up with Lóng Wei. I wish I could develop as much as the hate you developed for me.”

Zhu Liling’s eyes turned teary. Xiaoming knew everything. It was true. She chose to poison her own son and now, she was regretting it. She thought she would be the supreme ruler and would destroy everyone.

“Forgive me,” Zhu Liling said.

Xiaoming did not say anything about that and walked out of the chamber. He gave strict instructions to the soldiers not to let Zhu Liling out.

His eyes were misty. He respected and loved his mother so much. Zhu Liling earlier did the crime to take Jin Yu’s life. He had promised himself not to forgive her, but he did. However, now the water has gone above the head.

Xiaoming felt so terrible. The two most important people in his life, who were once his everything, betrayed him in the most unexpected way.

He was devastated from the inside. He used to feel pity for Lóng Wei, but now he was in the same place. Xiaoming’s faltered because he didn’t take water or a meal since the morning after he found his mother brought that poison for him. His head was heavy and he fell to the ground. He slowly closed his eyes and wished to be disappeared.

The servants saw the King on the ground and ran in his direction, leaving their respective work.