amaotonovel Chapter 784 The Truth 2
Chapter 784 The Truth 2
In fact, she felt it was strange that after the death of the previous emperor, the emperor granted Concubine Chang permission to leave the palace and live with the Fourth Prince, but Concubine Chang refused. If she and Shu Lang really had feelings for each other, wouldn't it be more convenient for her to leave the palace and meet Shu Lang?
Besides, if Concubine Chang gave up leaving the palace just to seek revenge on Empress Dowager Cheng, she had decades in the palace to kill Empress Dowager Cheng, but she didn't do it.
That day, she and Shu Lang acted in front of them. Shu Lang's expression was very strange. How could Concubine Chang like a man who was timid, cowardly and incompetent, and relied on his wife to gain a foothold in officialdom, and like such a man for her whole life.
If she had to choose between the late emperor and Shu Lang, Concubine Chang did not choose the late emperor but chose Shu Lang. She was either blind in her eyes or blind in her heart.
However, she was able to resolutely move to the cold palace alone. As a woman who could resist the temptation of imperial power, her heart must be very strong. She did not really want to support the Fourth Prince to become the emperor, but wanted to help King Kang seize the throne of the Zhou Dynasty.
For a man, she would even use her son.
Jiang Fenghua added, "There is one thing I don't understand. If you want to take the throne for King Kang and avenge him, why don't you just stay in the harem and be your concubine? This way you will have more opportunities to get close to the late emperor and have more chances to kill him and avenge him."
Concubine Chang said, "He doesn't want me to have anything to do with Xie Jing anymore."
Jiang Fenghua was puzzled, "The 'he' that the Concubine Dowager mentioned is Prince Kang? Prince Kang doesn't want you to continue to be the late emperor's woman." In this way, Xie Kang is still quite manly. If it were Shu Lang, he would probably let Chang Mingxiu seduce the late emperor to gain benefits for himself.
"You could have left here with King Kang back then. As long as there is love, it would be nice for you to go away together." Jiang Fenghua sighed.
Concubine Chang said, "It's not that easy. Women who marry into the royal family will be trapped in this besieged city for their entire lives. It's either life or death. No one is as lucky as Concubine Lan to meet the kind-hearted Queen Jiang."
Jiang Fenghua said: "So the news that Concubine Lan was still alive was really revealed to Prince Kang by the Concubine Dowager. You wanted to threaten Shang Hong to use him for your own purposes."
"It is impossible for the Shang family to betray the court. Xie Kang also knows that he cannot incite the Shang family to rebel. The incident with Shang Hong and Concubine Lan was an accident." Concubine Chang did not hide anything because Xie Shang already knew that Xie Kang and the Empress Dowager wanted to seize the throne.
"I just don't understand. Xie Kang hid so deeply and didn't reveal any flaws. How do you know that the person manipulating all this behind the scenes is Xie Kang?" said Concubine Chang.
"Xie Shang didn't tell you?"
Concubine Chang shook her head. "When the emperor came to see me, he only asked me about Xie Kang's whereabouts. He didn't say anything else. How would I know where Xie Kang is? I have never left the palace."
Jiang Fenghua added: "Is the Fourth Prince your child with the late emperor, or yours with Xie Kang?"
Concubine Chang sneered, "You also think I lied. The charges I accused Cheng Langjin of are not true. I have said that it was she who caused me to lose my virginity to the late emperor, which led to Yang'er's birth. It was she who ruined my life. It is true that she schemed against the concubines and the princes in the harem. I did not make up these things to slander her. The emperor may not be able to accept that his mother is such a vicious person."
Speaking of Empress Dowager Cheng, Concubine Chang's emotions were very unstable, someone she had hated all her life.
Tears suddenly flowed from Concubine Chang's eyes, and she told Jiang Fenghua about their past, "Xie Kang and I met at the Lantern Festival. He is talented and handsome. We went to the lake to watch the lanterns and make a wish together. He promised to come to my house to propose marriage and marry me as his wife. Everything was so beautiful and happy. I thought I would be the happiest woman in the world.
In fact, I have compromised before. I hate them, but I also love my children. I didn't use Yang'er to take revenge as you thought. I thought I would just let it go for the sake of my two children. At least God was only unfair to me. Yang'er and Yan'er can at least live in the sunshine. But Xie Kang suddenly came back."
Jiang Fenghua softened her heart again. She felt a little sympathetic towards Concubine Chang. "Actually, you could have escaped at that time."
"Do you think I didn't escape?" Concubine Chang said coldly, "Before I entered the palace, Xie Kang had been imprisoned by Xie Jing. I asked Shu Lang for help to rescue Xie Kang. I met the late emperor, but it also ruined my life. Later, he was sent to the northwest, and I entered the palace to become an empress."
"Ten years later, I met Xie Kang again. He came back secretly, and it was Shu Lang who brought him to see me..." Concubine Chang sneered, "I thought he would come to take me away, but he had already married and had children in the northwest."
Jiang Fenghua frowned, "You didn't expect that you lost your virginity to the late emperor because of him, and were plotted against by Empress Dowager Cheng and forced to enter the palace. You even took the initiative to move from the harem to the West Palace for him. You didn't want the late emperor to touch you, but in the end he had already married and had children, and you were the only one who was infatuated with him.
After you met, you had his child again, but he disappeared again. You asked Shu Lang for help. What is your relationship with Shu Lang? Why was Shu Lang willing to help you? "
These words coming out of Jiang Fenghua's mouth made Concubine Chang feel sad. Although she didn't want to admit it, what Jiang Fenghua said was the truth.
"Shu Lang and I are from the same hometown. It is true that he likes me, but I have never liked him. Shu Lang knew that the person I liked was Prince Kang. At that time, he was working in the Hanlin Academy and was chosen by the Yang family to be their son-in-law. In order to meet Xie Kang, he introduced me to him. The Yang family held a banquet and Xie Jing and Cheng Langjin both came. You should be able to imagine what happened afterwards!" She never wanted to recall it for the rest of her life.
"It's my fault that Shu Lang got involved." said Concubine Chang.
Jiang Fenghua continued, "So it was Xie Kang who asked Shu Lang to admit that he had a secret relationship with you, and Xie Kang was also in the palace on the night of the family banquet?"
"Yes." Concubine Chang said, "He is in the West Palace. Ever since you knew that Shu Lang and Yang Er were in contact, he has thought of a pretext to say that I had an affair with Shu Lang, so he planned all this."
"So he was the one who spread the false news that the Fourth Prince had rebelled in order to distract our attention, and then he ran away." Jiang Fenghua said.
Jiang Fenghua simply couldn't imagine how a man could hurt a woman who had loved him all his life and make her admit that she was with another woman.
"Prince Kang has not returned to Beijing for decades, but you gave birth to his child. How did he manage to be with you under the nose of the late emperor?" Jiang Fenghua asked.
"Xie Jing expelled him from Shengjing, but it doesn't mean that he can't come back. It's just that the time is very long. He made me wait too long, and each wait is a lifetime. I want to help him, but he is unwilling to let me take risks." Concubine Chang said.