Rebirth of Poisoned Empress, by 颜若优雅

Chapter 93

If Pei Yuanxian never said anything, even if Shen Liang wracked his brains, he would've never suspected the deaths of the former Crown Prince and Empress to hide such a conspiracy. However, he found himself unable to admire the former emperor's affection and love. It wasn't because of Pei Yuanxian. Nor was it because he despised the Imperial Family as is. But rather, personally, his love for the current Empress Dowager was only so-so anyhow. If he truly loved her, how could he bear to forsake her to spoil other women? Even if the situation required it, besides the Crown Prince, Shen Liang remembered clearly that the current emperor had plenty of other siblings. Although many of them have died now, but it should be an irrefutable fact that all of those children were born from his other concubines? His love was no different from Shen Ruiting's, leaving people only with a disgusted aftertaste. 

In addition, for his self-righteous love, he didn't hesitate to kill his legal wife and children. He was ruthless and cruel. With what he had done, he wasn't even qualified to call himself a humane being, much a benevolent monarch!

"A person who had never been educated on how to be a monarch is now sitting on the throne. No wonder he can't support the great Qin Empire and only knows how to cast doubt on loyal military and civil officials. Does he also know that you're the son of the former Crown Prince?"

No one knew how much time passed before Shen Liang let out a cold snort. Even he had heard of the former Crown Prince's benevolence and magnificence. Had the former emperor not been the beast he was and allowed the former Crown Prince to ascend the throne, the current Qin Empire wouldn't be so riddled with holes and flaws and engaged in series of wars all year round. 

"He shouldn't know. If he did, then he would've spared no effort to have me killed," with his hatred shared by the person he loved, Pei Yuanxian's anger gradually subsided. One day. He will have that dog emperor and Empress Dowager kicked off the throne. He will have the corpse of the former emperor dug out and whipped to appease his hatred and take back the empire that should have been his father's. 

"That is possible," in his previous life, Shen Liang had developed a general understanding of Qin Yunshen from his years of being the man's wife. He couldn't help but nod his head, "Speaking of which, then who is the real heir of the Duke of Qingping then?"

Pei Yuanxian had said before that he had taken back control of the Ironclad Guards with the real heir. That proved that the heir was still alive.

"Oh him? He is currently not in Great Qin. He's my elder brother *in the context that they share the same master, not the same parents* and is older than me by two years. Back then, it was only fortunately that I was tall since young that I was able to pass off as him. In the future, I'll let you meet him when the chance arises." When Pei Yuanxian mentioned his martial brothers, a smile emerged on his face.

"En," Shen Liang nodded his head. He leaned against him and closed his eyes. No wonder Pei Yuanxian became the emperor in his dream. In other words, he must've never died originally but rather found a way to escape from his cicada shell. It was just, why did he have to wait until the emperor passed away and for Qin Yunshen to have ascended the throne for three years before he took back the throne? Was it because of the Blood Canyang? If that was the case, did that mean his Blood Canyang truly can be cured?"

Regardless, since Pei Yuanxian was the heir of the former Crown Prince and held a deep grudge against the current emperor and the Empress Dowager, then the throne would undoubtedly be usurped and returned to him. Now that the two of them had met and became intertwined with each other, then... after everything, in the end, doesn't that only mean that Shen Liang would once again have to sit in the seat of Empress?

When he thought of this, Shen Liang couldn't help but laugh. Fate and destiny was truly a funny and incredulous thing. It was no wonder why Pei Yuanxian had told him it was impossible for Shen Liang to be the emperor but he did have hopes of becoming the Empress back then. It couldn't be that Pei Yuanxian had already developed an interest in him back then? Quite prescient.