0p0 Chapter 280 ended a marriage.
Chapter 280 ended a marriage.
The sound nearly scared Wei Jianxun out of his wits, and Lin Yuwei also looked in panic towards the source of the sound.
Suddenly, the emperor, dressed in a dragon robe, appeared before everyone. Although his face was slightly pale, he was indeed the emperor. Upon seeing him, everyone present immediately knelt down and paid their respects to the emperor.
Wei Jianxun knelt on the ground, at a loss for what to do. Lin Yuwei quickly stepped forward and helped him up.
"You are not allowed to kneel. You are the emperor now. Why should you kneel before him?"
But Wei Jianxun, still lucid, eventually knelt down, head bowed, not daring to speak.
After glancing at Lin Yuwei, the Emperor turned to look at Lin Xingliang.
"How did Lord Lin raise his daughter? Not only does she lack manners, but she also dragged Xun'er down with her. It's truly an eye-opener for me!"
Lin Xingliang quickly shook his head and sighed:
"She is no longer my daughter; she is Wei Jianxun's wife, Your Majesty's daughter-in-law. She has been so disrespectful; you may deal with her as you see fit!"
At this moment, Lin Yuwei was still immersed in her dream of becoming an empress and could not extricate herself. How could she easily admit defeat?
She struggled to pull Wei Jianxun up, shouting angrily:
"Wei Jianxun, stand up! You are the emperor, you cannot kneel! Stand up, stand up now..."
She frantically tried to pull him up, but Wei Jianxun violently swung his arm, throwing her aside, and then roared with all his might.
"Wake up, it's all over."
After saying this, he suddenly choked up.
"I could have lived a carefree life as a prince, but ever since I married you, you've been trying to make me either the crown prince or the emperor. You even orchestrated all of this today. Now, everything is over, all of it is over."
Lin Yuwei hadn't yet snapped out of her fantasy and kept trying to persuade her:
"That's not how it is. You are now the Emperor, and I am the Empress. We are the two most powerful people in the Northern Wei Kingdom. Get up! Quickly order your men to arrest all these people and execute them on the spot..."
Seeing Lin Yuwei like this, Madam Lin finally felt sorry for her.
With tears in her eyes, she stepped forward and tried to persuade her:
"Yuwei, stop being so stubborn, wake up!"
"It's none of your business."
Lin Yuwei pointed at Madam Lin and hysterically cursed, then suddenly turned to look at Lan Zhi, revealing an expression that puzzled everyone.
"I know I am going to die today, but I have something private to say to you, but no one else can hear it."
Lan Zhi frowned, and Wei Jianning directly refused:
“Say what you have to say here. My wife won’t speak to you alone.”
"This is a secret that only she can know. What? Are you scared?"
Her eyes held a defiant look. "Lan Zhi, we've known each other for over a year. I just want to say one thing to you before I die. If you're afraid, then I won't say it."
Lan Zhi hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said:
"Alright, say whatever you want to say! I'm listening."
Lin Yuwei smiled and took a few steps toward her, when suddenly two lines of clear tears streamed down her face.
"Lan Zhi, I know you have a kind heart. Can I beg you to plead with the Emperor for me, to let me give birth to my child. He hasn't even had a chance to see this world yet..."
Seeing her crying with tears streaming down her face, Lan Zhi was at a loss for what to do.
Her crimes cannot be excused simply because she was pregnant, but the child in her womb is indeed innocent.
Just as she was thinking these things, Lin Yuwei suddenly raised her hand, pulled out the hairpin from her hair, and stabbed it directly at Lan Zhi's neck before anyone could react...
Fortunately, Wei Jianning reacted quickly and pulled her back, but the hairpin still pierced her shoulder solidly.
Seeing this, Yuan Tianxiong and the others rushed forward, surrounding Lin Yuwei. She, however, pressed the bloodstained hairpin directly against her throat, shouting loudly:
"Don't come any closer..."
Upon seeing this, everyone stopped in their tracks. Mrs. Lin, seeing this, quickly raised her hands and pressed them down repeatedly, trying to comfort her.
"Yuwei, don't do anything rash, don't do anything rash!"
Lin Yuwei looked at Madam Lin and gave her a disdainful smile.
"Madam Lin, put away your hypocritical smile. If I don't die, your Lin family will suffer. My death today can be considered as repaying the kindness of raising me for twenty years..."
She roughly guessed that even if she didn't die today, she would be despised by everyone, and she would not escape death after giving birth to the child in her womb.
Rather than live and suffer humiliation, she preferred to die with dignity. She had originally planned to take Lan Zhi with her on her journey, but unexpectedly, she only managed to cut Lan Zhi's shoulder, which filled her with remorse.
She turned her head to look at Lan Zhi, who was leaning against Wei Jianning, and gave a miserable smile. Then she shifted her gaze to Wei Jianning's face.
“Brother Ning, if there is an afterlife, I will search for you to the ends of the earth during those five years you were away from the capital. No matter what you become, I will stay with you.”
Upon hearing this, Wei Jianxun completely broke down, and he angrily questioned,
"Lin Yuwei, we're already married, and you're pregnant with my child, yet you're still thinking about him. Have you ever thought about me? Have you ever loved me?"
No, not at all.
Lin Yuwei's eyes held a resolute look.
"Wei Jianxun, I married you only for your status, for you to ascend the throne and for me to become empress. Now all of that is impossible, and I will no longer live on. If you love me, come with me to the underworld, where I will atone for my sins..."
Leaving those words behind, she forcefully plunged the hairpin in her hand into her throat. Madam Lin rushed over, calling out, "Yuwei..."
When Madam Lin went to help her up, she was already lying on the ground, her eyes wide with resentment, and she had breathed her last.
"Yuwei, Yuwei..."
Mrs. Lin picked her up and kept calling her name.
"You're pregnant, how can you bear to leave like this? Yuwei..."
Her voice echoed in the courtyard, bringing tears to the eyes of everyone present.
She was pregnant, and the child hadn't even had a chance to see the world before its life was taken away. Everyone felt sorry for the unborn child in her womb.
Wei Jianxun stared blankly at Lin Yuwei lying in Madam Lin's arms, then suddenly forced a sorrowful smile onto his face.
"Lin Yuwei, from the first moment I saw you, I liked you. So I would do anything you asked without hesitation. I thought that if you were willing to marry me, you would slowly fall in love with me, but you still disappointed me in the end. Lin Yuwei, if there is an afterlife, I don't want to know you again, I don't want to fall in love with you again..."
After muttering to himself for a while, he suddenly got up from the ground and rushed towards a long sword in the hand of a guard without hesitation. In just an instant, his blood stained the long sword. He lay on the ground like a lump of mud, and stopped breathing.
Seeing this, the emperor closed his eyes slightly and tilted his head back, trying his best not to let the tears in his eyes fall.
That was, after all, his son. Seeing his son die on the spot, he was still somewhat saddened.
Their seemingly tragic but exploitative marriage came to an end.