That day, all the Imperial Guards that had been guarding the hall had been sent away with an excuse. The whole room in that hall from front to rear was absolutely empty. He used this gap to slip into that room. Opened the rosewood wooden cabinet which was situated inside that room, drew out a brocaded box.
The Former Emperor had been bedridden with a lingering disease for a long time, living from hand to mouth in a precarious state. Therefore, since long ago he had established a testamentary edict which he put in this room.
His eyes skimmed through that edict, soon after that, he spread a tough white silk paper, dipped the tip of the writing brush in the thick and black ink, imitating the handwriting of the former Emperor, he wrote down an artificial Imperial Edict to set himself as the next Emperor. Then he burnt down the original edict, using the Imperial Jade seal which he stole, on that tough white silk paper, he stamped it with the scarlet bright red seal and put it back in the brocaded box.
Everything was conducted in an unusually smooth way. It should have been flawless. Unfortunately, in the very end, when he was about to seal the brocaded box, by the door, a child had seen him doing that.
His heart was thumping wildly in a great shock. The charge for a criminal who faked an Imperial Order to seize the throne was extremely severe. The family from his mother’s side, his uncle’s family and several hundred lives all would be left without a graveyard. Under the threat of this kind of punishment, he hardened his heart. Listened to his Mother’s instruction. Ordered people to make Wen Mu Yan blind.
On that day, Wen Mu Yan was firmly pressed down on the floor. He actually never had the chance to see this youth face.
What Jue Yu had said wasn’t wrong. There were a lot of rotten secrets hidden in the corrupted Imperial Family. Wen Mu Yan merely caught a glimpse of him putting the seal on for a split second, he had to ruin this youth’s pair of eyes.
For all eternity, the fact would be buried just like that.
That tearing up the heart and splitting the lung kind of pain and the wailing shrieks were swept away by the screams of the fierce wind and the cruel snow of a faraway place. To a place that couldn’t be heard by anybody.
This youth, who had lost his eyesight, was lonely and in solitary, day after day, in the small yard in the Cold Palace, living quietly as if he had died.
Nobody knew how many tears he had shed, how many sleepless nights he had experienced, alone in his pitch black world, in the silent and still nights.
This kind of matter was already not of importance anymore.
In the Imperial Palace, Wen Mu Yan had already ceased to exist.
Now, in the Imperial Palace existed only a blind concubine. The Blind Concubine wouldn’t shed his tears. Also wouldn’t cry. He no longer had any sense nor responded. Only those blank eyes. Miserably ashen pupils. Face without any expression. Without saying a word.
He was no longer the child at that time who was carrying the carved jade, fair with jet black eyes.
The one who blinded his pair of eyes, was not other people, it was the Emperor himself.
The Emperor’s face became ghastly pale, slowly, he moved his back backward to lean on the chair.
When Rui Ze just met the Blind Concubine, he firmly believed that he must have a very nice name.
“Because the Blind Concubine is a very gentle person. For a very gentle and kind-hearted person, certainly he will have a matching name as beautiful as a jade.”
Wen Mu Yan.
Wen Mu Yan.
Mu Yan.
The Emperor continuously repeating this name in silent.
Indeed, a very beautiful name, as beautiful as a jade name.