Jue Yu faced the swaying in the wind with unpredictable movement of the tongue of the flame on the table. His voice felt as if it came from a very distance place: “After that, Wen Mu Yan was thrown into the Cold Palace, to let him live and perish by himself. Also, the one who is taking care of him, Xiao Bao, is none other than one of the Empress Dowager’s people who was assigned to watch Wen Mu Yan under the Empress Dowager’s order.”
Time was really capable of burying everything. Devouring everything. Concealing every existence and making it fade away. the former Emperor demised, the new Emperor succeeded the throne, the raising war on the borderline seven years ago, who else could remember on that very day, in that icy cold palace, there was a youth that suffered this kind of dreadful thing.
“The Empress Dowager at that time had certainly planned in detail, to erase every record regarding Wen Mu Yan entering the Palace. Since then, the Wen Family had lost any correspondence. The officials who worked at the Imperial Pharmacy also couldn’t investigate his trace. Wen Mu Yan been dead ever since that day. Only in the Cold Palace, there was a blind concubine. If not because of Your Majesty’s by random chance of stepping into the Cold Palace, meeting the seven years watched over by Xiao Bao, Wen Mu Yan, probably The Empress Dowager had also forgotten about this youth.”
“The Empress Dowager’s scheme to exile Wen Mu Yan out of the Capital was unsuccessful, resorted to poisoning the cake and snacks to poison him to death. Perhaps afraid that Wen Mu Yan remembered that day of hostility, purposely approached Your Majesty in order to take his revenge.”
Jue Yu evoked the corner of his mouth, there was a faint bright light flashing on his pupil, “I am very curious. That day, Wen Mu Yan from that room door, what kind of circumstances had he actually seen?”
The face of the Emperor was white as frost. His lips were tightly closed. Not uttering even a word.
Jue Yu’s mouth corner raised even higher, but his smiling face was gloomy and cold, “In Your Majesty’s heart, to ascend the throne, how many shameful, rotten, messy as well as filth had been done? The things that you have done on that day, you don’t have the courage to admit them now?!”
The Emperor fell silent. After a long while, he said: “The me at that time, was also helpless with no way out.”
Jue Yu laughed loudly, “What a convenient ‘helpless with no way out’!”
The Emperor’s face turned pale. His train of thought as if turning back to that snowy day.
His lips were unable to hide his trembling, “Wen Mu Yan, he….. he saw me altering the former Emperor’s posthumous edict….”
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