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.