The Sickly Emperor Is Only Immune to Me

Chapter 84: Chapter 084 Vomiting Blood

“Let me out!”

“Stop playing tricks!”

“I want to see the Empress Dowager!”

Sang Yan was banging on the door and yelling loudly.

No one paid any attention.

Time passed unknowingly.

Suddenly, the door opened.

Puzhu entered with others.

Seeing a Maid following Puzhu with wine, Sang Yan panicked: Was the Empress Dowager going to order her death?

She did not want to die!

“I want to see the Emperor.”

“I have done nothing wrong.”

Ever since she came to this dynasty, she had been kind to others, never abusing power for personal gain. How had she still ended up in this predicament?

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“Mrs. Sang, you’ve seduced the Emperor. Just this accusation alone is enough for you to die a thousand times.”

Puzhu looked down on her as if she were an ant.

Sang Yan shook her head, tears unknowingly falling: “No. I didn’t.”

She had always advised He Ying to be a good Emperor.

But what about He Ying?

Why hadn’t he come yet?

Was he detained, or… had he given up on her?

“Puzhu, the Emperor cares about me a lot. If you poison me like this, the Emperor will know and he won’t let you off.”

“So what? For the sake of Da He’s eternal reign, even if we die, it would be worth it.”

Puzhu was resolute, her mind could not be changed by a few words.

“I know you are stalling for time.”

She even said rationally: “Stop your futile efforts. If the Empress Dowager wants someone dead, even if the Emperor comes, it won’t help. Don’t make it difficult for us. Mrs. Sang, it’s better you drink it yourself. Otherwise, force-feeding you would be too undignified.”

Sang Yan shook her head, tears streaming down her face as she staggered back.

She looked for something to defend herself with, grabbed a chair, and smashed it.

“Don’t come any closer!”

No one wants to die.

Sang Yan screamed in a desperate mess: “Don’t! Emperor, save me—”

But they were many.

Her shoulders were seized, her limbs restrained, her mouth forcibly pried open, and the choking wine poured down her throat, burning her eyes with tears.

Perhaps it was the fear.

She cried and called out, “He Ying! He Ying—”

She wanted to see He Ying.

She really wanted to see him.

At that moment, she didn’t hate him for not coming to save her; she just wanted to tell him: Look, there are things you can’t do either, so be more cautious in the future. Don’t be so imperious and arrogant!

What else was there to say?

Oh right, He Ying, I love you.

As death approached, she finally understood that she loved him.

On the street in front of Qingfeng Inn, when you put the hairpin on me.

When we admired the epiphyllum under the Luminous Pearl.

When you reviewed petitions late into the night.

When I found out you narrowly survived the Thunder Strike.

At many, many moments.

But alas, I can no longer tell you.

Her consciousness gradually blurred.

Tears flowing, she slowly closed her eyes.

*

He Ying brought people and stormed into Yongshou Palace.

The Empress Dowager, foreseeing his frenzy, shouted loudly, “Emperor, are you going to commit matricide for a demoness?”

He Ying wiped the blood splattered on his face, his smile cruel and mournful: “Where is she? Where is my person? Empress Dowager, if you dare hurt her, I will not only commit matricide, I will also have you thrown into the burial ground. You are unworthy of the Empress Dowager’s honor! Everyone in Yongshou Palace, don’t even think about surviving! The entire Pei Family as well!”

Back when he exterminated the Pei Faction, because the Empress Dowager sided with He Ying at a critical moment, looking at her face, He Ying pardoned some collateral branches, exiling them to Mongyang Pass.

“You really are mad! Look at yourself, do you even resemble an Emperor anymore?”

The Empress Dowager was heartbroken and began to doubt herself: Was this the Ziwei Star, the Emperor’s Destiny that Wan Zhang spoke of?

Ridiculous!

She must have been deceived by Wan Zhang!

“Ah!”

Puzhu screamed, snapping the Empress Dowager back to reality.

Turning around, the Empress Dowager saw Puzhu covered in blood, fallen on the ground.

“Puzhu!”

She regarded Puzhu as her own daughter, and with eyes full of worry, she rushed to her.

Puzhu saw her as a mother, and it was only when the Emperor charged at them with his sword that she shielded the distracted Empress Dowager, only then to have half of her arm brutally severed by the enraged Emperor.

“Call the Imperial Physician! Quick, call the Imperial Physician!”

The Empress Dowager looked at Puzhu’s wounds, her heart aching unto death, no longer maintaining the demeanor of the Empress Dowager.

A eunuch attempted to call the Imperial Physician but was stopped by a single sentence from the Emperor: “Who dares move!”

The entire hall fell deathly silent.

The search party had not yet returned with news.

Yongshou Palace was too vast.

It was even larger than his Qingning Palace.

There must be hidden chambers, mechanisms.

Hiding someone would be all too easy.

He Ying could not wait any longer, his eyes red, he placed his sword against a palace maid’s neck: “I will ask once more, where is my person?”

The palace maid, terrified, trembled all over: “Reply, reply to the Emperor, this servant, this servant—”

Her eyes rolled back as she fainted from fear.

He Ying questioned others with his sword, all shook their heads.

“Emperor forgive us, your servants truly do not know.”

Lies!

Such a big incident, how could they not know?

The bodies of the guards he had sent to protect Sang Yan hadn’t even cooled yet!

“You indeed have loyalty! Very well! Then die for your loyalty!”

He struck his sword at a nearby eunuch’s neck.

Blood sprayed forth.

Other eunuchs and palace maids were doused in blood, trembling like chaff, several more fainted from fear.

“Enough!”

The Empress Dowager screamed, her body swayed, and she collapsed.

A loyal old eunuch supported her, persuading her: “Empress Dowager, just hand over the person to him.”

The Empress Dowager gasped for breath, coughing for a while, but still stubbornly defended her dignity: “If he has the ability, then let him kill me.”

“Very well. The Pei Family has always had a proud backbone.”

He Ying smirked, kicked the old eunuch aside, and placed his sword against the Empress Dowager’s neck: “Empress Dowager, you turned me into a demon, don’t blame yourself for being in hell.”

“Emperor, Emperor please don’t—”

Puzhu, pale-faced and clutching her bleeding arm, struggled to speak: “I know where she is. Emperor, please don’t hurt the Empress Dowager.”

“Puzhu!”

The Empress Dowager still tried to stop her.

But Puzhu, dragging her maimed body, led the Emperor away.

Drip.

Drip.

Blood trailed behind them.

It hurt too much.

She was too tired.

She staggered to a side chamber, barely managed to remove a painting, and opened the hidden chamber, but before she could say anything else, she fainted from excessive blood loss.

He Ying didn’t care about her, he strode quickly inside.

The hidden chamber wasn’t dark.

Several Luminous Pearls lit it clearly.

It wasn’t a large space.

Aside from some collectibles, there was only a soft couch with someone lying on it, covered by a white cloth.

“Sang… Yan?”

He Ying looked shocked, disbelieving, shaking his head and bursting into laughter: “Impossible. Impossible.”

Tears were already flowing.

This was the first time he had cried in his twenty-six years of life.

Even when the late Emperor died, he hadn’t shed a tear.

He slowly walked toward the couch, his hand trembling so much that he couldn’t grip the white cloth.

“Don’t. Sang Yan, don’t.”

He prayed, he begged, and then slowly lifted the white cloth.

The next moment, his legs gave way, and he fell to his knees.

“Sang Yan, Sang Yan, get up, don’t scare me, Sang Yan—”

He called her name desperately.

There was no response.

Quiet and peaceful, beautifully serene, as if she were asleep.

Finally, he broke down, moved forward to embrace her, shaking and screaming: “Sang Yan, Sang Yan, I’m begging you, I’m He Ying, look at me, please, Sang Yan—”

His grief reached its peak, his screams reached their limit, suddenly he spit out a mouthful of fresh blood, and collapsed heavily onto her…