His Rui

Chapter 761: Zhao Wang Lei Is Dead

When people inside the Imperial chamber heard Zhao Wang Lei's words, they knew that he had already accepted his fate.

It was strange…how he had been so stubborn in nature and was trying his best to save himself, though his attempts were stupid, he didn't give up.

And now suddenly he didn't seem to have any hope of getting saved.

However, what they didn't know was known to Empress Dowager.

Perhaps that's why her hands were trembling.

There were a few words that kept ringing in her ears. They were said to her by her so-called son when she had also held the sword to kill him in anger that night, however, in the end, her motherly heart still won over her love for her husband.

She had not been able to kill him that night.

'Kill me. Everything would be fine if you will kill me. Zhao Yuang Rong would be able to ascend the throne just as your husband wanted.'

Zhao Wang Lei had said to his mother in an almost desperate tone. However, she couldn't do it.

Now looking at her face, her heart was full of conflict and pain but she didn't want to repeat that mistake.

She remembered the promise she had made to her husband.

"You killed my husband…the man I loved."

She whispered as tears slid down her eyes.

"He loved you so much…yet you killed him mercilessly."

As she finished her words, she picked the sword from the ground and stabbed Zhao Wang Lei again.

This time, Zhao Wang Lei didn't even groan because of his pain.

He just closed his eyes which had already gone red.

His fists were clenched and his face was totally pale. From his mouth, he suddenly vomited out a lot of blood.

Empress Dowager's hands started to tremble again when she saw this scene.

She threw away the sword in her hands and walked away from the scene as if she had seen something horrible.

However, when she was standing at the same spot again from a few moments ago, her eyes were cold.

It was then Xi Ying walked in front of Zhao Wang Lei.

He looked at Zhao Wang Lei's face for a few moments as he bent down and then whispered coldly.

"So many people you have gathered around yourself, Zhao Wang Lei, who hate you to death? What did you get from doing all that?"

Zhao Wang Lei didn't seem to have much life in him. He somehow opened his eyes and looked at Xi Ying.

Xi Ying's face was blurry and it took him a few moments to see him clearly.

"I would have won if it was not for you."

Perhaps it was the anger he felt inside his heart but surprisingly his voice at this stage still came out calm. He surely had difficulty in speaking as he was breathing heavily and his body was covered with sweat.

Looking at his condition, Xi Ying suddenly remembered how his wife had died in his arms in his past life in the same way.

His eyes couldn't help but go red as he uttered.

"I wish I could show you that you would have never gotten anything even after getting success in your plans."

In his past life, Zhao Wang Lei really succeeded in his plan but he never got what he wanted because Yi Jie had committed suicide. In fact, according to what he remembers, even he himself had gone crazy.

Xi Ying didn't notice how Zhao Wang Lei's expression changed immensely when he heard his words.

His red phoenix eyes narrowed for a second as different kinds of scenes flashed in front of his eyes.

The destruction of Li Clan…and then he was inside the study room…happy when Eunuch Wang came and told him

"Y…Your Majesty, Lady Yi h…has committed su…suicide."

He had killed Eunuch Wang when he had heard this rubbish and then…what followed was immense destruction.

The ground was full of blood and so many dead bodies.

But when did this happen?

Zhao Wang Lei came out of his trance when he heard Xi Ying speaking again. This time, the latter's voice was colder than ice.

"I can't even tell you how much I hate you…perhaps more than anyone in this world."

And with that, Xi Ying stabbed the knife into Zhao Wang Lei's body again.

The blood flowed out from Zhao Wang Lei's body staining the ground.

And he was finally dead.

Everyone could see when they saw his unmoving eyelids.

There was prolonged silence for a few moments before Empress Dowager moved towards her son's dead body and suddenly sat down on the floor.

She didn't care about the blood that stained her clothes.

She looked at Zhao Wang Lei's face as tears slid down her eyes like an unbroken chain.

With her trembling hands, she closed Zhao Wang Lei's opened eyes.

"I wish that you have a loving family, a benevolent heart, and just happiness in your next life, son."

She whispered gently as she stroked her son.

Her son was not bad.

She knew. It was the circumstances that made him like this. She wished he would never face anything like this in his next life.

She wished that he would have a loving mother unlike her, a loving father and wife, and children he would love and get loved immensely.

"Your Majesty needs to leave soon."

It was Xi Ying who spoke to Empress Dowager. The latter knew that she needed to leave from here before Zhao Zhaung Chen would invade.

Her heart was torn but she hardened it like before and got up from the ground.

Looking at her robes that were stained with blood, her eyes didn't have any emotion and she silently moved towards the tunnel all of them had entered from.

Zhao Zhang Wei looked at Xi Ying and nodded his head. The latter did the same and Zhao Zhang Wei followed Empress Dowager.

"Junjie…"

General Li called out Yi Junjie's name who nodded his head and then turned around to leave the tunnel.

Now inside the Imperial chamber, only Xi Ying and General Li remained.

"Now?"

General Li asked when he looked at Xi Ying.

"Now we wait for Zhao Zhuang Chen."

General Li nodded his head as he signed his shadow guards to blow out the candles and lamp leaving only one lit.

After that he with his soldiers hid in the darkness waiting for Zhao Zhuang Chen to come.

Never had he known that a big surprise or should be said a shock was waiting for him.

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On the other end of the tunnel that was the forest, Xi Ying's shadow guards were standing silently.

They looked at the sky and nodded at each other.

However, when they were about to jump inside the tunnel, they suddenly heard the sound of footsteps and got alert.

Yi Junjie had already left so who was coming now?

The sound came from the forest itself.

The shadow guards looked at each other and An Shing who was their head suddenly jumped on the tree to see who it was.

His eyes sharpened when he saw the person walking across the forest with a few soldiers.

Li Qiang walked to the end of the tunnel according to what he remembered from the map.

He frowned when he saw the standing shadow guards near the already dig tunnel.

"You are Minister Yu's shadow guards?"

He asked them.

Zhao Zhuang Chen had told him that he would see Minister Yi's shadow guards at the end of the tunnel.

The shadow guards were also surprised when they saw Li Qiang but soon composed themselves and whispered

"Yes"

Li Qiang nodded his head and said

"Let's go"

As his soldiers stepped inside the tunnel, he looked at the shadow guards again. Something flashed in his eyes as he looked at their amount and sensed their strength.

He didn't know that Minister Yi also had such capable shadow guards.

Li Qiang's fists clenched for a moment before he also stepped inside the tunnel.

The shadow guards looked at the tree once where An Shing was sitting. When he signed them to leave, they did the same.

An Shing didn't follow them. He was afraid that Li Qiang would recognize him and he would mess up his master's plan.

However, now he needed to tell about this news to his master as soon as possible.

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Li Qiang was walking in the front. In just a few moments, when he reached the cross the tunnel where he was supposed to wait for Zhao Zhuang Chen, he saw the latter.

He frowned in darkness when he saw that Yun Weilan was also walking with him towards them. She had a lamp in her hand while Zhao Zhuang Chen walked arrogantly with empty hands.

However, he couldn't say anything when Zhao Zhuang Chen reached him and they simply started walking toward Zhao Wang Lei's chambers.

Xi Ying had already hung the painting again on the other end of the fall, hence when Zhao Zhuang Chen reached there, he didn't hide anything.

The painting looked heavy so he signed his people to come forward and push it away.

The painting fell down to the ground in a few moments and the way was clear again.

He smirked coldly as he stepped forward and stepped inside the Imperial chambers.

Yun Weilan followed him with the lamp still in her hands.

After them, Li Qiang stepped inside the chambers.

However, as soon as he stepped inside, he smelled blood. He frowned deeply while Zhao Zhuang Chen never paid attention to this fact when he saw that only one candle was lit in such huge chambers.

Holding his sword, he took the map from Yun Weilan's hand and walked towards the bed which he could see a little blurry in the dim light.

However, on his way, Zhao Zhuang Chen suddenly stumbled across something and almost fell down.

However, one of his shadow guards helped him.

With a deep frown on his forehead, Zhao Zhuang Chen looked at what he had stumbled against under the light of the lamp but when he did so, his eyes went wide with shock.