The Imperial Palace Breaks, the Emperor Falls (II)

The emperor held up his hand to stop her from continuing. "As long as I believe you, we don't need to care about what others think. I wasted my time raising these traitors, but every single one of them is a savage that is after my life. These insects that plan on taking their father's throne don't deserve to live!"

The minister thought that Huijun was the one who had enabled the fall of the emperor's successors and even the murder of the prince.

But in reality?

Even though Huijun had played a role in this, she was just going with the flow and was at most an accomplice and catalyzer to the event. She was not the real culprit.

Who was the real culprit then?

It was the emperor!

"Jun'er's body is like a salve that my body younger by the day," the emperor said obsessively. "We are still so young. If we have eight or ten children in the future and raise them well, they'll definitely be better than those ruinous pawns…"