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After leaving the oral imperial edict, Zhao Jue got up from the dragon throne and left the Benevolence Hall. Seeing him walk away, the chief eunuch hurriedly shouted: "The morning court is adjourned!"

All the generals and ministers quickly knelt down and shouted in unison: "Long live the emperor for ten of thousands years!"

Now that the emperor had issued an oral imperial edict, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. Because the emperor did not say who should do it, nobody spoke for a long time. No one wants to take the responsibility of killing the common people, but they are also afraid that if they don’t obey the imperial edict, the ones who will lose their heads are themselves.

While the generals and ministers were still pushing the responsibility to each other, Zhao Jue was already standing in front of the royal family’s ancestral hall. He didn’t take a step inside, just standing under the rising sun, looking at the coffin in the middle of the ancestral hall.

The chief eunuch glanced at his face for a second, but only saw Zhao Jue’s indifferent expression. After standing motionless for an hour, he said, "Leave."

The chief eunuch quickly signaled the eunuchs and maidservants, and left the ancestral hall. After everyone left, the chief eunuch closed the door and stood outside the ancestral hall quietly. Standing alone in the open yard of the ancestral hall, Zhao Jue took a deep breath and walked slowly towards the coffin.

Standing by the coffin, he looked down and saw his mother lying there peacefully. He stretched out his trembling fingers and gently stroked his mother’s cheek. Feeling the cold body temperature, he gasped in pain. A few seconds later, tears dripped down his chin, wet the cold pale cheeks.

Seeing his tears staining his mother’s cheek, Zhao Jue quickly wiped them away with his sleeve. Then he knelt beside the coffin and whispered hoarsely: "Mother, even you have abandoned me."

Zhao Jue held his mother’s cold hand tightly and asked desperately: "Why? Why did you do this? Why? Did I do something to make you angry again? You can just tell me! Why would you... Why would you..."