Chapter 749: Chen Ji Escapes, Yanyan in Trouble (2)_1
The Lin Family, renowned for several decades, collapsed in a single day.
The news of Master Lin’s gold-swallowing suicide, reached the ears of Emperor Huian that very night as he waited for word in the Imperial Shangfang. Upon hearing it, Emperor Huian remained silent for a long time.
In the end, Emperor Huian personally took up the brush to issue an edict, posthumously conferring the title of Duke Wen Zhong upon Master Lin. He ordered the Ministry of Rites to arrange a funeral with the honors due to a duke, and decreed a day of court mourning as an expression of his sorrow. Having done all this, he hurried out of the Imperial study with Liang Gonggong.
In a secluded and desolate palace within the Imperial palace, the guards had raised their hands by now.
Liang Gonggong stood sternly outside the palace gate, allowing no one to approach. Listening to the fragments of sentences emanating from inside, he sighed inwardly.
In the humble palace, lit only by a single candle and thus very dimly lit, King Heng glared at the ruler of a nation—his biological father—with not a hint of a son’s respect or adoration, only endless hatred in his eyes.
"Back then, you dreaded the Lin Family, thus you took my mother into the palace and feigned affection to win her heart. It was because of this that after giving birth to me, she poisoned the Empress Dowager for my sake! In essence, you are the chief culprit. How dare you play the saint, poison my mother, and imprison me?" King Heng, eyes bloodshot, questioned the silent Emperor Huian, indifferent to how his words might be sacrilegious and invite fatal punishment: "There is not a man in this world colder, more hypocritical, or more heartless than you. The one who deserves to die the most is you!"