Chapter 4

He Zisheng is not a naive fool who will believe anything he hears, especially not He Ziming’s drunken truths. Instead, he visited Rong Fei’s palace and asked the servants to retire, so he could ask his mother about the truth of that year.

“What’s the matter? Zi Sheng?” Rong Fei asked when she saw him stepping back and locking the door.

He Zisheng glanced at his mother with unfathomable eyes, but spoke straightforwardly: “Mother, is the death of the Empress related to you?”

He knew his mother, and knew that Rong Fei was not good at lying …

“How do you know, where did you hear that?” Rong Fei, who usually seemed so gentle and mild, was frightened to death when she heard He Zisheng’s words. Sputtering her words, she was clearly terrifed

He Zisheng was only tentatively probing the matter, he hadn’t truly believed He Ziming’s words. But when he saw Rong Fei’s demeanor, his heart sank. He knew that the his mother was truly entangled in the death of the Empress Yuan.

He Zisheng was very shocked by this amazing news, but he forced himself to suppress it. He became silent for a moment, and before he said coldly, “Who I learned it from is not important, what is important is that the Queen Mother and Crown Prince truly protected us and treated us well in those early years…Mother, why on earth would you do that? … “

He never thought that his mother, who always seemed to be gentle, had actually murdered the queen.

If another concubine had murdered the empress, he can reason they did so in order to earn favor or increase their power, but Concubine Rong Fei … Regardless of Empress’s presence or absence, the old emperor did not even view her as a pet. The emperor considered his visit to Rong Fei, who was a mere maid from a low-income family as the shame of his life. After it was revealed Rong Fei was pregnant from his drunken attentions, he gave her a title and a palace, but he never took a step into the palace and never looked at Rong Fei ever again…

At that time, if it were not for Empress Yuan, this mother and son would have died in the harem.

However, the facts now reveal that his mother, Rong Fei, had murdered the Empress… He Zisheng simply cannot accept this!

“I … I didn’t do it on purpose. I didn’t mean to kill the queen, but if the queen didn’t die… you and I would have been put to death” Rong Fei was almost driven mad by the secret that she had buried for more than ten years. Facing her son’s questions, she just mumbled and repeateQuestioning his son, he just mumbled and repeated such a sentence.

As for why the queen had to die for their family to survive, He Zisheng tried again and again to ask his mother. But Rong Fei just kept babbling madly, leaving He Zisheng to unable to question her.

Seeing her like this, He Zisheng no longer forced her to answer, but he clenched his fist unconsciously, and determined to investigate this matter himself.

Rong Fei’s only support has always been her son, and seeing his silence, she was afraid, and suddenly thought of asking: “Zi Sheng, where did you hear the news? His Royal Highness … the crown prince doesn’t know?”

She still hasn’t forgotten that her son was a follower of the prince, and the source of his information is most likely from the prince’s forces.

“This matter can never be heard by the crown prince’s ears. If even a little bit of the truth is heard, he will kill the both of us.” She anxiously cried.

He Zisheng scoffed and thought, “Not only has the crown prince known for a long time, but I even had to learn the news of my own family from him.”

But He Zisheng didn’t reveal anything to Rong Fei, saying only, “It doesn’t matter where I learned it, mother, you mustn’t be involved in this matter anymore. Your son has his own sense and will take care of this matter.”

As the son of destiny for this world, He Zisheng possessed a golden finger. Although, at this time, he was still pretending to be meek and powerless behind He Ziming, in fact he had secretly developed a great deal of power. He was even the master of the first spy organization “Heaven’s Eye” in the country…

After he became suspicious of the empress’s death and Rong Fei’s words, He Zisheng immediately followed this clue to investigate the events of the year.

Unexpectedly, he found out a truth that even he could not have guessed …

He turned out not to be the flesh and blood of the old emperor. Rather, Rong Fei was an assassin who had mixed in to the palace pretending to be a maidservant to assassinate the old emperor when he was a babe in her belly. Rong Fei’s master was no one else but the former prince who had failed in his bid for the throne. For this, he desired revenge and another chance for the imperial throne. However, the prince was arrested and executed after Rong Fei had mixed into the palace, but before she had a chance to execute the mission. Her former organization, “Heaven’s Eye,” was thrown into chaos because of their master’s execution. Rong Fei, realizing she was pregnant with the child of the former prince, plotted against the drunk emperor with the help of the remnants of the organization. She arranged a scene where it seemed that the drunken emperor had forced himself on her, and pretended that her child was born prematurely… …

There are so many concubines in the palace, and there are many children from different backgrounds. In addition, the old emperor only truly loved the Empress. He didn’t care about this new Concubine Rong, and never discovered the truth of the matter.

Unfortunately, the Empress had accidentally walked into Rong Fei’s meeting with her contact in the assassin organization in the palace in a complete coincidence. The assassin murdered her to ensure the Empress’s silence.

It is no accident that he himself will become the current owner of the “Heaven’s Eye” organization … but rather he is fated to become their master as the only son of the former prince.

He Zisheng was almost smashed by this sudden revelation. Finally, only one thought remained in his mind: he is not the son of the emperor. He and his mother murdered Empress Yuan. No wonder He Ziming would hate him so much, will humiliate him for so many years, will call him a bastard, and would not let him call him brother.

He Ziming must have known, that had he merely spoken a word of these matters, either of these crimes would immediately end in the death of himself and his mother …

But why did He Ziming know all and yet say nothing?

Is it because of him?

Is it because He Ziming really treats him as a loved one and as a younger brother? He wants to protect him and doesn’t want him to die. Therefore, he conceals these secrets, but can’t help hating him and humiliating him?

He Zisheng was deeply moved in his heart, remembering hazily that when he was young, He Ziming would carry himself everywhere, playing with him, poking his face so that He Zisheng would not call him the crown prince but instead call him elder brother. Thinking of the crown prince as a young boy, He Zisheng’s eyes filled with tears.

As the son of destiny, He Zisheng was very self-possessed. Although he was almost stunned by the revelations of his life’s secrets, he forced himself to be clearminded. He began to use his own power to destroy all the evidence and clues related to the incident of that year.

He knew very well that if these things broke out, they would be fatal for him … only when they were eliminated, could he and Rong Fei survive.

He Zisheng silently digested and swallowed this secret alone, not even revealing anything to Gu Chen.

As for the apparently narcissistic and incompetent Crown Prince, he actually clearly controlled He Zisheng’s life or death.

He Zisheng was full of interest in He Ziming, and he no longer blindly hated him, but instead quietly observed the man.

That day’s drunkenness was like a dream of Huang Liang (TN: I believe this is a reference to a famous cultural morality parable, A Sequel to the Yellow Millet Dream. Basically, it just refers to a dream that doesn’t truly happen, but still teaches the dreamer truths and morality), and the the sober He Ziming seemed to have no memory of the incident. He treated He Zisheng the same as before. If he caught the fourth prince committing eve a small mistake, he would throw things, splitting his head, covering He Zisheng’s face like he was training a dog. He even smashed the court documents into He Zisheng’s face, saying, “Fool, can’t even handle this matter? What’s the use of leaving you in charge?”

“I’ll give you another chance. Two days, two days. If you don’t handle the matter cleanly by then, you will pay yourself!” He Ziming deliberately found fault, and once again scolded him as a dog.

In the past, He Zisheng would be disdainful in his heart, and secretly vow to one day step on He Ziming and return all the humiliation that he had given him today.

But after knowing the truth, He Zisheng looked at He Ziming again, listening to his insults, but he didn’t even feel a bit disgusted or wronged…

His own life was given to him by this person. He Ziming knew the truth, and could easily take his life, but he finally chose to hide it all. For more than ten years, he said nothing.

Mother’s revenge?

Compared with that, he was merely scolded by him with a few words, how can he be so shameless as to count that?

“Yes, Your Royal Highness, this minister knows. Give this minister another chance, and this lowly official will definitely perform well.” Unlike the meek obedience that He Zisheng used to pretend when he was scolded by He Ziming in the past, this time He Zisheng was truly sincere. With a good attitude and a humble voice, he warmly responded to He Ziming.

He Ziming couldn’t find any stubbornness or fault in his demeanor, and had scolded enough, so he finally was ready to let him off.

He frowned, and immediately said to He Zisheng: “Get out!”

“Yes!”

He Zisheng very diligently took the official document and went out to work.

He Ziming coldly watched him retreat, but secretly his back was coated in cold sweat, saying to the system: “System, are you sure that the son of destiny in this world isn’t a shaking M? (TN: masochist) How is it that every time I call him over to scold him, the favorability starts to rise? It’s too high, look at it, it’s nearly at seventy! “

These days, the system it’s like the system is bugged. As long as he calls He Zisheng over to humiliate him, it’s like He Zisheng is a shaking m, and his affection for him just raises and raises. He scolded He Zisheng six times in the last few days, and each scolding He Zisheng’s favorability rose a huge amount. He abruptly increased the affection score from the initial -45 points to the current 70 points, terrifying He Ziming into thinking that the system was experiencing a total system failure.

“He isn’t a shaking m, he mistakenly thinks that He Ziming knows that he isn’t the blood of the royal family and that his mother murdered Empress Yuan, but still protected him and never told the truth… What is a mere scolding, even if you beat him up every day he just thinks of these two points that he misunderstands and can’t bear to blame you! “Just when He Ziming almost wanted to define the protagonist as a pervert, the system broke his obscene delusion cruelly and ruthlessly, telling him the truth: “That’s the hatred of a mother-slayer, stupid master.”

The system looked at the motionless He Ziming said: “Now He Zisheng almost feels that He Ziming really loves him, okay?”

TN: I meant to put out two chapters this weekend, but I ended up playing animal crossing all weekend… On the plus side, my island now looks gorgeous, but I have to apologize for neglecting this! I will work hard and try to get another chapter out tonight.