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Chapter 454: A deadly man
Zhai Tianyu had never felt as inexplicably humiliated, saddened and hurt as he was right now. In his heart, his father though----- a man who was lustful and unkind was a good man, after all, his grandmother had often sung praises about his father, she had told him how he was a good man and an emperor who cared about his country and land.
That he was a smart emperor with a sensible head on his shoulders which was full of witty schemes and development plans. Zhai Tianyu who heard his grandmother's praises for his father like bedtime stories also believed them. Even when his mother often said that his father was not as good of a man as everyone made him out to be, he did not believe her after all, his mother had never treated him well.
Unlike his grandmother, his mother the Dowager Empress always despised him.
She hated it when he tried to get closer to her, this was even more so the case for his elder brother whom his mother hated to the point where she did not even wish to look at him—— the hatred which his mother had for him was so deeply engrossed in his head that he was surprised when she fought to make him the Emperor instead of his brother.
But now that he heard from Official Qin's mouth that his father was a man who was lawless to the point that he would even take the wives of his officials, a bitter taste surged in his mouth.
Disgust, anger and betrayal flooded in his veins as he turned on his heels and then walked away with a flick of his sleeves, he did not even look at the expressions on the faces of the Ji family and continued to stride away.
" Your son does not look good, cousin Jiu.
Yu Lingyun immediately looked around and then hissed in a soft voice, " Your majesty please mind your words, if someone was to hear these words they will surely——"
" They will surely what?" Zhai Tianyu turned to look at Yu Lingyun with red eyes which were similar to that of a beast. " Do you ... Do you have any idea how I feel? I feel like the life that I have lived for so long is nothing but a joke! Everything...everything was a lie—— those whom I trusted betrayed me and those whom I can think of trusting do not wish to trust me, what am I supposed to do ?"
Zhai Tianyu had never felt as aggrieved as he was feeling at the moment, he looked at the sky which was covered with clouds and threw his head back before wheeling around and punching his hand against the tree trunk! He did not hold back at all which caused a crater to appear in the centre of the trunk causing Yu Lingyun to suck in a breath.
" Even if you are angry you should not hurt yourself, your majesty." Yu Lingyun began speaking but Zhai Tianyu shook his head and remarked, " You don't understand, Lingyun. I wanted to drag prime minister Ji to the dungeons and have him locked up but I can't because I am too weak. So weak that I have to turn a blind eye to injustice in front of me even if I dont want to."
" If that is the case should you not focus on getting stronger instead of throwing a tantrum?" A voice called out causing Zhai Tianyu to turn around and look at Liu Hui Ying who was standing behind him. " My Queen, what are you doing?"
Liu Hui Ying scoffed as she looked at Zhai Tianyu who was looking at her with surprise and then said in a breezy voice, " I was worried that you will be so hurt that you will jump off the cliff and kill yourself, it's great that your skin is a bit on the thicker side."
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