Chapter 11 — Empress Dowager Marries the Regent Prince

So cruel. He had planned every step. He knows I will find a way to save myself. I know my brother will send someone to save me. That's why he's set up a net of heaven and earth, just waiting for us to dig ourselves in. The secret map is a decoy. I am a fish. As for the Tham family... That's the last prey he wants to catch.

"Is there no other way?"

I clutched Co Huyen Diep's sleeve tightly, as if grasping the last straw to save my life.

"You are the Regent King, holding heavy troops in your hands. As long as you speak up, will he listen?"

Co Huyen Diep gently shook his head.

"Currently, the crime has been determined and the decree has been issued."

"Quan has no words."

"If I forcefully intervene, it will be the same as openly confronting him."

"At that time, the world will be in chaos, and people will be the ones to suffer."

I let go. My whole body seemed to be drained of strength. He is the king of a country. Golden mouth jade language. Who can resist? I looked around Mac Lan garden and suddenly felt extremely sarcastic. The opportunity that General Manager Ly used his life to exchange for... In the end, it was destroyed by my own hands. Hate the ungrateful Bui Triet. Hate the cruel Tham Lien. I hate myself even more for being stupid and useless. Tears silently rolled down my cheeks. Co Huyen Diep looked at me. It was a long time before he spoke.

"There's still a way."

I immediately raised my head, like a drowning person who suddenly saw a floating log.

"Marry me."

I was stunned. I thought I heard wrong.

"I said..."

"Marry me."

Co Huyen Diep repeated again. His voice was calm, but did not allow anyone to doubt.

"Become Regent Princess."

"That's the only way to save the Tham family."

I looked at him, my mind completely chaotic.

"This... how can the Tham family be saved?"

"Because Bui Triet is afraid of me."

Co Huyen Diep's eyes gradually became cold.

"But what he is more cautious about..."

"It's the Tham family and I working together."

"The military power of the Tham family, combined with my power..."

"Enough to shake his throne as emperor."

"So..."

"He will stop at nothing to destroy the Tham family."

We gradually understand.

"What you mean is..."

"That's right." He replied.

"If you marry me, the Tham family will become my family and become royal relatives."

"At that time, if he still wants to touch the Tham family, he will have to consider the consequences of completely tearing his face off with me."

"Moreover..."

He paused for a moment then looked at me.

"Once you become my Princess, he will no longer have any reason to use you as evidence against the Tham family."

"The crime of plotting will also disappear on its own."

What a way. A way to find a way to live in a place of death. Using a marriage to tie the Tham family, me and this Regent into one. Forming a force that Bui Triet did not dare to arbitrarily touch. But...

"Why do people do that?"

I look at him.

"Just because my mother is your master?"

"That reason is not enough."

"In the end... what do you want?"

Co Huyen Diep looked at me, a complex emotion flashed in his eyes that I couldn't understand. After a long time, he slowly spoke up.

"What I want..."

"You can't give it."

"You just need to know, I won't harm you, and I won't harm the Tham family."

"You and I..."

"They're all just chess pieces."

"What we must What we do now is to join forces, and from this dead game open a path to life."

Up until now, I have been just a chess piece. In his previous life, he was Bui Triet's chess piece, used to balance the previous dynasty and the harem. In this life, he became Co Huyen Diep's pawn, used to confront Bui Triet. Our fate seems forever to be in the hands of others. I look at him. Suddenly smiled.

"I'll marry you."

"But I have one condition."

"What conditions?"

"I want..."

"Kill Tham Lien yourself."

My voice is very quiet. But it was cold to the bone. Co Huyen Diep looked at me, without the slightest surprise on his face. He nodded slightly. The news that Co Huyen Diep and I were about to get married was like a thunderclap in the clear sky, shocking the entire capital. From an abandoned queen who had just stepped out of heaven, in the blink of an eye she became a Queen Regent. It is truly an unprecedented and ridiculous story. We can imagine how angry Bui Triet will be when he hears this news. He will definitely find a way to stop it. But Co Huyen Diep acted even faster. He directly publicized the discipleship relationship between me, my mother and him, and at the same time announced the story of having received favors from the Tham family in the past. He said that because he wanted to repay his favor, he could not bear to see his deceased friend's daughter suffer unjustly.