Chapter 8 — Kinh Thao

I glanced at the gloomy sky outside the window. "Calculating time, it's time to attack." Tieu Hanh's pupils suddenly constricted, and immediately after, he bent over and coughed. A mouthful of blood sprayed onto the white towel. Not red, but…black. Tieu Hanh stared at that pool of black blood, his expression becoming little by little crazy. "Is... since when?" "Three years ago." I've been in the palace for five years. At first I just wanted to survive, waiting for the day I could return to Man Chau. But later I don't want to wait anymore. While trying food, I memorized everything Tieu Hanh ate every day. I have also been at the Thai hospital for a long time, knowing clearly what each doctor is good at and what they are taboo about. Also know what kind of poison you can avoid. I specially made a set of silver needles. The needle body is hollow inside, hiding an extremely small amount of toxic fluid. Every time you try a dish, just touch the soup or food with the silver needle, the poison will be colorless, odorless, and silently dissolve inside. Extremely light dosage, will not have an immediate effect, will only damage the heart little by little. Tieu Hanh wiped the blood from the corner of his lips. "The bowl of medicine every day she coaxed me to drink..." "Your Majesty is indeed wise." That bowl of medicine was originally used to nourish the heart and lungs. But after adding an incompatible medicinal ingredient, it will cause the poison accumulated in the body to work faster. It was because he drank on time every day that he was so weak today. Tieu Hanh suddenly looked at Cong Thich. "Quick!" "Go call physician Ly!" Cong Thich's face was bloodless, he did not dare to move. I answered for him. "The royal doctor Ly will not come." "My tricks are very secretive..." "But in the end, I still can't get past him." "It's just... his daughter used to be a palace maid serving the palace." In the first days Tieu Hanh ascended the throne, he ordered twenty-seven palace servants serving the palace to be stoned to death. No need for evidence, just to establish authority. Physician Ly's sole daughter is also among them. She died when she was only nineteen years old. Even my body, my family can't bring me back. "Why... don't you come directly to me in the palace?" Tieu Hanh's voice became colder and colder. I looked out at the courtyard. "There are too many nobles in the capital." "There are too many princes and clans." "If you die in the palace, all factions will compete for the throne." "Who wins in the end... no one knows." "An Vuong's soldiers and horses cannot enter the capital, nor can they control the situation." "So... we can only lure people out." Tieu Hanh looked around, as if he had only now truly known him. "Even the fact that I'm going to Man Chau... you already thought about it?" "Yes." "The dynastic plot to usurp the throne, aren't you afraid that history will be recorded in the future, scolding your An King for never being able to raise his head?" I calmly replied: "Your Majesty was worried about the people, personally went to Man Chau to quell the rebellion." "Unexpectedly, the old disease would relapse, and he would sacrifice his country before the battle." "Before his death, His Majesty entrusted the country to his younger brother. The only one by my side is An Vuong." "An Vuong tearfully accepted his fate, quelled the rebellion, saved the society from danger." Tieu Hanh suddenly burst out laughing, he collapsed on the ground, his cheeks kept flowing from the corners of his lips, but his eyes still looked intently at me. It was as if until this moment, he still thought he hadn't lost. "Good..." "Very good..." "If he inherits the throne..." "Then you guys will never be able to be together." "Tieu Dat... still can't have her..." "I... am very satisfied..." His voice became lower and lower, until the last word fell, and his arms hung heavily. I stood there, quietly looking at him for a long time. That year I saved his life. Today, I personally killed him. It seems that in the realm of darkness, there is grace and resentment

In the end, it is still impossible to escape a cycle of reincarnation. … After Tieu Hanh died, Tieu Dat immediately ordered a blockade of all information. That night, he opened the entire food warehouse of An Vuong Palace, and at the same time sent people out of the city to negotiate peace with the rebels. Those "rebels" were just ordinary people who had been pushed to the edge. Having received food, they also put down their weapons. Man Chau kept it. The confidants that Tieu Hanh brought with him were also quickly controlled. Half a month later, Tieu Dat used the name of the emperor to kiss the ungodly army, devastated the family, embezzled food and silver relief, and officially started the army. Man Chau's people stood on both sides of the road to see him off to war. Before leaving, Tieu Dat came to the medical shop to find me. He didn't wear armor, just the blue robe he usually wore before. In that moment, I again saw the young man from years ago standing in front of the medical shop, smiling gently at me. "Mieu Mieu, follow me." He extended his hand towards me. "Liu Thi is not my Princess, nor is that child my son." It turned out that "An Vuong Phi" was just a female general under his command. In order to hide the fact that the Royal Palace secretly stored food and grass and recruited soldiers, they pretended to be husband and wife in front of outsiders. That child is the orphan of the female general's deceased elder brother. He called Tieu Dat his father, just to ignore the eyes and ears sent by the capital. A smile flickered in Tieu Dat's eyes. "In the past five years, I have never married anyone." "After I defeat the capital, I will make you Queen." "You will always be my wife." "Between us... no one will interfere anymore." I looked at the hand held out in front of me. That hand... I've held it countless times. Warm, spacious and gentle. But in the end, I still didn't reach out my hand. "Tieu Dat." "Actually, our meeting that year... was also arranged by you, right?" His hand stopped in mid-air.