Chapter 14 — Two Fathers

This is the person he prayed for in his dreams a thousand times but couldn't find it again. The Queen Mother screamed: "No way!" The Phung family's lady's face was twisted horribly because of that scream. “You are clearly dead.” "I watched you die with my own eyes." The crown prince stood in the river water, the iron chain tightened deep into his wrist bones. "What the mother sees with her own eyes is not necessarily true." His voice was very low, but it made the whole stone room quiet. The Queen Mother stared at her. “Who is it?” "Who dares to swap you right under whose eyelids?" The crown prince did not answer her. His eyes passed Ta Vo Cuu and fell on my face. In that moment, my heart felt like someone was tapping gently. I've met people before. Not in the picture. But in many dreams in the middle of the night. In the dream, someone looked at me from a very deep water, reaching out to hug me, but he could never touch me. My throat is choked. “Are you my father?” The person looked at me, the fire in his eyes immediately broke out. "Right." People only say one word. But my eyes are stinging. I thought I would rush forward. Will cry. Will ask why people haven't come in recent years. But we don't do that. I just grabbed Ta Vo Cuu's sleeve tightly and asked in a low voice: "So what about my father?" The crown prince looked behind me. As you already knew I would ask like that. “Tham Hac Tranh is also father and son.” “He raised my children to adulthood for me.” "This father's word, he deserves it." My heart relaxes, then it hurts even more. Ta Vo Cuu suddenly took a step forward. “Your Highness, why didn't you tell me?” Pain flashed through Crown Prince Tien's eyes. “I can't.” “The eyes and veins lock not only my body.” “But also my life.” The person who spoke raised his wrist. The black iron chain was engraved with small runes, each line seemed to be soaked in blood. “If I just take one step away from the cold river, the capital's leylines will collapse.” “The Queen Mother needs A Dien's blood.” “But the one who really locked us here wasn't her.” The Queen Mother suddenly raised her head. “You talk nonsense.” The crown prince looked at her and suddenly smiled. That smile had no hatred, only fatigue that couldn't be put into words. “Mother, the one who destroyed the Eastern Palace, thought she had won.” “But people are nothing more than a pawn in someone else's hands.” The fire in the green light suddenly flared up. The Phung family's lady's body made the sound of bones and joints being out of position. The Queen Mother's voice became sharp. "Who?" Crown Prince Tien slowly raised his head and looked up at the roof of the stone room. I also looked up. In the darkness above, I don't know when a thin golden thread dropped. At the end of the silk thread is a small bell tied. That bell is not bronze color. It's red yellow. It doesn't resonate. But all the white bones knelt down at the same time. Even the green lamp in the Queen Mother's hand lowered the fire. Ta Vo Cuu's face suddenly changed. “The bell calms the soul of the royal tomb.” The crown prince said in a low voice: "He's here." Before I could ask who it was, a row of bow lights lit up at the end of the cold river. In the light bulb, a person wearing a bright yellow dragon robe slowly walked out. Not the Queen Mother. Not a fake crown prince. But the emperor was still at the Taiji Palace. He stood at the end of the darkness, with no trace of panic on his face. Even had a gentle smile. “Your Majesty.” "We haven't seen each other for many years, but you still know how to ruin my chess board." 14 The Emperor stood at the end of the cold river. The bright golden dragon robe is backed by the cold frost on the ground, not looking like a human king, but like a shadow stepping out from a mausoleum. Behind him are sixteen bow lights. Under each lamp stood a person dressed in black, making no sound. Their faces were covered with golden masks, and in their hands were long soul-suppressing nails. The Queen Mother borrowed the body of the Phung family's lady and took a step back. Her voice was high-pitched and distorted. “Emperor, who do you dare to plot against?” The Emperor smiled. “The Queen Mother said something wrong.” “The person I plan is not human.” “But that's everything.” Ta Vo Cuu protected me from behind, the blue veins on the back of his hand tensed up. "His Majesty has been waiting for us to come here since the palace banquet began." The Emperor looked at that person, his eyes were so gentle that it was almost scary. “Ta Khanh is always smart.” “If it weren't for you to lead the way for me, my lord

I also couldn't find the real door of the dragon eyes." I heard it and my back felt cold. From the assassin in the palace banquet, to the Queen Mother's will, then the secret passage collapsed. Every step is like someone pushing us forward. The Queen Mother thinks she's chasing us. But the emperor included the Queen Mother in the chessboard. Crown Prince Tien stood in the cold river, the iron chain on his wrist slowly shaking. “Why did you do that?” The emperor's smile faded. “Your Majesty asked a very good question.” "That year, before his father passed away, he clearly handed over the country to you." "You are kind, popular, and the whole court praises you as a wise man." “What about me?” He walked forward step by step, the bow lamp illuminating the resentment that had been suppressed for many years in his eyes. “I am also your father's child.” “I knelt outside the palace all night, only in exchange for one sentence of unstable mentality.” “Based on what?”