Lin Weikang had just experienced the pain of failure once, the huge gap from the peak of his life to the Nine Netherworld River, and the despair it brought. He never wanted to experience it again.

"Mom!" Lin Weikang faced He Zheng with the most sincere tone and expression. He grabbed her sleeves in a few steps and reached out to grab her sleeves. "Don't listen to other people's instigation. There must be a misunderstanding. How could I betray my own family?"

Where is my mother?"

There was a flash of cold light, and the short knife in He Zheng's hand shot out quickly, hitting the hairpin on Lin Weikang's head.

The mutton-fat jade hairpin was broken, and most of Lin Weikang's bun was cut off. Half of the broken hair was flying in the air, and the other half fell down and covered Lin Weikang's face.

Lin Weikang felt a coldness on his face and his eyes filled with cold light. He was almost out of his mind for a moment, thinking that He Zheng was going to kill him.

He only had time to scream, "Mom, don't kill me! I was wrong!"

He Zheng raised his fingers, held the short knife flying back in the air between his fingers, and looked at Lin Weikang mockingly, "I hate fools first, and people who lie to me second. You are both."

Lin Weikang covered his cold head and looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar mother in front of him, dumbfounded.

The mother he remembered was not like this.

In my memory, Princess Ziyang loved to talk and laugh. When she was young, she also acted coquettishly in her mother's arms, and received her mother's loving embrace and loving care.

Even later, he insisted on marrying Zhang Wan and had a big quarrel with his mother. Her mother's eyes were full of disappointment, but she did not treat him with such cold eyes and tone.

But the woman in front of him now, although she had the same face and behavior as his mother, looked at him as if she were a stranger, without any warmth at all.

"You are not my mother..." Lin Weikang whispered, "My mother is not like this."

He didn't know which part of his body had been touched, but Lin Weikang's eyes turned red. With his messy hair on his head, he glared at He Zheng angrily, "My mother has never been so indifferent to me!"

"I had acne when I was a child. My father was afraid that I would pass it on to his precious son, so he moved me to the village and sealed the gate. My mother broke in, held me in her arms, ate and slept with me, and guarded me for seven days and seven nights.

, took care of me with his own hands, never got bored, and told me jokes to make me happy.”

"I was bullied by my concubine's cousin in the clan school. My mother personally led people to hang the poor man up and beat him half to death. His hands and feet were all broken to vent my anger."

"My mother is the best person to me in the world...Give my mother back to me!"

Tears shone in Lin Weikang's eyes, he clenched his fists and yelled at He Zheng, "Where did you hide that girl who was good to me?"

Gu Zhao felt goosebumps all over his body. Lin Weikang must have gone too far.

He Zheng interrupted his touching memories, "So, you betrayed the best mother to you in the world to the emperor? Just in exchange for the emperor helping you get the position of Duke Li?"

"Your mother is good to you, so her life should be used as a bargaining chip by you to trade for the glory and wealth you want?"

The corners of He Zheng's mouth raised, and the sarcastic expression appeared on her face again, "Qin Jiashu said you are ridiculous because you don't know at all. I can give it to you at any time as long as I am willing. You have tried every means to fight for it.

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"It's ridiculous that you chose to sacrifice me in exchange for those illusory wealth."

"It's ridiculous that I thought I was a hero all my life, but I gave birth to a son who was so stupid that I couldn't even teach him well."

"When I taught you martial arts when you were young, you were afraid of tiredness and hardship. As long as your ill-intentioned father used toys to coax you, you would be bribed immediately and become despondent with toys."

"When you grow up, I teach you how to read and understand, but you don't take it seriously. You believe your grandfather's words and think that you are the future prince of the Li Kingdom. There is no need to take the imperial examination, so why study?"

"Later, I had no choice but to find you a wife who has a vision and understands the overall situation. She will help you clean up the mess and ensure your life is safe. But you don't know whose bad idea you listened to and insisted on finding a poor Hanlin family.

Daughter, what are you talking about so that the emperor will not be afraid of Duke Li's mansion..."

He Zheng shook his head, with a miserable expression on his face, "You are already stupid enough, but after all, you have been growing up in Duke Li's mansion for more than ten years, and you still have a little vision; but in the end, you married a man who only knows how to hurt the spring and the autumn.

, a woman who is in love with a man and a woman, and you are always entangled in trivial matters like the back house, what else can you do?"

By this time, basically everyone in the imperial tent had a rough idea of ​​what had happened, and they couldn't help but look at Lin Weikang with a variety of emotions including sympathy, ridicule, shock, and contempt.

"You say you are stupid, you are stupid, but you still want to imitate other people's ruthlessness, even abandoning your biological mother."

"If you abandon me and get any worthwhile benefits, that's it. I will also praise you for being cruel, vicious and ruthless."

"But what benefit did you get? Is it the position of Duke of Li that originally belonged to you?"

"Have you never thought about why Qin Jiashu tried so hard to sow discord between you and my mother and asked you to betray me and kill me?"

Lin Weikang was hit in the face by this series of merciless questions and revelations. When he saw the eyes of everyone in the royal tent, he felt as if he had been stripped naked in front of the public, which was extremely humiliating.

He looked at He Zheng with red eyes, full of grievance: "Since you have such ability, why didn't you tell me? Why have you been hiding it?"

"Why didn't you remind me when I was bewitched?"

"Since you already knew that I was deceived, why would you rather fake your death and leave a body that was prepared long ago than explain it to me?"
Chapter completed!