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Tuoba Yu carried Shen Zhi Qiao into the inner room and placed her on the bed. Then, he used the blanket to tightly cover her body. Afterwards, he held her cold little feet and placed them in his embrace. His handsome eyebrows didn't relax for even a moment.

The warmth from her body caused Shen Zhiqiao to roll her eyes. She stared blankly at the many men whose actions were as natural as flowing water. After a long while, she let out a long sigh and began to sob.

The coldness on Tuoba Yu's face eased up slightly because of her crying. A trace of pain appeared in his black eyes, but he was still unable to hold himself back as he bent down to hug the blanket to her. His large palms were slightly afraid of her back, as if he was comforting her.

Shen Zhi Qiao immediately hugged his neck, burying his face into his neck. His voice was broken as he said with grievance, "Wuwu …" "I'm so scared …"

Her heart could still feel the shock and fear of falling from the roof, the fear that she would never see him again.

His hands tightened around the young man's neck, and his body was forced into the young man's arms.

Feeling her fear and reliance, Tuoba Yu's anger leveled off and he pulled away the bedding between the two of them. He tightly hugged her without the slightest gap and spoke with a slightly chilly voice, "How did it fall from the roof?" He was also wearing a nightgown, and his shoes and socks weren't worn at all.

Shen Zhi Qiao's sobbing stopped, he bit his lips and muttered, "Foot slip …." "I wasn't careful..."

Inwardly, he cursed the culprit, but now, all he could do was break his teeth and swallow his blood!

When Tuoba Yu heard that, he raised his slanted eyebrows and pushed her away from his embrace.

He directly sat on his abdomen, coiled his legs around his waist, and stuck his soft body tightly against his chest. With a soft voice, he said, "Tuoba Yu, believe me, I really slipped down by accident."

Tuoba Yu released his hand and looked down at the octopus-like woman wrapped around his body. His brows furrowed even more tightly as he said, "It's cold at night, and you're only wearing this little thing and you're already on the roof without even putting on your shoes and socks. Can you give me a proper reason?"

"…" Shen Zhi Qiao was silent. He lay on the ground beside Shen Zhi Qiao's neck, unable to speak.

He couldn't hear her answer for a long time, so he used some effort to pull her away. He stared at her with his almond-shaped eyes, her long eyelashes were slightly wet, and there were tiny crystals wrapped around her eyelashes.

She slightly closed her eyes, sighed, and wiped the tears on her eyelashes with her finger. Her mesmerized voice was filled with helplessness, "So, are you using this method to punish me?"

Shen Zhi Qiao was startled and looked at him suspiciously.

Tuoba Yu took the quilt and wrapped both of them inside it, then placed his head on her hair. His almond-shaped eyes widened as he suddenly changed the topic, "Do you want to hear about Tuoba Yu's intentions?"

Shen Zhi Qiao's heartbeat quickened. She raised her head to look at his expression, but he was unable to do anything about it. He suppressed her heart, which was beating chaotically, and gently nodded her head in his embrace.

How could she not want to hear his story? She was afraid that he would not talk to her!

Tuoba Yu did not immediately begin speaking. Instead, he paused for a very long time, as if he was recalling something.

Shen Zhi Qiao grabbed onto the front of his shirt, quietly waiting for him to speak.

"As for Tuoba Yu, if it wasn't for his royal grandmother, he would have been nothing more than a pile of bones underneath the loess."

Tuoba Yu used this heavy sentence as the opening line.

Without even thinking, he knew that it wasn't easy for him.

Emperor at the age of six, what exactly had he experienced in those long eleven years?!

Tuoba Yu simply explained how the empress dowager helped him win the throne. He didn't want her to know things that were too complicated.

He held her silks, and his voice was strangely calm. "When I was eight years old, my mother passed away without any warning, and I remember that the previous night, my mother was still making clothes with me, and I did not understand that these things should be left to the silk department, but she had to do them herself, and she said that whether she was the Empress Mother now or not, she was only an ordinary mother in front of me, so what ordinary mothers could make for their children, she would not miss anything.

But on the second day, the Queen Mother suddenly disappeared. By the time I heard the news, my grandmother had already placed my mother in the phoenix coffin and sent someone to the Royal Tomb to be buried with my father. I had not even seen my mother for the last time, and there was still an unfinished garment on the coffin.

I hugged that piece of clothing and cried as if I wanted to find my mother and see her, but no matter what, my royal grandma wouldn't let me. She even locked me up in the Dragon's Nest for three whole days.

I hated her, I hated her, I even hated her a little. In those days, I did everything in my power to make her feel bad, to the point where she almost died from anger.

When the ministers of the court saw that I was so useless, they all called for me to ascend to the throne, replacing the direct son of Empress Dowager Murong as emperor. However, Imperial Granny didn't give up on me because of this and decided to make an appointment with Empress Dowager Murong with her for a year. If I am unable to satisfy all the ministers in a year, I will let her child ascend to the throne. If I am able to satisfy all the ministers, I will still make her child Crown Prince.

This condition was so tempting that Empress Dowager Murong immediately agreed.

After that, the imperial granny invited her senior brother, the Divine Doctor Yun Feng, to come to the palace to assist me and teach me how to read. That was also when I met Lan Junhe and … " When he said this, he paused for a moment, "In those days, because I deliberately went against my royal grandmother, she became very ill, and it seemed as if she didn't have a chance to recover from her illness. Divine Doctor Yun Feng no longer had the energy to control me, but I didn't feel that anything was amiss. In fact, I was dancing with joy in the Dragon's Nest Palace.

It was only when Lou Lan suddenly came to visit the Dragon's Nest Palace that I realized not only I didn't win, I also lost. I almost lost to my grandmother, whom I doted on the most back then. "

She could hear the remorse in his voice, and the faint sobs in his rich voice.

Shen Zhiqiao's eyes reddened. Feeling his pain, he wrapped his arm around his waist and tightened his grip.

Tuoba Yu took a deep breath before continuing, "It was only through Lou Lan that I found out that my grandma didn't intentionally stop me from meeting my mother, and that my mother's death was not a sudden epidemic death. "My mother was poisoned and by the time she died, her body had already rotted away. There were disgusting worms crawling all over her body eating her rotten wounds …"

Shen Zhiqiao's body stiffened, and the hand that was holding onto him trembled slightly. However, the man in front of her was trembling even more than she was, and his heart was aching. Other than hugging him tighter, she didn't know what else to do.

He was only eight years old, and his eight year old child was now a treasure held in the hands of his parents. Yet, he had to ruthlessly face the reality of his mother's miserable death …

His heart ached for him. Shen Zhiqiao straightened his body slightly and pulled him into his embrace. Leaning his head against his chest, he gently stroked his head, hoping that this would ease the pain in his heart.

"Grandma Huang didn't want me to see the tragic death of my mother, for fear that it would leave a shadow in my heart. So no matter how much I messed around, she didn't tell me the truth.

At this moment, Shen Zhiqiao was truly grateful to the empress dowager from the bottom of his heart. He wanted to thank her for not giving up when he was the most helpless and rebellious, loving him the same as before. Just for this reason alone, she deserved the respect of Shen Zhiqiao for the rest of her life.

Tuoba Yu leaned on her, his two iron arms almost latching onto her waist as his voice suddenly became ruthless, "Mu Rong is trying to use my mother's death to provoke me, to stir up the Minister to change hands. Your heart is truly hateful.

Didn't she want her son to ascend to the throne? Three years ago, I personally returned to her the pain and suffering that the Mu Rong family had inflicted on my mother, making her experience the taste of her body rotting, dying, and of being eaten by tens of thousands of insects.

"His son raised his arms to rebel and was about to sit on this Dragon Throne, so I chopped him down and annihilated the entire Murong Family."

However, Tuoba Sen was just a fish out of a net three years ago. If he remained calm, he could let him live a miserable life. If he became restless, he wouldn't mind sending him to see his good mother and brother!

Although he understood his mother's desire to avenge him, Shen Zhiqiao was still shocked by his words. The two of them embraced each other for a long time and were speechless.

After a long while, Tuoba Yu raised his head from her embrace and looked at her. With his thumb resting darkly on her face, he said, "Do you think I'm cruel?"