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Chapter 3940 4.1540 Questioning

Duan Yue's eyes twisted slightly. The warm morning light streamed in from outside, falling on him, but he felt no warmth whatsoever.

"If you didn't love her, why did you take her as a consort?"

"Because of you!" Rong Yuan said coldly. "As an emperor, offspring are the most important. Having a good son is as crucial as having a vast empire."

"So..." Duan Yue sneered coldly. "You cast a wide net and focused on catching the big fish?"

Rong Yuan nodded indifferently. "Naturally, you will be the same in the future."

"No, I won't."

Rong Yuan was slightly startled, seemingly surprised by Duan Yue's firm conviction. "Why?"

"If there's no love, why bother to delay others?"

Rong Yuan grew somewhat angry, turning to glare at his son. He said coldly, "Then work harder and marry the one you love."

Duan Yue remained silent, not uttering a word for a long time.

Until the Emperor of Cangzhou grew impatient, he rubbed the wrinkles on his forehead and asked coldly, "Is there anything else you want to ask?"

Duan Yue questioned him coldly, his eyes filled with hostility. "Just because she was an insignificant woman? Someone you could summon and dismiss at will?"

So, her life and death meant nothing to you?

"Although it's cruel to say, an ordinary person, without any self-defense skills, truly struggles to survive in this man-eat-man world," Rong Yuan said calmly, as if discussing something trivial.

Duan Yue chuckled dismissively, abruptly falling backward and heavily sitting on the bamboo bed.

He stared at Rong Yuan with cold eyes, enunciating each word: "They! Will! All! Die!"

Rong Yuan raised an eyebrow, seeming to gain some interest. He nodded at his son and said, "As long as you have the capability, your father will be happy to see it happen."

"You're truly magnanimous," Duan Yue sneered, watching Rong Yuan rise and walk out. He suddenly asked, "Have you never loved anyone in your life?"

Rong Yuan's footsteps paused, then he said, "I have."

"But if you're not strong enough yourself, love is useless," Rong Yuan's gaze faintly looked into the distance, as if at someone, and he said coldly, "They won't belong to you."

"A month, at most." He stepped out of the bamboo house, leaving this final remark.

Duan Yue remained silent for a long time.

After a good while, Xiao Kezi timidly walked in from outside the door.

"Have they found the person?"

Xiao Kezi quickly nodded. "Physician Tu is waiting outside."

"But Your Royal Highness, the palace had already investigated the Empress's matter and said... said there were no signs of poisoning. It was supposedly due to fright from a white bear the other day,"

"Do you believe such nonsense?" Duan Yue said coldly.

Xiao Kezi's head was bowed low; he dared not speak further.

Duan Yue stood up and walked out without a word.

Outside the bamboo house, a woman in a simple green dress, with clean and plain makeup, waited.

She was about twenty, with very fair skin.

Seeing Duan Yue emerge, the woman stepped forward without glancing away and bowed.

"Have you examined her?"

The woman nodded, then pursed her lips slightly. "This subordinate's skills are not refined. Although I saw a hint of something, I ultimately cannot confirm it."

"The Empress's body appeared to be without poison, but... the Empress was healthy; she shouldn't have died solely from fright."