"At that moment, I finally understood that my seemingly normal mother concubine had gone crazy in the endless struggle for favor. Even if it was the emperor's own son, she wouldn't allow the emperor to cast his eyes on anyone else."
Looking at Su Mingyu, the King of Yu's eyes were full of gloom. "Tell me, how could I not hate him?"
"But..." Su Mingyu bit her lips. "These things shouldn't all be blamed on him alone, right?"
It was the first time for Su Mingyu to hear the King of Yu talk about his own story. She never thought that behind this seemingly glorious King of Yu was such a heart - wrenching tale.
"Don't pity me." The King of Yu said, raising his eyebrows. "My hatred for Gu Ruobai is definitely not just this little bit."
"He always stole the limelight from me before." As he said this, the King of Yu suddenly turned his head towards Su Mingyu and stared deeply into her eyes. "Now he's taken you away from me even before I could act."
Su Mingyu never expected him to say such things. She shivered involuntarily and then touched her nose. She tried to choose a less irritating way to say, "Your Highness, first of all, I belong to no one but myself. Secondly, I've never had any romantic feelings for you, so it's inaccurate to say that he stole me from you."
"But if it weren't for him, you would surely choose me." The King of Yu looked at Su Mingyu, his eyes full of confidence.
Su Mingyu coughed lightly. She thought that maybe it wasn't just his mother concubine who had gone crazy, but the King of Yu himself had some problems too.
"Even if there were no Gu Ruobai, I wouldn't choose you." Su Mingyu looked into the King of Yu's eyes and said almost word by word, "Your Highness, your ambition from the very beginning was the throne. You married Su Yueyue to curry favor with the Su family to get closer to the throne. Then, in order to gain the support of the entire country behind Wu Yurou, you married her too."
As she said this, Su Mingyu pursed her lips. "Do you know? Before Wu Yurou came to you, she had already told Gu Ruobai that she was willing to be a concubine in his mansion, but Gu Ruobai refused firmly without even thinking."
"Your Highness, what I want is not someone who chooses me after weighing the pros and cons, but someone who will always choose me unwaveringly no matter what happens."
Actually, Su Mingyu had read this sentence on a public account. At that time, she thought it was a matter of course, but after experiencing betrayal, she realized that it was easier said than done. However, Gu Ruobai had done it. Without any hesitation, he had only chosen her.
"I can do it too!" The King of Yu watched the smile on Su Mingyu's lips because of Gu Ruobai and felt a surge of anger in his heart.
He had taken such good care of her, but he couldn't even get a kind look from her. Yet Gu Ruobai had clearly done something wrong to her, but she still trusted him so much.
"You don't understand Gu Ruobai at all. He's a cruel person. He'll do anything that's beneficial to himself."
"I know." Su Mingyu nodded. "But isn't everyone in this world living for themselves? Just like you, you're rebelling for your own sake, you've captured me here for your own sake, and you married Wu Yurou for your own sake."
"Your Highness, you may really want me, but compared to me, you want the throne more."
When Su Mingyu said this, her tone was very calm, but it gave the King of Yu an indescribable sense of irrefutability.
He looked at Su Mingyu. After a long while, he suddenly twitched the corner of his mouth self - deprecatingly. "So you've seen through me for a long time."
Su Mingyu bit her lips. "Let me go. Keeping me here won't achieve much."
"I won't let you go." The King of Yu said in a deep voice. "I want you to watch him fall, and then accompany me to ascend the throne."
"Are you crazy?" Su Mingyu almost couldn't control herself and growled, "First of all, I don't think you'll succeed this time. Secondly, I'm pregnant with Gu Ruobai's child. How could I accompany you to the throne? What do you think of Su Yueyue and Wu Yurou?"
As she was speaking, Su Mingyu suddenly had an idea. "Come to think of it, I also have something to tell you."
The King of Yu lowered his eyes and looked at her. "Speak."
"Actually, it was me who set up the incident between you and Su Yueyue last time. But before Su Yueyue took the aphrodisiac I prepared, she ate something from the brothel."
As she said this, Su Mingyu squinted her eyes. "I think you should know that the food in the brothel not only contains aphrodisiacs that can make people hot all over, but also contraceptives. And you and Su Yueyue shouldn't have had much contact since then, right?"
"What do you mean?" The King of Yu's voice suddenly turned cold, and his face was as black as if ink was about to drip.
Su Mingyu shrugged. "It doesn't mean anything. I just want to tell you what I know."
"Su Yueyue is about to give birth, right?" Su Mingyu looked at the King of Yu, raised her eyebrows and said with a light smile, "If you really have doubts in your heart, you can do a blood - relation test after the baby is born."
"However..." Su Mingyu clicked her tongue. "You must do this blood - relation test secretly. Otherwise, not only will the whole world know that you, the new emperor, have been deceived by Su Yueyue, but also that the child isn't even yours. It would be a complete joke."
"Impossible!" The King of Yu clenched his fists tightly. "A woman like Su Yueyue, who wanted to marry me from the very beginning, would never mess around behind my back."
Su Mingyu raised her eyebrows. "Yes, she wanted to marry you, but the problem is that she wanted to marry you too much."
She deliberately didn't finish her sentence, but Su Mingyu believed that with the King of Yu's suspicious nature, he would surely speculate secretly. If it weren't for this child, Su Yueyue would never have married him so early. So was it possible that she had taken risks just to marry into the royal family?
Once there is suspicion between a man and a woman, it's like water dripping on paper. It will only spread more and more, and the crack of doubt will become bigger and bigger, eventually becoming a black hole that will devour both of them.
Sure enough, the King of Yu couldn't sit still the next second. He directly jumped off the roof and headed straight for Su Yueyue's bedroom.
Su Mingyu watched from afar. Out of curiosity, she wanted to go and take a look, but before she could take a step, several men in black blocked her way.
Seeing this situation, Su Mingyu understood everything. She sighed. "Can I just sit here and enjoy the scenery?"
After saying that, she sat back on the eaves and tried her best to listen to the movement on Su Yueyue's side.
Su Mingyu had no pity for someone like Su Yueyue.
She still clearly remembered how Su Yueyue and her mother had treated her back then. Anyway, she couldn't get out, so she might as well take this opportunity to stir up some trouble.