After her mind was read, the spoiled brat became the darling of the whole group.

Chapter 279 Just for Mother's sake, you should die.

But now, this person, who should have been the center of attention, is about to die young.

"Mother," Jun Lanjin looked down at the old princess and asked again, "Why?"

"Why was it me who ruined you?"

The old queen pursed her lips, turned around to look at the Buddha statue behind her, closed her eyes slightly, and then spoke: "Back then, my reputation as the most beautiful woman spread far and wide, attracting four kingdoms to compete for me, and everyone wanted to see my beautiful face."

Her voice turned sorrowful.

“These men all say they love me and want to marry me, but when it comes to making real choices about their interests, they can easily abandon me.”

"Only the emperor of the South, only he loves me wholeheartedly."

The old princess was lost in memories, her expression tinged with nostalgia.

He said that once he seizes the throne and becomes the emperor above all others, he will come to marry me and make me his empress.

A smile appeared on her face, but when she thought about what would happen next, the old princess's expression suddenly changed, and her face instantly turned into hatred.

"I should have married him and become his queen!"

"But it's all his fault! It's all Emperor Chu's fault!"

"That hypocritical and disgusting man! If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have lost everything!"

Xie Xing frowned.

"What's wrong with the Chu Emperor?" Jun Lan asked cautiously.

The old princess bit her lip, tears streaming down her face, and said, "That night, he raped me while he was drunk."

"Then, I..."

Jun Lanjin frowned. "You mean, I am the Chu Emperor's?"

The old princess's expression twisted, her face contorted with utter disgust. "That night he was drunk and didn't know who he slept with. I escaped from his side while he was still asleep, but I never expected that a month later I would find out that I was pregnant."

"I can no longer return to the South."

The old princess looked grief-stricken, her eyes lowered, and she said in a low voice, "I am tainted, I am no longer worthy of him."

“But I was unwilling to marry that filthy and disgusting man, the Chu Emperor, so I devised a plan to marry into the Jun family.”

Xie Xing: "..."

She thought it would be some earth-shattering, tear-jerking story, but it turned out to be just another clichéd, melodramatic plot.

In this era, a woman's chastity represents everything.

Xie Xing sighed.

A man's disgusting mistake ruined a woman's life.

but--

Honestly, Xie Xing guessed that the so-called emperor of the Southern Kingdom, after so many years, was still able to use the old princess to plot against him based on their past relationship. He didn't sound like a good person.

It's truly disgusting that a man would try to seize power by exploiting a woman's emotions.

Xie Xing looked at the old princess as if she were a vicious and foolish woman.

For a woman, pregnancy and childbirth can indeed affect her entire life. The negative impact of childbirth is simply too great, so Xie Xing can understand what the old princess said.

But they didn't agree with it at all.

In the end, it all comes down to men.

And not for myself.

For a man, for some fabricated affection, she was willing to kill her own son, and in such a cruel way at that.

That's both stupid and vicious.

"If that's what she said, how would the Chu Emperor know?" Xie Xing wondered.

But before the system could answer her question, the old princess herself said, "Originally, I wouldn't have taken action against her."

"But your talent is just too high. At only a few years old, you have attracted everyone's attention and even made that bastard Emperor Chu start to doubt your identity."

"That old woman, the Empress Dowager, is naturally suspicious. She felt that you looked very much like the Chu Emperor when he was a child, so she secretly made you and the Chu Emperor undergo a blood test to prove your kinship and discovered your true identity."

"Otherwise, why do you think the Chu Emperor would treat you so specially?"

"They even have to treat the Crown Prince well?"

Jun Lanjin kept a cold face.

"Later, I vaguely sensed that the Chu Emperor intended to pass the throne to you. How could that be allowed?"

"If you were in the state of Chu, you would eventually unify the world."

"So I put a slow-acting poison in your food, so that you would die without anyone knowing."

"Only in this way can I, Wulang, confidently march into the Central Plains and unify the world!"

The old princess laughed as she spoke, tears streaming down her face and finally falling to the ground.

"I didn't expect you to find out beforehand."

"But even if you know now, it's no use. The poison has already entered your bone marrow, and you won't live much longer."

The old princess said angrily, "Soon, my fifth son will invade, and that dog emperor of Chu won't live much longer. After that, this world will belong to the Southern Kingdom!"

The old princess opened her arms.

The expression on her face was already somewhat abnormal.

A smile that wasn't quite a smile, a cry that wasn't quite a cry.

Xie Xing didn't understand what she was thinking.

She sighed, turned away, and refused to look at the old princess's face again.

Jun Lanjin stood there for a while, waiting for the old princess to finish laughing before asking, "Are you finished?"

The old princess's laughter stopped abruptly.

Jun Lanjin lowered his eyes, pinched his cuffs with his fingers, and said in a low voice, "Although I have been poisoned by a slow-acting poison, I come from Medicine King Valley, and my master has already been controlling the poison in my body."

"I'm sorry to disappoint you, Mother. My time to die is still long."

"In the time I'm still alive, I'll have more than enough time to deal with a small southern country."

The old princess was stunned.

Jun Lanjin's lips curled up slightly, his voice deep and melodious: "Since Mother likes that Southern Emperor so much, when the time comes, I will have him come to your little courtyard to keep you company, okay?"

“My mother was heartless enough to want to kill her son for the sake of the Southern Emperor, but I cannot treat you the way my mother treated me.”

"After all, there is still filial piety in my heart. Just as my mother said, it was not easy for her to give birth to me and raise me. Even if my mother wanted to take my life, what could I say?"

"The son can only do his best in the last moments of his life to fulfill his mother's lifelong wish to marry the emperor of the Southern Kingdom, without holding a grudge against her past mistakes."

"how?"

"No!" After a few seconds of stunned silence, the old princess became agitated upon hearing Jun Lanjin's words.

She crawled towards Jun Lanjin, grabbed his clothes, and looked up at him, saying, "No! Don't do this!"

"Jin'er, please, I'm begging you."

The old princess cried uncontrollably, her expression one of great anguish: "Just for your mother's sake, why don't you do nothing and just wait for the poison to take effect and die?"

Jun Lanjin's smile faded.

He took the robe from the old princess's hand and stood aside expressionlessly.

"I'm afraid I can't do as my mother wishes."

"Since Mother loves that emperor so much, wouldn't it be better for them to be together?"