Chapter 1545: Chapter 1545: Sad, Yet Admirable

In the room, Hua Rong’s screams quickly echoed.

Though weak, the sound clearly indicated she must have been given Soft Bone Powder.

Even faint, it was filled with pain and despair.

Nangong Shuya halted her steps and did not approach.

Feng Qihe had also heard it long ago and felt an indescribable emotion in his heart.

"Is she really the Fourth Prince’s natural mother?"

Although he was the one who brought her back, the order was given by the Empress, so Feng Qihe knew some things about Hua Rong but remained uncertain.

Thinking of Feng Yexuan’s icy aura and his proud nature, imagining his birth mother enduring unbearable humiliation inside, Feng Qihe’s mood grew heavy.

The emperor sent a few young eunuchs inside... truly excessive.

No woman can endure such humiliation; death would be preferable!

"Back then, did the emperor also..."

"Yes!" Nangong Shuya closed her eyes briefly, adjusted her breath, and then opened them to look at him.

"Your father is a..."

But the rest, Nangong Shuya did not want to say.

She hesitated before continuing: "However, those terrifying means were mostly used on Consort Rong."

"He deeply loved Consort Rong, to the point of spending almost half of each month in her courtyard."

"But he..."

Being the Empress, she couldn’t be unaware of such romantic affairs.

Even speaking of them was difficult.

Consort Rong, having personally endured it, still surviving, was truly admirable.

"Mother, do you... pity her?" Feng Qihe wasn’t a good person.

However, Hua Rong’s son was Feng Yexuan!

Thinking that he brought Hua Rong back, leading to the emperor committing such terrible acts, and imagining the coldness in Feng Yexuan’s eyes, though he wanted to dismiss it, couldn’t entirely shake the unease in his heart.

If Feng Yexuan learns all of this, he would undoubtedly go mad and kill everyone!

"What difference does pity make? She obstructed our great cause, and doesn’t deserve sympathy."

Nangong Shuya spoke of lacking sympathy, but still inhales deeply to calm her frantic heartbeat.

Indeed unsympathetic, but... truly pitiable.

"Only now do I understand why Consort Rong managed to fight and survive back then."

Years ago, Feng Bufan would often bring young eunuchs to humiliate Consort Rong.

Such disgrace is unbearable for any woman.

She even contemplated that if those methods befell her, she would either kill Feng Bufan or choose death!

"She couldn’t die because Feng Yexuan is the son of Prince Ye; she had to watch her son grow up, wait until he was strong enough to know who his true enemy was."

"Otherwise, her son would forever mistake a traitor as his father and mistakenly honor his enemy as kin!"

This is Hua Rong’s most pitiable and tragic plight.

For her son, she couldn’t even choose death.

"Hehe, Feng Yexuan is your enemy, do not sympathize, for you have no right to."

Nangong Shuya looked at her son, her voice slowly sinking:

"Moreover, Hua Rong was brought back by you personally; just for that, Feng Yexuan won’t spare you."

"If you do not kill him, one day, he will kill you!"

"Hehe, this is your best chance to earn merit before the emperor, reveal your plans to him, let him see you as the son he should truly trust and favor!"