#376 - The person who tied the bell must untie it
Inside the prison cell.
A heartfelt cry of "Empress Mother" caused the coldness on Yu Pingjun's face to freeze instantly, her eyes also showing some panic and evasion.
She opened her mouth, and after a long while, she spat out a few words coldly.
"I am not your Empress Mother."
"No!"
Li Wutong bit her lip tightly, shaking her head non-stop, and the next moment she suddenly pounced to the side of the stone bed, sobbing and repeating the same sentence.
"No, no matter when, you are..."
"You are..."
"..."
The sound of crying mixed with an almost obsessive cry echoed in the prison cell, this sound crashed against the stone walls, and then floated into Yu Pingjun's ears from all directions, like small knives scraping her cold heart.
"Tong... Tong'er..."
A somewhat withered palm trembled and lifted, seemingly wanting to wipe away the tears on Li Wutong's face.
However, when it reached halfway, this hand suddenly stopped in mid-air, hesitated for a moment, and then turned to rest on Li Wutong's shoulder, forcefully pushing the latter away a little.
"You don't need to put on this act."
"This palace is human, and cannot give birth to a demon spawn like you."
"Every time you call me Empress Mother, this palace feels more disgusted with you."
"Why didn't you just die?"
"..."
The firelight flickered, and the moment Yu Pingjun spoke the last sentence, the air in the prison cell seemed to suddenly solidify, making Li Wutong feel like she couldn't breathe.
Disgust, lowly spawn, death...
Each word containing the most vicious meaning was like a huge rock pressing on her chest, making each of her heartbeats extraordinarily difficult.
Li Wutong struggled painfully to raise her head, staring blankly at the woman opposite her, but that familiar face became strange for the first time.
She stumbled and knelt on the ground, subconsciously moving backwards in a panic, wanting to distance herself from the latter.
Yu Pingjun quietly watched her, asking with a sneer:
"What? Do you still think I'm your Empress Mother now?"
"..."
This time, Li Wutong didn't answer for a long, long time.
If there were to be a ranking of all emotions in this world, then kinship would undoubtedly be the most selfless and pure.
This is not to say that people can give up everything for kinship, but without a doubt, people are willing to give more for kinship than for other emotions.
Although this kind of emotion mostly arises from blood relations, it doesn't mean that there is no possibility of postnatal cultivation.
At least for Li Wutong, the connection between her and the woman opposite her still existed a few moments ago, but now it was on the verge of collapse.
It's hard to say whether what Yu Pingjun just said was really what she thought in her heart, or whether it was deliberate.
But her intention to sever the emotional connection between the two was more than obvious.
What she wanted was for Li Wutong to hate herself.
Perhaps only in this way could the hatred in her heart be maintained, and not be overwhelmed by guilt and emotion.
Or perhaps only in this way could she "live up to" her twenty years of forbearance...
The corner of her mouth twitched slightly, Yu Pingjun silently watched the distraught Li Wutong, waiting for the latter's reaction, whether it be despair or anger.
However, she did not get the result she expected.
"..."
"Yes."
Suddenly, a faint voice faintly sounded.
A hint of astonishment flashed in Yu Pingjun's eyes, and Li Wutong also slowly stood up in this complex gaze, completing her answer word by word.
"No matter what, you are my Empress Mother."
A quarter of an hour later.
"Dong, dong, dong..."
The heavy prison door made three muffled sounds, Wei Changtian and Chu Xianping looked at each other, and immediately called the jailers to open the door.
When the pure black door was slowly pushed open for the third time today, the first thing everyone saw was Li Wutong standing at the door with tears all over her face.
"Young... Young Master!!"
"Wuu wuu wuu..."
The tense emotions were released all at once, Li Wutong threw herself into Wei Changtian's arms, and then sobbed non-stop on the latter's chest.
The meaning of these tears was still unknown, and Wei Changtian did not immediately ask, but gently patted Li Wutong's back, while raising his eyes to look at Yu Pingjun in the prison cell.
At this moment, the latter was also looking over here.
The two gazes met in the air for a long time, and from beginning to end, they were both very calm.
Until the slowly closing prison door separated the two.
"Boom!"
In the loud noise, several jailers stood in place, looking at each other, all somewhat at a loss.
After all, Li Wutong and Wei Changtian's actions had far exceeded ordinary "intimate contact", and it happened right under their noses, so it was impossible to pretend they didn't see it.
Fortunately, Chu Xianping reacted quickly enough, coughed and said:
"Ahem, everyone has worked hard, go and rest for a while."
"Yes!"
As if they had been granted amnesty, the jailers immediately turned and left, soon disappearing at the end of the corridor.
Chu Xianping also left with them, leaving only Wei Changtian and Li Wutong.
"Princess..."
Feeling the crying in her arms gradually subside, Wei Changtian waited for a while before finally asking: "What did you and the Empress say? If possible, can you tell me everything from beginning to end?"
"Mm..."
Raising her tearful face, Li Wutong grabbed Wei Changtian's clothes tightly with one hand, and quickly wiped away her tears with the other.
"Young... Young Master..."
"Empress Mother... she still hates me and Father Emperor..."
"..."
Intermittently, crying for a while and talking for a while.
Li Wutong had only been in the prison cell for a quarter of an hour at most, but it took her half an hour to repeat it once.
As for the result, as she said at the beginning, Yu Pingjun was not "moved", and still did not say anything about Ning Yongnian and Bai Youheng.
This situation sounds not very ideal at first glance, but Wei Changtian doesn't think so.
Although Yu Pingjun still hasn't spoken, in Li Wutong's retelling, it can be clearly felt that the former's psychological defenses are cracking bit by bit.
Therefore, Li Wutong's visit was definitely not in vain.
And what he has to do next is to continue to increase the pressure, and use the last trump card to completely "defeat" Yu Pingjun.
As for what this trump card is...
The one who tied the bell must untie it.
There is only one "culprit" who caused Yu Pingjun to be like this now.
That is Li Qi.
