The Queen Mother rubbed her forehead and slowly digested what Xu Shanshan told her.
"Last year... before you were replaced by that fake Imperial Master, you told the Ai family that Emperor Yue was destined to only have sixteen years of life. Even if you took action, you could barely extend his life for one year, but you I want him to live, even if he is alive as a living dead."
Thinking of her cruel and incompetent grandson, the Empress Dowager didn't have much tenderness in her eyes, but more of a heavy responsibility that was pressing heavily on her shoulders.
"It wasn't until two months ago that you sent Maomao to tell the Ai family that you were about to return as Emperor Yue. At that time, the Ai family understood your plan."
"A country cannot live without a king for a day. You do have the strength to shoulder the responsibilities of Emperor Jingguo, and you also have a strong heart to face dangers and obstacles."
The Empress Dowager slowly curled her knuckles into fists, her emotions were a little stuck in her throat, and even her voice became hoarse: "But the Ai family is still too naive. It turns out that what you have to bear is such a broken situation. A country that is devastated and besieged on all sides...Shen'er, the Ai family really feels...very sorry for you."
"Don't think of me too great." Xu Shanshan stretched out his hand, lifted the Empress Dowager's chin, and asked her to look at him: "Do you want to hear about my life experience?"
"What's your life experience?" The Queen Mother looked at her blankly.
Xu Shanshan let go of her, her eyes relaxed, her lips still curved with a divine arc that was indifferent to the world, and she began to tell: "I am not actually an orphan, nor was my master picked her up from outside. I was born as a child. A huge conspiracy.”
Some children in this world are born out of love, some are born out of hate, some are born to be blessed, and some are born to be hated, but she is neither of them. She is just a chess piece, destined to be used by others. Born of objects.
The so-called "parents" she calls are carefully selected people who don't even deserve to have names. They are only responsible for raising children within the specified time, date and year.
A moment less will not work, and a moment more will not work. Just like a programmed fertility machine, dozens of pairs of men and women conceive together, and only one pair is selected for the most accurate time of conception.
In order to meet the calculated birth time, regardless of the life and death of the pregnant mother, the mother was exhumed just to give birth to a "great master" whose birth date and four pillars of the horoscope all met the requirements.
Her birth was accompanied by blood, sacrifice and sin.
Everything was planned, and her life was also arranged. It would be better to say that she was a puppet. To prevent her from getting out of control, they deprived her of her "heart".
Therefore, she has no heart and no self-thought. Compared with the exquisite golden statues of gods and Buddhas in the temple halls, she is just a wish-making stone made by humans.
If the Master had not taken pity on her, sympathized with her, taught her carefully, not guarded her, and told her many "truths", she might have been "willing" to be a great master who only taught theology.
"God, they are probably crazy. They actually want to become the masters of the world. For this reason, they are willing to spend hundreds of years to overthrow a dynasty, just so that God will not send down divine punishments and bear the consequences of karma, but they do not understand what prosperity means. It will eventually decline..."
Generous and warm palms stroked her soft fur. She raised her head and sat upright, looking up at the Master with her big clear eyes.
"Master, what is dominion?"
He avoided talking about it and only told her: "Life and death, prosperity, rise and fall, success and failure in the world are all determined. No matter how great a person is, he still needs to rely on the great luck of the environment. If you want to transcend that day, then It will inevitably suffer a backlash.”
"Master, is being a master a good thing? Why do they all want to be?"
Seeing that she insisted on asking what was good or bad, the fortune teller could only answer her directly: "Even life and death can be controlled by yourself. The rules of the world and the rise and fall of the world are all in your mind. Do you think it is good?"
He didn't say whether others thought it was good or not, but instead guided her to understand it.
The little Qingwu Shen thought about it for a while, and her thinking at that moment opened her spiritual wisdom, and her eyes had a different kind of light.
"I think... it sounds very good." Shen Suanzi looked into her eyes, and for a moment he didn't know whether to be happy or worried. He held her in his arms and whispered: "Shen'er, don't be too early. Wake up and close your eyes for a while. You are still too weak. It is not a good thing to have delusions too early.”
The young Qing Wu Shen nestled in Shen Shuanzi's arms and slowly closed her eyes. Her little hands unconsciously clutched the lapel of his clothes and murmured as if in a dream: "Shen'er will become stronger, one day..."< br>
Shen Suanzi stretched out one hand and held up her little face, which was sizzling with milk, because she fell asleep, and her little face was rosy.
He placed a gentle kiss on her forehead: "Okay, Master will protect you until that day comes."
The memory is yellowed, but Xu Shanshan has never forgotten it. She has an excellent memory since she was a child. Others don't remember what happened when she was young, but she remembers everything.
The only person she once trusted betrayed her, because she felt that she had no "heart" and didn't know what kindness was. If she got this world, she would definitely be in ruins.
"Who is it? Who is behind such a terrible plan?" The Empress Dowager held up her chair and stood up with a bang.
Even the "great national master" can create something. You can imagine how unfathomable the opponent is and how cruel his intentions are.
But Xu Shanshan still had the same normal expression, not realizing what kind of big secret he had revealed.
"There is no need for you to know this. After knowing my life experience, do you still think that I am doing this simply to restore peace and prosperity to this world?"
The Queen Mother sat back and looked at Xu Shanshan absentmindedly, as if she had never known her before, her pupils were shaking.
"Shen'er, even if your birth was a premeditated plan, you couldn't help but become the great national master, but you did it with intention. The Ai family has seen what you have done for the country over the years."
Although she spoke sincerely and firmly, Xu Shanshan could see through the wavering in her heart at a glance.
"I have protected your Yuan clan for a hundred years, and have been manipulated for a hundred years. From now on, I just want to do something I want to do."
The Empress Dowager’s eyes were complicated: “Do you want to be the master of this world?”
Xu Shanshan's face seemed to be covered with a layer of thick fog that lingered all year round. The closer the Empress Dowager got, the harder it became to see clearly.
"Since when did you start playing this big game of chess in the world?" the Empress Dowager asked again.
The corners of Xu Shanshan's mouth curved slightly, and the smile seemed to be a mockery of everything, but also seemed to be indifferent to everything in the world, making it impossible to distinguish the true meaning.
"The opportunity they have been waiting for is also what I am waiting for. Don't worry, the ruined national destiny will eventually be recovered by them. No one can escape the cycle of cause and effect."
The Queen Mother's body began to tremble unconsciously, her hands tightly grasping the corners of her clothes, her whole body seemed to have had her soul sucked out, and her eyes instantly dimmed.
"...I just want to ask you one last question, how did you manage to watch everything get to this point? Are you really powerless, or..."
Isn't she a victim?
No matter what she described about the past, or everything she had experienced, even being betrayed by the person she trusted most and losing everything she owned, she had to go through a lot of hard work to change a frail body against the will of heaven...
If all of this, all of this is just part of her long-term plan, to break free from the shackles of the past, to fight back and attract those who control, persecute, and take everything away from her, then does she really mean it? (End of chapter)