Gu Yin sat down beside the Empress Dowager, her movements gentle as she tidied her hair. The deep affection in her eyes was unmistakable.
"What did you just mean? Explain yourself!" Yu Jingchen could no longer tolerate it.
"You want to know that badly? Then let me ask you, do you want to know more about the beginning and end of this matter, or do you want the Empress Dowager to be more at peace?" Gu Yin's mockery was undisguised towards Yu Jingchen.
"Can you do it? Can you save the Empress Dowager?" Yu Jingchen was somewhat doubtful.
"His Majesty need not worry about that. Even if I die, I will not let her leave like this." Gu Yin did not seem flustered. Yu Jingchen was half-believing, half-doubting. At this moment, he could not think of any other way.
Gu Yin gave the Empress Dowager a pill, which slowly melted in her mouth. Seizing the moment, Gu Yin looked back at Yu Jingchen, "His Majesty wants to know what's going on, right? Alright, I'll tell you."
"I suppose His Majesty has remembered the memories of the second life, besides the first, right?" Gu Yin spoke to herself. Yu Jingchen was not surprised that Gu Yin knew this.
"I have loved Yin'er for a long time, since I was six or seven years old. She saved me, she gave me hope, and that's how I survived that winter. From birth, I was an anomaly in everyone's eyes, treated as a monster. Everyone who got close to me met a bad end. I was abandoned, and I experienced despair. After meeting Yin'er, I always strived to become powerful. She was the first person I wanted to protect."
"It is truly a great pity that Yin'er fell in love with the late emperor and entered the palace. If she were happy, it would be fine, but that dog emperor never truly loved her. I put all my effort into reaching a high position just to be able to help her and protect her." Gu Yin seemed to be talking about trivial matters, and Yu Jingchen frowned upon hearing these words but did not interrupt.
"Perhaps it is because of my innate abilities that I knew she had a destined tribulation. Even though I tried my best to help her avoid it, I still could not protect her. After she left in the first life, she returned to her hometown. That was arranged by me, because the environment there was special, allowing me to see her again."
"And I did see her. In the years after she left, none of you knew. She remained in the State Preceptor's mansion, always by my side. She understood everything that happened with you afterwards. She hated you and was very unwilling, so she asked me to help her, and thus came the second life."
"In the second life, Yin'er always wanted revenge. She wanted to make you regret it, to retaliate against you, and to change the final outcome for the Nan family and Nan Zhiyun. So, from the very beginning, she was planning how to completely bring you down. She was thinking about how to make you truly feel heartbroken."
"Therefore... she thought of making you lose your beloved, making you a prisoner, making your empire fall into the hands of another. Perhaps these were the things that would cause you the most pain. So she designed it so that you would develop different feelings for Nan Zhiyun. That way, after you fell in love with Nan Zhiyun, she would also ensure you could never win your beloved's heart, making you taste the same feelings that Nan Zhiyun experienced in her previous life."
"Not only that, but she also persuaded Nan Su to join forces with Yu Jing'an to overthrow the court." Gu Yin spoke these words with a deep look in her eyes.