The mention of past events made Empress Dowager Hui's face even paler.
"You strangled her alive and then personally buried her in the soil of Plum Garden. Yet you told my father she had eloped with a guard. My father didn't believe it and sent people to find her, so you killed the ones my father dispatched. My father, who was gravely ill, never received news of my mother and passed away in anguish. Then you couldn't tolerate me. Had I not fled quickly, I'd also be an unknown skeleton in some forest, wouldn't I?"
In the past life, Empress Dowager Hui didn't kill him in Beiyang, instead sent people to Zhen An Prefecture to assassinate him.
When the assassination failed, she sent people to lure him back to Beiyang.
Eventually, through collusion with others, he died from a betrayal in Beiyang.
But in this life, it's his turn to decide everyone's fates.
