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Published at 7th of December 2021 02:43:48 PM


Chapter 294: 294

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Mo Shujun was mentally prepared. Even if Shi Junhe made an unreasonable and harsh demand, she would consider it as long as she could exchange it for Shi Lei’s skeleton.

Unexpectedly, Shi Junhe mentioned You Si’s cremains as soon as he spoke.

Mo Shujun pursed her lips and remained lofty and dignified. “I don’t know what you are talking about.”

She insisted on denying it.

Shi Junhe looked at Mo Shujun with his gloomy eyes. After a long while, he couldn’t help but laugh and shake his head, murmuring, “Aha! I am so stupid. Why do I still expect something from you? It’s…”

His voice was hoarse and feeble, and he stared at Mo Shujun deeply, gently speaking out a fact that both of them understood from their hearts but never said. “You hate me from the beginning, right? If not for Father, perhaps you wouldn’t have let me stay alive.”

Mo Shujun was exposed, and embarrassment flashed on her face, yet soon she returned calm and raised her chin slightly. “Since you know that I gave you a chance to stay alive and I was forced to raise you for so many years, you should be grateful to me. Do you understand?”

She took it for granted, as if to have mercy on him, and then she demanded, “As long as you give your father back to me, we are even.”

Shi Junhe was stunned. He had expected that Mo Shujun would be so obsessed with Shi Lei’s skeleton, which was what Mo Junyang taught him. It was the bargaining chip that he could negotiate with Mo Shujun when he had no advantage.

However, he couldn’t imagine anyway that Mo Shujun would be so shameless. Did she still think that she had raised him randomly and become his mother in name, so he would forget the evil things she had done and even be grateful to her and do everything for her?

Shi Junhe snorted and didn’t speak, while he looked at Mo Shujun coldly.

After all, Mo Shujun had lived with Shi Junhe for so many years, so she noticed his change at a glance. She felt nervous, but she still refused to admit defeat.

She arrogantly raised her head and questioned to forestall him by a show of strength, “What? Do you dare to disobey me? Don’t forget your identity.”

“Oh? What do you want me to do?” Shi Junhe lowered his head and asked impassively.

Only judging from this voice, it seemed that Shi Junhe really compromised.

Mo Shujun knew that it was not so simple, yet she was anxious to get back Shi Lei’s skeleton, so she didn’t care about so much and required again, “Don’t play dumb. Hurry up and give your father back to me.”

Shi Junhe looked up at Mo Shujun, with sympathy in his eyes, and he stressed each word to disillusion her. “Father is dead.”

Mo Shujun stiffened but soon asked calmly, “I know. I just want his skeleton. He is my husband. Do I request too much?”

“Do you know what is too much?”

Shi Junhe opened his mouth and almost blurted out to question Mo Shujun, yet when he looked at her face again which was calm and dignified in disguise, he just felt disappointed.

And it was unnecessary to question her.

He just pursed his lips coldly and mentioned what could hurt Mo Shujun without mercy. “But why have I heard that when Father was alive, the only woman he hoped to be buried with was my biologic mother You Si, not…”

“Shut up!” Mo Shujun got furious all of a sudden and interrupted Shi Junhe.

At the moment, she was like a cat whose tail was trodden, and she was in a rage instantly, even regardless of her dignity and etiquette. She just interrupted Shi Junhe and didn’t want to hear him reveal the hurtful truth.

However, Shi Junhe wasn’t frightened. After Mo Shujun lost temper, he continued, “Father hoped that you would be buried in the royal mausoleum after death.”

Shi Junhe didn’t understand in the past why his father made such a decision, but now he understood everything.

Perhaps it was true that Shi Lei and Mo Shujun loved each other. After all, they had been a couple for so many years. Even though it was not a beautiful story in the beginning, after they lived together for decades, it was enough to defuse most of the conflicts. However, till death, the woman that Shi Lei thought about every day was You Si.

Mo Shujun also knew this point probably, yet she was unwilling to accept the fact that she was not as important as a woman who had died decades ago to her husband, so she dug Shi Lei’s grave secretly.

On one hand, maybe it was because she really hoped to be buried with Shi Lei in the same grave after death as she slept with him when they were alive, while on the other hand, it was because she was jealous of You Si.

Mo Shujun glared at Shi Junhe resentfully and gritted her teeth. Nobody knew if she was angry because he revealed the truth or she hated the man who was unwilling to leave a spot next to him for her till death.

“So what even if what you said is true? Shi Lei is dead, and I am his official wife, so I qualify to be buried with him. Who was You Si? She was abandoned by him long ago and didn’t have the qualification…”

Mo Shujun almost screamed harshly. It seemed that the facts would be not true if she shouted loudly.

Shi Junhe quietly listened to Mo Shujun till she vented her anger, although he couldn’t help but get furious when he heard her belittle You Si.

“I think that you must be clearer about how you became Father’s wife than me, so I don’t need to repeat it.”

Mo Shujun still didn’t admit her fault until death. “So what? Anyway, as a result, your biological mother was abandoned, and I became your father’s official first wife. Only because of this, you should be respectful to me.”

“First wife?” Shi Junhe uplifted his brows and sneered, saying indifferently, “If I don’t misremember it, according to the laws of our country, you should be his second wife, right?”

“You!”

Mo Shujun was provoked, so the flame of her anger rose again.

However, before she vented her anger, somebody coughed suddenly in the next room.

Mo Shujun was stunned and then suddenly turned to the inner room. “Who is inside?”

Shi Junhe stepped forward and stopped Mo Shujun who wanted to rush in, saying calmly, “It happens that His Majesty has something important to discuss with me this morning, so he came to our mansion. He is in the study now…”

Didn’t Mo Xiangbin hear the conversation between them?

Mo Shujun felt cold all over and glared at Shi Junhe in disbelief.

She dared to come to Shi Junhe and ask him for Shi Lei’s skeleton mainly because she was sure that Shi Junhe didn’t want to reveal the family scandal. So what even if he knew the truth? He would never let others know this matter.

However, the fact was far beyond Mo Shujun’s expectation. Shi Junhe had revealed the news and even reported to the emperor.

Thinking that she had admitted earlier that she was not Shi Junhe’s biological mother, Mo Shujun didn’t have the courage to go up and lift the curtain.

However, she understood everything soon.

The emperor came to Duke Shi’s mansion, which was something significant, and it couldn’t and shouldn’t be a secret. They just had a plan earlier and waited for her to fall into a trap.

Mo Shujun goggled at Shi Junhe and rebuked in a low voice, “You are so despicable.”

Shi Junhe felt that he couldn’t face the word “despicable” for a period.

He looked at Mo Shujun calmly and smiled faintly. “What did you say? Do you have some secrets that His Majesty can’t know?”

Mo Shujun was nervous. When she knew that Mo Xiangbin was in the room, she wouldn’t be so stupid as to continue talking about the past with Shi Junhe.

She just expressed loftily, “I have a clear conscience, and there is nothing that I can’t say. But you didn’t tell me the big news that His Majesty would come to our mansion. Do you take me seriously?”

“Aunt, please don’t be mad. The thing that I will discuss with Junhe is confidential, so I told him not to tell anybody. Please forgive us.” Mo Xiangbin lifted the door curtain and walked out.

His reasonable words rendered Mo Shujun speechless before she reproached Shi Junhe.

Mo Shujun was so angry.

She finally realized that perhaps Mo Xiangbin sided with Shi Junhe this time. Even though she was the relative to the emperor, in the royal family, the interest stood for everything. For the interests, Mo Xiangbin could definitely abandon his aunt without hesitation, and she never expected him to help her.

“Your Majesty, it doesn’t matter. The state affairs are the most significant. Since you have something important to discuss with Junhe, I won’t disturb you.” Mo Shujun forced herself to respond and pretended to be completely indifferent.

When she was about to walk out, she heard Shi Junhe’s voice. “Your Majesty, the remains of my father and mother disappeared, and I can’t find them after a long time. Hope that you can allow me to have them buried together with fake bodies.”

Mo Xiangbin glanced at Mo Shujun’s back secretly and then asked slowly, “Have them buried together? If you just find your father’s skeleton in the future but can’t find your biological mother’s, what will you do?”

Shi Junhe seemed not to have seen that Mo Shujun stiffened and remained still, and he said directly, “My father’s only wish before death was to be buried with my mother. If we can’t do it, I believe that he doesn’t have other wishes. I will have his fake body buried just for a comfort.”

When they discussed this matter, they didn’t consider Mo Shujun, Shi Lei’s current wife from beginning to end.

If they thought it over, it was reasonable.

After all, Mo Shujun was still alive. Moreover, many people heard that Shi Lei wanted her to be buried in the royal mausoleum after death, and even the late emperor agreed.

However, Mo Shujun still couldn’t restrain her anger, nor did she care about the etiquette or dignity. She just yelled at Shi Junhe, “Why? I am his official wife. Why can the bitch be buried with him but I am abandoned by him even after he passed away?

“No way. I will never allow something like this to happen. Give Shi Lei back to me now. Otherwise, I will show no mercy.”

Mo Shujun’s eyes were dark and ferocious, with the determination to ruin both sides.

Anyway, the truth had been reported to the emperor, and she couldn’t hide it anymore, so she wouldn’t care about her dignity.

Shi Lei was hers, no matter if he was alive or dead.




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