The room remained silent for a long time.
Hua Rong was likely angry, her expression grave.
After a long while, she heavily slapped the edge of the bed and exclaimed angrily, "Did Chu Qianli tell you? In your heart, you don't have your own mother!"
Feng Yexuan pursed his lips, lowered his gaze, and withdrew his sight.
Hua Rong raged, "You believe everything she says, but you don't believe a single word your mother says!"
Hua Rong stood up, her body swaying precariously.
Nanny Cui quickly supported her, "Madam, your health..."
"My health is fine, I am perfectly fine!"
Hua Rong glared at Feng Yexuan, who was still kneeling by the bed, her gaze gradually turning cold and ferocious.
"I... am perfectly fine! I am not afraid of you, an unfilial son, colluding with others to bully me!"
"Madam, how could His Highness collude with outsiders to harm you? He wouldn't!"
Nanny Cui looked at Feng Yexuan's stiff and cold back and urged, "Your Highness, tell her, won't you?"
Feng Yexuan's eyes lost any remaining luster, his voice faint and light, but at least respectful, "Your son would not."
Hua Rong's anger subsided slightly.
Looking at his profile, she wanted him to get up and speak, but she was still too angry.
Her son was never like this before; when he was little, he listened to her the most.
Now, it was all because of Chu Qianli that her son had become like this!
Indeed, what the world said was right: once you have a wife, you no longer have a mother!
She snorted coldly, "Chu Feiyan is here. You will get along well with her during this period. We will need Prince Yu's help in the future!"
Prince Yu had long harbored ambitions against the Emperor of Nanming. For their mutual benefit, they would surely hit it off.
Feng Yexuan remained silent.
Hua Rong knew what he was thinking, and she didn't want to argue with him at this moment.
After all, he was her son.
"Xuan'er, Mother... actually knows very well that Mother cannot always be by your side."
Feng Yexuan closed his eyes, a sharp pain flashing through his heart.
Hua Rong continued, "Mother's greatest wish is to see you reclaim this empire. Whoever can help you is Mother's good daughter-in-law. Mother will not deliberately make things difficult for any particular woman, do you understand?"
Chu Qianli's greatest mistake was not being able to wholeheartedly help them.
If she were willing, Hua Rong might not have resisted her so much.
"Xuan'er, Chu Feiyan is your best choice now. Prince Yu has vast influence, and he also intends to win you over. This is an excellent opportunity."
"As for Chu Qianli..."
Hua Rong did not finish her sentence.
It was not yet time.
Chu Qianli would soon have nothing, and she would be of no value!
Looking at her most proud son, Hua Rong softened her voice again.
"Mother has never lived for herself in this life. Even if Mother's time is short, Mother doesn't care."
She sighed softly, her gaze on her son, yet it seemed to look through him, at someone else.
"Mother only wishes to see with her own eyes you take back everything he has. Only then, even if Mother dies, she will have no regrets."
Feng Yexuan still did not speak, his words stuck in his throat, unable to utter a single sound.
He could not choose his birth, and thus, could not choose his life.
His wish to live a quiet life, to be happy and free with someone, was destined to be unfulfilled the day his mother returned.
His gaze fell on some unseen corner, all the dim light converging into a single point, gradually forming a face.
A face that he could not forget.
But when he reached out, wanting to touch this face.
In just an instant, her face disappeared.
The last glimmer in his eyes completely dimmed...