The protagonist of this crossover film and television series is disrupting the plot again.

Chapter 543 Joy of Life 99

This trust is not just a dependence, but also a taken-for-granted expectation.

For him, Chen Pingping was supposed to be loyal to him; betrayal was absolutely impossible.

However, at this moment, Chen Pingping ruthlessly tore apart this carefully maintained facade, completely shattering the "loyalty" that Emperor Qing firmly believed in.

The seemingly unbreakable trust between the ruler and his subject was actually a carefully woven lie, concealing a deadly poison that was waiting to devour his life.

Even though Emperor Qing had a premonition of Chen Pingping's possible betrayal, when the moment actually arrived, he still found it difficult to bear the shock of such a huge emotional gap.

At this moment, he was no longer the emperor who planned and controlled everything, but just a loser betrayed by his most trusted subordinate.

Even though he stood at the pinnacle of power, everything beneath his feet had begun to crumble.

"As expected, everything that has happened in Kyoto recently was your doing!" Emperor Qing stared coldly at Chen Pingping, his eyes filled with a chilling light, as if he were looking at a dead man.

“That’s right! This servant just wants to see His Majesty abandoned by all and ultimately left with nothing.” Chen Pingping seemed to be enjoying the moment when Emperor Qing broke down emotionally.

Once Emperor Qing's anger subsided slightly, Chen Pingping's lips curled into a cold smile again as he continued:

"You want to use the Second Prince to temper the Crown Prince's character and abilities, which is essentially to make the two brothers fight each other and kill each other, and I am just going with the flow."

"As for the Crown Prince's affair... hehehe!" Chen Pingping chuckled: "The Crown Prince had long harbored feelings for the Princess, but he did not express them due to etiquette. I merely added a little something when the two met, which led to this 'romantic affair'."

"But speaking of which, His Majesty's assassins must have succeeded, right?" His tone was somewhat mocking, but it only made Emperor Qing's face darken further.

Emperor Qing looked at the person in front of him with disgust, as if he were looking at a monster, wishing he could tear him to pieces on the spot.

Based on his previous speculations, Emperor Qing had long suspected that Lin Ruofu and Eunuch Hou had stumbled upon the Crown Prince's affair, and that there might be other hidden motives behind it, most likely the work of Chen Pingping.

But to his utter surprise, Chen Pingping actually facilitated the development of the relationship between the Crown Prince and Li Yunrui.

"Shameless! You eunuch deserve to die! Why did you do this? Was it just because of Ye Qingmei?" Emperor Qing was furious, his voice filled with accusation.

"Correct!"

Chen Pingping looked directly at Emperor Qing with his head held high and said without showing any weakness, "Ye Qingmei eliminated those two princes, helped you ascend the throne, helped you stabilize the court, and amassed all the wealth of the world for Qing Kingdom, making it a great power in the world. She did so much for you, but in the end you killed her."

Emperor Qing's face turned ashen, and he denied it through gritted teeth: "I did not kill her!"

"You killed her!" Chen Pingping's voice was icy, and his tone was extremely firm.

"I did not!" Emperor Qing emphasized again.

Seeing that Emperor Qing still refused to admit to killing Ye Qingmei, Chen Pingping couldn't help but sneer repeatedly: "The massacre at Taiping Villa was ostensibly a noble uprising led by the Empress's family, and it was all a coincidence. But in reality, it was the result of your meticulous planning!"

"Without your meticulous arrangements, how could I, Fan Jian, Wu Zhu, Fei Jie, and even Ye Zhong, all have been so conveniently absent? At that time, the only one who could control the situation in Kyoto was Qin Ye, a veteran of three dynasties from the Qin family. If it weren't for his tacit approval, who else could have stirred up trouble in Kyoto?"

"And the Qin family... has always been His Majesty's trusted confidants!"

Chen Pingping glanced at Emperor Qing with sarcasm and continued, "Back then, when I led the Black Riders to massacre all the noble forces, including the Empress's maternal family, you must have been very happy, right? At the same time, we eliminated Ye Qingmei and also wiped out those relatives of the empress, killing two birds with one stone."

"And the Qin family! They were the only family to survive that massacre, so while you trusted the Qin family, you also wanted to get rid of them. So you hinted to Ye Yun to send the evidence of the Qin family's crimes to the Supervisory Commission, wanting to use me to get rid of the Qin family and completely cover up the truth of the massacre."

At this point, Chen Pingping's voice suddenly rose, each word piercing Emperor Qing like a knife: "You're the one who killed Ye Qingmei! You took advantage of her being at her weakest when she was giving birth to your child, and used that idiot Empress to kill her."

"..."

Emperor Qing's eyes flickered, and under Chen Pingping's accusations, a faint pain quietly rose in the deepest part of his heart.

The image of that woman involuntarily flashed through his mind. However, he quickly shook off this emotion, suppressing the turmoil in his heart, and coldly retorted, "You only talk about how much she has done for me, but why don't you mention what I have done for her?"

"She said she wanted reforms, so I followed her advice and changed the system; she said officials needed oversight, so I defied my father's pressure and established the Censorate. I agreed to all her demands, but how did she treat me in return?"

At this point, Emperor Qing's voice suddenly turned sinister: "She made me cultivate the domineering true qi, but concealed the drawbacks and solutions of this technique."

Back when I was still the Crown Prince, I led an army to conquer the Great Wei. Before the war even officially began, the domineering true energy within me suddenly went berserk, severing all the meridians in my body, leaving me a cripple who could neither speak nor move!

At that time, Emperor Qing was still the crown prince. He led his army to attack the Great Wei. Compared with the Great Wei, the Qing Kingdom was already at a disadvantage. In addition, his commander-in-chief suddenly became a cripple, leaving the army leaderless. The Qing Kingdom's army was quickly torn apart by the Great Wei and was completely routed.

In the critical moment, it was Chen Pingping who led the Black Riders on a long-distance raid to rescue the seriously injured Emperor Qing from the midst of the army.

After this epidemic, Chen Pingping and the Black Knights became famous throughout the world.

It was precisely because of this shared hardship that the suspicious Emperor Qing began to trust Chen Pingping, while also developing suspicions about Ye Qingmei.

There's no other reason than that the experience was simply too unforgettable.

Emperor Qing was confident in his own mental fortitude, but when all his meridians were severed and he couldn't even move a finger, he had the thought of suicide several times.

However, his paralysis has deprived him of even the ability to end his own life.

So he gritted his teeth and endured it, day after day, until he finally survived the darkest and most desperate period.

Memories flooded back, causing Emperor Qing to close his eyes.

After a long silence, he opened his eyes again and uttered a few words from his tightly pursed lips: "It was I who killed her."

Chen Pingping lowered her eyes, and then heard four more words coming down from above:

"So what?"