Feng Wuya, upon hearing this, angrily raised his hand and grabbed Granny Ni by the neck.
"You dare threaten me?"
"Your servant... your servant is not... threatening, your servant... is merely speaking... the truth."
Granny Ni immediately lost the ability to breathe, and soon, her eyeballs almost bulged out.
She was truly suffocating.
"Wuya, killing her is useless. She's just telling you the facts."
Consort Yu walked behind him and said hoarsely, "Wuya, Chu Qianli's charm technique can only be broken by me."
"What exactly do you want!"
Feng Wuya threw his hand, and Granny Ni flew out diagonally, falling to the ground.
But she quickly got up, wiped the blood from the corner of her lips, and returned behind Consort Yu.
Consort Yu said, "Wuya, promise me you'll live well, and I'll break Chu Qianli's charm technique for you."
"Otherwise?" he asked through gritted teeth.
Consort Yu remained serene, her voice still gentle, but her words were unspeakably cruel:
"Otherwise, she will remain trapped in nightmares, never to wake, until she dies of excessive grief and pain."
Feng Wuya's fingertips trembled.
His gaze at Consort Yu was so complex that he himself couldn't understand it.
Consort Yu knew that her son had truly despaired of her.
But she had no other way.
As long as her son could live, she didn't care how he viewed her.
"Wuya, if you calm down, Mother Consort will go with you to wake up Little Lier, alright?"
Feng Wuya looked at her.
The way she called her "Little Lier" was so intimate, yet she had done such cruel things to A'Li.
"She still has to participate in Fourth Brother's selection of consorts..."
Did Mother Consort have even a shred of pity for A'Li when she did this?
When A'Li woke up, how would she face all this?
How much pain would she be in?
"She won't be selected. Everyone in the royal family, including your Fourth Brother, won't let her be selected."
The current agreement to let Chu Qianli participate was merely out of respect for Old Master Qin. Who didn't know this?
But Chu Qianli had demanded the annulment of the engagement in the great hall. Her actions had long angered the entire royal family.
No one would allow her to be selected. This participation in the selection was merely asking for trouble and humiliation.
"You know very well that if she continues to participate in the selection, she will only end up hurt. Why bother?"
"That is A'Li's own choice!" Feng Wuya said coldly.
No matter what the final outcome, it was her own choice.
At least, they should all respect her, even if they knew she would fail, they should respect her.
That was her freedom!
But Mother Consort had stripped away her rights with her own hands. Why did Mother Consort feel no guilt at all?
Why was her heart still as cold as ice and as hard as iron as it was over ten years ago?
"Wuya, if you're afraid she'll be sad, you can choose not to tell her about this."
Consort Yu walked up to him, her voice even softer. "Let her taste the bitterness of failure herself, and then her heart will truly break."
Feng Wuya remained silent.
He didn't want to deprive A'Li of her right to choose, but he also didn't want her to suffer from failure.
Before last night, although he liked this little girl, he never thought too much about it.
Because she was Fourth Brother's woman.
But after last night, he and she... suddenly, this girl became his responsibility.
He hadn't yet adapted to all of this.
"Wuya, whether to tell her about last night, Mother Consort won't interfere with you. However, the priority is to wake her up first."
"Otherwise, she will be constantly tormented by nightmares and immersed in her own pain. That feeling must be unbearable."
Feng Wuya closed his eyes tightly, took a deep breath, and then turned to walk towards the sleeping quarters.
Granny Ni glanced at Consort Yu.
Consort Yu said, "Let him choose for himself. I can't control what happens to Chu Qianli, but at least Wuya now knows that his life is linked to Chu Qianli, and he won't easily give up his own life."
Their Wuya was pure and kind. If he weren't ill, how perfect a man he would be!
Consort Yu walked beside Feng Wuya, following him into the sleeping quarters.
Chu Qianli still hadn't woken up. As Consort Yu had said, she was tormented by nightmares, immersed in her own pain, unable to break free.
Even tears hung from the corners of her eyes.
This was the first time Feng Wuya had seen Chu Qianli so fragile and in pain.
In the past, no matter what difficulties this little girl faced, she would calmly endure.
But he didn't know that, deep down, she also held so much hidden pain.
"Last night..." He walked to the bedside and sat down, wanting to hold her hand and give her some strength.
But he dared not.
Turning back, Feng Wuya listened to Consort Yu. Although he was angry, his face couldn't help but blush slightly.
"Last night, did I... do anything shameless... to A'Li?"
He couldn't remember. After drinking the ginseng tea brought by Tie Xin last night, he had fallen into a daze.
In his dream, there was something soft beside him.
He instinctively embraced it.
When he woke up, he found himself holding A'Li, whose clothes were disheveled.
As for anything else, he had no recollection.
Feng Wuya had no experience in matters between men and women and didn't know if he had done anything outrageous to A'Li.
Looking at Chu Qianli now, his heart was filled with guilt.
"Last night, I only administered the鸳鸯蛊 (Mandarin Duck Gu) to you. As for what happened afterward, Wuya, you should know better than I do."
Consort Yu also walked over, took Chu Qianli's hand, and squeezed it tightly.
At such a young age, she carried so much sorrow.
She looked at Feng Wuya, "However, you know in your heart that whether you did anything or not, you have already held her."
Feng Wuya's entire body stiffened.
Although Consort Yu's words were unpleasant, they were the truth.
He and A'Li had spent last night in the same bed, and he had even held her in her disheveled state...
Just this fact alone was a betrayal of A'Li and also of Fourth Brother.
His large palms clenched tightly.
His gaze at Consort Yu was no longer filled with hatred, but with a complete lack of emotion.
She had actually plunged him into this abyss.
This was his own mother.
Consort Yu didn't care what he thought of her. Now that things had come to this, as long as he could live, that was enough.
"Move aside a little. I will break the charm technique for her."
Upon hearing this, Feng Wuya immediately stood up and stepped aside.
Consort Yu clasped Chu Qianli's hand, intertwining their fingers. A cold internal force surged from her palm into Chu Qianli's body in a unique manner!
Feng Wuya stood guard, watching the entire time.
He thought Chu Qianli would wake up soon, but after waiting for a while, he saw Consort Yu's eyes suddenly widen.
Her expression changed, and she suddenly opened her mouth and vomited a mouthful of blood!