"Close his eyes."
At those words, the eunuch immediately moved, silently saying, Your Majesty, forgive this old servant.
He raised his hand to cover the old emperor's eyes. The air around them was chillingly cold.
With a clatter, a figure hurried into the hall. The woman wore white palace robes and a strip of white cloth tied around her forehead, her makeup streaked by tears.
"Your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty, how could you leave me?"
The eunuch immediately withdrew his hand and lowered it to his side, stepping aside as he offered words of comfort.
"Your Majesty, the emperor has already passed. You must take care of yourself. If he saw you like this, I fear he would be unable to rest in peace!"
Those words were loaded with sarcasm, yet no one listening could find anything wrong with them, especially the grief-stricken Empress.
"Shut up! He couldn't possibly leave just like that. He promised... he promised he wouldn't go before me!"
The Empress rushed to the imperial bed as though she had lost her mind. Her thin hands reached for the old emperor, clutching the front of his robes as she tried to lift him off the bed. Seeing this, the eunuch immediately stepped forward to stop her.
"Your Majesty, please accept your loss. You mustn't treat the emperor this way."
The Empress shoved the eunuch aside, her voice rising several pitches. "What kind of worthless dog are you? You dare stop even me?"
"He was definitely killed by you worthless dogs!"
At that, the Empress fixed her bloodshot eyes on Chu Xuanzhen and cursed viciously, "It was you, you damned bastard! You killed His Majesty! You deserve to die! You must be buried with him!"
With that, the Empress swung the hand that had clutched the old emperor's robes