Chapter 1295 - 1235: A Tiger Humbled by Dogs

Kiya returned, and the Queen Mother seemed to find a backbone, grabbing Kiya’s hand and accusing Night Owl of his crimes.

"...Gulit now listens completely to his cousin. They’ve teamed up and want to kill me."

"..."

"Later, I thought it over, and my fall from upstairs was suspicious.

The floor, always so clean, had pearls on it by chance. Just like that, I stepped on them and fell down the stairs...

It must have been Gulit and her cousin plotting against me... That man dislikes me and wants to kill me."

"..."

"Kiya, you’re finally back. If you hadn’t come back, I might have died here..." The Queen Mother looked at the cold and quiet palace with a heavy heart, "...Even if I die here and start to rot, no one would know."

"Mother, I’m back. I’ll take good care of you," Kiya, too, felt deeply saddened.

He truly didn’t expect his mother’s situation to be so tragic. He thought she simply fell down the stairs and hurt her leg.

"Kiya... thank goodness you’re still alive..."

The woman, who had been strong all her life, broke down and cried before her son after such a blow.

Kiya, having grown up, had never seen his mother cry like this.

"Mother, don’t cry. I’ve already driven them out of the Imperial Palace. No one can bully you anymore." Kiya took a handkerchief and gently wiped his mother’s tears.

"And that Gulit! Don’t let her go either! To think I treated her so well, yet she teamed up with her cousin against me." The Queen Mother was frustrated, regretting her poor judgment of character.

Kiya didn’t expect his mother’s news was so blocked, not knowing that Gulit and Moore were already dead.

"Mother, Gulit and Moore are dead."

The Queen Mother suddenly stopped speaking, staring blankly at her son, "What did you say?"

Kiya then relayed the incident about Gulit and Moore to his mother, "...I never thought Gulit would jump off a building..."

"Moore is dead too?"

"Yes."

The Queen Mother cried out, "My dear grandson..."

"..."

"That heartless woman Gulit, if she wanted to die, just die. Why take my dear grandson along? My poor Moore, he was still so young..."

Kiya watched his mother’s emotions spiral out of control. He originally wanted to tell her about Paige Desmond and the Princess but now dared not speak.

The two women harbored deep grievances; Paige Desmond appeared she would never forgive his mother, and the mother loathed Paige Desmond greatly as well. Kiya found himself caught helplessly between the two women.

"I want to see Moore!" the Queen Mother sobbed for a while and suddenly declared.

"Mother, Moore has already been buried."

"What did you say?"

Kiya didn’t want to discuss Moore with his mother. He said to her, "Mother, you rest for now, I have to attend a press conference and will come to see you later."

"..."

Kiya called out, "Sol, go and bring all the maids the Queen Mother was accustomed to using over here to tend to the Queen Mother!"

"Yes, Sultan!" Sol, who had been waiting outside, heard Kiya’s command and immediately went to find people.

The Queen Mother persisted, "Moore is the young Sultan. Even if he’s dead, he can’t be buried so casually. Why didn’t I hear the mourning bells ring in the Imperial Palace?"

In the Northwest corner of the Abyanabad Imperial Palace stands a clock tower, and when the Sultan passes away, the mourning bells are sounded 108 times, the resonant wailing echoes throughout the entire palace, audible to all.

"Mother, Moore was not my son." Kiya revealed this royal secret to the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother, once again stunned, looked at Kiya in shock. Kiya was serious, not joking at all.

"How is this possible?"

"Mother, it’s true."

The Queen Mother slumped down, "If Moore isn’t your child, then whose child is he?"

"Anyway, he’s not mine." Kiya showed no interest in whose child Moore was.

The Queen Mother closed her eyes, suddenly thinking of the obedient Gulit.

She didn’t have Paige Desmond’s stunning beauty nor her stubborn arrogance. Because of Paige Desmond, her former daughter-in-law who did not win her favor, the Queen Mother was greatly satisfied with the gentle Gulit.

She never expected that this apparently gentle woman would betray her son, giving the Royal Family a brutal slap in the face.

Fury choked the Queen Mother’s chest, causing her to cough up a mouthful of blood.

"Mother..."

"As the saying goes, ’A dog that bites doesn’t bark,’ how true that is." The Queen Mother laughed bitterly.

"Gary, call over the Royal Physician." Kiya commanded.

"Yes, Sultan."

Kiya wiped the blood from the Queen Mother’s mouth. Seeing her violent coughing, he helped her up and found her lying place was stained with blood, shocking Kiya.

"Mother, does your back hurt?"

"It hurt initially, but then there was no feeling... cough cough..."

At this moment, the doctor arrived, named Timna, over fifty years old, skilled in medicine, having worked for the Royal Family for decades.

"Sultan?" Timna looked at Kiya, equally incredulous.

"Timna, please examine my mother. She just coughed up blood... Also, why is my mother’s back bleeding?"

Timna glanced at the blood-spitting Queen Mother, suppressed the shock in his heart, and began treating the Queen Mother.

Kiya sat by the bed and let the Queen Mother lean against him as Timna examined her.

Timna cut open the Queen Mother’s clothing with scissors, revealing her back, which was crimson.

"What’s this?" Kiya was shocked to see his mother’s back, unable to believe what had happened to her to cause such torment.

Timna explained, "Due to the hot weather, the Queen Mother has been lying on the bed for a long time, causing heat rash. It eventually turned into blood blisters, broke, and resulted in this appearance.

Sultan, don’t worry. It only looks serious. Once the medicine is applied, she will recover in time."

"Then why is my mother coughing up blood?"

"That’s because the Queen Mother is emotionally suppressed, causing her blood and energy to stagnate, leading to the coughing up of blood. If she can ease her mind and carefully nurse herself, she will recover."

The Queen Mother sobbed, "You’re already in your thirties and still have no offspring, how can I feel at ease?"

"Mother, I still have Dylan, don’t I?"

"Didn’t that woman say that Dylan is not your child at all?"

The Queen Mother directly referred to Paige Desmond as "that woman," expressing her dislike for Paige Desmond, not liking her in the slightest.

"If Dylan is not my son, whose son is he?"