There were no stars or moon on a midsummer night, and the whole earth was shrouded in darkness, just like Nangong Ye's mood at this moment, gray and desperate.

During the day, Nangong Ye received a holy decree from the emperor, saying that he would demote him to a commoner, expel him from the palace, and never enter the palace again.

Perhaps such a punishment is indeed merciful to others, but it is the heaviest punishment for him, even more difficult for him to accept than a capital crime.

He wants to be the emperor, how can he accept the fate of the common people?

Nangong Ye felt that everything that had happened in the past few days was like a dream, coming and going in a hurry.

At the moment when he succeeded in plotting to usurp the throne, he once thought that his imperial dream could finally be realized, and from then on, everything in the Southern Spirit Kingdom belonged to him, and he would have supreme power and status.

When he finally caught Nangong Yi, he also thought that this time he would definitely be able to completely make him disappear from this world, and he would no longer have to worry about him competing with him for the throne.

It's just that he never thought that these things that seemed to be a foregone conclusion would suddenly change, and he didn't calculate that he would be planted in Ling Yufei's hands.

Now he really regretted marrying Ling Yufei as a concubine, he once thought that she was the legendary 'daughter' of the Mandate of Heaven and could help him compete for the throne, but now, not only did she not help him, but also betrayed him, leaving him with nothing.

Until now, Nangong Ye still didn't feel that what he did was wrong, he hated Ling Yufei, and hated Nangong Yi and Ling Yuwei even more, he thought that they killed his mother, and they also caused him to fall to such a point.

Before receiving the holy decree, Nangong Ye had already made up his mind in his heart that when he went out, he would definitely let Nangong Yi and them repay the pain he had suffered.

It's just that the arrival of the holy decree completely shattered his hopes, if he becomes a commoner and is never allowed to enter the palace again, then what is the meaning of his life?

Originally, he still wanted to make a comeback, but if he really became a commoner, those civil and military officials who were once surrounded by him, I am afraid that no one would be willing to serve him anymore, no matter how powerful he was, no one would help.

Nangong Ye's only wish in this life is to become the supreme monarch of Nanling Kingdom, and now that his hope is shattered, he doesn't know what the point of being alive is.

Rather than stealing life, it is better to die happily.

Nangong Ye thought like this, but he really felt that maybe death was a relief, anyway, he had nothing now, and even his mother, who loved him the most, had left him.

It's okay that he can reunite with his mother when he dies, and he will never be lonely again.

There was nothing left in the world that he was nostalgic for, and even if he still coveted the throne, he knew it would be a dream that would never come true.

The more Nangong Ye thought about it, the more desperate he became, and finally slowly took out the short sword he carried with him, the short sword that had been used to put it on the necks of Ling Yuwei and Nangong Jin'er to threaten Nangong Yi to be captured.

It is a great irony that he is now going to end his own life.

Nangong Ye laughed self-deprecatingly, laughing madly and desperately.

The sharp short sword slashed through the neck fiercely, and the blinding red blood gushed out, and Nangong Ye also slowly fell to the ground, with hatred and unwillingness, and closed his eyes forever.