New Year’s Eve should be a day of celebration and auspiciousness.

But the Qinghui Garden in the palace seemed to be shrouded in a layer of shadow, the chill penetrated the bones, and there was a suffocating atmosphere in the air.

The sudden appearance of Princess Lingxi revealed the emperor's cruel and despicable side!

As a dignified emperor, he actually used such despicable means to frame his own son and nephew.

Everyone present was shocked and looked at each other in horror.

For a moment, Qinghui Garden was completely silent.

In order to prepare for tonight's carefully planned layout, the emperor ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to summon all members of the royal family, so that those elderly and frail elders of the royal family who had not been seen for a long time would have to be summoned to attend the family dinner tonight.

The emperor originally wanted to label the cousins ​​Wu Tianxiao and Mu Rong as dissolute and immoral in front of everyone, so as to completely destroy their reputation in one fell swoop and prevent future troubles.

But now, the situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse, forcing him to have no way out.

A trembling figure slowly stood out.

This man was the late emperor's uncle, now in his seventies. He bowed slightly and said in a slow but powerful voice, "Your Majesty, is what this woman said true?"

The emperor's face darkened and he asked coldly, "Why? Prince Yong is doubting me?"

"Your Majesty... ahem, your Majesty has absolutely no such intention. If this woman dares to frame Your Majesty, your Majesty, I am willing to personally supervise the execution and execute such a person who speaks nonsense... But if what she said is true, ahem... Your Majesty must also give everyone the truth." Prince Yong said frankly.

The emperor put his hands behind his back, raised his head slightly, and a sneer appeared on his face: "What a joke! Why would I frame my own son? I..."

"That's because your Majesty thinks you have mastered the secret of immortality!" Princess Lingxi interrupted the emperor loudly, "You are greedy for the supreme power and want to monopolize the world forever! But Prince Ning is now very popular in the previous dynasty and has a very high reputation among the people. You are afraid that he will seize your throne one day, so you use this despicable method to try to destroy his reputation!"

"What nonsense!" The emperor was furious, veins popping out on his forehead. "Someone! Drag her away!"

"Your Majesty! Are you going to kill people to silence them?" Xu Rongrong spoke. She walked forward calmly and stood in front of Princess Lingxi.

The emperor's eyes were as cold as ice: "Ping An, this matter has nothing to do with you! Don't make a mistake!"

"How can it be unrelated?" Xu Rongrong continued to smile, "From what the princess just said, this matter not only concerns His Royal Highness Prince Ning, but also involves Marquis Weiyuan. Although Ping An was personally conferred the title of princess by His Majesty, she is also the wife of the Marquis. How can a wife sit idly by and watch her husband being implicated?"

"How dare you! How dare you disobey my order!" the emperor was furious.

"I dare not." Xu Rongrong changed her name. Although she bowed slightly, she looked directly at the emperor with burning eyes. "But this is about the innocence of the Marquis, I dare not be confused."

Although there were several people between the two of them, their tit-for-tat aura still made everyone around them feel a chill.

Even Princess Lingxi forgot her purpose for a moment and stared blankly at the confrontation in front of her.

Until Xu Rongrong turned to her and said: "Princess, if you have anything to say, you may as well speak in detail here. The clan members will surely be able to distinguish right from wrong."

Princess Lingxi took a deep breath and slowly untied her cloak.

Her arms and neck were covered with purple scars, new and old, which were shocking to the eye. One could tell at a glance what kind of abuse she had suffered.

"Your Majesty said that I have a body of the most yin element, and that I can help him achieve the art of longevity!" Princess Lingxi's voice trembled a little, "When I was still in my infancy, he canonized me as a princess in order to gain the trust of my father, and agreed that when I reached the age of 15, he would let me go to the capital to hold a 15-year-old ceremony in the palace!"

"For so many years, the gifts sent from the capital to the northern border have been very thoughtful, so my father never doubted your majesty's motives. He sent me to the capital when I grew up... But who would have thought that your majesty would detain me in the palace, control me with drugs, and force me to practice the longevity technique of replenishing yin and yang!"

The marks on her body, a mixture of old and new, were too painful to look at.

The concubine of the clan could not bear to watch this any longer. She hurried forward to put the cloak over her. She moved her lips, but due to the emperor's fascinating gaze, she could only stammer, "Child...be careful not to catch a cold."

The emperor's face was livid, and murderous intent was revealed in his eyes: "You are lying! How dare you slander me? It's really a waste of my painstaking efforts for the Northern Frontier! Someone come!"

"I didn't!" Princess Lingxi loudly refuted, "Your Majesty not only practices evil magic, but even...even sucks human blood to achieve immortality!"

Everyone gasped.

Although no one dared to speak, the silent communication between the eyes also made the emperor feel heartbroken.

The emperor waved his hand fiercely and shouted, "Where are the imperial guards? Capture this witch for me!"

However, the emperor gave several orders, but no one responded.

The imperial guards who were protecting the palace seemed to have disappeared without a trace.

The emperor was startled at first, then he suddenly laughed out loud, with a bit of madness: "I still underestimated you... What? Chu He, are you going to help Prince Ning rebel?"

"I dare not." Chu He walked in slowly from outside Qinghui Garden, his expression stern, "Your Majesty, I and the Imperial Guards also want to find out the truth of the matter."

For a moment, in Qinghui Garden, the emperor with a gloomy and angry face, Xu Rongrong and Princess Lingxi who stood side by side with firm eyes, and Chu He who was dressed in armor and ready for battle, the three parties were confronting each other, and it looked like a three-way confrontation.

The emperor looked at Chu He coldly, full of disdain: "Why should I explain my affairs to you? Chu He, do you think the entire palace is under your control?"

After that, he raised his head and said loudly: "Come here, take Chu He down!"

"Yes!"

In an instant, in the originally silent Qinghui Garden, countless bows and arrows appeared from rooftops, walls, treetops, etc., with arrowheads flashing coldly, and each one was aimed firmly at Chu He.

If he made the slightest movement, he would be shot into a hedgehog in an instant.

The emperor looked at Chu He's face with satisfaction, and said, "You don't think I will hand over the imperial guards to you without checking your past, do you? When you were in Jiangnan, you were hidden in the manor by Mu Rong, and then you entered the palace as a witness of the crown prince's manor. You don't really think you did it quietly, do you?"

After saying this, the emperor clapped his hands with a smile and said loudly: "Qiu Ran, show yourself!"

Before he finished speaking, a man in imperial armor strode over. He stood next to Chu He, his eyes full of disdain.

"Deputy Commander Chu, since we last met in Southern Xinjiang... I didn't expect you to have made such great progress."

Chu He looked at Qiu Ran in front of him, his whole body went cold, and his heart was filled with shock and fear - in Southern Xinjiang, Qiu Ran had clearly died under his sword, so why... was he here alive?

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