After reading my mind, Daddy, why don't you smile?

Emperor Jianxi delayed giving the order.

The Crown Princess knelt down and begged, "Your Majesty..." But before she could finish her words, she was stopped by the Crown Prince.

The prince shook his head at her.

The Crown Princess was puzzled.

The next second, Nanny Li beside Zhao Ying suddenly stood up and kowtowed to Emperor Jianxi, "Your Majesty, I have something to report!"

Emperor Jianxi: "Speak!"

"Your Majesty, my little lady was indeed born in the Year of the Dog, but she was not born at the end of the Chou hour, but at the third quarter of the Wei hour! So the evildoer in the stone seal is not referring to Miss Qingyue, but someone else!"

"Is this really true?" Emperor Jianxi looked shocked.

The prince standing by was impressed by his father's exaggerated acting skills.

Hu Yanxue refuted: "Impossible! You are lying!"

"How dare I lie to you? Besides, it's written on my birth chart. I dare not lie! But I remember that there is another person in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion who was also born in the year of the dog, and his birth chart says the hour of the ox and the quarter of an hour!"

"who is it?"

"The young lady is two years old this year. She was born in the year of the dog, so she should be fourteen, twenty-six..."

Mrs. Jinghou suddenly thought of something!

Here, Emperor Jianxi asked sternly, "Who is this person?"

Shangguan Shu closed his eyes silently.

Hu Yanxue wanted to stop her but couldn't. Nanny Li spoke faster than her hands, "This person is Princess Hu Yan!"

"You bullshit!"

"Your Majesty! I am not a monster. There must be something wrong with the stone seal!"

The Crown Princess smiled with a fake smile, "You keep saying that the stone seal contains the maxims of heaven and the warning from heaven, how can you be wrong?"

"It couldn't be you..." The Crown Princess suddenly realized, "It was you who deliberately framed Yue'er!"

"You know that you are a monster, but you put this title on Yue'er! Your Majesty! I have always felt that the predictions of Master Yuanzhuang and the Imperial Astronomical Observatory have some loopholes, especially after Princess Huai'an was harmed... If Yue'er is a monster, then how come the prince is fine, how come Princess Chengqian is fine? And Jinghui Temple far away in the capital caught fire!"

"If Princess Huyan is the evildoer, then everything makes sense!"

"Princess Huyan killed her mother and brought disaster to the Chu Kingdom!"

As soon as the Crown Princess finished speaking, all the officials and their families began to talk about it.

"Yes... The Imperial Observatory only said that a demon appeared in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, but did not specify who it was! Could it be true..."

"Ah! I just remembered that Hu Yanxue was at the same table with the old Duke, and then the old Duke fell ill. Could it be that..."

Everyone stayed away from Hu Yanxue as if she were the plague.

Hu Yanxue was speechless. She was panicking. She didn't understand why she was the one who pointed out Shangguan Qingyue. "Your Majesty, I'm not a monster! I'm not! Someone must have framed me!"

How could Emperor Jianxi listen to her excuses?

He asked Zhao Ying, who had been silent beside him, "Cheng Qian, you are her aunt, I believe you remember her birth date, but is it Chou Mo?"

Zhao Ying nodded and looked at Hu Yanxue worriedly.

"Xue'er, your aunt can't bully you in this kind of situation..."

"It's you! You are the one who slandered me, right? This mean slave is your nanny, and you ordered him to do it, right?!" Huyan Xue rushed towards Zhao Ying hysterically, but was restrained by the guards around Emperor Jianxi.

She collapsed and yelled, "Your Majesty! I am innocent. I was framed by Zhao Ying!"

However, no one present believed this statement.

Even the Cui and Lin families didn't believe it!

Because who is Zhao Ying?

Zhao Ying is the only legitimate daughter of the current emperor and the apple of the late queen's eye.

Princess Chengqian has never been competitive. You can say she is stupid, but you can never say that she has the intention to harm others, because everyone in the country of Da Chu knows that Princess Chengqian treats Princess Huaian's flesh and blood as her own.

Her own child has not yet had a title, but she asked her husband, who had an ambiguous relationship with Princess Huai'an, to ask for a title for someone else's child... How magnanimous is that?

When Princess Huai'an died, Princess Chengqian even gave away her own daughter.

When Hu Yanxue was conferred a title, Princess Chengqian took care of everything for her even though she was ill, and even gave her the phoenix hairpin of the late queen!

Even at this moment, when he was slandered by Hu Yanxue, he just looked at her with grief and did not say a word in rebuttal.

What's more, if Zhao Ying framed her, why would she want to smash the stone seal like a madman?

Upon hearing this, Nanny Li kowtowed and complained in tears: "Your Majesty, please understand! The princess has always regarded Princess Huyan as her own daughter. Even though she is ill, she still wants to host Princess Huyan's enthronement banquet!"

"Besides, the strange phenomenon from heaven cannot be faked. If Your Majesty has any doubts, you can torture the people who organized the banquet at the Zhenguo Mansion!"

To prove her innocence, Zhao Ying knelt down and swore, "I swear, if what happened today was done by me, I will be despised by my husband and live out my life in loneliness!"

Shangguan Shu's tall body shook, and he frowned and looked at Zhao Ying with a deep gaze.

Everyone was shocked. Everyone knew how deeply Princess Chengqian loved her husband, so why did she make such a solemn vow?

When Emperor Jianxi saw that everyone forced his daughter to swear in public, his face became extremely ugly.

Madam Jinghou couldn't stand it any longer and stepped forward to speak for Zhao Ying, "Princess Huyan, how can you slander your aunt like this? Everyone has seen how she treats you. I think she would rather be the monster than you!"

Hu Yanxue didn't know that their deception and concealment in the past had become a knife stabbing her today!

One person came out to speak for Zhao Ying, and several others spoke up for justice, exposing all of Huyan Xue's disrespectful behavior towards Zhao Ying.

By the end, Emperor Jianxi could no longer hold his temper.

Cheng Qian is his most beloved daughter, how could this barbarian be so rude!

"Wu Yonggui! Pass on my order! Hu Yanxue is a monster that brings disaster to the people. She is unfilial and disrespectful to Princess Chengqian. She does not need to be named a princess! Immediately depose her from her title of princess and demote her to a commoner! Considering her biological mother's contributions to the country, I will keep her body intact and grant her a white silk!"

Emperor Jianxi decided a person's life or death with ease.

Huyan Xue was completely dumbfounded and couldn't even cry.

Shangguan Shu knelt down and begged, "Your Majesty, please have mercy and spare Xue'er's life!"

Zhao Ying also knelt down, tears streaming down his face, "Father, if you want to punish someone, punish me and the prince together! My son and the prince have been harboring evildoers, so should we be punished together?"

All the officials gasped when they heard this. This, this, this... Isn't Princess Cheng Qian too easy to talk to?

Seeing this, Nanny Li became anxious, "Your Highness, what are you doing? Why do you need to plead for Hu Yanxue? She has always been disrespectful to you, Your Highness doesn't owe her anything!"

Zhao Ying shook her head. "That's not the way it should be said. After all, she is...Huai'an's daughter..."

As soon as Zhao Ying finished speaking, Shangguan Shu's body suddenly stiffened.

Then, he looked at Zhao Ying, his eyes were full of inquiry, heaviness, and imperceptible emotions...

He whispered, "Princess, why are you doing this?"

Zhao Ying looked at him and lowered her head, "I know you doubt me. I am not doing this for you, but for Huai'an. Huai'an is my only sister. If anything happens to Xue'er, Huai'an will not be able to bear it... cough cough." Zhao Ying's face turned pale and he coughed twice.

Guilt filled Shangguan Shu's body. He stared at Zhao Ying blankly, unable to utter a word.

He suspected Zhao Ying.

From the moment the emperor arrived, he had a premonition that this was a trap, and the one who could set this trap... Zhao Ying had both the ability and the intention.

But he was just suspicious. After all, in his memory, Zhao Ying did not have such deep scheming and cunning.

What's more, she was sick and took care of Hu Yanxue, and the illness was caused by him...

Now it seems that maybe...it really was an accident...

But what if it was an accident?

Hu Yanxue cannot die!