When Shi Yi thinks about Xianyu, someone always comes to disturb her.

Amitabha! It’s all fate!

If one wants to investigate the affairs of Prince Shou's Mansion, one will find no place to look. All the people and matters are clearly laid out there. Perhaps it has reached the point where there is no need to hide anything.

A simple check will reveal what Qiao Niang has done.

Prince Shou looked at the investigation results in disbelief. How dare Qiao Niang attack her only legitimate son and poison him? Ever since the child came back from the mountain, Qiao Niang had been ordering people to poison him.

No wonder the child's temperament changed drastically, he should have known about it, right?

How much that child must hate his father!

Prince Shou hurried to Qiaoniang's room. This was originally Jiang's bedroom. How dare she move here? It turned out that this woman had been so presumptuous in the backyard.

Jiang's courtyard was far away from Prince Shou's own courtyard, and neither of them wanted to see each other. Unexpectedly, this gave Qiao Niang an opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

He rushed in angrily. Qiao Niang was smiling happily as she was being flattered by several concubines. Prince Shou slapped the woman, who was still sitting in the main seat and hadn't reacted, to the ground.

Her hair bun was loose, and all the pearls and jade on her head were scattered all over the floor.

Everyone else in the room was so scared that they quickly knelt on the ground, covered their mouths tightly with their hands and dared not make a sound.

Prince Shou pointed at Qiao Niang with a shaking hand and said, "Who gave you the courage to murder the prince's legitimate son?"

Qiao Niang was confused at first, but after hearing what Prince Shou said, she knew that he had checked on her, and she looked relieved.

She laughed creepily: "Who gave me the courage? Wasn't it you? How dare I, a little girl with no one to rely on, take action against the daughter and grandson of the Jiang family? It's you who backed me up behind the scenes!"

Prince Shou widened his eyes in disbelief and retorted loudly: "You are talking nonsense. When did I ever let you harm my wife and son?"

Isn’t it too late to remember that Jiang is your wife now?

Qiao Niang looked up at him and said, "No? You rewarded me for my first conflict with Jiang. I was very happy to see you!"

Prince Shou glared at Qiao Niang with a dark face. Why did he think this woman was well-behaved and obedient before?

This is clearly a poisonous snake!

Qiao Niang looked at this arrogant man, the man she had spent her entire youth trying to please. Seeing his current anger, she suddenly felt very proud.

She struggled a bit and stood up, straightened her clothes, fixed her hair, and said calmly:

"Your Majesty, you should know that I have always acted according to your wishes. In the past, you looked down on the serious Jiang and disliked his lack of respect for you, so I helped you remove the person who was in your eyesore. How can you regret it now?"

She put her hand on her beaten cheek, her eyes fierce:

"As for that rebellious son, he should have gone to accompany his mother earlier. I did this for their own good. I was just afraid that Your Highness would not be able to accept it for the time being, so I had someone use a slow-acting poison. You see, how considerate I am. I always put Your Highness' feelings first."

She changed into her charming and lovely appearance again and acted coquettishly with Prince Shou, not caring at all about his ugly expression.

"Otherwise, I would have used a strong poison to kill him. It's not that difficult. Why waste so much time and energy fighting him? It's all for you, Your Majesty!"

Prince Shou looked at this crazy woman with disappointment in his eyes: "Isn't what I've given you enough? How dare you covet things that don't belong to you."

Qiao Niang sat back in the main seat, straightened her clothes and said, "My Lord, since you have already given me so much, this last one won't be a problem."

Prince Shou straightened his back and said through gritted teeth: "You are wishful thinking. The successor to the palace can only be Jiang's son." It would be impossible to change it to anyone else.

The reason why Jiang's family did not make a big fuss over the years is that they were waiting for the position of heir to fall into their own family. If it were anyone else, the Jiang family would definitely not let it go.

Big families care about interests. They can tolerate losing a daughter, but if Jiang's family loses their position of power, they will immediately turn against them.

The reason why the palace can stand firm here and remain rich and prosperous even after losing its military power is because of the protection of the Jiang family. Prince Shou knows this clearly.

So he doesn't have the final say on who will be the heir. The position is his no matter whether the child fights for it or not. This stupid woman still thinks she has a sure win.

Qiao Niang laughed indifferently: "Your Highness, you can only pass the position to my son, because Jiang's son will soon be poisoned. He will first become disabled, and then slowly die in pain, haha..."

Qiao Niang couldn't help laughing. She had waited for this day for too long. Finally, the day had come. She wanted to see who the prince would choose if not her son when she was the only son left in the palace.

He has no other choice! Haha!

Prince Shou looked at Qiao Niang with a strange expression, and he snorted and laughed:

"Qiao Niang, if you had always been so well-behaved, I might not mind leaving more property to you and your mother, so that you could live a comfortable life in the future. I didn't expect that you would insist on going down a dead end. I don't like Jiang, but you see why I don't just get rid of her, because... I don't dare!"

Prince Shou seemed to have taken off his disguise, and it was easier for him to say the following words: "Do you think the Jiang family will not investigate Jiang's death? I used Jiang's son to buy you a chance to continue living."

He laughed miserably, pointing at Qiao Niang and cursing:

"As a result, you, a fool, stretched out your claws to him. If anything happens to him, the Jiang family will not let you go. Now you are not far from death! You and your son can't escape!" Of course, he probably won't end up well.

A trace of panic flashed across Qiao Niang's face, and she muttered, "Impossible! Impossible..." She thought that after Jiang died, the Jiang family did not make any big moves, so she thought that the Jiang family had given up on their daughter. After all, the person was dead.

She didn't know that the Jiang family's butcher knife had been so close to her. It was the prince who took it all for her. She stood up and threw herself at the feet of the prince, hugged his thighs and cried:

"My Lord, my son is also your son. He is the healthiest child now. Our palace can only rely on him in the future. You must protect him."

At worst, I can just stop living here and move away. Wouldn’t it be nice to leave the Jiang family’s sphere of influence?

Prince Shou closed his eyes and shook his head, saying, "I can't save you. I can't even save myself. Haha! You'd better stop dreaming."

Women have long hair but little knowledge. He, the Prince of Shou, cannot leave the south. If he leaves here, more people will die.

Only the south needs a prince to guard it, representing the face of the court.