After I disguised myself as a man, I became everyone's white moonlight

Zhou Hanjin was distracted.

He panicked and his hands, which were tightly pinching His Majesty's neck, began to tremble slightly.

It was this small action that allowed Zhou Yichen to see the flaw and take advantage of it.

He winked at the secret guard closest to Zhou Yichen's right hand. Upon seeing this, the secret guard quickly attacked, thrusting his sword from bottom to top.

A fierce cut was made on the inside of Zhou Hanjin's right arm, and the bright red blood quickly soaked his clothes.

Zhou Hanjin let go of his hand in pain. Seeing this, His Majesty couldn't wait to escape.

As a result, one of them lost his balance and fell back, falling on Zhou Hanjin.

Zhou Yichen, "......"

Zhou Hanjin curled his lips in a mocking smile, and glanced indifferently at his father who fell back on him.

He ignored the wound on his arm and said, "Look, such a person can actually sit on the throne. Don't you think it's ridiculous?"

When Zhou Yichen heard this, his eyes indeed fell on his father who was being strangled by Zhou Hanjin again.

Although Zhou Hanjin wanted to delay time, he had a point of view that Zhou Yichen agreed with.

As a king, their father did not have any of the virtues of a wise ruler, but instead had all the shortcomings of a foolish ruler.

No wonder Zhou Hanjin's eyes were filled with unconcealed mockery whenever he mentioned his father.

"Let him go. The coup you initiated has been controlled by my people. Even if you successfully take him hostage and walk out of the palace and leave the capital, you will be wanted. You will be displaced and fleeing for the rest of your life."

Zhou Yichen did not exaggerate, so this is all good.

The most likely scenario is that Zhou Hanjin will not be able to escape for long before he is caught by the searching yamen runners and sent back to the capital to be dealt with personally by his father.

If the emperor might have spared his life out of the little remaining father-son relationship, he would have imprisoned him in the clan house for life.

After Zhou Hanjin attacked him mercilessly and left several wounds on his body, His Majesty, with his petty and suspicious nature, would certainly not let Zhou Hanjin go easily.

The death penalty can be avoided, but the prince's title can be stripped away and being demoted to a commoner is inevitable.

As a member of the royal family, Zhou Hanjin grew up in the palace and witnessed too many intrigues.

He knows better than most ordinary people what the consequences of falling from the altar and being hated by the emperor are.

Those were days more painful than death.

"I would rather live like that than stay here, Zhou Yichen, don't you know better than me what it feels like to be hated by him and to be bullied by the palace eunuchs?"

Zhou Yichen's eyes darkened.

indeed.

In fact, compared to some concubines in the cold palace, Zhou Yichen's life is pretty good.

After all, he was a prince, and the eunuchs and palace maids did not dare to be too presumptuous even if they were to follow the instructions.

Especially after Zhou Yichen grew up and knew how to discipline and manage the palace servants, no one dared to neglect him!

The two sides were in a stalemate. Zhou Yichen was worried that if he let Zhou Hanjin leave the palace, he would take his father and escape with him. By then, the situation in the already precarious Great Zhou would only get worse.

He didn't dare to let people disperse and release them.

Zhou Hanjin insisted that he would not release the person until they left the capital, and no one was willing to give in, so the situation was at a stalemate.

General Tang led his men through the corridor, each of them covered in blood, all the way to the door of the bedroom.

"Your Majesty, I am late in coming to your rescue."

He was dressed in armor and holding a spear in his hand, looking like a majestic general returning victoriously.

What else does Zhou Hanjin not understand when he sees General Tang here?

I'm afraid that the 3,000 people he transferred to the capital have all been "cleared out", and the mansions of ministers that were originally under his control are probably now out of trouble!

Sure enough, not long after, other generals followed and rushed in.

Even some civil officials entered the palace at night and followed the military generals to the door of the bedroom.

When they saw Zhou Hanjin strangling His Majesty's neck, many people's faces changed drastically.

Some of these people were from the Eighth Prince's party. They didn't know that the Eighth Prince had initiated a coup. They thought that something big had happened in the palace, so they all rushed over.

Zhou Hanjin saw that more than half of the court officials in the capital had entered the palace and witnessed his failed coup and the scene of the emperor being held hostage.

I knew that the situation was hopeless.

Most of the troops that could have been mobilized had been damaged in the battle with the city of Xi'an and were unable to take care of themselves.

If the bargaining chips in his hand were not enough, and the letters of collusion with court officials to ambush the reinforcements were taken away by Tang Yuhuai, it would be a foregone conclusion that he would be charged with colluding with the enemy country.

He would not launch a coup on the spur of the moment, in such a hurry that he would not even have time to make a careful plan.

General Tang's eyes fell on the Majesty who was being held hostage by Zhou Hanjin, as if he did not notice the other party's miserable appearance.

He reported honestly, "Your Majesty, all the rebels causing chaos in the capital have been arrested."

Your Majesty has been strangled by Zhou Hanjin and can't breathe, unable to speak, "..."

He secretly winked at General Tang, hoping that he would not report at this time.

He was afraid that Lao Ba would get angry and drag him to death with him.

General Tang said coldly, "Your Highness Prince Jin, stop it. All your people have been eliminated. You will not have a chance to make a comeback!"

Zhou Hanjin felt sad at heart, and he laughed for a while, as if he was laughing and crying, but his eyes turned red silently.

"Failed."

He repeated this sentence several times.

Then he glanced at Zhou Yichen who was standing opposite him, "Did you anticipate that I would do this, and that's why you hurried back to Beijing?"

Zhou Yichen answered honestly, "No."

He is not a prophet, so how can we know what he is thinking?

However, Zhou Hanjin did not believe him and thought that he lost because he did not have the ability to think three steps ahead like Zhou Yichen.

So what if some court officials saw it?

If Zhou Hanjin still had a trump card, he wouldn't be so disheartened. He really had no way out.

Just as General Tang said, even if he managed to escape, he would not have the opportunity or ability to make a comeback!

Zhou Hanjin suddenly jumped up, with his fingers in claw shape, as if he was going to attack Zhou Yichen.

The secret guard next to him acted quickly and stabbed with a sword.

Not wanting to fall into Zhou Hanjin's trap, he turned around abruptly and let His Majesty block the attack for him.

The secret guard didn't expect that his move would actually stab His Majesty. The hand holding the hilt of the sword paused. He wanted to pull the sword back, but was afraid that pulling the sword back would aggravate His Majesty's injury.

All of this happened so suddenly and so fast that no one could react.

His Majesty felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, lowered his head in disbelief, and saw that he was pierced through by a long sword...

Seeing this, Zhou Hanjin simply threw his dying father aside and attempted suicide.

However, this time Zhou Yichen was watching his actions closely, so he naturally failed to commit suicide by biting his tongue, but he still bit his tongue hard.

Biting until blood came out.

Zhou Hanjin took a few steps forward and dislocated Zhou Hanjin's chin to prevent him from trying to fix it again.

Zhou Hanjin, whose chin was removed, couldn't close his mouth, and the blood in his mouth was difficult to hide.