The beautiful and powerful minister hooked up with the crazy emperor and couldn't escape

"Since he can support you, why can't he support me? How am I worse than you?"

Mo Ling took a deep breath. So that's how it is. Qingqing was right. The Grand Tutor and he had never thought of harming him. It was just that he had never dared to trust them, but mistakenly trusted others!

"What did you promise Yan Yiran? He has been by my side for more than 20 years, and has been through all the hard times. Why would he betray me and join you?"

"Tsk tsk tsk, I feel so sorry for Yan Yiran! Mo Ling, Mo Ling, he has been with you for more than 20 years, don't you know that he likes you? If he didn't like you, who would be willing to stay with a fool like you!"

Mo Ling's expression was blank for a moment: "Do you like me?"

Yi Ran likes him? How come he doesn't know?

"But you turned around and fell in love with an actor. He is a pure and innocent son of a marquis, but he is not as good as an actor who sells his smiles. How pitiful! It makes people sad and cry! You even want to make an actor your queen. How will Yan Yiran, who has been with you for more than 20 years, deal with it? The actor will be the main wife and he will be the concubine?"

"Nonsense! How could Yiran like me? I have always regarded Yiran as my best brother!"

Mo Ling refuted in a deep voice, but at this moment, a familiar figure appeared in front of Mo Ling. The wounds on his face had not yet healed completely, and some bruises could still be seen.

The sneer on King Rui's face became even more intense: "Oh my, isn't this our Great Commander Yan? Come on, come on, tell me yourself, do you like Mo Ling or not?"

Yan Yiran's eyes were filled with guilt, and he knelt down on his knees in front of Mo Ling: "I'm sorry, Your Majesty."

Mo Ling had complicated feelings towards Yan Yiran for a moment. On the one hand, Yiran had indeed been with him for more than 20 years, and on the other hand, Yiran had even knelt down in front of him, so it seemed that she had indeed betrayed him.

"Yi Ran, do you really like me?"

Yan Yiran glanced at Mo Ling in panic and lowered his head again, his mouth full of bitterness: "Yes."

"But since you like me, why do you want to betray me?" Mo Ling asked disappointed and puzzled.

Yan Yiran lowered his head, looking at the floor tiles in front of him, hesitant to speak: "Subordinate, subordinate——"

Prince Rui continued, "Let me speak for you, because your mother is Concubine De! When Concubine De was favored in the other palace, she deliberately blocked the urgent military situation report for three days, which led to the death of Lord Yan and his son. But in the end, she did not receive any punishment, and only let those palace servants bear the fault. It's just because her family and the Yan family have an old feud. There is a feud between you two because of the murder of your father and brother. How could he really help you?"

"But he likes you. I think Yan Yiran has had a hard time these years. But I still have to thank you. If you hadn't made him a noble lord, Yan Yiran wouldn't have surrendered to me. Without Commander Yan, it would have been much more difficult for me to accomplish anything."

Defei, Mo Ling remembered her, she was a very beautiful and cruel person. He once accidentally broke into Defei's palace and was almost eaten by Defei. After he left, several palace maids were carried out of Defei's palace. Was his mother really Defei? But Defei was not pregnant at all during the period before he was born.

He looked at Yan Yiran deeply. Since there was a blood feud between them, why was Yiran still willing to stay with him? Was it really because Yiran liked him?

But he never sensed Yiran's love at all. Was it because Yiran hid it too deeply? So for so many years, not only King Rui acted in front of him, but Yiran also acted in front of him. He really lived a very failed life.

His mother was a fake, his best friend was his enemy, and his beloved was accidentally hurt by him and didn't know whether she lived or died.

"Yes, I want to know the truth about Xiaoqi's assassination, my poisoning, and your lord's murder and escape from the palace! Now that it has come to this, there is no need for you to lie to me, right?"

Yan Yiran's face was filled with shame. "Xiao Qizi was induced by Prince Rui to assassinate you. I didn't know about this. I later found out that it was Prince Rui who did it. And you were poisoned because the Queen Mother knew that you were induced by your Lordship to investigate your background. The Queen Mother was afraid that you would find evidence, so she simply had someone poison you."

"But after all, if they wanted to poison the Xuanshi Palace, I couldn't hide it from my subordinates. I had the poison replaced so that you wouldn't get hurt. I poisoned your food box because the Queen Mother and I wanted to put the blame on you."

"Your Excellency is so smart. He found out who poisoned you in one day. To prevent any future worries, I asked General Thirteen to take you out of the palace. Then, in order to destroy the evidence, I killed the palace maids and guards in Qianyuan Palace and put the blame on you."

Mo Ling closed his eyes in embarrassment. It turned out that his Qingqing was innocent from the beginning to the end, but he never believed his Qingqing once. No wonder Qingqing looked at him with such disappointment that day and asked him why he didn't believe him.

But what did he say?

He said he believed Yan Yiran, who betrayed him, but not Qingqing.

He was such a bastard, hurting Qingqing again and again. Qingqing was clearly wronged and suffered all kinds of injustice, but when he was in danger that day, she chose to protect him without hesitation.

But he shot an arrow at Qingqing when she risked her life to protect him. With Qingqing's martial arts, she might have been able to dodge it, but it was probably because she had never been prepared for him and had never thought that he would shoot that arrow, so she was shot without any preparation.

The red flower blooming on Qingqing's chest has become his nightmare. He can't imagine how disappointed Qingqing must have been when she was shot, and how desperate she must have been when she fell into the surging river.

How could this be? How could he hurt Qingqing like this? He clearly said that he would not let Qingqing get hurt again.

In the end, the person who hurt Qingqing the most was him!

"puff--"

Mo Ling spat out blood again.

"His Majesty!"

Yan Yiran and Jiazi spoke at the same time. Yan Yiran instantly stood up and approached Mo Ling, but was stopped by Jiazi's knife: "Get out! Traitor!"

Yan Yiran could only watch as Mo Ling slowly wiped the blood from his mouth. The white handkerchief had been stained bright red. Yan Yiran felt a sharp pain in his heart. Perhaps he shouldn't have betrayed His Majesty for his own selfish reasons. If he hadn't betrayed, even if he could only watch His Majesty and Ming Qing being in love, it would have been better than seeing His Majesty become like this.

"I understand."

Mo Ling avoided Yan Yiran and looked at Prince Rui: "You keep throwing dirty water on the Grand Tutor, not only to disguise yourself, but also to alienate the Grand Tutor and me. In this way, even if you force the emperor to abdicate, the Grand Tutor will not stand up for me. All you need to do is to clear the Grand Tutor's name after you ascend the throne and put all the blame on me, and the Grand Tutor will not embarrass you."

"What a great plan! He is indeed the King Rui who has been in disguise for many years!"

Prince Rui smiled and said, "Thank you for the compliment, my brother. In order to help you get the wanted Grand Tutor, I took out all the hidden nails that I hadn't used for many years."

"I can understand that you slandered the private soldiers to the Grand Tutor, but Changning's food is used to save lives! Why did you rob Changning's food!"

King Rui sneered and said, "Isn't this your fault?"

"It's my fault?"

Mo Ling was confused: "What does this have to do with me?"