My Lord, the princess doesn't want you anymore.

Li Mo paused and put down his dangling feet, looking at Mei Xueer with a smile: "Actually, I have a better idea, that is, I will take you away. I will take you back to Wangyou Valley, and no one will dare to hurt you. It's too dangerous to be around Prince Jing."

Mei Xueer: ...

Cui Hongjing: …

King of Chu: ...What?

Although he had already figured out that An Ran was not the wife of the master of Wangyou Valley, he never thought that the lover Li Mo was talking about was actually Mei Xueer, the former wife of Prince Jing.

Thinking of this, he burst out laughing, "I said it before, how could you two rivals sit together in peace. Prince Jing, you are such a scumbag, you want to save your wife, but you go to your rival for help. Miss Mei, I understand from the bottom of my heart why you want to divorce Prince Jing. As for Valley Master Li, I don't respect the wall, but you. I like men like you."

These words influenced everyone present, as if he was eager to create chaos in the world.

Cui Hongjing's face turned even gloomier: "As long as she is fine, it doesn't matter if I am a jerk. King Chu, please don't try to sow discord. I tell you, it's useless!"

Zhuang Xiang glared at Li Mo and King Chu, thinking that these two were indeed unreliable. "Gentlemen, at least we have always been allies. If anything happens to either of them, it will not be good for anyone."

Mei Xueer also coughed twice and looked at the King of Chu: "I am just a woman and I don't know anything, but I know that the King of Chu must be very happy to see the Queen disappear. And Li Mo, he hopes that the royal family of Changguo will be as chaotic as possible. I don't want to know the reason, but I know that we are in the same boat for the time being. So King of Chu, do you know why your father wants to kill the Queen?"

"Who knows?" The King of Chu spread his hands. "After all, for so many years, everyone in the court and the country knows that the emperor and the queen have a special relationship. Whether in the court or among the people, the queen mother has a very good reputation. This king does not like anyone, but he really cannot hate the queen mother. She is always so dignified and decent, and she is completely worthy of the title of the mother of the country. Perhaps, it is because her reputation is too good..."

He finally managed to say something normal, but soon changed the subject: "But that doesn't stop me from wanting her to die."

"As far as I know, the old nanny beside Concubine Cheng has taken all the responsibility for what happened back then. Yan Ruobing just suppressed the matter for the time being, waiting for the outsiders like me to leave before dealing with it. Therefore, Yan Ruobing and the Queen already know that Prince Kang is the legitimate son of the emperor." Cui Hongjing said this, looking at the King of Chu with some sarcasm, "Could it be that your father wanted to make Prince Kang the crown prince, so he wanted to kill Prince Kang's biological mother before making him the crown prince, so as to prevent her from controlling the government in the future? After all, Prince Kang is weak, while the Queen is strong and capable. She has assisted your father in managing the government over the years and has a foundation in the court. He has to be on guard."

The smile on the King of Chu's face froze, but soon it stretched out again, "You're talking nonsense! No matter how bad my father is, he can't ignore the country. If he wants to make King Kang the crown prince, he will do his best to protect my mother. Because he knows that without my mother's help, with King Kang's soft temper, even if he sits on the throne, I will soon rebel and pull him down and chop him into pieces."

Seeing how he downplayed the word rebellion, Cui Hongjing twitched his lips, but he knew that what he said was true.

He only reminded him: "Check the people around you. Your father seems to know everything you do."

When the King of Chu heard this, he shut up and said nothing.

After a moment of silence, Li Mo suddenly sneered, "If I were Yan Ruobing, I would also want her dead. The queen's power threatens the imperial power, and the queen has a good reputation. Yan Ruobing knows that she doesn't have much time left, so she can only do this... Let's discuss how to proceed."

……

The final plan was formulated by Cui Hongjing. It was not complicated, it was just a direct assassination.

Often the simplest and most brutal method is also the most effective one.

The King of Chu said that it was inconvenient for him to show up, but he was happy to cooperate secretly, and the eunuch he buried in the Prince Kang's mansion could continue to play a role. "The lives of the eunuch's family are in my hands. Even if the case is traced back to him, he will only say that he is Concubine Cheng's man and has nothing to do with me."

Li Mo directly stated: "I will be the one to take the final action!"

Cui Hongjing didn't want Li Mo to take action. This was a deal between Yan Ruobing and him. He felt that he was capable of protecting Mei Xueer, and he didn't want Li Mo to suppress him.

But Li Mo only said one sentence and he admitted it.

Li Mo said, "You are seriously injured and have not recovered yet. With your current skills, I am really worried that you will never come back. It would be a small matter if you die, but if Xue'er is implicated, how can you compensate her?"

……

After dinner that day, the queen leaned listlessly on the couch with red eyes.

Ever since she learned King Kang's identity, she has been awakened by nightmares every night.

How could an old maid alone relieve the hatred in her heart?

She hated herself for not finding any clues for so many years, and hated Concubine Cheng, the woman with ulterior motives. However, because of the presence of foreign officials, she didn't want to be laughed at, so she endured it again and again, and sent people to surround Concubine Cheng's bedroom, waiting for Cui Hongjing and his party to leave before taking action.

She had never thought that Concubine Cheng would do such a thing as replacing the crown prince with a cat. In addition, her focus had been on state affairs and Yan Ruobing for so many years, so she had ignored it.

"I have also had my doubts. With Concubine Cheng's character, how could she be so good to the prince for no reason and still be so sad after his death? But thinking that she watched the prince grow up, it is normal for her to have some feelings... In fact, there are still clues to follow, and it is all my fault for overlooking them..."

she murmured.

Yan Ruobing lovingly tidied up her messy hair and said, "Don't blame you, it's all my fault..."

The guilt-filled tone made the queen feel warm inside.

After comforting her for a while, Yan Ruobing left.

As soon as he turned around, his eyes full of tenderness suddenly turned as cold as ice.

The queen felt a little better and fell into a drowsy sleep with her head resting on the soft cushion.

She returned to the palace. At that time, Yan Ruobing had just been canonized as the crown prince and had not yet moved into the Eastern Palace, so he still lived in the palace.

Yan Ruobing was not there during that period. She was sent by the late emperor to Zhenguo to escort Princess Wan to marry.

That night, a woman with disheveled hair and a bloody face was waving a wooden stick like crazy, and her beautiful scarlet eyes seemed to be dripping with blood.

This woman had a beautiful face, which was filled with overwhelming hatred and despair.

A large group of guards surrounded her, but they didn't dare to actually hurt her. They just forced her back and prevented her from escaping.

The dream was exactly the same as what actually happened that day, the woman was forced in front of a door.

The door opened behind her, and the queen handed a long sword to the woman, saying in a cold voice: "Always remember that you are the daughter of the Palace Master of Wuchen Palace! Take it, use your sword, and fight your way out!"

The woman stiffened and took it with trembling hands.

With the sword in her hand, she quickly became like a different person.

She used all her strength to stab the guards...

"Hahaha... retribution, this is all retribution, hahaha..." The scene changed, and an extremely ugly woman rushed towards the queen. She was roaring madly with the sword in her hand.

The queen felt a pain in her heart and lowered her head, and saw the long sword had already penetrated her body...