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

Just when Prime Minister Mei's breathing was about to stop, Lord Ye suddenly let go of his hand, and the corners of his eyes even curved.

"Prime Minister Mei is so calm, is it because he knows for sure that I won't really kill you?"

Prime Minister Mei bent over and coughed violently, and his face, which was pale due to suffocation, instantly turned red.

"The emperor wanted to kill me, but you saved me. You must have some ulterior motive. You got nothing from me now, so how could you bear to let me die?" He sat up straight and coughed a few times. "Now that things have come to this, there is no need for us to hide anything. Although I don't care whether I live or die, I want to protect the people I care about. And you, of course, also want to know some old things you don't know, and at the same time, you want to use me to restrain Prince Xiao and Prince Jing. Although these two people are your own imaginary opponents, you have to be on guard. Fortunately, I still have some weight in the hearts of these two people. So, Prince, we can cooperate."

Prince?

Lord Ye's body stiffened, and finally he slowly reached out and took off the scary mask.

Revealing a face as gentle as jade and as bright as the moon in the breeze.

"If I'm guessing correctly," Prime Minister Mei said calmly, as if he was chatting with his family, "The prince's biggest concern is the death of Concubine De, your mother."

Cui Hongqi's mouth twitched, and after a while he gritted his teeth and said, "No matter how I investigate, it turns out that my mother committed suicide by taking poison. I don't believe it. My mother was killed by my grandfather and father! Besides, my mother was living with my father in the East Palace at the time. Even if she wanted to commit suicide, why would she choose to do it in the palace of Merlin?"

The scene from that year reappeared before his eyes——

That day, it was snowing heavily, and his mother fell under the plum forest in the palace, covered with red petals and white snowflakes falling in the wind... He thought his mother was just sleeping, and wondered why she was sleeping in the snow, wasn't she cold? So he dragged his broken leg and crawled to his mother's side, only to realize that she could never stand up again...

His body was shaking, his eyes turned bloodshot, and he felt a sharp pain in his heart.

"... Prime Minister Mei really knows the inside story?" He stared at Prime Minister Mei with his scarlet eyes.

Prime Minister Mei sighed and said, "If I remember correctly, you were only four years old when Concubine De died. Do you remember what else happened that winter?"

Cui Hongqi's eyes turned redder: "Just a few days ago, I was riding a horse and broke my leg!"

He remembered that it was at a family dinner that the emperor's grandfather suggested that several of his grandchildren compete in horse riding.

The royal children of the Zhenguo Kingdom are not pampered. They learn to ride horses from the time they can run. Such equestrian competitions are held almost every year.

But during that competition, Cui Hongqi fell off his horse, broke his leg on the spot, and became disabled for life.

His life was therefore rewritten and took another path.

"I was still young at the time. When I grew up, I thought it was strange. The horse must have been tampered with. It was not enough for them to destroy me, they also want to take my mother's life?!" He roared, his emotions a little out of control.

Prime Minister Mei was silent for a moment, then asked, "Do you still remember that before the competition that day, you and Prince Jing exchanged horses!"

Cui Hongqi was completely stunned and shook his head. A terrible idea came to his mind, "I was too young at the time and I can't remember it."

Prime Minister Mei: "The horse was indeed tampered with, but the person who did it did not want to harm you, but Prince Jing. But you looked at the tuft of white hair on the black horse's head and said it looked like a painting. You liked it very much, so you insisted on exchanging horses with Prince Jing, and Prince Jing exchanged with you. At that time, Concubine De was outside the field and wanted to step forward to stop you. But the rest of you had already galloped away on your horses."

"You, what exactly do you want to say?" Cui Hongqi felt even more uneasy, and his voice was trembling.

"I'm just telling the truth." Prime Minister Mei continued, "You guessed correctly. It was your mother who tampered with Prince Jing's horse, hoping to kill or maim Prince Jing, but she ended up hurting you. It was because the late emperor doted on Prince Jing too much at the time, and your mother just wanted to remove the stumbling block for you in the future!"

After the suffocating silence, Cui Hongqi roared: "No, you are talking nonsense, you are talking nonsense! My mother has been gone for so many years, and you still want to tarnish her innocence. What is your intention..."

His body softened and he sat on the ground, trembling all over, and kept muttering: "No, no, mother will not do such a thing, no..."

Prime Minister Mei continued: "The matter was soon investigated by the late emperor. The late emperor loved Prince Jing, so how could he watch someone harming Prince Jing and remain indifferent? He must have made Concubine De pay the price, but you are innocent. The late emperor did not want to hurt you, nor did he want the court officials to know that you had such a mother, so he forced you to stay in the palace of the queen, now the queen mother, to recuperate. At that time, the emperor also doted on Prince Jing very much, and he must have punished Concubine De, but he did not want you to be jealous of him because of this. So, the father and son made a plan, and the late emperor came forward to summon Concubine De to the palace and found a secluded place in the plum forest... Unfortunately, you accidentally learned from the palace that Concubine De had entered the palace, so you quietly ran out to look for her... So, you saw the scene in the plum forest. If you don't believe it, you can ask the queen mother. At present, the only one who knows this old story, besides the emperor, eunuch Li and me, is the queen mother."

Cui Hongqi's eyes were red, he gritted his teeth and sneered, "You mean, everything that happened to me now was caused by my mother? Did my grandfather and father hide it from me because they loved me?"

Prime Minister Mei let out a long breath, "It depends on what you think. But in my opinion, your cleverness backfired. Although your leg cannot be fully recovered, you can pretend to be normal. But you have been pretending to be disabled for so many years, pretending not to care about state affairs, and only plotting in secret, and even the emperor was deceived by you. If not, after the death of the deposed crown prince, the emperor would no longer have a legitimate son. Although you are a concubine's son, you are the eldest son. The first person the emperor thinks of as the master of the East Palace should be you. But you have been pretending for so many years, who would believe that your leg was completely healed overnight? You might even be charged with deceiving the emperor. So, you can only continue to plot in secret."

Cui Hongqi trembled all over and froze like a sculpture, only the blue veins on his forehead kept throbbing.

After a long time, he murmured, "No, no, my father will not think of me, because this king..."

Why? Because he has the blood of the South Vietnamese royal family!

He didn't go on.

He suddenly howled to the sky, his gentle face becoming ferocious, "I have been planning for so long, and now you are telling me that what I have done is just a joke, a joke that dug its own grave... Haha... You are talking nonsense, you are talking nonsense!..."