"Huh?" Li Jingui's smile has not stopped since the truth was exposed. After hearing the Fourth Prince's speech, his pair of dark eyes burst out with strong malice and ridicule.

Kangxi looked at the Fourth Prince with an indescribable expression, thinking that the Fourth Prince was really crazy about proving himself capable and even had to ask a question about something that was obvious.

Wang Ruofu muttered in a moderately loud voice: "It can't be yours even if you use your toes to guess."

This attracted everyone's attention and also reinforced Kangxi's stubborn thinking.

Li Jingui was about to die, but he still did not forget to disgust everyone. He laughed loudly a few times and said, "The child is mine. Who cares about the child's father?"

He paused deliberately, his eyes swept from Kangxi, who was sitting high up, to the inexplicably nervous Fourth Prince, and said with a grin: "I don't know."

The four words "light and fluttering" made Kangxi and the Fourth Prince's hearts, which had just been relieved, hang in the balance again. However, the Eighth Prince's eyes lit up and he became energetic.

Since he has no chance of getting promoted, it would be a great relief to drag down the fourth brother who relies on gigolos to make a comeback.

"Haha." The Eighth Prince had disheveled hair and shrugged his shoulders. "Hahahahahahaha, so this means that this child could still be Fourth Brother's?"

"Old Eight!" The Fourth Prince was furious and wanted to step forward and punch Old Eight, but he hated himself for not being his opponent.

His small eyes seemed to look back and forth between Wang Ruofu and Nian Shilan unintentionally, but he didn't expect that his eyes were sore that tears came out, but the two women still had no reaction.

Wang Ruofu's mood changed after hearing such a long speech. She felt repulsive and compassionate towards Li Jingui. This feeling made her feel suffocated. She was struggling with her conscience and had no time to pay attention to others.

Compared to Wang Ruofu, Nian Shilan was deeply influenced by the secular discipline of women since she was a child. In front of her father, brother, husband, and monarch, she was as quiet and well-behaved as a quail, and she didn't dare to look around.

Naturally, she did not notice the not-so-subtle hint from the Fourth Prince, but even if she had noticed, she would not have dared to attack the prince without going berserk.

bang——

Kangxi was angry that he didn't fight back, but he still had to take the lead on behalf of the fourth son. He slammed the table hard and scolded: "Li Jingui, now that things have come to this, why don't you confess the truth?"

"I really don't know, it's just a few days' difference." Li Jingui looked like a mad woman or a ghost escaping from hell to take lives. Every word she said hurt the hearts of the royal family.

"Ridiculous!" Kangxi wanted to scold Li Jingui for being shameless, but he immediately remembered that one of his sons set up the trap and the other son committed the crime.

The breath was blocked again, neither going up nor down, and it was so suffocating that my heart muscle was about to have a heart attack: "Cough, cough, cough!"

"How can I be compared with your son in being ridiculous?" Li Jingui stated the facts and added a sneer in his eyes with contempt.

"Come to think of it, all the women in the palace are your property, but none of your two sons care about you."

Suddenly he laughed and said, "Alas, you are really like a father and son in heaven. The affection between them is so cold that I can't help but feel disappointed for you."

The Fourth Prince and the Eighth Prince were scolded until their faces turned red, and Kangxi was very angry.

When he thought about it carefully, it was indeed the case. The number of cheatings his son had done on him suddenly became so numerous that he couldn't even count them!

Li De was afraid that Kangxi would be so angry that he would collapse, so she said in a sharp voice, "How dare you! How dare you, a palace maid like you, talk about the emperor and his brother at will? Aren't you afraid of endangering the lives of your entire family?"

But Li Jingui had no reason to be afraid if she dared to do such a thing. Since she and her family were dragged on the pirate ship by the Eighth Prince, there was no way they would survive, so she came up with this big gamble.

Li Jingui said in a clear voice: "What do I have to be afraid of? I should be afraid of you. You can kill me like an ant. But what if this child is the Fourth Prince's..."

"Impossible!" Kangxi interrupted firmly, "The fourth son has been dead for a long time, how could he make you pregnant in one go!"

"..."

This voice was loud and firm, and it was also confirmed by Emperor Kangxi himself. Everyone inside and outside the Jinluan Palace fell into silence.

The palace servants and guards outside the palace pricked up their ears—they wanted to listen and said more.

The palace maids in the hall lowered their heads one after another, wishing they could tuck their heads into their clothes right there and then - was this something they could listen to? !

It took about an incense stick of time for them to digest this huge information and recover from their shock.

Fourth Prince: "..." Rumors! Slander! All slander!

“Hahahahahaha!” The Eighth Prince pounded the ground and laughed, not disguising his gloating attitude, “Fourth Brother, it turns out that you, you, hahahahahaha.”

The saddest person was Nian Shilan, who screamed miserably, "No!!!"

Her eyes were red, and she looked at the Fourth Prince with a look of distress and disappointment. The rumor was actually true! She was so self-righteous that she didn't believe it!

The Fourth Prince looked powerless: "..." I'm not, I didn't, believe me.

Even Li Jingui was stunned, with a confused and dazed look in his eyes.

She had planned so much but had overlooked this. No wonder the Fourth Lady never believed that her child was the Fourth Prince's. It turns out to be like this.

Wang Ruofu was also confused. The Fourth Prince was not good enough? When did it happen? How come she didn't know?

Ok? ? ?

"Ahem." Kangxi then realized how big a rumor he had blurted out in a fit of anger, but it was not his fault. The only ones to blame were the two evildoers, the fourth and eighth brothers.

How dare he covet the women in the palace.

"Come here, take this woman who defiled the harem away and execute her together with her adulterer."

Li Jingui sneered, and then kowtowed to Kangxi with mockery and respect: "I, your servant Li Jingui, thank you, Your Majesty."

As she wished, this move made Kangxi very unhappy, and he looked at the Eighth Brother with increasingly unfriendly eyes.

The Eighth Brother carefully set up a plan to plot against the Fourth Brother, but was used by the humble and inconspicuous Li Jingui in turn, almost confusing the royal bloodline. No one had expected this, let alone suspected Li Jingui.

If Wang Ruofu had not been so angry and stubborn that she took Nian Shilan to rush around and beat up several princes, making the matter a big deal and bringing the matter into the attention of Kangxi again, the truth would not have been revealed today.

Otherwise, the consequences would be disastrous.

At this point, Kangxi could not forgive the Eighth Prince no matter what, and said coldly: "Old Eighth Prince, go back. I will arrange for someone else to do the job you have not completed."

The Eighth Prince smiled bitterly: "Your Highness...will obey the Emperor's order."

When everything was settled, the Fourth Prince's Mansion had won a great victory, but the way back was strangely dull.

Wang Ruofu and the Fourth Prince looked at each other, and it was rare that they both understood the meaning in each other's eyes. In the end, they chose to remain silent, just like they had just done in the Golden Palace.

Only they themselves knew that the child in Li Jingui's belly might be the Fourth Prince's. And this secret could only be kept in their stomach for the rest of their lives.

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