As expected by everyone, she became the wife of the Marquis after being married off

Shen Lanyue suddenly got off his legs. She didn't know how to comfort him for a moment.

It took her a long time to ask, "How did you find out then?" She found that her voice became hoarse the moment she spoke.

Meng Changce stood up as she did, and walked casually to the window on the side. His memory returned to the past as he looked back.

The white snow outside looked very much like the white canvas that was hung throughout the mansion that year. His mother knelt in front of his father's coffin, numb and swollen, and no one could see her. He knew then that if it weren't for him, his mother would have followed his father and left him.

Shen Lanyue waited for a long time but he didn't continue. When she looked at him, she naturally saw the sadness in his eyes.

Just when she thought he had stopped, she heard his deep voice again.

"I discovered my father was taking medicine very early. I was still young at that time and often asked my parents why. My mother just said that it was an old illness of my father, because he was injured in the battlefield before. It was just an old illness."

"Madam, don't you know?"

Meng Changce shook his head, with a bitter smile and sadness in his eyes: "I don't know, mother also thought it was just an old problem." After saying this, he paused, "But she must have known it when she died later..."

Shen Lanyue was stunned when she heard this. She felt that there seemed to be something wrong in his words, an indescribable weird feeling.

"I discovered this two months before my father went to the battlefield, but I didn't quite understand it when I was a child. It was an accidental plan. The emperor came to the mansion and stayed in my father's study for a long time."

"I happened to go to see my father and heard him arguing with the emperor from the window. I heard a few words about medicine and then about royal power. Unfortunately, I was too young to understand any of this."

Shen Lanyue recalled the year when the old marquis went to war, when Meng Changce was only seven years old.

Meng Changce rarely showed some vulnerability and regret. Shen Lanyue felt as if he was standing alone in that memory and couldn't get out of it.

Shen Lanyue walked to his side, held his drooping hand tightly, and supported him silently.

Meng Changce lowered his head and smiled.

"I asked my father why he didn't resist."

Shen Lanyue also wanted to ask why the old marquis did not resist. According to Meng Changce's recollection, he had known long ago that there was something wrong with the medicine.

Meng Changce smiled bitterly.

"He said: If the king wants his subjects to die, they have to die!"

Young Meng Changce hugged his father in the yard and asked: Why don’t you resist?

The old marquis looked at his son with a complicated yet gratified look. He pulled Meng Changce into his arms and laughed heartily.

But what he said was: "Son, if the king wants me to die, I have to die."

Meng Changce smiled sarcastically and lowered his head to look at Shen Lanyue who was frowning.

"You see, my father is so ridiculous. Even if the emperor wanted him to die, he was thinking about what would happen to my mother and me if he died."

Shen Lanyue pondered for a while and said sadly: "Maybe he was thinking of you."

Meng Changce didn't say anything.

"The old marquis already knew that he might not live long, and the world already belongs to the emperor, so where can you go?" Shen Lanyue paused and gave him a complicated look: "And... the prince is..."

She didn't say everything. The prince was still young at the time, and the old marquis didn't have much time to support a new prince. He didn't grow up. Emperor Yingde was in his prime at the time, and he was far better than the old marquis in every aspect.

"I didn't expect you to be smarter than me. I didn't expect that back then."

Shen Lanyue smiled, with a gentle moonlight flowing in her eyes. "How can I be smarter than you? Can you compare me now with you when you were seven?"

Meng Changce's eyes moved slightly, reflecting Shen Lanyue's figure in his eyes.

"But I promised my father not to tell my mother. I didn't tell her until...she died."

"That's fine." Shen Lanyue lifted his hand and looked at him: "If Madam knew, you might not have survived."

This was Shen Lanyue's true statement, because Meng Changce's mother lived for another two years and passed away when Meng Changce was ten years old.

Meng Changce rarely refuted her words.

Because what Shen Lanyue said was not wrong at all. Later, after his father's death, he truly understood that he had no way out, so he had to fight for a path for himself and his mother that would ensure that Emperor Yingde would treat him well.

When he had little time left, he chose to die on the battlefield, so that the people of the world would know that his father, Meng Changce, died fighting for the country, and his generals would watch how Emperor Yingde would treat them and their son.

He cannot die in the emperor's political struggles, which would be a meaningless death.

Meng Changce's father used his own death to exchange for the life of Meng Changce and his mother.

"This is a risky move." Shen Lanyue said with a complicated expression. She really admired the old marquis.

Meng Changce's eyes sank slightly and he lowered his eyelids to hide his emotions.

Shen Lanyue did not ask about what happened after the result, because she already knew the general situation from the stories of past and present lives. The reason why Meng Changce supported the Sixth Prince in his previous life was also clearly expressed.

Even the death of the old marquis did not eliminate Emperor Yingde's suspicion and concerns about the Meng family. He still sent people to monitor Meng Changce's behavior.

The reason why Meng Changce pretends to be a dandy is probably because of this. Emperor Yingde will not allow Meng Changce to become as outstanding as his father.

He lived carefully, seized any opportunity and became Emperor Yingde's nightmare.

Perhaps it was because the atmosphere today was very good, Meng Changce talked a lot about his father, and Shen Lanyue also realized at this time that the person in front of her might really regard her as his wife.

Emperor Yingde was not his father's favorite son, nor was he the candidate in his father's mind to succeed the throne.

After he planned step by step to get the opportunity to stand out among other princes, the last step was the support of Meng Changce's father.

Because Meng Yongchang was the great general at that time, he had military power in his hands. When Emperor Yingde found him, he was very happy and stood firmly beside him.

At that time, they were best cousins ​​and confidants.

But everything changed after Emperor Yingde ascended the throne. He became suspicious and timid, believed in slander, and thought that Meng Yongchang held military power and his reputation among the people had surpassed his own.

Even Meng Yongchang knew his concerns and personally handed over the tiger talisman and military power in the court.

Marquis Changning, who was promoted in name only but demoted in reality in the capital, could never return to his battlefield, nor did he change Emperor Yingde's mind.

His initial disbelief turned into suspicion, and then he walked step by step into the abyss, having someone poison Meng Yongchang's medicine, which gradually eroded his body.

After his father's death, Meng Changce discovered that Emperor Yingde had an even more sinister mind.