The little princess' mind was read, and the court and harem were eating melons

System 88: [Oh, so that's how it is. You are sick, and they want to protect you, so they share their own merits with you. But this merit can only protect you, and cannot be used to eat melons.]

System 88: [It doesn't matter. The Second Prince's melon only needs 0.5 merit to be converted into merit. After deducting it, there is still 97.5 left. Host, do you want to eat it? ]

Li Qingyi pondered for two seconds and felt that it was not impossible. It would be fine to spend 0.5 to see if this melon-eating system worked.

Li Qingyi: [Come on. 】

System 88: [Great! ]

The entire court was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

The prince was very worried about his sister. He kept glancing up, and even wanted to take his sister away. However, he received a dismissive look from his father and did not dare to move.

System 88: [The Second Prince is not your father's biological son.]

Li Qingyi:! ?

emperor:……

Prince:? ? ?

Li Qi looked up suddenly.

Officials:! ?

Li Qingyi quickly lowered his head and leaned against the emperor's arms, pretending to be sleepy, but his inner voice was very lively: [What? What does this mean? Is my father being cuckolded? ]

The emperor felt a little uncomfortable. He moved and wanted to get up and leave.

But it was too late.

System 88 throws out the second explosive news: [The emperor knows that the second prince is not his biological son. ]

Li Qingyi: Hiss——

Officials: Hiss——

emperor:"……"

The emperor's face was dark as he met Li Qi's gaze from above and below, only to find that there was shock in his eyes, but... it was inconsistent with the reaction he expected.

It seems that Li Qi knows?

The emperor frowned.

The prince tried hard to maintain his outward calm and not show too much shock in front of so many people, but his mind was in turmoil.

What does this mean?

Is what the other baby said true or false?

Second brother, father...

System 88 was still sharing the detailed information he had just read: [This is about something that happened more than a decade ago. ]

[Seventeen years ago, when your uncle was still on the throne, your father was still with the prince. On his way to the southern tour on behalf of the emperor, he was assassinated. At that time, one of your father's confidants helped your father block the killing blow at the critical moment, but he himself was not so lucky and died on the spot.]

When talking about this old event, the emperor showed a bit of nostalgia on his face. Even though more than ten years had passed, he still seemed to remember that chaotic night.

It was almost there, just almost there. If that man had failed to block the sword, the person sitting on the throne now might not even be known as Li.

The emperor was reminiscing about the past, but it was different for others.

Everyone: So what does this have to do with the Second Prince?

System 88: [After your father returned to the capital, he found out that the wife of his confidant was already four months pregnant, just before he left on tour. She had originally wanted to wait for the confidant to return before telling him the good news, but she had never expected that this departure would be a farewell for her husband forever.]

Emperor: ...Wait, my daughter is only three years old. Isn't it wrong for her to hear this?

Li Qingyi didn't have so many concerns and said directly: [Could Li Qi be the posthumous child of this confidant? ]

Everyone: How is it possible! Even if it is a life-saving grace, it can confuse the royal bloodline!

System 88: [Huh? You guessed it so quickly!]

Everyone:! ?

For a moment, many officials could not help but look at the emperor: Your Majesty, how could you do such a thing!

emperor:"……"

The emperor chose to fight back with a cold gaze.

Everyone: "..."

All the officials quickly realized their offense and avoided his sight, but some of them were already getting restless and wanted to do something to leave their names in history.

The emperor gave a look to the eunuch beside him. After receiving it, the eunuch nodded slightly and retreated quietly.

Li Qingyi: [Do I need to guess? ]

System 88: [Okay.]

System 88: [That’s right, Li Qi is the child that this lady was carrying at the time. After learning about her husband’s death, although your father took good care of her because he saved her life, this care was normal.]

Li Qingyi: […My father still has a bottom line, he is not a sex-hungry ghost. ]

Everyone who heard this said: ...

Really, although the content is very... ahem, very attractive, the voices of both parties in the conversation are like those of babies, which always makes me feel uncomfortable listening to them.

Li Qingyi was a little uninterested at this time: [What's the big deal? She saved my father's life, and it seems that the lady died in the end. Whether my father adopted an orphan out of gratitude or kindness, it's nothing. ]

[At most, my father probably didn’t expect that he could become the emperor.]

When the emperor heard this, he nodded slightly.

That's right, he did it to repay his gratitude, and it happened that Li Qi's mother died of hemorrhage when he was born. One of his concubines in the backyard gave birth to a stillborn baby not long after. He took the opportunity to give the child to the concubine and raised him as his own.

He also told the emperor at the time, his eldest brother, about the matter, and took the initiative to give his eldest brother the handle.

This was also because the new emperor, who had just ascended the throne, had health problems and was bedridden in the second year of his reign. Although he was the eldest brother's younger brother, he was brought out to help handle state affairs at this time, which also caused some rumors.

He made that decision due to many reasons.

He thought that after his elder brother recovered, he could retreat and become either a wise king or an idle king. As for the child, he would wait until he grew up and decide whether to tell him about his life story.

What he never expected was that his elder brother really died of illness in his prime, and the throne fell on his head.

System 88: [Ah, but the point is not this. This is just to explain the Second Prince's life experience. The point is what he did.]

Li Qingyi: [Yeah?]

The little baby voice sounded so adorable that the emperor couldn't help but lower his head and pinched his daughter's tender little face with a smile.

Li Qingyi raised his head and tilted it, his dark eyes filled with confusion, and whispered, "Father?"

It happened that the court fell into an eerie silence at this moment. Although Li Qingyi's voice was very soft, it was still heard by some ministers close to the emperor.

This familiar little baby voice...

Several officials in the front row couldn't help but look left and right and at each other.

Li Qi clenched his fists, his body was stiff, and his eyes were full of surprise, suspicion and disbelief.

The prince coughed lightly.

The officials who had just made some small movements suddenly felt a chill on their backs and stopped.

Just... continue talking? What's the point?

However, Li Qingyi's thoughts had been interrupted by the emperor's actions, and System 88 saw that Li Qingyi was distracted, so it simply kept silent and waited for Li Qingyi to continue when he was interested.

System 88 is a good and obedient system, and of course it is based on the host's intentions!

The people who waited and waited but got no further news:???

Don’t want to eat melon anymore?

Gone?