Cut off my tendons in my hands and feet to make me marry? Prepare to die!

Feng Xiaolou had fallen asleep on the side of the bed and was startled awake by the sound.

She quickly got up. Her knees were numb from kneeling for so long, but she didn't care.

"Your Highness!" She woke up Chu Hantian who was still dozing off.

Chu Hantian suddenly opened his eyes and quickly reached out to strangle Feng Xiaolou's neck. He came to his senses only when he touched Feng Xiaolou's slender neck.

"Your Highness, it has started outside!"

Feng Xiaolou pointed outside the bedroom. There was no fear in his eyes, but excitement and delight.

Chu Hantian stood up suddenly and listened attentively to the movements in the palace. The look in his eyes was alternately excitement and fear, but his body remained standing where he was.

"Your Highness, shall we...?"

Feng Xiaolou felt anxious when he saw that Chu Hantian still didn't react much.

Emperor Shengwen had been in a coma for seven days and was only a day or two away from death.

Princess Shouning took the initiative to brief the Queen and Chu Hantian three days ago, saying that she would launch a coup today.

She remembered that day, neither the Queen nor Chu Hantian expressed any objection, nor did they stop Princess Shouning's actions.

Now that the palace coup has occurred, Chu Hantian is still standing here. Does he really intend to watch Princess Shouning become the empress?

How can that work? !

Feng Xiaolou bit her lip lightly, her eyes full of unwillingness.

Princess Shouning is ambitious, arrogant and conceited, and is not as easy to control as Chu Hantian.

"Why are you panicking? Aren't you just a little Fengyi, worrying about too many things?"

Queen Lin had sat up from the couch at some point, her makeup delicate, her eyes clear and calm, as if she had never fallen asleep.

Chu Hantian seemed to have found his backbone. He quickly walked to the queen's side and bowed:

"Mother, I feel that since you and my father are both here, what will happen to your safety if the rebels attack here?"

There was a gleam in his eyes:

"How about my son take my father's tiger talisman and try to mobilize troops from the capital camp?"

By then, the palace will be in chaos and swords will be ruthless. If my father dies in the hail of arrows, there will be no need to wait a few more days!

Queen Lin looked at Chu Hantian quietly, her lips tightly pursed, making Chu Hantian feel a little at a loss.

"Queen mother?"

He couldn't understand why his mother was looking at him with such disappointment.

Queen Lin stood up and said in a deep voice:

"Go to your father's bedside and kneel down!"

Chu Hantian suddenly looked up and stared at Queen Lin.

He knew his mother's concerns, but his strategy was obviously the best way.

Whether my father is really in a coma or faking it, he can't escape the disaster!

Queen Lin rubbed her temples with her hands, stared at her son with disapproval, and said in the lowest voice:

"Your father's tiger talisman is no longer here!"

Chu Hantian's face turned pale as paper in an instant, with a mixture of disbelief and panic flashing in his eyes.

His originally confident aura was suddenly taken away by an invisible hand, leaving only emptiness and trembling.

A drop of cold sweat slid down his forehead and dripped onto his collar, wetting a small area, but it could not cool the fire of fear in his heart.

He slowly moved his eyes and looked at Emperor Shengwen who was sleeping in the shadows again, and his throat moved up and down.

No one knows a son better than his father. It seems that his father had predicted all his actions.

But as a son, he never understood his father.

Feng Xiaolou couldn't hear the conversation between the mother and son from a distance, but when she saw Chu Hantian's appearance, her heart slowly sank.

You can't count on Chu Hantian at all tonight.

She cast her gaze outside the bedroom, and in the sky not far away, there was a fire that illuminated half of the sky red.

The entire palace was in an uproar.

Wang Chun stood guard at the door of the bedroom with a whisk in his hand, looking at the blood-red sky with his calm eyes slightly narrowed.

He stood alone at the palace gate, and that seemed to be enough.

In the Cining Palace, the Queen Mother had just risen from the bed, her dim eyes still filled with confusion and shock.

"Shouning, what's going on outside?"

When she asked this question, she found that her daughter was wearing armor and holding a long sword in her hand.

The Queen Mother woke up instantly as if she had been hit on the head with a stick.

Princess Shouning turned around and looked at the Queen Mother with eyes that were still sweet and innocent.

"Mother, my brother has become different. Haven't you noticed?"

She pursed her red lips slightly, and the fire of ambition burned in her eyes.

The Queen Mother looked at her daughter, and her lips could not help but tremble:

"Shou Ning, stop it now. Your mother will explain to your brother that you were deceived..."

Princess Shouning threw her head back and laughed out loud, her laughter echoing throughout the Cining Palace. All the palace maids and eunuchs shrank their heads like quails, not daring to look at the mother and daughter for even a second.

"Mother, you are confused!"

"My brother, you don't have many days left. Look at your grandson. He is stupid and lustful, easily influenced and conceited!"

She sneered and stroked the sword in her hand:

"My brother and I are born of the same mother. My brother has hired great scholars for me since I was young. Is it possible that my talent is not as good as that loser Chu Hantian?"

The Queen Mother sat on the bed in a daze, turbid old tears slowly sliding down her face:

"I've spoiled you, how could you, how could you have such thoughts..."

If she loses, the only thing waiting for her daughter is death without an intact body.

Shouning walked to the Queen Mother, squatted down, held her arm, and shook her in a coquettish manner:

"Mother, why did your daughter insist on marrying the son of the Minister of War?"

"Over the years, my daughter has not lived as extravagantly as people have said. Half of the rewards and salary you gave her have been used to train her private army."

Her eyebrows were raised high, and the curve of her lips was full of confidence:

"While my brother was in a coma, my people have replaced the eunuchs and guards in most of the palaces in the imperial palace!"

"Mother, there were also female emperors who ascended the throne in the previous dynasty. What's wrong with my daughter? Why can't I follow this path?"

The Queen Mother did not look at Princess Shouning, but cast her gaze at the pair of grandchildren who were still sleeping soundly beside her, and closed her eyes in despair.

Sin ah.

Outside the palace gate, the troops from the Central City Army were still guarding the gate.

Only one guard asked with a hint of doubt:

"Boss, things in the palace are getting more and more strange!"

Zheng Minglou curled his thin lips slightly and glanced at him:

"What are you afraid of? I'll hold up the sky even if it collapses!"

In the palace behind him, the screams and sounds of fighting became louder and louder.

Zheng Minglou slowly clenched his hand holding the sword, his eyes filled with gloom.

Until the ground beneath his feet shook slightly, Zheng Minglou suddenly looked up at the street in the distance.

The sky was already turning pale.

On the distant horizon, there were just a few blurry black shadows at first, but gradually a majestic formation emerged under the outline of the morning light.

As the distance shortened, the low and orderly sound of horse hooves began to echo in everyone's ears. A large number of cavalrymen rushed straight to the palace with unstoppable force. The dust raised by the horses' hooves formed a rolling yellow dragon, covering the sky and the sun, shrouding the entire team in chaos.

As they got closer, the ground seemed to tremble, and the air was filled with an oppressive yet exciting atmosphere.