After eavesdropping on my thoughts, my whole family changed their fate

He seized the opportunity and when the dancers and singers had all left, he resolutely took off his hat and walked quickly to the emperor.

He knelt down with a thud and told his story.

"Your Majesty! Twenty years ago, Gu Boqing swapped my identity and took away my position as the top scholar. Your Majesty, please help me!"

He suddenly rushed out, scaring everyone present. The eunuch thought he was an assassin and immediately called the guards over. The whisk flew up and almost hit the emperor in the face.

"Someone, come and protect the emperor! Who are you? How did you get in? How dare you disturb the emperor!"

The emperor wanted to say that he was not disturbed, but had been waiting for him for a long time. He raised his hand to stop the personal eunuch.

"No problem. I want to hear what injustice he suffered. All of you leave."

Finally! The big show has finally begun, and the fun is about to begin.

He took out the melon seeds snacks he had prepared and started watching the show.

The guards retreated, and when Gu Boqing, who was standing by, saw who it was, he was so scared that he sat down on his chair.

"How...how could it be him!?"

Shouldn't he be locked up in a village in the countryside? Why is he here?!

Big beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, and his back was wet with sweat in an instant. His brain was working quickly, thinking about how to respond.

I must not let him tell what happened back then, otherwise I will be in danger of losing my life.

Gu Boqing staggered forward and bowed:

"Your Majesty, please don't listen to his nonsense. I don't even know him, so how can I steal his position? He is trying to frame me. Please don't believe his slander."

Lord Jiang, who was sitting at the table opposite, snorted coldly at this time.

"He hasn't said anything yet. Why is Lord Gu so anxious? Could it be that, as he said, there is a hidden story behind your winning the first and third place in the imperial examinations?!"

If you are innocent, why are you so excited? A man of integrity has nothing to fear. Although he doesn't know Gu Boqing well, he knows Jin Yuanyuan well.

She hates her biological father so much, so Gu Boqing must not be a good person.

The other ministers would at most say a few words behind his back.

These old foxes would not rashly believe Tong Qi's one-sided words without knowing the truth.

But Lord Jiang doesn't care about that. He has offended many people with his mouth, not just this one.

The emperor applauded Lord Jiang in his heart, but on the surface he still pretended to be calm and honest.

"What Jiang Aiqing said makes sense. We need to hear what the person involved has to say about what happened. Tell me, what is your name?"

Tong Qi replied respectfully:

"Your Majesty, my name is Tong Qi, and I was a tribute student in the same class as Gu Boqing twenty years ago."

The emperor knew his name early on and had probably heard about what had happened. He pretended to cough twice and looked serious.

"Tong Qi, what happened to you guys back then? Why do you say that Gu Boqing stole the spot?"

Jin Yuanyuan looked at the emperor and sighed in his heart.

[The emperor is so calm, his voice, stage and appearance are all perfect, as if he really doesn't know about this matter. Could it be that... as an emperor, he has to specially study how to hide his emotions? ]

When the emperor heard Jin Yuanyuan's wild idea, he almost laughed out loud.

The prince saw this, pulled his sleeve awkwardly and reminded him in a low voice.

"Father! Be careful, this is a formal occasion, not our backyard."

The emperor nodded awkwardly, then turned serious again and listened to Tong Qi's stories about the past.

When Tong Qi recalled the past, his eyes were filled with resentment.

"I met him on my way to Beijing. We have similar backgrounds and got along well. After we came to Beijing together, we lived next to each other."

"From the time I entered the Imperial Examination to the time I came out, he didn't show any abnormality. He even encouraged me, saying that I was so talented that I would definitely be on the list, and that we should change our fate together."

"But when the list came out, he was ranked first, and my name was not on it. I thought he performed exceptionally well and I was not as good as him, so I didn't think much about it. I even celebrated for him and treated him to a meal."

"I am not discouraged by the lack of results. I plan to go back and prepare well and take the exam again later."

"But when I was packing my luggage and preparing to leave, I accidentally saw Gu Boqing and the invigilator coming out of the restaurant. They looked very close, with their arms around each other's shoulders."

"Out of curiosity, I followed him and heard him thank the invigilator for exchanging my place for his this time and for promoting him to a higher position after he married Miss Jin."

When he heard these words, it was like a bolt from the blue.

He never expected that Gu Boqing, who had chatted with him and asked him for advice in the dilapidated temple, would eventually give him a fatal blow with a knife.

What he said was well-reasoned and many of the details could not even be fabricated.

Everyone present was a smart person and could tell at a glance whether what Tong Qi said was true or false.

Everyone looked at Gu Boqing with amusement and contempt in their eyes.

"You...you are lying! Your Majesty, we don't know each other at all. What he said is one-sided and there is no evidence at all. You must not believe him!"

Gu Boqing has been an official for so many years and knows the emperor very well.

He attaches great importance to evidence and will not believe Tong Qi's opinion just because of sympathy and pity.

He has kept Tong Qi locked up for so many years and has not been able to force him to reveal the evidence in his hand. I'm afraid he made it up to deceive him.

As long as he refuses to admit it, there is nothing he can do to him.

The emperor looked at Tong Qi, wanting to hear how he would refute Gu Boqing.

"Tong Qi, what Gu Boqing said makes sense. You have no evidence. You are just talking nonsense. Do you have any evidence?"

He knew Tong Qi had evidence, but he didn't know what it was.

Tong Qi kept it tightly covered so that no one in the Jin family had ever seen it, and he insisted on showing it to the emperor first.

Without saying a word, he took out a lot of papers from his pocket and presented them to His Majesty.

"I have evidence. These are the testimonies of the invigilators he bribed. There are also articles written by Gu Boqing and I, and... there are also testimonies from my wife and children who were killed and the neighbors around me. Your Majesty, please read them yourself."

It took him a long time to collect these.

When Gu Boqing became the son-in-law of the Jin family, he rose to prominence quickly and was promoted quickly, soon surpassing the invigilator at that time.

In order to prevent subsequent troubles, Gu Boqing asked someone to remove the examiner's official position and hired a killer to assassinate him.

The invigilator was no pushover either. Every time he helped someone cheat in an exam, he would write a statement of testimony to prevent any accidents from happening.

If he dies, they won't have an easy life.

He died so quickly that he was assassinated before he could threaten anyone with cheating.

Tong Qi also went through many places before he found these.

After seeing this, the emperor was furious, his fingertips trembled with anger, and he was no longer in the mood to watch the show. His heart was filled with anger.

He threw all the evidence at Gu Boqing's head.

"Gu Boqing! Just look at yourself and see how you are going to argue about this!"

He originally thought that it was just cheating in the Spring Examination, but he didn't expect that Gu Boqing killed so many people in order to cover up the matter.