In ancient times, she gave birth to seven daughters and was divorced by her husband's family.

"Now he has been demoted to a sixth-rank official. I wonder if you are satisfied with this?"

Before, Pei Huizhou was a young official who almost became one of the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers, and among them, he was the most outstanding one.

Now he has been demoted.

But, even a demotion is not enough!

Bai Lu and the Crown Prince exchanged a glance, and then heard the Crown Prince slowly say: "Father, why do you have to let him be an official? It would be better to let him be a commoner and have nothing to do."

"...If it were someone else, to be honest, if he dared to do these things, disrupt the East Palace, and bring disaster to the Crown Prince's mother's family, he would have died a thousand times and ten thousand times."

"...Father, are you biased towards him?"

"I favor him for a reason."

The emperor spoke slowly, "You don't need to know about this kind of thing."

"In short, everything I do is beneficial to you. Just know that this is enough."

"...Okay, that's it!"

The prince nodded.

Then he heard Bai Lu behind him ask: "Since your majesty, Lord Pei, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince are all here, and the matter has been opened, I will ask some questions I want to ask."

"Okay, just ask."

When the emperor and the prince heard Bai Lu's words, their expressions immediately softened.

He asked the servants to prepare some tea and asked her to sit down, drink some tea, eat some cakes and take a rest.

After Bai Lu sat down, she looked at the man kneeling on the ground and asked him, "Master Pei, I have always admired you for having such a conspiracy and means."

"It's been so long, and I didn't realize it was you. You asked Haitang to mess up the Bai family before."

"It was you who replaced me with Bai Zhiyi and asked her to go to Kyoto to recognize her relatives, right?"

Pei Huizhou nodded: "You're right, it's me."

"The master behind Xie's current business should be you, too?"

"Yes."

Pei Huizhou nodded.

After that, Bai Lu continued, "Who was the previous master?"

"Why are you so sure that you had a master before?"

Bai Lu smiled and said, "The one who seduced my father back then couldn't have been that Xie who acted on a whim, right? Someone must have done it on purpose."

"And my mother's death was no coincidence."

"Also, when I was stranded outside, someone must have thrown me out on purpose."

“None of this is coincidence.”

"...If that's the case, it must have had a master before."

"But do you know who this master is? We can have a good chat and then we can keep our distance from each other!"

"If you say you don't know, then I'm afraid we won't be able to talk about this matter anymore, and there's no need to talk about it anymore."

"...If it weren't for this former master, I wouldn't have been living outside for so many years, becoming a widow, with my husband killed on the battlefield."

"I wouldn't have suffered so much outside for so many years, and I wouldn't have been a village girl for so many years. I wouldn't have almost died in bed when giving birth, and I wouldn't have been so tired of raising several children by myself."

"My eldest brother would not have taken poison outside the throne room. His health was so poor...many things happened because of this person."

With all the hatred added up, I must know who this master belongs to. If I don't know, I will die with my eyes open.

Bai Lu's eyes were as sharp as torches.

The emperor and the prince looked at each other, and their expressions became more serious.

Yes, they also feel that everything is not that simple.

I used to think it was a coincidence, but now I realize it is most likely a coincidence.

Maybe her mother's death and Bai Lu's wandering were not coincidences...

"..."

Pei Huizhou was silent for a while, then replied, "I don't know."

"Don't look at me like that. I really don't know."

"If I had known, I would have told you."

"All I know is... these people were handed to me for free, and I can use them and use them well."

Bai Lu fell into deep thought. She turned to look at the prince, and the prince turned to look at the emperor with a questioning look in his eyes.

The emperor sighed slowly, nodded affirmatively and said: "What Pei Huizhou said is true, he probably really doesn't know."

"If he had known earlier, he wouldn't have just done these little tricks."

"......If I didn't notice these things, it must not be Pei Huizhou."

"If Pei Huizhou's spies were so powerful, he would have become the emperor long ago. Why would he be plotting against the crown prince and you, Bai Lu, now?"

There was some sarcasm in the emperor's words.

Bai Lu was stunned when she heard this. Who in this world could escape the emperor's eyes and ears?

She couldn't help but be curious.

After Pei Huizhou returned, he said to Bai Lu calmly: "But I can be sure that someone is plotting against you and your Bai family behind the scenes."

"I think your mother's death was definitely not an accident."

"If you can do it, you might as well go and dig up your mother's body."

"Also, it wasn't an accident that you lost it in the first place."

"But this happened too long ago, and there is no way to verify it now. We can only try to find out from your mother's body."

Hearing this, Bai Lu nodded, and then said to Pei Huizhou: "Okay, I understand."

"... Pei Huizhou, are you going to go against me again?"

Pei Huizhou looked at Bai Lu, smiled, and did not answer.

The emperor had a bad feeling in his heart at this time, and he quickly said to Bai Lu and Pei Huizhou: "Alright, alright, now I have asked all the questions I should ask, you all go out, I want to stay here quietly for a while."

So the three of them went out.

The three of them pushed open the door and walked forward. On the left was the prince in a golden dragon robe, in the middle was Bai Lu in a white dress, and on the right was Pei Huizhou in black.

The three of them all looked extremely graceful from behind.

The three of them closed the door and stopped at the same time.

The prince turned his head to look at Bai Lu, and Pei Huizhou also turned his head to look at Bai Lu.

Then Bai Lu slowly said: "Should we... continue to fight?"

The prince and Bai Lu both looked at Pei Huizhou.

Pei Huizhou looked at the two of them and gave them a strange smile: "There is an irreconcilable feud between us, and we must continue to fight."

"I lost this round, but I may not be able to win the next one."

"Bai Lu, I'm not the only one you have against you. Be careful with your children."

"......Also, what I failed to tell you in the imperial study just now is that someone has been secretly watching your Bai family."

"It's not just me."

"If you pay attention to the details, you will find that when you were in Liangzhou Prefecture, you always felt that someone was watching you from behind..."

"If you don't win, Bai Lu...you know what will happen to you. It will probably be even more miserable than marrying me."