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Qian Mingduo was confused again, "Why is this happening?"

"When your father and aunt led the army to conquer the world, your father used the opposite method, which often achieved unexpected results."

Rui Yulan smiled, "The Imperial Aunt knows this best. He knows that the Imperial Aunt will protect the candidate for the Crown Prince, and he also knows that I am good at doing the opposite. Pushing you out is to let him know that the Crown Prince I have chosen is you."

"What if the emperor doesn't know that the imperial aunt is adopting the opposite strategy and punishes me? What should I do then?" Qian Mingduo asked hesitantly.

Rui Yulan smiled slightly and stroked Qian Mingduo's face. "Chen'er, do you believe the imperial aunt?"

"I believe you!" Qian Mingduo nodded vigorously.

"Okay then." Rui Yulan held Qian Mingduo in his arms and gently supported his back. "Then you should do as the imperial aunt ordered."

Qian Mingduo knelt on his knees and looked up at Rui Yulan. "Chen'er understands."

"If your father arrests you, no matter who interrogates you, you must tell them about your friendship with the general. But you cannot say too much, you only have to admit that you made friends with Wu Sikai." Rui Yulan sat down slowly, "Leave the rest to the aunt."

"If Wu Sikai does not admit to making friends with my nephew..."

"Don't worry about that. The Royal Aunt will give him instructions. When someone asks him, just let him answer according to our instructions."

Rui Yulan looked at Qian Mingduo. "If you were to say who in this world knows your father best, it would be your aunt. So, don't worry. As long as you follow your aunt's instructions, this world will belong to me, Chen'er, in the future."

"And... I'm sure that your father's choice for the crown prince of Chu must be you." Rui Yulan looked at Qian Mingduo. "Your father may seem strong, but he's actually sick and weak. He just doesn't want others to see it."

Qian Mingduo nodded, "I'm just worried that if my father finds out that I'm making friends with the generals, it will touch his bottom line."

"You are the crown prince chosen by the two of us. You are different from other princes. You only need to admit that you have had a relationship with Wu Sikai. There is no need to say anything else." Rui Yulan stood up. "Remember, the aunt is behind you. Just do what I say. That's all."

"I understand." Qian Mingduo looked at Rui Yulan and asked in a low voice, "Aunt Royal, do you know that my sixth brother has been detained by my father?"

"Shen'er sent an assassin to kill your father. He should have been executed immediately." Rui Yulan sighed softly, "He brought this upon himself."

"Aunt Royal believes that the assassin who assassinated my father was sent by my sixth brother?"

Rui Yulan glanced at Qian Mingduo, "Chen'er, doesn't your information agency have any information about this assassin? Where did this assassin come from, whose mansion did he enter... Which sect he belongs to, you should know very well."

Qian Mingduo nodded.

"Chen'er." Rui Yulan helped Qian Mingduo up. "As the crown prince, the future emperor, sometimes you can't think too much before doing things. When necessary... you must be ruthless, otherwise, you will regret it for the rest of your life."

"As for your sixth brother, that is something your father should consider. What you need to do now is to return to your prince's mansion and wait!" Rui Yulan said softly, "Remember, the royal aunt is always behind you to support you."

"I understand." Qian Mingduo took two steps back and knelt down on his knees. "I thank the Royal Aunt for everything she has done for me!"

Rui Yulan nodded slightly, watching Qian Mingduo disappear from her sight. Suddenly, a trace of ferocity flashed across her face, which had always been smiling.

"Ran'er, we have encountered a big event!" Qian Mingduo closed the door of the study, which was a move he had never made before, and what he said also surprised Lu Ran extremely.

"Your Highness, why do you say that?"

Qian Mingduo told Lu Ran everything he had discussed with Rui Yulan in the Princess's Mansion just now.

"Your Highness, are you suspicious of the eldest princess..." Lu Ran asked softly.

Qian Mingduo nodded silently. "I discovered something from Aunt Huang that scares me."

"What could possibly frighten Your Highness?" Lu Ran asked anxiously.

"Resentment!" Qian Mingduo leaned his head against the back of the chair, closed his eyes, and said softly.

"Resentment?" Lu Ran frowned, "The eldest princess's resentment?"

Qian Mingduo suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze was sharp, and the corners of his eyes were trembling slightly. "Although this trace of resentment only flashed by, but... I just caught it."

"If my analysis is accurate, the memorial that the imperial aunt submitted to the emperor is probably already on the way, and there is no need to wait until the emperor returns to the capital."

Lu Ran asked in confusion: "What is the purpose of the princess doing this?"

Qian Mingduo sighed softly, "My sixth sense tells me that the Imperial Aunt wants to put me to death! Moreover, the letter from my father that the Imperial Aunt showed me today may also be a fake."

"Why would the princess do this? To put His Highness to death?" Lu Ran shook his head. "There is no reason for this."

"I can't figure out what the imperial aunt is thinking. But I am sure that she is full of resentment and dissatisfaction towards my father." Qian Mingduo said slowly: "When she said that the person my father feared the most was her... there was an indescribable look in the imperial aunt's eyes, as if there was a flame burning."

"That was a deep resentment and unwillingness, as if the emotions that had been pent up in her heart for many years burst out at this moment. I could feel that her dissatisfaction with her father had reached its peak, and this emotion seemed to have affected her rationality."

He paused, and then continued, "I don't know what happened between them, but from what the aunt said, I can tell that she felt that she was let down by the emperor. Maybe it was because of power, status, or other reasons that made her feel disappointed and angry."

"Although the Royal Aunt is deliberately hiding her emotions, I can feel a chill in her words." Qian Mingduo frowned.

He was thinking about what to do next. He knew that this matter was related to the stability and future of the entire royal family, and also to his life and death.

"Your Highness, could you please report this matter to the Emperor?" Lu Ran said softly.

Qian Mingduo shook his head and smiled bitterly. "I thought about reporting this to my father, but I immediately rejected the idea. The imperial aunt can pretend that she knows nothing. She can show that she did nothing and said nothing. What should I do?"

"But the emperor asked her to secretly investigate the relationship between the prince and the generals. Only she and the emperor know about it, right?" Lu Ran held on to a glimmer of hope.