The legitimate daughter brings disaster to the concubine! Seize the imperial power and the throne

As soon as one foot stepped into the gate of the East Palace, someone grabbed his arm. Lu Jingning hurriedly supported him and said, "Mother, be careful!"

Shangguan shook her head, her breath was a little unsteady: "You...your father is really not dead?"

His face was full of anticipation, waiting for a definite answer.

Lu Jingning felt a sore nose and nodded like a chick pecking at rice. She felt her arm suddenly feel heavy and most of Shangguan's body was leaning on her.

"Mother!"

Shangguan was breathing heavily, tears streaming down her face. Lu Jingning quickly took out a handkerchief and gently wiped her eyes: "Mother, this is a good thing. Father will surely have good fortune after surviving a great disaster."

She has removed all obstacles in the Eastern Palace. As long as her father comes back, that position will belong to her father alone.

From now on, no one will be able to stop me from plotting against my father.

Shangguan sniffed, her emotions gradually stabilized, and she pulled Lu Jingning to see where the person was.

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The prince was lying on the couch, and Doctor Zhong was taking his pulse. His fingertips were trembling slightly, as if he had not expected that the prince would come back.

It took a while for my emotions to stabilize.

Shangguan stood aside, not daring to breathe, waiting for Doctor Zhong to finish examining her pulse before she dared to step forward and said, "Doctor, how is His Highness?"

"Replying to the Crown Princess, His Highness is too weak and needs to rest."

"Is your life in danger?"

Doctor Zhong shook his head.

Shangguan finally breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't wait to sit on the couch. She reached out and held the prince's hand, extremely excited.

In just one hour, the news of the prince's return was like a huge rock hitting a calm lake, instantly causing splashes on the water.

"Is His Royal Highness really back?"

"Your Highness personally brought people to welcome His Royal Highness back. How could it be false?"

"Your Highness the Crown Prince survived the disaster, it's really the Bodhisattva's blessing."

"Whose body did Lord Bu find? It is still hidden in the imperial mausoleum."

Several young eunuchs were chatting together in the corridor. One of them pushed the other one in annoyance and said, "Shh! Stop talking nonsense. Be careful that the wall may have ears and your life may be in danger."

The man shrugged: "Master Bu is not in the capital anyway, so what is there to be afraid of."

Rumors were spreading inside and outside the palace.

Lu Jingning stood in the corridor and did not leave. She was still immersed in the joy of her father's return, and finally heard the news coming from inside.

"Wake up, wake up, Your Highness is awake."

Lu Jingning turned around and strode into the room. Sure enough, he saw the person on the couch opened his eyes. Shangguan was holding the prince's hand and crying. The prince gently patted Shangguan's back and said, "I'm fine. Why are you crying when you're so old?"

The familiar tone and body movements, even the look in the prince's eyes when he looked at Shangguan was full of tenderness.

Shangguan's face turned red, and she quickly wiped her eyes with a handkerchief to stop crying. She waved to Lu Jingning, "Aning, come quickly."

The prince looked at Lu Jingning and smiled kindly: "I haven't seen you for a while. Aning has lost weight again."

Lu Jingning felt a sour taste in his nose.

Her father was a man of both civil and military talents, but he had a very pure and kind heart and did not know how to be on guard, so he was plotted against by Prince Shen and the Emperor of Southern Liang and lost his life.

If she had the chance to do it all over again, she would definitely protect her father well.

"Father." Lu Jingning knelt in front of the prince. The prince bent over and helped her up with a distressed look on his face: "Have you suffered any injustice? Tell me and I will take care of it for you."

Lu Jingning shook his head.

"Did Prince Zhao bully you again?" The prince said helplessly, "Prince Zhao is not a stable man and is not a good match at all. You are the apple of my eye. How can I bear to see you being wronged?"

In her previous life, her father often told her that Zhao Sui was not a good match at all, but she was blinded and could not hear anything and insisted on getting married.

It's all her stupidity!

"Your Highness, there is no need to worry too much. Prince Zhao is dead, and his engagement with Aning has been cancelled." Shangguan explained.

The prince was stunned: "Dead? When did it happen?"

Shangguan briefly recounted how the Duke Su's Mansion colluded with the Prince Shen's Mansion and was demoted and punished by the Emperor. The Crown Prince still looked incredulous.

The prince sighed: "I didn't expect so many things to happen in the past few months when I was away."

Then the prince took the initiative to talk about how he fell into the water after the boat and was washed to the shore by the flood. He was rescued by a farmer. The farmer saw that he was dressed in extraordinary clothes, so he took off his clothes and put them on the drowned guard by the lake.

"During that period, people came down the mountain to investigate every day. Old man Liao and his family were worried that there were bad guys outside, so they resorted to this desperate measure. I lay on the bed for three months before I regained the ability to walk." The prince pursed his lips and said, "If it weren't for Old Man Liao and his family, I would have frozen to death and been eaten by wild wolves."

Shangguan was so distressed that she cried: "We must thank this old man Liao very much."

"It's natural."

The prince then rested. He spent more time sleeping than awake every day, and Imperial Physician Zhong stayed by his side every step of the way.

Shangguan stayed and took care of him without taking off her clothes.

Before leaving, Lu Jingning didn't know how to change her words. How should she explain that the current Emperor of Nanliang is no longer the real Emperor of Nanliang, but a secret guard in disguise?

She killed him with her own hands.

If her father knew, would he blame her?

I felt a little upset.

The night is getting darker

Lu Jingning was leaning on the couch, holding a collection of poems in her hand, but her mind had already drifted away. Xue Yuan saw that she was worried and asked, "What are you thinking about, Your Highness?"

To the outside world, everyone knew how much the Emperor of Nanliang loved his son, the Crown Prince. It was impossible for the Emperor of Nanliang not to see the Crown Prince when he returned.

Otherwise it doesn't make sense.

She shook her head slightly and asked, "Has there been any news from Lord Bu?"

“Not yet.”

Lu Jingning sighed softly and rubbed his brows after a sleepless night. The next day he got up early to visit his father, but Luo Bing's figure appeared in front of him.

"Your Highness, when I arrived at Rhino Village last night, the Liao family had already been burned down. I did not find any remains in the fire, but I found Mr. Liao dead in a cave not far away. I searched everywhere but did not see Mrs. Liao or the Liao family's daughter."

Lu Jingning's eyelids twitched. His father had just returned and something happened to the Liao family?

Who is behind this?

Prince Shen, Prince Ning, and Emperor Southern Liang are already dead. Who would bother to fight with a powerless person?

"How many people are there in the Liao family?"

"Your Highness, there were Mr. Liao and Mrs. Liao, as well as two daughters and two granddaughters, a total of six people. Only Mr. Liao was killed."

Now Lu Jingning was even more confused.

"check……"

"Your Highness."

The guard outside the door handed over a letter. Lu Jingning took it and opened it. Her eyes narrowed, her heart beat violently, and her hand holding the paper was still shaking.

It was the Shangguan family who took the initiative to send people to kill the Liao family.

"Idiot!" Lu Jingning was so angry that he immediately went to Shangguan's house to find out the truth without caring about anything else.

Shangguan Si had been waiting at the door for a long time. When he saw her coming, he immediately stepped forward to explain: "Your Highness, calm down. I did this for your own good."

Lu Jingning took a deep breath and asked gloomily, "Where are Mrs. Liao, her two daughters, and her granddaughter?"

"Your Highness, please go in and talk." Shangguan Si pointed inside.