After rebirth, I became the widow of my mortal enemy

Yan Mobai sighed.

"Your Highness, I'm just being cautious. If Your Highness hadn't done this today, Yan Kunpeng would have taken Ge Mingshu's family back to Jiangnan, and Miss Yuan would have led the Yuan family army back to the border. They wouldn't have shown up, and nothing would have happened."

King Ning was speechless.

"Second brother, just surrender!" said Emperor Zhaoqing.

Prince Ning's eyes turned empty and he looked at him.

"Father, I want to ask you a truthful question. I have worked diligently for the country and the people, and I am loyal to you. Why do you refuse to make me the crown prince?"

Emperor Zhaoqing looked at him with deep eyes.

"Because you are my son, I have watched you grow up, I understand you and know what kind of person you are!"

Prince Ning shook his body slightly and smiled bitterly.

Do you know what kind of person he is?

He doesn't even know what kind of person he is, how could others know?

Moreover, he has obviously done a good job over the years, doing everything according to the emperor's wishes. What kind of person could he be?

It's just an excuse.

"Then may I ask, Father, who is your favorite candidate for the crown prince?"

"I am in my prime, and appointing a crown prince is not an urgent matter. I don't have a suitable candidate in mind for the time being. Of course, you are not ruled out, but you are too impatient and ruin yourself." Emperor Zhaoqing replied expressionlessly.

King Ning sneered after hearing this.

"There is no suitable candidate, and you cannot rule out the possibility that it could be me? Even now, Father, you still want to deceive me. Do you think I don't know?"

Emperor Zhaoqing looked at him.

He raised his hand and pointed directly at one person: "Is he the one that Father has in mind for the crown prince?"

Everyone in the hall was shocked.

The person he was referring to was Yan Mobai!

Even Yan Mobai himself showed an expression of surprise and confusion.

Pass the throne to an outsider?

This man has gone crazy, what nonsense is he talking about!

Prince Ning smiled, a smile that was bitter and ironic: "Your Highness has long known that he is also the son of the Emperor."

This sentence was like a bolt of thunder, exploding in the hall.

Everyone was shocked.

Including Yan Mobai.

How can this be?

Emperor Zhaoqing pursed his lips, his face darkening.

He turned his head and ordered Jun Dingsi's men and secret guards: "Everyone stay, and the rest of you leave!"

Although everyone was curious, they had to obey the order.

He bowed and left Longyin Palace.

Only Emperor Zhaoqing, Zhan Zhan, Prince Ning, Yan Mobai, and Xi Quan were left in the hall.

"Please, Master Xi, help me to release the acupuncture point." Yan Mobai said.

Xi Quan looked at Emperor Zhaoqing.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, he held the sword in his hand, faced King Ning, quickly moved his feet, came to Yan Mobai, and reached out to untie his acupoints.

"Why? Father, are you afraid that the ugly things you have done will spread out?" Prince Ning said with a smile.

Emperor Zhaoqing frowned: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Back then, when my father was still a prince, there was also a fierce competition for the throne. Once, my father was ordered to go to Guanzhou to handle some business. On the way, he was ambushed by other princes and was seriously injured. He was then rescued by an orphan girl from the countryside."

"My father has been recuperating in this orphan's home for more than a month. He has developed feelings for the orphan and they have become husband and wife. Of course, it is possible that they have no feelings for each other and are just attracted to her because she is beautiful."

"After my father recovered from his injury, he bid farewell to the orphan girl and returned to the capital, where he devoted himself to winning the throne and finally entered the East Palace. A year later, my grandfather passed away and my father ascended the throne as emperor."

"I waited and waited but received no news from my father, so I came to the capital."

"At this time, my father is already the emperor, and he has just ascended the throne. The country is unstable, and he needs to use the harem to win over forces and balance the court. Why would he marry an orphan girl from the countryside?"

"The emperor then tricked this girl into becoming a nun at Huixin Temple, saying that when the time was right, he would summon her to the palace under the pretext that the Imperial Observatory needed nuns. Because she was a nun, no one would suspect that she had an affair with the emperor."

"The girl believed it, and afterwards, my father went out of the palace in disguise many times to meet with her and have sex with her. When Yan Huating chased the bandits up the mountain and reached Huixin Temple, my father must have been in the temple."

"My father designed a plan to poison Yan Huating and get the orphan drunk. He wanted to have them sleep together so that he could completely get rid of the orphan and push her to Yan Huating."

"Who would have thought that by some strange coincidence, Yan Huating raped another nun under the effect of the drug. When my father found out, he killed the nun and put Yan Huating on the orphan girl's bed, and he also let everyone in the nunnery know about it."

"When Yan Hua Ting woke up, he thought he had raped the orphan girl, and the orphan girl thought so too."

"The orphan girl later went to look for the emperor, but he refused to see her anymore. She thought it was her own fault, so she stopped pestering him."

"Not long after, the orphan girl found out that she was pregnant. She thought the baby was from Yan Hua Ting, so she went to the Marquis' Mansion."

"Yan Hua Ting was afraid of his wife Jin's domineering behavior, and he didn't want to be responsible for a girl, so he refused to let her into the mansion, spoke harshly to her, and only gave her a little silver to send her away. The orphan had no choice but to leave."

"Father, am I right?" There was a bloodthirsty arc on Prince Ning's lips.

Yan Mobai seemed to be under a spell of immobilization again. He stood there motionless, his face pale.

Emperor Zhaoqing glanced at Yan Mobai and pursed his lips.

After a while, he rebuked King Ning in a deep voice: "What nonsense!"

The sarcastic smile on Prince Ning's face became even more intense.

"Why, Father, you don't even dare to admit what you did? Father, you said it yourself, how could your son be talking nonsense?"

"When did I say this in person?" asked Emperor Zhaoqing.

"It was a long time ago. I was about two or three years old at that time. Mother was in great favor at that time. One day, mother wanted to give father a surprise, so she hid on the top of the painted boat in the middle of the lake where father often went to drink tea. She wanted to perform a celestial flower show for father. But father told eunuch Wang about it and asked him to send someone to find the orphan girl. Mother heard everything and was so scared that she didn't dare to show up."

"Later, my mother secretly sent someone to investigate the matter, and then everyone knew about it."

Emperor Zhaoqing was surprised. He didn't expect it to be like this.

A hoarse and trembling voice sounded, it was Yan Mobai.

"So, Your Highness rescued me from the dog fighting arena because you knew who I was?"

"Yes, otherwise, there are so many children like you in the dog fighting arena, why would I save you alone?" King Ning said truthfully.

At this point, there is no need for him to put on a show anymore.

"I thought that by saving you, giving you a good life, and letting you learn skills, my father would definitely be grateful to me and treat me differently!"

"Even when my father asked you to assist me, I thought it was because my father valued me. Who knew..."

Prince Ning laughed so hard that his shoulders trembled.

"Who knew that he actually wanted you to gain experience? Who knew that in the end, I was helping him train a prince!"

After he finished speaking, his smile faded and a vicious look appeared in his eyes.

"So, why do you think I am so anxious and so eager? Why do I want to cut off my arm to get rid of you?"

"Because I know that no matter how slowly I take things or how patiently I wait for the flowers to bloom, it will be useless!"

"I should let you die in the dog fighting arena!"