I'm shocked! After breaking off the engagement, the emperor's uncle wants to have a fake m

Mu Xinshang, who always lost his temper, shouted, "Mother, is what A-Yu said true?"

The Lan family couldn't save face or dignity.

The people immediately understood the whole story. No wonder she broke up with Earl Mingyuan over the marriage and later hurriedly entered the Duke's Mansion as a concubine. It turned out that she was afraid that she could not hide her pregnancy and wanted to find someone to take the blame.

Duke Fuguo is really pitiful. Two of his three children are not his own...tsk tsk tsk...

This female official of Shangyi, who always looked down on others, and the arrogant prince's companion, turned out to be the child of Lan's affair...

Mu Ruge was almost going crazy. She had never been so embarrassed in her life...

She shouldn't have listened to the Queen Mother and come to watch the execution today! This is just asking for humiliation!

She yelled at Lan, "Why are you so despicable! You like this man, why do you want to marry someone else! I hate you! Go to hell!"

She only knew that the humiliation she suffered today was brought about by the Lan Clan, but she forgot that her glory in the past was also brought about by the Lan Clan.

Mu Ruge had already left, and Mu Xinshang couldn't bear to lose face, so he left too.

Originally, Mu Qingyan was still worrying about how to properly expose this matter, but she didn't expect that Mu Yingyu actually saw Zhou Yuan going to exchange prisoners.

This was an unexpected surprise.

Lan was naturally executed by slow slicing, and Nanny Zhang, who had followed Lan in committing many evil deeds, also died by hitting her head on the execution platform after witnessing Lan being slow slicing.

And Mu Ruge, don’t even think about being high and mighty and being the detached Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady who is not concerned with the mundane world.

Without her respectable background, she would no longer have a place in the palace. Even if the Queen Mother could maintain her dignity, she herself would not have the face to stay.

Zhou Yuan, who was imprisoned for secretly exchanging prisoners on death row, finally realized why the prisoner exchange was so smooth. It turned out that someone had dug a trap for him and was waiting for him to jump in...

It would be better if he didn't go to save the Lan family.

His two children would not have to suffer the infamy and become infamous for being born out of wedlock.

It was his lack of consideration that ruined all these years of hard work...

There were footsteps outside, and soon, the footsteps stopped in front of the cell where he was.

He didn't need to look up to know who was coming, "You're here..."

Duke Fuguo wished he could cut him into pieces!

Over the years, he regarded this person as a close friend, but this person put the greatest shame of a man on his head.

"Since I met you, I think I have done nothing wrong to you. Why do you want to humiliate me like this?"

Zhou Yuan laughed, and that laugh was full of self-mockery. "Humiliation? I didn't mean to humiliate you. Fang Yi and I truly love each other... But her father looked down on me for being poor. Even if I passed the imperial examination and became famous, he would still look down on me as an orphan without a father or a mother... Do you think I was happy when I learned that Fang Yi was going to marry you as a concubine?"

Mu Sinian only blamed himself for being stupid. Over the years, he and Zhou Yuan had often drank together, but he had never noticed anything unusual about him. He even raised two excellent children for him.

I thought I could bring honor to the family with these two children, but in the end, I was just making wedding clothes for others!

"So, you are also a follower of Prince Yong, right?! The reason why Marquis Mingyuan wanted to cling to my Mu family was because he had already joined Prince Yong early on and valued the Mu family's reputation in the court, so he did not hesitate to let his daughter become a concubine!"

Zhou Yuan didn't say anything, but the answer was obvious.

He has another unknown identity, but unfortunately this identity cannot be made public, so he will always be from a poor family.

Although he is now deeply involved in the government, he is very different from these nobles.

Even though he holds a high position and has great power, he cannot erase his humble origins.

He wanted to live an honest life and didn't want to carry a secret all the time.

It's a pity that after all his efforts, he failed. Even his children were implicated by him...

"You have been smart all your life but you have been foolish for a moment. You have finally climbed to your current position, but because of an old and ugly woman, you have failed. I don't know whether I should praise you for your infatuation or laugh at you for being stupid. What's so good about the Lan family? They are narrow-minded, selfish and vicious. I don't know how many lives they have owed to them. Why do you love her?"

Whenever Mu Sinian thought about the fact that he had been sharing the same woman with the man in front of him all these years, he felt sick!

Zhou Yuan lowered his head, "That's how you see her... not how I see her..."

"Then just wait, you will be able to go see her soon!"

Mu Sinian was so angry that his head was swelling and he left in anger.

Zhou Yuan in the cell sneered, "Don't worry, I won't die. As long as that good mother is still alive, I won't die..."

In the imperial study, the eldest princess with gray hair on her temples sat arrogantly at the side, refusing to give in. "It's just a change of death row inmates. The person who was supposed to be tortured to death was tortured to death, wasn't it? What's the big deal? Why do you insist on putting him in jail?"

Emperor Jianning was really troubled. The eldest princess was deeply loved by his grandfather and had an arrogant and domineering personality. Even when his father was in power, he could not help but feel inferior to her.

Now that she is his elder, he has to show some respect to her for the sake of his royal grandfather.

"Aunt, the country has its own laws, and the family has its own rules. Zhou Yuan secretly replaced the death row prisoner and flouted the law. According to the law, I want to dismiss him and investigate him. Now he is only imprisoned and has not been punished. If this is discovered in private, it can be covered up. Today, the execution ground is in full view of the public. The people have seen it with their own eyes and heard it with their own ears. If I let him go lightly, will people doubt his identity? If his identity is discovered, how can I save my dignity, aunt? Where will the face of my royal family be placed?"

The Grand Princess refused to budge. "Hmph! I am already this old, what shame do I have? Could it be that someone dares to accuse me of something in front of me? I just want him to come out without any punishment. The emperor can do whatever he wants!"

Emperor Jianning saw that she was determined to make him submit.

As an emperor, how could he be coerced?

"Aunt, what you mean is that you don't want this face anymore? You don't want the princess's status, fiefdom, and land, all of these, right?"

The eldest princess's eyebrows immediately rose, "When did I ever say that?"

"My father has issued an order not to allow you to disclose Zhou Yuan's identity, nor to use your status and position to seek official career for him. Otherwise, your title and all the glory that belongs to a princess of a country will be revoked. Just now, aunt said that she no longer cares about face. Doesn't that mean that she doesn't even want the status of a princess? Did I misunderstand?"

The eldest princess's face turned green. "You, you have grown wings now, and you dare to talk back to your elders! I am the eldest princess! Even your father, the emperor, has to respect me! How dare you, a junior, humiliate me like this!"