In my previous life, I killed my whole family. In my next life, I killed the royal family.

The incident of the Third Prince sending his guards to kill people made Li Zhi and Lu Fengyun restrain themselves a little, and they withdrew the guards guarding outside the Qi Mansion.

Only then did they realize that if the prince got angry, he would be no different from a madman.

However, they will not give up the idea of ​​marrying Miss Qi.

Li Zhi relied on the help of his brother-in-law, the second prince, and his sister, the princess, but he also changed direction and looked for opportunities to make friends with Qi Yuan.

Lu Fengyun is determined to win, as his cousin Lu Feng will be the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

He went to the Ministry of Revenue several times and, through the introduction of Lu Fenghui, he got acquainted with Qi Ze. Both of them were from the imperial examination system, were knowledgeable, had similar views, and felt that they had met too late, and soon became friends.

In a blink of an eye, it’s August 15th.

The emperor held a dinner on Mid-Autumn Festival and invited all members of the royal family to gather together.

At the banquet, he said to everyone: "The royal family should unite and not make a fuss about anything. It will make outsiders laugh at me and make it difficult for me to manage the government. If there are things that cannot be resolved, please ask the Zongzheng Temple to mediate and deal with them."

"If I knew about this, I would be furious and you would bear the consequences yourself."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Everyone stood up and answered respectfully.

Everyone present understood that no matter what the princes had done wrong, the emperor would give them fifty strokes of the cane and would not punish the princes.

Princess Daning was very upset, but she had no other choice but to swallow her anger for the time being.

At the end of the banquet, the emperor ordered a cart of tribute to be sent to the two princesses.

His three princess daughters also got two carriages.

The crown prince and several princes each received three carriages.

The emperor also sent someone to deliver a sumptuous banquet to the third prince who did not attend the banquet, as well as two beautiful ladies with outstanding temperaments, and gave him three carts of tribute, half of which were precious gold and silver treasures, to show his comfort to the third prince.

When the third prince learned the news, he immediately sent someone to inquire whether other princes had received the same reward.

When the Third Prince learned that neither the Crown Prince nor the Second Prince got the beauty, his anger subsided a little.

However, when the third prince wanted to enjoy the beauty, he found that no matter how hard he tried, he was unable to do anything after more than an hour.

In the end, he could only helplessly comfort the two beauties and said, "After my leg injury is healed, I will come back to favor you two."

"Yes, Your Highness." The beauty lowered her head and held her breath. As soon as she inhaled, a foul smell came out.

They secretly felt lucky that the Third Prince was impotent.

For the time being, she no longer had to serve the half-paralyzed Third Prince in bed, who smelled like a pig in a pigsty.

Chunqi Hall in the imperial palace.

The emperor drank wine at the banquet and scolded the imperial sisters to make them swallow their anger, and he felt proud and happy.

When he was young, he was often scolded and disciplined by his two imperial sisters.

When he came back, he was in high spirits and called a beautiful woman to sleep with him.

Beforehand, he drank a bowl of deer blood, took a tonic pill, and hugged a beauty. He couldn't do his work and his nose was bleeding.

The emperor stared blankly at the roof and covered his nose with a handkerchief.

Ever since he ascended the throne as emperor, he could no longer favor beauties normally. In the past eleven years, no prince or princess was born in the harem.

The emperor couldn't tell anyone about this unspeakable secret.

The concubines could not speak, and the imperial doctors dared not speak.

In order to live a good life, the concubines in the entire imperial palace backyard pretended to be favored by the emperor and openly competed for his favor in various ways in order to win the emperor's rewards and promotions.

Zuo, who pretended the best, got pregnant and had a miscarriage. She put the blame on a favorite concubine. After the concubine was eliminated, she was named Guifei Zuo.

The emperor knew the origin of this disease.

The night before he came to power, he was making love with a beautiful woman in bed.

Suddenly, a guard came to report, "The little prince doesn't seem to be burned to death, he escaped." The emperor was so frightened that he became weak. From then on, no matter how strong the medicine he took, it was of no use.

The emperor's nose was bleeding, and he was thinking about the same question he had been thinking about for the past ten years: "Where did Wang Qin escape to?"

For many years, he had been sending his trusted guards to search secretly everywhere, even overseas, but he still could not find any trace of Wang Qin.

As he lay in bed, he was confused and puzzled, "Is it someone else pretending to be him? Or did the guards trick him?"

Suddenly, he heard a voice: "Royal brother." The voice seemed to come from outside the house.

The emperor was so surprised that he immediately sat up from the bed and looked out the window in fear.

I saw a figure clearly reflected on the window paper, and it was obvious that this was not an illusion.

In this world, the only man who could call him royal brother and who might still be alive was Wang Qin.

However, what shocked the emperor was that Wang Qin was able to move freely in the heavily guarded palace, which meant that he had extremely high skills or had the assistance of a master.

No matter which situation it was, it made the emperor feel terrified.

"Ah ah!" The emperor cried out in panic twice, then hurriedly slipped out of bed.

Because he was nervous, he walked out of the room wearing only a thin inner garment, and did not allow anyone to follow him.

The cold moonlight sprinkled down, covering the earth with a layer of silver glow and illuminating the two brothers standing opposite each other.

The emperor looked at his younger brother who had grown up and became a handsome man, and couldn't help but sigh that time flies.

He looked at him carefully again and saw that his younger brother was looking at him with bright eyes and majestic demeanor, which was surprisingly similar to that of his father back then. He was shocked and took a breath of cold air. He stepped back unconsciously and his heartbeat became more and more panicked.

Wang Qin looked at his brother's haggard and uneasy look and felt mocking in his heart.

"You...you are still alive!" The emperor asked with difficulty, his lips trembling.

"Heh." Wang Qin raised the corners of his mouth slightly, revealing a cold smile.

He said bluntly: "I am still alive and well. You are also alive, but you don't look good."

The emperor became angry and took a few steps forward.

He lowered his voice and said, "You were too young back then, and you were on good terms with the Pei family. After you become the emperor, you can only become a puppet of the Pei family."

"Do you remember what our father said? We cannot allow any family to become bigger and stronger, surpass our royal family, and challenge our royal authority."

Wang Qin sneered, "So you're going to kill your brothers? Kill me and seize the throne?"

"I am for our royal family..."

"For your own sake." Wang Qin interrupted him and added, "I'll see how you will face my father in the future. He trusted you so much and entrusted me to you to assist in government affairs, but you wanted the whole country and even killed the crown prince chosen by my father."

“……” The emperor was speechless. This was exactly the reason why he couldn’t sleep every night.

As soon as he closed his eyes, he seemed to see his father standing in front of his bed, pointing at him and cursing, "You unfaithful son, you dare to kill your brother to seize the throne. You are unfilial and disloyal, you will not die a good death!"

After a while, the emperor said to Wang Qin unconvincedly: "I am also a prince, and I am older than you. Why can't I be the emperor?"

Wang Qin sneered, "You asked a good question. Why did you make the eldest son the crown prince instead of the second and third princes?"

He then asked: "If your crown prince dies, will you make the second prince the heir or the sixth prince born to the queen the heir?"

"Of course, the queen must be able to give birth to the sixth prince."

Wang Qin's sneer was even louder, as if he had known that the emperor would never be able to give birth to another son or daughter.

“……”The emperor was speechless again.

There is a difference between legitimate and illegitimate children, and an order of seniority. Legitimate sons always come first. This is a rule that ensures the stable inheritance of a dynasty and a family.

The emperor understood this principle very well, so the crown prince he appointed was also the eldest son, even though the crown prince's knowledge and ability were not as good as the second prince.