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Late at night, in a remote inner room in the capital, several people sat together, each with an extremely solemn expression.

"Sir, Nalan Ruo has fallen. Could it be that His Majesty has already..." A middle-aged man was restless and could not help but ask the person sitting in the upper seat.

The person in the upper seat slapped the armrest and refuted flatly: "Impossible, Chu Jun grew up under my watch. He doesn't have such tricks. The Queen Mother must be behind this."

Nalan Ruo was his right-hand man, and within a few days, the Nalan family suffered a catastrophic disaster. The people in the audience could not help but be surprised and horrified. But if he was asked to guess the mastermind behind it, he would never think of his seemingly innocent younger brother.

A young man tried to remind the prince sitting in the upper seat: "But the emperor's recent behavior in the court is not as simple as we thought before. Perhaps he was playing tricks on us."

"Yes, the emperor has become a different person since that incident."

"I think since the Emperor is the Empress Dowager's biological son, it makes no sense that he wouldn't have inherited any of the skills of the late Emperor and the Empress Dowager."

Prince Qi pondered the young man's words, his mind in turmoil.

If Chu Jun was acting after ascending the throne, then it was possible, but could Chu Jun really have been pretending for more than ten years before that? He didn't believe it. Even the most thoughtful person couldn't have remained imperfect for such a long time.

"Has there been any progress in investigating the people who impeached Nalan Ruo?" Prince Qi pulled his thoughts back and paid attention to Nalan Ruo's situation.

The person in charge of the secret investigation stepped forward to report: "No, the other party acted cleanly and efficiently, and the officials impeached have all passed away for some reason. From the surface, it seems that Lord Nalan lost his composure and killed them."

"Waste!" The clues were interrupted here, and even the mastermind behind the scenes was not found out. King Qi felt that there seemed to be someone behind them, eyeing them covetously, which made him feel uneasy.

Not only did the people in the upper seats feel uneasy, but the ministers who stood on the same side with Prince Qi were also anxious. Some asked Prince Qi for instructions on the next step: "Sir, with the loss of Prime Minister Nalan, our influence in the court has been greatly reduced. What should we do?"

Prince Qi pondered for a long time, and suddenly an idea struck him: "Have you investigated Mo Heng's background?"

"Your Highness, we have investigated thoroughly, from his birth to the loss of his mother at the age of three, to the abuse he suffered at the hands of the Mo family. Nothing has been left out."

Upon hearing this, Prince Qi could not help but sarcastically say, "That Mo Chong is truly an idiot!"

If you allow a son who has grudges against his family to be by the emperor's side, you never know when he will bite you back.

However, Prince Qi felt a little comforted. It seemed that Mo Heng was just a poor guy with no background. The changes in the emperor during this period should have nothing to do with him. They did not need to be too guarded against him, and could even take advantage of him if necessary.

When the people below heard Prince Qi mocking Mo Chong, they all echoed him, saying, "If it weren't for the change of dynasties, how could someone like Mo Chong have become the Minister of Revenue?"

"I'm really lucky."

"This fool is so lucky. Now Mo Chong not only sits on this position, but also sits on it very firmly. His son is favored by His Majesty in the harem, and was promoted to the third-rank throne yesterday. Naturally, everything goes smoothly for him." There was a sour tone in the person who spoke, and he was obviously envious of Mo Chong's good luck.

Someone realized Prince Qi's intention in mentioning Mo Heng and tentatively said, "Since the Mo family can persuade the emperor to marry, we can do the same. Since we failed to persuade His Majesty to marry, why not arrange for someone to enter the harem to prepare for emergencies?"

"I'll leave this matter to you. The emperor favors Mo Heng, so it shouldn't be difficult to find someone who looks like him." Prince Qi expressed satisfaction with the man's cleverness and waved his hand to give orders.

"Yes, sir." This person showed his face in front of King Qi, and his heart was even happier.

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"Nalan Ruo is dead?" Inside Shoukang Palace, Wei Lin's tone was rarely filled with surprise. Nalan Ruo's downfall was not surprising. What was surprising was that his downfall was so fast that he didn't even have time to linger.

Yao Shu had just received the news, and she hadn't expected Nalan Ruo to fall so quickly or so easily. "Yes, it was His Majesty's personal decree that the execution took place this morning."

"Oh?" Wei Lin folded his Buddhist beads in his hands, his eyes filled with both relief and surprise. "Nalan Ruo is not someone who can be easily eliminated. The emperor actually allowed Nalan Ruo to go to the execution platform. Moreover... there are so many loopholes in the court, and the emperor chose to touch the most hidden one. Do you think it was a coincidence or someone secretly helping him?"

"Even we haven't found any clues about the person behind this. If it's not the emperor who's behind this, then the person in the dark shouldn't be underestimated." Yao Shu said what Wei Lin was thinking.

Wei Lin leaned back on the couch, his face full of interest. "When one Nalan Ruo dies, another will take the throne. The emperor should know this. Unless the person behind this has a reason to get rid of him. You should investigate the Nalan family's affairs in more detail."

"Yes." Yao Shu gave the order and came back soon.

Wei Lin looked at the deep harem and suddenly thought of Master Mo, who was brought into the palace by his son. He asked, "How is the Mo family doing recently?"

"Mo Chong has never been a very stable person. Since His Majesty has been favoring Mo Jun for the past half month, and with the fall of the Nalan family, the Mo family is showing signs of being on par with the Wei family and the Lin family." Yao Shu replied.

Wei Lin didn't care much about the emperor's favoritism towards a male concubine. He only cared about the situation in the court: "Keep a closer eye on him. Stupid people like Mo Chong are prone to doing unexpected things. Don't let this one piece ruin the whole game."

"Yes."

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"Mo Jun~"

Mo Heng saw Chu Jun just stepping into the gate of Yong'an Palace, and he dropped his emperor's style and ran towards him in small steps.

Seeing Chu Jun's bitter face, Mo Heng hurriedly went up to him and asked, "Your Majesty, have you suffered any injustice?" He gently hugged Chu Jun.

Chu Jun felt uncomfortable when he thought about how Mo Chong had angered him during court. He pouted unconsciously and became even angrier.

However, when he thought of the rift between Mo Heng and the Mo family, he swallowed the complaint that was about to come out of his mouth.

Isn't it like rubbing salt into Mo Heng's wounds if I mention the Mo family in front of Mo Heng?

Chu Jun thought of the story about Mo Heng's childhood that she had just read. Her heartache for her former partner surged again, quickly replacing her resentment towards Mo Chong. She hugged Mo Heng's waist tightly and said in a muffled voice, "Nothing."

Seeing that Chu Jun didn't want to talk, Mo Heng could only pat Chu Jun on the back and comfort her silently.

The two of them just hugged each other quietly as usual. The servants around them had quietly left at some point, and were very sensible to leave the space for the two masters.

"Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet, and I guess we won't be able to go to bed until very late tonight." Chu Jun lay in Mo Heng's arms, and suddenly thought of something. He looked up at Mo Heng with expectant eyes.

Mo Heng didn't know how the topic came to this, but he somehow heard the hidden meaning in Chu Jun's words and continued in a gentle voice, "Your Majesty, do you want to rest today?"

"That's not the case..." Chu Jun certainly didn't really want to rest, he just didn't want to drag his tired body to the banquet tomorrow to deal with court officials.

Chu Jun was still infatuated with Mo Heng and had not yet recovered from the scene of Mo Heng acting coquettishly in the Imperial Garden a week ago. Now, even looking at Mo Heng's smiling fox eyes, she almost couldn't control herself.

It was not nonsense for the ministers in the court to say that he was blinded by Mo Jun. Chu Jun was indeed behaving like a tyrant now.

Mo Heng knew what Chu Yun liked best. He slowly tilted his head to the side of Chu Yun's neck, rubbing the tip of the pen against her skin. His voice was somewhat seductive: "In that case, Your Majesty, how about going to bed early today like you did that day?"

Chu Jun knew which day Mo Heng was talking about. It was naturally the first time Mo Heng entered the palace.

That day, the two of them quarreled until the evening and indeed went to bed early.

Chu Jun felt that what Mo Heng said made sense, so she didn't refuse Mo Heng's next move and was carried to the bed by him.