After my soul traveled to ancient times, I don't want to be cannon fodder

"It can be said that this can satisfy my son's selfish desire and successfully ask for the princess' hand in marriage!"

Duke Fuguo looked at him deeply. No matter how hard he tried to think, he couldn't figure out how he could still be so confident that he could marry the princess at this time?

Who taught him this natural confidence?

Chen Yan understood his father's confusion and immediately explained, "My son met a strange man some time ago and asked for a rare item. As long as we have this item, our wish will come true!"

Duke Fuguo:???

"This thing is called the Soul-Exchange Jade!" Chen Yan stared into his father's eyes, his voice as cold as ice: "The Soul-Exchange Jade, as its name suggests, acts on the body to exchange souls. The so-called soul exchange, of course, is to exchange the souls of two people!"

"You..." Duke Fuguo pointed at Chen Yan with a trembling index finger, his pupils shrinking slightly, and his voice was filled with surprise and disbelief, "That, that's the princess!"

"So what if she's a princess? As long as the soul exchange is successful, my son can marry her. The so-called princess is nothing more than a wife of our Chen family!" Chen Yan said as a matter of course.

What princess? Before coming to Beijing, she was just an ordinary woman buried among the people.

If she hadn't suddenly insisted on recognizing her as a relative and taking her back, who knows where she would be struggling to survive in the mountains now.

"The selfish motive you just mentioned, isn't it that you want to swap Fu Ying's identities with Princess Zhaohua?"

"My father is so smart that no son can compare to him!" Chen Yan immediately bowed and praised his father, giving his father a big compliment.

"Don't be so mean, boy. As you said, marrying the princess into the palace would indeed dispel His Majesty's doubts. But the problem now is that you have successfully offended the princess and cannot win her heart. She may not accept the jade you mentioned, and even if she does, she will not keep it by her side forever."

"If my guess is correct, this jade must be a spiritual tool, and there must be two pieces. The soul-changing person and the person whose soul is being changed each hold one. They must be kept by their side and played with constantly. Only with time can the soul-changing be successful."

Duke Fuguo stroked his short beard, his eyes bright.

Chen Yan's eyes lit up. At this moment, he felt that his father was not like what the outside world believed, a warrior who only knew how to fight.

On the contrary, he is very smart and good at hiding his shortcomings.

For so many years, he had only given the outside world the image of a reckless and reckless man. It was only today that he seemed to truly know his father.

"Next, whether we can succeed depends on our father and son's performance tomorrow. As long as we can package this jade into a family heirloom, preferably with the ability to protect the body and defend ourselves, then Princess Zhaohua will take it seriously!"

Chen Yan seemed to have thought of something and gave a very strange smile:

"Or, we could take advantage of this opportunity to poison her, and wearing this jade might suppress the poison. We could then ask a Taoist priest to tell us that this jade is imbued with spiritual energy, and that if we wear it for a full 49 days, the poison will be completely eliminated."

"So, what do you think, father?"

Chen Yan knelt on the ground, looking up at his father, whom he had regarded as a mountain since he was a child.

At this time, he desperately needed all the support from his father.

But Duke Fuguo shook his head slightly and said to Chen Yan earnestly: "Son, you are obsessed with love between men and women, and your thoughts and ideas are really limited!"

It means that your vision is too small.

"If this jade is truly a spiritual artifact with the power to replace souls, why must it be used on a mere woman?"

"The real threat to our family has never been that little princess from the common people, but the imperial power that weighs on our family!"

At this time, the Duke of Fuguo no longer had the cautious, honest and lovable demeanor he had in the palace. His gloomy face was filled with a strong desire and ambition for imperial power.

"Father..." Chen Yan was a little hesitant. He really didn't expect why things suddenly turned out like this.

What does father mean?

Before Chen Yan could catch up with his father's train of thought, he saw Duke Fuguo suddenly turn around and ask, "Where is the other jade? Is it with that woman from the Jiaofang Bureau?"

Chen Yan nodded hesitantly.

This jade was originally intended to avenge Ying'er.

The other piece, of course, had already been handed to her.

"You're so stupid!" Duke Fuguo was so disappointed. "If this jade is truly effective, we should make greater use of it. But you, a fool, only want to use it to please women."

"Old man, how could I have given birth to such a short-sighted fool like you?"

Chen Yan:........

"Father, what do you mean...?"

"As your father, if you hand this jade to Your Majesty... when I ascend the throne, I will adopt you as my own and name you the Crown Prince. As the heir apparent, you will have everything you desire, woman?"

"You can marry the little girl from the Fu family at will... so why are you so embarrassed?" Duke Fuguo's eyes flashed as he gave his stupid boy some pointers.

Chen Yan suddenly realized.

Yes, if his father was the emperor and he was the crown prince, it would be extremely easy to release a daughter of the Imperial Music Bureau or to overturn the case for the Fu family.

Even Princess Zhaohua could be destroyed by him with ease!

By then, won’t he be able to do whatever he wants?

But, no, the prince is still alive...

It's not a big deal. I've heard that after the Princess of Nanzhao poisoned His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the poison dissipated in his body and turned into a highly toxic substance. He needs the secret medicine of Southern Xinjiang to be cured.

Now he is seriously ill and won't live long.

Even if he were alive, as long as his father could become emperor, wouldn't it be easy for him to depose a prince?

Chen Yan seemed to have his mind opened up, and his thoughts became bigger and bigger!

What a man loves most is always his career. Even if he is temporarily trapped by love, all love must give way to his great cause!

Although Ying'er never said it explicitly, he knew that Ying'er had the prince in her heart.

If he could replace the crown prince and become the heir apparent, Ying'er's heart would definitely only be with him.

"Father, you are right. I am short-sighted." Chen Yan bowed and apologized. "Although this jade is said to be able to replace souls, it only has one chance. No one has tried it before, so I don't know if it is truly effective!"

"What if it's useless... and even hurts my father..."

Chen Yan was a little hesitant. This was a method forced upon him by Fu Ying's suicide attempt. He couldn't guarantee that it would really be effective, so he just tried it out first.

Setting up that heroic rescue plan was also for himself.

Even if the jade is ineffective for Princess Zhaohua, it will not prevent him from winning the heart of the beauty. What's more, marrying a princess is indeed beneficial to the family.

It's not entirely for Fu Ying.

But now, my father wants to make bigger plans with this jade, and he is also worried that if this jade is ineffective, my father will end up with nothing.