Dressed as the prince's substitute? I took the throne

The moon rose in the sky, illuminating the East Palace like daylight.

Under the bright moonlight, in the open space outside the bedroom, Yale Leng was escorted by a group of guards, his face full of resentment and anger.

Just now, his injuries were not serious, and when he was about to fight back, he was captured by the guards who rushed in from outside.

"Brother Yale, I have a big family, please don't bully me!" Zhou Chuxuan clapped his hands and jumped around Yale Leng, making Yale Leng so angry that his blood rushed to his head and he almost fainted on the spot.

"You, you deliberately lured me here? You are so scheming!" Yale Leng felt a deep regret in his heart. He should not have believed Zhou Heguan's one-sided words.

"Brother Yale, I didn't lie to you! I've already given you the crossbow!"

Zhou Chuxuan squatted beside Yale Leng, sneering in his heart.

He had long known that Emperor Wu had placed spies in the Eastern Palace to monitor him, so bringing Yale Leng in would definitely attract Emperor Wu's attention.

"you!"

Yale's chest was filled with blood and he took a few deep breaths to calm himself down.

Erhu stepped forward and gave Yale a cold kick: "Behave yourself! If you dare to talk nonsense again, I will chop you down right now!"

At the same time, he glanced at Zhou Chuxuan with a complicated look, his eyes flashing with a strange light.

"The Emperor has arrived!"

Following the old eunuch's thin and sharp shout, Emperor Wu strode into the East Palace, exuding a heroic air between his brows and a majestic aura without even being angry.

Emperor Wu strode up to Yelu Leng and stared at him. "Look up! I'm mindful of your long journey, so I scheduled our meeting for tomorrow. Yet, you broke into the Eastern Palace at night? What's your intention?"

"Father, I wanted to make friends with Brother Yale. He gave me his sword, and I gave him a crossbow. Brother Yale didn't seem very satisfied!"

Zhou Chuxuan scratched the back of his head while still chewing a banana in his mouth.

"Haha, Liannu! You're so brave! Yale Leng, do you think I don't know about your Liao Kingdom's ambitions?"

Emperor Wu's eyes flashed with murderous intent: "Even if the Sixth Brother is stupid, he is still my son, the Crown Prince of the Wu Dynasty. You broke into the Eastern Palace at night with the intention of killing the Crown Prince of the Wu Dynasty. You will die!"

"Come here, take him away. In three days, I will personally execute this man and send him back to the Liao Kingdom!"

"Is all this within your calculations?"

After everyone left, Xu Hanyan blew out the candle and asked in a low voice.

"Of course! Besides, I can't let Yale die of cold. He is an important chess piece!" Zhou Chuxuan lay on the bed, looking at Xu Hanyan, and gently bit a grape.

The cold light in his eyes made Xu Hanyan tremble all over. After a while, he said, "You are indeed very extraordinary, but if you do this, it will definitely attract the Crown Prince's targeted actions!"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is extremely intelligent. He may have already guessed that you are not truly stupid!"

"If he guesses it, then let him guess it. I can't keep this foolish identity forever! Otherwise, how can my father be confident in passing the throne to me?" The light in Zhou Chuxuan's eyes became more and more cunning.

"I am the only one who will inherit the throne, and you will be the Empress in the future!"

"But he will be back in the court soon. By then, with the power he controls, your fake identity will be exposed soon!" Xu Hanyan bit her lip, feeling a little worried.

"Haha, who is real and who is fake, we will never be able to tell until the last moment!" Zhou Chuxuan raised the corner of his mouth in a strange arc and chuckled twice.

"Don't think too much. You have only one path to walk with me now! Don't think about being a two-faced person. That will only hurt yourself!"

Zhou Chuxuan's words made Xu Hanyan tremble all over. Her pupils shrank wildly. She turned her head with difficulty and looked at him in disbelief: "You...what's wrong with you?"

"How should I know, right?" Zhou Chuxuan shook his head, a hint of coldness in his laughter: "From the beginning, your cooperation with me was just a temporary measure. You can't believe that I can really overthrow His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

"But you don't want to die at his hands, so you still hold out a glimmer of hope for me! When the Crown Prince returns to the court and you discover that he's powerful and I have no chance of winning, you'll sell me out to save your own skin, right?"

"you you!"

Xu Hanyan covered her chest with her hands, and in the darkness Zhou Chuxuan could clearly see the fear in her eyes.

Zhou Chuxuan slowly stood up, sat next to Xu Hanyan, and embraced her trembling body: "Don't be afraid, I understand your feelings and actions!"

"But I hope you won't be so quick to side with him before the final result comes out!"

"How about it, Princess, do you understand what I'm saying?"

Wisps of hot air blew against Xu Hanyan's ears, making her feel itchy, but she was in no mood to enjoy it. She swallowed a few times before squeezing out a word: "Yes!"

"That's good!"

Zhou Chuxuan smiled evilly, left Xu Hanyan's side, slowly opened the door of the secret room and walked in.

Every day he has to do a lot of training in there to restore his own strength. Restoring his own strength is the best guarantee for survival.

At the court meeting the next day, Emperor Wu was furious.

"Where are the members of the delegation? Have they all been captured?"

The commander of the Imperial Guards knelt on the ground and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty, last night, a total of twenty-three members of the delegation attempted to escape from the capital, but we captured them all! They are now imprisoned in the Sky Prison, awaiting Your Majesty's decision!"

"Alright, three days from now at 15:30, behead them all at the South Gate!"

Emperor Wu cast his sharp eyes over his ministers. "Did you see that, my dear ministers? A mere foreign nation dared to cross the sea to the capital, break into the Eastern Palace under cover of darkness, and attempt to kill our Crown Prince!"

"If there was a great general in the Wu Dynasty who led an army and stationed troops at the border to enhance our country's prestige, how could such a thing happen?"

"How is Zhang Kejian? Has he confessed?"

Emperor Wu looked at the Minister of Justice Wang Jian who was standing drowsily beside him, with a hint of dissatisfaction in his eyes.

"Your Majesty, last night, Zhang Kejian was murdered. When I arrived, it was already too late." Wang Jian said hesitantly in a low voice.

"What? In your prison, with its strict security, how could someone be killed? And a person who was being interrogated? How did you, a minister, do that?"

Emperor Wu slammed the dragon table in anger. His deep and powerful voice echoed in the Taiji Hall, shaking the hearts of every minister.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I truly do not know about this matter! My patrols and defenses are the same as usual. I really don't know what's going on this time!"

When Wang Jian saw that Emperor Wu was furious, he immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.

Zhou Chuxuan, who was standing aside, was playing with the jade slip in his hand, with a gleam in his eyes.

This prince's methods were truly ruthless and decisive, leaving no one alive.

"No need to wait three days. Today at 3:30 PM, behead the envoys and display their heads in public!"