After marrying the heirless prince, I gave birth to three children

After seeing off the eldest princess, Xie Yao and Xiao Ji returned to the Yangxin Palace, and she took out the note from her hand.

There were only a few words written on the note, exactly the same words the princess had just said.

After Xie Yao read it, she handed the note to Xiao Ji and said after a moment's hesitation, "Your Highness, does your aunt suspect something?"

Xiao Ji nodded. "My aunt has always been intelligent and held power for many years. How could she not have this little bit of sharpness?"

"These past few days, I'm afraid I still had hope in my heart and didn't think about it that way. Otherwise, with my aunt's intelligence, how could she have figured it out only now?"

"Aunt is truly heartbroken." Xie Yao said, "The imperial family is the most ruthless. Our father... has truly lived up to this saying."

"Yaoyao." Xiao Ji heard this and immediately looked at Xie Yao with grievance, "I'm not, I didn't..."

Not including him.

Xie Yao: “…”

She glared at Xiao Ji and said, "Your Highness, I have something serious to tell you!"

Xiao Ji still looked serious and said, "I'm talking about serious matters." It was very important whether Yaoyao would misunderstand him!

Xie Yao was speechless again and could only agree with Xiao Ji, "Okay, okay, I get it. The people I'm talking about don't include His Highness."

Only then was Xiao Ji satisfied.

Then he got down to business, "My aunt has already left the palace due to illness. Next... our father should make arrangements for her to wake up."

When mentioning "Father Emperor", Xiao Ji's voice was full of coldness, without a trace of warmth.

"I think so," Xie Yao said, "I've already told my aunt that she won't do anything rash."

That's right.

Xiao Ji guessed last time that the mastermind behind the scenes who wanted to turn him against Xiao Wu was not someone else, but the "unconscious" emperor.

Li Zhong, although he seemed to obey the eldest princess in everything, was actually the emperor's confidant and followed his orders in everything.

The four treasures of the study sent by "Jieyou", plus the origins that were deliberately revealed, were all intended to lure Xiao Ji into using them.

The emperor knows all this...

This point also reveals another thing: the person who instructed Concubine Li to poison the late queen... was the emperor.

The medicinal herbs contaminated in the brush, ink, paper and inkstone were meant to trigger the witchcraft poison in Xiao Ji's body and take his life.

He was able to have such a great influence in the palace, to place so many people in the palace, and to make so many people prefer to die than to reveal a word.

There is only the emperor.

The eldest princess suddenly fell ill, and this matter was also related to the emperor, just as the emperor took action against Xiao Ji.

However, Xiao Ji had been prepared for this, but the eldest princess had never been on guard against the emperor, so she fell into the trap.

The eldest princess saw through this and rested for three days, but found that her health had not improved at all. She became discouraged and chose to leave the palace.

It was true that the emperor was in a coma at first, but Xie Yao and Xiao Ji guessed that he should have woken up earlier.

It’s not a few days early, maybe just these few days.

As for why he didn't choose to wake up immediately, but secretly plotted to murder Xiao Ji...

During the month or so Xiao Ji had been acting as regent, he had been praised by all the court officials. Even the eldest princess worried about how the emperor would treat Xiao Ji after he regained consciousness.

But now is a time of great turmoil. If the emperor makes his actions against Xiao Ji public... Xie Yao and Xiao Ji speculated that the emperor might be afraid that they would rebel directly.

After all, Pei Chen is Xiao Ji's man, and Pei Chen now holds military power, so the emperor is naturally uneasy.

Of course, these are all guesses.

As for why the emperor clearly had high hopes for Xiaowu before he fell into a coma, but suddenly cruelly attacked Xiaowu, Xie Yao and Xiao Ji could never figure it out.

It was just as Xie Yao and Xiao Ji had expected.

After the eldest princess left the palace, the defense of the main hall of the Hall of Mental Cultivation suddenly changed. No one except Concubine Shu and the fifth prince was allowed to enter the main hall.

The ones who led this matter were the eunuch in front of the emperor who testified for the imperial edict in Xiao Hong's hand that day and Li Zhong, the commander of the Jinwu Guard.

Li Zhong moved from the palace gate to the outside of the Yangxin Palace, and stayed guarding the main hall of the Yangxin Palace all day long.

But when Xie Yao learned that both Concubine Shu and the Fifth Prince could enter, she was still stunned and didn't understand what the emperor was thinking.

The only thing she could do was to secretly send a message to Concubine Shu, asking her to stay calm and not act rashly.

What if... the emperor did it on purpose?

Hall of Mental Cultivation, the main hall.

Concubine Shu was also shocked. The situation in the Yangxin Palace had changed drastically.

There are many unfamiliar faces...

Under such circumstances, Concubine Shu quickly walked to the bedside, nervously and uneasyly came to the emperor's side, and saw that the emperor was still lying there, she breathed a sigh of relief.