Reborn, meet you again!

In the Cining Palace, the chill of early winter was dispelled by the red-hot charcoal fire.

Su Jinyue sat upright on the phoenix throne, maintaining the dignity of a queen dowager on her face. Only the flickering dark light in her eyes revealed her inner uneasiness.

"Your Majesty, the Prince Regent is requesting an audience outside the palace."

The palace maid's announcement made Su Jinyue's knuckles, which were tightly gripping the armrest, move, but she suppressed the uneasiness in her heart and spoke.

"Xuan."

King Huai had already told her that today, Jun Jiuchen might disobey his order and come to question her.

Now it seems that it is true.

While Su Jinyue was thinking, the door of the palace had already opened, and Jun Jiuchen walked into the palace with a chill on his black python robe.

"Meet the Queen Mother."

Su Jinyue had a polite smile on her face and raised her hand to signal for a seat.

"The Prince Regent is entering the palace at this hour, is there something important?"

Jun Jiuchen did not sit down as he was told, but just looked at Su Jinyue quietly.

"The Queen Mother ordered Prince Huai to lead the imperial guards to surround my residence and to hold Shangguan Yu hostage in the palace. How could I not come?"

Su Jinyue felt a little nervous when Jun Jiuchen looked at her, but she kept smiling because she thought of Ye'er hiding in the inner room.

"I see."

"The Regent must have misunderstood. I did give the order, but Prince Huai is the Minister of the Central Secretariat after all. Since he has doubts, I naturally have to ask him to verify it."

"Furthermore, I just heard from someone that what Prince Huai reported is indeed true... Empress Wei is a convicted empress, after all. The Prince Regent's private detention of her in his palace is truly inappropriate."

"I believe the Regent has no ill intentions. You can rest assured. As long as you hand the person over, I will not pursue the matter."

Jun Jiuchen looked at Su Jinyue, who was completely different from when she just came out of the cold palace, and his voice remained calm.

"Since the Queen Mother has heard the report, she must have known that I spared her life in order to thoroughly investigate the case of Prince Dingbei's treason."

"And the person I suspect is none other than King Huai."

"Prince Huai's ambitions are obvious. I have warned the Queen Mother more than once since she entered the Cining Palace. Now, does the Queen Mother really still want to believe him? And you want me to hand over this only remaining witness to him?"

Su Jinyue listened to Jun Jiuchen's question and just responded.

"The Regent is being overly suspicious. If this was truly Prince Huai's doing, why would he go to such great lengths to request permission and make it public?"

"I have my own opinion on this matter, and the Regent has no need to say more."

As Su Jinyue spoke, she looked at the face of Jun Jiuchen, who bore some resemblance to the Prince of Huai and even to her own underage son, and clenched her trembling hands into fists.

She stood up, met Jun Jiuchen's gaze, and said the words she had practiced many times.

"And... the Regent keeps saying that Prince Huai is ambitious. So, Regent, ask yourself, are you... really not hiding something important from me?"

"The Regent doesn't even dare to tell me his true identity. How can I trust your loyalty?"

When Jun Jiuchen heard Su Jinyue say this, his eyes darkened.

"I won't tell you because those who are already dead... don't need to come back to life."

"Furthermore, since the Queen Mother knows my identity, she should also know that if I wanted that position, you would not be sitting on this phoenix chair today."

"Could it be that the Queen Mother cannot even understand such a simple truth?"

The air in the hall suddenly became stagnant.

Su Jinyue looked at Jun Jiuchen in front of her and was silent for a moment.

How could she not understand what Jun Jiuchen said?

But what King Huai said was not without reason. Just because he didn't want it at the beginning doesn't mean he doesn't want it now or in the future.

unless……

He can make her feel truly at ease.

Thinking of this, Su Jinyue gritted her teeth and continued to meet Jun Jiuchen's gaze.

"I know that my mother and I were originally indebted to the Regent."

"I am willing to trust the Regent and allow you to continue investigating the conspiracy. I can even... obey your orders and not see Prince Huai again."

"But... the Regent should understand the principle of not allowing others to sleep peacefully beside my bed. Since you say you don't want this position, would you be willing to hand over the tiger talisman as a sign of sincerity?"

Although my father had selfish motives, one thing he said was right.

This power is different when it is in the hands of others than when it is in your own hands.

The reason why both Ye'er and she had no say in the court, and even when the envoys came to see her, they dared to ignore her repeated objections and wanted to force Ling'er to marry them, was because they knew that they had no real power.

She is not the kind of person who doesn't remember the past.

As long as he was willing to return the tiger talisman to Ye'er and be loyal to her wholeheartedly, she would have no worries.

She believed him.

even……

For Ye'er, she could put Ling'er's death aside for the time being.

can.

If he doesn't want to.

That would prove that what my father and King Huai said was not groundless.

Jun Jiuchen looked at Su Jinyue who was walking slowly towards him, and when he heard her say the word "tiger talisman", a dark light flashed in his eyes.

"Tiger Talisman? It seems the feng shui of the Forbidden City is indeed nourishing."

"In just one year, the Queen Mother has mastered the art of abandoning the donkey after it has served its purpose and destroying the bridge after crossing it."

"I just wonder who the Queen Mother wants to give this tiger talisman to...your useless father, or Prince Huai?"

"In my opinion, the Queen Mother doesn't need to ask for the tiger talisman anymore. She should just give the throne to Prince Huai!"