The story of a bullied daughter's rise to power

After everyone made the decision, they found a fortune stick box, and then the Ninth Prince painted it red. He then asked Situ Yaorao to shake it and change its position before taking it over.

"Each of you draw one. If you grab a red one, you can open the mechanism. As for success or failure, it's all up to fate." Tan Tai Yun Yi said this, placing the lottery box in front of Tan Tai Wu Yue and Tan Tai Wu Shang. The Ninth Prince, watching from the side, also grew nervous. After noticing his own nervousness, the Ninth Prince couldn't help but secretly regret it.

He just came to watch the fun, why is he so nervous?

Success or failure depends on Third Brother. Thinking this, the Ninth Prince feigned composure and went to find a book. He seemed to be reading very seriously. Tan Tai Wu Shang and Tan Tai Wu Yue each took a cigarette.

After taking it out, Tan Tai Wu Shang smiled: "It seems that my luck is really bad. You are worthy of being my royal brother. Even the heavens are kind to me. This time, the opportunity belongs to me."

After saying this, Tan Tai Wu Shang placed the lottery stick in the stick holder, not looking disappointed at all. It was as if everything was according to his plan. This attitude made Tan Tai Wu Yue slightly wary.

Among the princes in the capital, the ones he valued most were Tantai Wushang and the Sixth Prince. The Sixth Prince was a talent, a talent worthy of an emperor.

He had many followers, and all he lacked was the status of a legitimate son. However, Tan Tai Wushang attracted more attention than the Sixth Brother. Although the Sixth Brother had the talent of an emperor, he was too straightforward.

In his eyes, everything must be fair. Therefore, the Sixth Brother never cheated and rarely schemed against others. He valued open strategies and absolute power. And the Third Brother… Tantai Wuyue's eyes narrowed slightly.

The third brother seemed unscrupulous. Furthermore, he was incredibly clever. You never knew when he would plot against you from behind. Even when he did, you wouldn't even know it was a plot. That was what made him so terrifying.

"Royal brother, please." Tan Tai Wu Shang handed the lottery box to Tan Tai Wu Yue and said. Tan Tai Wu Yue took the lottery box and slowly explained: "The core of this plum blossom nine degrees is in this study."

After saying that, she began to search. Seeing this, Situ Yaorao opened the dark room she had just fallen into again and said, "Are you looking for this?" Tantai Wuyue saw the dark room, looked at her deeply, and said, "Did you fall in there accidentally?"

"How do you know?" Situ Yaorao widened her eyes and asked dissatisfiedly.

Upon hearing this, Tantai Wuyue couldn't help but chuckle, "Because you're very dirty." He then patted Situ Yaorao's head and led her into the darkroom. Inside, Situ Yaorao's candle was still burning, and Tantai Wuyue said, "I met Qiulian, the designer of this mechanism, a few times before. She was a very smart woman, but also very determined. She sacrificed not only her beloved, but herself as well."

She had built a mechanism here. But creating a chain mechanism wasn't so simple. So, if this larger mechanism contained a small one capable of burying two people, the core must be here. Back then, Qiulian named this mechanism "Burial Flower." Now, it's fitting. If one isn't careful, those plum blossoms will be buried."

After Tan Tai Wu Yue finished speaking, he walked around the dark room very calmly, and then as if he could see, he knocked on a wall, and saw that the wall was completely falling off.

A ring of gears leaning against each other was exposed. None of them moved. But if anyone moved the plum trees, all the gears would move, destroying the entire Qiushui Villa.

"Is this the core?" The Ninth Prince, who had been following them, finally couldn't resist his curiosity any longer and ran forward. Tan Tai Wu Yue remained silent.

Seeing this, Tan Tai Wu Shang's eyes flashed with a gleam, but he didn't say anything.

"If nothing unexpected happens, this is the core." Tan Tai Wu Yue finished speaking and was about to place his hand on the gears. Just as he was about to touch them, he glanced at Tan Tai Wu Shang. Seeing that he didn't move, a trace of disappointment flashed across his eyes. Then, the next second, Situ Yao Rao grabbed his hand.

With a serious face: "Not here."

Situ Yaorao's words made everyone in the room look at her. Then Situ Yaorao walked over to the chair, moved it aside, and with a light touch, a secret compartment appeared under the chair and was slowly lifted up.

There, a night-shining pearl, its interior entwined with countless gears. The pearl's exterior also bore numerous small holes, laced with iron chains. These entwined chains stretched downwards to an unknown location. Without waiting for anyone to approach, Situ Yaorao smashed the pearl, sending the crowd reeling as if the ground were shaking.

The entire villa seemed to be about to collapse.

"Damn it! Did I find the wrong one?" the Ninth Prince yelled. But soon, everything stopped. The gears that were supposed to be moving were broken.

Everyone ran out in a hurry. After seeing that a large number of plum trees had fallen down but were not buried in the ground, everyone felt relieved.

"It worked, thanks to you." Tantai Wuyue looked at Situ Yaorao gently, the smile in her eyes so obvious. Situ Yaorao heard her words, her eyes flashed, and she said, "Don't you know that too?"

Situ Yaorao's words startled Tantai Wuyue. He blinked, as if he was a little confused.

"You didn't press the trigger just now, and you were looking at the Third Prince the whole time, presumably to confirm something, but the Third Prince remained indifferent. So I stopped you from moving on." Situ Yaorao's voice was soft, so quiet that only she and Tan Tai Wu Yue could hear it. Upon hearing this, the gentleness in Tan Tai Wu Yue's eyes became even more apparent: "I can't hide anything from you."

"Your disappointment is too obvious. So, what do you want to know?" Situ Yaorao looked at the man curiously. The man's eyes flickered as he heard her words. "I just want to know if there's still any humanity in his eyes. If I really press that trigger, it will be the people of Jiangnan who will die."

I thought he would have some compassion in his heart and stop me, but he did nothing." Tantai Wuyue said somewhat disappointedly.

"Maybe they just don't know." Situ Yaorao rolled her eyes at him, thinking that this guy tends to think too much.

However, a hint of sarcasm flashed across Tantai Wuyue's eyes. "Oh! He doesn't know? If he doesn't know, then no one else in this world would know. Yaorao, do you know that among our group of brothers, the smartest one is not Yun Yi, but Wushang? It's just that Yun Yi's intelligence is out in the open, while his intelligence is hidden."

"Him?" Situ Yaorao's gaze flickered. She didn't have many impressions of Tan Tai Wushang. And they were all bad ones. Tan Tai Wushang was a man of deep scheming. He openly disliked her, yet he still took her on a boat trip. And then, he made a very quick choice between Leng Qingling and her.

At that moment, she felt that this man was useless. If he really wanted to use her, he should at least do it in a complete way, abandoning everything he had planned just for a woman. How could she care about such a person?

And since then, her impression of Tan Tai Wu Shang has always been that of a man who would give up everything for a woman. This has not changed until now.

So, when she heard what Tan Tai Wu Yue said, she felt like she was listening to a joke.

"It's true. As brothers, no one knows them better than me," said Tan Tai Wu Yue. Upon hearing this, Situ Yao Rao couldn't help but glance at Tan Tai Wu Shang, who was chatting with the Ninth Prince. A hint of suspicion flashed in her eyes. This person, really smart?

So...what was the reason for doing that in the first place?