Transmigrating into a short-lived cannon fodder, she beat the son of destiny to pieces

The next day.

Xiao Huai was playing with Liu Liu when the guards came over with several men in black.

"Your Majesty!"

Several masked men knelt in front of Xiao Huai.

Xiao Huai glanced sideways and asked, "Are they all here?"

The guard replied solemnly, "Your Highness, I have fulfilled your mission and everything is here."

Xiao Huai ordered his men to remove the masks of several men in black, but they were all unfamiliar faces.

Xiao Huai snorted coldly: "That's cautious."

"Master, I have already cut their jaws in advance. I will interrogate them strictly when the time comes. I am not afraid that they will not confess!"

A hint of cruelty flashed in Xiao Huaifeng's eyes, "Very good, we must pry open their mouths!"

Prince Cheng's Palace.

"Oh!"

An exquisite teacup suddenly fell to the ground, breaking into pieces and spilling tea everywhere.

"Waste!" The young Xiao Hechuan's face was now gloomy and terrifying. "Didn't you solemnly promise me before that you would not fail?!"

The confidant bowed his head and knelt on the ground, "Your Highness, please calm down. I never expected that the Crown Prince would be so lucky. There is a pool of water under the cliff..."

"What about the people sent to pursue? Any news?"

The confidant gritted his teeth, his voice trembling, "The prince left yesterday after falling off the cliff, and until today... no one has returned."

"Lucky?" Xiao Hechuan laughed in anger, "Fool! I actually think Xiao Huai has tricked me this time!"

Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that there is a pool of water below the cliff?

And what a coincidence, the person they sent out to look for him disappeared without a trace?!

The confidant quickly apologized, "I deserve to die! I failed to realize this was a trap set by the Crown Prince. Your Highness, please calm down!"

Xiao Huai repeatedly adjusted his emotions, and said with a slightly relaxed expression: "Forget it, the most urgent thing is to think about how to prevent Xiao Huai's counterattack."

It seems that he has to go to the palace.

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As soon as he came back from the bottom of the cliff, Xiao Huai went to the imperial palace first, and then returned to the East Palace.

Because Xiao Huai treated Sui Ning with intimacy and respect, the servants in the East Palace all understood his meaning and treated Sui Ning as a guest of honor.

At this moment, Sui Ning was sitting in the pavilion with Liu Liu, warming themselves by the fire and eating skewers made by the maid.

Seeing this, Xiao Huai took the tools from the maid, sent her away and started working.

Sui Ning poured him a cup of hot tea and said, "You just came back. Don't be busy yet. Drink a cup of hot tea to warm yourself up."

After drinking the hot tea, Xiao Huai felt his whole body warmed up.

"Tell me how it went?"

Xiao Huai said nonchalantly, "My father was furious and handed those people over to the Dali Temple for investigation. The Dali Temple is full of my people, so Xiao Hechuan can't escape this time."

"It's just that Concubine De was there when we were discussing this matter, so she should have known about it."

Sui Ning was not surprised. She had felt that Concubine De was not a simple person a few years ago.

It is only natural that she would help Xiao Hechuan fight for the throne and attack Xiao Huai.

"Now you have fallen out with Concubine De and Xiao Hechuan. What about Xiao Helin? That little cutie must be in a dilemma now." Sui Ning asked casually with a smile.

But who would have thought that after these words were spoken, Xiao Huai did not respond for a long time.

Seeing Xiao Huai's expression was not right, Sui Ning's heart couldn't help but skip a beat, and she hurriedly asked, "What happened?"

At this moment, even Liu Liu, who was standing next to him, stopped eating the barbecue and looked at Xiao Huai seriously.

Facing the gazes of Liu Liu and Sui Ning, Xiao Huaifeng's eyes were slightly red, and his voice was slightly trembling, "Brother Lin... he's dead."

Upon hearing this, the skewers in Sui Ning and Liu Liu's hands fell to the ground with a "click".

Sui Ning was stunned. "Wha...what?"

Not long ago, she received a gift from Xiao Helin.

She also gave the amulet to Xiao Helin.

how can that be possible?

Unless he didn't have it with him...

Xiao Huai's eyes were red as he continued, "After you left, Concubine De intended to support me and the late Crown Prince to compete with each other, but because I always planned well, the late Crown Prince could not do anything to me."

"But last year on my father's birthday, the late Crown Prince tried to frame me for incest with the harem in order to deprive the Emperor of His Majesty's favor. He deliberately set up a trap and slipped an aphrodisiac into my wine."

"After I realized something was wrong, I didn't follow the palace servants to the resting place. Instead, I returned to the East Palace and summoned the palace doctor to detoxify me."

"I estimated the time and returned to the banquet. The former crown prince was waiting for someone to go to the rest area. Who knew that when I pushed the door open, I saw my brother bleeding from all seven orifices... lying in a pool of blood!"

"The imperial physician concluded that my brother must have taken a deadly poison before his death. He died of endless pain and heartbreak..."

When he said this, Xiao Huai's eyes were bloodshot, veins on his hands were bulging, and crystal tears were faintly flashing in the corners of his eyes.

Sui Ning was stunned.

In the past, no matter how hard or tiring it was in the cold palace, she had never seen Xiao Huai shed a tear.

He must be extremely sad now.

"Was this really done by the late crown prince?" Sui Ning asked.

She always felt that this matter was not that simple.

"My father was deeply saddened by my brother Lin's death. He ordered a thorough investigation. Finally, the former crown prince confessed that he had intended to frame me, but he said he had never prepared the intestinal poison."

"He said frankly that although he hated me, out of consideration for our brotherly love, he didn't intend to kill me. He just had someone prepare a bottle of aphrodisiac and a beautiful woman."

"However, there was only the tragically dead Lindi at the scene, not the so-called beauty."

The result is predictable. The former crown prince was demoted to a commoner by Xiao Yan, and even Queen Xian, who wanted to plead for the former crown prince, was banished to the cold palace!

Sui Ning didn't expect that Xiao Yan would make such a final judgment.

"Hasn't the Emperor noticed that this whole thing is full of loopholes?"

Xiao Huai scoffed, a hint of mockery flashing in his eyes, "How could I not know? I'm just considering the royal family's face."

Xiao Huaigui is the emperor, how could he be easily fooled by such a small trick full of loopholes?

This is a royal scandal. In the past, the struggle for the throne often caused bloodshed, but everyone's fight was carried out in secret.

Now that it's been exposed, if this matter isn't dealt with promptly, won't the royal family become a laughing stock for the entire world?!

Therefore, Xiao Yan could only vent his anger on the former crown prince and the former queen, and take this opportunity to weaken the power of the former queen's mother's family in the court and consolidate the imperial power.

The art of being an emperor is to balance the interests of the country and the family, without considering human feelings!

Sui Ning analyzed, "The former crown prince has been demoted, and the matter has been finalized. You will inevitably be implicated as well."

"The biggest beneficiaries of this whole thing are Xiao Hechuan and Defei, but it seems impossible."

No matter what, Xiao Helin is Xiao Hechuan's biological brother and Defei's biological son.

Even if Xiao Hechuan is extremely crazy, Concubine De will never let him do anything wrong because of her love for Xiao Helin!

Xiao Huai looked at Sui Ning with burning eyes and asked, "So, who do you think is the mastermind behind this?"

After a while, Sui Ning uttered three words, "Xiao Hechuan."