After entering the book, the cold prince begs for favor

A major event has occurred in the court.

On Consort Liang's birthday, the Second Prince, to show his filial piety, together with the Crown Prince, requested permission to hold a grand birthday banquet for Consort Liang.

Because of Consort Liang's meticulous care over the years, the Crown Prince also took it to heart and had his Crown Princess and the Second Prince's wife send out invitations to all the female relatives of noble families in the capital to come to the palace for a lively celebration.

Everything was fine until, halfway through the banquet, a servant of the Liang family burst in screaming, begging Consort Liang to save her young lady, Liang Yusong.

Liang Yusong is already engaged to Lu Jiangnian, the heir of the Marquis of Zhongyong's mansion, and is also the niece of Consort Liang, so her status is quite extraordinary.

A group of people followed Consort Liang and rushed over, only to find that the Crown Prince was trying to take advantage of Miss Liang.

God!

The Crown Prince has been behaving erratically lately, drawing repeated reprimands from the Emperor. However, the Emperor never expected that he would not restrain himself and would actually do such an absurd thing.

Miss Liang is his good friend Lu Jiangnian's fiancée, how could he do such a thing?

That's utterly despicable!

The entire court was in uproar.

This is the crown prince, the future emperor.

He is not even a king yet, but he dares to disregard etiquette and be so arrogant. If he were to ascend the throne, what would become of him in the future?

In a short time, the ministers in the court submitted memorials one after another, denouncing the Crown Prince's evil deeds. In order to quell the public anger, the Emperor had no choice but to depose the Crown Prince.

In an instant, everyone pushed the wall when it was down.

The crown prince was caught off guard by this unexpected turn of events.

After the incident, he insisted that he had been drugged, but the people from the Imperial Hospital investigated and found no clues whatsoever.

The emperor got annoyed and punished him for misconduct while drunk.

Thus, the crown prince title that had been on his head since birth disappeared.

Those who used to follow him are now deeply disappointed in him.

Lu Jiangnian rushed to the East Palace and beat him up, threatening to sever all ties with him.

At times like these, sincerity is especially precious.

Consort Liang had always treated him as her own son, and even now, she was unwilling to give him up.

She even went to great lengths, offending the emperor for him, kneeling outside the imperial study for a whole day and night, just so the emperor would show leniency.

How could the Crown Prince not dare to touch such a loving mother's heart?

Since he is no longer the crown prince, he naturally cannot live in the Eastern Palace.

At this point, the crown prince realized that his ascension to the throne was hopeless. In that case, why not support his younger brother to take the throne?

Of all his brothers, he has the best relationship with his second brother. Presumably, when he ascends the throne, he will not mistreat his former crown prince.

So he handed over all his connections to the Second Prince, and through some maneuvering, the Second Prince actually became the Crown Prince.

Just then, Lu Jiangnian, whom they hadn't seen for a long time, suddenly appeared before the former crown prince, Murong Chi.

Lu Jiangnian, dressed in black, sneaked into Murong Chi's study.

The two remained silent for a long time, neither of them speaking.

Finally, the crown prince asked with difficulty, "What brings you here?"

See his jokes?

Lu Jiangnian can't be that bored, can he?

To be honest, no matter what his reasons were that day, Murong Chi still feels ashamed to face Lu Jiangnian for making inappropriate advances towards Liang Yusong.

Although he seemed to have a good impression of Liang Yusong before that, he never imagined that he would be so despicable as to do such a thing.

Murong Chi is indeed unworthy of the position of Crown Prince.

To everyone's surprise, Lu Jiangnian dropped a bombshell.

"Your Highness, I suspect you have been bewitched."

what?

Murong Chi stared at Lu Jiangnian in astonishment: "What do you mean?"

He carefully examined Lu Jiangnian and found that he seemed to have changed a lot. He had lost his former charisma and exuded a coldness and sharpness that seemed to be able to cut others at any moment.

Lu Jiangnian said in a deep voice, "I have known Your Highness for many years. Do you think I don't know Your Highness's character?"

"There's definitely something wrong with what happened that day."

"Even if you have feelings for Liang Yusong, you wouldn't do such a despicable thing even if a knife were held to your throat."

"But you did it anyway."

Murong Chi gave a wry smile: "That's right, I also can't understand why I made such a mistake."

"That day, I didn't drink much, but when I saw my cousin Liang, I couldn't help myself..."

He looked intently at Lu Jiangnian, completely frank: "Jiangnian, I can't make excuses. At that time, I had a desire deep down. I... I guess that's the kind of person I am."

He thought he would be enraged by Lu Jiangnian's anger, after all, no man could tolerate his beloved woman suffering such humiliation.

However, Lu Jiangnian remained unusually calm.

"You're not that kind of person, you're just under a spell."

Lu Jiangnian mentioned Gu again, and Murong Chi also became serious.

"Did you find out something?"

Lu Jiangnian’s voice was icy as he explained his speculations and the evidence he had in hand.

"Your Highness, it's not just you who has changed drastically; my father has too."

Lu Song?

Murong Chi remembered that he had indeed heard Lu Jiangnian mention it a while ago: Lu Song suddenly wanted to take a concubine, which made the Lady Hou so angry that she was bedridden.

During that period, Lu Jiangnian was also extremely overwhelmed.

After all, it's a matter for elders, and there's very little he can do about it.

Later, he got into trouble, and we don't know anything about Lu Song taking a concubine or what happened to him in the end.

Lu Jiangnian continued, "Even if my father's old house caught fire and he fell in love with that concubine, he would never treat my mother so coldly, let alone trample on her dignity for that concubine."

"His personality has completely changed."

“I had Xuanhuang examine my father’s pulse, but he couldn’t find anything.”

Murong Chi was taken aback; it sounded quite similar to his situation.

"Your Highness is right, one by one, the people around me have all undergone a sudden change in temperament?"

"What a coincidence!"

Lu Jiangnian gave a self-deprecating smile: "I suspect that I've also been bewitched."

Otherwise, why would he like Liang Yusong?

Sometimes when I'm with Liang Yusong, we don't have much to say, but I can't help wanting to see her.

But deep down, he felt that he didn't like being close to Liang Yusong at all.

When everything is illogical, there must be a problem.

So he sent people to investigate the matter of Gu.

In the Great Jing Dynasty, very few people understood Gu poison.

Lu Jiangnian's men went to the southern border and managed to find out some information.

He pulled a letter from his pocket. "Your Highness, please take a look."

Murong Chi took the letter, read it, and then roared in suppressed anger, "Impossible!"

"Mother Liang could not be the murderer who killed Mother!"

Lu Jiangnian scoffed, "Do you really think it's impossible?"

The letter in Murong Chi's hand was secretly delivered to Lu Jiangnian a month ago.

The letter said that she noticed he was asking about Gu (a type of poison), and wanted to tell him about a long-standing injustice: when the late empress passed away, the court judged that the mastermind behind it was Tang Bo from the Imperial Hospital, but that was wrong from beginning to end.

The real murderers are Liang Fei and Gao Peng.

The letter also detailed the relationship between Tang Bo and Gao Peng, as well as how Tang Bo, having narrowly escaped death, was poisoned by Gao Peng and struggled to hold on, hoping to one day reveal the truth to the world.

However, he was eventually tormented by the Gu poison to the point of losing his human form and died half a year ago.

This letter can be considered Tang Bo's last wish. As for whether to investigate further, that's up to Lu Jiangnian.

The letter also mentioned that Gao Peng's wife was very likely from southern Xinjiang, because her surname was "Hua".

These events were undoubtedly a huge shock to Murong Chi.

No wonder he lost his composure like that.

Lu Jiangnian said calmly, "In fact, I found out that Gao Peng's wife's surname is indeed Hua."

“I had Xuanhuang focus on researching Gu, and he found some methods. He tested it, and there is indeed Gu in my body.”

Murong Chi looked at Lu Jiangnian in shock: "You've been bewitched too?"

"Ah."