Remarrying Chun Yuan

Yuwen Chan only brought Tuoba Yun and five or six Mongol warriors into the palace. Even though they were strong, the Golden Feather Guards of the Great Qi were too numerous to fight against a hundred men.

Qin Mushuo didn't believe he would risk his life for two little brats.

"Just because we have more people?" Yuwen Chan sneered.

He put his index finger to his mouth and blew a whistle.

Soon, hundreds of guards emerged from the shadows, led by Li Chengyue.

Qin Mushuo was startled. Although he knew there were secret guards in the palace, he did not expect that there were so many hidden in his palace.

"Do you even know whose people you are? They are Mongolians, and you actually want to help outsiders against me? This is utterly outrageous!"

Yuwen Chan shrugged and looked at Li Chengyue.

Li Chengyue patted the two little ones on the head, "Of course they know whose people they are. I'm afraid Your Highness doesn't know, but His Majesty has already handed over the power of the secret guards to Yuan Cuo, and he is in charge of them."

Li Chengyue also looked at the Empress, "But it's not surprising that Your Highness doesn't know, Her Majesty the Empress does."

Qin Mushuo turned to look at the Empress, only to see that the Empress's face showed no sign of panic, as if she had expected it all along.

"Mother, do you know?"

The Empress nodded slightly. Although she had expected this scene to occur, she had not anticipated that Yuwen Chan would kill someone on the spot, and in such a bloody manner.

"I know that there are people lurking in the shadows who could attack Your Highness at any time."

Qin Mushuo: "..."

"So you also know that the Mongols have long been colluding with them?" he asked incredulously.

The Empress nodded again, "Of course I can guess."

"So you deliberately watched your son being made a fool of like a monkey?! Why did you do that?!" Qin Mushuo could accept outsiders watching him suffer, but he never expected that the person hiding the deepest secret was actually his mother, his own mother!

"Because I cannot bear to see you do well, and I do not wish you to be happy." The Empress spoke her mind directly. "I cannot tolerate you using your two children as leverage, or even trying to harm your father!"

Qin Mushuo shook his head repeatedly, completely incredulous. "Haven't I treated you well? I'm your own son! Are you only satisfied when I suffer?!"

"You should never have gotten this position!" the Empress said, her voice choked with sobs.

The moment she saw Yuwen Chan take the little buns and the little dumpling, she knew it was all over.

“If you still have a shred of conscience, wait for your father to come back and apologize; perhaps you will still have a chance to live.”

Qin Mushuo roared in a thunderous rage, "No!!!"

He suddenly remembered Jiang Yunjiao. That woman had said that this was a conspiracy, yet he had driven Jiang Yunjiao away.

He thought the Empress would stand up for him, but he never expected to be betrayed by his own mother. It was an absolute irony!

"Oh right, I forgot to give Your Highness a gift." Tuoba Yun suddenly stepped forward.

He was carrying a cloth bag, which he shoved directly into Qin Mushuo's arms.

Qin Mushuo was startled and almost threw him out.

But when he carefully opened it and saw that the object inside was Jiang Yunjiao's face, he let out a "whoosh" and fainted to the ground, convulsing completely!

The Empress thought he had been frightened to death and hurriedly summoned the imperial physician.

The scene before them began absurdly and ended just as absurdly, something even Li Chengyue and Yuwen Chan hadn't anticipated.

Yuwen Chan quickly took the children away and evacuated the palace.

Li Chengyue stayed there and saw that the imperial physician had confirmed that Qin Mushuo was not dead and took him away for treatment. He then knelt down and begged the empress to temporarily take charge of important matters, saying, "...You are the empress of the Great Qi, the mother of the nation, and it is most appropriate for you to give the order."

The Empress kept shaking her head, "I am guilty, I am not fit... So, where is His Majesty now? Do you know?"

Li Chengyue shook his head; he really didn't know about this.

The Empress was about to have Li Chengyue tell His Majesty to avoid Yaoqiao Bridge, as it was Qin Mushuo's biggest ambush, intended to kill Emperor Qixiao there.

But Li Chengyue didn't know how to contact His Majesty.

What to do?

The thought had barely formed in her mind when an urgent report came from outside the palace: "The Hawk Bridge has been blown up! The bridge is broken!"

The Empress's heart skipped a beat. "Where is His Majesty?"

"Their whereabouts are currently unknown... The prognosis is grim."

The Empress felt a chill in her heart and burst into tears, even fainting from crying.

The entire imperial palace of the Great Qi Dynasty instantly descended into chaos, turning into a complete mess...

Meanwhile, the Chu Emperor and the Qi Xiao Emperor watched quietly from afar as the Hawk Bridge exploded and collapsed.

If that group of people had been Emperor Qi Xiao, they would be a corpse in the raging torrent right now, perhaps not even a whole body, their fate would be too gruesome to bear.

Emperor Qi Xiao was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, "You wretched child! This wretched child! I will tear him to pieces! I will not let him get away with this!"

"So, it was I who saved your life, Your Majesty, you must remember to repay me." The Chu Emperor had been helping the Qi Xiao Emperor test Qin Mu Shuo's traps all the way, and he guessed every single one correctly, leaving the Qi Xiao Emperor completely stunned and numb!

How can a woman who both loves and hates him show him how his son plots against him?

Emperor Qi Xiao has been so angry these past few days that his teeth are aching from clenching them, and he's been pounding his chest and stamping his feet in frustration!

"How do you know so much? Could it be that you've been colluding with him in secret and are now trying to curry favor with me?"

"Because I am wise, unlike you who are so stupid." The Chu Emperor looked down on his foolish son. "I'm afraid you don't know that the Chu Kingdom has long since meticulously planned how to ensure that if your Qi Emperor were to travel incognito, you would never return."

"He only designed sixteen, while I designed one hundred and thirty-nine for you."

Emperor Qi Xiao: "..." So I should thank you for sparing my life?!

“Yu Nu, it’s not worth it.” He suddenly called out the name of the Chu Emperor softly. “I have never wronged you. You are the one who played me and my brother.”

"That's because Your Majesty hasn't had the chance to make a move against me." The Chu Emperor snorted coldly as he watched his Chu soldiers and Qi generals begin repairing the bridge.

"We can't go back anytime soon, Your Majesty, why don't you stay here for a couple of days?"

"Let's see what kind of chaos the capital of Great Qi will be in if news of your death gets out..."

"But if I were Yuwen Chan, I would definitely take this opportunity to wipe out the entire Qi royal family, leaving no one alive."

Emperor Qi Xiao was on the verge of tears, but he had no way to refute it. "I only hope to go back as soon as possible. Once I get back, I will hide in the palace and never want to leave again."

The news of Emperor Qi Xiao's "death" quickly spread throughout the capital of Qi.

The Empress has also ordered the Imperial Household Department to remove the previous decorations and replace them all with pale white ones.

When Liu Yuechu and Yuan Cuo arrived in the capital, they saw rows of white cloths hanging from the city gates.

"What happened? Has the city been massacred?" Liu Yuechu was unaware that the children had already been rescued.

Yuan Cuo shook his head. "I'm afraid not. Perhaps something has happened to His Majesty."