After the system set its sights on the dragon throne, the princess started courting death every day.

The kneeling ministers slumped their backs, some in shock, some exhausted, some terrified, each in their own posture, with half of them trembling with fear.

All of them served in the same court and had had contact with the Third Prince and the Fifth Prince, both openly and secretly. If Xiang Xin were to implicate them, half of the people present would lose their heads.

The moment his head hit the ground, the prime minister trembled all over. It took him a while to move. He held one head in each hand with a blank expression. If you looked closely, you would see that his hands were shaking.

After walking two or three zhang (approximately 6.6 meters) outside, the Prime Minister's last breath suddenly dissipated, his legs went limp like noodles, and his hands lost all strength.

Inside the emperor's bedchamber, everyone held their breath. Xiang Xin seemed oblivious, carefully wiping the bloodstains from the sword with a fine cotton handkerchief while softly humming an off-key tune.

Silence speaks louder than words.

After a long while, the sword was restored to its original state. Xiang Xin fiddled with it for a while, then suddenly chuckled, "Xiao Jiu, the sword you gave me is indeed very useful."

Xiang An, who had been pretending not to see anything, was suddenly called out, and his shoulders trembled: "It wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me..."

It's so perverted and cruel that everyone is afraid of it.

[Are you scared? Have you forgotten how you killed the emperor?] The system suddenly popped up.

“He deserved to die,” Xiang An replied. “Xiang Xin implicated me, but I didn’t. Even if I were to implicate someone, I would kill ten generations of their family, shake all the egg yolks in the house, and split the earthworms in half vertically. Either I don’t do it at all, or I do it to the extreme.”

Thinking back to the several times he had lost his life because of the emperor and various other reasons, Xiang An was still resentful.

In a novel, your behavior would make you a villainous supporting character.

Xiang An said in a low voice, "If protecting oneself is considered vicious, then I hope I can be even more vicious."

[Because you killed the emperor, so many people in the Yuan Kingdom froze to death this year. Don't you feel any remorse? Because there is no emperor and no crown prince has been appointed, the princes have rebelled, causing panic among the people. Don't you regret it?]

"I feel guilty, but I will not regret it. Besides, if the people freeze to death, how could they not freeze to death if the emperor were alive, given how cold the weather is this year? Even if the emperor were in charge, would the princes not rebel? No, they would."

"At most, they'll go from open rebellion to secret plotting for the emperor's sake. Those who deserve to die will still die, and in the end, there can only be one winner. Don't you know the story of the 'Nine Princes' Struggle for the Throne' in history?"

There's nothing wrong with killing an animal; her biggest mistake was not using the law, but killing a human in a fit of anger, and also killing the emperor at the wrong time.

She regretted nothing else, and sneered, "System, are you a saintly system?"

"You want me to do nothing and ascend the throne out of compassion? If that's the case, then I can only wish you a dream come true. I've said from the beginning, 'If you want the throne, the emperor will die sooner or later.' It's just a matter of sooner or later."

"If you don't want the emperor to die again, then change your mission. Anyway, I've already vented my resentment by killing the emperor twice, so I can now rest peacefully under his command."

[You cannot change tasks.]

"Can't change it? Then let me ask you, will the words written on the paper disappear after restarting? What is the invisible barrier? Can it be upgraded? What are the conditions for upgrading?" Xiang An asked.

However, the system disappeared once again.

"Damn system! Is this how you want to play? Just you wait, just you wait. Wait till you show up again, and we'll see if I'll even acknowledge you!"

Xiang An went berserk, Xiang An went crazy, and then she snapped in a fit of rage. Why get angry at a damn system? It's not worth it to kill yourself with anger.

Inhale…exhale…calm down…

Once things calmed down, the atmosphere in the palace was tense. Everyone was silent, their faces grim. Xiang Anpiao stood beside Fu Qingbai, looking at him: "What did Xiang Xin do again?"

Xiang An had no way to deal with her perverted brother. In the original owner's memories, the two siblings had very little contact; to be more precise, Xiang Xin did not want to see her.

Empress Liu's death was too sudden, and the little girl had no one to take care of her. It was Xiang Xin, who was six years old, who raised her. Later, when she got older, Xiang Xin moved to the prince's residence. Every month on the fifteenth, the original owner would bring things to the prince's residence to see him. Sometimes it was food, and sometimes it was treasures and rare items.

If Xiang Xin was in a good mood, he would come out to get his things himself. If he was in a bad mood, he would wait at the door for a whole day without coming to see him. Even if he did come out, he would start cursing if he said the wrong thing. If he was obedient and dared not speak to him, he would curse even more filthyly. His temper was very unpredictable and hard to fathom.

The most common things I heard on a daily basis were: "The eldest prince beat the servant again today," "Your brother went to a brothel today," "Xiang Xin was punished by the emperor to kneel," and so on. Whenever the original owner heard these words, he would immediately go to the palace to plead for him.

In the vast capital city, only the emperor and Xiang Xin were her relatives. However, the emperor had too many sons and daughters and was too busy with state affairs and politics. He might visit her once or twice a month, and these visits were when the emperor entered the inner palace to see Xiang Xin and also to see her.

The original owner of this body didn't care whether she was an appendage or not. She cherished her kinship with the emperor and Xiang Xin, and considered herself very lucky to have the closest family she had in this world. Therefore, even though Xiang Xin didn't like her, she never missed the fifteenth of each month.

It was precisely because she discovered how much the original owner cared about the emperor and Xiang Xin that Xiang An agreed to the marriage alliance in the second game, exchanging one opportunity for a hardened heart later on—it was well worth it.

They just didn't expect the emperor to be such a scoundrel.

Xiang An sighed, "So be it, no one will ever make me soften my heart again."

Xiang Xin is usually a bit of a scoundrel, but now he can leave all the old foxes in the court speechless. I wonder what he said when she was distracted.

The frozen scene naturally had to be broken. Bai Yuchen knelt forward a step, tears streaming down his fair face: "Your Majesty, it is already difficult for a woman to carry a child for ten months. If she is not careful during childbirth, she may suffer from dystocia or hemorrhage, and both the mother and the child may die, let alone the child who is still in the womb?"

"To remove a child prematurely will inevitably result in the death of both mother and child. To perform cesarean section is against human ethics and natural law! To use a child's blood and bones in medicine and elixirs is immoral and detrimental, shaking the foundation of the empire, losing the hearts of the people, and plunging the world into chaos! Your Majesty, please be cautious! Think it over!"

"Your subject agrees."

"Your subject agrees."

Bai Yuchen's words won the approval of the crowd. Fu Qingbai frowned and looked heavy-hearted, but remained silent.

Disembowelment? Alchemy?

A few words weighed heavily on Xiang An's heart; simple words, light and airy phrases, together formed the most terrifying thing.