At the tender age of eight, he was hastily dragged out and made emperor!

Chu Ling stood with his hands at his sides, staring at Li Zhong's departing figure, his face showing no joy or sorrow. If he hadn't experienced today's events, he wouldn't have done this.

Using this method to corner Li Zhong and force him to state his position carries hidden dangers; if things go wrong, what he says might reach the ears of the Third Empress.

But Chu Ling has to do this right now.

Chu Ling needs to know all sorts of secrets, especially those involving the three empresses. The more he knows, the better he can judge their personalities and ways of doing things.

If he doesn't even know these things, then similar situations will happen a lot more often in the future, and Chu Ling doesn't want to continue being so passive!

The opportunity has been given to Li Zhong; if he is truly intelligent, he will make the right choice.

If things continue to be ambiguous, then Chu Ling will have to find a way to get rid of this person!

Today, during his visit to Chang Le Palace and his conversation with the Empress Dowager, especially at the end, Chu Ling realized that his grandmother was very afraid that something might happen to him.

What does this mean?

Without his knowledge, Sun Li must have been carrying a heavy burden. Sun Li knew better than anyone else that if the new emperor who had been ordered to succeed to the throne dared to die after the recent death of Emperor Xuanzong, the Great Yu would be in complete chaos.

"Your Majesty~"

"I am tired, you may leave."

Watching the eunuch bow his head and enter, Chu Ling said something, then turned and walked into the bedchamber. He had done what he needed to do; the rest was up to time.

Seeing the new emperor's behavior, the eunuch hesitated for a moment. The new emperor was going to bed earlier than usual tonight, which made him wonder what the new emperor had said to Li Zhong in the main hall just now.

"Go back."

At this moment, Wan Qiu'er walked into the main hall, glanced at the man, said coldly, and went to her bedchamber for her turn. Chu Ling was not the only one who had doubts about Wan Qiu'er; many people serving and guarding in the Daxing Palace also had doubts. However, some things cannot be investigated so easily.

The Yu Palace was indeed complex.

As the man left the main hall, he turned around and noticed someone shaking their head at him, which startled him. This situation was not unique to this person.

……

The Yu Palace was quiet late at night.

The snow started falling without us noticing.

In a place in the Yu Palace.

With snow on his shoulders, Li Zhong endured the pain and limped into his room, a small house where he rested after his shift.

Despite the darkness in the room, Li Zhong walked straight to one spot, picked up a flint, and clicked it. The silent room was filled with sounds, and sparks occasionally appeared.

Li Zhong struggled for a long time, but still couldn't light the candles.

Li Zhong gave up.

His hands were trembling violently.

This wasn't frozen.

Instead, they were terrified!!!

"...Li Zhong, I am the new emperor of Great Yu. You serve me by my side. You don't really think you can thrive without me, do you?"

"I am young, but I understand one thing: a person who has lost his or her usefulness is not far from death. People die every day in the Yu Palace, especially since I took over the Daxing Palace. Quite a few people have died because of me."

“You are my person. No matter what outsiders think, that’s the principle. What I give you is yours. If someone else gives you something, do you think it can last? Isn’t the previous Daxing Prison a cautionary tale?”

Li Zhong's legs were trembling violently. The words of the new emperor kept replaying in his mind. Even though Li Zhong tried hard not to think about them, the more he tried, the faster the words would surface.

Even before Li Zhong's eyes, the face of the new emperor appeared, his youthful face revealing a cold expression, especially his eyes, which reminded Li Zhong of someone.

That look in his eyes... even Chairman Mao had it!!!

Chu Ling was right about one thing: Li Zhong was indeed an ambitious man. He wanted to seize power in the Yu Palace and return all the humiliations he had suffered in the past.

However, being in the Yu Palace is different from being outside the palace.

Even if you have great ambitions, you must keep them hidden. If you dare to let anyone discover anything, you're not far from death. Which of the few who truly hold power in the inner court isn't expressionless?

Only when you can keep your thoughts and actions a secret will the eunuchs, palace maids, and even powerful eunuchs and junior eunuchs in the Yu Palace fear you.

In the Yu Palace, there is no such thing as a comeback. Once you lose, you are not far from death. This is the rule of the inner court, unlike the outer court where there is still a chance to turn things around.

Only when a person is alive can they have a chance.

When you die, you lose everything.

"Junior Supervisor Li~"

Just then, a voice from outside made Li Zhong suddenly alert. His hands stopped shaking, his legs stopped trembling, and his eyes sharpened.

"what happened?"

Li Zhong pondered for a long time before speaking to the person outside.

"This servant saw that Supervisor Li was injured, so I thought I'd come to deliver medicine to treat his wounds..." The person standing outside asked with a hint of doubt, seeing that the room was dark.

"no need."

Before he could finish speaking, Li Zhong interrupted him, "I'm tired and have already gone to sleep. I have to go to Daxing Hall to keep watch tomorrow, so you should go back."

"..."

There was no response from outside, only the occasional sound of the wind.

In the pitch-black room, Li Zhong stood warily. He knew that the people outside hadn't left; he had experienced something like this before.

At this moment, someone came over, and Li Zhongtai knew exactly what was going on.

'You forced our family into this situation.'

After an unknown amount of time, Li Zhong heard very light footsteps outside. He knew the person had left, but Li Zhong's mind was made up.

'It hasn't been easy for our family to get to where we are today. What we've wanted to achieve hasn't been accomplished yet. We can't die. We're betting our lives on this gamble.'

"If we win, everything is negotiable!"

'I lost, so I accept my bad luck!'

"Your Majesty, my life is in your hands! Please don't disappoint me! This Yu Palace, this court, this world—it's not as simple as Your Majesty thinks!"

Despite the words the new emperor spoke to Li Zhong at the Daxing Palace that terrified and frightened him, it did not make Li Zhong make up his mind.

The more you know, the greater your fear becomes.

Li Zhong didn't think the new emperor would have any say in the Yu Palace. After all, the new emperor was too young, and even if he was precocious, some things couldn't be changed so easily.

But Li Zhong has now made up his mind.

Li Zhong discovered that many people wanted him dead!

But he didn't want to die. He wanted to live a good life. He wanted to be like the emperor during the reign of Emperor Taizu, able to win the emperor's absolute trust and have absolute power.

That's why Li Zhong figured it out. Instead of hesitating, it was better to take a gamble now. After all, that person had followed the founding emperor for who knows how long, and life and death were nothing to that person. He had experienced this kind of thing countless times before...