Shen Xu shook his head and sighed, "I heard that the eldest prince of Haoyue Kingdom is a kind of exiled immortal. He is handsome, talented, and deeply affectionate. What a pity, what a pity."

Seeing her sighing and praising a man, Song Lin felt jealous. He leaned closer to her, his low voice filled with dissatisfaction, "Who told you that?"

Shen Xu tilted his head and replied in a low voice: "Master Ma said so. He said that the prince's appearance is only slightly inferior to yours."

Song Lin was surprised and asked, "When did Master Ma say that?"

"He told my uncle that the day after we got married when he came to drink."

"How come you remember all this? Didn't you lose your memory?"

Shen Xu replied softly: "I just don't remember anything before I met you. I'm not an idiot."

"You're not allowed to remember such unimportant things!"

Seeing everyone's intense gazes fixed on the two whispering people, Shen Xuqian coughed and continued, "This eldest daughter used the position of Crown Prince to lure us in, joined forces with the Seventh Prince and his mother, and designed to use the late Emperor to get rid of the Crown Prince, and then took advantage of the situation to get rid of the late Emperor.

Just as other princes and nobles demanded an investigation into the cause of the late emperor's death, they could no longer sit still.

So he used Dzi beads to bribe the Grand Marshal Su Yi, played a trick of using the power of others to bully others, and simply slaughtered all the questioning voices in the entire imperial city, seizing power by force.

However, in the imperial city there is also Prime Minister Lu who has influence in the court, and General Yu who has 120,000 imperial guards.

They have traditional ideas and are only loyal to the emperor, which will eventually become a stumbling block for the eldest daughter.

So the eldest daughter ordered the Imperial Preceptor to detain their family members, including Pei Zhiyuan's wife and her younger sister, Miss Yu Er, under the pretext of a night banquet.

Pei Zhiyuan trembled, his expression becoming sorrowful. "What happened at the banquet that night?"

Shen Xu's expression suddenly turned cold, and his tone was filled with anger, "What happens next is going to be dirty."

Pei Zhiyuan looked at the indifferent Concubine Yu, took small steps forward, and said with difficulty: "Why did you become Concubine Yu, why Sister Qingzhu..."

"You might as well ask me instead of asking her."

Shen Xu slowed down his speech, looked at Concubine Yu with a look of disgust as if she were a pervert, and continued, “The Imperial Master summoned all the noble ladies of the ministers to the banquet and detained them.

The intention was to force good ministers to rebel and make an example of them.

I guess something big happened at the night banquet. Lord Pei received a letter for help from his wife. The content was not about his wife herself, but about the little emperor.

Is that right, Master Pei?"

Pei Zhiyuan nodded slightly, lowered his eyes and said sullenly, "These are letters she wrote herself, sent on the wild geese we raised together. I received three in total, one about Your Majesty, one about other nobles and ladies, and one, her farewell letter."

His voice began to choke as he spoke with difficulty, "When I saw the last letter, the paper was stained with blood. I knew something had happened to her... When our wild goose delivered the letter to me, it also cried blood and died."

Pei Zhiyuan looked at Concubine Yu with red eyes, his anxious voice trembling: "Xinyu, tell me what happened. No matter what the cause and effect are, I will not..."

His voice stopped abruptly. He had actually already guessed what happened at the banquet that night. Whether it was from the gossip of others or from the letter for help his wife sent him, he could more or less analyze the whole process of what happened.

In the first letter, his wife told him that Master Hua had sent people to torture and humiliate the little emperor in front of the noble ladies, and also threatened their fathers, brothers and families with the emperor's life. She asked him to be careful not to fall into the trap, and to work with General Yu to find a way to rescue the little emperor.

In the second letter, his wife told him that they were locked up in a dark cell, and Master Hua brought things every day. Some were the remains of their family members, some were news that they had been abandoned by their families, some had gone crazy, some had committed suicide on the spot, and many had been taken away and never returned.

She said that she was very worried about her father and him, and asked him to protect his father well, find a way to rescue the little emperor, and protect the country.

The third letter was covered in blood and tears. She said she would never forgive him for killing her father and that they would never have any ties from then on.

Then he received the news of her death.

They said that his wife was raped and learned that he had killed his father for fame. She could not bear the humiliation and shame and swallowed gold and committed suicide.

He accepted the fact and felt ashamed to see her, and even didn't dare to go to her grave.

However, when the person in the red gauze tent told him that his wife was not only alive, but also became Concubine Yu?

Pei Zhiyuan regretted asking such a question. He seemed to understand why his wife was so indifferent to him. After all, no one could really laugh off such a shameful thing. Even if they didn't mention it, they would definitely feel resentful in their hearts.

Even if he understood that it was not betrayal, even if he never mentioned it again, and decided to take her to a place where no one knew her, and spend his whole life to make up for it and protect her to cover up the scar.

But scars are always revealed inadvertently.

Seeing Pei Zhiyuan seemed to be immersed in his own sorrow, Shen Xu sighed again and couldn't help but comfort him a few words: "There are always some unavoidable tragedies in this world, and there are some choices that have no correct options at all, but fate always forces you to make a choice, and you can't escape it.

Regardless of your reasons for choosing the young emperor, you have kept your promise to your wife."

She paused, her tone light and full of sighs, "She has already forgiven you."

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