Chapter 394 The Truth Comes to Light

Mu Qing was still seriously injured and Hu Xiner was pregnant. If his attack went through, the couple would be either dead or crippled.

But at this moment, several stones flew out with strong wind and hit the prince's hands and feet hard.

The prince's internal energy was blocked by these stones, and he fell to the ground in a mess, staggering a few steps.

Everyone looked towards the door and saw that it was Duke Xuanyuan who had arrived!

Duke Xuanyuan ignored the gloomy look of the Crown Prince and directly sent his servants to surround Mu Qing and his wife. Under the current circumstances, he was actually protecting the couple.

But he couldn't openly offend the Crown Prince, so he just said, "I heard that something happened in the Liu Mansion. I accepted Lord Liu's invitation and came to capture the culprit, Lu Yunjue!"

Lord Liu breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead - fortunately he made it in time.

This was something Mu Qing had not expected. According to the original plan, if there was any life-threatening situation, Taoist Yiqing should have come to rescue them.

Who knew it was Duke Xuanyuan who came? Wasn't he at odds with the Liu family?

But exposing the prince's true identity was the most important thing. He was only stunned for a moment, then he sneered and shook open the blood-soaked silk.

The prince suddenly felt a buzzing in his head. Finally, this day had come!

Extreme regret, resentment, and jealousy mixed together, making him unable to hear any sound while revealing an expression of uncontrollable resentment.

When he came to his senses, he heard people whispering, "What? That piece of silk is not a succession decree at all..."

Liu Qingyi cursed directly: "Lu Yunjue, how dare you deceive the prince!"

What?

The prince closed his eyes tightly, his eyebrows were wrinkled and his eyebrows were painful.

He forced himself to wipe the sweat from his forehead, but what he saw written on the silk was—

"When Lu Yunjue comes of age, he will inherit his father's position..." The prince was shocked and confused.

Mu Qing's voice was bone-chillingly cold: "You didn't expect that, Prince."

He raised his voice, his eyes sharp, "This edict was written by His Majesty himself, ordering me to inherit my father's position as Prime Minister upon coming of age!"

"No, it's impossible!" The prince's face turned pale. If this was just an edict to inherit the position of prime minister, then what were all the efforts he had made before and the people he had killed?

Mu Qing continued with hatred, "When the Crown Prince learned that the Lu family had obtained the secret decree, he thought it was a decree of succession. He immediately became murderous and sent people to massacre the Lu family."

His speech became faster and faster, as rapid as a torrential downpour: "After that day, Prime Minister Lu died tragically in the palace. If it weren't for the help of his old friends, no one in the Lu family would have survived!"

Everyone was horrified when they heard this. Could it be that Prime Minister Lu's death from illness was actually murder?!

Moreover, most people have never heard of the Lu family tragedy.

The prince bit the tip of his tongue hard, and the pain brought him back a bit of sanity.

No, he couldn't be defeated so easily by Lu Yunjue. There had to be a chance of a turnaround.

He looked at the confused and frightened expressions on everyone's faces and took the opportunity to say, "That's just nonsense!"

He put on a righteous and awe-inspiring air and said, "When Prime Minister Lu died of illness, I had just become the Crown Prince. How could I have such a powerful influence?"

Seeing him still trying to argue, Mu Qing's eyes were icy: "Then we have to ask how the Crown Prince has been forming a clique for personal gain and deceiving the emperor all these years."

Hu Xin'er asked directly, "If you didn't have a guilty conscience, why did you want to kill Mu Qing so badly when he said it was the succession edict?!"

The flaws revealed by the prince in a desperate situation have now become the biggest evidence to bring him down.

Everyone present saw his guilty yet ruthless look.

The prince clenched his fists, his nails digging deep into his palms. He already knew that even if he could overturn the verdict today, his image had completely collapsed and could never be salvaged.

But he would never give up just like that.

He narrowed his eyes and questioned, "If the Lu family was really massacred as you said, such news would definitely not be kept secret. What evidence do you have? Who can prove it?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Yao and Lu's mother appeared hand in hand: "Let's prove it!"

The prince realized that the situation was not good and wanted to send someone to silence them, but Duke Xuanyuan seemed to have anticipated his actions and had already sent people to protect Jiang Yao and Lu's mother in advance.

"Eh? Isn't that the Jiang family's second daughter?" someone in the crowd whispered. "After the Jiang family was destroyed, didn't she die with them?"

Jiang Yao smiled at the prince, her smile was like a ghost crawling back from hell to take lives, making everyone's heart jump.

Mother Lu quickly and decisively pulled off the silk scarf around her neck, revealing the hideous scars on her neck.

This wound looks like he was almost killed!

She looked at the prince angrily: "You never thought that a crazy woman like me would regain consciousness one day!"

Ever since the Lu family tragedy, she has been living in fragments of shattered consciousness all day long, and was only able to manage the Lu Mansion with the help of the housekeeper.

Jiang Yao also rolled up her sleeves neatly, showing the multiple knife wounds on her arms.

Even Duke Xuanyuan couldn't help but be moved: "What happened back then? Why do you two women have such deep wounds?"

Jiang Yao had been dormant for many years, and finally she was able to openly reveal the crazy hatred and resentment in her heart in front of others without any concealment.

She stared at the prince intently and recalled, "Back then..."

The two recounted their personal experiences of the past, but omitted the part about the two brothers because everyone thought the Lu family only had one son.

If the fact that Mu Qing had a face-changing face was exposed, it would inevitably cause another uproar.

When it came to the touching parts, the two sisters hugged each other and cried bitterly, which moved everyone present.

The details in their sentences were extremely detailed, and everyone fell silent as they listened.

Because what they said was so true, and the hatred in their words could not be faked.

The prince so many years ago didn't even have an stable foundation, yet he dared to do such a thing. Isn't the current prince even more brutal?

The most terrifying thing is that he can pretend to be smiling in front of others, making everyone confused by him.

If what Lu's mother and others testified was true, who could guarantee that their family would not be the next Lu family?

For a moment, everyone felt insecure.

Even Duke Xuanyuan, who had always disliked Mu Qing, stepped forward and said, "Both the cases, then and now, are quite suspicious. I believe that we should report this to Your Majesty as soon as possible so that the truth can be ascertained. This will also help clear the Crown Prince's name. What do you think, Crown Prince?"

The Crown Prince said with a forced smile, "Then I will personally take Lu Yunjue to the Dali Temple and report to the Emperor."

Duke Xuanyuan was just being polite, how could he let Lu Yunjue fall into the hands of the prince again?

His tone became more respectful: "It's such a small matter, so there's no need for Your Highness to take action."