Enraged, the emperor picked up a teacup and smashed it on Xiao Yuncheng's forehead.

"You...you have some nerve!"

Xiao Yuncheng raised his hand, casually wiping the blood from his forehead with his fingertips, then smiled and said, "Father is really getting old. He can't even hold a teacup properly anymore. How can he govern the Great Yan Kingdom?"

After a pause, Xiao Yuncheng turned and glanced at the people in the hall: "Aren't you all right?"

The chief eunuch beside the emperor was the first to kneel down and said, "The Crown Prince is right!"

The others readily agreed.

Apart from Xiao Yunyan, who was being protected by Chu Yuning.

The emperor clenched his fists and let out a muffled laugh. Now, apart from the drunkards, everyone else in the room should be Xiao Yuncheng's men.

Including the chief eunuch who had served him for over ten years!

The blank imperial edict in Xiao Yuncheng's hand, which had been covered by the imperial seal beforehand, must have been given to him by him.

Betrayed by his most trusted chief eunuch and forced to abdicate by his beloved son whom he had doted on for many years, the emperor felt as if his heart was being torn apart.

He shouted sternly, "The First Prince Xiao Yuncheng has formed cliques for personal gain; his actions today are tantamount to treason! Issue an order that he be demoted to a commoner from this day forward! Guards, seize him and throw him into the imperial prison!"

But after he finished speaking, no one responded for a long time, and even the Imperial Guards standing outside the courtyard did not come in.

Xiao Yuncheng's men are even among the Imperial Guards?

How many official positions did he and Minister Wang actually sell?

The Emperor of Great Yan was so angry that the veins on his forehead bulged, and he clutched his chest and coughed violently.

Empress Chen never imagined that Xiao Yuncheng would resort to forcing the emperor to abdicate, nor did she ever imagine that she and her father would one day have such a falling out.

She watched this scene in shock. As an empress, she didn't know whether she should protect the emperor or her son at this moment.

He could only cry out in frustration, "Yuncheng, what are you doing? Are you out of your mind! Your father's throne will be yours sooner or later, what's the rush?"

Xiao Yuncheng: "Mother, you tell me not to be anxious, how can I not be anxious? I'm almost thirty years old now, how many more years can I be emperor? Father has been occupying the throne and refuses to pass it on to me. He forced me onto this path!"

Upon hearing this, tears welled up in the emperor's eyes.

It was clearly because Xiao Yuncheng was too mediocre, lacked talent, and was unworthy of the position that he couldn't directly hand over the throne to him.

Over the years, he has been painstakingly selecting capable ministers, eliminating traitors, building large granaries, and recruiting soldiers, all in order to provide more assistance and fewer obstacles when the new emperor ascends the throne.

But Xiao Yuncheng not only didn't understand his good intentions, but also felt that he was occupying his position and refusing to give it to him.

Does he really think he can do whatever he wants just because he's in this position?

This seat is not an easy one to sit in at all!

The emperor suppressed the tears welling in his eyes and said angrily, "I will never pass the throne to you!"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yuncheng not only wasn't angry, but instead burst into laughter.

"Father, I am your only son. If you don't pass the throne to me, who else can you pass it to?"

The emperor was stunned. "What...what do you mean by that?"

Xiao Yuncheng's lips curled into a sinister smile. "That bastard on Qingyun Mountain died two years ago. Do you know where he died? He died in Jian'an City, a thousand miles away!"

"His body fell off the cliff and hung on a tree on the cliff, bleeding for three days and two nights until he bled to death."

With each word Xiao Yuncheng uttered, the emperor's face paled further. By the time Xiao Yuncheng finished speaking, all color had drained from the emperor's face, and finally, he could no longer hold back a single tear from his eye.

You're saying... Xiao Jiu is dead?

"That's right! He's dead, he's been dead for a long time! You were seriously ill the year before last, and you summoned him down the mountain, but he refused. That's because his soul has already gone to hell! His corpse cannot step over the high walls of this palace!"

"No, that's not right. Xiao Jiu has always stayed in Qingyun Mountain. How could he have gone to Jian'an, which is thousands of miles away?" The emperor could not accept Xiao Ling's death. He shook his head and refused to believe Xiao Yuncheng's words.

Xiao Yuncheng chuckled: "That's because we lied to him, saying that his sister wasn't dead and had ended up in Yannan. So he went to look for her!"

"..." The emperor suddenly stood up, rushed to Xiao Yuncheng, and slapped him across the face. "You actually harmed your own brother!"

The slap was extremely powerful, causing blood to trickle from the corner of Xiao Yuncheng's mouth.

But he didn't care at all. He stuck out his tongue and licked the blood from the corner of his mouth, then laughed and said, "What brothers are there in the royal family? They're just a bunch of fools who want to compete with me for the throne. So what if they're killed!"

"You...you are not only mediocre and incompetent, but also ruthless and cruel! I will never pass the throne to you!"

"That's not up to you, Father!"

Xiao Yuncheng drew his sword and placed it directly against the emperor's neck. He then glanced at the guards behind him, who immediately stepped forward with writing brush, ink, paper, and inkstone.

Xiao Yuncheng laid the imperial edict on the table, and with a slight tightening of his grip on the sword, blood flowed from the emperor's neck.

Xiao Yuncheng threatened, "Write it! Write it down so that the throne can be passed to the eldest prince, Xiao Yuncheng!"

"Otherwise, I will have to forgive you for not being able to spare Father's life!"

As Xiao Yuncheng finished speaking, fine beads of blood seeped from the knife in his hand.

The emperor's blood dripped onto the inkstone.

Xiao Yuncheng forcefully shoved the ink-stained brush into the emperor's hand...

But at that moment, Xiao Yuncheng was suddenly struck by a piercing pain in his heart.

Xiao Yuncheng coughed up blood, looked down in disbelief at the dagger stuck in his heart, and then turned to look at the person standing behind him.

Upon seeing Xiao Yunyan's face clearly, his pupils contracted, and his whole body trembled, as if he simply could not accept that the person who had stabbed him in the back was Xiao Yunyan.

Xiao Yunyan suddenly raised her hand and pulled out the knife stuck in Xiao Yuncheng's body.

Blood gushed out like water from a burst dam, and there was no stopping it.

Xiao Yuncheng collapsed to the ground, his face deathly pale, his eyes fixed on Xiao Yunyan. "Why...why?"

Xiao Yunyan bent down and whispered in Xiao Yuncheng's ear, "Royal brother, you can only make me the most honored woman in the world, but I don't just want to be the most honored woman. I want to be the ruler of the world! I don't need anyone to give me honor. I am the ruler of the world!"

After saying that, Xiao Yunyan gently raised her hand and closed Xiao Yuncheng's eyes.

All of this happened so fast that Empress Chen didn't even have time to react before she saw her eldest son lying in front of her, no longer breathing.

Her son was killed by her daughter.

"Ah!" Empress Chen screamed, rushing to Xiao Yuncheng's side and embracing his body, wailing, "Yuncheng, don't die! Don't die! Your mother has just lost Fei'er, and now you're going to leave your mother too. You're taking your mother's life!"