Originally, we were just quietly waiting for the arrival of the Horseback Archery Ceremony for more than a month, but in fact, it was not peaceful.

After Yan Tingjing confirmed Qingdai's feelings for him, he finally felt relieved and was able to deal with the treacherous ministers who had overthrown her dynasty last time and conspired to murder her.

Of course, these things were done to be prepared for any eventuality. In the previous life, the fight for the throne was almost a foregone conclusion, and the second princess single-handedly forced her to abdicate in the palace.

Now that she thought about it carefully, those ministers who attacked her in her previous life and the second princess' overwhelming victory by monopolizing the power of the ministers were probably all premeditated.

And the plan was much earlier and deeper than he expected.

Yan Tingjing figured it all out, and was finally able to once again open the scars of his last tragic death and carefully identify all the things that were wrong.

At that time, she was almost under semi-house arrest in the palace, and the entire palace was basically under the control of the Second Princess. If the Second Princess had planned it in advance, how could she have easily sent the letter for help to the Prime Minister's Mansion?

Furthermore, all the court officials defected, and he, the prime minister, was the only one who had not been able to be won over by the second princess because of his influence.

All the things that were wrong were too coincidental. Yan Tingjing made a very clear distinction between family affection and emotions in this life. He looked at his nephew who had been spoiled since childhood with almost indifference, and finally accepted that it was not her who really wanted him dead, but the second princess and his nephew.

The backs of His Majesty and the Second Princess looked almost identical. It was possible that the other party was deliberately disguising themselves to deceive me who was in a hurry and anxious at the time.

Besides, that cold look was not her at all.

Yan Tingjing sat in his study, writing slowly. He glanced at the jade pendant with a dragon pattern hanging around his waist, and his originally cold eyes gradually warmed up.

It’s great to have her in this life.

******

The peaceful imperial city seemed to be shrouded in black smoke, and a series of strange things happened. Although it was indeed strange, the people talked about it with relish, and it became a hot topic of conversation after dinner.

One day, after three consecutive days of heavy rain in the capital, a woodcutter who went up the mountain to chop firewood accidentally found green smoke rising from another hill. He then realized that a wildfire had started on the mountain. Although it was discovered in time, the fire grew rapidly and burned for three days and three nights before it was completely extinguished.

However, it would have been fine if it was just an ordinary grave, but what was even more unacceptable was that this was the ancestral tomb of the Yan family.

When the Duke of Jin's Mansion received the news and sent people up the mountain to check, they found that the entire mausoleum was not affected at all. The surrounding trees were all charred and fell to the ground, but this huge mausoleum was the only one that was completely intact.

Several guards immediately thought that it was the spirit of the ancestor of the Yan family appearing, and they immediately knelt down outside the cemetery. They saw a wisp of light smoke rising from the cemetery. Behind the smoke, a huge rock was stuck in the middle of a crooked thousand-year-old tree, exposed to everyone's eyes.

The guards didn't know what to do, so they had to take down the boulder and bring it back to the Duke of Jin's mansion to report.

However, he did not expect that this would cause an uproar in the Duke of Jin's Mansion.

Duke Yan Qingli of Jin pushed the man in front of her to the ground with a wave of her sleeve. The sweet love they had shared seemed to turn to ashes in an instant. She looked at the man lying on the ground with anger. Even though the man was crying, it could not shake her hard-hearted heart at all.

She had never imagined that her beloved husband, who doted on her so much, would do such a shameful thing behind her back!

If it weren't for the appearance of her ancestors and the strange rock that fell from the sky to give her instructions, she would never have discovered this shameful fact.

Yan Li stood aside at a loss, as if he didn't see his father lying on the ground, nor did he see his mother in anger. The only thing echoing in his mind was the thunderbolt-like news that he was not his father and mother's child.

"Wife, please listen to my explanation... I have long since severed all ties with that woman and have never done anything to betray you!"

Yan Qingli threw the blue and white porcelain bowl on the table, which was used for blood test to identify relatives, directly to the ground.

"The facts are right before your eyes. What else can you say? I've treated you badly for so many years, yet you've humiliated me, the Duke of Jin, and made me raise someone else's child for over twenty years... From now on, we are done with each other. We will part ways and have no further ties!"

Yan Qingli flicked his sleeves and strode away, his back looking resolute and determined, never looking back. A divorce letter fell to the ground behind him, and Yan Li and his father were dragged out of the Duke of Jin's Mansion by the servants.

Outside the mansion, passers-by looked at him with strange eyes. Some people quickly recognized that he was the beloved young master of the Duke of Jin's Mansion. Why was he standing at his doorstep in such an embarrassed manner?

As the saying goes, good news doesn't travel far, but bad news travels a thousand miles. In just one afternoon, the news that Young Master Yan was not the biological son of Duke Jin spread throughout the capital like wings.

Yan Li was like a lost dog. The young masters who had been suppressed by him before now showed up one after another, putting an end to this farce.

As I said, beating a drowning dog is a cruel and unchangeable reality no matter when, where or which dynasty.

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"Your Majesty, the Prime Minister, the young master, and the servant are now outside the palace."

The servants who had served in the Prime Minister's Mansion for many years did not dare to breathe, and faced the current emperor and his own prime minister trembling with fear.

When Qingdai heard these two words, she frowned slightly.

She had also heard about the recent rumors, and she had an idea of ​​who was responsible.

She told them in a cold tone not to bother with it and sent them away.

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