It's a pity that now is not the right time to sell it.

Liu Ruyue smiled sweetly and politely declined the Duke of Yingguo's offer: "Duke, the prince is a kind person. As long as he hasn't wronged the Third Young Master of your family, I don't think the prince will hold the Third Young Master hostage."

“…”

Hearing Liu Ruyue's words, the Duke of England felt a chill in his heart: What you are talking about is nonsense. Looking at the looks of those two people, could it be that my lowly son was wrongly accused?

He wanted to continue to plead with a thick face, but Liu Ruyue had already acted as if she didn't want to speak. Zhao Tinghao was also afraid that the old man would annoy his daughter, so he protected her behind him.

Seeing this, the Duke of England gave up, thinking that continuing to plead would be counterproductive.

The group followed the old princess towards the front yard, waiting for information from the housekeeper and others.

Half an incense stick of time passed, and the housekeeper and Nanny Fang came back with pale faces.

The Shangshu's wife and the Duke of England were anxious to see the result, and they couldn't help but walk forward towards the two men.

Who would have thought that although they were just two servants in the palace, at this moment, the housekeeper of Prince Yan's palace and Nanny Fang were staring at the Shangshu's wife, the Duke of Yingguo, as if she were the murderer of their father, which made the two of them feel very uneasy.

"how?"

Seeing the reactions of the two, King Zhao Tinghao of Yan knew that things might be a little bad.

However, it was not until he heard what the two had to say that he realized how terrible things were.

It turned out that after comparing the testimonies of Matron Zhang, Cui'e, Liu Mengyao, Zhao Yihong, and Zhao Yihong's servant, the housekeeper and Matron Fang sorted out the whole story:

Eight years ago, at the Queen's Spring Festival Banquet in the palace, the old princess fell in love with the innocent, lively and cheerful eldest daughter of the Shangshu Mansion, Liu Mengyao.

After the banquet, the old princess found out that Liu Mengyao was not married, so she asked a matchmaker to come to her house to propose marriage.

The Shangshu Mansion was naturally very happy to be able to climb onto the high branch of the Yanwang Mansion, and it quickly arranged a marriage with the Yanwang Mansion.

Before the engagement, Liu Mengyao had no idea who she would marry. When she heard the Shangshu's wife say that the old princess was easy to get along with and that there would be no mother-in-law or daughter-in-law relationship after she married her, she agreed to the marriage.

However, not long after she got engaged, she was harassed by hooligans while out for an outing. Fortunately, she was rescued by Zhao Yihong, the third young master of the Duke of Yingguo's mansion, and was able to escape.

In the backlight, a young man in white shirt walked over, fanning himself. His feminine and handsome appearance instantly fell into the heart of the young girl. Whenever she woke up from a dream in the middle of the night, she would think of his back, which was a little thin but still firmly protecting her.

Later, as their interactions grew, Zhao Yihong became increasingly important to Liu Mengyao. She heard him say that he was unhappy in the Duke of England's mansion, that the Duke and his wife didn't care about him, and that his brothers were scheming against each other, framing him, and bullying him...

Although he came from a prominent family, he was unhappy. The only joy in his life was meeting Liu Mengyao.

Listening to the man's sweet words and seeing the broken pain in his eyes, Liu Mengyao felt so distressed that she wished she could keep him by her side and show him mercy every day.

Liu Mengyao thought so and she did so.

After returning to the Shangshu Mansion, she told her mother about Zhao Yihong and wanted to cancel the engagement with the Prince of Yan's Mansion and marry Zhao Yihong instead.

However, the Shangshu's wife, who had always been acquiescent with Liu Mengyao, rejected her daughter's request for the first time, and even locked her daughter up and forbade the two to meet.

The more the Shangshu's wife tried to stop her, the stronger Liu Mengyao's feelings for Zhao Yihong became.

Before getting married, Liu Mengyao finally found an opportunity to escape from the Shangshu Mansion and met Zhao Yihong.

When she asked to elope with the man, the man refused with the excuse that he couldn't bear to see Liu Mengyao live a hard life.

During the tug of war, Zhao Yihong suggested that Liu Mengyao should first compromise and marry Zhao Tinghao, and then give him a sterilization drug. Since Zhao Tinghao has been unable to give birth to children for many years, he will definitely dote on Liu Mengyao.

Liu Mengyao only needs to wait for Zhao Tinghao to adopt a child and then speak up for their child to be adopted into the Prince of Yan's Mansion and become the next Prince of Yan.

As for the two of them, they cannot be together openly, but they can often meet in secret.

After all, as the son of the old King of Yan, Zhao Tinghao definitely needs to go to the border to help train the army.

Even the old princess sometimes goes to the frontier to accompany the old prince. Don’t they have the final say in the entire Prince Yan’s Mansion?

Anyway, if love between two people lasts forever, why should they be together day and night?

Everything was going according to plan, but Liu Ruyue suddenly became pregnant, disrupting their plans.

Liu Mengyao thought that if Liu Ruyue could get pregnant, she could also get pregnant, but she wanted to have Zhao Yihong's child. She wanted to give birth to Zhao Yihong's child directly as the Princess of Yan and inherit the throne of the King of Yan in a legitimate way.

Of course, this was Liu Mengyao's idea. Zhao Yihong had another idea:

The Duke of Yingguo’s family has many descendants. Even though Zhao Yihong is the legitimate son, he still has two older brothers to support him.

Over the years, he wanted to kill his two elder brothers in order to inherit the title of Duke's Mansion. However, he didn't know that the young masters in the Duke's Mansion were all masters of house fighting, and Zhao Yihong had not succeeded yet.

Later, after hearing that the old princess had betrothed Zhao Tinghao to Liu Mengyao, the daughter of the Shangshu Mansion, his thoughts began to stir.

He knew Liu Mengyao before: stupid and brainless.

Moreover, I heard that she has always liked chasing after handsome and feminine boys since she was a child.

Zhao Yihong knew that this was his chance, so he immediately found someone to act out a hero-saving-a-beauty scene. After winning Liu Mengyao's heart, he deliberately acted pitifully in front of her.

As he expected, the controlled Liu Mengyao went to the Shangshu's wife to cry and make a fuss.

As he had planned, the Shangshu's wife naturally rejected Liu Mengyao's crying.

Then all he had to do was wait.

While waiting for Liu Mengyao to find an opportunity to come to him, he acted out a painful act of deep love and unrequited love, coaxing her into plotting the throne of Prince Yan's Mansion with him.

Zhao Yihong could not even inherit the title of Duke in his lifetime, but he wanted his son to become the next King of Yan.

All he had to do was wait until his son had firmly established himself as the Prince of Yan before he could act like the old prince.

As for why not just let Liu Mengyao marry Zhao Tinghao while carrying her own child to confuse the bloodline of Prince Yan's Mansion and wait for her son to become Prince Yan?

That’s because Zhao Yihong is jealous of Zhao Tinghao: Why is it that Zhao Tinghao’s father’s official position is higher than his father’s, even though they are both royal relatives?

Why should he scheme against each other among a bunch of brothers just for a title that would be demoted, while Zhao Tinghao is the only heir to the throne of King Yan?

He wanted to make those whom he once envied and jealous bear the shame of being infertile, and made Zhao Tinghao a laughing stock in Kyoto, so that he would never be able to hold his head up.

More importantly, he wanted Zhao Tinghao, the next King of Yan, and everyone in Kyoto to know that he, Zhao Yihong, was the next King of Yan's biological father!