After a long while, Li An turned to look at Guan Zhiyue, just as he was about to say something, Li Qiji knocked on the door.

"Yue'er, are you alright? Can I come in?" Li Qiji pounded on the door anxiously, after all, Guan Zhiyue and his royal uncle had been inside for almost a quarter of an hour.

He was very worried, after all, his royal uncle was a ticking time bomb that could explode at any moment. What if he kidnapped Yue'er?

I should have stopped them earlier. I should have prevented them from chatting alone. I thought it would only be a little while, but it's already been a quarter of an hour.

Guan Zhiyue glanced at Li An and then said, "Your Majesty, please come in. Perhaps we should know the truth, don't you think? Seventh Imperial Uncle!"

At this moment, Li An wore a self-deprecating smile, shook his head and said, "Yes, you should know the truth, and I should face it bravely. My niece-in-law, you are right. I should be braver, and perhaps the ending would be different."

Guan Zhiyue: "..." You're a lunatic.

Guan Zhiyue smiled but didn't say anything. Li Qiji heard Guan Zhiyue's voice and pushed the door open. He saw Guan Zhiyue smiling at his royal uncle.

He had no idea what they had talked about, but his wife had actually smiled at another man, and it was a relieved smile at that. What was going on?

"Yue'er, are you alright?" Li Qiji pulled Guan Zhiyue close with both hands, looking her up and down as if he would turn on his seventh uncle if Guan Zhiyue lost even a single hair.

Seeing Li Qiji's nervousness, Li An's lips twitched, and he said with a look of disdain, "Nephew, you don't need to be so nervous. Your royal uncle is not that ruthless."

Li Qiji didn't say anything, but Guan Zhiyue laughed rather unkindly, thinking that if this Seventh Imperial Uncle hadn't caused so much trouble, he would have been a very good Imperial Uncle worth getting along with.

It's a pity that after the things he did came out, people felt that he was a bit too eager for quick success and instant benefits. He was the kind of person who would stop at nothing to achieve his goals, and that kind of person is very scary!

"What are you laughing at? Am I wrong?" Li An quickly retorted when he heard Guan Zhiyue mocking him. He didn't want anyone to misunderstand, after all, he still had a bigger mystery to solve!

Li Qiji pulled Guan Zhiyue behind him, his tall figure separating the two of them. He looked at Li An with a wary expression and said, "Seventh Imperial Uncle, do you know what I just said? I don't want to get involved in the grudges of your previous generation, but you must give me an explanation to my mother."

Upon hearing his nephew's words, Li An couldn't help but lower his head and laugh heartily, as if he had returned to his arrogant and unruly demeanor from before.

"What are you laughing at? You insulted my mother, don't you have any explanation for me? Don't you have any explanation for my mother?" Li Qiji said, placing his hand on the soft sword at his waist.

Guan Zhiyue grabbed Li Qiji's hand from behind and gently shook her head. Although Li Qiji didn't understand, he still held back.

Watching the interaction between the two, Li An laughed and said, "My brother's offspring is indeed not very smart. My good nephew, you are not as intelligent as your wife. It's a pity that Pei Lin carried the baby for ten months."

"How dare you, Li An! Do you know what you're saying?" Li Qiji was furious when he heard Li An's words. He pointed at Li An and retorted loudly.

Li An laughed and said, "See? With your temper, you really are just like your father, cut from the same mold, exactly the same."

Guan Zhiyue tugged at Li Qiji's sleeve from behind, signaling him to calm down and listen to what Li An had to say.

Li Qiji flung his hand away, huffed angrily, and then said, "You'd better tell us the truth about what happened back then, or don't blame me for not showing any kinship."

Li An swiftly opened his fan and then slowly said, "Nephew, you are not as clever or observant as your wife. I have indeed deceived you and your mother."

"What? Say it again! What did you lie to my mother about? She treated you so well back then, how could you deceive her like this? How can you bear to do this?"

Li Qiji was like a firecracker at this moment, exploding at the slightest touch, and exploding in a chain reaction, crackling and popping non-stop.

"Shh, listen first, don't rush!" Guan Zhiyue pulled Li Qiji to sit down beside her and said softly.

Li An shook his head with amusement, but said nothing. He continued, "I admit that I did fall in love with your mother back then, and even had the idea of ​​taking her away. But later I realized that if I took her away like that, what kind of life would she face in the future? How would my brother treat her? And would her clan be implicated?"

"After much deliberation, I could only bury my love deep in my heart. Later, seeing how incompetent and tyrannical your father was, even neglecting your mother and putting her in danger, I devised a plan. I married the most beautiful woman and had your father forcibly take my queen as his wife. I then used this as an excuse to take your mother as my own."

"You bastard, this isn't love, it's perverted! You're just trying to satisfy your twisted psychology. Your love is truly heavy!" Upon hearing this, Li Qiji couldn't hold back anymore. He stood up abruptly and started cursing, just like a shrew yelling in the street.

Guan Zhiyue looked at Li Qiji like this and thought, "This guy wasn't like this before, why is he like this...?"

"Sit down first and listen to what happened!" Guan Zhiyue pulled the person down onto the bench again.

Li An smiled and continued, "Later, I wanted to express my feelings to your mother, but I didn't dare. I was cowardly. I was afraid that your mother would despise me, resent me, and blame me. So I went to the border region. I also wanted to raise an army and rebel."

I even have people planted in the palace, and I have people of my own in the court. I've done all this for your mother. I think only when I become emperor can I be with your mother legitimately!

"But I never had the courage. I could only do things that made my mother think I was forcing her. Only in this way could she not find out that I really loved her."

After Li An finished speaking, he fell silent. All he did was to be with her. In the end, it all came down to "love," which permeated the development of this scheme. This plot was nothing more than to satisfy his own selfish desires.

Guan Zhiyue looked at the two silent people and said, "So, by doing this, you're making the Empress Dowager think that you only took your princess because the Emperor took her, right?"

"Um!"

After receiving the answer, Guan Zhiyue slowly exhaled and said, "Phew, what a grand scheme! Mother, did you hear that? Come out, this matter..."

When Li An heard Guan Zhiyue say this, his eyes widened in disbelief. He had never intended to tell Xin Peilin the truth. Now that he was like this, how should he face his sister-in-law who had taken good care of him in the past?