"What are you doing here?" Di Kanlong noticed someone behind him, turned around and glared fiercely at Eunuch De like a wolf, and scolded, "Get out of here and stay, you blind old fool!"

Grandpa De: "..."

His Majesty's speech has become increasingly vulgar, offensive, and incoherent lately;

He was the emperor's personal eunuch, and he was always wherever the emperor was.

Is the sudden decision to stop him from following along a sign that he's about to fall out of favor?

Eunuch De stood there, whisk in hand, watching Shang Xiche's furious departure. Deep down, he felt a faint sense of anticipation for the possibility of falling out of favor.

Grandpa De felt that in the past he was "serving the emperor as if serving a tiger";

Now, however, he is like "serving a king is like serving a vicious wolf," an ungrateful wretch who can't be tamed or warmed up, the kind that might bite him to death at any moment.

If the emperor were to cause him to fall out of favor and banish him at this time, it would be considered that he was showing him some old affection.

Di Kanlong arrived at the palace where Shang Beiyu used to live, intending to find Xiao Jianzi.

The courtyard was completely empty.

"A secluded valley!"

Dikanlong was unwilling to give up, so he used his demonic energy to roar a few times into the courtyard.

The courtyard, both inside and out, remained completely quiet and silent.

"That bastard, he left without even telling me. He did it on purpose!" Dikanlong angrily slashed with his palm, smashing the smooth, ancient-patterned stone table in the courtyard to pieces.

"This table was personally carved by His Majesty, who most enjoys brewing tea here," a voice came from the direction of the Cold Palace, quietly entering Dikanlong's ears.

Dikanlong stared at the shattered stone table in front of him, instantly petrified.

After a long while, the person who had spoken did not come out.

Dikanlong roared in fury: "Which bastard didn't warn me sooner? What are you up to? If you have the guts, show yourself! Don't hide!"

There was no further sound from the direction of the Cold Palace, as if the previous words were just a hallucination of Dikanlong.

Dikanlong finally lost his temper and rushed towards the Cold Palace.

Now, let's talk about these days.

Crown Prince Shang Dongyang went to great lengths to secretly bring most of the Chen family's soldiers into the capital, and then secretly brought them into the palace in batches, hiding them all in the cold palace.

Today is the last batch of soldiers to enter the palace. He will wait until the night is deep and quiet, when the palace defenses are at their weakest, so that he can launch a coup, force the emperor to abdicate, and drive out that barbarian's puppet!

But who can tell him how this brute knew he was in the Cold Palace?

As soon as Dikanlong entered the Cold Palace, he discovered that there were many living people hiding inside. He thought that Xiaojianzi had hidden people there, so he rushed over to take a look.

He actually confronted his good-for-nothing son, Shang Dongyang, face-to-face.

The father and son stared at each other, both surprised and puzzled.

Shang Dongyang trembled all over, his lips moving as he stammered, "Father, Father, I... I'm saying that I'm having hot pot with them here, do you... do you believe me?"

"In the Cold Palace? Having hot pot? With so many soldiers who clearly aren't Imperial Guards?" Dikanlong asked with a half-smile, his tone cool.

“Uh…uh, um!” Shang Dongyang nodded blankly.

The soldiers of the Chen family were also terrified, staring blankly, at a loss for what to do:

Why did the Emperor come to the Cold Palace alone, without even a eunuch by his side?

"You still have the nerve to ask me if I believe it or not? I believe your grandpa's legs! Do you think I'm stupid, or are you the one with a mental disability? Is this some kind of hot pot? Are you being stewed in the pot? Or are you being cooked in the pot?!" Di Kanlong was so angry that he turned rounder from anger.