"Useless, useless, a bunch of useless people! So many of you couldn't even kill one woman! This is infuriating!"
Looking at the corpses scattered on the ground, Li Muchen wished he could whip all of them.
"The battle just now was truly fierce. It seems I missed a great show."
Chu Yunmo leaped down, clicking her tongue twice, which greatly displeased Li Muchen, who shouted angrily.
"Who are you! How dare you trespass into my Prince Lin's mansion? Don't you want your head?"
"Even if I, Chu, don't want my head anymore, does the Lin Prince's Mansion still have anyone who can be used?"
"You can't even handle one woman, yet you think you can deal with me, Chu? You're just overestimating yourself!"
A hint of disdain flashed in Chu Yunmo's eyes. She pointed to the corpses lying haphazardly on the ground, then glanced at the few people around her, and curled the corners of her lips into a smile.
"you……"
Li Muchen felt his tail had been stepped on, but he found himself unable to refute it.
"It will be dawn soon. I imagine the Emperor will soon find out that the Prince has taken the young prince away without permission. The Prince was able to make such a big move during his confinement. I'm afraid it will be difficult to explain to the Emperor."
Chu Yunmo spoke with certainty, and Li Muchen frowned.
"Who exactly are you? Are you friend or foe?"
Chu Yunmo didn't speak, but put the flute in her hand to her lips. After a flute melody, all the guards who were still alive, including the servants of the Prince Lin's mansion, all lay on the ground.
"this……"
Li Muchen was shocked to see this, and a look of fear appeared on his face.
Just as he was about to say something, the originally melodious flute music suddenly turned shrill and unpleasant.
Then something even more unbelievable happened.
The corpses that had just been lying on the ground suddenly stood up, a bizarre and terrifying scene that startled Li Muchen so much that he fell to the ground with a scream.
"Ah... puppetry, you actually know puppetry..."
"Remember to repent to the Emperor tomorrow for your mistakes, and also donate half of the Lin Prince's estate. Baojun County has not seen rain for so long, as a prince, you should do something about it."
Since Prince Longxuan has summoned Han Ziwei to bring rain, Your Highness must spend money to avert disaster.
Chu Yunmo's voice left no room for argument. Li Muchen suppressed his fear and roared.
Why should I listen to you?
"Just because he is the strategist I invited."
Just as Li Muchen finished speaking, Empress Dowager Feng Xiuzhen's voice came from afar.
"Royal grandmother?"
Upon seeing that it was Empress Dowager Feng Xiuzhen, Prince Lin, Li Muchen, hurriedly stepped forward to pay his respects, and then burst into tears.
"Waaah...Grandmother, Mother...waaah..."
"Everyone, step back!"
Seeing that Empress Dowager Feng Xiuzhen and Prince Lin seemed to have something to say, Qiu Shuang tactfully led the group from Cixi Palace away.
Chu Yunmo was sensible enough not to follow Feng Xiuzhen and Li Muchen into the house, but instead waited quietly outside.
Inside the room, Empress Dowager Feng Xiuzhen held Li Muchen's hand, her eyes filled with loving kindness.
"Good child, don't cry. Actually, the Empress is not your mother."
Upon hearing this, Prince Lin, Li Muchen, was shocked and stared at Feng Xiuzhen in disbelief.
What does the Empress Dowager mean by this?
"Back then, your father favored that slut and gave all the concubines a potion to prevent them from having children, including the Empress."
This move is ostensibly heartless, but in reality, he wants to break free from the control of my Feng family. How could I allow this to happen?
So I used my body to conceive you, and entrusted you to the Empress for upbringing, and to the outside world, you were known as the Emperor's flesh and blood.
"This assassination attempt failed, and someone has to take responsibility, doesn't they?"
Empress Dowager Feng Xiuzhen's calm tone carried a hint of coldness, and Li Muchen stared wide-eyed in disbelief.
"What my grandmother meant was that my mother's death was actually..."
"She is not your mother. I have already said that I am your mother."
Empress Dowager Feng Xiuzhen was extremely displeased to hear Li Muchen still address Empress Feng Meiling as "Mother Empress."
"Then my father is..."
Li Muchen asked in a trembling voice, and Empress Dowager Feng Xiuzhen uttered a name that made Li Muchen feel as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.
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