Chapter 238: To Be the Only One to Be Favored

Cheng Jin put on the same sad expression and looked at Xu Jilin, as if she would cry with Xu Jilin in the next second.

In fact, Cheng Jin was so angry that she laughed in her heart. It turned out that Xu Jilin had been the empress dowager for too long, and noble people tend to forget things. Xu Jilin really forgot that she trapped Cheng Jin in her palace and wanted to kill her a few years ago.

It has only been a few months, Xu Jilin forgot Cheng Jin, but not Cheng Jin.

Xu Jilin found her because she was the empress dowager, Chu Chengye's biological mother, and Cheng Jin's elder. Wouldn't Cheng Jin dare to bear a grudge?

Even in the royal inner palace, they were still a family. They would have to live together in the future and meet each other during festivals. They had to save each other's face.

Xu Jilin thought of these, but Cheng Jin would never have thought that for her Chu Huaian, she wanted to catch both Chu Chengye and Cheng Jin in one fell swoop and make way for Chu Huaian. Now she also asked Cheng Jin, the victim, to plead for Chu Huaian, the murderer.

She would not do such a thing even if she was crazy.

Cheng Jin pretended to wipe her tears and looked at Xu Jilin, "It's not that I don't care about the Fifth Prince, it's really that I have the will but not the power. What mistake did the Fifth Prince make..." Cheng Jin

deliberately paused for a moment when she said this, and Xu Jilin sat there with a wandering look.

Xu Jilin also knew what Chu Huaian had done, but she didn't know that Chu Huaian could do such a thing to harm the people.

Even if he was really eager for quick success, he shouldn't have done this kind of thing himself. There are so many scapegoats in the world, and he actually let someone see and catch the handle.

Xu Jilin felt regretful. She had wanted to make Chu Chengye a tyrant by secretly placing some treacherous officials around him, so that Chu Chengye would lose the support of the people.

Then Chu Huaian would go to war on the pretext of clearing the emperor and raising an army for the people of the world. Who among the officials of the previous dynasty and the common people would not support Chu Huaian? Wouldn't Chu Huaian be able to easily obtain the world?

But now he has ended up like this.

Xu Jilin felt sad when she thought of the sad things.

After Cheng Jin saw this, she sighed immediately and blocked the way Xu Jilin wanted to go here.

"Look at the situation now. If you make such a mistake, you can't get away with it. The emperor is guilty of the same crime as the common people, not to mention that the Fifth Prince has wrongly killed so many people."

"After the incident was exposed, the Fifth Prince burned down the palace and fled. The emperor is angry now. If the Fifth Prince is willing to admit his mistakes in front of the emperor, maybe the emperor will take into account the relationship between him and the Fifth Prince and give him a lighter sentence."

Cheng Jin's hands touched the cup from time to time, as if he was trying to give Xu Jilin some advice. In fact, he wanted to see if Xu Jilin knew the whereabouts of Chu Huaian.

Xu Jilin, however, slammed the table in excitement and glared at Cheng Jin.

"Nonsense! It's all nonsense!"

The cup next to Cheng Jin fell to the ground, and the tea inside spilled all over the floor.

Cheng Jin stood up and walked to Xu Jilin's side. She put her hand on Xu Jilin's back as if to comfort her.

Xu Jilin tilted her head and glanced at Cheng Jin, her eyes full of anger.

"The reason why the Fifth Prince burned the house and fled was because the Emperor directly sent people to raid An'er's palace."

"Besides, can An'er be convicted based on the words of those unruly people?"

"The court spent a lot of money and energy to treat those people, but they are not grateful and deliberately make trouble. In my opinion, they are so sick in the brain that they are not clear-headed. How can we believe their words? What if someone deliberately framed my An'er?"

Cheng Jin suppressed her uncontrollable smile and said, "Why should the Empress Dowager be angry? From my perspective, the same is true. The Fifth Prince is a very humble and kind person. He would definitely not do such a thing."

Xu Jilin turned her head and glanced at Cheng Jin, a little surprised that Cheng Jin could say such words.

Cheng Jin said sincerely, "I know that I had some unpleasantness with the Empress before. It was because the Queen Mother wanted the Emperor to have equal treatment, and I was too jealous. It had nothing to do with the Fifth Prince." "

I have let it go now. I, the Emperor, the Queen Mother, and the Fifth Prince are all one family in a normal family. What can't we talk about?"

Cheng Jin took advantage of the situation and pulled up Qu Wanxin, who was still kneeling beside her. "Since my sister and the Fifth Prince are in tune with each other, I don't have any hatred towards my sister. If it really helps my sister and the Prince get together, aren't we still one family?"

Qu Wanxin was still confused when she was pulled up.

Xu Jilin and Qu Wanxin stared at Cheng Jin with their eyes, as if they wanted to find some loopholes in Cheng Jin's mouth and the loopholes that Cheng Jin wanted to frame them.

Cheng Jin's eyes paused on Xu Jilin for a moment, then looked at Qu Wanxin. She looked innocent and soon laughed again.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Don't you believe what I say?"

Xu Jilin asked suspiciously, "Do you really think so?"

Cheng Jin looked into Qu Wanxin and Xu Jilin's eyes and said, "How can I deceive the queen and my sister? I am now favored by the emperor, and Wanxin and the fifth prince are in tune with each other. If Wanxin and the fifth prince really get together, I will be the only one in the harem, and I will naturally be happy."

Cheng Jin noticed Xu Jilin's gaze and immediately stepped forward and said, "Please forgive me, your majesty. I will naturally help you." I have my own selfish reasons. I want the Queen not to persuade the Emperor to fill the harem after I intercede for the prince. "

Xu Jilin glanced at Cheng Jin coldly, "With you by the Emperor's side, what does it matter to me?"

Cheng Jin smiled affectionately at Xu Jilin and said, "Your Majesty, you are the Emperor's biological mother. The Emperor always listens to you. Now he is just angry. When this storm is over, what does the Emperor not listen to?"

Xu Jilin heard what Cheng Jin said was indeed true.

Although Chu Chengye was very uncomfortable with her control, he was her own son after all. With that blood relationship, even if Chu Chengye did not listen to her, he would not do anything too cruel.

There were also those past events that Xu Jilin had someone tell Chu Chengye. It didn't matter whether they were true or false. After all, so much time had passed. Those who should have forgotten had forgotten, and those who should have died had died.

With such a life-saving relationship, Chu Chengye believed most of what Xu Jilin said. Otherwise, she wouldn't have done so many things under Chu Chengye's nose.

But now Chu Chengye deliberately avoided her. Now the only one who could speak for Chu Huaian in front of Chu Chengye was Cheng Jin.

What Cheng Jin said was also credible. No matter how different Cheng Jin was, she was still a woman in the harem.

Most of the women in the harem are the same. They stay in the palace for their whole lives just to get the emperor's exclusive favor and to make their family rich.

Now everyone in the court knows that the Cheng family is favored by the emperor. Cheng Jin now only wants to be favored by the emperor in the harem.