For three consecutive days, every night, two groups of men in black came to the Yan Mansion and staged passionate real-life fights, leaving a pool of blood outside the Yan Mansion.
Yan Cheng had anticipated this situation. He listened to the secret guards' reports every day without any emotional fluctuation. He only estimated in his mind how many people the person who wanted to kill him had lost.
Then, based on the number of assassins who come to Yan Mansion every day, he can calculate how many people that person has who can be sacrificed.
Occasionally, he would guess how many days the assassination campaign could last and when it would be appropriate for him to go out and give them an opportunity to assassinate him.
In fact, the day after it was confirmed that someone would come to help intercept the killer, Yan Cheng ordered many of the secret guards scattered throughout the Yan Mansion to withdraw, leaving only those with particularly strong concealment capabilities.
He was not sure who was helping him, but no matter who it was, no one should know that he, the son of an official, was surrounded by so many secret guards.
If there are few people, you can say it is protecting yourself, but what should you say if there are many people?
Even the princes and grandchildren of the emperor do not all have secret guards. Is it reasonable for him, the son of an official, to have so many secret guards?
If he were discovered by someone with ulterior motives, they might report him or accuse the Yan family of having ulterior motives.
After a few days, new rumors emerged in the capital.
Although the Yan Mansion would send people out to clean up the traces on the street before dawn every day, the Yan Mansion did not occupy a single street.
Even if the bloodstains on the ground were not seen by anyone, how could the noise of the fight at night be hidden from the neighbors?
There are gossipers in every household, and soon the news that the Yan Mansion was targeted by assassins was spread throughout the capital by people with ulterior motives.
The drama of stealing the dragon and switching the phoenix was exposed just a few days ago. In the past few days, the killer has been going to the place where Longzi lives. Anyone can see the connection.
Now everyone in the capital is discussing who wants to kill the exiled prince.
The opinions are confusing and different views are in conflict; the voices of the masses can melt gold, and the accumulation of falsehoods can become the truth.
Among all the rumors now, the most widely accepted one is that the royal family believed that twins were an unlucky sign and that the one at the top was the one who switched the baby.
However, as a father, he did not want his son to die, so he sent the little prince somewhere else. But somehow, the little prince was adopted by the Yan family.
Now that the matter has been exposed, the person in power is furious and wants to kill the exiled prince to cover up the truth.
Many people felt sorry for the unloved prince and thought that he would not live long. There were even gambling games in the capital's gambling houses to bet on when he would die.
However, how can outsiders tell the truth?
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The princes and princesses of Daxia lived with their mothers until they were six years old, and after that they had to move into a specific palace complex.
The palace where the fifth princess lived was called Lanyue Palace. It was once one of the most lively palaces in the area. People came and went, and the young eunuchs and palace maids had to give some face to the eunuchs and palace maids in Lanyue Palace.
The only comparable palaces are Ningfang Palace where the eldest princess lives, and Qiyun Palace where the fourth princess lives.
The eldest princess was born to the second empress and had already married and no longer lived in the palace. The fourth princess was born to the second empress and had not yet been engaged and still lived in the palace.
Because of the different identities of their biological mothers, their treatment was almost the same, and the Fourth Princess often clashed with the Fifth Princess.
Although the Fifth Princess has always been kind to others, she cannot bow her head when faced with trouble. Doing so will not only lose her own face, but will also make Concubine Yun Shu and the Seventh Prince look bad.
So the two girls always have an argument whenever they meet.
If the master is like this, the people below will naturally follow suit. The palace people of Lanyue Palace and Qiyun Palace look down on each other. They don’t fight when they meet, but they don’t have a good attitude.
But things are different now.
The rumor of the self-stealing spread to the palace, and few of the palace maids in the Lanyue Palace could hold their heads up high. Faced with the sarcasm and ridicule from the Qiyun Palace, they did not dare to fight back as they did in the past.
Now everyone in the imperial city knows that the person living in their Lanyue Palace is a fake princess, and she might be kicked out at any time.
The palace servants in Lanyue Palace had this idea in their minds and were not even very dedicated in serving their master. After all, who knew the identity of the person living there.
The only three people who were still devoted to the Fifth Princess were her wet nurse Qian, first-class palace maid Shui Su, and her governess Dong.
Today, the breakfast delivered to Lanyue Palace by the kitchen was not only late but also cold, which made Shui Su very angry. She stomped her feet and cursed in front of the Fifth Princess.
"Who are these people? The matter has not yet been concluded, and some unidentified person suddenly appeared and said that our princess is not of royal blood. After the emperor finds out the truth and clears the princess's name, he will definitely punish these dogs who took advantage of others to get away with it."
"Do you believe this yourself?"
The fifth princess listlessly picked up the lightly oiled dishes, her mind already wandering elsewhere. She had clearly not eaten since yesterday afternoon, yet she had no appetite at all.
Ever since she learned that there was a young man in this world who looked exactly like the Seventh Prince, she understood why her mother didn't care as much about her as she did about the Seventh Prince.
She understood why no matter how hard she tried to please her mother for more than ten years, her mother was always indifferent to her.
I understand why she looks almost nothing like the Qu family.
It turns out that it was because she was a fake princess.
"Princess, the fourth princess is here."
The little palace maid came into the hall to report, and the fifth princess was stunned. Why was the fourth sister here?
Then he laughed at himself.
What could the fourth sister do? She must be here to mock her. She had always had a lot of opinions about her, and now that she was in a difficult situation, the fourth sister would definitely come and add insult to injury.
"Please ask her to come in."
The Fifth Princess said indifferently, and when she saw the little palace maid bow casually and leave in a hurry, she laughed at herself again.
Yes, how can she, a fake princess, compare with the real princess.
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