Yan Cheng also knew that Emperor Jingxi was sheltering Yang Guifei. When he heard this for the first time, two completely different thoughts came to his mind.
He felt that this was indeed the case. Yang Guifei did not want a woman who looked very similar to her to exist in the palace, so she poisoned Yan Zhaoyi.
On the other hand, he felt a little strange. In the novel, Yang Guifei was the protagonist and had the halo of a protagonist. Would the bad things she did be so easily discovered?
He couldn't figure it out in his heart, but it didn't stop him from venting his anger secretly. As a prince, he couldn't reach Yang Guifei in the harem, but he could see the Ninth Prince almost every day in the study.
A son must pay for his mother's debts. Moreover, he and the Ninth Prince didn't have a friendly relationship to begin with, so there was nothing wrong with making a bigger quarrel.
So Qu Zhaoyue found that she was often bullied by her two older brothers.
She would deliberately embarrass him in class, always asking him questions he couldn't answer, so that the teachers and classmates in the study room could laugh at him.
After class, she would deliberately rush to walk in front of him, and then give him a look that was full of indescribable disgust.
While he was angry, he also wanted to say: Is this childish? Who is younger?
It’s not that Yan Cheng deliberately used this method to disgust the Ninth Prince, but mainly because he couldn’t think of any other way to do it. It would be difficult for him to fight directly in front of the Ninth Prince in the palace.
When someone complains, he will be the one who is not in the right.
Yan Cheng targeted the Ninth Prince for several days in a row, and until the end of the year, the Ninth Prince still didn't understand how he had provoked Yan Cheng.
But it doesn’t matter, it’s not important. What’s important is that Qu Zhaoyue hates Yan Cheng even more.
Qu Zhaoyue turned around and asked Chen Shengyancheng, who had gained a lot of weight recently due to eating and drinking well, what kind of ending he remembered.
It was learned that in Chen Sheng’s memory, there had never been an extra prince in the palace. He had never become the ninth prince, but had always been the eighth prince.
Mr. Chen kept saying that Yan Cheng was redundant, and Qu Zhaoyue agreed with him very much. She asked him if he knew Yan Cheng, but Mr. Chen hesitated and couldn't answer.
Qu Zhaoyue used some painful tricks to find out that Yan Cheng had no presence in Chen Sheng's memory.
Mr. Chen only knew that a few years later, Emperor Jingxi appointed a person who had died long ago as Prince Yong, but he didn't know who that person was. At that time, Emperor Jingxi kept it very secret, and most people only knew that such an event had happened.
Even if a dead person is conferred the title of Prince Yong, it will not affect anyone's interests, so no one cares too much about it.
Qu Zhaoyue's intuition told him that Prince Yong was Yan Cheng.
But no one knew what went wrong in this life. Yan Cheng did not die in an unknown corner outside the palace. Instead, he broke into the royal family and snatched away his position as the eighth prince.
But that's all I can do.
"I will not allow him to take any more of what belongs to me."
Qu Zhaoyue thought sinisterly, "If this was just a playful targeting, I could still tolerate it for a while. But his survival is not without benefits to me. At least it helps me to defeat Qu Zhaoheng, a strong competitor.
But if he's after that position, I won't let him go."
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By the end of the year, Yan Cheng no longer targeted the Ninth Prince. As the palace was covered in red, the undercurrent between the two came to a temporary end.
This was Yan Cheng's first time celebrating the New Year in the palace. On the day of the New Year's Eve banquet, the palace was brightly lit with singing and dancing.
The moment Yan Cheng stepped into the palace, countless pairs of eyes cast curious, scrutinizing, and even jealous glances at him.
The Seventh Prince whispered beside him, "This is why I don't like attending banquets. Some people are so annoying."
It was so annoying that even he, who usually had a relatively stable mood, wanted to dig out their eyes.
Both of them were dressed up today. The moment they came in, the dimly lit hall seemed to be brighter.
The Prince of Han came in a little earlier than the two of them. He seemed to have sensed something and looked back at them, and found that the two faces were too similar in the dim light.
He kept his eyes open and looked again and again until he felt dizzy. Finally, he raised his hand in distress and poked the Prince of Ning beside him.
"Qu Zhaoyi, can you tell which one is the Seventh Prince and which one is the Eighth Prince?"
Prince Ning followed his gaze and looked behind him, shaking his head to indicate that he couldn't recognize who was who.
In the dim light, the two people's faces were too similar, with the same expressionless face, and their height and body shape were almost the same.
Normally, one could tell from the complexion that the one with a paler complexion was the Eighth Prince, but today this method of identification was completely ineffective.
At a dinner like this, you can't see a person's face clearly unless you get very close.
"They look so much alike. Let's go, let's stay away from them. If they come over and we call the wrong person, we'll be in trouble."
The Prince of Han was a man who cared a lot about his reputation, and he did not dare to imagine the embarrassing situation of calling the Seventh Prince the Eighth Prince and then being called the Seventh Prince by others.
Prince Ning didn't think there was anything wrong with recognizing the wrong person, but he still had to give his "good friend" some face and nodded to show that he understood.
The two of them had just quickened their pace, intending to take their seats quickly, when the Prince of Chu, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said, "The one on the left is Qu Zhaoheng, and the one on the right is Qu Zhaoyun."
Caught off guard by these words, the two looked at him at the same time and asked in unison, "How did you know?"
The Prince of Chu played with the jade pendant around his waist and said with a smile, "Isn't this something that can be seen at a glance?"
Prince Han and Prince Ning: ...
Okay, you are awesome, you are great!
The two of them slowed down their pace. "Since we can recognize who is who, should we say hello to them?"
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