When Yan Cheng arrived at North Fourth Institute, it was already decorated with white everywhere.
The young boy with a pale face and stiff body lay quietly in the coffin.
Amidst the noisy sobbing, a bright yellow figure stood in the small courtyard dominated by white. A woman with long hair threw herself on the coffin and cried bitterly.
Yan Cheng never imagined that the young boy who had just escaped death yesterday, who was talkative and laughing, and full of life, would be lying lifeless in this cold coffin today.
The tenth prince is only ten years old this year.
Yan Cheng had just rushed here from Kaiyuan Temple. He was the last to arrive among all the princes.
After he saluted Emperor Jingxi, the Seventh Prince quickly pulled him to his side and whispered, "Eighth brother, now that you're here, do you know what's going on?"
The Seventh Prince was worried that Yan Cheng was in a hurry on his way and had not had time to understand the specific situation.
"I know."
On the way here, Yan Cheng had already roughly learned from the eunuch who came to report the news why the Tenth Prince died suddenly.
The tenth prince fell to his death.
It is the clean water lake near Nanso.
From the previous dynasty to the present, the clean water lake in the palace has mercilessly taken away countless lives. Last night, it cruelly took the life of a ten-year-old child.
Yesterday, the palace servants in the North Four Palaces waited until dark, but still did not see the Tenth Prince. They were as anxious as ants on a hot pan, searching everywhere for him.
Later, it even alarmed the patrolling guards in the palace. After searching for most of the day, at daybreak, someone finally discovered the body of the tenth prince lying quietly on the ice of the Qingshui Lake.
The blood under the boy's head had solidified into ice, a huge piece of red ice. One could imagine how much blood the boy had lost at that time.
Not far from the young boy's body, there was also a eunuch's body, with a piece of blood-red ice underneath.
Judging from the two sets of footprints left on the snow, it seemed as if they had walked onto the ice by themselves and then fell and broken their heads.
However, is it really just like that?
The two people died in the same way, which seems extremely strange no matter how you look at it.
However, Emperor Jingxi seemed to have no intention of conducting a deeper investigation and easily believed this so-called "accident".
The tenth prince was quickly and hastily buried.
In the entire palace, not many people really cared about the death of the Tenth Prince, and those who did not have enough ability to thoroughly investigate what happened that night.
It seemed as if the truth would be buried forever under the thick layer of ice, never to see the light of day.
Yan Cheng didn't believe in this so-called "accident" at all. He had already started investigating the various events that happened that day and night before the Tenth Prince was buried.
This is not only to give the deceased Tenth Prince the truth so that he can rest in peace, but also to prevent any disaster from happening.
The mastermind behind the scenes was able to cause the Tenth Prince to die in such an "accident" today, and might attack him tomorrow. He had to be on guard.
However, although he had built up some power of his own in the palace, it was still quite weak compared to those who had been rooted in the palace for a long time.
Any movement that is a little bigger will alarm others.
He was not willing to expose himself to the public at this critical moment, so when investigating things, he inevitably seemed a little restrained and found it difficult to let go and investigate.
After checking again and again, I feel that things are becoming more and more confusing.
Yan Cheng had a very bad premonition in his heart, as if there was a big boss whose true face could never be seen hiding among the monsters and demons in the palace.
In the original book, the tenth prince did die, but not now, but a few years later, and the cause of death was falling off a cliff.
The book describes it as an accident that surprised both Yang Guifei and her son.
But was it really just an accident?
Just as the Tenth Prince said that day that he was thrown off a cliff, could it be that the Tenth Prince in the book was also killed in the name of an "accident"?
It seemed as if a huge and heavy shadow was covering the imperial city, staring indifferently and equally at everyone who tried to covet the treasure, and it was possible that it would extend its sharp claws at any time.
On the day he gave up investigating the truth behind the Tenth Prince's death, Yan Cheng stayed alone in the study for a long time.
Towards evening, Leng Yan had just walked into the study when he heard the young man mutter softly, "It's really not easy to be a prince."
Then don’t do it.
Leng Yan really wanted to say this in his heart.
But he knew clearly that Yan Cheng would just smile at this and then pass it by.
Family, friends, classmates...
There are too many people here that Yan Cheng cares about. He will never choose to give up his identity as a prince, escape from this complicated and cruel struggle, and live a secluded life in isolation from the world.
In the end, Leng Yan said nothing.
No matter what might happen in the future, he will always be with his Acheng.
When Yan Cheng calmed down, Leng Yan saw that the distress on his face had disappeared, and said:
"Prince Li is going to marry the daughter of Marquis Yingchuan as his concubine. This is the invitation that Prince Li's palace just sent over."
Yan Cheng paused slightly. "Didn't Fifth Brother marry the daughter of the Minister of Personnel as his concubine last year? Why is he marrying again so soon?"
Could it be that the concubine is just as unsuitable to his liking as the principal wife?
Well, if that's the case, those two girls are really pitiful, marrying men who don't care about them at all.
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