Chapter 64 Chapter 64 [VIP]
Such a long story was slowly told from Sheng Li's mouth, as if it had the magic power of some divine artifact, which gradually calmed Ling Suye down.
For Ling Suye, this was actually a story from a generation ago, logically speaking, very long ago. But the child in the story was actually him.
Sheng Li already knew at this moment that the child was his teacher himself, so he choked up several times and even became speechless while telling the story.
But he still forced himself to finish.
Sheng Li lowered his eyes to look at Ling Suye, who was lying there, but still tense. Suddenly, he couldn't bear to look away. Calculating their ages, his master was actually younger than him. What was he still doing when he was his age?
Are you angry because you didn’t get a private room at Zuixianlou?
Are you discouraged by not winning in Cuju?
Sheng Li felt as if a blunt knife was cutting his heart bit by bit until it was covered in blood and could no longer be put back together.
Suddenly, Sheng Li heard Ling Suye speak. His voice was hoarse and a little unclear, so he did not immediately react to what Ling Suye meant.
Ling Suye said: "Tell me, is the emperor really innocent?"
Ling Suye heard Sheng Li's breathing pause, but he didn't say anything. He couldn't see, and his perception of the outside world was very vague at the moment, so he felt even more insecure, and there was a hint of mockery in his tone.
"From what you just said, the Princess has already discovered that it was Prince Duan who plotted to annihilate the entire Ling family—and she's been hostile to Prince Duan all these years since her return. Do you think, with the Princess's abilities and skills, she hasn't been able to defeat Prince Duan after all these years?"
Ling Suye's words seemed to lift the veil covering Sheng Li's heart, and he felt that all his senses became clear in an instant.
The questions that had been lingering in his mind for a long time were swept away, and even many questions that seemed unsolvable to him were answered in an instant.
Because everything ultimately points to the supreme ruler.
Sheng Li had guessed before that the emperor was the mastermind behind the incident, but whenever the eldest princess mentioned him, she always looked helpless - after all, he was her own brother. Even now, the emperor still called the eldest princess "elder sister" in private.
Sheng Li thought that the eldest princess was so devoted to the emperor that it was impossible for him to plot against his eldest sister's only child.
But what Ling Suye heard was the story told by Sheng Li. In addition, he had been on duty in the capital before and knew many private matters. He was even almost selected to become the emperor's secret guard.
In his eyes, the emperor was far from being as cowardly, incompetent, and a humble gentleman as the eldest princess described him to be.
On the contrary, the emperor was a man who lacked a sense of security. It could even be said that he did not have the courage of an emperor at all. He was suspicious all day long, worried that the palace maids and eunuchs around him wanted to kill him for rebellion. When he rested at night, he would not allow anyone to approach him.
Sheng Li heard Ling Suye's sinister words: "The more a person has, the more he worries about losing it."
——What if all this is a cover?
Sheng Li's heart suddenly started to ring with alarm: "Then tonight——"
Ling Suye repeated his last two words: "Tonight."
"The Princess has personally hosted a banquet tonight, inviting Prince Duan to attend. Besides that, the Dukes and their relatives are also invited. Over a hundred and eighty invitations have been sent out—" Sheng Li felt terrified with every word he spoke. "Tonight, the Princess will avenge the Ling family."
If everything is really as Ling Suye said, and the emperor is the ultimate mastermind, then he is hiding too deeply.
And he actually played this game of chess for twenty years!
Because of this moment, the eldest princess and His Royal Highness Prince Duan turned against each other and both suffered losses.
In this way, the two largest forces in the court will fall, and the imperial power will become more concentrated.
This move is truly brilliant.
At this moment, Sheng Li heard Ling Suye say, "If I were the emperor, I wouldn't just sit there and watch. I would make another move."
Sheng Li was confused: "What?"
Ling Suye raised his wrist, pointed at himself, and said, "Me."
With the emperor's ability, there was no way he could let him live - not to mention that the dragon energy was still in him, waiting to be taken back.
Ling Suye only knew the secrets of the court, but he still didn't have a clear understanding of something as important as the royal inheritance.
"I don't know if he could use this dragon energy to locate me. I only know that he's sent assassins to kill us several times since we entered the Imperial City. If it weren't for the Princess's grand ceremony to bring us back, who knows how many more assassinations there would have been," Ling Suye said. "I've always been puzzled. I was hiding well, even believing I was plotting in the dark. But every time, just when I was about to succeed, I'd fall short. Someone would get there first. Now I finally know why. It's the dragon energy."
This wisp of dragon energy protected his name, but also put him in danger.
However, Ling Suye accepted it calmly. Everything in the world is a double-edged sword. If it weren't for this wisp of dragon energy, he might have been killed by the sword long ago.
But then again, the reason he has been blessed by the dragon energy until now is not only because he has royal blood, but also because the royal luck should not be extinct.
Otherwise, even the royal dragon energy would not be able to protect him from escaping every danger.
Ling Suye said, "Since my mother is planning to kill people, how can we not be there?"
He struggled to get up and said, "Then bring me my sword. I'm going to help my mother!"
After listening to his analysis, Sheng Li couldn't tell whether Ling Suye was just speaking in anger or had a plan.
But he was used to obeying, so he obediently took Ling Suye's sword and accompanied him out.
"This is the eldest princess's unknown residence. Before she left, the eldest princess told us that we are the only ones here and we will be safe here." Sheng Li said while giving Ling Suye directions.
Ling Suye didn't know that he had dragon energy before, and he thought that the man was so omnipotent that he could even find out where he was hiding.
Now that he knew the existence of dragon energy, he became even more unscrupulous.
"Ali, we will be safest only if we get rid of the enemy." Ling Suye sighed.
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At the same time, in the palace.
In the Yangxin Pavilion where the emperor was staying, a concubine was feeding the emperor grapes.
"Tell me, your eldest sister is such a smart person, how could she be so foolish as to think that Prince Duan alone could wipe out the entire Ling family and take away their young master's Eye of Truth." The concubine smiled charmingly, her eyes moving.
"Of course she doesn't believe it. After all, I'm the only one she's told about the Eye of Delusion." The emperor lay back on the couch, holding the beauty in his arms. He said, "What a pity, my eldest sister trusts me too much. When I cry, she agrees to anything I ask."
It was the same when he was a child. It was clearly his eldest sister who won the prize by winning first place in the horse riding competition, but when he made a fuss, his eldest sister gave him all the things and even promised that the prize would still be his next year.
This is exactly the same as always.
"Humph, I don't believe it," the concubine said with a smile, "I know you let her child go, Ling Suye."
The emperor sneered: "He's just a blind loser, how can you let him go?"
"To cut the grass, you have to root it out. Over the years, this jerk has secretly ruined so many of my good deeds. Every time I said I wanted to kill him, you refused. Why is that?"
The emperor let go of his concubine with a dull expression, but still answered the question obediently: "Because he carries my royal dragon energy. If you kill him, the royal dragon energy will dissipate, and my kingdom will be completely overturned."
The concubine actually knew the answer, but she just wanted to hear the emperor explain it to her over and over again.
She said, "What's wrong with the collapse of the country? It won't delay us anywhere, right?"
"You know, every time I answer you, it's always the same answer - the country and you are equally important." The emperor was forced to this point, but he still answered her gently.
"Then let's capture Ling Suye, extract the dragon energy, and return it to your jade seal, okay?"
"Refining dragon energy is a very troublesome task. I can't do it." The emperor turned over, as if he was going to sleep.
When the concubine saw that he was actually asleep, a hint of mockery appeared at the corners of her lips. Then all her clothes turned into snake scales, and she turned into a small snake and crawled into the emperor's open mouth.
The emperor seemed to sense something in his sleep. He did not sleep comfortably and even explained to his elder sister anxiously.
"I really don't know! Big sister, please trust me. How could I possibly do anything to hurt you or my little nephew?"
"Eldest sister, I really don't know...it must have been Prince Duan who did it. It's all him."
"Eldest sister, Aye must still be alive. He has dragon energy—as long as the imperial court exists, the dragon energy will protect him from death... We still have a chance to find him."
"Eldest sister, I..."
The eldest princess didn't even look at the emperor and left.
It was then that the emperor realized that there was another person inside his body.
The person inside him heard everything his elder sister said to him that day. While the blood of the person with the Eye of Delusion could indeed suppress his own snake transformation as a medicinal ingredient, it had no effect on the person inside him.
That day, the emperor heard the man say to him, "I originally planned to gradually replace you as emperor, eroding your consciousness and making you see how you have gradually torn your own family apart. But your generation has truly seen the emergence of a remarkable female hero. Her several major actions in western Hunan have cut off all my escape routes. From now on, I can only rely on you."
The emperor even watched a snake crawl out of his mouth and fainted on the spot.
Before he fainted, he heard the voice continue to say——
"However, Your Majesty, do you think your eldest sister could guess that the source of the ultimate curse actually lies within you? Hahahahaha, she'll never guess it in her lifetime."
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