Everyone had almost forgotten about this prince, thinking he was just a sickly man who had a good relationship with the emperor. Little did they know that Prince Mu was only physically weak, but his mind was very sharp, except for his somewhat difficult personality.
He and Li Xiaochen, one helped the emperor fight wars to pacify the country, and the other helped the emperor come up with ideas to quell internal strife.
However, a year ago, Prince Mu returned to his fiefdom to recuperate due to health reasons, so Lin Yuxin did not know Prince Mu when she arrived this year.
Also, there was no such person as Prince Mu in the book, so it's normal that Lin Yuxin didn't know him.
"This... Your Highness?"
Lin Yuxin hesitated a bit when she shouted, because she wasn't sure if she had shouted it correctly.
"Xinxin, this is Prince Mu, the Emperor's cousin!"
Li Xiaochen gently reminded her, afraid that if he didn't speak up, this girl would offend two people!
"Oh! Prince Mu! If you don't want the Emperor to tell me, you can just say so. How can you discriminate against women? So what if I'm a princess? I, as a princess, can hold up half the sky! Let's not even talk about holding up half the sky, at least my body is much stronger than yours!"
Lin Yuxin couldn't hold back any longer and retorted to the prince. Was this prince trying to ruin her plans? How could she allow that?
"You bastard!!"
Prince Mu did not lose his temper, but the Emperor was so angry that he shouted at Lin Yuxin. Prince Mu's health had always been a worry for the Emperor.
Prince Mu was actually born with poison. Back then, the Mu family had many wives and concubines. Although the old Prince Mu doted on his wife, he was also extremely promiscuous. For a period of time, the wife happened to be pregnant.
A concubine who gained power thought she could turn the world upside down, so she wanted to get rid of the child in the princess's womb, and so she poisoned the child.
Although the poison was eventually neutralized, residual toxins remained in the fetus's body, which nearly caused Prince Mu's health to fail from the moment he was born.
For so many years, she has been kept alive with precious medicinal herbs and cannot exert herself, only able to rest quietly. Therefore, Prince Mu is only three years younger than the Emperor, and he is still all alone. His health does not allow him to marry and have children.
Last year, Prince Mu went to his fiefdom because he had been advising the emperor for a long time, which took a toll on his health. He fell into a coma for a month, which made the emperor feel very guilty.
Lin Yuxin's use of Prince Mu's body as a pretext has crossed the Emperor's line.
Lin Yuxin was startled by the Emperor's shout and shrank back. Oh! The Emperor is angry! At the same time, she also understood that Prince Mu's body was a red line for the Emperor, and she had accidentally touched it.
"thump!"
Lin Yuxin reacted extremely quickly, immediately performing a sliding kneeling technique, kneeling before the Emperor's desk, then raising her watery eyes and beginning to plead her mistake in a pitiful manner:
"Your Majesty, I am guilty. I misspoke. I shouldn't have brought up Prince Mu's health. But I was just angry. Didn't Prince Mu's words just now mean he was looking down on me?"
“I am a princess personally appointed by you. If he looks down on me, it means he has a problem with you. I know that I am just a woman and have no ability. If you don’t want to tell me, then don’t. There’s no need for Prince Mu to humiliate me like this.”
Lin Yuxin started crying as she spoke, tears streaming down her face! It happened so suddenly, that anyone who didn't know better would think she had suffered some kind of injustice.
There were six Grand Councilors present: Prince Mu, Cheng Yide; Regent, Li Xiaochen; two princes; General Zhao Shijie; Grand Secretary Gong Zhou; Minister of War Peng Yanhuai; and Minister of Revenue Geng Zhiwei.
Apart from Prince Mu, almost everyone present knew Princess Pingning and knew that she was not one to suffer a loss. This was the first time they had ever seen her crying like this. The adults looked at each other, wondering at the same time what kind of trouble the princess was up to now.
Surprisingly, not a single person felt that the princess had truly been wronged.
Li Xiaochen and Zhao Shijie stood there expressionless, quietly watching Lin Yuxin's performance. They wanted to laugh but dared not, and it was quite difficult for them to hold back.
Only Prince Mu frowned upon seeing this. Although he was eager to know what abilities this girl possessed and whether what he had just heard was true, he could not tolerate her challenging the imperial authority in this way!
“Princess Pingning, this is the Imperial Study. How dare you wail and cry here?”
Prince Mu couldn't stand it any longer and reprimanded him with a cold face.
"Waaaaah! Your Majesty, look at Prince Mu! He has a problem with me!! He won't even let me cry!!"
Lin Yuxin wouldn't listen and kept crying!
The emperor was having a headache from crying. He raised his hand to rub his temples, wanting to have the girl escorted out so he could have some peace and quiet. But then he heard the voice of his unjustly conceived son coming from the doorway.
"Sister! Sister, why are you crying? Who bullied you? Tell Xiaohao! Xiaohao will help you get revenge!"
Cheng Tinghao came to the Imperial Study because he heard that his sister had entered the palace. He was happy to wait for her there, and after she finished her work, he would take her to the Empress Dowager's place for lunch.
As soon as he got closer, he heard his sister crying. How could he hold back any longer? He rushed in.
"Ninth Prince!! I am not worthy to be your sister!! I am just a lowly princess, how could I be worthy to be your sister? Aren't you making me feel utterly ashamed?!"
As soon as Lin Yuxin saw Cheng Tinghao, she became a drama queen and couldn't stop. She knelt down on the ground, hugged Cheng Tinghao's legs, and started bending over.
However, Cheng Tinghao didn't know that his sister was pretending. He thought she had really suffered a great injustice at the Emperor's hands, so he immediately put on a cold face and looked at the Emperor, his aura not inferior to the Emperor's at all.
"Father! Did you bully my sister?"
Cheng Tinghao asked in a cold voice.
emperor:…?
I would like to, but I haven't had the chance. Prince Renmu only said one thing to her, and this girl has been crying ever since. If I were to say another word, I'm afraid my Imperial Study would be gone!
"You brat, who do you think you're talking to? I'm your father! Besides, it wasn't me who bullied her! Go find whoever bullied her!"
The Emperor glared at Cheng Tinghao and said in an annoyed tone.
Seeing that his father hadn't lied, Cheng Tinghao turned to look at the other people standing there, automatically skipping over Li Xiaochen and Zhao Shijie, who were his sister's relatives and wouldn't let her cry.
So there are only these three ministers?
Cheng Tinghao's sharp eyes made the three adults break out in a cold sweat, take a step back, and shake their heads in fear.
No, no, no, it's not that we're old ministers! Even if they had ten times the courage, they wouldn't dare bully the princess! Who here doesn't know Princess Pingning's power? Do they have a death wish?!
Not them?
Finally, Cheng Tinghao turned his gaze to his cousin, Prince Mu, who was sitting to the side.
This man is no ordinary person. Although he had only met this Uncle Mu twice, he knew that this man had eyes and a mind that could see through everything.
However, he has one drawback: he is too conservative and has a bad temper.
Thinking about this, Cheng Tinghao became even more certain that he was the one who made his sister cry for so long!
Cheng Tinghao, young and fearless, didn't mince words and asked directly:
"Uncle Mu, what did my sister do to offend you that you would treat her like this?"
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