Liang Qingchen stayed in the house that night and did not return to the palace.

After dinner, Jiang Muyu came back from taking a shower and saw him lying on the bed with a look of indifference. She asked in confusion, "You are free now."

"I am not idle. The war is still going on in the front and the political situation is unstable in the back. I need to take care of both of them."

"Then why are you just lying here doing nothing?"

"You should always take time to accompany Madam. If you need to do everything yourself, then what's the point of me being the emperor?"

What you said makes sense and leaves me speechless.

Jiang Muyu walked over to him and sat down. She glanced at the gauze wrapped around him and asked, "Will this injury affect your sleep?"

"A little bit, but it's not a big deal, just bear with it and it will pass."

Jiang Muyu rolled his eyes and said unhappily, "Who did you learn the tea aroma from?"

"Tea aroma in tea? What does that mean?"

"To say that your tea smells so good is a compliment." She was just talking nonsense, and Liang Qingchen didn't know it anyway.

But is he so easy to fool?

"Lying to me? Huh?" Liang Qingchen put his hand on her shoulder, moved closer, and gently sucked on her neck, leaving a faint mark.

Jiang Muyu just felt a little itchy, tilted his head, suddenly thought of something, and asked him: "Your other name is Xia Lin?"

"Um."

"Why don't I know?"

"My surname is Xia, my given name is Lin, and my courtesy name is Qingchen. I was born a prince, so naturally few people dare to call me by my name."

"I see." Jiang Muyu pursed her lips, turned her head to look at his face so close, and then raised her hand to touch the lavender crack on his forehead. She said softly, "Ah Chen, tell me in detail what you have been doing these days."

He grabbed her hand, put it to his lips and kissed it, then nodded: "Okay."

"Then I will start from the time I left the small courtyard in town."

"No, it starts from the time you faked your death and were captured."

"good."

…

Jiang Muyu guessed 80% of Liang Qingchen's plan.

He was the one who secretly instigated this war, and he had been planning all this a long, long time ago.

The Regent King of Xuancang State was also a subordinate of Liang Qingchen. In his early years, he was an unknown person. He was quite talented but had only ambitions. Because he offended the King of Qi at the time, he was disqualified from taking the imperial examination and almost lost his life.

Fortunately, he was helped by the then-nationalist general He Yongzhen, and saved his life, becoming an insignificant scholar in the general's mansion.

The subsequent mutiny in the imperial capital actually made him successful. The mother of the Regent Prince was Wanqi Youhui's distant cousin. Of course, this relationship alone could not make Wanqi Youhui promote him. He was able to reach his current position largely because of his outstanding talents and strategies, and a small part was because Liang Qingchen paved the way for him in secret, so that his career could go so smoothly.

The Regent was good at seducing people. He climbed up from a low position little by little and became Wanqi Youhui's confidant and military advisor.

The Wanqi family has ambition but no ability. They are fine for training soldiers and fighting wars, but it is really a shame to ask them to manage government affairs. Moreover, perhaps because their hands are stained with blood from the wars in their early years, all the people in the Wanqi family have short lives.

King Zhenbei succeeded in usurping the throne but died after only three years on the throne. Later, Wanqi Youhui succeeded him but also only sat on the throne for ten years before he died of illness.

At that time, Wanqi Youhui's legitimate son was only nine years old. How could a half-grown child shock the court? So before his death, Wanqi Youhui established a regent king to assist the new emperor in governing the country.

Wanqi Youhui had never expected that the people around him whom he trusted the most were actually subordinates of the former crown prince whom he had killed. He personally returned the kingdom he had seized to Liang Qingchen.

Liang Qingchen had been planning for many years, and had the Regent Prince stimulate the Emperor Xuancang's dissolute nature, arouse public anger, and then lead to this war.

Naturally, he also had his own people in Dongxu Kingdom, and that person was the real Qingsi. Although that person did not hold a high position or a high salary in Dongxu, he was smart and good at socializing. He was on good terms with the crown prince of Dongxu Kingdom. The crown prince and the eldest prince Luo Chengguan were at odds with each other, so Liang Qingchen asked him to instigate the crown prince to let Dongxu send troops and assign Luo Chengguan to fight.

Prince Dongxu had long wanted to get rid of Luo Chengguan, so he naturally agreed, which allowed Dongxu to get involved in the war.

The chaos ahead naturally gave him the opportunity to fake his death and allow Montu to "capture" him back to Xuancang. He then had the opportunity to ambush in Xuancang and arrange to force the emperor to abdicate.

However, things did not go as smoothly as he had imagined.

He was poisoned and on the verge of death. During those days, his body was covered with purple cracks, like a sculpture about to break into pieces. He floated in and out of dreams all day long. When the pain came, his whole body convulsed, as if thousands of insects were gnawing at his flesh and sucking his blood. Several times, he almost slit his throat because of the pain.

However, when he thought that his Zhao Zhao was still waiting for him, he held back.

The Regent sought out many famous doctors and was able to cure the poison in his body, but it only dissipated 50% of his internal strength.

During the days when the residual poison had not yet cleared, the cracks on his body never faded, and even his voice became hoarse.

However, when he learned that Jiang Muyu was imprisoned, he went to the jungle to rescue her without caring about his own safety. However, he was afraid that she would be frightened when she saw his current appearance, so he put on a human skin mask and used the identity of Qingsi to hide his identity.

Later, the poison was cured, but it left a mark on his face that could not be erased for the rest of his life.

Liang Qingchen was a little afraid to let her see that without his handsome looks that he was proud of, he actually became a little inferior. He was afraid that she would dislike him, and even more afraid that she only liked his appearance.

During several attempts, she kept resisting that ugly appearance, and he became more and more afraid to show his true face.

So he took advantage of Jiang Muyu's deep sleep and left a large mark of his own on her neck as a punishment.

Although Luo Chengguan's coming for her was part of his plan, it still made him jealous and angry.

When he thought of Luo Chengguan and her spending several days together in Dongxu's military camp, he wanted to tear him into pieces. So, he threw Luo Chengguan into a water dungeon and filled a pool with ink to torture him.

He didn't tell Jiang Muyu any of this.

Just briefly mentioned it.

After explaining the matter of the Regent King, Liang Qingchen said, "I was in Xuan Cangxie, secretly deploying troops. When I learned that you were imprisoned in the Dongxu enemy camp, I went alone to rescue you. In order to conceal my identity, I didn't dare to show my true face. Later, when the deployment was almost complete, I took off the mask and went to see you. You know what happened afterwards."

Jiang Muyu frowned, always feeling that he was hiding something from her, but if he didn't want to say it, she couldn't force him.

"What happened after you left the town and went to the imperial capital?"

"I have been living in this house since I arrived in the imperial capital. The regent is in charge of the affairs on the surface, while I am the one who arranges the troops and deploys them secretly, waiting for the right opportunity to act."