Princess Anle took a deep breath and said, "I know this has nothing to do with you."
"This painting was flawed from the start; it was my carelessness!"
After hearing what he said, Grandpa Yu breathed a sigh of relief and quickly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
He asked, somewhat puzzled, "When this map was opened yesterday, it was a defense deployment map, how come it's changed now..."
“He used a special material to paint,” Princess Anle said through gritted teeth. “Paintings made with that material will naturally fade after three hours.”
"As for what is drawn on it now, it already existed. Ye Junfei drew the defense plan on this map."
Eunuch Yu still couldn't figure out how Ye Junfei could draw defense diagrams on erotic paintings, and he dared not ask any more questions.
He said softly, "What do we do now?"
Princess Anle's eyes seemed to spit fire as she coldly said, "I will tear that pair of adulterers apart sooner or later!"
He was so thoroughly humiliated by Lin Xiuyan today, and many of his guards were lost.
When he realized that he had been tricked by Ye Junfei, he felt that he had lost all face.
Although he now has a way to reconstruct the defense map that Ye Junfei sent over last night, given the current situation, he doesn't dare to believe anything on the map!
Seeing how angry he was, Old Man Yu didn't dare say anything more and just stood there with his head down.
He was somewhat worried.
He was originally a eunuch serving the emperor, and his position in the palace was not low. He thought that accompanying Princess Anle out of the palace this time would be an easy task.
As long as he delivers the imperial decree, he can return to the capital after attending Princess Anle and Ye Junfei's wedding banquet and receive his reward.
But now that the imperial edict has been burned by Lin Xiuyan, Princess Anle can no longer marry Ye Junfei, and he has no way to return to the capital to report back.
What should he do now?
Just then, Hongxiu walked over and said, "Greetings...Greetings, Princess. My Lord heard that the Princess is in the manor and invites her to come over for a chat."
She was forced by Zhou Chenyang to come and invite Princess Anle. She was terrified and her body was trembling.
Princess Anle's gaze deepened upon hearing this: "When did Zhou Chenyang wake up?"
"Your Highness, I just woke up," Hongxiu replied.
Princess Anle knew she was Zhou Chenyang's concubine, and didn't even bother to glance at her: "Lead the way."
Hongxiu breathed a sigh of relief and led Princess Anle to Zhou Chenyang's room.
Zhou Chenyang was more energetic than when he first woke up.
Upon seeing Princess Anle enter, he hurriedly apologized, "I should have gone to pay my respects to Your Highness, but my injuries are too severe. I apologize for troubling Your Highness to make this trip."
Princess Anle said coldly, "Before I came here, my father said you were quite capable and that I should give you an important position. But after arriving here, heh heh..."
His voice turned stern as he said this: "You ask me to forgive your sins? For what you've done, you deserve to die a hundred times over."
"You'd better provide me with some useful information, or I'll take your dog's life right now!"
Zhou Chenyang hurriedly said, "I was severely schemed against by Lin Xiuyan some time ago. The root cause was that I was too arrogant and underestimated her."
"Although I am incompetent, I have fought with her several times and have some understanding of her methods."
"Please, Your Highness, spare my life and kill that vile woman Lin Xiuyan to vent your anger!"
Princess Anle looked him up and down: "In your previous memorial to the court, you said you had a way to make the Prince of Pingnan's mansion obediently withdraw from its post?"
Zhou Chenyang's expression changed slightly, and then he said with a forced smile, "As long as we get the Lin family's money, we can destroy the foundation of the Pingnan Prince's Mansion."
Princess Anle looked at Zhou Chenyang, signaling him to continue.
He then added, "Liefeng Prefecture is located in the southwest of the Great Chu, and it is not considered a wealthy region."
“After paying the salaries of officials and dealing with typhoons, the total amount of tax revenue collected by the Prince of Pingnan’s mansion each year was almost gone.”
"This year's wind disaster at the Pingnan Prince's Mansion will be more severe than in previous years. As long as the Pingnan Prince's Mansion cannot come up with the money for disaster relief after the wind disaster."
"If we take this opportunity to incite the people, chaos will surely break out in Liefeng Prefecture. Then the imperial court can use this opportunity to send troops to suppress the unrest, and thus have a legitimate reason to enter Liefeng Prefecture."
His plan, in essence, is feasible.
But all of this was built on the premise that a typhoon struck Galewind State.
Princess Anle asked Zhou Chenyang, "You want to target the Lin family because you're afraid they'll use their wealth to help the Prince of Pingnan's family through this crisis?"
Zhou Chenyang nodded: "Yes."
Princess Anle sneered: "You and Lin Xiuyan were already engaged, and Lin Xiuyan is the only son in the Lin family."
“By marrying her, you have essentially married the entire Lin family. Now you have abandoned Lin Xiuyan and married someone who is of no use.”
"Zhou Chenyang, have you lost your mind?"
Zhou Chenyang's expression was somewhat unnatural. He coughed lightly and said, "Lin Xiuyan somehow found out about my plan."
"She didn't want the Lin family to get involved in this conflict, so she plotted to frame me."
He actually made this up to appease Princess Anle, but it unexpectedly revealed the truth.
Zhou Chenyang had regretted sleeping with Jiang Xinrou more than once, and he also hated Lin Xiuyan for being too heartless.
He only slept with Jiang Xinrou, why is he so relentless in his pursuit of him and has caused him so much suffering?
Princess Anle's eyes flickered slightly: "Alright, stop explaining. I know you're a fool."
Zhou Chenyang dared not defend himself.
Princess Anle added, "It seems that the Lin family plays a very important role in dealing with the Prince of Pingnan's mansion. I must eliminate the Lin family first."
He originally wanted to kill Lin Xiuyan, and now he had another reason to deal with her, which he thought was pretty good.
Zhou Chenyang chimed in, "The princess is right, the Lin family must be eliminated."
"Besides the Lin family's silver, the Lin family's trade routes can also be an asset to the Prince of Pingnan's mansion."
Princess Anle nodded slightly and said, "Alright, I'll leave this matter to you."
"If you handle this matter well, I will not hold your previous actions against you."
"If you can't do a good job, then you have no value in living!"
Zhou Chenyang felt a chill run down his spine, but he could only say, "Thank you, Princess!"
Princess Anle asked Zhou Chenyang, "Where did Lin Xiuyan get all those different kinds of weapons?"
Zhou Chenyang had no idea what weapons Lin Xiuyan possessed, and he was completely baffled by the question.
After thinking about it carefully, he said, "She usually likes to cause trouble. Maybe she got into too many fights, so she had someone make some weapons for her!"
Upon hearing this, Princess Anle knew that Zhou Chenyang had never truly understood Lin Xiuyan before, and it was no wonder that this fool had been dealt with so badly by Lin Xiuyan.
He gave Zhou Chenyang a cold look: "You are the most stupid idiot I have ever seen."
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