Chapter 83 The Great Xun is about to change.
A rumble of thunder sounded.
Pei Shilin let out the first scream, collapsing to the ground, utterly terrified. King regicide! This was king regicide! How dare they…
Cangshu quickly closed in on him, a dagger already pressed against his throat.
Just as Pei Heng was about to set off to rescue the man, he heard Xie Yushu say, "Leave him behind."
Cangshu stopped what he was doing and turned to look at Xie Yushu.
Xie Yushu got up from the couch, half of his face still bearing traces of blood, but there was no panic on his face. He looked at Pei Heng and smiled gently: "His life is left to General Pei."
Pei Heng looked at her bloodied face, which now wore a victor's smile. He was almost confused as to whether Xie Yushu, who had just been humiliated and lost her luster, was really like that.
Or was that also part of her plan?
At this moment, Song Jie and Xiao Dao stood on either side of her behind her.
Only at this moment did he realize that Song Jie seemed to be one of her people as well... It was as if Song Jie had never turned against her, and everything before was just an act by Song Jie.
She was not surprised by the current situation.
Pei Heng vaguely realized something, and those questions surged up again, but it was no use saying more now. Xiao Xu had already been killed, and he was also an accomplice in the regicide.
From the moment he closed his eyes, he gave his consent to the regicide.
So he suppressed all his questions, grabbed Pei Shilin from the ground, and said, "I'll shut him up. He won't utter a single word."
“Of course I believe you,” Xie Yushu said without hesitation. She added with an almost generous tone, “Pei Shilin is your family. I would never threaten you by harming him like Xiao Xu did.”
At this moment, she was no longer the Xie Yushu who had just sat on the couch, eyes downcast, enduring humiliation.
She generously set aside her personal grudge against Pei Shilin and said to Pei Heng, "I have absolutely no intention of forcing General Pei to do anything you don't want to do. You can take your family back to the Pei residence now."
But now that things have come to this, Pei Heng can no longer remain unscathed. This is regicide, and soon the eldest and second princes will find out, as will the entire court. What will happen to Xie Yushu and Xiao Dao then?
He had already made his decision when he stood up and refused to kneel before Xiao Xu, and he would naturally see it through to the end.
So he asked directly, "Have you planned how to handle the aftermath? What do you need me to do?"
Xie Yushu smiled, a smile of unwavering confidence.
Amidst the thunder, the sounds of fighting suddenly erupted outside, and the Imperial Guards shouted, "Assassins!"
This sounded like an instruction, and Song Jie gestured with his chin towards Cang Shu.
Cangshu quickly walked to the pear wood wardrobe, opened it, grabbed a person from inside, and threw him at Xie Yushu's feet.
It was actually Xiao Zhen!
Pei Heng was surprised to see that the person who was bound was actually Xiao Zhen, who was being held under house arrest outside the palace.
When was he brought into the palace? And was he still hidden in the wardrobe?
He couldn't think of anyone else who could sneak someone into the palace so secretly, except for Song Jie.
Cangshu removed the cloth from Xiao Zhen's mouth.
Xiao Zhen glared at Xie Yushu: "You want to frame me for regicide?"
“The Fourth Prince is really clever.” Xie Yushu lowered his eyes and smiled gently at him: “But this is not a frame-up. Did you hear the sounds of fighting outside? Those are the remnants of the Song King’s rebellion, the assassins of the Lonely Pavilion. They all came to save you, and the Emperor was killed by them to save you. The people of the world will believe that the remnants of the late Emperor killed the Emperor.”
Xiao Zhen stared at her face, which he hadn't seen in a long time, and suddenly realized how intelligent and ruthless she was.
She will not give you any choice or chance to resist; she will arrange everything and drive you to the brink of despair.
Just like with Pei Heng, she didn't give him any other options; she forced him into a desperate situation where he had no choice but to become an accomplice in the regicide.
He looked at Song Jie again, completely bewildered. Song Jie had drugged him last night and secretly brought him into the palace, hiding him in this wardrobe. So, Song Jie must have been the one who contacted the remnants of the Song King?
Is it Song Jie or Xiao Dao?
He wasn't sure, he just sneered and said, "Your ruthlessness is quite a match for Song Jie's."
A sudden gust of cold wind blew open the windows of the main hall, and several assassins rushed in with knives drawn.
Xiao Dao and Pei Heng moved almost simultaneously, killing several assassins on the ground.
When Pei Heng turned around again, he saw that Xiao Zhen had been pierced through the chest by Song Jie's sword.
He let out a short scream, grabbed Song Jie's hand, stared at him, and said with difficulty, spitting blood, "I'm not reconciled... I'm really not reconciled. I've fought with you for so long, been bullied by you for so long... but I'm not Wan Susu's biological son... What is this? What is this!"
"You've enjoyed Wan Susu's love and princely treatment for over a decade, it's fair." Xie Yushu said coldly, "If you want to hate someone, hate your father, hate him for forcibly taking Wan Susu."
Xie Yushu showed no mercy, kicking Xiao Zhen off the sword blade by pushing him off the shoulder.
He fell to the ground, blood gushing out. He struggled in pain, staring intently at Xie Yushu, wanting to ask her: Why do you hate yourself so much?
But when he opened his mouth, it was full of blood and foam, and he couldn't say anything.
Xie Yushu didn't look at him again, walked past him, and said to the crowd, "Xiao Zhen has fled the mansion and led the remnants of the Prince of Song to assassinate the Emperor..."
Seeing his own blood everywhere, Xiao Zhen suddenly felt as if his life had been stolen, his luck had been stolen, and he had taken a sharp turn for the worse, turning him from a future emperor into a remnant of an assassination plot against the emperor...
Who stole his luck? Was it Xiao Dao? Was it Song Jie?
No… He stared at Xie Yushu’s back, as if his life had been turned upside down ever since he met Xie Yushu.
Xie Yushu stole his luck, and he hated her.
The system suddenly appeared in her mind.
Xie Yushu turned around and saw that Xiao Zhen, lying in a pool of blood, had already stopped breathing, but his eyes were still staring at her with unseeing eyes, as if he hated her to the bone even in death.
Unfortunately, Xie Yushu now cares neither for his love nor for his hatred; his corpse is nothing more than a stepping stone.
The mission didn't fail; instead, the progress was updated. Does this mean Xiao Zhen is no longer the male lead? His life or death won't affect the plot?
Xie Yushu laughed and asked the system again: Who is the female lead now?
Xie Yushu slowly clenched his excited fingers. Yushu, how can I say that I have completed my revenge? There is also the Pei family mother and son, and together we will reach the pinnacle of power.
She turned back and saw only Pei Heng. She said to Pei Heng, "General Pei, when I entered the palace, the Crown Prince was outside the palace with his men requesting an audience with the Emperor. Now that he knows that assassins have entered the palace, he will definitely rush in. I need you to lead your soldiers to stop the Crown Prince from breaking in under the pretext of forcing the Emperor to abdicate."
Pei Heng looked at her for a long while before asking, "Are you going to kill the First Prince?"
Otherwise, she would have no reason to stop the eldest prince from entering the palace, unless she wanted to use him and his obstruction to get rid of the eldest prince.
“Someone can do this, I won’t force you to do it,” she replied to Pei Heng.
Pei Heng already knew that she was indeed going to take the opportunity to kill the eldest prince, perhaps through Song Jie, or perhaps through Xiao Dao.
Because Xie Yushu said that she wanted Xiaodao to be a prince, a crown prince, and an emperor.
Now is the perfect time.
Pei Heng's questions became clearer and clearer, but he had no other choice but to turn around and step out of the hall.
Xiao Dao and Song Jie followed closely behind, leading the Imperial Guards out of the palace to stop the eldest prince from breaking in.
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Pei Shilin and Li Huixian were brought in and protected in the hall.
The hall was filled with blood and corpses. The two were completely terrified, huddled in a corner, too scared to make a sound or move.
In the vast hall, Xie Yushu walked to the dragon throne and sat down. She touched the lifelike dragon head on the armrest, looked up at Cang Shu and said, "This dragon throne is nothing special."
Cangshu looked at her and suddenly felt that she looked different from when they first met.
At that time, she walked out of the back gate of the Pei residence. Her clothes and posture were very similar to Miss Jia Ning's, but when she looked up at him, she was completely different from Miss Jia Ning. She was like a pale moon, gentle yet aloof.
But now, her features seem to have fully matured, no longer resembling the moon, but rather a raptor, carrying an indescribable energy, capable of turning cold and killing you at any moment, even when she's smiling.
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The heavy rain fell at sunset, washing away the blood-soaked ground outside the palace gates, creating rivers of blood.
News of the assassination attempt on the Emperor by Xiao Zhen and the remnants of the previous dynasty, and the Crown Prince's attempt to seize power amidst the chaos, quickly spread throughout Bianjing.
On the eve of winter, the weather in Da Xun is about to change.
The gates of the Yong'an Marquis's residence were closed, and no one was allowed to enter or leave.
Thunder rumbled.
Xie Jianing was held in her mother's arms, her face covered in tears. "How...how could he assassinate the Emperor?"
Meng Min covered her ears and stroked her back, trying to ease her fear and sadness as much as possible: "Everyone has their own destiny. Maybe he was just unwilling to be imprisoned for life and wanted to take a gamble."
Xie Jianing looked up at her mother with her tear-streaked face. Her mind was in turmoil, and she didn't know what to say.
On one hand, she knew that no one would willingly be imprisoned for a lifetime. If it were her, she would also want to escape, to take a gamble, even if there was only a sliver of hope.
On the one hand, she found it hard to believe that Xiao Zhen's fate would be so tragic and absurd.
She still remembered the first time she saw Xiao Zhen in the Taoist temple. He was huddled by a tree, soaking wet, and his face was deathly pale. She thought he was going to die.
But as she approached him, he immediately opened his eyes and stared at her; they were like the eyes of a leopard, sharp and murderous.
Through those little moments together, she could sense the ambition beneath his gentleness. He was unwilling to be bullied by Song Jie; he was constantly plotting and waiting for his opportunity…
He should have gradually risen to become the crown prince, and eventually the emperor.
But suddenly, he became a fake prince.
At this moment, Xie Jianing also felt that her life seemed to have stopped being so glamorous since the news that "Xiao Zhen was not a real prince" was revealed.
Her tears were not only for Xiao Zhen, but also for the fear in her heart.
She suddenly didn't know what she was fighting for.
The feared Prime Minister Song Jie might suddenly lose his affection for her.
The future emperor, Xiao Zhen, will suddenly become a fake prince...
These things are like mirages, never something she can truly grasp.
What can she grasp?
Her mother took her hand, gently wiped away her tears, and whispered to her, "Don't be afraid, Jianing. With your mother and aunt here, we're not afraid of any changes in the world. You're still young, and you'll meet many more men you like."
She held her mother's hand and pressed her cheek against her mother's palm. In the end, all she could rely on was her mother and her clan.
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Author's note: The world has changed; let Yu Shu be the emperor.
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