Chapter 422 Xiao Yan: I reminded you, but you didn’t listen
Cao Dejiang had been keeping an eye on Xiao Yan, and his eyes twitched when he saw this.
The second prince was even more stunned. Although the porcelain pillow was hollow, it was angular and heavy. It hit him on the head and almost took his life.
There was a long cut on his forehead, and his face was covered with blood. He was dizzy and knelt on the ground, and accidentally pressed on the broken porcelain pieces. His hands were shaking with pain, and his eyes were soon stained with blood, making it almost impossible for him to see clearly.
"Father...Father Emperor..."
"You still know that I am your father? Otherwise, I should just call you Daddy?"
Emperor An was really furious. He didn't feel any sympathy for the Second Prince whose face was covered in blood. Instead, he cursed at him without thinking.
"Who allowed you to interfere in the affairs of the harem? Did I ever say that no one except the Privy Council could interfere in the Lu family's case?"
"How dare you expose the royal scandal in the court? Have you turned a deaf ear to my words? Or do you think that my status as emperor has hindered your future as the Second Prince? Are you eager to see me disgraced and ridiculed by the world so that you can make way for me?"
The Second Prince felt dizzy, but he still heard clearly the treasonous words uttered by Emperor An. He knelt on the ground and said anxiously:
"I dare not. I am only afraid that my father will be deceived. I just want to share his worries..."
“Snap—”
The stack of things that the second prince had handed over earlier was thrown out and fell to the ground with a clatter.
"Sharing the worries?"
When Emperor An was furious, his eyes were extremely gloomy: "Who do you think you are? Sharing my worries? Do you really think I don't know your shameful thoughts?"
"In the past, you secretly colluded with court officials, and I turned a blind eye and did not pursue the matter. But now you dare to plot against me too."
"You clearly knew there was something hidden in the King Cheng case long ago, and you tricked the Fourth Brother into giving you the evidence, but you kept it secret and instead teamed up with Cui Lin to deceive the king."
"Xie Pingjia, I really underestimated you. You even have connections with people in my harem. You even dared to drive the female officials of Fengxi Palace out of the palace without telling anyone, just to wait until today to take advantage of your misfortune."
"You want to use the Lu family to make the world laugh at me, the emperor, for being blind and marrying a slut as my queen. Do you want everyone to mock me for raising a bastard for Prince Cheng for twenty years?!"
The more Emperor An spoke, the angrier he became, and the angrier he became, the harsher he cursed.
As long as he thought of the hidden gazes of the courtiers at the morning court, and the way the Second Prince and Cui Lin revealed the affair between the Queen and Prince Cheng one after another, and slapped him in the face one after another.
The anger that had been suppressed with great difficulty after taking the golden elixir rose up again. Emperor An's eyes were filled with murderous intent, and just cursing was not enough to vent his anger.
He stood up and walked towards the Second Prince. Seeing this, Xiao Yan silently lifted up his clothes and moved to the side. When Emperor An came close, he raised his foot and kicked the Second Prince in the heart, knocking the already bleeding and dizzy Second Prince over.
"Are you dying to embarrass me? Are you dying to let everyone in the world know that I've been a cuckold for twenty years?"
"You've ripped off the face of the entire royal family and thrown it on the ground for people to trample on. I only wish you had never been born. I should have ordered your bitch biological mother to be beaten to death when she was pregnant with you, so that she wouldn't have given birth to such an unfilial thing as you!"
The second prince fell to the ground, his heart and forehead hurting terribly, but it was not as harsh as the words from Emperor An's mouth.
He almost denied him as a prince from the beginning to the end, even saying that his mother was of low status and regretted having him born. The word "unfilial" almost ruined his future.
"Father, please calm down..."
The second prince quickly turned over and got up, trying to hug Emperor An's legs.
"I have absolutely no intention of disobeying your Majesty, nor have I ever thought of embarrassing you. I am simply afraid that you are being kept in the dark by the Lu family..."
He was crying and tears mixed with blood fell on his face, looking extremely miserable.
"Your Majesty, Father, trusts the Lu family and has never doubted them. The Empress has even deceived you for years. I saw that Your Majesty, Father, still wanted to let the Lu family go and was concerned about their relationship as monarch and subject. I felt it was not worth it for Your Majesty, so I was confused and told you about the Empress's affairs in the court."
The Second Prince no longer dared to think about any merit at this moment. The words of Emperor An made him feel cold all over, and he also realized what stupid thing he had done at the morning court.
The affair between Empress Lu and Prince Cheng was a royal scandal. His father had been cuckolded for twenty years, and he had raised someone else's son for twenty years, yet he actually exposed it publicly...
The second prince clung tightly to Emperor An's legs, where his dragon robe had fallen, and cried out in begging with a pale face.
"Your Highness dare not collude with anyone in the palace. I discovered the Golden Branch by accident. I would never dare to deceive Father."
"I am only afraid that your father has been deceived, that the Empress has concealed the truth from the Privy Council and is confusing the royal bloodline. I was simply confused for a moment. I beg your Majesty to forgive me..."
It would have been fine if the Second Prince hadn't mentioned the Privy Council, but once he did, it really pierced Emperor An's heart.
Emperor An suddenly kicked the Second Prince away and threw off the dragon robe that he was holding.
"Do you think you're the only one capable of this in the world? Or do you think a useless fool like you can defeat the countless guards of my Privy Council?"
"If you can find something, how could the Privy Council not find it?!"
The second prince's face changed drastically, and he couldn't help but turn his head to look at Xiao Yan.
Xiao Yan's face was cold and gloomy as he said, "I have already told the Second Prince that His Majesty has already ordered that no one is allowed to interfere in the Lu family's case. He has also reminded the Second Prince not to investigate things that he shouldn't."
"I already knew about Empress Lu's affairs three days after the Lu family was imprisoned. I just lack the evidence to thoroughly clarify Prince Cheng's affairs."
"As soon as I learned of this, I immediately imprisoned all those involved in the matter in the Privy Council's secret cell and ordered them to be strictly guarded, fearing that they would leak the information and tarnish the reputation of the royal family."
"The matter of the Queen and her son is a royal scandal. If it were to become public, it would be disgraceful to Your Majesty. After sorting out everything yesterday, I had originally planned to report this matter to Your Majesty privately after the morning court session and secretly deal with the Queen and her son. But who could have imagined that the Second Prince and Minister Cui would be so capable?"
The Second Prince listened to Xiao Yan's words and looked at his face full of indifference and faint disgust, and suddenly remembered what Xiao Yan had said to him when he left the palace that day.
He had seriously warned him not to interfere in the Lu family's affairs and not to contact anyone from the Lu family, so as to avoid causing trouble.
It's him.
It was because he coveted the benefits that would be brought about by the fall of the Lu family, and he wanted to push someone to occupy the vacant position in the Lu family, that he turned a deaf ear to Xiao Yan's words and secretly investigated Queen Lu behind his back.
He even tried his best to hide the affair between Queen Lu and Prince Cheng from Xiao Yan after he knew about it, and never discussed it with him, fearing that Xiao Yan would steal his credit. He was also overjoyed because he thought he had gained a huge handle.
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