Su Xiaoxiao didn't understand what this had to do with the late emperor's will. Gui Bu continued, "Four years ago, the late emperor's will appeared at Suibei Pass. When my ancestor... Wu'an Jun learned about this, he immediately led people to retrieve the will, but he didn't get it back."

After failing to take it back, the King of Nanyang blamed Wu'an Jun for his incompetence and killed him and his children and grandchildren in anger? No, no, no, this doesn't make sense. There must be another story.

Su Xiaoxiao looked at Gui Bu.

Gui Bu hesitated for a moment and said, "But Wu Anjun saw the contents of the will. He was so shocked that he panicked and let the other party snatch the will away."

Su Xiaoxiao asked in confusion: "What was written in the will that shocked Grandfather so much?"

Gui Bu said calmly: "Depose the King of Nanyang, revoke his royal status, and demote him to a commoner. If he plots rebellion... kill him."

Su Xiaoxiao and Su Mo were both silent.

This edict... is indeed too unexpected.

Su Xiaoxiao digested it for a while before speaking again: "Didn't the late emperor love this eldest son the most? Why did he depose him?"

Gui Bu shook his head: "I don't quite understand this either."

Su Xiaoxiao asked again: "Could it be possible that the will was forged by the White Lotus Sect?"

This time, Su Mo did not mindlessly brag about his sister. He said, "The White Lotus Sect's people don't have the ability to forge an imperial edict. But the fact that the late emperor deposed the King of Nanyang is indeed very strange, and he even... wanted to kill him."

This is very confusing.

He continued, “Among the late emperor’s sons, the one he valued the most and owed the most to was the Prince of Nanyang.”

"Owe?" Su Xiaoxiao felt that she couldn't finish the melon tonight.

Su Mo nodded: "Yes, when the late emperor was still a prince, he was ordered to quell the civil unrest. Not long after, he was retaliated by the enemy. The enemy kidnapped the ten-year-old Prince Nanyang and tortured him in every way, beating him, imprisoning him, and abusing him inhumanely. They vented all their anger towards the late emperor on an innocent child. The late emperor was not threatened. Regardless of his son's life or death, he resolutely rushed into the rebels' lair. The rebels shot and killed Prince Nanyang in front of the late emperor... but he didn't kill him. The imperial physician saved him."

Su Xiaoxiao hesitated and said, "The late emperor..."

Su Mo said: "It's hard to say whether that matter is right or wrong. If you compromise, hundreds of soldiers will die. If you don't compromise, you will lose your eldest son."

Su Xiaoxiao asked: "What is the attitude of King Nanyang?"

Su Mo said: "He did not blame the late emperor and treated him with the same respect as always. On the contrary, the late emperor felt extremely guilty towards his eldest son and from then on treated him differently from his other sons."

"Is that so?" Su Xiaoxiao asked Gui Bu.

"Yes." Gui Bu replied.

"I see."

Su Xiaoxiao understood.

Many things that seemed illogical were now explained.

The will did not establish King Nanyang, but deposed him. King Nanyang was not allowed to rebel, otherwise he would be killed.

Prince Nanyang was determined to rebel. He was worried that the Wei family would no longer follow him, and he was even more afraid that Wu'an Jun, Wei Xu and others would kill him according to his order. So he took the initiative and colluded with Helian Ye to kill everyone to silence them.

Zhang Feng must have seen the contents of the will and felt that he would definitely be killed by King Nanyang, so he approached Zhao Kangning to make a deal and asked Zhao Kangning to help him escape.

The only thing I can't understand now is why the late emperor would depose his most beloved and most indebted son? ...

When Su Xiaoxiao and Su Mo came out, Wei Liulang was standing alone and quietly at the corner of the corridor.

Su Xiaoxiao glanced at him and said to Su Mo, "Cousin, you should go back first."

Su Mo said: "Okay, I'll come again tomorrow."

After seeing Su Mo off, Su Xiaoxiao came to Wei Liulang and asked softly, "Did you hear everything just now?"

"I heard it." Wei Liulang said dejectedly.

Even though he was wearing a mask, Su Xiaoxiao could feel the blow he had suffered from his tense body.

"Sixth brother." Su Xiaoxiao called softly.

"He is Min'er's father..." Wei Liulang's eyes were red.

Xiao Min, the little princess of Nanyang Palace, is the biological mother of Dahu, Erhu and Xiaohu.

The King of Nanyang is a king and a friend to the rest of the Wei family, but to Wei Liulang, he has another identity.

Su Xiaoxiao didn't know how to comfort him, and it seemed unnecessary to say anything at this time.

This is an irreconcilable hatred, betrayal by the people closest to you, and a grief that cannot be erased.

Wei Ting is back.

"Sixth brother, Xiaoxiao."

Wei Liulang turned around and said in a normal tone: "I'll go back to the house first."

Wei Ting watched Wei Liulang enter his and his elder brother's room, and said to Su Xiaoxiao, "Let's go back too."

The two returned to the room.

As soon as Mrs. Li left, the three little ones lay on their backs, sleeping soundly.

Su Xiaoxiao closed the window, sat down with Wei Ting, and poured Wei Ting a cup of herbal tea to relieve the heat: "Did you meet the King of Nanyang?"

"Yes." Wei Ting had a complicated expression, "But I felt like it wasn't a single person at all."

"What do you mean?" Su Xiaoxiao asked.

Wei Ting recalled: "The change was so great that I could hardly recognize him."

Su Xiaoxiao thought for a moment and said, "The last time you saw the King of Nanyang was ten years ago, right? After the Nanyang Palace was wiped out, you never saw the King of Nanyang again."

Wei Ting said: "That's right, I didn't know he was still alive. I always thought that only the sixth sister-in-law survived."

Su Xiaoxiao said: "Ten years can change a lot, enough to make a person completely reborn."

"I know." Wei Ting couldn't describe the feeling in his heart. "The scar behind his ear is still there. He is the King of Nanyang, but... I just don't think it's him. He is left-handed, but now his dominant hand is his right hand. His martial arts style has also changed. His eyes, aura... are all different from before. Sixth brother and eldest brother have also changed, but no matter how they change their martial arts and habits, I can still recognize them. King of Nanyang... If I hadn't confirmed his identity, I would hardly dare to recognize him."

Su Xiaoxiao didn't say anything. After all, you haven't seen each other for ten years, and you are not as familiar with him as your own brother.

You know, this is Wei Ting.

His mind and memory are unmatched.

So, what exactly happened that made King Nanyang become a different person?

To be on the safe side, Su Xiaoxiao took the small bottle that Dahu had drunk from and the cup that she brought out from Helian Ye's house and brought them into the pharmacy.

The cup was the one King Nanyang drank from in the secret room.

The results showed that the relationship between King Nanyang and Dahu was established, and he was the real King Nanyang, not an impostor.

"Could it be that he is the eldest princess' son? Was he swapped with the queen mother?"

The three little ones crawled on the Queen Mother's body for the whole day, and Su Xiaoxiao found a white hair of the Queen Mother on Xiaohu's clothes.

Su Xiaoxiao looked at the final test results: "Well, it's the Queen Mother's biological son."

(End of this chapter)