Wei Tiancheng let out a soft sigh, then frowned and reminded him.
"Even I, as your older brother, don't believe you'd have the heart to visit Miss Luo. Do you think her younger sister would believe you? Stop trying to be clever and go back to your room to play with your maids!"
"But……"
At this point, she suddenly looked up at Leng Chuyang.
"By the way, Leng Chuyang, you owe me back the porcelain vase and jar you knocked over last time!"
Leng Chuyang frowned slightly, looking at her with a completely innocent expression.
"Aren't we even now?"
"When are we even? Hurry up and pay me back. I don't want to pay the original price; I want you to give me something exactly the same. Oh, and I still have those bottle fragments; you can go and glue them back together if you want."
"If that's the case, then you have to kneel down and call me 'Grandpa' three times..."
"You...you don't deserve it."
"A bet is a bet!"
"How about we have another match?"
Leng Chuyang raised his hand without any hesitation.
"I don't have time to play with you. You should go find those maids and eunuchs!"
After leaving those words behind, he gave Wei Tiancheng a wry smile and walked towards Donghui Courtyard.
"Stop right there..."
Wei Changle tried to call out to him, but he didn't want to pay any attention to her. Seeing this, Wei Tiancheng quickly pulled her back.
"Alright, Chang Le, stop fooling around. If you really want to marry Leng Chuchen, he is your uncle. You need to know proper etiquette. How can you speak to your uncle without any respect?"
"Uncle? I..."
Chang Le wanted to say that she had taken a liking to Leng Chuyang again, but as a girl, constantly changing her mind would make people think she was a heartless and ungrateful person!
Thinking of this, she stomped her foot in anger, snorted coldly, and then turned and ran towards her Broken Jade Pavilion.
Fengyou Palace
Leng Chuchen stood before Empress Qi, her eyes sharp as she looked at her, and questioned her in a cold voice.
Did you do it?
Upon hearing this, Empress Qi immediately put on an innocent expression.
"Chen'er, what are you saying?"
"Don't think I don't know, the person who went to assassinate Luo Zhiwan last night was Rouge."
Upon hearing this, Empress Qi's brows furrowed instantly, and Rouge nervously fidgeted with her fingers, but quickly regained her composure and offered an explanation.
“Your Highness, it rained yesterday, so I stayed in Fengyou Palace and didn’t go out.”
"You're lying. I asked you when you came here. You've been leaving the palace before the gates are locked these past few days and returning the next morning when they open. Do you think you can fool me?"
this……
Rouge didn't expect Leng Chuchen to check her travel records in advance.
Empress Qi turned her head and glared at her hatefully, blaming her for being so talkative. Rouge lowered her head in fright.
“Chen’er, Rouge is from Miao territory and doesn’t like living in the palace. It’s my permission for her to stay at her residence outside the palace at night. Everyone in the palace knows this, so it’s not unusual. You can’t suspect her of being an assassin just because of this.”
"Then I can't be mistaken about this hidden weapon!"
As he spoke, he raised the bloodstained hidden weapon in his hand, which made Rouge tremble and her heart jump into her throat.
Empress Qi's face drained of color, but she still tried her best to remain calm.
"Chen'er, have you come here today to interrogate me? Are you so sure that I wanted to kill her?"
Seeing that Empress Qi was trying to change the subject, Leng Chuchen continued to press for answers.
"So far, I've only seen Rouge use this hidden weapon, and ordinary martial arts practitioners wouldn't know how to use it. Rouge only gives orders to her master, which is you, Mother Empress. Now please tell me, why do you keep trying to kill Luo Zhiwan? What is it about her that you find objectionable?"
Empress Qi knew that this matter could no longer be kept secret.
Since the Emperor already knew about this, she wasn't really afraid.
She immediately raised her eyebrows and nodded nonchalantly.
"That's right. I instructed Rouge to do this. I did it all for you, because I was afraid that you would be bewitched by that femme fatale, that you would neglect state affairs, and that you wouldn't be able to shoulder the great responsibility."
He was furious when he guessed that it was Empress Qi who wanted to kill Zhiwan, but when she admitted it herself, she still acted self-righteously, which made him even angrier.
He clenched his fists, panting heavily, his chest heaving.
"She is the mother of my son, the woman who bore my child, the woman I love most. Yet my mother wants to kill her, and she even gives such a high-sounding reason? The people are saying that an empress should have the heart of a mother to the world, but what about you? You can't even tolerate a woman, you even want to kill the woman your son loves most. Your heart is so cruel, so cruel..."
He was so angry that his voice grew louder and louder, and his temper flared up.
"Chen'er, I did all this for your own good, but how dare you question me? You are the Crown Prince, you should prioritize the greater good. If you didn't care so much about this woman, why would your mother resort to such a desperate measure?"
He suddenly burst into a silly laugh.
"Ha! If I can't even protect a woman, what use am I as the crown prince? I'll go and ask the emperor to depose me and make me a commoner. Are you satisfied now?"
"You dare..."
Empress Qi never expected that he would consider giving up the position of Crown Prince for that woman.
A smile played on Leng Chuchen's lips, but a cold, disdainful glint flashed in her eyes.
"There's nothing I wouldn't dare to do. You have another son. Even if I don't become the crown prince, you can let your other son be the crown prince. That way, you can still secure your position as empress, and in the future, you can become the empress dowager. You can still control the entire harem and even the entire court."
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