After Yao returned to the courtyard, she felt flustered and confused, as if something was about to happen.

After pacing around the room for a few steps, he forced himself to sit down calmly so as not to be too outrageous and reveal his true identity.

After a moment, Yin Chengjing came in.

He was still smiling, but his eyes were filled with deep coldness. Yao's heart skipped a beat and she stood up to greet him. He waved his hand, sent the servants away, and even closed the door.

Yao felt uneasy and called out tentatively, "Your Highness?"

After making sure that everyone outside had left, Yin Chengjing could no longer pretend, and tore off his mask and approached her step by step: "Honghua? You want to have an abortion? What did you know?"

With every question he asked, his face became darker. When he asked the last question, he looked like a demon in human skin, staring at Yao fiercely, as if he was going to tear off the skin completely in the next moment.

"What safflower? I don't understand." Yao's heart was pounding, wondering how he knew about safflower. She clenched her handkerchief tightly, knowing that she could never admit it. Fortunately, she had thrown away the abortion pills, and now Yin Chengjing couldn't find any evidence. Her eyes were red, and she looked wronged and panicked: "Your Highness, did you misunderstand something? Why would I have an abortion? You scared me..."

Yin Chengjing's jaw was clenched tightly, and he stared at her for a long time with sinister eyes. He sneered and didn't ask any more questions. He just reached out and touched her belly, and said in a cold tone: "No matter what you know, this child must be born safely, understand?"

His face was as ferocious as a ghost, but his voice was eerily soft, the contrast between the two was even more frightening.

Yao shuddered and nodded timidly: "Of course."

"To prevent the baby from falling and getting hurt when you go out, you should stay in the mansion and take care of the baby. The maids around you are careless and unusable. I will pick a few more useful ones for you." With a cold gaze sweeping over her, Yin Chengjing opened the door and called his personal guards over: "Escort the princess back to the backyard."

Yao's personal maid wanted to come in, but was stopped outside the door and was quickly taken away by the guards.

Seeing this, Yao wanted to say something, but finally closed her mouth powerlessly and obediently returned to the backyard under the escort of the guards.

Yin Chengjing looked at her slender back with a dark look in his eyes. He stood there for a long time before asking someone to prepare the car to drive into the palace.

After entering the palace, he hurried to Xianfu Palace to look for Concubine De.

Seeing her son's unhappy expression, Concubine De dismissed the servants and then asked him the reason.

"Yao and Prince An know about it." In the Xianfu Palace, he finally stopped pretending, revealing a gloomy trapped beast look, and spoke almost with gritted teeth.

If it wasn't for the purpose of achieving great things, why would he endure such humiliation?

"How did Prince An know?" Defei asked in surprise.

Yin Chengjing could not help but hammered heavily on the table, and the solid wood table made a dull sound: "That bastard Yao found out and wanted to have an abortion, but was caught by Prince An!"

I thought everything was perfect, but I didn't expect that things would go wrong with a woman! If I had known this, I would have put Yao under house arrest earlier!

Recalling the contemptuous look on Yin Ci Guang's face when he said that, he almost couldn't control the urge to tear that face apart!

"Has the Yao family found out?"

"They probably don't know yet. Yao didn't have time to inform them." Yin Chengjing recalled Yao's unusual behavior last night and guessed that she must have discovered it last night: "Don't worry too much about the Yao family. Yao Zhaoan got on my boat, but he can't get off whenever he wants."

“The Yao family is nothing to be afraid of, but if Prince An makes a fuss about this matter and then reports it to your father…” Concubine De couldn’t relax her brows when she thought of Prince An, who now came and went freely in the palace.

Now, Emperor Longfeng trusts this eldest son the most, and Yin Ciguang is in charge of all his daily life.

The crown prince was the heir. Prince An was the eldest son and was favored by the emperor. Only her son had nothing to do with either, so his life was particularly difficult.

Now he has been ambushed and has developed such a hidden illness. Once Emperor Longfeng listens to Prince An and asks the imperial physician to come and check, all their years of forbearance and planning will be ruined!

Concubine De tied her handkerchief tightly, looking hesitant.

"I don't want to endure it anymore." Yin Chengjing suddenly said, "We have been patient and conspiring for so many years, it's time for us to stop. If we continue to endure, it's hard to say whether our father can live to see that day."

If the emperor died, the prince would legitimately inherit the throne, so what would he have to do with it?

De Fei's heart moved: "You want to..."

Yin Chengjing showed a cruel look: "If you want to achieve great things, you should not look ahead and behind."

Wuzhu has been keeping an eye on the movements in the main courtyard.

She originally wanted to wait for an opportunity to get close to Yao, and when she heard that Yao had returned from Jinyun Temple, she immediately sent someone to the front yard to inquire about the news. However, she saw Yao being escorted back to the main courtyard by several guards.

On the surface, it was said that Yao almost fell down when she went to Jinyun Temple and had a miscarriage, so she needed to rest, but in reality, even her personal maid was sent away, which was tantamount to house arrest.

Something must have happened!

Wuzhu was very quick-witted. As soon as Yin Chengjing left the house, she sent someone to pass a message.

Fortunately, she acted quickly. After Yin Chengjing returned from the palace, the Third Prince's Mansion suddenly tightened its security. The main gate was closed, and the corner gates for entrance and exit were all manned by personal guards, preventing anyone from entering or leaving easily.

The news quickly spread to Ciqing Palace, along with the scene of Prince An and the third prince talking in front of the gate.

"It seems that Yao has revealed something, and Yin Chengjing has noticed it." Yin Chengyu was playing a chess game. After listening to the spy's report, he threw down the chess piece and looked at Xue Shu: "If you were Yin Chengjing, what would you do?"

Xue Shu said without hesitation: "Instead of fighting a trapped beast, it is better to throw everything at the stake. There is still a chance of turning things around."

Yin Chengyu thought the same thing as him. He tapped the chessboard with his fingers and asked, "How many guards can you mobilize from the palace now?"

"The Jinwu Guard and Yulin Guard can all be mobilized, and half of the Jinyi Guard is still under the control of Gong Hongfei."

Yin Chengyu made a rough calculation and said, "That's enough."

Yin Chengjing had been secretly planning for many years, and he didn't know exactly what he could rely on, but with the Jinwu Guards and Yulin Guards, it was enough to protect Jingren Palace.

As for the Qianqing Palace... Yin Chengyu's eyes flashed darkly. The emperor was protected by a real dragon, so he didn't need his unnecessary son to worry about it.

"How will Prince An respond?" Xue Shu asked again, "Prince An just sent Yao back to the Prince's Palace today, and Yao was put under house arrest. It's really too much of a coincidence."

He said it was a coincidence, but in fact he felt that Yin Ci Guang had done something behind it.

After all, Yin Ci Guang had seen Yin Cheng Jing's injuries during the Danxi winter hunting. Later, rumors that Yin Cheng Jing was inhumane spread throughout Ye Kyoto. He also understood pharmacology, so it was not surprising that he could guess the truth.

But he broke through this layer of paper, forcing Yin Chengjing to do something desperate, but he didn't know why.

"I'll go see him." Yin Chengyu stood up and walked out.

Emperor Longfeng suffered a stroke, and Yin Ciguang was left in the palace to take care of him, so it was not difficult for the two to meet.

The meeting place was set at the Qiuxue Floating Gallery next to Taiye Lake.

Yin Ciguang arrived later and only brought a eunuch with him.

Yin Chengyu stood in the corridor and saw a figure approaching slowly from a distance. The light green figure blended into the weeping willows in the spring, as if it would turn into catkins and disappear in the next moment.

He suddenly recalled the scene when they first met in this corridor. At that time, Yin Ciguang was still dressed as a girl, and the skirt she wore was also light blue, looking delicate and pale.

"Your Highness." In the blink of an eye, Yin Ci Guang had already walked up to him and spoke first.

His expression and tone are the same as before.

Whether he was dressed as a woman or after he resumed his status as a prince, he always put himself in a low position, calling Yin Chengyu "Your Highness", and never regarded himself as the elder sister or elder brother.

Yin Chengyu turned his back and looked at the willow branches swaying in the wind beside the pond. He asked in a low voice, "Brother, are you going to compete with me too?"

Yin Ciguang's expression froze, and his complicated and indistinguishable gaze swept across his profile, then turned away. His tone was slightly unwilling: "Yin Chengzhang fought for it, Yin Chengjing fought for it, so why can't I fight for it?"

"Brother is different from them." Yin Chengyu turned around and looked at him with a serious expression.

Regardless of whether it was Yin Chengzhang or Yin Chengjing, their experiences in the previous life had already destined them to be enemies, not brothers.

But Yin Ci Guang is different.

Or rather, he thought it would be different.

Yin Ci Guang looked at him, his eyes inadvertently sweeping over Xue Shu who was waiting in the distance. His lips moved as if he wanted to ask something, but finally he suppressed his desire.

He turned his eyes away, a faint smile appeared on his lips: "I'm afraid I'll disappoint Your Highness. I'm no different from others."

Yin Chengyu slowly frowned and stared at him. He felt that Yin Ciguang was not being sincere.

However, Yin Ciguang was obviously unwilling to speak, so it was useless for him to say more.

"I hope that we brothers will never have to fight against each other in the future." After saying this, Yin Chengyu passed by him.

Yin Ci Guang looked at the calm lake without looking back.

After a long time, he turned around and headed towards the Qianqing Palace.

Emperor Longfeng had just woken up. When he saw him, he spoke vaguely and asked him where he had been.

Since the stroke, his body has been getting weaker day by day. He has been taking medicine, but his condition has not improved at all, and his mind has even started to get a little confused. The doctors from the Imperial Hospital have come to see him one after another, but they still can't find the cause of the disease. In the end, they can only attribute it to the fact that Emperor Longfeng's body was hollowed out in his early years and he took too many pills.

As his health deteriorated, Emperor Longfeng became more and more dependent on Yin Ciguang. Whenever Yin Ciguang was not around, he would send people to look for him.

Yin Ci Guang took the medicine from the palace maid and served him the medicine herself. She then lit some calming incense to coax him to rest before leaving the bedroom.

Gao Xian walked over with his hands in his pockets and whispered to him, "The Third Prince went to Xianfu Palace in the afternoon, and then returned to the Prince's Mansion. You can't see it from outside the mansion now, but martial law has actually been imposed inside."

"Keep watching. Once the Third Prince makes a move, send someone to contact Yao while the Prince's Mansion's defenses are weak."

"yes."

After returning from being imprisoned in Xuefu Gallery, Yin Chengyu went to Hongren Hall to handle official business.

But he was obviously distracted, and his pen paused as he was marking.

Xue Shu walked around behind him, took the brush out of his hand and placed it on the pen holder: "If your highness is tired, take a rest."

"I am a little tired." Yin Chengyu threw the document back on the table, leaned back against him, and sighed tiredly: "I really respect him as my brother and don't want to fight against him. Is that position so tempting?"

But when he sat on it, he felt the heavy responsibility on his shoulders.

If he had not been raised as a prince since childhood and had already gotten used to the heavy burden on his shoulders, if he really had to choose, he would rather be a leisurely prince.

Resting his head on Xue Shu's abdomen, Yin Chengyu looked up at him and couldn't help but think of the differences between the two in the previous life. His fingertips twisted around the hatband hanging in front of his chest and pulled it down with a little force: "Do you want power too?"

As long as Xue Shu is with him in this life, I am afraid there will never be another Nine Thousand Years Old in the court.

Xue Shu held his face, leaned over and kissed his eyes, then kissed his lips. His eyes were filled with piety: "The most powerful person in the world is already in my arms. I have nothing else to ask for."

Yin Chengyu's eyes moved, and he immediately took the initiative, pressing his hand on the back of his head and kissing him harder.

The slender neck was raised, and the slightly protruding Adam's apple kept rolling with the swallowing movement.

Xue Shu sensed that he was eager to vent his emotions, so he patiently soothed him with his lips and tongue. After a long while, he said intermittently, "As for Prince An, if Your Highness cannot bear to do it, you can leave it to me."

As he said this, a strong sense of hostility welled up in his eyes.

Yin Chengyu changed his posture, leaning on him as if he were a cushion, lowering his eyes and playing with his hands, saying, "Don't worry, just keep an eye on him first."