"What are you doing?" Wan Ge asked in a cold, gloomy voice.
Several children dressed in fine clothes stood frozen to the side.
One of the younger children trembled slightly upon seeing his elder brother's state. His voice trembled as he softly said, "Your...Your Majesty, please don't be angry..."
Wan Ge, her face grim, pulled the youngest child over: "What did your elder brother teach you? Have you forgotten it all?"
"Waaaaah." The child burst into tears and threw himself into Wan Ge's arms, looking utterly pitiful.
Wan Ge looked helplessly at the little male protagonist in her arms, and the little villain being bullied by his younger brothers. Let these younger brothers do whatever they want, they'll eventually be killed by the villain.
Wan Ge handed her younger brother to the palace maids beside her. Seeing his dirty appearance, she asked them to change his clothes first.
After the young prince left, Wan Ge looked up at her other half-brothers and said, "Aren't you leaving yet? Are you waiting for me to call your mother over?"
Upon hearing this, the princes immediately ran away.
Strangely enough, they were not afraid of anyone but their elder brother, the Crown Prince.
Nine-year-old Wan Ge walked up to the eight-year-old boy, looked at the bruises on his face and the torn clothes on his body, gently wiped his cheeks clean, and reached out to pull him up: "Does it hurt? I'll take you to see the imperial physician."
The boy simply lowered his head and remained silent.
"Stay by my side, I won't let them bully you again." Wan Ge invited the boy to her side again, and finally extended her hand to him.
The boy hesitated for a moment, but finally held her hand tightly.
Wan Ge led him back to her palace and asked a palace maid to fetch the imperial physician. The palace maid had something to say, but she dared not speak when she saw the Crown Prince.
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Yes, Wan Ge is the Crown Prince in this world. In everyone's eyes, she is a man, but only the Emperor and Empress know that she is a girl.
Several events occurred that year, and a prince was urgently needed to appease the people. However, the emperor, who had been the crown prince for several years before ascending the throne, had not had a child.
The Empress finally became pregnant, but the baby was a girl. There was nothing they could do but announce that it was a boy and that he would be the Crown Prince from birth.
So, from a young age, Wan Ge began to wear men's clothing. Everyone who knew back then has been executed; now, only the Emperor and Empress know that Wan Ge is a girl.
They have already devised a plan: when the time comes, they will find an opportunity to depose the crown prince and appoint another prince as the new crown prince.
As for the villains... they're quite pitiful too.
The villain's father was originally a king of a different surname. His grandfather and Wan Ge's grandfather were once sworn brothers who fought side by side to conquer the world. Later, Wan Ge's grandfather became the emperor, and the villain's grandfather became a king of a different surname.
The two had an exceptionally good relationship, even better than blood brothers, which led to the villain's father and Wan Ge's father also having a good relationship.
Until the day the villainous father rebelled, he felt that the world rightfully belonged to them, so why should the Nan family monopolize it?
However, the emperor eventually found out about the rebellion. Looking at the young child and the brother he once thought was his good brother, the emperor softened and spared the child, while he was beheaded.
The emperor brought his child into the palace, but everyone thought he was just the son of a disgraced official, and treated him like a slave, with everyone bullying him.
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