The Crown Princess couldn't tell the difference between the real and the fake. How could someone in this world look exactly like His Highness?
A noise came from the secret passage under the bed, and Yan Huainan knew that someone had followed them through the passage.
He didn't have time to explain to the Crown Princess, and quickened his pace, saying, "We've been married for seven years, and you still can't tell if I'm real or not? They're coming after us, you'd better hide and find a way to get out and send a message!"
Yan Huainan pushed the Crown Princess out to the outer room.
The Crown Princess was shocked and her breathing became rapid; her mind was a complete mess.
Several guards emerged from the secret passage and quickly subdued Yan Huainan.
They were sent by Yan Wu to take Yan Huainan away, but when they arrived at the dungeon, they found a young eunuch lying on the ground and Yan Huainan nowhere to be seen. They hurriedly followed the unclosed secret passage in the wall.
Fortunately, we arrived in time, otherwise things would have been much worse!
Yan Huainan shouted angrily, "Insolence! I am the Crown Prince! Yan Wu, this usurper! I will tell my father, and he will suffer a terrible death!"
"You blind bastards! Open your dog eyes and see! I am the Crown Prince!"
Immediately, a bodyguard scanned the area and, finding nothing to gag him, quickly pulled off a long sock and stuffed it into Yan Huainan's mouth, warning him, "Shut up!"
The prince felt nauseous from the stench; what had that bastard stuffed into his mouth?! If he managed to get out of here alive, he would tear them to pieces!
He then said to another guard, "It seems that people live here. Go and see where they are."
Another guard walked around the room, checked the temperature of the blankets on the bed, and confirmed that someone had been there.
Just as he was about to push open the door leading from the inner room to the outer room, a sound suddenly came from the other side of the door.
"The Crown Princess is such a grown woman, yet she still doesn't dare to get up at night by herself and insists on being carried by this old servant, just like when she was a child."
"Granny, I just heard some movement coming from the bed."
"Where is that noise? Could it be that a mouse has crawled in? Your Majesty, don't be afraid, this old servant will go and take a look."
The footsteps outside the door grew closer.
The guards exchanged glances and forcibly led Yan Huainan into the secret passage.
In the outer room, the Crown Princess trembled as she followed the old nanny. Hearing that there was no more movement inside, the nanny breathed a sigh of relief and quietly asked the Crown Princess, "Who are those people inside?"
The Crown Princess hurriedly repeated what Yan Huainan had just said, trembling as she hugged her arms. "Granny, what should we do? I believe that was the real Crown Prince!"
The nanny was terrified!
"Your Highness, this matter is of utmost importance and must be reported to the palace!" The nanny grew increasingly alarmed. Back then, although the Crown Prince enjoyed beautiful women and doted on his concubines, he never neglected his wife excessively. The current Crown Prince, however, truly ignored her!
If the Crown Prince has truly been replaced, it would be a major event that would shock the entire Great Liang Dynasty!
"Your Highness, pretend to have a stomachache in a moment. This old servant will let Cui'er in. You and Cui'er change clothes and quietly return to the Zhenbei Prince's Mansion. Have the Princess accompany you to the palace as soon as possible!"
The Crown Princess was completely disoriented and listened to the nanny's advice. She changed clothes with Cui'er, pretended to go to fetch a doctor, fooled the guards at the gate, and ran out of the mansion that night towards the Prince of Zhenbei's mansion.
...
"Host, something terrible has happened! The Crown Princess has discovered Yan Huainan! She's currently on her way to the Prince of Zhenbei's residence to complain!"
In the middle of the night, Yan Chaoxi heard the system's exclamation and suddenly opened her eyes.
"What happened?"
System: "Yan Huainan ran out through the secret passage and bumped into the Crown Princess. Now the Crown Princess knows that Yan Wu is an imposter!"
Yan Chaoxi's heart sank suddenly.
Tonight is the night Yan Wu raises his troops to enter the palace; we absolutely cannot afford any mistakes.
She sat up, her face grave. "If we send someone from here to intercept the Crown Princess, how long would it take?"
The system calculated that "it would take about half an hour, but at the Crown Princess's speed, she would arrive at the Zhenbei Prince's Mansion in about half an hour."
When the system gets bored at night, it checks the activity of all parties and discovers this scene when the Crown Princess is already on her way.
The system was almost in tears, "Host! It's too late for us to get there now, boohoo!"
Yan Chaoxi calmly opened the shop and spent 200 points to exchange for a teleportation talisman and a strength pill.
She swallowed the power pill, took out a small map, silently recited the Crown Princess's name, watched the movement direction of the small dot on the map, locked onto a path she must take, and used a teleportation talisman to teleport there.
The next instant, a figure appeared out of thin air on the dark street.
The Crown Princess ran with her head down, and as she got closer to the Prince of Zhenbei's residence, a hand suddenly touched her shoulder.
She was startled and screamed. After seeing who it was, she couldn't help but exclaim, "Yan Chaoxi?!"
Yan Chaoxi smiled slightly, "You want to tell on me?"
The Crown Princess recalled Yan Huainan's words—that Yan Chaoxi was in league with the two Crown Princes. She took two steps back, her gaze then falling on Yan Chaoxi's protruding belly. Neither of them had any help, and the Crown Princess, confident in herself, was not afraid of a pregnant woman; her expression turned fierce.
"I was wondering why you disappeared. Turns out you were pregnant with a fake child and dared not stay in the manor!"
"Get out of my way, and I'll let you live a couple more days. Otherwise, I'll send you and your child to hell to wait for that fake crown prince!"
Seeing that she didn't move, the Crown Princess stepped forward to push her.
Yan Chaoxi raised her hand and grasped the Crown Princess's wrist. With a gentle squeeze, the Crown Princess immediately felt a sharp, bone-cracking pain spread from her wrist.
"ah!!!"
In the still of the night, the scream was extremely piercing.
"Shut up!"
Not wanting to disturb others, Yan Chaoxi exchanged a packet of hallucinogenic powder for the Crown Princess to use. Once the Crown Princess fell into a coma, Yan Chaoxi dragged her with one hand and turned to walk in another direction.
The system, seeing Yan Chaoxi's simple and crude actions, exclaimed, "Good heavens! Is this something a pregnant woman would do?!"
Once they were far from the alley, Yan Chaoxi stopped, looked at the silent street, and began to wonder where it would be safest to go in the middle of the night. Dragging a grown person back to the villa was too absurd.
"Rabbit, help me find a safe place."
"……good!"
The system quickly surveyed the surroundings. "Go to the right. There's an empty courtyard about 500 meters away. It's unlocked and empty. You can go inside."
Yan Chaoxi then dragged the Crown Princess towards the deserted courtyard, pushed open the door,
"Can you help me find out where Yan Huainan is right now?"
After checking, the system said, "Don't worry, host! Yan Huainan has already been sent to the palace by Yan Wu's men."
Yan Chaoxi relaxed, and only then did she feel a faint pain in her abdomen.
She gritted her teeth, touched the restless little one in her womb, and the feeling was so familiar...
The system detected Yan Chaoxi's physical condition and exclaimed, "Host! Your water has broken! You're going into labor early!"
Damn!
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