A long time later, when Chu Xuan had ascended the throne, Lu Yanluo heard about a palace secret related to Princess Duanshu.

According to legend, when Princess Duanshu was born, there was a chaos at the border. Emperor Wen led his troops to wipe out the enemy. On the battlefield, at the critical moment, the cry of a baby allowed him to avoid an arrow flying from behind. After that, the battle became more and more successful. Within half a month, Emperor Wen returned to the capital.

After I returned, I heard that there was a new little princess in the harem. She was very cute and delicate.

This reminded Emperor Wen of the sudden sound of a baby on the battlefield, and he rushed to the harem to visit the child impatiently.

Who would have thought that this one glance would lay the foundation for Princess Duanshu to be doted on for the rest of her life.

Because of Princess Duanshu, her mother jumped from an unknown minor noble lady to a royal concubine. Not only that, perhaps because he was a father for the first time, Emperor Wen would think about his daughter from time to time. For a period of time, he would hold Duanshu by his side no matter what, and let her stay in the Taiji Hall.

Gradually, Duanshu grew up, and Emperor Wen's favor for her only increased. Even though other concubines gave birth to sons and daughters for him, they still could not shake Duanshu's position in Emperor Wen's heart.

Duanshu was brought up by Emperor Wen himself, and her style of doing things was exactly the same as Emperor Wen's. After Emperor Wen's death, many rumors arose in the court. It was said that Emperor Wen's favorite candidate for the crown prince was none other than Princess Duanshu.

At first, others just thought it was a joke, but the emperor who had just ascended the throne felt alienated. As the rumors became more and more outrageous, the emperor became more and more uneasy. In order to ensure that his throne was safe, he found an excuse to bring Princess Duanshu's eldest son into the palace.

In the name of being the prince's study companion, in reality her purpose was to restrain Duanshu. Duanshu was separated from her child for three whole years. During these three years, she figured out many things and her temperament changed drastically. She was no longer the glorious eldest princess. She became extremely low-key and timid, staying in the princess's mansion all day long and not caring about worldly affairs.

Three years later, the emperor believed that his throne was secure and Duan Shu no longer posed a threat to him, so he sent the child back to the princess's mansion.

It has been so many years since the incident, but Duanshu is still frightened and has always stayed away from royal affairs.

However, Chu Xuan did not tell Lu Yanluo about these things until a long time later. At this time, Princess Duanshu and Prince Taikang were standing in the princess's mansion, and both of them looked a little unhappy.

After a long time, Princess Duanshu sneered, turned around and left first.

"Imperial sister?" Old Prince Taikang called out hurriedly from behind.

Duan Shu slowed down her pace, glanced sideways, and said in a cold tone, "What are you doing? Didn't you say that you were going to go to the city wall and talk things out? If we don't leave now, are we going to wait for Chu Han to find out and catch us all in one fell swoop? Let's go!"

"Let's go! Let's go now!" Old Prince Taikang smiled and quickly followed.

Behind them, Lu Yanluo looked at the brother and sister and felt a little amused. After all, they were the most honorable princesses of Tianji, and their style of doing things was indeed beyond the reach of ordinary people.

The three of them walked to the city gate in the morning light, under the puzzled gazes of the people. The soldiers guarding the city did not understand why, and stopped the three of them.

"The city gates are under martial law. No one is allowed to enter or leave at will."

Duan Shu was full of disdain. She took out a token from her bosom and showed it to the soldiers guarding the city. This was the golden medal of immunity from death bestowed on Princess Duan Shu by Emperor Wen when he was alive. Seeing the golden medal was like seeing Emperor Wen.

Seeing this, the soldiers dared not to stop them anymore. They knelt down on the ground and apologized to Duanshu.

"Go, tell Chu Han and the ministers in the capital that I have something important to announce to the world today. Please ask them to come quickly."

Upon hearing this, the soldier did not dare to delay and got up to go to the palace to report the news.

Tai Chi Hall.

Chu Han was buried in the case, anxiously reading the reports from various prefectures. The prefectures had let Chu Xuan pass without authorization, and they had to give an explanation to the capital no matter what. So each prefecture wrote a letter, and without exception, they all used the excuse of King Ye's filial piety and that they could not bear to stop him because he was attending the funeral of the late emperor.

"Bastard! Bastard!" Chu Han was furious and threw the letter to the ground.

Outside the door, the eunuch walked in cautiously, stopped at a distance from Chu Han, and reported: "Your Majesty, Princess Duanshu and Prince Taikang are at the city gate asking you and the ministers to go over, saying that they have something important to discuss."

"What's the matter? Why are these two old fools causing trouble for me at this time? Let them go back home, I don't have time to deal with them!"

The eunuch hesitated for a long while, but finally gritted his teeth and said the second half of the sentence: "Your Majesty...some people saw that Princess Ye returned to the capital and is now following Princess Duanshu and Prince Taikang. This matter may be related to King Ye. Your Majesty, what do you think..."

Chu Han immediately raised his head in horror. Lu Yanluo was back? How could it be possible? The city gates were under martial law. How did she get in? No, now was not the time to think about this. How could Lu Yanluo be with Princess Duanshu and Prince Taikang? Could it be...

Chu Han shuddered all over, and instantly thought of a very terrible outcome. He stood up from behind the desk in a panic, grabbed the young eunuch, and said under the young eunuch's horrified gaze: "Quick! Send someone to stop them and arrest them immediately! Quick!"

The young eunuch didn't understand what was going on and looked at Chu Han in panic. Chu Han was anxious and left the young eunuch and ran out quickly.

He had to stop them from going up to the city wall, otherwise he would really lose everything.

At the city gate of Zhuque Street, Princess Duanshu looked at the people coming towards her and knew that the time had come.

"Let's go. Today I will personally welcome the new emperor back to the capital!"

Behind him, old Prince Taikang smiled and followed. Since the new emperor had returned to the capital, they naturally had to welcome him in person.

"Catch them!" Chu Han walked quickly from the corner of the street, ordering his soldiers to catch people as he walked.

On the city wall, Duan Shu looked at Chu Han with a smile on her face. Outside the city wall was Chu Xuan's 300,000-strong army.

"Han'er, you must be blaming your aunt today. You and Xuan'er are both my nephews, and there is no difference between close and distant relatives. But today, your aunt will definitely be unfair to you."

Chu Han frowned and said angrily: "What is the princess going to do? But what have I done wrong to treat the princess unfairly? Why don't you and the old prince come down first and talk to me in detail, I will definitely be able to agree to your request!"

Chu Han tried to calm them down, but it was clear that the arrow had been set on the string and had to be shot.

Princess Duanshu shook her head and sighed, "Han'er, you have been raised by your aunt since you were a child. You are timid and cautious, and you have never made any big mistakes. But this time, you really did something wrong. Tianji is the result of the painstaking efforts of successive emperors to achieve the current situation. As the eldest princess of this dynasty, I will never allow anyone to destroy it!"