Everyone was reluctant to leave, so they slowed down their pace and waited outside.

Soon, the prince was seen being carried out by eunuchs and headed towards the East Palace.

The Crown Princess pursed her lips and followed silently.

Then King Lu came out and knelt obediently on the stone steps.

Everyone twitched their lips and almost smiled.

Princess Lu walked over with a dark face, gritted her teeth and asked in a low voice: "Did you eat too much?"

What if your father is a fool? Don’t you know that he did it on purpose?

Prince Lu glared at Princess Lu and whispered, "How can you talk to your man like that, woman?"

He took great pains to expose the prince on the spot, and he actually said that he was free?

Princess Lu knelt down beside Prince Lu with a sullen face and said angrily, "Father just said that brothers should love and help each other, and you turned around and stepped on the prince's pants. This clearly shows that you are not on good terms with the prince. How will father see you?"

Prince Lu pouted and said, "I am already a prince, how can you look at me? Well, what are you doing kneeling here? Go back home and take care of your children. Women are always short-sighted!"

He risked being punished to expose the crown prince, which made his father's impression of the crown prince even worse. It might even prompt his father to make up his mind to depose the crown prince. Thinking about it this way, it was totally worth it.

What's the point of kneeling? He has old knots on his knees!

Prince Qi returned to his palace and laughed heartily.

"I didn't expect that the fifth brother would also get involved, which made my father even more disappointed in the crown prince."

Princess Qi was a little uneasy: "My Lord, does Prince Lu have that plan as well..."

The King of Qi smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. The fifth child is brave but not wise. It is impossible for the emperor to take a fancy to him."

Princess Qi nodded and said, "My Lord, do you think that my father has given up on the Crown Prince this time?"

Prince Qi took a sip from the teacup, smiling broadly: "Based on my understanding of father, he should have given up. If father still had hope for the prince, he wouldn't even be bothered to get angry. This shows that he has completely given up on the prince, that's why he is so cold."

Princess Qi's face lit up with joy: "So, father intends to depose the second crown prince?"

King Qi placed the teacup on the tea table and said coldly, "This is not enough."

"My Lord——"

The eyes of the Prince of Qi were filled with coldness: "The heart of the emperor is hard to predict. The prince was deposed before and was able to be reinstated. How can we know that he will not make a comeback after being deposed for the second time?"

"You mean—"

The King of Qi said calmly, "Once a person dies, he will not rise again."

Princess Qi frowned and said, "I am watching coldly. Even if the emperor intends to re-elect the crown prince, he will not take the crown prince's life."

"That's not necessarily true." King Qi smiled meaningfully.

The prince was sent back to the East Palace by the eunuchs. He was in despair. He grabbed the princess' wrist and asked, "Is it impossible for my father to forgive me?"

The Crown Princess stared at her wrist that was pinched so hard by the Crown Prince that it hurt, and said calmly, "I don't know."

At this point, doesn't this man understand? If the emperor still had a little hope for him, he wouldn't even bother to scold him.

The Crown Prince shook off the Crown Princess's hand and angrily said, "I don't know, I don't know. Then what do you know? You only know how to bring Chun Ge'er to curry favor with the Emperor, but you don't think about what would happen if I had something?"

The Crown Princess looked at the Crown Prince and sighed softly, agreeing with him for once: "Your Highness is right, we are a family. If you are not good, Chun Ge'er and I will naturally not be good, so please think more about Chun Ge'er before you do anything."

"You don't need to tell me these!" The prince was feeling depressed and had no way to vent. He left after saying this.

On the second day, the prince was not even allowed to approach the Yangxin Palace and was asked to go back by the eunuchs.

"Your Majesty has excused your Highness from paying respects. Your Highness does not need to come here in the future."

The prince was stunned for a moment. He returned to the East Palace and walked towards the garden in a daze. He didn't know how long he had walked before he sat down.

There is soft grass beneath me and the cool scent of flowers all around me.

The prince covered his face with his hands, despair filling his head.

What should he do?

Suddenly, low voices of discussion could be heard through the flowers and trees.

"If His Highness is deposed again, what will we do?"

The prince clenched his fist, wishing he could immediately grab the person who said this and beat him up.

It would be fine if people outside saw it that way, but people in his palace actually said that too?

He is still the prince!

"Don't talk nonsense. The crown prince was reinstated not long ago. How could he be deposed again?"

"Nonsense? Don't you know the emperor's attitude towards the prince?"

"The Emperor doesn't seem to be angry with Your Highness—"

"That's not good."

"What do you mean?"

"Think about it, the Crown Prince is related to the future of our Great Zhou Dynasty, how can the Emperor not take him seriously? Now he is too lazy to even get angry with the Crown Prince, which shows that he has already made up his mind..."

"You mean the second deposed prince——"

"Keep your voice down!" The person who spoke earlier said in a low voice, "We can't interfere in the affairs of the nobles, but we are all from the Eastern Palace. Once the prince is deposed, I'm afraid we won't have a good ending. Just think about those people before and you will know."

"What should I do? Do I have to find another way out?"

"Find another way out? Haha, you've already been branded as a member of the Eastern Palace, what other way out can you find? We and the Crown Prince will both suffer together and prosper together."

"It would be great if His Highness could succeed to the throne."

"You dare to say that!"

"Let's talk quietly, no one can hear us. I just think it's a pity that His Highness has been the Crown Prince for more than 30 years, but he is just a little bit short of it——"

The man sighed and said, "This is fate. Who made the prince lose the protection of the empress since he was young..."

The prince clenched his fist tighter and tighter, and veins on the back of his hand bulged.

There was no more talking, only the sound of footsteps fading away.

From beginning to end, the prince did not show up.

In the past, with his temper, he would have definitely pulled those two out and given them a severe lesson, but now he no longer had the mind to do so.

They were right. The emperor didn't even lose his temper with him. He must have made up his mind to get rid of him.

Being deposed for the second time...he has become a huge joke in history!

The prince's feet were filled with joy. He rushed into the study and began to read history books.

As he flipped through the history books, he was horrified by the fates of the deposed princes.

He even discovered that among those who were made crown princes at birth, only a few succeeded to the throne smoothly in the end, and nine out of ten ended up in a tragic ending.

The prince slammed the desk suddenly.

No, he doesn't want to end up like that!

But what to do?

The prince suddenly remembered what he had heard.

"It would be great if His Highness could succeed to the throne."

"Your Highness has been the Crown Prince for more than 30 years, and he is just a little short of that——"

The prince's heart began to beat rapidly.

What if he succeeds?

Instead of living in fear all day long, worrying about being deposed by his father, if he became the emperor, who could depose him?

Yes, he wants to succeed to the throne and become emperor before his father deposes him!

The prince put his hand on his chest, with one thought swirling in his mind: If I want to succeed to the throne, my father must die!