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It's not fair at all, it makes me so angry, but there's nothing I can do.
He had to be on guard against the Queen, the Li family, the Ji family, and the Wu family.
Anyone who has made it this far and hasn't died at Qi Wenyu's hands is no pushover.
One punch is no match for four hands, and without Beishan, his biggest support, he felt a little powerless.
When Qi Wenyu woke up in the morning, he thought of the past.
At that time, he had not yet ascended the throne, and he was surrounded by trustworthy friends who recognized him from the bottom of their hearts and helped him ascend the throne.
But people's hearts are fickle.
Ji Mingxi's parents, the queen, and he, the four of them were born into noble families. The other three were children of aristocratic families, and he was born into the royal family.
They met as children, and when they were teenagers, the four of them hid their identities and roamed the world together.
He can turn his back to any of the other three.
Later, they met the fifth prince's mother, Concubine Zhen.
He also met the female palace master of Xuanbing Palace who only loved handsome men and acted in a bohemian manner.
Qi Wenyu knew very well that if he wanted to ascend the throne, the queen from the Li family would be the best candidate for his wife.
Therefore, even though he loved Zhenfei in his heart, he still treated her as his sister.
After wandering around for half a year, the four returned to the capital.
He married the queen, and Ji Mingxi's father married Ji Mingxi's mother.
Then the late emperor fell ill, and the imperial physician said he would not last long, and the capital was in turmoil.
With the help of the Li and Ji families, Qi Wenyu ascended the throne with the blood of his royal brothers.
Zhen Fei was from the Miaojiang Gu tribe, a tribe that brought disaster to the world and was always despised by the world.
Qi Wenyu took action to help Zhenfei, replaced the prince with a cat, and brought Zhenfei into his harem, protecting her under his wings.
But after that, everything changed.
The queen quarreled with him every day. Ji Mingxi's mother and the queen were close friends, and Ji Mingxi's father listened to his wife.
The three of them stood together, just as far away from him as if he had done something unforgivable wrong.
He is the emperor, above everyone else.
It's normal to have three thousand beauties in the harem.
Zhenfei also spent some time with them, so why couldn't the Queen be more tolerant?
The queen could accept other concubines, why not Concubine Zhen?
He and the Queen had promised each other many times that Zhen Fei would always be Zhen Fei, and the position of Queen would only belong to the Queen.
He has always kept in his heart the friendship they had when they grew up together and made their way through the world together.
But the queen's eyes became colder and colder.
The Li family behind her wanted more and more, and began to urge him to visit the Queen's Palace more often, saying that he had no legitimate son now, so it would be better for him to give birth to a legitimate son as soon as possible.
how?
He had only been on the throne for a year, and the Li family was already thinking about a crown prince. Did they think the throne should go to the next generation?!
The Ji family and the Li family are getting closer and closer, as if they are wearing the same pair of pants.
In the harem, the conflicts between the Queen and Concubine Zhen became more and more frequent.
Qi Wenyu didn't understand. The queen had everything. She was the mother of the country, the daughter of a noble family, and was born with a silver spoon in her mouth.
As for Zhenfei, she had been hiding since she was a child, suffered a lot, and wandered around, but she was still kind.
He was all she had.
She was all he had.
But the queen still couldn't tolerate Zhenfei and took action against her.
Finally, he also attacked Wu'er, the daughter of him and Zhenfei.
No matter how much Qi Wenyu hated the Li family and disliked the prince, his original intention was to demote the prince to a prince of the emperor and let him enjoy his old age.
After all, the prince is his blood.
Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs.
But why did they want to kill Wu'er!
Since he killed Wu'er, you can't blame him.
No wonder he did that.
But God is blind, the prince actually survived, and the queens of the Wu and Ji families also survived.
If he had known this, Qi Wenyu would never have kept the Ji family children with him out of consideration for their old friendship.
They should all die with their parents!
Blame him for being too kind-hearted. Thinking about how Ji Mingxi's father had saved his life, he couldn't bear to let the Ji family's bloodline be cut off.
This is the result of being soft-hearted.
Now he is attacked from all sides, isolated and helpless, and the situation ahead is hopeless no matter how you look at it.
After the emperor came back from the morning court, he locked himself in the imperial study and thought for a long time.
Then, he summoned all the secret guards behind him.
Fifty-three remain.
The emperor planned to visit the queen's palace.
Whether the dead end can be averted, the Queen is still the key, just like when he ascended to the throne.
After the queen returned from the temple, she claimed to be sick and locked herself in the palace.
Nowadays, everyone in the capital is terrified when talking about colds, and the reason is the tuberculosis incident in the Ji and Wu families.
The queen had caught a cold and was afraid it was tuberculosis, so she locked herself in the palace and refused to go out.
The emperor wanted to summon the empress to the imperial study, but because she used this excuse, he could not issue the order.
The Queen had roamed the martial arts world with him in the past, and knew many martial arts masters. She herself was also quite skilled, so it was naturally impossible for the Emperor to go there without any preparation.
He could probably only bring in eight guards disguised as secret guards at most. If he brought more, it would be bad if it got out, and it would not be conducive to his conversation with the queen.
If he brought too little, the emperor would be afraid that the queen would do something bad to him.
The emperor selected the eight he trusted most from the fifty-three secret guards, and then placed the two he trusted most at the front, that is, behind him.
The two secret guards were not particularly skilled among the other secret guards, nor were they very smart, but they were relatively honest and loyal.
Moreover, the emperor had observed them for many years and knew that such a character could not be faked. If they were truly traitors, they would have revealed their true colors long ago.
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The queen was wearing a thin white dress and holding a blood-stained handkerchief. She sat on the threshold, leaning against the door, looking at the lotus flowers in the pond in the backyard.
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