Jiang Ge paused

, and suddenly looked up at the emperor, "You watched your son suffer and even die, don't you feel any pain? You could have helped him, but you just watched coldly, don't you feel guilty?"

The emperor shook his head gently, "Children of the emperor's family, this is their fate."

He lowered his head, "Raising children is like raising a pair of snakes, biting each other, and the winner is the king. Only in this way can the strongest successor be raised."

"People like the second brother and the fifth brother who were not qualified to be emperors since birth, are you going to put them in the snake pool and let them be bitten to death?" Jiang Ge's eyes flashed, "The second brother was killed a long time ago, and the fifth brother...if he wasn't smart and formed an alliance with me in private, and I protected him secretly, he would have died."

"You, as a father, don't remember what happened that winter, but I remember it very clearly. Speaking of which, although I am not a good person, compared to you... I am really a kind person."

Jiang Ge clearly remembered two years ago, it was still a winter night. He saw with his own eyes that his fifth brother was taken to the execution ground. Two executioners pressed him on the rack, and the other took a wooden nail as thick as a child's arm and nailed it into his shoulder and palm.

Blood splattered, and although Jiang Ge was used to seeing blood, he couldn't bear to watch it.

"What's going on?" Jiang Ge asked his subordinates.

"I heard that the fifth prince raped and killed a palace maid and dismembered her body... The whole palace is furious, and Your Majesty has no choice but to punish him like this."

Jiang Ge looked at the blood all over the ground on the execution platform, frowning slightly, "Try to save his life and don't let anyone find out."

The subordinate hesitated and said, "He killed and dismembered people, which angered the public. Many palace maids gathered around to watch him being executed. It would be difficult for the executioner to show mercy under the watchful eyes of the public."

"I have a bottle of magical medicine, which has miraculous effects on wounds when dissolved in water." Jiang Ge said, "Give it to the executioner, let him dissolve in water and splash it on the fifth brother."

"Your Highness, the medicine is very expensive, and there is only one bottle..."

"Go get it!"

"Yes..."

A basin of water splashed down, and the boy who had already fallen into a coma due to pain slowly opened his eyes and looked at the executioner in front of him with bloodshot eyes.

The temperature of the water was just right, neither too cold nor too hot.

He felt the pain in his body gradually disappear.

The onlookers cheered loudly.

"Yes, that's it, splash him to wake him up!"

"This devil should suffer more before he dies!"

The executioner whispered: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said... let you live."

"That bottle of medicine was not wasted after all. If it weren't for my fifth brother's intervention, I wouldn't have been able to take down the Iron Guard so easily. And if you hadn't forced him, he wouldn't have come to this point," Jiang Ge stared at his father, "Now the entire Western Abyss is under my control. I won."

The emperor smiled, "I thought you were stupid and incompetent, but now it seems... you are indeed the strongest one. I was right! Everything I did was to raise the strongest prince, even if it meant sacrificing some incompetent people. It's worth it for the important people. Only with a strong heir can Xiyuan become stronger, so I am right! You can't deny that if I hadn't let you fight for your lives, you wouldn't have grown into what you are now."

Jiang Ge stood up and said, "Maybe, but I won't do the same as you. I will treat my princess well and let her grow up without worries. I won't let her see any bad things in this world."

The emperor was slightly startled, "Princess? How do you know it's a daughter?"

"People from Dongyuan said that it's very likely to be a daughter." Jiang Ge's eyes became gentle. "I want her to enjoy the world I have built for her and her mother. If she is capable in the future, I will let her be the empress. If she is not capable, I will protect her for the rest of her life. I will never let her endure even a little bit of the suffering I have endured."

The emperor's voice trembled. "You...you are plotting to usurp the throne. Isn't it for your own ambition? Isn't it your disguise to indulge in women?"

"Ah? Father, you think so of me?" Jiang Ge laughed, "Then father, you think too much. I really like Qin Huaying. I usurped the throne because I wanted to bring her back from Dongyuan as soon as possible. My father-in-law sent someone to tell me that only if I became the emperor would I have the power to negotiate peace with Dongyuan. Only when the two countries negotiated, she could come back. I thought it made sense, so I decided to force the emperor to abdicate."

"You, you, you...how could you do this for a woman..." The emperor shuddered, "Where is your ambition? You should destroy Dongyuan! Unify the Nine Yuan continent! This is the heir I want!"

"Unify the Nine Abysses? Our Western Abyss Kingdom has more mountains than fields, and we are already poor. After years of war, the treasury has long been empty. What can we use to fight?" Jiang Ge shook his head. "In the next period of time, I will stop fighting, recuperate, and never provoke a war again. Besides, with the Emperor of the Silence Kingdom here, who dares to boast about unifying the Nine Abysses?"

"Oh, by the way, father, where is the golden Buddha that Ye Yuan gave us? I have to ask Mr. Shi to help bring it back to the East Abyss as a gift for peace talks. We in the Western Abyss are too poor to come up with a decent gift."

"Also, Yue Qinghai came to help today. I promised him that he would take Concubine Jin and my sixth brother away after the mission was accomplished. Hasn't father always suspected that my sixth brother is not his biological son? Guess what? He is not!"

"Hey, father, why did you faint?"

Just like when she came, Luo Jin was also bumping along in the carriage on the way back. The horses and the drivers changed one after another, rushing on the road day and night.

It was Chai Qi who sent her back. The others were not in a hurry to go back. After all, having her there was enough.

"Your Highness, thank you for taking me to see Jiang Mo," Luo Jin said in the carriage, "I thought you would blame me for wasting time..."

"I dare not," said Chai Qi.

Chai Qi looked at Luo Jin and suddenly said, "That day in the tomb, why did you suddenly..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw Luo Jin slowly stretched out a finger, put it on her lips, and made a "hmm" sound.

She raised her eyes and looked at Chai Qi, her eyes full of confusion and arrogance.

"The princess didn't mention it, and even Yue Qinghai knows it," Luo Jin crossed his arms, his voice lazy, "So... you're the only one who has a mouth, right? Huh?"

"I..." Chai Qi's heartbeat quickened, "You now... you and just now..."

Luo Jin stretched his arms, "She doesn't know my existence, and she must not know. If you don't want me to silence you, pretend you know nothing. Otherwise, even if it hurts my sister, I will kill you."

"I... I won't say..." Chai Qi looked at Luo Jin, "You... are indeed different from before, what is this? Soul-leaving Syndrome?"

"Scientifically speaking, this is called split personality. If you are hypnotized thousands of times, you will also have split personality." Luo Jin sighed, "My dear mother can't tolerate me and must put me in the dark. But she doesn't know that my 'evil' is my true nature, and the 'good' she wants is just a light that lights up accidentally in the darkness!"

"The sister you are talking about... is it Ajing?"

"Yes, it was she who woke me up," Luo Jin sighed, "It's a pity that the snakes came suddenly, and I couldn't protect her. I only had time to kill the snakes around me. Fortunately, I got the Red Emperor Snake, otherwise..."

Her eyes sank slightly, "I don't know how she is now."

Chai Qi suddenly smiled lightly, "I think that your so-called 'evil' is not that evil."

Luo Jin raised her eyes and glanced at him, and said slowly: "Someone told me to love this world, so even though the world is not perfect, I still love it and will always protect it."

She closed her eyes gently, and when she opened them, her eyes became clear again.

"Your Highness, why are you staring at me?" Luo Jin touched his face. "Did you eat pastry on your face?"

Chai Qi lowered his head. "Nothing..."

Four days later, they finally returned to the palace in Weicheng.

As soon as Luo Jin got off the car, he ran to see Chai Jing. She had completely lost consciousness. Although she was awake, her eyes were empty and she stared blankly ahead, as if she was a vegetable.

Luo Jin whispered in her ear, "Don't be afraid, I'm here to save you."

She sent the newly sent palace maid out of the room, closed the door, undressed Chai Jing, and looked for the scars left by the cricket. She wanted to cut a wound where the cricket entered and guide the cricket to crawl out. This way, the path would be the shortest and the damage to the person would be the least.

There was an obvious purple scar on Chai Jing's back. Luo Jin gently cut the scar and drew out the insects in her body.

Chai Jing turned around and said softly, "Are you back?"

"I'm back!" Luo Jin hugged her from behind, "You finally woke up, I was scared to death..."

"I'm fine, aren't I? Why are you crying?"

"No... I'm not crying..."

There were dozens of people in the palace who were bitten by insects. Luo Jin asked them to go into the house one by one and get rid of the insects for them.

The women were fine, but there were several men who were on guard that day. After Luo Jin woke them up, they saw that their clothes were undressed and they were a little embarrassed. Fortunately, most of the wounds were on the upper body, and some were on the legs, so it wasn't particularly embarrassing.

After treating more than a dozen people in a row, Luo Jin felt a little dizzy, and another one was carried in from outside.

"This is the son of the Prime Minister. Please take care of him, Shaoqing." The guard who sent him in said.

"The Prime Minister's son? How come he was bitten too?"

"The Prime Minister's son is the chief of the guards of the Palace Feather Guard. It is his duty to protect Your Majesty. He was also the one who led people to chase the assassin that day." The guard said, "He has been raised in the Prime Minister's Mansion these days. I heard that the palace has found a way to get rid of the dragon, so the Prime Minister asked him to be sent here."

"Carry him to the bed, close the door and go out."

"The Prime Minister said that I should watch from the side..."

"No!" Luo Jin immediately refused.

The reason why she didn't let anyone else be around was also Chai Qi's intention. He was afraid that the matter of the Red Emperor Dragon would be leaked. Others had not read the "Gu Jing" and didn't know that the Red Emperor Dragon was the only solution. But if others knew her treatment method, it would be easy for them to guess that she had some special ability.

"But Prime Minister..."