The emperor shielded her behind him to prevent his two brothers from accidentally harming her, his eyes filled with a terrifying darkness.
Yun Wang was no match for Xie Tingzhou. His short sword was knocked away, and Xie Tingzhou twisted him onto the couch.
Long ropes were used to bind his hands, then passed under the couch, binding his entire waist to the couch, and then his thighs.
"How dare you harm me in front of Father and Mother, Zhaolin! You truly hate our family."
He tried to sow discord.
“Father, Zhaolin has gone mad. He must be holding a grudge against you for killing his father, and that’s why he wants to take revenge on me.”
Father, please save your son, otherwise you might be his next target, Father…
"Bang!"
A hard punch landed on his face.
Xie Tingzhou said coldly, "If you had known this would happen, would you have regretted deliberately hurting yourself?"
"I don't!"
Cloud King roared!
He was going crazy. He had been so discreet, yet the Crown Prince knew everything.
Sure enough, Xie Tingzhou said, "The one who assassinated Ye Zhen today was your man, and the one who sneaked into the Su residence last night to defile Su Yanwan was also under your orders."
He had originally given Black Market 74 three days to investigate the person behind the scenes, but Yun Wang couldn't hold back and took action against Ye Zhen today.
Because he attacked Ye Zhen, Xie Tingzhou was unwilling to wait any longer and decided to tear off his hypocritical mask in front of the Emperor and Empress today.
"I kindly saved someone, yet you slander me like this, trying to frame me..."
"Bang!"
Another punch sent the Cloud King's unfinished words flying back.
"Because you were jealous of my close relationship with the Marquis of Zhongyong's family, you deliberately sent someone to assassinate Ye Zhen, hoping to gain favor with the Marquis's family."
You think Su Yanwan is the love of my heart and can't stand to see me doing well. But Su Yanwan doesn't respect herself and had an affair with her brother early on. You despise her and want to ruin her, then hang her naked at the gate of the Su mansion to tarnish my reputation as the crown prince.
During the years I was away from the capital, you stole my collection of fox masks from the Eastern Palace, disguised yourself as the Prince of Liang to get close to Ye Wantang, and spent many years with her.
Because she is my fiancée, you are jealous and want to possess everything I have.
Even my medical skills arouse your jealousy, but you're naturally awkward and don't dare to learn openly or compete with me honestly, so you can only resort to underhanded tactics behind my back.
Xie Tingzhou flicked his wrist and said coldly, "Don't try to deny it. Whether what I said is true or not, we only need to send someone to search your residence to find out."
He secretly studied medicine, so there must be medical knowledge and medicinal herbs in his mansion, as well as his missing fox masks.
We are sure to find some clues in the Prince Yun's mansion.
A chill ran down Yun Wang's spine, but he said, "I didn't do it. You're slandering me. You can't tolerate your own brothers. You've turned against me, so you'll be targeting Brother Ning next, won't you?"
He's still stirring things up.
Xie Tingzhou, however, coldly struck his pressure points, rendering him unable to move.
"As soon as I returned to the capital, I encountered wave after wave of assassination attempts. Those people were all palace guards, but they did not deliberately hide their skills, as if they were afraid that I would not know their identities."
They did this to make me believe that it was my mother who wanted to kill me. In this way, I would hate my mother even more and be even less willing to return to the capital.
And I am now certain that my plan to leave the capital after just one last look was misunderstood by Ye Zhen as a suicide attempt, and that's why he saved me.
She told me that some people have to go through all sorts of hardships just to survive, and if I were to die easily, wouldn't that only cause pain to my loved ones and joy to my enemies?
She told me to think about the people who cared about me. I thought of my mother, and I decided to stay in the capital to find out if she really wanted to kill me.
These words were meant for Prince Yun, and also for the Emperor and Empress. He needed them to know that the day they, mother and son, and father and son were able to reunite was thanks to Ye Zhen.
As for Yun Wang hating Ye Zhen because of this, Xie Tingzhou was not afraid. As long as he liked Ye Zhen, Yun Wang would not let Ye Zhen go.
All he could do was get rid of him as soon as possible.
"Those palace guards and the former commander of the Martial Virtue Division were all bribed by you and acted on your orders. The one who really wanted to kill me has always been you, hasn't he?"
Xie Tingzhou cut open Yun Wang's leg and pulled out the barbed arrowhead, causing blood to gush out.
He didn't give Yun Wang any anesthetic; he just casually stuffed a piece of cloth into his mouth.
King Yun was in so much pain that his eyes were about to burst.
Xie Tingzhou continued, "At first, I thought the masked man who was hanging out with Ye Wantang was Prince Liang, but on the day he rebelled, the palace guards did not lay a hand on my father and mother, so I knew that Prince Liang was not him."
He ripped the gag from Yun Wang's mouth. "I really don't understand why you are so jealous of me. If I had a choice, I would rather switch places with you."
These words made King Yun's chest heave violently.
To him, Xie Tingzhou's words were easy to hear without any real understanding of the situation, and since Xie Tingzhou had said so much, he assumed that Xie Tingzhou had solid evidence and knew everything.
Coupled with the inaction of the Emperor and Empress today, he was completely disheartened and no longer wanted to pretend.
With a cold laugh, he asked the Emperor and Empress, "Father, Mother, he asked me why? Can you tell him why I am jealous of him?"
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