Yan Xingzhou's expression changed: "What do you mean?!"
"Do I need to remind Your Highness?" Chi Yan's gaze turned cold, and he spoke slowly and deliberately, "Ping...Ting."
In a flash, Yan Xingzhou realized what was happening, his eyes dark and fixed on him: "So you knew all along!"
Chi Yan's eyes flashed with coldness, his expression indifferent: "If you don't want people to know, then don't do it in the first place."
Yan Xingzhou gritted her teeth and sneered, "So what if you know? What can you do to me?"
Chi Yan raised an eyebrow; he had never heard of such a request before.
"Your Highness guessed correctly. To be honest, I am here today to see Your Highness off on your way."
Yan Xingzhou's expression changed, and he scoffed disdainfully, "Don't try to scare me..."
He paused, and then Chi Yan beckoned, and a eunuch came forward with a cup of wine. Yan Xingzhou's pupils suddenly contracted, and a strong sense of disbelief flashed across his eyes!
He only snapped out of his daze when the jailer opened the cell door, staring intently at the cup of wine the eunuch was holding, then glaring at Chi Yan: "I don't believe it! Father Emperor wouldn't do this to me! Are you trying to scare me?!"
Chi Yan looked at him with pity: "Your Highness, how could I dare to joke about such a thing? This is indeed His Majesty's intention."
The eunuch also spoke up: "Your Highness, if you don't believe Lord Chi, shouldn't you at least believe this servant?"
Yan Xingzhou trembled: "Eunuch Li..."
He knew Eunuch Li; he was also on duty before the Emperor and was considered to be under Eunuch Fu's command.
Could this truly be Father's intention?
Yan Xingzhou suddenly stood up and tried to rush out: "No! I want to see my father! My father would never do this to me!"
Chi Yan frowned, stepped aside, and gestured for the jailer outside to come in.
Two jailers rushed in and pinned Yan Xingzhou down. He struggled, shouting, "Get out of my way! Do you want to die? I want to see my father..."
Eunuch Li lost his patience, grabbed his chin, and forced the wine down his throat, his tone cold: "Your Highness, you may now depart in peace!"
Yan Xingzhou struggled desperately, but a lot of wine still went down his throat, and his face gradually turned ashen.
Chi Yan watched this scene from the side, unable to describe his feelings. He felt neither schadenfreude nor relief.
Everything happened so suddenly that from the moment he received Emperor Chongde's decree, he even had a feeling that it was not real.
Seeing Yan Xingzhou collapse to the ground, coughing up blood, his eyes wide with resentment, Chi Yan finally felt relieved.
Having witnessed Yan Xingzhou fall to his death, Chi Yan walked out of the cell and said calmly, "Go to the palace to report."
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"What? The Third Prince was poisoned to death by His Majesty?"
A look of surprise flashed in Shen Tangning's eyes, and she was unable to recover for a long time.
Chi Yan turned his head to look at her, his eyes filled with complex emotions: "Don't even mention you, I can't believe it either. Now everyone in the court and the country is living in fear."
She slowly sat back down, her eyes glazed over as she murmured, "This is too sudden? His Majesty hasn't even seen him once, yet he hastily convicted him?"
Something occurred to her, and she asked Chi Yan uncertainly, "Are you sure you saw him breathe his last?"
Meeting her gaze, Chi Yan nodded: "I saw him suffer from the poison and leave only after he was dead." His eyes were unfathomable. "After this incident, His Majesty's temperament has become even more unpredictable."
Shen Tangning's eyes flickered with unpredictable emotions. Yan Xingzhou's death was too sudden, which was completely beyond her expectations and went against the trajectory of her previous life.
She bit her lower lip lightly, her eyes flickering uncertainly.
Logically speaking, the death of the Third Prince should be a good thing, but for some reason, she felt a vague unease.
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