Two years ago, in the midwinter of the second year of Jingan, Emperor Jing, the young emperor of the Tianchen Dynasty, got married in Zhaoge City and married the eldest granddaughter of the governor, Bai Mengxian, Bao Xuanxuan. Soon after, Prince Xunyang suddenly I left Zhaoge without leaving a single word.
Most of the civil servants in the Tianchen Dynasty believed the royal family's rhetoric and thought that the prince of Xunyang County was just a man of literary talent who went to the mountains and rivers to learn about the scenery and cultivate his pen. Who knew that the truth was that even Emperor Tianchen did not know where his uncle had gone.
The emperor chuckled and said lightly: "Your guess is quite accurate in terms of time. So, do you think that my uncle was dissatisfied with me marrying Xiaobai, so he left the court in anger? My uncle is open-minded, You are not of such a petty nature."
Yuan Ai's heart suddenly thumped.
He let go of the emperor's dragon's foot and knocked his head heavily on the sapphire stone steps, not daring to retain any strength - a "bump" sounded muffled in front of the emperor.
"It is an unforgivable crime for a slave to presume on a noble person! Please forgive me, Your Majesty."
The emperor smiled and said lightly: "I asked you to guess. I forgive you."
His eyes were focused on the flickering candlelight beside him, and Man Sheng continued: "However, I have a different idea about this matter. Do you want to hear it?"
Yuan Ai was almost startled and was covered in green sweat. She didn't know whether to answer yes or no.
Fortunately, the little emperor was not too interested in embarrassing his internal supervisor. He had already asked and answered himself with a smile:
"I think that my uncle's departure from Zhaoge seems to have something to do with Sister... Could it be that he noticed that Sister was missing, so he left Zhaoge to find Sister's whereabouts?"
Yuan Ai didn't dare to speak.
The little emperor suddenly laughed and said: "But even if he dissipates all the hidden power of the Xie family that his grandfather entrusted to him in the past, it is impossible to find traces of my sister? Yuan Ai, do you think so? no?"
Yuan Ai raised his head as if begging for mercy, but for some reason he felt pain in his heart.
"...Your Majesty, please don't do this..."
The emperor seemed to be pleased by his reaction. He burst out laughing and murmured:
"What? Do you think I'm crazy? I'm not, I just think it's funny.
Everyone thought that the goddess of the Shentai Palace had been praying for Tianchen and honing her swordsmanship in the Shentai Palace for the past year and a half... Little did they know that the pride of the Tianchen Dynasty had already been assassinated and died. Under the conspiracy of the two people she trusted the most - one was the fellow disciple she had practiced with since childhood, and the other was her brother from the same mother. "
Yuan Ai was shocked.
He looked around hurriedly. Although he saw no one around him, he still felt a sudden shock in his heart.
"Your Majesty...be careful what you say, Your Majesty! If someone hears this..."
...Even if he is the emperor, he may be dragged down!
You must know that the late Emperor was passionate and had many children, and His Majesty was not the only prince.
It is precisely because today's emperor is Feng Zhi, the former high priest of Shentai Palace, the only brother of Tianchen Zhongxing, the lord of Tianchen Zhongxing, and the eldest princess of Tianchen after asking for divination, that he can still remain the emperor after the early death of Queen Xie Sitting firmly on the throne of the prince, and finally ascending to the throne of Dabao.
The little emperor chuckled. The heartache and joy were intertwined in his eyes. These two completely contradictory emotions tore his clear and beautiful face almost out of shape, like an evil ghost.
He murmured to himself: "Be careful what you say? Why should I be careful what I say? I am the emperor of Tianchen, aren't I! Why can't I say something? Is there anything I dare not say?
Hahahaha, the youngest goddess since the establishment of the Shentai Palace, the 'Thousand-year-old Sword Immortal' holding the 'Dachen Minghuang Sword', my sister is really majestic - but what can I do? ! "
The emperor ignored Yuan Ai's efforts to dissuade him. He nervously fiddled with the dancing candlelight with his fingers, even if his fingers were burned by the flames.
"Your Majesty - I know you are sad, but please be careful of the dragon body!"
The emperor raised his hand to cover his warm eyes, and laughed hoarsely, "——Yuan Ai, you see, no matter how talented you are, you have to live to be useful, right?"
Yuan Ai hugged the little emperor's legs in panic, and he whined repeatedly at a loss:
"Your Majesty, you just had a thought at that time! You didn't really want the life of the eldest princess. Please don't mourn too much and hurt your dragon body!
Otherwise, even if Her Royal Highness the Princess sees it in the sky, she will still feel sorry for you. Your Majesty, the one she loved the most in the past was your Majesty’s younger brother——”
Unexpectedly, the emperor was stimulated by something, and suddenly went crazy and kicked Yuan Ai in the chest several meters away, and then shouted like a demon:
"But she can't see! She's dead! She's dead!
——Fu Jingci She is so cruel. She would rather die, let the poison erode her internal organs, and use all her internal strength to lose all her meridians, but she would rather risk her life to break through the restraints and escape from the palace! Does she really want to escape? "
The emperor, who was so powerful and unpredictable in front of his courtiers, officials and powerful men, was now like a lost and foolish child, with large tears suddenly falling from his eyes.
"...What's the 'Thousand-year-old Sword Immortal'? What's the 'Princess Tianchen'? You're just a liar! The year when my mother passed away, she could ride thousands of miles alone and ride a horse back from Saibei day and night without rest. Palace, she clearly promised me that she would never go 'far away' again, and that she would stay in Tianchen and by my side forever, but...she broke her promise."
Yuan Ai had already burst into tears.
He grew up with the little emperor day and night, and witnessed with his own eyes the deep love and mutual dependence between the emperor and His Royal Highness the eldest princess as siblings when they were young...Now that he has seen them come to the point where swords are facing each other and life and death are facing each other, it is really... It's heartbreaking.
How did it become like this?
Since when...the two most supreme siblings in the Tianchen Dynasty have become so far apart from each other?
Yuan Ai was obviously at the emperor's side every day, but he had never noticed it before. When did the emperor start to have such a deep fear of the eldest princess?
So much so that he poisoned the eldest princess' tea to seal her inner breath, and conspired with the priest of Nanxu of Shentai Palace to imprison her in the palace.
Princess Tianchen fought so hard that she lost all her inner strength, and used her short inner breath to temporarily overcome the poison and fight her way out of the palace. However, in the end she was exhausted and fell off a cliff to her death, leaving no trace of her body...
Your Majesty is worried that Prince Xunyang County may have heard some rumors, so he suddenly left Zhaoge without leaving a word, and his whereabouts are unknown.
But the eldest princess is already dead. Even if Prince Xunyang releases all the men from the Xie family in the past, nothing will be gained...
After a burst of almost crazy venting, the emperor fell heavily on the throne as if he was exhausted.
After a long while, he gently raised his hand to wipe away the water stains on his cheeks, and the corners of his lips raised a trace that seemed to be crying and smiling.
"However, even if she dies, as long as I want her to live, she will live forever! Live in the hearts of Tianchen's subjects, and live in the fear of Tianchen's enemies!
I am the emperor! She will always be the goddess on top of the layers of divine towers...the goddess who is immortal and blooms forever - Yuan Ai, what do you think is the way of heaven in this world? "
Yuan Ai looked at the young emperor's twisted handsome face in shock, "Slave... I don't know."
Fu Jingyan stared at the water stains clearly visible on his fingertips.
"I - am the way of heaven!"
