mtl008 Chapter 289: The Mystery Revealed (1)
Chapter 289: The Mystery Revealed (1)
The people were Shen Yu and Lu Yingxing, and walking in front of them were Mu Hao and Prince De.
"I say, this is not the first time you do this, why are you so excited?" Mu Hao looked at him with contempt, as if he was just an ordinary person, not the king of a country.
"What do you know! Can it be the same this time?" The emperor glanced at him, as if he didn't want to argue with him, and turned to Shen Yu and said, "Girl, you just called us sick, right? You are so brave!"
"This is your niece, my child!" Prince De reminded unhappily.
"Tsk! They're not your biological children, why do you treasure them like that?" the emperor made a precise remark.
"It's enough that she is Yixia's biological daughter," Prince De smiled unconsciously. He was in a very good mood tonight, especially after learning that his sweetheart had also been attracted to him. His sweetness could be felt even from three meters away.
The emperor remained silent after hearing this. He was responsible for this matter...so none of the three spoke.
After Lu Ying entered the palace, he always kept himself half a step in front of Shen Yu. This was a posture of defense and protection. He and the emperor had always been tacitly hypocritical in their interactions. When they met for the first time after the showdown, he was always in a state of high alert.
Shen Yu patted his arm and told him to relax. She walked forward and recalled the few times she had met the emperor before. She then looked at how they interacted like old friends. She finally understood who the second prince looked like. It turned out that he was not an outlier in the royal family, but his acting skills were not as good as his father's!
She re-examined the handsome uncle in front of her. He had a natural demeanor and was very relaxed and at ease. If they didn't look the same, she would have suspected that the emperor had been replaced.
"Have you seen enough?" The emperor stared at her and asked in a deep voice.
"Yu'er, come here, this is your uncle!" Prince De completely ignored someone and reached out to pull Shen Yu.
Lu Yingxing simply held the person in his arms. After being apart for a few days, he found that this was the only position that made him feel at ease.
"Hehe..." Mu Hao poured himself a cup of tea without any hesitation and laughed softly, "Your Majesty, he's afraid that you guys will snatch his wife away. You are a worthy emperor...tsk tsk tsk tsk."
The emperor looked up and saw that Lu Yingxing showed no fear at all. Instead, he circled Shen Yu and took a half step back. His eyes were full of vigilance. He glared at his good brother. He knew that he had brought them in today to confess, so he did not intend to hide anything. He said disdainfully, "Ha! He really should have treasured his wife. Without Shen Yu, he might have died long ago."
Lu Yingxing raised his eyebrows. He did not doubt the result. After all, judging from the killer's confession on the wedding night, their original plan was to massacre everyone in the palace, but they suddenly changed their plan to target the bride before the action... Thinking of this, he increased the strength of his arms.
He himself didn't feel anything, but Shen Yu's waist was almost broken by him... She had no choice but to reach out and cover his arm around her waist, but this posture seemed a little too intimate to others.
"Tsk! Let me go, how can you behave like this!" Prince De glared at Lu Yingxing unhappily. He did not blame Shen Yu, after all, it was that boy who was shameless!
Shen Yu blinked curiously, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind. He asked, "So, your original plan was to kill the merchant girl who was granted marriage on the wedding night? The method was to poison the wedding wine, and then put the blame on my Ah Xing? Then incite the poor merchant father to seek justice for his daughter, and then trigger a petition and riot by the people, and then pretend that you had to kill Ah Xing to pay the price, and the main purpose was to comply with public opinion?"
The three people opposite, “…………” They couldn’t be said to be exactly the same, but they were almost word for word.
"Hey! Not bad, that's about right..." As the initiator of the plan, Prince De felt a little embarrassed when he saw the reproachful look from his newly acquired daughter, so he immediately explained, "If he can escape by himself, or fake his death and get away, we will definitely let him go. After all, the real purpose is not to kill him, but to kill Prince Zhuo."
"What if someone breaks into the prison?" Shen Yu asked again.
"The prison has been set up. As long as someone comes to rescue him, he can definitely leave," it was Mu Hao who answered this time.
That's right! Shen Yu suddenly realized!
So, in fact, Lu Yingxing in the original book didn't have to die? But didn't the housekeeper Lu who broke into the prison die? And in the book, Prince Zhuo was also willing to be beheaded, so... was it because someone threatened him with his father?
Thinking of this, Shen Yu turned his gaze to the emperor again.
Emperor, "...Look, why are you looking at me?"
Why did he suddenly feel guilty when she looked at him? At the beginning, those people in the court suddenly proposed to change the candidate for marriage to her. At that time, it was really difficult to back down... But if he didn't agree, this girl would probably have met with an accident. If he couldn't get her, he would destroy her. This has always been the way of those parasites in the previous dynasty!
Thinking of this, the emperor was justified again, "I didn't harm you, I even saved your life. If I hadn't agreed to the marriage, you would have died long ago!"
"So, this is the reason why you want to kill my husband? If Ah Xing really surrenders himself, will you threaten him with your father's life?" This is the answer that Shen Yu wants to know most.
"I can guarantee that this won't happen, because we really didn't know that the old Prince Zhuo had been hidden in that place by our mother. It was only after the people in the palace asked the eldest prince to investigate secretly that we discovered the clues, and then we deliberately revealed the clues to him..."
Seeing Shen Yu still hesitating, Prince De immediately added, "If we had known that the old Prince Zhuo was still alive, we would not have taken over your Ah Xing's troubles."
Although Shen Yu was confused after hearing this, it now seems that their plan in the original book was successful?
She already knew that the merchant in the book was Chen Yuyou, who was accidentally injured by Xue Zhenzhen at the state banquet, and the poor bride who died on the wedding night was actually Chen Leyi... Given how much her father doted on his daughter, if his only daughter, who he had raised in the palm of his hand, was killed, he would definitely spend all his family fortune to seek revenge.
What she is curious about now is whether Lu Yingxing in the book is dead or not?
She was wearing a novel with a heroine as the main character, and the content only revolved around the story of the original body Xu Yaying ascending to the throne. The plot revealed in the book was just the tip of the iceberg of this world. The question was, what was the purpose of these people doing this?
"Why... do you have to kill my Ah Xing? Is this related to the royal bloodline of King Zhuo?" Shen Yu held his breath and asked directly to make his own judgment.
Lu Yingxing was stunned at the moment, looking at the woman who was much shorter than him and protected him behind her. An indescribable warmth surged in his heart. The "my Ah Xing" she kept emphasizing was a reminder to the others. She was betting that the King of De valued her, and that he would show mercy to her because of her.
Behind him, she transformed herself into the most flexible shield, providing him with the last line of defense.
In this situation, Lu Yingxing's heart was not only filled with ripples, but also shocked. He also understood that this feeling was like a thousand pounds, weighing heavily on his heart, making him feel warm and guilty. In fact, he complained in his heart that his wife rarely said sweet words, but any confession seemed pale and powerless in front of these actions...
"May I ask you all, if it is related to blood, will Yu'er marrying me... be implicated?"