"This is your plan. I'm just a pawn. You want to use me to eliminate the prince. Your weakness is all pretended to protect yourself. I didn't expect you to be so ruthless. Even your compatriots Brothers are framed."
She burst out laughing: "Since ancient times, the battle for the throne has been extremely cruel, with brothers killing each other, fathers and sons killing each other, and monarchs and ministers fighting. I, Chu Mengni, am nothing."
"Shut up, it's a capital crime." He covered her mouth with his big palm.
"You're going to die anyway, why don't you let me tell you the truth?" She shook off his hand.
"This king will not let you die, do you hear me?"
As soon as he said this, he was shocked.
In the past few days of getting along with her, her weight in his heart gradually increased without realizing it.
He could let her do whatever she wanted, and he could let her ignore the imperial power, but he could never tolerate her falling into the arms of others.
"Huh, is that because I haven't completed my mission yet?"
"Chu Mengni!" he shouted angrily, her words arousing the anger in his heart.
"Why, I told you something that was on your mind, and you became angry?" She was unafraid of his anger and looked at him bravely with her beautiful eyes.
"You don't need to be too smart to be a woman. As smart as you are, don't you even know what to say and what not to say?"
"Women are sometimes very unintelligent and insist on telling the truth."
He couldn't help but soften his tone, looked at her and said, "Don't say such things again in the future, otherwise I won't be able to protect you, and the whole government will be finished with you."
"Your Majesty, I have something to ask you."
"Just ask."
"do you like me?"
"Gah!" He almost flashed his tongue. Did he hear it correctly? He asked so directly.
She looked at him quietly, as if waiting for his answer.
She didn't say anything about his love for her, but she knew it very well in her heart.
Sometimes he might be a little overbearing, but overall he treated her well.
Is his tolerance for her pure love, or does it have another purpose?
"Why do you ask this suddenly?" He did not answer the question directly.
"Okay, I know the answer."
Her voice was cold and her eyes frightened him.
"What do you want from me?" he yelled.
He liked her, there was no doubt about it, but there was no need to say sweet words. His damn male pride prevented him from saying those three words.
There has never been a woman who made him so patient.
"Haha, I understand." She laughed to herself.
"What do you understand?" He glanced at her coldly.
"You will give me to the prince." Her voice was stiff and every word was authentic.
"I don't know how to do that."
Yes, it is undeniable that he once had such thoughts.
But now he finds that he can't do it. He can't give his woman to others. He already regards her as his woman.
The prince can think of another way.
The prince is kind-hearted by nature, to put it bluntly, he is cowardly and does not think about danger in times of peace. The queen mother is valued by her son, and her talented mother respects the world. Her family is only a small number of people. Princes from all walks of life have long been eyeing the position of crown prince.
Ouyang Shaogong was extremely intelligent and sharp since he was a child, and his mother was the emperor's favorite concubine Yin Shu, so he was killed.
That snowy night, it was his mother-in-law who sacrificed her life to block the assassin's sword for him, so that he survived.
From that year on, he became seriously ill and the emperor also lost hope in him and never mentioned the idea of changing him to the crown prince.
