After Lin Yinan took Lu Zhiyao back to his residence, he entered the study alone. Lu Zhiyao stood outside the door, silently looking at the closed door, feeling a little confused.
If the emperor makes Lin Yixiang king at this time, Lin Yixiang will soon take Lu Zhiqing to move out of the palace and choose another palace. But Lin Yinan is still the prince. The emperor wants everyone to understand that Lin Yinan still has a chance to be with the prince.
On a higher level, is it still unknown whose hands the throne will fall to?
Lin Yinan didn't seem shocked when he heard the news. Maybe he had known it would be like this. After all, the emperor was the one who supported him behind the scenes, so it would be reasonable for him to succeed to the throne one day.
Lu Zhiyao always thought that Lin Yinan joined forces with the emperor for some benefit. But when it got dark and Lin Yinan appeared in front of her with a tired look, Lu Zhiyao couldn't help but froze. She was so exhausted.
It is rare to see him.
"Is there anything I can do to help?" Lu Zhiyao lightly opened his lips and asked in a low voice.
Lin Yinan glanced at Lu Zhiyao, shook his head slowly, met her eyes, and said, "I'm hungry, let's go eat."
Lu Zhiyao said nothing more and followed Lin Yinan out of the house. From time to time, he glanced sideways at his face, and Lu Zhiyao discovered that Lin Yinan was much better at keeping his emotions in check. Because he never left the house.
From that moment on, she never saw an expression on his face similar to the one she had just seen in the house, which made her think that everything was an illusion and that she was overthinking it.
After dinner, before the two of them could say much, they were interrupted by Lin Yixiang who came uninvited.
Lu Zhiyao observed Lin Yixiang's appearance carefully, smiled, and said to Lin Yinan, "I'll go back to the room and wait for you."
Lin Yinan's lips slightly raised as she watched Lu Zhiyao leave, then turned to look at Lin Yixiang and asked, "Why did you come to me?"
"You are living a leisurely life." Lin Yixiang also took his eyes away from Lu Zhiyao, looked at Lin Yinan and asked, "Do you know that my father decreed to make me king?"
"You know it, how could you not know it? Is this why you came here?"
Lin Yixiang couldn't stand the smile on Lin Yinan's face, frowned and asked him: "Does the emperor have no intention of giving you a title?"
"We have to ask him. We can't guess the emperor's thoughts casually." Lin Yinan didn't seem to care much about this matter, but this was just his attitude, but he didn't know that the prince and others were because of
How annoying is this matter?
"Are you sure this matter has nothing to do with you?"
Lin Yixiang didn't believe Lin Yinan's words. In fact, ever since he insisted on marrying Lu Zhiyao and the two got married, Lin Yixiang had always felt that something was fishy, but for a while he couldn't find anything suspicious about Lin Yinan. The Eight Emperors Mansion personnel
Although there are few, not everyone can sneak in casually and take a peek here. Lin Yixiang doesn't know when and how the experts around Lin Yinan were found.
.It seemed like overnight, there were a few more people around him, and it seemed like they were all there from the beginning.
"Being a king and a land, living a happy life, do you think I don't want to live such a life?" Lin Yinan looked at Lin Yixiang sternly and asked. "If you come here today to ask questions, I'm afraid you won't hear any useful news from me. You
Now that I am a prince, I have much more power than the little eighth prince like me. If possible, I would like to exchange with you, because the queen and the prince always think that I am an eyesore and always send people to inquire.
My thoughts."
How could Lin Yixiang not hear the sarcasm in Lin Yinan's words? He looked at Lin Yinan intently, and after a while, he slowly chuckled.
"You are getting more and more unpredictable." Lin Yixiang stood up and spoke softly, looking down at Lin Yinan and said: "Even if I don't ask more about this matter, the prince will find you sooner or later."
"Then thank you for your concern, brother. When the prince comes, I will think about how to deal with him."
Lin Yixiang couldn't get any useful information from Lin Yinan, and his attitude couldn't be seen from his face. When he walked out of the room, Lin Yixiang saw Lu Zhiyao in the yard. He turned to Lu Zhiyao who was leaning towards him.
Lin Yixiang smiled slightly and walked over.
The familiar smile on Lin Yixiang's face made Lu Zhiyao lower his eyes. Listening to Lin Yixiang's footsteps walking past him, Lu Zhiyao only spoke to Lin Yinan who was standing behind her after he walked away: "You seem to
It made him unhappy."
"Do you want me to make him happy before leaving?" Lin Yinan asked with a slight raised eyebrow.
"Then I will be the unhappy one." Lu Zhiyao looked back at him, "But you don't seem to be very happy now either."
Lu Zhiyao saw the hidden emotions in Lin Yinan's eyes, turned around and looked directly at him, and asked speculatively: "The seventh prince came to you to ask about the title of king?"
Lin Yinan did not answer or deny, and both went back to the room with Lu Zhiyao. Lin Yinan's neither happy nor angry expression made Lu Zhiyao stare at him for a long time.
"What are you thinking about?" Lin Yinan raised his eyes to look at Lu Zhiyao's probing eyes, put down the teacup in his hand and asked softly.
"I'm wondering whether the emperor likes your son or not. He won't make you the prince or king. The more I think about it, the more I feel..." Lu Zhiyao said, his voice gradually lowered.
.Some words are only suitable for thinking in the heart. If you say them out and are listened to by someone who cares about them, it will ruin things.
"What do you think?" Lin Yinan looked at Lu Zhiyao's hesitant expression with interest, wondering if she really saw something.
"Pretend I didn't say anything." Lu Zhiyao smiled flatteringly at Lin Yinan, not daring to tell him what he was thinking easily.
"But it doesn't matter, I don't blame you." Lin Yinan tempted Lu Zhiyao to express her thoughts, "Do you think the emperor is not very kind to my son?"
"Yes, that's what I mean." Lu Zhiyao was stunned for a moment and then nodded. He looked at Lin Yinan hesitantly and said, "I always feel that the emperor is using you as a target. He can contain the prince's faction, but he doesn't want to take the throne.
What I want to convey to you."
Lin Yinan suddenly smiled after listening to Lu Zhiyao's words. Her feeling and guess were correct. He could not get the throne of Xia Lai Kingdom. Even if he tried to take it, Lin Yunlong would not be able to give it to him. Because of his body,
Having the blood of a remnant of the previous dynasty was a big taboo for the emperor of this dynasty.
Lin Yinan's mother spent a lot of effort to enter the palace for this reason. Fortunately, the emperor was pretty good to them, mother and son, but in the end they still didn't get any good results.
Love the country, and also love beauties. This is not a mistake for the aloof emperor. Lin Yunlong's mistake was that he could protect that person in front of the civil and military ministers of the dynasty, but he could not save him in the hands of those beauties.
her life.
The past events are vivid in his mind, and to this day, Lin Yinan can still recall the words she said to him before she died that day.
She had spent her whole life in fear and regret. She had worked hard to live in the deep palace compound, and she had wanted to leave that frightening place day and night.
Before she died, she told him and Lin Yixiang that they should never seek the throne. As long as they lived their lives in an ordinary way, that would be the best. When Lin Yinan was young, he still lived in the palace. Then
When he asked her what the outside world was like, she said that outside, she could breathe much cleaner air than in the palace, meet more kind-hearted people than in the palace, and do things that he would not dare to do in the palace.
Whatever he does there, he can also meet a wife who treats him wholeheartedly no matter the reason.
The young Lin Yinan still didn't understand the meaning of her words, but he often heard her whisper that in Jiangnan, it was a happy thing to be able to grow old hand in hand with someone. Looking back now, Lin Yinan could still vaguely feel it,
At that time, how embarrassing the situation between their mother and son was. The Nangong family was too powerful, and Queen Nangong Liuxi also made things difficult for her because of her beauty. Most of the servants around her were bribed by the queen, so many times she
All she could do was sit in front of the window and whisper, or hold him and tell him stories that he still couldn't understand.
"The emperor intends to get rid of many ministers from the Ye family, the Jiang family, and the prince's faction." After Lin Yinan was silent for a while, he slowly opened his mouth and said to Lu Zhiyao: "The relationship between the emperor and me is just
It was just a deal. I was a pawn to help him contain the prince, and he gave me enough space to no longer let me live in that lifeless palace. My mother is the daughter of a remnant of the previous dynasty, so it is not my turn or...
Lin Yixiang is here to inherit the throne."
Lu Zhiyao looked at Lin Yinan quietly, listening to every word that came out of his mouth. She stared at him seriously, but from his face or in his eyes, she didn't see the slightest bit of complaint or complaint.
regret.
The feeling of distress arose spontaneously, and Lu Zhiyao knew very well what it felt like to be taken advantage of by a loved one.
She used to be Xia Yao, and she was held in the palm of the hand by so many people, who pampered her and spoiled her. So when the person she personally chose betrayed her and took advantage of her, she was almost torn apart physically and mentally by the pain.
Later, when she was Lu Zhiyao, she could clearly feel her uselessness to the entire Lu family. If she wanted the people around her to treat her better, she would have to work hard to prove that she was profitable to them.
This feeling made Lu Zhiyao helpless and heartbroken. In just a few months, she had become extremely tired of that kind of life. And think about Lin Yinan now, how did he survive alone for so many years?
He is too clear about his identity and status, and he knows what can be touched and what cannot be touched. After being coerced and lured by his biological father, and living within the rules for so long, is he really despairing, or is he helpless?
