Yuan Qirui raised his eyebrows and said hurriedly: "Invite people in."
He waved his hand to ask the guards to leave, and soon the housekeeper led a man into the room. The man was wearing a black cloak, covering his head and looking slightly mysterious.
After the housekeeper brought the person there, he closed the door and left.
Yuan Qirui rolled up his sleeves and bowed to the man with a respectful attitude: "Auntie came here late at night, but what's the important matter?"
The man put down the hood of his cloak, revealing the face of the eldest princess.
She glanced at Yuan Qirui and seemed to be very satisfied with his attitude, and then said: "You also know that I am being banned. I risked my life to come to see you. Naturally, I have something important to do."
Yuan Qirui stretched out his hand to invite the eldest princess to sit down, and then poured her a cup of tea: "My nephew is all ears."
The eldest princess picked up the tea he poured and said in a calm voice: "What do you think of His Majesty's treatment of you?"
Yuan Qirui couldn't figure out the purpose of the eldest princess, and he didn't dare to speak nonsense, so he cupped his hands in the direction of the palace and said, "My father treats his children very well."
"Ha~"
The eldest princess sneered: "I treat you very well, but I still don't let Prince Jing go to the fiefdom. This makes you, the prince, restless and frightened day and night. Why is this?"
Yuan Qirui felt the pain in his heart. He frowned and said, "I guess my father has his own reasons for this."
The eldest princess took a sip of tea and then put the cup on the table: "You don't have to pretend in front of me. I came here today to tell you something very important, which is related to your position as Crown Prince.
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Yuan Qirui's expression calmed down and he looked at the eldest princess with confusion: "Aunt, is there anything wrong with my position as crown prince? Does it mean that my father wants to depose me and replace me with a king?"
The eldest princess sneered: "Your Majesty wants to depose you, but the person he wants to appoint as the crown prince is not King Jing."
Yuan Qirui was startled and asked with some confusion: "Not King Jing? Who is that? Does the father want other sons?"
"nature."
The eldest princess looked at him and said word by word: "Have you never had any doubts all along? His Majesty made you the crown prince but doted on the king so much that the Han family and the Yan family were hostile to each other. But this was actually what your majesty wanted.
It is just a means to eradicate the Han and Yan families.
Neither you nor King Jing will ever ascend to that supreme position, because His Majesty’s preferred candidate for crown prince is not you at all, but the illegitimate son who has been hidden by him for seventeen years."
Yuan Qirui was shocked and in disbelief: "My father has an illegitimate son? Who is he?"
The eldest princess raised her eyebrows: "You might as well think about who is your Majesty's favorite kid from aristocratic families in the capital over the years?"
Yuan Qirui thought of someone almost without thinking. He looked at the eldest princess with a shocked expression: "Yan Jingxuan? How is this possible?"
"How is it impossible?"
The eldest princess said with a cold face: "Otherwise, why do you think I was punished by His Majesty to shut up and think about my mistakes? Was it because I didn't take good care of Jingxuan at the banquet and something happened to him?
In fact, at the banquet that day, His Majesty intended to use my hand to bring Yan Jingxuan and Huihe County Lord together, but something went wrong in the middle. If he was not the son he valued, how could he have planned so painstakingly? In the end, he was still blamed.
To me?"
Thinking of this matter, the eldest princess felt aggrieved. She acted according to His Majesty's instructions, but in the end she had to bear the consequences alone.
And because of this incident, Yan Jingxuan and her had become enemies. If Yan Jingxuan ascended the throne in the future, would she, the eldest princess, still have a good life?