When Wen Baicao heard the word "honest", his expression became complicated. "Businessmen pay attention to honesty when doing business, but too much honesty will lead to eternal damnation."

"Are you really a businessman?" Hearing his tone full of sadness, as if becoming a businessman was a helpless act and also a way to survive, Chen Changli couldn't help but feel confused.

Wen Baicao sighed helplessly: "Am I really not like a businessman?"

Hearing this question, Chen Changli locked his eyes with Wen Baicao, and said in a rare cold tone: "I would not have any doubts before, but when you mentioned the prince, I became more suspicious. If no one can explain it, I will conclude that your identity is different."

Wen Baicao touched his nose and said meaningfully: "Aren't you afraid that your guess is wrong? You should know that the Eighth Prince trusts me very much at the moment."

"So what?" Chen Changli looked calm, as if Wen Baicao had made a plan, and he could not only deal with it, but also make the Eighth Prince stand on his side.

His confidence made Wen Baicao hesitate. After a while, she said, "Maybe it's because of hatred. So when I see you go through so many things and still be safe and sound, I feel a little unbalanced."

"I want you to be in the same situation as me, and I want you to suffer the same pain as me, but you are not me, and the situation today is no better than it was back then. You can never become me."

"People often say that the past is like smoke. If you can completely forget it, your life will be much happier. I should have done the same, but the death of my entire family is like a nightmare. It falls into my eyes all the time and I can't forget it."

"Perhaps it's because the hatred in my heart is too strong that I can't treat you normally when I see you."

Wen Baicao recognized Chen Changli when he was in Zaoyang County, and his first thought at that time became as despicable and twisted as his own.

With this in mind, he deliberately revealed his whereabouts and asked the Eighth Prince to capture him. After that, he appeared in front of him and tested his bottom line with words.

However, after discussing this with him, Wen Baicao felt that her idea was wrong, because Chen Changli had never experienced the luxury of aristocratic families since he was a child.

He was nearly thirty years old before he realized that he might be born into a marquis's family, and by that time he already had many children and grandchildren.

The circumstances were different. Even if the sky fell, Chen Changli would not be as crazy as him. On the contrary, compared with himself, he had a way out, which was to give up all the glory and wealth and go to a remote village to be a peasant.

"Haha, I am obsessed. After all, your experience is different from mine. Even if you have experienced the same thing as me, you still have a way out."

Wen Baicao emphasized the last few words, then looked at Chen Changli with emotion.

This somewhat familiar face reminded him of someone and made him start to plot something.

"Who do you hate? The old emperor or the queen?" Chen Changli was stared at by Wen Baicao and had a vague guess in his mind.

"My family experienced the Prince Mingde case." Wen Baicao was silent for a while and then spoke.

Although Chen Changli had some guesses in his mind, he didn't think about it this way.

Now, listening to Wen Baicao's talk, his heart couldn't help but beat wildly, but his face was tense so as not to let Wen Baicao notice anything unusual.

"There are many people like you in this world. You have united to seek revenge, but the emperor is dead, so your revenge is..."

Wen Baicao interrupted Chen Changli with a cold voice: "The emperor is dead, but the queen is still alive, and the old emperor's children are also alive and well."

"They are still occupying cities and trying to seize the world and become emperor."

"They are so confident and dare to make such plans. Isn't it because they think they are of royal blood? But the old emperor's bloodline is not pure, and neither are they. How dare they have such thoughts? It's because the old emperor and his wife indulged them."

"Haha, what are the old emperor and his wife planning? I've been watching them for so many years, how could I not know?"

Having said this quietly, Wen Baicao stared at Chen Changli with strange eyes, as if he was looking at a prey, wishing he could swallow him into his stomach.

Chen Changli didn't expect his eyes to change so quickly. His emotions fluctuated a little, but his face remained expressionless.

He just wanted to listen to the story, and then, based on the content of the story, figure out why Wen Baicao was plotting against him.

Wen Baicao seemed to sense his thoughts, and her eyes darkened, but she said, "The old emperor and queen's sons are indeed dead, and they gave up on their own initiative in order to consolidate the imperial power and eliminate the remnants of Prince Mingde."

"But they have a grandson who is only one year older than the prince, and the prince was born because they wanted to pave the way for this child."

When Chen Changli heard that the emperor and empress had a grandson, his face turned green.

"How did you know?" Jiang Xuan and Wan Shufang, who were hiding in the room and eavesdropping on their conversation, asked.

They were also struck by these words and no longer cared about anything else. They hurried out of the room and stared at Wen Baicao in surprise and suspicion.

Wen Baicao was quite proud: "I have made a lot of preparations for revenge. Although the emperor and his wife are powerless and I can't take revenge, I can hide in the dark and keep an eye on them, and naturally find out everything about them."

Wen Baicao said this in a smug tone. After thinking for a moment, he said, "This couple wants to live forever, so they don't plan to pass the throne to their grandson."

"Who would have thought that instead of getting the elixir of immortality, the old emperor died. The queen who faked her death was furious but could do nothing about it. She could only withdraw her power and prepare to support her grandson to take the throne."

"I noticed this, so I plundered the medicinal materials on a large scale, trying to take advantage of the internal fighting among the princes to make the queen's efforts come to nothing."

Chen Changli said without hesitation: "You are targeting me, probably because you want the Queen to focus on the Phoenix Gu in my body."

Hearing this, Wan Shufang suppressed her shock and stared at Wen Baicao with a vigilant look, "The Queen and the old emperor have made so many preparations, and Concubine De, who has a grudge against them, doesn't know about this. How do you know everything about it?"

Jiang Xuan's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. "Wan Shufang is right. Concubine De is connected to Princess An Qing. The Xintian Society and Tu Yuanzhou are behind them."

"Even Concubine De didn't know about this. How could you, a person implicated in the case of Crown Prince Mingde, know it so clearly?"

"You wouldn't be investigating what they did in the name of loyalty to the Emperor and Empress, would you?"

The more he talked about it, the more he felt that this possibility was very high. Jiang Xuan looked at Wen Baicao with a subtle look.

Wan Shufang was silent for a moment and then said, "You are a calculating person, and your words and actions are a bit subtle. Chen Changli and I dare not trust you."

"I don't need you to believe me." Wen Baicao said bluntly.

Wan Shufang was stunned by his words, and felt her head full of black lines, "Since you don't need our trust, then why did you say such a thing? We knew nothing, and then we were plotted against by the Queen, so we should satisfy you."

Jiang Xuan agreed: "You said such terrible words, but you are unwilling to admit your thoughts, Wen Baicao, you don't just want to use us, don't want us to know too much of the truth and ruin your calculations, do you?"

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