The queen cried sadly, as if the emperor's distrust made her feel heartbroken.

"Stop pretending here." The Crown Princess looked down on her hypocritical appearance and angrily interrupted the Queen's crying.

The Queen covered half of her face with her sleeve, then slightly tilted her head and looked up at the Crown Princess.

Seeing her eyes staring at her almost spitting fire, the queen's face turned cold. She was also the Crown Princess, so she was really a disaster.

If she had known this would happen, she should have been ruthless and made sure the Crown Princess would never dare to disobey her again.

With hatred in her heart, the Queen couldn't help but reveal a little in the depths of her eyes, but she lowered her eyes in an instant so as not to let the Crown Princess see the change in her eyes.

"Xiao Yun, I am both your mother-in-law and your aunt. I admit that I treated you badly before, but haven't you been making trouble all this time? I have been very indulgent to you, what else do you want?"

"Do you have to kill me with your own hands to feel happy and satisfied? But if I die, what will happen to the Cheng'en Mansion?"

The Queen guessed that the Crown Princess hated her. Although she did not agree with it in her heart, she knew very well what the Crown Princess was angry about and what she should do to make the Crown Princess lose her composure.

"I do have such an idea, but it's just an idea." The Crown Princess bit her tongue and looked at the Queen with a puzzled expression. Seeing that the Queen's eyes were extremely cold, she knew what she was thinking.

The Crown Princess sneered: "Queen, I am not you, don't confuse me with you."

After she finished speaking, she threw her sleeves and knelt in front of the emperor, her voice choked with sobs and grievances: "Father, you know the grudges between the queen and me. But the queen is right, she is my elder, even if I hate her to the bone, I only take advantage of her verbally, and there is no way I can really do anything to her."

"I never thought she would doubt me so much, and even slander me in front of you. Woohoo, I'm not a child who knows nothing. How could I do such a crazy thing?"

She cried sadly and looked listless, as if she was devastated by the Queen's words.

The emperor stared at her meaningfully, and after a long while he sighed and said, "What the queen did was indeed extremely treasonous."

He used the word "treason" to describe the queen's behavior, and it was obvious that he was not going to let the queen off easily for spying on the emperor.

The queen knew him very well. When she heard him say that, she knew what he was thinking. Her heart immediately rose to her throat, but her face remained calm. She said in a clear and melodious voice, "Your Majesty, I know my crime, but I also care about you. I would never dare to do anything bad to you."

She turned her eyes and pointed at Princess An Qing, quickly diverting the emperor's attention: "I am devoted to Your Majesty. If Your Majesty wants to punish me, I am willing to accept the punishment. But Princess An Qing's matter has not been sorted out yet. Since Your Majesty is confused about this matter, why not clarify it first?"

Without waiting for the emperor to speak, she ordered Su Dequan to splash water on Princess An Qing to wake her up. Then she glanced at the Crown Princess and said meaningfully, "Why was the Eighth Elder poisoned? Whether Princess An Qing is the murderer, I think we should not listen to one-sided statements. We should bring them to court and interrogate them thoroughly to find out the truth of the matter."

The Crown Princess' eyelids twitched. Is the Queen determined to protect Princess An Qing?

She was furious and was about to refute the queen.

Chen Changli said, "If Your Majesty has any doubts about this matter, you might as well bring some people from the Eighth Prince's Mansion here."

Upon hearing this, the Crown Princess was delighted, but she said calmly, "Chen Changli's suggestion is good. Father, please send someone to bring the people from my eighth brother's house."

When the Queen heard the Crown Princess say the same thing, she wanted to stop her, but the Emperor did not give her a chance and directly ordered another trusted eunuch to do it.

Not long after the man left, Princess An Qing was awakened by Su Dequan.

When she woke up, she saw the emperor sitting next to her. Princess An Qing thought she was dreaming and couldn't adjust her mindset for a while.

When Princess An Qing thought about the fact that she had poisoned the Eighth Prince, she was so frightened that her whole body shuddered.

She quickly got up from the ground and said in an excited tone: "Brother, I want to report the Crown Princess. She teamed up with Chen Changli and his wife to poison the Eighth Brother. Fortunately, I got there in time, otherwise the Eighth Brother would have been killed by them."

Hearing her blaming him, the Crown Princess was not panicked at all. She just said in a quiet tone, "Old Eighth is not dead yet. He may wake up at dawn at the latest. You are too confident in yourself for telling such a lie that can be easily exposed."

Her tone was calm, but her words were full of sarcasm. Princess An Qing understood immediately. Her face fell and her voice rose unconsciously: "How could I lie? Old Eight is Concubine De's child. I wish I could treat him as my own child. How could I hurt him?"

"You can tell this to Old Eight after he wakes up." The Crown Princess emphasized.

The queen snorted coldly: "An Qing couldn't possibly do anything to Old Eight, Xiao Yun, I know you hate me, but I didn't expect you to do such a thing."

"The Crown Prince is Old Eight's elder brother, and you are Old Eight's sister-in-law. You two should have..."

"How dare you mention the Crown Prince in front of me?" The Crown Princess heard her accusing her, sneered and refuted her, "The Crown Prince went to the Western Territory to fight against the enemy, and those enemies are not Wu Lan's group of cowards. The Crown Prince may lose his life in the Western Territory."

When the Crown Princess said this, she looked at the Queen with red eyes, as if she was looking at her enemy, and her voice was full of anger and rage: "As his mother, you don't care about him, you don't plead for him, and you didn't even see him off when he left. How can you have the nerve to mention the Crown Prince?"

After saying these sarcastic words, the Crown Princess softened her tone and said in an inexplicable manner, "Queen, if something happens to the Crown Prince, you won't be able to stay in your position as the head of the harem for long, so I hope you can pray to the Buddha and ask him to protect the Crown Prince. Otherwise, if something happens to the Crown Prince, I will be happy to take you with me to be buried with him."

"You are really crazy." After hearing what the Crown Princess said, the Queen was so angry that her whole body trembled and her face unconsciously became ugly.

How dare she say that about herself? She even mentioned the word "burying alive with the dead". Does she care so much about the prince? Then why did she guard against Wan Shufang and her husband before?

The Queen immediately calmed down after thinking this, and looked at the Crown Princess coldly, saying with a smile: "If the Crown Prince is in trouble, it is because of you, an unlucky person, who brought the bad luck."

Before the Crown Princess could speak, the Queen continued, "You have not given birth to a child for the Crown Prince for so many years, and you are my niece. You used to obey me. Does the Crown Prince really care about you now?"

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