Abandoned by the best children? I just take out the space

Listening to Xu Qinglu's words, a trace of astonishment flashed across Chen Changli's eyes, and his gaze unconsciously fell on her.

Xu Qinglu felt his gaze and looked at him calmly. She said in a suddenly cold tone, "The queen is dead, but the emperor is still alive. As the leader of the White Lotus Sect, I can answer some of his questions for him."

"As my nephew, you have already been excluded by him. If you stay here and are seen by him, I wonder what he will think of you?"

"Instead of letting him have wild thoughts, you might as well leave early. If he can't see you, even if he has doubts about you, he won't act rashly. Otherwise, he won't be able to sit on the throne for long."

When Xu Qinglu said this, a hint of sarcasm appeared on her face. Obviously, the emperor had not arrived yet, but she had guessed how the emperor would react.

Vaguely aware of her thoughts, Chen Changli said no more to her and just wanted to persuade the Crown Princess to leave with him.

The Crown Princess seemed to have guessed what he was going to say, and smiled at him and said, "Princess An Qing and I still have some old grievances that have not been sorted out. Your Majesty has come at the right time, and I would like to take this opportunity to let Your Majesty make the decision for me."

"I didn't expect you to be even more stupid than the Queen." Princess An Qing mocked the Crown Princess without any hesitation.

"Who is stupid? Everything is clear. It's not that others are really stupid just because you say so." The Crown Princess' tone was calm, but it was too calm that made Princess An Qing feel insulted.

She flew into a rage: "Yun, my brother has deep feelings for my sister-in-law. If he knew that you killed her, he would not let you off easily. As the prince's aunt, I can only plead for you. You are being sarcastic to me, which is too much..."

The Crown Princess was impatient to listen to her and interrupted her coldly, "How can you, a traitorous princess, be qualified to be the aunt of me and the Crown Prince?"

Princess An Qing was choked by these words. She suppressed her anger and looked at the Crown Princess with a half-smile, as if she could see through her thoughts. Then she sighed and said, "As expected of the Queen's niece, she is so cold-hearted that it's scary."

The Crown Princess glanced at her but said nothing more. She just urged Chen Changli to leave quickly. "Chen Changli, leave now! Don't worry about me."

Seeing her say this, and guessing that she and Xu Qinglu had similar thoughts, Chen Changli suppressed his worries and left.

Not long after he left, the emperor arrived. For a moment the whole audience was tense and silent.

The emperor took in everything in the courtyard and asked slowly, "Where's the queen?"

"Brother Royal came here because he received the news that the Queen was dead?" Princess An Qing couldn't help but sneered when she heard the Emperor's implied question.

The emperor was not angry at all. He walked calmly to Princess An Qing and slapped her hard in the face.

The sudden sound of crisp applause broke the silence of the whole audience. Xu Qinglu immediately looked up at the emperor and found that he was older than she thought, and the prince looked nothing like him. The inexplicable emotion in her heart couldn't help but improve.

She asked without hesitation: "Is the Queen important to you? Then what is the Crown Prince? He is just a pawn in the hands of you and the Queen, or a discarded piece you want to use to threaten the royal family."

"You are...Xu Qinglu!" Upon hearing this, the emperor fixed his eyes on Xu Qinglu with extreme sharpness and confirmed her identity in an instant.

Thinking that Xu Qinglu was the leader of the White Lotus Sect and should have been imprisoned in the Dali Temple, but now appeared in the palace, the emperor immediately laughed in anger: "Is my palace a market? You traitors are allowed to enter the palace as if no one is there. Come on, arrest these traitors for me!"

The guards who came with the emperor took immediate action, but Xu Qinglu's men fought back and soon engaged them in combat.

Listening to the loud and fierce shouts of fighting and killing, Princess An Qing, who had been slapped, exhaled a foul breath, stared at the emperor with sinister eyes, and said angrily: "Why is my brother angry? Could it be that you already knew that the Queen brought me here tonight?"

"The Queen humiliated me and was planning to harm me. Did you guess that? Then why did you indulge her? Don't you want the Phoenix Gu? I can help you, why do you treat me like this?"

At the end of her words, Princess An Qing seemed unable to suppress her anger, and her voice suddenly became sharp and full of questioning.

The emperor just thought her questioning was ridiculous.

Why did the queen humiliate her? Didn't she know what was going on? How could she have the nerve to express her dissatisfaction in front of him!

The emperor's face was gloomy, and he looked at Princess An Qing as if he was looking at a dead person.

"The Dali Temple can't hold you, and the Imperial Palace can't trap you either. It seems that you and Tu Yuanzhou have not only made sufficient preparations in the capital, but also infiltrated this thousand-year-old capital. In this case, I can only treat you as a traitor who collaborates with the enemy and betrays the country and execute you, lest you still think that I am indecisive."

Princess An Qing was horrified, but she still had a sense of hope in her heart.

She was unwilling to bow to the emperor and still held her neck high in pride, wanting to continue mocking the emperor.

However, the emperor was really angry this time and did not give Princess An Qing any chance to explain herself. He just gave her a look and ordered her to be captured.

That person also knew the emperor's intentions and guessed that the emperor's patience with Princess An Qing had reached its limit. The moment he grabbed Princess An Qing, he blocked her mouth with a cloth, then forcefully suppressed her struggle and took her away.

Noting Princess An Qing's fate, the Crown Princess was shocked.

She stared at the emperor with her pupils wide open in disbelief, but all she saw was tangible anger on the emperor's face.

At this point the Crown Princess was extremely certain that the Emperor cared about the Empress and was willing to be angry about her death.

Glancing at the Queen's body, the Crown Princess felt relieved and was not afraid of the Emperor's anger at all.

On the contrary, she was particularly glad that she had dealt the final blow, otherwise, when the emperor arrived, the queen might have had a chance of survival.

"Father, the Queen was killed by my daughter-in-law and Princess An Qing. If you want to avenge the Queen, arrest my daughter-in-law and put her on trial!"

The Crown Princess secretly let out a breath, suppressed the relief in her heart, took a step closer to the Emperor, and saluted him with her hands together.

She was polite and gentle, as if the words coming out of her mouth were just ordinary words and did not change her emotions at all.

The emperor frowned upon hearing this, his expression showing disgust, but after taking a breath he regained his usual calmness.

"Crown Princess, please don't lie to me."

"The Queen is the Prince's biological mother, and you are the Prince's wife. If you kill the Queen, how can you face the Prince?"

Upon hearing this, the Crown Princess's alarm bells immediately rang and she had a bad feeling.

She quickly raised her eyes to glance at the emperor, and her heart began to throb when she saw his cold eyes and expression.

What does the emperor mean by this? Does he want to protect himself?