Forced to be a third person: I turned around and left the palace to marry a villain

"Father, the rebels this time are very aggressive, and things are not going to be easy."

Shangguan Xi walked forward and looked at the assassins who committed suicide with a thoughtful look in his eyes: "Do you remember what those assassins shouted before they committed suicide just now?"

His words reminded everyone of the assassins' dying cries.

"The ambition to cherish Jin will never change until death." Shangguan Xi repeated this sentence slowly, with a hint of chill in her voice: "The meaning behind this sentence is worth our deep consideration. Especially the word 'Jin', which happens to be the same as the prince's name."

Everyone's eyes then turned to Shangguan Jin, with different expressions, ranging from surprise, confusion, to anger.

When the Emperor of Beixi heard this, an elusive light flashed in his eyes, and no one knew what he was thinking. But judging from his tense expression, the situation was not optimistic.

"Looking closely at the injured people, it seems that none of them are close to the prince. Even the prince's entourage is safe and sound. On the contrary, those ministers who usually don't get along with the prince have more or less some scars. Isn't this strange?"

After successfully arousing everyone's suspicion of Shangguan Jin, Shangguan Xi raised more questions.

"Fourth brother, do you mean that I have the intention to usurp the throne?"

Shangguan Jin smiled coldly and expressed his guess. As soon as the words usurpation of the throne and rebellion came out, many people were shocked.

Everyone understands that once someone is convicted of treason, the worst punishment is beheading, and the worst is capital punishment.

"Isn't that so? Don't you know the truth, brother? Look at the tokens on these assassins. They are made of jade materials specially used in the Prince's Palace." Shangguan Xi bent down, took a token from the belt of an assassin and showed it to the Emperor of Beixi.

"Brother, as the crown prince, this position will be yours sooner or later after our father passes away. Why are you so impatient? You actually chose to launch a rebellion at the Imperial Concubine's birthday banquet. It's really disheartening."

Shangguan Xi stared at Shangguan Jin coldly, then turned her gaze to Jiang Chen, and finally landed on Jiang Xue:

"I really don't understand why my brother has become so impatient since Huai Chen came. Especially since you started planning a rebellion not long after this woman came to Beixi, could it be that you were influenced by the Young Master's Mansion?"

The topic soon shifted to Jiang Xue and her sister, and everyone's hostility towards them grew stronger.

"Yes, ever since this woman came to Huyin City, troubles have followed one after another. She must be the one instigating the prince. She is the scourge of the country and should be executed." An official behind Shangguan Xi pointed at Jiang Xue and scolded loudly.

Following his lead, more and more people began to denounce Jiang Xue and the Young Master's Mansion.

"Quiet." The Beixi Emperor, who had a headache due to the noisy voices, ordered.

The people behind Shangguan Xi gradually quieted down, but their hostility towards Jiang Xue and her sister was still as sharp as a knife.

"What do you think?" the emperor asked the brother and sister.

Jiang Xue replied calmly, "Your Majesty, you know better than us whether the Crown Prince is loyal or not. As the Fourth Prince said, the Crown Prince is already the heir apparent, and the future throne will naturally belong to him. Why would he take the risk of usurping the throne? Not only would the throne he obtained in this way be illegitimate, but he would also be branded as a regicide."

Then, she continued, "Your Majesty, the Crown Prince is the heir you chose, how could he not know right from wrong? I have only been in Huyin for a short time, how could the Crown Prince trust me so easily?

In addition, doesn't Your Majesty find everything that just happened a little strange? If these assassins were really sent by the Crown Prince, why did they shout out words that were unfavorable to the Crown Prince before they died? It seems that they are deliberately leading everyone to associate this matter with the Crown Prince. "

As she spoke, Jiang Xue walked over to the fallen assassins, checked their belts, and then smiled meaningfully.

"Fourth Prince, how did you find the badge you just mentioned?"

"Humph, it's in the interlayer of the belt." Shangguan Xi answered without thinking.

When the emperor heard this, his face changed suddenly.

Jiang Xue continued, "Your Majesty, isn't it unusual that the Fourth Prince knows the location of the waist badge so well? Who would know to add a layer to the belt?

How did the Fourth Prince know that the belts of these assassins he met for the first time had layers, and how did he quickly find the badges in the layers? "

These three questions left Shangguan Xi speechless and sweating profusely.

The emperor looked at Shangguan Xi with cold eyes and asked, "Old Four, how do you explain it?"

Shangguan Xi was unable to answer and could only look to Cao Ling for help.

But Cao Ling just looked at him coldly, then knelt before the emperor and revealed: "Your Majesty, these assassins were secretly raised by the Fourth Prince and Prince Xichen, with the purpose of framing the Crown Prince so that Your Majesty can depose the Crown Prince and pass the throne to him."

Shangguan Xi looked at Cao Ling in shock, not understanding why Cao Ling would betray him at this time.

"Cao Ling, do you know what you are doing?" Shangguan Xi threatened with gritted teeth, but such threats had no effect on Cao Ling.

It is thanks to the support of conservatives that Shangguan Xi has achieved his current status.

When he learned from Cao Zhiqing, who had just regained consciousness, about the persecution he had inflicted on her, the Cao family's support for him had disappeared.

You have to know that in the Cao family today, it is Cao Ling who holds the power. Even if Cao Yuan wants to support the fourth prince to ascend the throne, as long as Cao Ling does not agree, everything is just empty talk.

"Ling'er, do you understand what kind of occasion this is? Do you know what you are saying?" Cao Yuan pulled his son's sleeve, his voice sounding sharp because of the events of the past.

He simply couldn't believe that his son would openly expose the Fourth Prince's conspiracy to frame the Crown Prince at this moment. Wouldn't this push the Cao family into an abyss of no return?

Cao Ling ignored his father's panic. He shook off Cao Yuan's hand and looked firmly at the Emperor of Beixi:

"Your Majesty, what I said is true. The Fourth Prince had planned today's incident long ago. He even kidnapped the children of two noble clan leaders in an attempt to force them to submit, but was rescued in time by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Therefore, he hated the Crown Prince to the core and had been looking for an opportunity to replace him. Now, he learned that the Emperor was discussing the abdication edict, and he was even more anxious, fearing that once the Crown Prince succeeded to the throne, his ambition would be shattered.

That’s why he planned this assassination in an attempt to force the emperor to depose the prince.”

"Shut up, you evil creature." Cao Yuan was horrified and could not help but slap Cao Ling in the face.

The palm strike was so powerful that a bright red palm print immediately appeared on Cao Ling's face.

However, Cao Ling just glanced at his father coldly, and the chill in his eyes made Cao Yuan shudder.

He knew very well that his son was no longer the boy who was at the mercy of others.

"Your Majesty, the truth of what the Third Young Master Cao said has been revealed. Please make your judgment." Jiang Xue took the opportunity to step forward and respectfully asked the Emperor of Beixi for orders.