Quick Wear: Saving the Sickly and Paranoid Villain

Although the ministers repeatedly stated that the country could not be without a king for a day, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince still refused.

It was not appropriate to stay in another palace like this for a long time, so under the order of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, everyone returned to the palace together.

Although the ministers imprisoned in prison had a day of rest, they still looked listless and pale.

In this rebellion, a number of court officials and their families died, and a large number of guards, palace maids, and eunuchs also died. Many concubines in the harem also died.

It is worth mentioning that among the four concubines, Shufei was imprisoned as the mother of a guilty minister. Although the other three concubines were greatly frightened, fortunately their lives were not in danger.

Concubine De knew her son's plan. After Lu Yuhuai appeared, she immediately realized that they had fallen into a trap. The prince was the one who hid the deepest. It was just like this: while the snipe and the clam quarrel, the fisherman benefits.

Defei was shocked, angry and afraid about the third prince's escape. She didn't expect that he would run away like this without thinking about her safety at all. At the same time, she was deeply afraid of her future. After all, no one who had climbed to this position through untold hardships would be willing to give up everything they had.

She had a secret hope in her heart that the Third Prince would suddenly appear in front of everyone as a victor.

The anxious Concubine De would not know that the Third Prince, who had just escaped from the other palace, was killed by a single sword by a soldier who had been lying in ambush there. The soldier had a flamboyant look on his face but remained calm, as he was full of ambition to achieve success.

From then on, there was no longer any such person as the Third Prince in the Great Xia Kingdom.

In the imperial palace, all the ministers knelt on the ground in the court, and they pleaded with the prince to ascend the throne in this manner. The deputy prime minister knelt in the front, and it seemed as if he was the leader of all the ministers.

Some of those who were kneeling on the ground were naturally unwilling, but facing the powerful and almost unanimous prince, they had no choice but to obey.

Didn’t you see that those who resisted in the other palace were beheaded on the spot?

The court officials who had been imprisoned were kneeling. Unlike others, most of them were trembling with fear. They secretly begged His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to ascend the throne as soon as possible.

However, there was no sign of the prince in the court. A group of people knelt for a long time. No one knew how long they would kneel. All they knew was that every kneeling person looked extremely sincere.

Inside Qinyan Palace, there were only two people in the empty bedroom. One was leaning on a rocking chair and reading a book, while the other was sitting at the desk and occasionally glancing at the person in the rocking chair.

Xu Meir put down the book in her hand and looked at Lu Yuhuai helplessly: "Don't you have anything else to do?"

Lu Yuhuai was a little dissatisfied: "It's only been a short time, are you tired of me?"

Xu Meier: ...

Such a familiar sentence.

"No," Xu Meir said, "Logically speaking, you should be very busy at this time, why do you seem to have nothing to do these two days?"

Lu Yuhuai approached Xu Meir and put his arm around her waist: "That's because I have arranged everything."

He paused, then asked, "Mei'er, are you willing to be my queen?"

His bright eyes were staring at her, and if you looked closely, you could detect a hint of nervousness and anticipation in them.

Xu Meier raised her eyebrows: "Isn't this the condition we agreed on at the beginning?"

Lu Yuhuai was silent, his eyes dimmed a little, and after a while he raised his eyes and looked at her: "What I mean is, if there are no conditions, are you willing to be my queen and marry me?"

"Hmm..." Seeing the person in front of her getting nervous, she slowly said, "Yes."

He hugged her tightly, his excitement was beyond words, his soft lips gently pressed against the corner of her mouth, and he said, "I am very happy."

This went on for a while, and finally, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had to ascend the throne at the entreaties of all the ministers. To show respect for the late emperor, even the coronation ceremony was simplified.

Everyone in the world would praise His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for being filial.

After ascending the throne, it is inevitable that people will talk about the stay or departure of the concubines of the previous emperor. According to the ancestral system, concubines without children or who are not favored can choose to stay or leave; those who already have children will be named concubines dowagers and can stay in the palace or follow their children to their fiefdoms.

Concubines like Shufei who made mistakes should have been executed by slow slicing, but the new emperor was kind and ordered them to be buried with the late emperor. Unexpectedly, Shufei died by hitting the wall, and her blood was spilled on the spot.

The eighth prince in prison was horrified. He wrote a confession in blood, feeling ashamed of himself for his crimes against the late emperor and his concubine, and he swallowed a broken bowl and died.

A day later, Zhou, the daughter of the Minister of Revenue, hanged herself in her mansion upon hearing the news.

There was a tense and uneasy atmosphere inside and outside the palace.

The new regime had just been established, and people's hearts were inevitably unsettled. Fortunately, after the new emperor came to power, he knew how to appoint people to the right positions, improved domestic affairs, and used both kindness and severity. The situation soon stabilized, and the new emperor became almost more powerful than when the previous emperor was in power.

The only shortcoming of the new emperor was probably that he had no concubines in the harem. When the new emperor first ascended the throne, a minister proposed a beauty contest, but the new emperor refused on the grounds that all the treacherous ministers had not been eliminated.

This was just what happened on the surface. Behind the scenes, many ministers were secretly planning to send their daughters to the palace, but they had no means to do so.

Now, the matter of the selection was brought up again, and the Queen Mother mentioned her niece to the new emperor many times.

These things soon spread throughout the harem, and everyone knew that the new emperor was about to choose a concubine.