Hunting system, and I ended up becoming the empress!

"After seeing the result of your plan, you have given up now, right?" The Emperor System gloated, "A full one-third of the court officials openly support her, and the neutral ones can defect at any time."

Zhao Yunqi was helpless, "I don't care. I won't live long. The huge waves after my death have nothing to do with me. But you, are you not angry?"

The Emperor System snorted coldly, "It will never be her turn to be the emperor. I am willing to watch her end up with nothing in the future."

Zhao Yunqi paused, "Why do you think she wants to be emperor?"

The Emperor System was stunned for a moment, "Intuition!"

Zhao Yunqi: "...We care too much about her and Xiao Yan behind her!"

The Emperor System was silent for a while, then said angrily, "Shouldn't we care? She's coming here aggressively, standing in front of us, reminding us of what we did back then."

"I'm sure that even if she doesn't want the throne, she will still be thinking about the power above everyone else."

Both sides were quiet for a while.

Zhao Yunqi said calmly, "She was asked to be the deputy examiner for the Spring Examination, which caught those people off guard. I hope that this Spring Examination can go smoothly."

The Emperor System said, "We haven't found out who is behind this yet? But putting her in is indeed a clever move. If she succeeds, she will pass the Spring Examination safely, but if she fails, she will suffer."

Zhao Yunqi shook his head. "I have not determined the direction. I suspect that he is from another country. I still hope that the spring exam will go smoothly. It is a three-year exam, and countless students are eagerly waiting for it. We cannot delay it."

The two sides ended their talks at this point.

Xiao Zhi moved and leaned forward. Did they also find that someone was planning to cause trouble?

Are they the same group? Or are they different people?

It’s really troublesome. All kinds of monsters and demons come out during the Spring Examination.

"Your Highness, there's someone outside who wants to see you." Hongmei suddenly came in and handed her a visiting card. "It was stuffed directly under the crack of the back door."

Coming to see you late at night? And using the backdoor?

When he opened it and saw that there was no signature, Xiao Zhixing thought to himself, "Let him in."

She moved to the large study and waited.

After a while, Hongmei came in with a man with a black cloak covering his face. When Hongmei left, the man lifted the cloak.

"Bai Fengmei greets His Majesty!"

Xiao Zhixing was not surprised. "Master Bai, please don't be polite. Please take a seat. What brings you here so late at night?"

Bai Fengmei sat down steadily and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, don't you want to know why today happened?"

Xiao Zhixing leaned back and asked, "Will Lord Bai tell me?"

Bai Fengmei nodded, "Lord Su Zhen and I have the same mind."

"Okay! Then may I ask whose orders are you following?" It took so long for him to show up. Has he observed enough?

"Following the order of the late emperor, I am guarding the legacy!" Bai Fengmei bowed to the sky.

"Just guarding?" He had already pushed himself to the forefront of the waves and taken risks, but he was guarding air. And it was not Xiao Yan's order, but Xiao Yuzhen's. It was weird no matter how you looked at it.

Bai Fengmei paused, her eyes clear, "The late emperor left a will that if the descendants of the Xiao family are capable of great tasks, we must help them with all our strength. If they only wish to live a life of wealth and honor, then we will protect them."

"Then I have to thank you for your appreciation?" Xiao Zhixing said expressionlessly, "Master Bai, do you think I will believe this? You didn't protect her back then, so isn't it ridiculous to say this now?"

She had never held any hope for these people, so she had never thought about connecting with these old ministers. She also had no intention of actively looking for who the people were in the Ministry of Culture.

At that time, the court was almost entirely filled with former ministers of the Yin Dynasty, but they had no choice but to watch Xiao Yan being forced to flee to the southwest, and even announced her death to the outside world.

They had long since failed Xiao Yuzhen's last wishes and even betrayed Xiao Yuzhen and Xiao Yan.

Bai Fengmei was silent, and suddenly his eyes turned red. He lifted his robe and knelt heavily, "Your Majesty, I am ashamed of the late emperor! I am ashamed of the princess!"

Xiao Zhixing sneered, "You don't even try to defend yourself?"

"The mistake has been made, there is no way to refute it!" Bai Fengmei kowtowed, "I came here today to accompany Your Majesty with the rest of my life, even if it means my death."

Xiao Zhixing was silent for a while before he said, "Next time you have something to discuss with me in advance."

Bai Fengmei happily agreed.

Xiao Zhixing added: "I will send people to your two daughters to protect their family."

She also wants to monitor him and hold him hostage. She won't trust or accept him easily, but she won't push him away immediately either.

If he really came to her, everything would be easy. If he had bad intentions, she could throw him out and use him as a pawn at any time.

Bai Fengmei has only one wife, who gave birth to two daughters. The two daughters have married and have children. According to investigations, he is sincere to his family and is a rare true gentleman who is devoted to his wife for the rest of his life.

Bai Fengmei naturally understood what she meant, "Yes, thank you, Your Majesty."

"Okay, get up."

Xiao Zhixing asked: "What happened back then?"

There was no record in Xiao Yan's diary. There was no information about that year in the subsystem or the main system. It was obviously deleted.

Bai Fengmei sat down gently and said with a wry smile: "Back then... we were all confused when we think about it now."

"At the beginning of the fourth year of Yunping, there was a severe flood in the south and an earthquake in the north. We were all transferred out of the capital to provide disaster relief. By the time we received the news, the princess had already..."

Bai Fengmei's face was filled with regret. "After returning to the capital, I had intended to perish together with... but the princess issued a secret order not to allow me to move. Later, I learned that she had only faked her death to escape, so I held back."

"Perhaps you are afraid and timid. If you had made a fuss back then, why would you end up living among the common people? We, your servants... deserve to be put to death!"

Xiao Zhixing waved his sleeves to refuse him from kneeling again, "Alright, if you have nothing else to do, go back."

Xiao Yan faked her death and escaped in order to avoid being tracked and monitored by the main system. She suspected something else had happened in the palace at that time.

It's not just Zhang Xiu's bed climbing that caused the breakup between the two, it must be related to the main system.

Also, Bai Fengmei did not show any sign regarding the Ministry of Culture, and Xiao Zhixing did not ask. Perhaps, there was someone else in charge of the Ministry of Culture.

This is also the only department whose person in charge is unknown. The code book only mentions that the Wen department is the people of the world.

Nothing else.

After seeing Bai Fengmei off, Xiao Yuanshan actually came.

"There are some things he doesn't know." Xiao Yuanshan helped Bai Fengmei explain, "Back then, your mother was poisoned, and we couldn't find any clues. For the sake of her own life and to detoxify, she decided to fake her death and leave."

"The other party chose the perfect time to strike. All the important officials were transferred out of Shengjing. I was called back by her halfway. As soon as I arrived in Shengjing, she took me away. I didn't have time to ask more about what happened. I asked her later, but she didn't want to say more."

Xiao Yuanshan smiled bitterly, "She is still the same, she took on everything by herself, even though her heart was in pain, she didn't reveal a word."

"You know what happened next. All of us old officials have been lying dormant and have been nailed to the court. Even if we can't wait for the princess to come back, we will make the culprit suffer for the rest of his life."

This was the first time that Xiao Yuanshan showed his hatred and resentment towards someone.

Xiao Zhixing rubbed his forehead, stared into his eyes and asked the question he had always wondered, "My personality is very different now, so father doesn't doubt it?"