Rebirth of the High Family's Beloved

All the people who came to the wedding banquet also dispersed.

The bride is dead and the groom is gone, so why are they still here? To have a feast?

Only guards and servants were left in the Marquis' Mansion to deal with the aftermath. Yan Ci walked to Xie Chengyin, looked at Xie Chengyin who was still in a daze, and waved his hand in front of him.

"Why are you so stunned?"

Xie Chengyin came back to his senses, looked at Yan Ci solemnly and said word by word: "That imperial edict is empty."

"Empty?" Yan Ci's eyes widened slightly, and Xie Chengyin's serious and complicated expression was reflected in his black pupils.

"Then what you just read..."

"fake."

Yan Ci was surprised. "When I heard you read the imperial edict just now, I was still wondering what the problem was. It turns out that you just made it up. I didn't even notice any flaws. You are an expert!"

Xie Chengyin smiled bitterly. Yan Ci's words seemed to be both a compliment and an insult, so he didn't dare to accept them with a smile.

Then he thought, "But why did they send a blank imperial edict?"

Yan Ci pondered, "I think there was no chance to issue an edict, or no one issued an edict, so they had to send a blank edict."

"It seems that not only the Crown Prince is in trouble, but also His Majesty..."

Yan Ci and Xie Chengyin had the same guess. "Your brother has already gone to the Huwei military camp to recruit soldiers. We must rush to the palace to find out the situation before him. If it is true, it means he has saved the emperor. But if it is a trick used by others to lure the enemy, then your brother will lead the troops into the palace without an imperial edict, which will be a serious crime of treason."

Xie Chengyin nodded, "Okay, let's go into the palace now."

In Chonghua Palace, Shen Zhaoyong sat in front of the desk, with Rong Jing standing beside him.

Suddenly, Xiao Lingzi ran in breathlessly, "Your Highness, the Second... Second Prince is coming towards us from Mingyi Palace."

Rong Jing's face tensed up, and he lowered his head to look at Shen Zhaoyong. He did not see any panic on his face. He only saw that his calm expression was the same as usual, as if he had expected this to happen.

Shen Zhaoyong's eyes were as deep as a cold pond. He said gently, "It seems that my second brother has already got the jade seal."

After he finished speaking, he stood up and brushed off his outer robe which was wrinkled from sitting for a long time. "Let's go. Today we will meet our Prince Xiang."

Rong Jing nodded and followed Shen Zhaoyong closely.

Xiao Lingzi was almost frightened to death. He went out to find out what happened and saw with his own eyes that Eunuch Huli, who had blocked Prince Xiang's entry into Mingyi Palace, was stabbed to death at the door with a sword. His eyes were so wide open that his eyeballs almost popped out.

He was breathing rapidly, knowing that if he followed them out he would most likely lose his life, but he only hesitated for a moment before turning around and jogging after Shen Zhaoyong and Rong Jing.

Shen Zhaoyong stood at the gate of Chonghua Palace, with the three gold-plated words "Chonghua Palace" just above his head, and Rong Jing and Xiao Lingzi stood on his left and right.

Shen Zhaoyan climbed up the stairs, and the guards behind him stood below consciously and did not follow him.

When the two brothers faced each other, Shen Zhaoyong's eyes immediately fell on the square box in Shen Zhaoyan's hand.

He was very familiar with that box. He had followed his father to learn government affairs since he was young. He could always see it on his father's desk. Although it was ordinary and inconspicuous, it contained things that many people dreamed of.

The jade seal with a coiled dragon pattern and the jade seal of Daxing are in this square box.

Seeing Shen Zhaoyong staring at the square box, Shen Zhaoyan did not shy away from asking, "Royal brother, do you want to see it?"

Shen Zhaoyong smiled: "No, I'm just curious. You've got the things, why don't you just take them and issue an edict? Why are you coming to me?"

"If I say I'm here to verify something, will you believe me, brother?"

"What are you trying to prove?"

"Your body."

Shen Zhaoyong seemed to have heard something very ridiculous, "You have seen it all, the end is coming."

Shen Zhaoyan was stunned. "I thought you were pretending. With your intelligence, you should have known that there was something wrong with your medicine a long time ago. Why did you keep drinking it?"

"If I don't drink, how can you let me live without worry? I have been lingering on for these years and I am no longer a threat to you. If I delay for a few more years, I will really die of illness and no one will be able to find out the problem. Just like my mother, right?"

Shen Zhaoyan frowned. He guessed that Shen Zhaoyong knew the truth about Queen Hua's death. He just didn't expect that he could endure it for so many years without taking any action. He and his mother felt that he was really useless.

But today, when he saw him standing here calmly, he realized that he was wrong.

"The one you sent out of the palace today wasn't the imperial physician, was he?"

Shen Zhaoyan narrowed his eyes and looked at Shen Zhaoyong, but found that Shen Zhaoyong's face suddenly showed a nostalgic look, "Of course not, it was my eunuch Rong Qi, he went to see Aci and Ayin, and he should be here by now."

Shen Zhaoyong looked into the distance. Chonghua Palace was located in the east. Although its terrain was not as high as Emperor Tianqing's Mingyi Palace, it was still in a prominent position among the East Palace. At a glance, the small palaces were like a grain of sand in the Ganges.

His voice was distant and deep. "Go back and see your mother off. Don't leave any regrets."

Shen Zhaoyan's pupils suddenly shrank, "What did you do!"

"Kill for life!"

This was the first time Shen Zhaoyan saw murderous intent in Shen Zhaoyong.

In his impression, his brother, the Crown Prince, who had always been gentle, had always been outstanding and enviable.

He was gifted with intelligence, achieved success at a young age, was favored by his father and supported by all the ministers. He was born to be the crown prince, but he always seemed to be independent of the world, never fighting, never getting angry, never complaining, never worrying, as if nothing in the world was worth his attention.

It was not until the death of his biological mother, Queen Hua, that he finally fell from the world into the mortal world. He felt pain, sorrow, and fear. He was even seen crying while holding Queen Hua's coffin in the middle of the night.

At that time, he was secretly delighted in his heart, because it turned out that his arrogant royal brother was also a human being!

He suddenly became a motherless person.

But now, looking at Shen Zhaoyong's eyes full of murderous intent, Shen Zhaoyan was surprised, but his heart was shouting with ecstasy.

That's right, this is what a royal person is like, fierce, cruel, cold and ruthless.

However, the target of this brutal attack was his mother.

Thinking of this, Shen Zhaoyan did not stop any longer. He turned around and quickly left Chonghua Palace and hurried to Chaofeng Palace.

Xiao Ling waited and waited but Shen Zhaoyan still hadn't come back when he heard the sound of fighting outside the door.

Through the crack in the door, Xiao Ling saw Zhou Chu, who was leading the imperial guards, rushing towards the Phoenix Palace. Wherever he passed, there were corpses lying on the ground.

She tried her best to calm herself down and told Dao Ji, "Guard the palace gate and don't let anyone in."

Dao Ji stayed behind on the order of Shen Zhaoyan. His main purpose was to protect the queen. Looking at the aggressive imperial guards, he stood guard at the door like a single man blocking a thousand. No matter how the imperial guards charged, they could not get close to him.