It's better to fall in love than seize the heir

A dead silence.

In the huge Zichen Palace, time seemed to be frozen, and a heart-wrenching silence spread, like an invisible big hand holding the heart tightly.

The emperor moved.

He stood up unsteadily, groped twice with trembling fingers, and then grabbed the hard inkstone on the table, and with a loud "bang", it flew heavily to the third prince's forehead.

"Evil Obstacles—Evil Obstacles!"

The extremely angry roar almost shook the whole world, and the alternating green and white skin quickly turned red due to the surging anger. tears.

Only Shen Zhuomin stood there in a daze, looking particularly out of place amidst the surrender.

The hard and cold inkstone flew over with overwhelming anger, precisely smashed the forehead, and fell to the ground with a muffled sound.The warm and bright red blood snaked down and fell into the eyes, but Shen Zhuomin had no time to pay attention to it.

Under the pale complexion, the heart surged and set off a stormy sea. After the whale wave passed, only three large characters written in blood remained.

Yang, Ting, Lan.

——Yang Tinglan!Shen Zhuomin's eyes suddenly became extremely ferocious, and his gentle face was distorted with horror by the humiliation and anger of being deceived.How dare Yang Tinglan lie to herself...to kill him!To kill him!

The emperor's livid face twitched because of the gradually difficult breathing. He pointed at Shen Zhuomin tremblingly with one hand, and grabbed the aching heart caused by the shock with the other, his lips trembled.

"I'm going to throw you into the prison, I'm going to—"

In the middle of speaking, the emperor suddenly twitched, and the whites of his eyes turned up abnormally.He opened his mouth with difficulty, but what came out was not unfinished words, but a large spurt of hot blood.

The splashing red made everyone's eyes widen in fear, but the body covered in dragon robes seemed to be drained of all strength in an instant, and collapsed heavily backwards.

"Father!"

"His Majesty!"

The kneeling people shouted and flew over, but they had no time to catch the emperor's collapsed and unconscious body, and fell on their backs on the dragon bed, their vitality obviously declining rapidly.

"Imperial Physician! Hurry up and pass on the Imperial Physician!"

"Miraculous Doctor Xiao, help!"

"Oh my god, how could this happen... Hurry up and get the ginseng slices for His Majesty to swallow!"

The soldiers were in turmoil, crowds of people surrounded, and the panicked court ladies and eunuchs surrounded the emperor, and the sound of crying mixed with screams pierced into the eardrums.Shen Jinghe threw himself in front of the emperor with panic on his face, but from the corner of his eye he subconsciously glanced at the person who was still standing alone in the palace.

Shen Zhuomin looked at the crying and mourning scene in front of him, and felt that it was really an extremely lively show.There was an untimely smile on his lips, and the smile grew bigger and bigger, and at the end, he even opened his mouth wide, laughing wildly silently.

Well, well... really wonderful!

The sight was blocked by the gurgling blood, Shen Zhuomin wiped it in front of his eyes casually, looked down at the greasy blood on his hands, suddenly went crazy, pushed away the crowd with all his strength, and ran out desperately.

Yang Tinglan, Yang Tinglan... He must kill him before everything else.Peel off that hypocritical human skin, dig out the stinky internal organs, and cut open it bit by bit, to see how much filth and betrayal is hidden!

At this time, an unremarkable carriage was driving on the small road in the suburbs of Beijing.

The plainly dressed woman nervously approached the man next to her, and grabbed his sleeve tightly: "Husband, after you received the box last night, you told us to pack up our belongings overnight, and hurried out of the capital before dawn today... What happened? What's in the box?"

Yang Tinglan stroked his beard, looked at the other little girl who was not sleeping soundly due to the shaking of the carriage, and took out a small box from his arms as if conjuring.

"Madam, if you want to know, why not open it yourself?"

Madam Yang hesitated for a moment, then reached out to take it and opened it, looked at the contents inside, and frowned suspiciously.

"A jujube, a nectarine... What are these?"

Yang Tinglan had already closed his mouth, but smiled and said nothing.

Zao Tao, Zao Tao, fled early... He bought another courtyard in the south early, and his youngest son entrusted the sixth prince to send him on the road early.Counting the time, it is almost here now.

Yang Tinglan looked at his wife beside him who was still chanting words and thinking hard, a trace of guilt flashed in his eyes.

As for the matter of the youngest son, let's wait until then to talk to the wife.

Shen Zhuomin rushed out of the Zichen Hall with blood all over his face, the guards stationed outside the hall saw him, they were so shocked that they forgot to stop him on the spot.By the time he realized it, Shen Zhuomin had already run frantically for a long way.

"Stop the third prince—"

"Your Majesty has orders to throw the third prince into the prison!"

A steady stream of guards came to stop him from all directions, but the usually elegant and elegant third prince seemed to be a different person, he moved and dodged without any ambiguity, and his counterattacks were as fast as the wind. No one thought that he had been hiding such martial arts all this time.

At the beginning, the guards were worried about the identity of the third prince, and they underestimated the enemy, so they didn't try their best.When they were really exhausted and wanted to fight back with all their strength, their bodies were already wounded, and they could only watch helplessly as the third prince passed them by with a false move, and rushed towards the palace gate without stopping.

soon, soon...

The whistling of the wind passed by his ears, Shen Zhuomin's eyes shone with cruel excitement, and the bloody smell lingering at the tip of his nose aroused the wildness in his heart even more——

Ding.A dart shot towards him like a shooting star, directly hitting his face.Shen Zhuomin reacted very quickly and swung his sleeve away, turned back to relieve the force of the impact, and quickly stabilized his figure.

Standing still and raising his eyes, he looked at the figure in front of him and sneered: "Lin Jifeng, you can't stop me..."

In the middle of speaking, Shen Zhuomin suddenly felt unwilling to keep his mouth shut.He looked at the hundreds of Jinwu guards who ran neatly behind Lin Jifeng and surrounded him closely, and fell silent.

"Third Prince, I have offended you. Your Majesty has an order, and the general will have to obey."

Lin Jifeng waved his hand expressionlessly.

"Take it!"

Shen Zhuomin stood silently on the spot, and let two burly guards step forward and tie his hands behind his back, escorting him towards the prison.

He didn't resist. Facing Lin Jifeng, he was confident that he still had a chance.But with the addition of these hundreds of elite Jinwu guards, even immortals might not be able to escape.

only……

Before being pushed and walked out, Shen Zhuomin raised his eyes for the last time to look at the majestic palace gate, with a strange coldness in his eyes.

He will come back.

At that time, the fire that reaches the sky will harvest everything, and use the wailing and blood everywhere as a sacrifice for the final victory.

Not long after the third prince was escorted, a figure slowly emerged from the corner, looking at the direction he was leaving with an inexplicable expression.

"Your Highness Sixth."

Lin Jifeng walked to his side and sighed, "If His Highness hadn't reminded me to be more prepared a few days ago, and I had dispatched more people to guard the palace gate at all times, I am afraid that the third prince would really have to escape today. "

Shen Jinghe pondered for a while, then frowned slightly: "I'm still being careless. I never thought that Shen Zhuomin would have such an amazing skill... The information I got before has never mentioned this point."

Recalling how unstoppable the third prince was when he ran all the way from the Zichen Palace to the palace gate, Lin Jifeng also felt sorry for him: "I didn't expect him to hide so deeply..."

"By the way, there is one more thing." Shen Jinghe withdrew his thoughts, shook his head, and turned his attention to Lin Jifeng again, "We must be vigilant tonight and make arrangements early. The final decisive battle is now."

Lin Jifeng quickly turned serious.

"Definitely not humiliated!"

Late at night, the bright moon hangs high.

The cold wind swayed through the treetops, startling a group of jackdaws, their mournful cries resounding through the night sky.

The soldier guarding in front of the prison gate yawned boredly and was rubbing his sleepy eyes when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a shadow lurking in the corner from the corner of his eye.

"Who!"

The soldier, who was still sleepy just now, pulled himself together, vigilantly clenched the halberd in his hand, and stepped over slowly step by step, looking down.

"Strange, no... Could it be that I read it wrong?"

There was no one around, the soldier looked around suspiciously, shook his head and prepared to walk back to the original place.As soon as he took a step, his neck suddenly felt cold.

When he lowered his head, he saw only the slash of the knife light.After the silver light flashed, a lively body collapsed in the jet of blood.

The masked man in black quickly took over the corpse and gently put it down on the ground.After making sure that no sound was made to alarm others, he quickly made a gesture to signal the people behind to follow.

Several black-clothed figures jumped out of the bushes, bent down and silently sneaked into the passageway of the dungeon, the shadow of the cold moon moved over, and the looming dagger in the sleeve reflected the glaring edge.

The guards in the sky prison were unexpectedly loose, and the men in black and their party quietly settled it without much effort.The leader showed a relaxed smile under the mask, and when he finally killed all the guards and saw the third prince in the depths of the dungeon, he immediately fell to his knees reverently.

"Subordinates are late to rescue you!"

The two men in black hurried forward to untie the shackles on Shen Zhuomin's wrists. Shen Zhuomin's eyes did not fluctuate, and he moved his somewhat stiff wrist slowly, and said.

"Just you people?"

The leader hurriedly replied: "The grand master was afraid of disturbing the defenders when he robbed the prison, so he only sent his subordinates and other hidden guards in the mansion to come. Besides, a quarter of the people outside the city have been mobilized in advance to sneak into the city. confluence."

Shen Zhuomin nodded arrogantly: "What about the remaining three quarters?"

"The rest of the main force is still on standby. Before the subordinates set off, the Grand Master has personally gone to lead the army. If everything goes well, after we lead the city's troops into the palace first, they will be able to arrive in time. No matter how desperately the palace resists, there is absolutely no chance of survival!"

"Very good." Shen Zhuomin strode towards the outside of the dungeon, with stern eyes and a sneer, "All of them will pay the price for their own incompetence and stupidity!"

The flames soared into the sky, and the sound of clashing iron armor and buzzing of swords resounded through the sky. The sudden explosion woke up the entire imperial city from the long night.The copper bolts in the palace gate were crumbling under repeated violent bombardments, as if they would break with an unbearable whine in the next second, and be thrown into the menacing army.

The eunuchs and maids, who were awakened from their dreams by the accident, screamed and ran like headless flies, weeping and trembling with fear because of the roar that rose to the sky from a wall away.

Amidst the countless screams and cries, Lin Jifeng's roar with veins protruding from his neck could still be heard: "Quick! A few more people from the east will come on top! Be sure to hold on, hold on!"

The majestic and solemn imperial city in the past has become a mess. The dying emperor on the dragon couch turned his head with difficulty, looked at the bursting fire from time to time in the distance, and wanted to ask, but he could only say "ho ho " gasp.

His eyes rolled slowly, looking at Dequan beside the bed, and asked with cloudy eyes.

Dequan wiped the wet sweat on the emperor's forehead with a towel soaked in cold water, his movements were still careful, but for some reason, his eyes no longer showed the respect of the past. When he looked closely, there was an undisguised indifference and coldness.

"Your Majesty, the old slave asked, it is the third prince who escaped from the sky prison and is forcing the palace to kill the king and seize the throne." Dequan said in a soft voice, and a smile slowly appeared on his old face, "It's already This is the second prince who forced the palace...I really don't know if you, the father, failed more, or the emperor failed more."

The emperor opened his eyes wide in horror for a moment, looking at Dequan's familiar but unfamiliar face, his eyes were filled with anger and panic.He wanted to raise his hand and wave away Dequan's hand that was wiping his face, but he struggled to move his body twice, after all, he didn't even have the strength to move his fingers.

"What is Your Majesty worried about?" Dequan sensed the emperor's struggling movements, withdrew his hands, moved his body back, and squinted his eyes to look from a distance, "Don't worry, this old slave will not do anything to Your Majesty."

He threw the towel back into the basin and wiped his hands on the hem of his clothes.

"After all, it would be a pity if His Majesty couldn't enjoy this play alive, wouldn't it?"

The emperor stared blankly at this old slave who had been serving him for decades. After the great despair and disbelief of being betrayed receded, there was only a bit of indescribable sadness left in his heart.

"Why, why..."

The emperor tried his best to open his mouth with difficulty, spit out weak words intermittently with the last ray of breath, and the blood foam on his throat made him cough uncontrollably, but his eyes were stubbornly looking at Dequan.

Dequan stood back a few more steps until he stood in a dark corner where the lamps couldn't reach him.The moonlight drifting in from the window and the flickering fire light from time to time illuminated half of his face, and the wrinkled face was full of endless exhaustion and desolation.

"Your Majesty... When you ordered the eradication of the Wei family that helped you ascend to the throne, the old slave did not ask why. As the only surviving Wei family and your wife who has been married for decades, the empress empress was taken by you and the Xu family. When we jointly designed 'Disease and Death', the old slave didn't ask why."

Dequan seemed to be smiling lightly, the old figure that was not shrouded by the moonlight was in darkness, only the reddish eyes were the only recognizable color.

"Now, you don't have to ask the old slave why."

He turned around silently, without looking at the expression of the emperor on the dragon couch behind him, he looked at the palace gate with his hands behind his back.

Finally, the palace gate couldn't bear the stronger impact of each wave, and after the last deafening bang, it burst open completely.A group of dark troops rushed in, but were stopped by the Jinwu Guards who quickly drew their swords across the front of them, and the two faced a stalemate.

Surrounded by the sergeants, Shen Zhuomin took two steps forward slowly. He was clearly in a battlefield where there was a flash of light, but he was as graceful as walking in a garden, and he could not find the embarrassment he felt when he was taken into the dungeon.

He subconsciously reached out to take out the Jade Fracture Fan from his bosom, but just as he raised his hand, he froze slightly.

Thinking of the jade fan that had been with him for ten years and shattered for no reason, a gloomy glint flashed in Shen Zhuomin's eyes.But soon, this little episode was suppressed, and he casually put down his hands, facing the Jinwu Guard who was watching him with tense muscles, with a slight smile in his eyes.

"He who understands current affairs is a hero, and you are all smart people, why bother to struggle fearlessly?" Shen Zhuomin said to all the soldiers, but his eyes were fixed on Lin Jifeng, who was on guard at the head, "I have always admired heroes and bravery, If you lay down your weapons and join me at this moment, I guarantee that no life will be harmed, and I will also guarantee that you will be promoted to rank and become rich and prosperous!"

He spoke impassionedly, but the expected scene of opponents unloading their weapons did not appear.The same dark army on the opposite side was silent, no one wavered in response, but the hands of all the generals holding their weapons tightened again.

A trace of resentment flashed in Shen Zhuomin's eyes, he sneered, and the temperature of his voice dropped sharply.

"You simply don't know what's good and what's wrong...Since that's the case, when you die by my sword, don't blame me for not giving you a chance!"

He didn't pay attention to the number of troops in front of him, because his biggest hole card was only the tip of the iceberg.

Shen Zhuomin took something from his hand, lit the fuse, and threw it into the sky vigorously.The flames quickly devoured the short fuse, and a second later, an earth-shattering crackling sound resounded through the sky, and a dazzling red and gold ball of light spun up to the highest point and exploded, bursting into dazzling fireworks with long tail feathers hanging down. Gorgeous and grand.

The sound of soldiers' armor moving, and the sound of uniform footsteps came from outside the palace wall in an instant. Just by hearing the dense and thick sound, it is known that the number of people coming is several times that of the army in the palace.The sound of armor rubbing was getting closer and closer, and the silver light reflected from the soldiers' sabers almost reflected the daylight, until finally the army surrounded the entire palace gate.

The Jinwu Guard's complexion turned pale. Facing such a huge number of people, they knew that they had absolutely no chance of winning.But even so, no one retreated timidly. All the soldiers gritted their teeth and stood firm with the determination to die.

Shen Zhuomin mockingly looked around at the faces of these dying people, turned his head, and wanted to meet the late Grand Master Xu.

He froze.

The newly arrived black-armored army slowly parted a line, and a tall and heroic figure slowly stepped out of the silent crowd. Every step was heavily stepped on the hearts of everyone, like a drum that shook the universe.

Liang Yan.