After being mistaken for a fellow by Long Aotian

"Bright day and night, you dare to hit people in front of so many people. If it weren't for my fiery eyes to see every detail, I would have been fooled by you!" the emperor said angrily.

The fifth prince couldn't argue with his mouth: "Brother Huang, I really don't have any..."

Xiao Lizi stood beside him, looking at the emperor's righteous expression: ...

...Your majesty, if this is not in broad daylight, the slaves will be fooled by you.

The emperor said again: "As an adult, you don't even dare to admit what you have done. Do you have any responsibility as an adult?"

Fifth Prince: "Brother Huang..."

Emperor: "Shut up, I don't want to hear your explanation. I see that you are not good at doing things, and you can't express your opinions well. Beating people in the palace is a routine. God closed a door for you. Make a hole in your brain, you are a briquette, do you have so many holes in your head?"

"emperor."

Zhou Xun's voice sounded clear and faint.Only then did the emperor look at him, worried: "Are you okay, does it hurt? Is your ankle sprained?"

Zhou Xun shook his head.

He passed the emperor and looked at the fifth prince.Immersed in his eyes like ice water, the fifth prince fell into a cold pool.

"Ayu, I..." The fifth prince opened his mouth, and he found that he really couldn't say a word, "I really didn't just now...that's all..."

The highest contempt is silence.Zhou Xun looked at him coldly for a long time, and the Fifth Prince suddenly said in a slump, "Believe it or not...I used to really want to treat you well. I thought we...would be friends all the way."

Tenderness is more disgusting than cold violence.But Zhou Xun found that he was unexpectedly calm.

"All the way?" He sneered.

"When a brave man is angry, he draws his blade to fight against the stronger one; when a cowardly man is angry, he only raises his knife to vent his anger on the weaker one. Rong Fen—" Zhou Xun read slowly Named him, "A coward like you, how can you be the same as me?"

There was a penetrating power in his voice that pierced the bone marrow. Standing in the late spring wind, the Fifth Prince felt as if he had been stripped naked, and all the black hearts were stripped out by his words. After basking in the sun thoroughly: "You like Zhou Cai, but he is the champion of the new discipline and the son of the Zhou family. You know that the emperor likes Zhou Cai, you dare not fight with the emperor, you only dare to come back and vent your anger on me. In my humiliation, I found your sense of power as an incompetent man who is inferior to the imperial power and himself..."

The fifth prince's face was pale.Zhou Xun's words forcibly pierced into the pain point that he most dare not be noticed by others... the deepest hidden pain point in his heart.

His incompetence.

——and his despicableness hidden under the beautiful surface.

"No...it's not like this..." The fifth prince wanted to refute, but he couldn't say a word.

——Because those sharp words are all facts.

"We have never been in the same way, why do you think we are in the same way?" Zhou Xun said slowly, "——you are not worthy to be in the same way as me."

Zhou Xun actually felt that he was no longer afraid of him.

What kind of aristocrat, what kind of dragon and phoenix is ​​Rong Fen?He is nothing but a cowardly coward!

He is not even afraid of death, so why should he be afraid of him?

"Good!" The emperor cheered from the side, "Sir, well said!"

Zhou Xun who heard the applause: ...

Seeing Zhou Xun looking over, the emperor coughed again and said, "However... sir, how can you insult people's innocence out of thin air!"

Zhou Xun:? ?

"I have no emotional relationship with Zhou Caizhen at all!!" The emperor said sadly, "Why do you all say that I have an affair with him?! He and I are ordinary colleagues, and he is an ordinary employee of mine. Otherwise... At most, you can count as a neighbor within the third ring road!!"

"Snapped!"

The things in his hand fell to the ground, and Zhou Cai, who was standing next to the meeting hall, turned pale.The Gu University scholar who was walking beside him let out a small exclamation.

After the meeting, he apologized well to Zhou Cai for a while, thus delaying his departure.Zhou Cai is still gentle and amiable, and doesn't take his faults to heart, and in turn comforts him not to worry too much.

Zhou Cai's eyebrows and eyes are soft and clear, but there is a hint of sadness.Master Gu thought of the subtleties between the emperor and Zhou Cai recently, and asked a few words.Zhou Cai just hesitated to speak, and shook his head, indicating that he didn't want to say more.

Zhou Cai didn't say anything, and Master Gu didn't ask much.Considering the relationship between Zhou Caizi and the emperor...it's not abnormal to occasionally have a little awkwardness.During the few days when Li Zhaoyi entered the palace, Zhou Cai also became estranged from the emperor for a long time.When the Grand Master Rigu left the cabinet that day, he heard the emperor explain to Zhou Cai that "I have never touched Li Ruochen"!

"After all, a companion is like a tiger. Your majesty will recover in a few days." Seeing Zhou Cai's slightly worried look, Master Gu couldn't bear it, and comforted him, "Since a new plan has come out, let's take it This plan is well done. The emperor will see it, and he will naturally see our contribution."

Zhou Cai nodded.University scholar Gu sighed again: "However, I don't know who made this plan, and the emperor also hid it, and refused to say the name of that expert."

Where he couldn't see, Zhou Cai slightly clenched his fists.

Compared with the prime minister and Gu Dashi, Zhou Cai wants to know who the legendary "high man" is more than they do.

In recent days, after Zhou Xun's incident happened, the emperor seemed to have learned about his relationship with the fifth prince, and he treated Zhou Xun... a little colder towards him.Zhou Cai did have a bit of talent and learning, but the reason why he has been able to stand tall in the officialdom over the years and not be surpassed by those who are more talented than him is the emperor's favor.

Therefore, when the epidemic resurged in Xizhou, Zhou Cai immediately found that this was an opportunity for him to make a comeback.For this reason, he even deliberately contracted a little cold—to let the emperor think that he had been working hard for his own country to the point of day and night.

At first, the emperor was quite satisfied with his plan, and Zhou Cai also saw the hope of re-establishing his position and even going further...

However, in just a few days, everything changed!

After seeing the plan that couldn't fault anything, and was more thoughtful and effective than his own, Zhou Cai was amazed by it, but also felt deep jealousy and panic.

...Who is this person, who is this person whom the emperor addresses in such an intimate and trusting tone?

What made him panic even more was the uncertainty in his heart.

——Even him, the courtier most recognized by everyone and the emperor's favorite over the years...

They don't even know the real identity of that person!

This feeling of being suddenly excluded from the world made him panic and resent involuntarily.For the first time, his smooth life escaped his control.

... Make sure to find out who this person really is.Zhou Cai thought about it, and then...

And Zhou Xun... Zhou Cai's eyes darkened.

Everything he saw that day in the Hall of Mental Cultivation pierced his heart like a thorn.After that, he knew that Zhou Xun never came out of the palace, but was kept in the palace by the emperor.

Zhou Cai comforted himself that the emperor was just trying something new.Zhou Xun inherited his mother's beauty known as "Jiangzhou's No. [-] Beauty" and also has the identity of an assassin. It is normal for the emperor to favor him for a while.But there are so many beauties in the world, and the emperor has a strange temperament, so it will be a matter of time before he gets disgusted with him!

Everything he has suffered now is thanks to him!

Sooner or later, he will take these two people...

"Zhou Hanlin?"

"Ok?"

When Zhou Cai turned his head, Master Gu was staring at him dumbfounded.Seeing him turn around, the Gu University scholar said slowly: "No, it's nothing..."

He also had a murmur in his heart.

I must have read it wrong.Master Gu thought, Zhou Cai has always been good-tempered, gentle and kind-hearted. It is also very favorable.

How could there be such a sinister expression on his face?

Master Gu shook his head, forgetting the illusion he had just seen.However, there was still a tiny thorn in his heart.

When the two got up, there was a quarrel in the yard, and Grand Master Gu frowned: "Whoever is arguing in the yard is so unruly!"

"It's just the emperor's new favorite..." Zhou Cai smiled hastily and closed his mouth as if he knew he had made a slip of the tongue.

Grand Master Gu was taken aback.He rolled his eyes, and he came up with a self-righteous logical chain.

He looks out of the window.Sure enough, there was a man in blue standing beside the emperor outside.The man in blue has a thin figure, about the age of the crown.He has a very good face, but he is instinctively disliked by the sharpness of his body when he speaks.

"Is this person... the emperor's new male favourite?" he asked.

Then, he heard the emperor's words.

"I have nothing to do with Zhou Cai..."

The fan in Zhou Cai's hand fell to the ground.

Master Gu thought he had seen the truth, and thought Zhou Cai was sad.He turned to Zhou Cai and said, "Zhou Hanlin, he's just a male favourite, what can he do..."

Then, he was too scared to say a word.

In his eyes, Zhou Cai, who has always been gentle and amiable, is staring at the direction of the courtyard, with a ferocious expression like a ghost!

After the emperor finished speaking, he said to the Fifth Prince: "Get out of the palace now, and you don't have to attend the next cabinet meeting."

"Your majesty!" The fifth prince was stunned for a moment, his face paled in shock, "I..."

"Go back and copy the Three Character Classic [-] times. I don't think you need to enter the palace anymore. Let's learn from the elementary school textbooks first." The emperor said, "Xiao Lizi, send guards to guard the palace. He is not allowed to come out until the copy is finished. Littering garbage on the street affects the appearance of the city! Hmph!"

The Fifth Prince said: "Brother Huang, I know I was wrong, but I have devoted myself to the court for many years. I am willing to go to Xizhou to preside over the epidemic to make amends..."

The emperor said coldly: "The crime does not stop here."

The Fifth Prince said: "Brother Huang..."

The emperor said: "I mean that the crimes of the people of Xizhou are not so serious. We are separated. The emperor does not want to listen to you. If you have nothing to do, you can go back."

The fifth prince opened his mouth, but in the end he said nothing: "Chen... Brother, I will leave."

When he was about to leave, he looked at Zhou Xun.Zhou Xun looked at him without fear, and in the end, he looked away first.

"Zhou Xun," he said suddenly, "do you not forgive me...or do you not want to leave?"

Zhou Xun asked him back, "What did you say?"

"You and the emperor..."