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His gloomy gaze turned around, there were no ministers in the imperial study room, only Shang Junlin was alone.

"What is Ah Yu looking at?" Shang Junlin asked after noticing his movements.

"Why is your Majesty busy here alone, and it's useless to have dinner?" Shen Yu walked over and asked the palace servants to put the food they brought on the small table.

"How did Ah Yu know that I didn't have dinner? Did Meng Chang talk too much?" Shang Junlin got up, and sat beside him with Shen Yu.

"Your Majesty, don't blame Eunuch Meng. He is also worried about your health. No matter how busy Your Majesty is, you still have to use the meal time."

Eunuch Meng stepped forward, opened the food box, and brought out the food inside: "Even if His Majesty punishes the slave, the slave will still tell your lord."

"With Ayu backing you, you naturally dare to say anything." Shang Junlin would not be really angry.

The aroma of the food permeated, and Shen Yu put away the folder in front of Shang Junlin: "Your Majesty, let's eat first, I'm hungry."

"No one can be hungry if you are hungry, Ayu." Shang Junlin held his gloomy hand and stood up.

Eunuch Meng hurriedly ordered the palace people to clean up the dining place.

The earth dragon in the imperial study room was not as hot as Yuzhang Palace. After staying in depression for a while, he barely warmed himself up. Shang Junlin held his slightly cold hand and ordered Meng Chang to burn the earth dragon more vigorously.

The dishes were arranged one by one, with both meat and vegetables, and the aroma wafted around, which made people's index fingers move when they smelled it.

"Your Majesty, please drink some of the soup specially made in the small kitchen." Shen Yu filled a bowl of milky white soup and put it in front of Shang Junlin.

Of course, Shang Junlin would not ignore his kindness. After eating a bowl of hot soup, his body warmed up from the inside out.

Shang Junlin eats very fast, even if he is taking care of Shen Yu while eating, he puts the bowl first, Shen Yu always likes to eat slowly, and he is not in a hurry when he sees a man finish eating.

Shang Junlin didn't go to critique the papers, and waited until Shen Yu had finished eating, and then led the others to sit in front of the imperial case.

"Your Majesty is still busy with Yue King's affairs recently?" Shen Yu glanced at the content on the notebook, it was written by Xun Chao, and it was about the situation in Yuezhou.

The king of Yue raised troops, and Yuezhou was in chaos for a while. Fortunately, Xun Chao brought people there in time and suppressed the riot in the shortest possible time without causing any losses.

The King of Yue has been entrenched in Yuezhou for many years, and has been deeply involved with various forces in Yuezhou. Many of them have secretly followed the King of Yue.

The main task of the Xun Dynasty is this.

Things are progressing fairly smoothly, the only thing that people are more concerned about is that part of the Yue King's power has disappeared from Yuezhou.

"These people should have been taken out of Yuezhou and joined the King of Yue." Sullen fingers rested on the edge of the fold, his voice was steady.

Shang Junlin: "Yes, I asked Gu Huai to check. A team they solved on the way came from Yuezhou. In addition, there are several other forces whose whereabouts are unknown."

Gu Huai received a new mission and led his troops out of the capital without even passing the year. He needed to clean up the remaining forces based on the interrogation results of the arrested people.

Shen Yu: "Your Majesty has caught someone now. Who is behind the King of Yue all these years? That Mr. Tan also obeys orders?"

After King Yue was captured, Shen Yu learned from Shang Junlin what had happened to King Tianyue these days. No matter how you look at it, that Mr. Tan didn't seem to be the real master.

Shang Junlin: "Yes, the Ministry of Criminal Justice has been interrogating these days. Mr. Tan knows a lot of information. According to the results of the interrogation, many of their people were arrested, but the mastermind behind the scenes has not been questioned."

Shen Yu: "I can't ask, or..."

Shang Junlin rubbed his brows: "It's because they couldn't find the real identity of the other party, that person has never really appeared in front of them, and the orders were given to them through 'messenger', and those 'messenger' were dressed in black, With a mask on his face, he couldn't see his face clearly."

Shen Yu: "This person hides very deeply and is very vigilant. With all these people, no one has seen him?"

Shang Junlin: "Yes."

Shen Yu: "People are willing to do things for him without showing his true face. I am really more and more curious about the identity of this person. What do they usually call him?"

Shang Junlin: "Call him 'Master'."

Sullen: "To gain the trust of the late emperor and entrust such a great power to him, at least someone who was very active in the court during the late emperor's time must be someone who is not familiar with the current court. Your Majesty has checked that the late emperor was more important when he was in power Is the minister gone?"

Shang Junlin: "I've checked, and there's a more suitable one, but he passed away ten years ago."

Thread interrupted.

They currently have too little information.

Shen Yu didn't even know the existence of this force in his previous life, let alone know who was behind this force. After thinking about it to no avail, Shen Yu could only give up temporarily.

Gu Huai's ability to move is very strong. He led his soldiers and walked around Dahuan like ghosts, uprooting the forces lurking in the dark.

The evidence of King Yue's rebellion is conclusive, and he should be sentenced to death. Considering that the Chinese New Year is about to come, Shang Junlin moved the execution time back a little.

The large prison of the Ministry of punishment is different from the dark prison. There are all kinds of prisoners in it. King Yue is locked in one place alone and will undergo interrogation every day.

His title was taken away, his surname was taken away, and he was removed from the royal family. Now he is no longer a noble prince, but a lowly sinner.

Shang Junlin wanted to get some news from him. The interrogator knew that he would never recover, so he had no scruples in his actions. In just a few days, King Yue was tortured beyond recognition.

The blood-stained man curled up by the wall, he couldn't help shrinking in whenever there was a sound, his eyes were cloudy, his expression was shrunk, he didn't look like the old king of Yue.

Everywhere on his body was hurting, it was the wound left by the torture, the executioner only needed to ensure that he would not die, and he didn't bother to care about the non-fatal wound.

The wound was inflamed and festered, and if it wasn't winter, it would have been even worse.

Moonlight seeped in from the window above his head, King Yue looked up at the moonlight in a daze.

Cold and charming, he stretched out his hand tremblingly, trying to catch the moonlight, but he couldn't catch it.

The moon hangs nine days high, which he can grasp.

King Yue covered his face, and a hoarse laugh escaped through his fingers.

After an unknown amount of time, the embarrassed man leaning against the wall stopped moving.

"Your Majesty, the enthronement ceremony is about to begin. Please see if there is anything to be changed in the process."

The strange voice awakened King Yue's sanity, he opened his eyes, and found himself standing in a magnificent palace, surrounded by countless people, calling "Your Majesty" in their mouths, holding clothes and accessories that only emperors can use .

He opened his arms, and the palace servants carefully dressed him in the black crown robe that symbolized the emperor's status.

Red candles were lit in the main hall, but the outside of the hall was gray and oppressive, making it hard to breathe.

"Your Majesty, Mr. Shen is here."

Mr. Shen?

who is it?

Without him asking, a thin young man in a light blue gown walked in slowly.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, your wish has been granted."

!!!

King Yue's eyes widened suddenly, he could see clearly the appearance of the person who came, it was gloomy, but it was not the same as the gloomy in his impression.

The depressed man standing in front of him was a little older than his impression, his facial features were fully opened, and there was an indescribable temperament between his eyebrows and eyes, making him even more attractive.

His name is His Majesty, is he calling himself?

"The auspicious time has come, and it's time for His Majesty to ascend the throne."

Everything that follows is unreal.

Surrounded by everyone, he ascended the throne as emperor and became the real master of Dahuan. Everyone prostrated at his feet, including Shen Yu.

Shen Yu seemed to admire him, he saw affection in his eyes, he had seen such emotion in Shen Yu's eyes before, but the object of gaze was not him.

He asked sideways about the whereabouts of Shang Junlin, and the answer he got was that the other party died in battle a year ago, and died with a stigma, which was the ending he had planned for Shang Junlin.

All his wishes came true.

On the dragon chair, he looked down at the ministers prostrate at his feet, and the depression standing beside him, the smile on his face grew bigger and bigger.

Then he woke up.

It was still dark, and the moon was hidden in the clouds, and he was trapped in the thick darkness, unable to break free.

For several days after that, he would have the same dream after falling asleep, and the scene in the dream became more and more real, so real that he didn't want to wake up.

The life in the dream is in stark contrast to the current situation. King Yue’s spirit is getting more and more in a trance. Later, the beauty in the dream seems to be a mockery of his failure in reality. The drop is so heavy that I can't lift my head.

King Yue's abnormality could not be concealed from the officials who had been paying attention to him.

Shang Junlin didn't take it seriously at first, and just told them not to kill people before asking the result, and turned around and forgot about it.

In the imperial study room, the leader of the Yinlong Guard knelt on the ground respectfully, telling the news one by one.

"So, before entering the palace, your lord had no contact with Gu Huai other than the king of Yue who pretended to be close to him?"

"Yes."

Shang Junlin's fingers tapped on the table. If so, it doesn't match Shen Yu's performance. Judging from Shen Yu's attitude, it doesn't look like he has no contact with Gu Huai.

There are many unreasonable abnormalities in Shen Yu, and he doesn't hide it. As the relationship with Shang Junlin gets closer, Shang Junlin feels more and more that there are many secrets in Shen Yu.

Various thoughts flashed in my heart, Shang Junlin closed his eyes: "This matter ends here."

He had a hunch that if he continued to search, he would not find any useful information.

After staying alone in the imperial study for half an hour, when Shang Junlin returned to Yuzhang Palace, there was no abnormality on his face.

"Your Majesty, come quickly," greeted Shang Junlin with a gloomy smile, "I wrote some couplets and blessings, and Your Majesty will take them to the Imperial Study Room to post."

"Okay," Shang Junlin walked over with a smile, picked up the pen next to him, "Ayu wrote it for me, and I also wrote a picture for Ayu."

Shen Yu wrote a lot, and distributed some to the palace people, and let Mu Xi send the rest to the concubine. After all, she also helped Shang Junlin. Shen Yu has a good sense for her.

On the eve of the Chinese New Year, the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment asked to see him.

"Your Majesty, sinners are clamoring to see you."

These days, the Ministry of Punishment tried its best to ask a lot of things, but what Shang Junlin wanted to know most, King Yue still refused to say.

Prison prison.

King Yue grabbed the door of the cell and stood up slowly.

"Shang Junlin, you stole everything from me!" Yue Wang looked crazy and his voice was hoarse, "Shen Yu should be mine, but you stole him from me! You also felt it, right?"

King Yue looked at the man with extraordinary bearing, and suddenly laughed loudly:

"Things that are stolen will eventually return to the real owner—"