In the early morning, the bell tower in the palace had just struck seven, and Queen Cassia had woken up from her sleep. She was wearing a luxurious silk nightgown, and she was sitting in front of the dresser, being washed by a maid.
Although she is already the mother of an eighteen-year-old child, Queen Cassia in the mirror is still beautiful and moving.
Pei Yin's appearance largely inherited the queen's virtues.
Especially the eyes of the two are the same dark blue, which looks like the deep night sky and the vast sea, full of mysterious attraction.
"Queen, Your Highness is asking to see you outside." The maid rushed over to report.
When Cassia heard that her son had returned safely, she couldn't hold back her joy and stood up quickly: "Let him in quickly."
Pei Yin quickly entered the Queen's bedroom, and first saluted in an orderly manner.
Cassia stepped back and gave her son a hug happily, "My child, you are finally back, as long as you are fine."
Pei Yin just patted his mother on the back lightly, but didn't give much enthusiastic response.
Cassia looked up at Pei Yin, her blue eyes filled with distress, "Why are you so emaciated after I haven't seen you for a few days?"
Pei Yin said flatly, "Because I've been imprisoned in Blood Rose's dungeon for the past few days, and I almost won't be able to come back."
Cassia turned pale in shock, looked Pei Yin up and down, and asked excitedly, "How did this happen? Are you not injured?"
"No, someone sacrificed himself to save me, and I'm safe and sound." Pei Yin said, "Mother, I have something to tell you."
Cassia pulled Pei Yin to sit on the sofa and asked kindly, "What do you want to tell me?"
"This operation failed because someone betrayed me." Pei Yin said bluntly, "That person is His Majesty."
Cassia opened her eyes slightly, and was about to question, when Pei Yin interrupted her: "You don't have to doubt, I have already caught the spy he sent to me, and that spy has confessed everything."
Cassia's face turned pale, and her breathing suddenly became heavy.
"How could this be?" Cassia murmured incredulously, "He clearly promised me that he would not hurt you, he swore to me..."
Pei Yin sneered, and said: "He didn't kill me himself, he just wanted to use someone else's hands to get rid of me, so that he wouldn't break his oath to you."
Cassia still couldn't believe it, she held Pei Yin's hand tightly, "Is there some misunderstanding? I know you have always been dissatisfied with him, but for so many years, he has always been very good to you..."
"Mother, are you still unwilling to face the truth?" Pei Yin pulled out his hand indifferently, "That spy is called Longton, and many people in the royal army know him. I have handed him back to him after I came back Nip, if he hasn't been executed, you can go to Nip now and ask someone to come and question him."
Pei Yin said so much, even if Cassia didn't want to believe it, she couldn't find an excuse to excuse Nip.
With the husband on one side and the child on the other, Cassia was at a loss, "How could this be..."
"Mother, I've always wanted to ask you a question." Pei Yin suddenly stood up and said.
Cassia raised her head in a daze, looked at her tall son, and suddenly felt a sense of panic in her heart, "What, what?"
"When my father passed away, I was young, so you didn't tell me many things carefully." Pei Yin asked in a deep voice with a serious face, "Later, I investigated, and my father was on an aircraft when he was patrolling the south. The propellers failed, that's why the plane crashed and the plane crashed, right?"
Cassia lowered her eyes, "Yes."
Pei Yin looked down at her, and continued to ask: "What makes me feel unreasonable is that when the father visited the south, according to the past practice, the queen should accompany him, but why didn't you go with the father?"
Cassia's face turned pale, she looked up at Pei Yin in shock, and her voice became sharper.
"What do you mean?! What do you mean, do you think it's reasonable to have to die with your father on the crashed aircraft?!"
"Of course I don't mean that." Pei Yin looked at the queen calmly and asked, "I just want to know the reason. Please tell me why you didn't go with your father?"
Cassia's lips moved, "It's been too long, I forgot... maybe I was sick... or maybe I was delayed by something else..."
Pei Yin: "It turns out that your father's death is so unimportant to you, and you actually forgot?"
Cassia: "Pein, my child, are you suspicious of your mother? Do you suspect that I murdered your father?"
"Of course it won't be you, but I can't guarantee that it will be someone else." Pei Yin curled his lips coldly, "Do you still remember a maid named Ollie? I remember that she served you for a long time, but I haven't seen her since my father passed away. You said it was a coincidence that someone sent her to my mansion just two days ago."
"O, Li?" Cassia's face turned pale when she heard the name, "Is she still alive?"
"Why, should she die?" Pei Yin sneered, "Could it be that she deserves to die just because she knows you have an affair with Nip?"
Tears welled up in Cassia's eyes, and she wanted to grab Pei Yin's hand, but Pei Yin dodged it. The poor queen fell to the ground without standing still, her waist-length blond hair was scattered over her face, covering her face ashamed.
Pei Yin's voice was unusually cold: "The affair between you and Nip was learned by your father. He planned to make a judgment on the crimes committed by the two of you after he patrolled the south, but Nip took the first step to tamper with the aircraft. Killed him and took away the throne! The truth, isn’t it?!”
Cassia whimpered in pain and covered her face in embarrassment.
"Stop it, please stop it..."
This secret buried in Cassia's heart is a nightmare that she will never get rid of.
Eighteen years ago, she first fell in love with Delan Nip, but later she was taken away by Pei Yin's father.
That person was the king of the empire, and Cassia couldn't resist, so she could only marry Teresa VI unwillingly.
But after they got married, she and Nip couldn't restrain the love in their hearts, and they often had an affair in the harem when King Teresa VI was away.
But the paper couldn't contain the fire, and the adultery between Cassia and Nip was finally discovered by Teresa VI.
Theresa VI was furious, but due to the face of the royal family and the dignity of a man, he did not speak out about the scandal.
He planned to make a verdict on Cassia and Nip when he came back after patrolling the south, but he didn't expect that Nip would do something before him and tampered with the aircraft, causing the death of King Teresa VI's plane.
And Nip, with the help of Cassia, forged the will and ascended the throne.
"An unfaithful woman and a despicable careerist killed a generation of wise and capable kings," Pei Yin sneered uncontrollably, pointing to the bed in Cassia's bedroom, and asked angrily, "Mother, you Sleeping on this bed that I slept with my father every night, don't you have nightmares?!"
"Stop it!" Cassia screamed, got up with disheveled hair, clutched her chest, and wailed, "Do you think I want to do this? But I have no choice! The person I love is not your father King! But because I am the kind of Omega he needs who can give birth to excellent offspring for him, regardless of my resistance, he marked me for life! In your eyes, he is a great father, but in my heart, He is a shameless rapist!"
"In my childhood memory, my father treated you very well. No matter what you want, he will satisfy you, even if you are indifferent to him." Pei Yin finally couldn't maintain his calm expression, and his eyes showed pain and anger. Grief and indignation, "But you not only betrayed him, but also joined forces with the despicable villain to kill him!"
Cassia whimpered: "I didn't... I never wanted to kill your father."
"Now, Nip has already targeted me," Pei Yin pointed at his chest, "Husband and son, you can only live one. Whose side do you choose? If you still choose love, I don't care." I will resent you, I am willing to go to Nip immediately and let him kill me."
"No!" Cassia hugged Pei Yin tightly like crazy, and looked up at Pei Yin with tears in her eyes. At some point, her child has become more and more like the previous king, not only in appearance, but also in temperament. more and more like.
That's right, after all, Pei Yin is of the blood of the former king, just like the former king, under the gentle appearance, there is a cold and domineering heart hidden.
Cassia tried to touch Pei Yin's face, her deep blue eyes were full of sadness, "I will never let anyone hurt you! You are my child, the flesh that fell from my October pregnancy, how could I see I'm going to send you to die!"
"But now I know the truth! Do you think our Majesty will let me go?" Pei Yin said in a cold voice with a tense but resolute face, "Even if he is willing, I am not willing to forgive him! I will kill him with my own hands, Send him to the Underworld to confess to his father what he has done!"
Cassia had already cried tears, lost her usual dignity and elegance, and said in tears: "Why does it have to be like this? I can persuade him not to hurt you..."
"There will be a banquet in the harem in three days, and I will do my hands at the banquet." Pei Yin held Cassia's shoulders and smiled bleakly, "I have already told you my plan, whether I want a husband or a son, It's all up to you."
Pei Yin left the Queen's bedroom. At the same time, in another palace in the palace, Gu Zhong, Nipp's servant, was reporting Pei Yin's every move these days to His Majesty the King.
There was a holographic image in front of the desk, and the appearance and identity of the people who had entered and exited the Crown Prince's mansion in the past few days were displayed on it.
Nip didn't look at the screen, he lowered his head and carelessly wiped a very old wooden revolver with a wooden warehouse cloth.
"Has he come out of the queen's palace?" Nip asked Gu Zhong.
Gu Zhong turned on the personal terminal on his wrist and glanced, "I've already left."
Nip stopped wiping, was silent for a while, and said with a half-smile: "What do you think he will say to the queen?"
Gu Zhong: "The minister will go and inquire now."
"Forget it, you don't need to guess. I know that the child has grown up and his wings have hardened. He wants to avenge his father." Nip waved his hand, mockingly, and snorted nonchalantly, "I just came back How long did it take to see the prime minister and the queen again, for fear that others would not know what he wanted to do. He already knew how his father died, and he would definitely lose his temper and want to tell the world and expose the crimes of my uncle. There will be a banquet in the harem in three days, and princes and ministers as well as relatives of the emperor will come to attend, then it is the best time for him to do something."
The loyal servant to the king immediately asked, "Has Your Majesty already had a countermeasure?"
Nip turned the wooden warehouse around in his hand, smiled and asked Gu Zhong: "Do you know what this is?"
Gu Zhong replied sternly: "Revolver wooden warehouse, multi-shot non-automatic wooden warehouse weapon, a backward weapon that has long been eliminated by the times."
Nip opened the bomb bay and loaded a bullet. After turning the bomb bay a few times, he suddenly pointed the wooden bay mouth at his temple.
In the exclamation that Gu Zhong had no time to stop, he pulled the trigger and fired five shots at his forehead!
However, only five crisp "clicks" were heard, but the expected bullet did not come out.
Revolver Mucang had a total of six rounds, but the first five rounds failed to fire. Nip was really lucky.
Gu Zhong was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, and asked in surprise, "Your Majesty, what is this?!"
Nip shrugged his shoulders easily, opened the bomb bay with a shake of his hand, took out the bullet inside, and pinched it with his fingertips.
"Don't worry, this gun has been improved by me. No matter how many times you turn it, the bullet will come out last."
Gu Zhong took a long breath, "It turns out that this is the case, the minister was frightened just now."
Nip chuckled, "Have you ever heard of a game?"
Gu Zhong was confused, "What?"
"It's a life-gambling game. Put a bullet in the revolver and aim it at your own head. If you shoot, I shoot. The person who gets shot will die and lose." Nip threw the gun to Gu Zhong, " On the day of the banquet, I will ask someone to gamble with Pei Yin, and then you will bring out this wooden barn."
Gu Zhong held the gun and thought for a while, then asked hesitantly: "How can you be sure, Your Majesty, that His Highness will agree to play this life-gamble game?"
Nip raised his eyebrows confidently, and his voice was piercingly cold, "No, I didn't let him play games, but let him have a way out. It's just that I have already blocked this way out."
Gu Zhong took the things the king gave him and left the palace. Nip also gave him other tasks. He boarded the aircraft and was about to take off. Suddenly, his consciousness sank, he fell into deep chaos, and collapsed on the driver's seat .
In the narrow control cabin, Lu Shi had been waiting for Gu Zhong for a long time this morning.
He got out from under the driver's seat and patted Gu Zhong's face, but Gu Zhong didn't respond.
"This hypnosis card is also very useful, and it's cheap. You only need 500 achievements to order one, and you can get a few more in another day."
Lu Shijin found the revolver from Gu Zhong's body and weighed it in his hand.
He knew the content of the secret conversation between Nip and Gu Zhong, but he didn't say what the gun does.
"Only the sixth shot can shoot the bullet." Lu Shijin pondered for a while without thinking, and complained angrily, "What the hell is this old bastard planning?"
711: "It wouldn't be a good idea anyway."
Lu Shijin curled his lips, "It's true."
He put away his gun, removed Gu Zhong from his seat, dragged him to the bathroom in the flight cabin, and bowed to Gu Zhong with his palms folded.
"I'm sorry big brother, but I wronged you to sleep here for a few days."
Then he ordered 711 to use a "makeover card" on himself, transforming himself into Gu Zhong's appearance.
Lu Shijin, who had a serious face, curled his lips and smiled brightly, "No matter what the old bastard's plan is, he will die in three days."
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Three days later, it was the annual opening of the palace and a grand palace banquet was held to celebrate the National Day.
On this day, all the princes, ministers and nobles with prestigious status will be invited to the palace for a banquet.
It can be said that this is a banquet where the power holders of the empire gather.
In the huge dressing room belonging to the king, Nip had just put on his uniform and was carelessly arranging the ribbon on his chest.
Gu Zhong took the initiative to go forward to help Nip straighten the ribbon behind him, while reporting the news he found: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is already in the banquet hall, and his personal guards are waiting outside the palace."
Nip: "Where's the queen?"
Gu Zhong: "Still changing clothes."
Nip snorted coldly: "It's troublesome for a woman to dress up. Let someone rush her. The banquet will start soon. Let her look at her son more." After all, we will never see each other again.”
Nip put on his hat and took a picture in the full-length mirror, very satisfied with his tall and mighty image.
"I asked you to tell Difen what he is going to do. Has he remembered everything clearly? Don't make any mistakes then."
Diffin is Nip's biological son, not born to Queen Cassia, but a child born to Nip and another female Omega.
"His Royal Highness is already clear," Gu Zhong said respectfully, "I believe that His Highness will not disappoint you with his intelligence."
Nip didn't have much trust in his son's IQ, but who made him have only one son.
Although Difen's aptitude was inferior to Pei Yin's by many times, the throne he finally won could not be easily returned.
Nip got a headache when he thought of that unworthy son, and frowned impatiently, "I hope so."
After Nip finished dressing, he walked to the dressing room, stopped halfway there, and told Gu Zhong behind him: "By the way, there will definitely be a riot at the banquet later, and you will take advantage of the chaos to get rid of the Prime Minister."
Gu Zhong was taken aback, "You mean Prime Minister Lu?"
Nip: "That's right, he has been in the position of Prime Minister for so many years and it's time for him to change. His son fell into the hands of the blood lord, and I can't and can't save him. Instead of leaving a hidden danger of betraying me at any time, It’s better to take this opportunity to eradicate directly.”
Gu Zhong blinked twice, lowered his head and said decisively: "Observe!"
At twelve o'clock at noon, the king and the queen entered the banquet hall on time accompanied by solemn etiquette and music. Everyone fell silent and saluted the two most noble people in the empire.
Gu Zhong, as Nip's personal entourage, has been following Nip every step of the way.
He quickly looked around the banquet hall, and saw Pei Yin in a white uniform among the crowd on his right.
The little prince changed into a handsome royal uniform, which made him look more personable and heroic, especially conspicuous among the crowd of Alphas.
The obvious contrast is another prince, Delan Diffin, who is also of royal blood, but Diffin is not only mediocre in appearance but also incompetent.
Not many nobles were optimistic about the prince's succession to the throne, so there were very few people around Difen.
Difen has been jealous of Pei Yin since he was a child, obviously he is Nip's own son, but Pei Yin is favored many times more than him.
But thinking that Pei Yin might not survive today, and that he would be the crown prince of the empire in the future, Difen couldn't help but feel happy, and proudly raised his chin again.
King Nip and Queen Cassia took the seat hand in hand, and Nip stood up with a toast and was about to deliver a speech announcing the start of the banquet.
Pei Yin suddenly stood out from the crowd and slowly walked forward with firm steps.
"A person who has usurped the throne by insidious means is not worthy of standing where only successive kings are qualified to stand."
Nip stopped raising his glass and looked at Pei Yin with a smile, "Son, what did you say?"
With a pale face, Cassia tightly grasped the armrest of the seat, and looked at her child beggingly, "Pein... please, don't..."
Pei Yin turned to face the crowd, "I say, Delan Nip, he is not worthy to stand here, not worthy to be the king of this country! Because," he pointed back and set the clang on the ground, "you are the murderer of the former king !"
There was a sudden murmur among the crowd.
"My God, what is he talking about, His Royal Highness? Is he crazy?"
"A bloody storm is coming, God bless!"
"Stay away, I don't want to be affected."
"Son, why did you get drunk before the banquet started?" Nip put down his glass, the smile on his thin face remained undiminished, and his tone was gentle, "The former king died in a plane crash, and we investigated it at that time. It was an accident."
"Whether it was an accident or not, you know best in your heart," Pei Yin said sternly, "You sent someone to tamper with that aircraft, all of this is your conspiracy!"
"Where's the evidence?!" Difen rushed out, pointing at Pei Yin angrily, "You said my father killed your father, you show the evidence! Who do you want to convict based on your few words? I think You are insane!"
"Stand back, Difen." Nip walked down, stood in front of Pei Yin, and patted Pei Yin on the shoulder, "I know you have a lot of dissatisfaction with me, and you have many doubts about the death of the late king, but Pei Yin, you You are eighteen years old, you are not a child anymore, adults should be responsible for your actions, understand?"
"Of course I understand," Pei Yin shook off his hand, "Of course I have evidence."
Pei Yin glanced in Cassia's direction, but Cassia just sat there with a terrified face and didn't intend to stand up to speak for him.
Pei Yin closed his eyes in disappointment, and ordered to the guard at the door: "Bring someone in!"
The guards led a middle-aged woman into the banquet hall, and all the ministers made way for the woman to walk in front of the king.
"Your name." Pei Yin asked the woman.
The woman said in a voice like a gnat, "Olly."
Pei Yin: "Identity."
Oli tremblingly raised her eyes to look at Cassia, then lowered her head hastily, "I used to serve the queen's maid."
Pei Yin: "Since you are the queen's maid, why did you become a fugitive?"
Ollie lowered her head deeply, and said with a trembling voice, "Because I know a secret of the Queen."
Difen suddenly sneered disdainfully, "Pein, you don't think you can convince us with the confession of a lowly maid? Who knows where you found this maid, or if it is You have already made a confession!"
Pei Yin said softly, "Whether Ollie's identity is real or not, the queen should know better than me."
"Son, you've gone too far," Nip said in a deep voice, "I can understand your resentment towards me, and I can understand your absurd behavior today, but are you forcing your mother to lie with you now? What do you want your queen mother to say? If she helps you, she will be unfaithful to her husband. If she doesn't help you, she will be unkind to you. You can hate me and resent me, but you can't hurt your mother who loves you so much!"
Cassia's eyes were filled with tears, she looked at Pei Yin and shook her head slightly, begging Pei Yin silently to stop talking.
"If you want your mother to become a disgraced slut, let Ollie tell the secret." Nip lowered his head and finished speaking in a voice that only he and Pei Yin could hear, raised his head and scolded Pei Yin with a serious face. , "Son, I have a clear conscience for you these years, and I have done everything a father should do. I don't expect you to be grateful to me, but I can't condone your willfulness. You know that you are now What are you doing? You are not only slandering me personally, you are slandering the king of a country!"
Pei Yin looked at Nip's hypocritical face with disgust, "You're still pretending, Nip, don't you think your acting is too disgusting?"
Nip's face sank, "I've finished what I had to say. Since you're still stubborn, there's nothing I can do about it. Families have their own rules, and the state has its own laws. Pei Yin, you can now fabricate a lie that I killed the former king, but I hope you can also bear the consequences of being exposed! Ministers, Pei Yin has no dignity, offends the emperor, and lacks virtue, what do you think should be done?"
"I think," Prime Minister Lu suddenly said loudly, "it's okay to listen to this maid's testimony!"
Nip was taken aback, and turned to look at Prime Minister Lu with a half-smile, "Is the Prime Minister serious? Are you going crazy with him too? This maid is a fugitive, and the fugitive can't say anything in order to survive? Any filthy words that come out will only pollute our ears!"
Prime Minister Lu lowered his eyes and said humbly: "It is about the death of the late king. I think we should be cautious. No matter what the maid's testimony is, I should let all the ministers listen to it and distinguish it. If what this woman said is true It is full of loopholes, and His Majesty can be cleared up after being identified, and I believe that there will be no such remarks to slander His Majesty's reputation in the future."
"Prime Minister Lu!" Difen walked up to the ministers with his head held high, proudly lifting his chin, "You are wrong, how can you let a fugitive pour dirty water on the king of a country casually? Pei Yin , you slandered my father and murdered your father, do you dare to vouch for what you said yourself?"
Pei Yin looked at Di Fen like he was looking at a clown, "Of course."
"Just dare!" Difen snorted, "I also dare to vouch for my father's character. Since it is a guarantee, you have to mortgage something. Pei Yin, don't you dare to fight with me?" Make a bet, use your life as a mortgage?"
Pei Yin didn't understand what Difen meant, so he frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"
Pei Yin was familiar with his cousin, who had always been timid and mediocre, so his sudden aggressive behavior today was a bit unusual.
Difen rolled his eyes in disdain, hooked his fingers towards Gu Zhong, and Gu Zhong obediently walked over, took out the revolver from his waist and handed it to Difen, then stepped back.
When passing by Pei Yin, Gu Zhong lowered his head and moved his lower lip quickly while everyone's attention was focused on the gun in Difen's hand.
Pei Yin heard Gu Zhong say three words to him.
"Bet him."