"Yes, join forces." Li Yanyan repeated.
The fingertips holding the tea bowl moved slightly, and Shen Xihe tilted his head to look at the incense burner next to him, "Why?"
"We have a common enemy." Li Yanyan said.
She is a princess of a fallen country, and it was His Majesty who caused her to lose her country.
Shen Xihe is the daughter of a king of a different surname. Your Majesty cannot tolerate the Northwest, and the relationship is already hostile.
"You are wrong." Shen Xihe corrected, "You and His Majesty are enemies, not enemies."
Enemies merely have conflicting interests and they don’t necessarily fight to the death; but enemies are mortal enemies.
"Whether it's an enemy or a foe, they are the same person." Li Yanyan didn't care about this difference.
Shen Xihe smiled slightly: "You don't understand what I mean. As long as your majesty doesn't attack the northwest, I will not kill the king, but you want your majesty's life no matter what. You and I are different in nature, and we have different paths and cannot make plans together."
Shen Xihe had no ill feelings towards Li Yanyan, nor did she have any good feelings towards her. She had not experienced the pain of Li Yanyan's country's demise, and did not comment on her actions. But in order to seek revenge, she teamed up with Xiao Changtai and even covered up Xiao Changtai's tomb robbery and profiting from the dead. Shen Xihe could not agree with this, which had violated basic human conscience.
Put yourself in her shoes. If someone else dug up the graves of her closest ancestors in order to achieve their goals, Shen Xihe would tear that person into pieces!
"Heh." Li Yanyan smiled softly. She looked Shen Xihe up and down. "You remind me of someone."
Shen Xihe did not respond, she knew who Li Yanyan was talking about.
"The late Princess Xin was also so stupid." Li Yanyan was very disdainful of Gu Qingzhi. "If she had taken the initiative, if she had taken precautions earlier, the Gu family might not have ended up like this. I always thought that there were not many people like her in the world..."
As she spoke, Li Yanyan looked at Shen Xihe strangely: "Are all the noble ladies in your Celestial Empire so self-righteous and pedantic? Your Majesty's intentions are obvious, so how can you just sit there and wait for death?"
"As for Princess Xin, she is dead now, so I won't comment on her." Shen Xihe avoided Gu Qingzhi, "What happened to me has nothing to do with the Third Princess."
Li Yanyan thought the regicide was too simple. It was true that Northwest and Emperor Youning could not coexist, but Shen Xihe would not tell Li Yanyan this because they did not have such a close relationship.
"Why don't you listen to my sincerity?" Li Yanyan looked at Shen Xihe.
Shen Xihe tapped the tea bowl with his fingertips and laughed softly, "Sincerity? Does Your Majesty want the Third Prince to test the East Palace?"
Li Yanyan's pupils suddenly shrank, and she looked at Shen Xihe with disbelief, who was smiling faintly.
"Your Majesty will let you go, of course your crimes are not punishable by death. But His Majesty now suspects His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and the Third Prince is the most peaceful person. Letting him take action will be the best way to catch the enemy off guard." Shen Xihe smiled confidently and calmly, as if she was shrouded in a layer of light, making her look sacred and inviolable. "This time, His Majesty already suspected His Royal Highness the Crown Prince about Xiao Changtai's matter, and you and your wife were involved. It would be best to use you two."
Restraining her emotions, Li Yanyan smiled in appreciation: "Princess Zhaoning, you are indeed the one who can make Princess Yangling die silently."