Chapter 35 The Crown Prince Position

  I waited at the Wang Fu for a whole day, but Xuan Yuan Wu didn't return. I sent someone to Qi Wang Fu to ask about it and found out that Qi Wang Fu had been surrounded by the Imperial Guard, with Qi Wang still inside. It wasn't until midnight that Xuan Yuan Wu finally returned, dragging his tired body back.

  "How is it?" I looked worried, he had done so much and couldn't fail.

  "The Crown Prince has been deposed and is now in prison. The Crown Princess deliberately miscarried and plotted against me, but fortunately, Princess Yuhua testified on my behalf, so the crisis was averted. What a harrowing day! I'm finally relieved." Xuan Yuan collapsed onto the chair.

  I handed him a cup of iced tea and placed it in his palm: "Then can you return to the palace now?"

  Xuanyuan shook his head: "It's not clear yet, the ministers need to discuss it. After all, the eldest prince has been guarding the border for so many years, and even if he doesn't have any achievements, he does have hardships. If it weren't for his mother being of humble birth, this position of crown prince would have been his long ago."

  I let out a soft sigh and reached out to gently stroke Xuan Yuan's tightly furrowed brow.

  Xuanyuan Qi was demoted because of the corpse-raising incident. Tomorrow, the national teacher will send someone to salvage Princess Ruolan's body from the water, but I don't know how to deal with it?

  "Didn't Xue Qiufeng say to get rid of her corpse energy and let her rest in peace?" Although this 'female' corpse has harmed me three or four times, I still hope she can have a good outcome in my heart. After all, the things she encountered were all forced upon her.

  "It's probably too late for that, as the Imperial Tutor has already sent people to surround the Qi Wang Fu and cut off all escape routes. It's impossible to safely bring out the 'female' corpse now." Xuan Yuan sighed.

  "Who is behind ordering the prince to kill Princess Yulan?" I asked curiously.

  "He didn't say, he couldn't have said it, the person who can influence the position of the crown prince must be a high-ranking official. He wouldn't have said it if he wanted to stay alive, saying it would only lead to death." A cold smile appeared on Xuan Yuan Mu's face.

  "It's too complicated, the imperial court is indeed unpredictable!"

  "The crown prince is determined that it's a 'private' grudge. Yesterday, the national teacher let him shut up, just to hide their relationship. This matter must be related to the national teacher." Xuan Yuan Mu closed his eyes and said in a low voice: "I don't know why, but I always feel that Yu Lan's death, Xuan Yuan Zi's death, and my own death are all planned by others... although we are princes, we don't even have the right to live..."

  I frowned, looking at Xuan Yuan Mu leaning on the chair, and reached out to hold his hand. I understood that kind of desolation and helplessness. Since childhood, I had lost my mother, and my father didn't care about me. Everyone called me Fifth Miss, but they made me do chores that even a maid wouldn't want to do. No one listened when I cried, no one looked when I smiled. A person was either helpless or lonely.

  But I'm still alive, what about Xuan Yuan? As a prince, he ended up like this, and the murderer might be his own biological father. This pain is thousands of times more bitter than mine.

  The next day, Xuan Yuan Mu also went to the imperial palace early, and I also asked Zhang Mama to send someone to investigate the news from that side.

  The eldest prince is far away, has already sent a letter by carrier pigeon, giving up the position of crown prince. In this case, there is no other candidate for the crown prince except Xuan Yuan Mu, but the emperor hesitates to issue an imperial edict.

  It wasn't until five more days had passed that the Emperor, under pressure from his many ministers, was forced to issue an imperial edict proclaiming Xuan Yuan Mu as the Crown Prince of Tiancang.

  The ceremony of granting titles was very grand, Xuan Yuan led the two side consorts to walk towards the high platform, and I stood with Xue Qiufeng as his servants behind the crowd.

  "Snow sister, at this time, I just realized the importance of status. If you were still a princess, the center of attention today would be you, and those two women wouldn't even have a place!" Xue Qiufeng said with a smirk.

  "Is it useful?" I glared at him.

  "How come you're not proud, look at those 'ladies' opposite us, which one isn't looking at you with envy? Let's just say your mother's family is the Left Prime Minister's estate, look at them, they're all smiling smugly, without knowing how much humiliation their own daughter suffered in Xuan Yuan Mu's place."

  "Never mind, there are so many people!" Xue Qiufeng was just a chatterbox, and in a short while, he started talking again.

  "By the way, when I was moving today, I found that Yang Qing Dai is not simple at all?" Xue Qiufeng said as if he had discovered a new continent.

  "What's wrong?" I slightly furrowed my brow, almost becoming the former crown prince's concubine Yang Qing Dai?

  "I dare say she's practicing witchcraft, I saw paper people and talismans in her room! Today when I passed by the entrance of her courtyard, I saw her burning something in the courtyard. Upon closer inspection, it was actually a paper person. No wonder those paper people kept appearing at the Wang Manor before, I'm sure she's behind it."

  My eyebrows furrowed even tighter as I watched Yang Qingdai, dressed in red, walk towards the rear palace with her head held high amidst the crowd of stars and moon.

  "Haha, she may have some skills, but compared to me, it's like a small trick versus a grand magic show. How about this? With just one spell from me, her paper man can't move anymore... and when moving house, they still need to hide from people burning them..."

  Xue Qiufeng was still muttering, I pulled him and said: "It's over, hurry up and follow me to help the prince change his clothes. Later, we will also receive congratulations from envoys of various countries!"

  The grand ceremony of the imperial seal was tedious and dragged on, plus a hundred tables of banquets, thank-you banquets, diplomatic corps banquets, inside and out, it took three days to finish.

  In the Eastern Palace, the red candles flickered, and the two princes' consorts had already gone to sleep early. Xuan Yuan leaned against me with a tired body: "My body can't eat normally, after drinking so much wine, I'm afraid tomorrow I'll have to return to the small building!"

  Hearing his weak words, I felt uncomfortable too: "Are you sick?"

  "No way, let's go back now, I'm uncomfortable!" After finishing speaking, he started vomiting.

  Xuan Yuan Mu made arrangements for the secret service, then had Xue Qiufeng guard the East Palace, and took me to the black bamboo forest outside the West City. We returned to the small building, where the blurry flesh-and-blood Xuan Yuan Mu greeted us. Xuan Yuan Mu endured his physical discomfort and fell into the stone coffin, this was the best place for him to recover from his injuries.

  I'm worried, leaning on the carved flower bed and looking at the stone coffin outside. Xuan Yuan said that his physical condition is very poor, and I don't know how long this undead corpse can last. Even simple things like eating and drinking in front of him are poisonous.

  The sky was getting darker, and Xuan Yuan Mu's blurry figure slowly walked downstairs with a weak breath. He didn't look comfortable, as if he wouldn't be comfortable either.

  I leaned against the 'bed' edge, and somehow fell asleep. At night, the wind was very cool, I felt someone carrying me onto the 'bed', gently rubbing against my neck.

  I slightly opened my eyes and looked at Xuan Yuan Mu in front of me: "Are you feeling better?"

  "It's all right!" Xuan Yuan Mu also lay beside me, 'kissing' my face, my neck, his falling 'kisses' gradually becoming more urgent: "Ling Xue, when are we going to worship heaven and earth?"

  "Why are you always worried about trivial things?" I stroked his eyebrows, his eyes.

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