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Chen was silent for a long time, before saying: "I only have Su Er, a child, and I do not wish for his future days to be tied to the hatred of Nanzhao, which is not something he should bear."

Dong Mei said in a cold voice, "Prince saving you from West Chu is already the end of your benevolence. If you still have any conscience, you shouldn't pester Prince any longer."

Mu Qian Xue did not think that it was just a smile. After looking around, she suddenly asked, "Grand Consort, can I ask you a question?"

"Is the King Rui really as unimportant as he said?"

The hand Chen was holding the tea cup, slightly shaking. "What does this mean?"

"The King Rui is brave and outstanding. They have the skills to lead troops, and although they seem to be unreasonable, they are actually kind and compassionate. They are kind and righteous, and Qianxue just could not understand why such a person could not enter the eyes of the Emperor Cheng."

"Su Er has a silent personality, and is not good at words. As a matriarch, there's nothing I can do to help him, plus, the previous heirs and heirs are all more capable than Su Er, so the previous emperors inevitably ignored Su Er, causing him to suffer a lot."

Although the change in Chen's expression was extremely subtle, Mu Qian Xue had still noticed it, allowing her to confirm that her guess for the past few days was not wrong, "I'm afraid that Emperor Cheng is intentionally ignoring King Rui, and you are clear about this point."

No matter how calm and composed Chen was, upon hearing all this, her expression could not help but change. As for Dong Mei, he stared at Mu Qian Xue in disbelief, she could not understand, this was the first time she had met, how did she know about this, only she and Chen knew about it, and even Dong Fang Su himself was kept in the dark.

"Where did this Princess hear all these words?" When the biggest secret in his heart was revealed, even the usually calmest Chen found it hard to maintain her calm.

"It doesn't matter where you learn it from. The important thing is that Grand Consort thinks that we can hide this secret for a long time. Twenty years? Or maybe … You can't hide it from us for even a year. "

"I don't know where Princess heard all this, but I can tell Princess that there's no such thing."

"Grand Consort can deny this matter, but just like what Qianxue said just now, there is no eternal secret in this world, so how long can I keep this a secret?"

Chen tried her best to suppress the trembling of her fingertips, but it only got more intense. The wind blew in from outside the long window and blew away the silver tassels hanging from the sides of Chen's hair.

All these years, the Chen was always worried that this secret would be exposed, but she never would have thought that it was actually revealed by a woman who met her for the first time and didn't have anything to do with the Dazhou at all.

"Who the hell are you?" Dong Mei looked at Mu Qian Xue as if she was looking at a monster.

Mu Qian Xue did not say anything, she only looked at Chen quietly. The latter clenched his fists, and raised his eyes: "What do you want?"

Qianxue understood that the Grand Consort's Protector did not wish for the King Rui to be in danger, but please be direct with me. As long as this secret still exists, the King Rui will not have any true peace, so the Grand Consort should be more clear of this point than Qianxue. "

"It would be less dangerous without you, wouldn't it?" Under the slightly gloomy sky, the Chen's eyes were ice-cold like they had never been before.

Mu Qian Xue spread out her wide sleeves and faintly said: "Everything has two sides to it, and this round is no exception. Whether I am in danger or not, depends on how Grand Consort sees it."

Dong Mei scoffed at her words, "Double? Could it be that staying behind would benefit the King Rui? "

Mu Qian Xue laughed but did not speak, she only continued to drink the fragrant tea, and just as she was about to reach the bottom, the Chen broke the stifling silence in the hall, "You really won't harm Su Er?"

"King Rui has saved both my life and his. Although I want revenge, I will not waste it on King Rui's life. On the contrary, I will do my best to ensure his safety and to resolve his crisis."

The Chen pursed her pale lips and said sorrowfully, "Even the late emperor can't solve this crisis, how can a woman like you solve it?" This sentence, was tantamount to indirectly admitting the words Mu Qian Xue had said before.

The cold treatment that Dong Fang Su had suffered since he was young, was not something that Emperor Cheng neglected, but rather, it was done intentionally to protect Dong Fang Su's peace.

"What happened was man-made, there's nothing wrong, it's definitely impossible." After pausing for a while, Mu Qian Xue said in an extremely slow tone of voice, "The late emperor was worried about … But the Weiss family? "

Dong Mei blurted out, "How do you know?" Before she finished speaking, she had already realized that she had spoken the wrong words. Unfortunately, it was already late in the night, so she could only stand there with a white face full of fear and unease.

Chen glanced at Dong Mei, then shifted her gaze onto Mu Qian Xue, "Who told you all of this?"

"A hundred years ago, Emperor Taizu conquered the entire continent of the Central Plains on his horse for half of his life, and from then on, he became the strongest nation in all the lands of the Central Plains. At that time, Emperor Taizu fought in the mountains together with the four great clans of Xu, Li, Nan Gong, and Wei. For over a hundred years, the two clans of Xu, Li, and Li had lost all their lineage and bloodline, and twenty years ago, only a few branch bloodline remained. Half of the land is in the hands of the Wechsler. "

Hearing that, Chen could no longer sit still, she suddenly stood up and shouted: "Impudent, why are you still not speaking!"

Mu Qian Xue covered her lips with a sleeve and coughed a few times. Facing the Chen's terrified gaze, she slowly got up, "Qianxue can naturally shut her mouth, and can even forget about it forever after stepping out of Sedum. But Grand Consort will live under the shadow of Wechsler for his entire life, and will be constantly worried that someone will discover the secret that you have hidden everywhere.

"Enough, enough!" Dong Mei did not know how to comfort her, and could only tightly hold onto her ten fingers that were cold like the crescent moon's ice. But wasn't Xia Yue's own hands also as cold as ice?

A drop of rain fell on the evenly painted windowsill. The sky was even darker than it had been before, and there was a dull thunder in the air. From time to time, silver snakes would pass through the thick clouds.

"Tell me, who is it?" Chen's brows wrinkled like mountains, and no longer had a trace of calmness on her face. She really could not think of what had happened that year, and how Mu Qian Xue, the first Princess to come to Jinling, found out about it.