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Without any sound, he controlled the border trial and maintained the name of Duan Feng.

Duan Chengrui lived in Duan Feng's house, so the people who tried to rebel and spread the news had already become fertilizer under the flower beds in the courtyard. The only people by his side who took care of his daily life were Feng Yue and his two trusted aides.

"I don't think that His Highness really knows your identity, he's just probing you." Feng Yue was half-kneeling beside a low table. She arranged the food in the food box neatly on one side of the table, and on the other side were numerous and miscellaneous official documents, as well as a few small finger-sized bamboo tubes.

Inside the opened bamboo tube was a letter from Gu Tinyan.

Every word she said was completely recorded. Only because Duan Chenrui was worried that she was too smart, she thought of a plan to escape.

"I think she does know something." The corners of Duan Chengrui's mouth curled up and he raised his hand to indicate that there was no need for Feng Yue to continue serving the meal. He stood up while holding the note. "I need to go see her."

Feng Yue widened her eyes slightly. "You must stay behind to handle important matters."

Duan Chengrui stopped walking and looked indifferently at Feng Yue who was beside him. "Feng Yue."

"Your subordinate has overstepped his boundaries." Feng Yue hurriedly lowered her head, returning the dishes back into the food box. "This subordinate only thinks that even though that Your Highness is important, right now, with Duan Feng imprisoned, Lord Gu Cheng will definitely send a message. We can't leave without you."

As soon as he finished speaking, Duan Chengrui went silent for a moment before returning, and Feng Yue followed and heaved a sigh of relief.

She had never seen His Highness act this way before, but she knew that Madam Chang, who was supposed to be held in the palm of her hand, was now imprisoned within the mansion due to numerous matters. She was extremely muddle-headed, and even Yue Qing was no longer trusted.

Duan Chengrui sat back down, and Feng Yue wordlessly continued to serve the dishes, but the door was knocked.

"Your Highness, they sent someone over." The trusted aide outside the door said.

"Enter." He himself, on the other hand, continued to sit in front of the table with a bowl and chopsticks in his hands. Waiting until the door opened, a tall and big man walked in; he was one of Gu Cheng's rather simple and honest sons, with a different father's name and was called Qian Ze.

Qian Ze had always been a lackey for Gu Cheng, and he had never been treated like his son.

Even when Feng Yue took away the empty food box, he raised her head and followed with her eyes until Feng Yue closed the door. Only then did he turn around and say, "Father said that he didn't send troops over for Duan Feng at that time, and it can be considered as a show of good faith."

"If you say the word 'sincerity', then I would've helped your father get out of the predicament and wanted to know the news regarding Jiang Yan that year." But who would have thought that after working secretly with me for so many years and then abandoning me, we only received news about it in the past two years. " Duan Chengrui didn't even glance at the official document as he looked at it, not putting Qian Ze in his eyes at all.

Qian Ze was dumbstruck. After thinking for a long time, he finally continued, "But father has helped you scout for four news these past few years. Why is this not considered sincere anymore? Even though you have the help of Gu Pingyan in the imperial court, but my father has been secretly nurturing you. Even the news of this border area and the soldiers were carefully analyzed by my father back then, could this not be considered as sincerity? "

It was not bad to raise this silly son of his to pass on the message.

At this moment, Duan Chengrui raised his head and sized up Qian Ze before him. "You're right, but I wish to cooperate with your father now. In the future, your father will be my subordinate as well."

"That won't do. My father is now the emperor, and in the future he will be a subject. In the future, won't I have to point out his spine and point his fingers at his fingers?" "Moreover, my father wants me to make a deal with you. If you agree to it, he'll personally send a letter to you, and if you don't, there's no way to talk about it. But you and I haven't even started talking about it yet, and you've already started to set conditions!"

Qian Ze's eyes widened as he stared fixedly at Duan Chenrui. Both his fists were clenched so tightly that cracking sounds could be heard.

Raising his brows, Duan Chengrui put down the thing in his hand and asked, "If that's the case, what does he want?"

"When you ascend to the throne in the future, naturally, you will hand over the method of immortality to him. He will naturally live in seclusion in the mountain forests, and only when you die will he come out of the mountain and change his appearance." Qian Ze raised up his two hands, each word resounding with power.

"As long as I get Gu Liuyan, all of this will be nothing to me." Duan Chengrui raised his lips, lightly tapping the table with his fingertips.

The door behind Qian Ze immediately opened, and Feng Yue walked in empty-handed to pay her respects. She then said, "This subordinate will send Lord Qian Ze back to report …"

"Wait!" Beside him, Qian Ze quickly stood up. "Your Highness, Father said he still needs your help!"

"Speak." Duan Chengrui made a gesture of 'please' with his hand.

Father suspects that Gu Sheng and Gu Zi Shi are working together to rebel, but if he kills his own son now, the other children would definitely be worried and would not dare to be so loyal, so I hope that you can help us, the best would be to kill both Gu Sheng and Gu Zi Wu, I found traces of them along the way, please help me, Your Highness. As he spoke, Qian Ze placed a piece of paper that was already written down on the table.

Duan Chengrui frowned and looked at the person in front of him, "Gu Sheng and Gu Zixian, they can still be considered your brothers and sisters."

"What brothers and sisters? As long as you betray your father, you are all traitors!" Qian Ze's honest face revealed a disdainful smile, but the contempt in his voice struck Duan Chengrui's heart.

He thought, even if he was willing to do anything for the throne, he had never harmed a single one of his siblings.

In his heart, he thought about what Gu Mingyan had told him back then, which made him even more unwilling to personally kill his father. He could only hope to pull her down with a lot of troops.

Nodding in agreement, Duan Chengrui spoke up again before Qian Ze left. "Your father will definitely be your mother that loves you deeply, that's why you can be so loyal, right?"

"My mother is a traitor. My father would never love a traitor, he would only kill useless women like her." After Qian Ze finished speaking with an innocent expression, he followed Feng Yue and left.

Duan Chengrui sat alone on the table as he called his trusted aide over, "Let me ask you, if I don't want to harm royal father and only hope to force him to abdicate to me, do you think that would work?"

His trusted aide's face was calm as he shook his head, "Your Highness, you can't be merciful."

"You may leave." Duan Chengrui rubbed the center of his brows as he watched his trusted aide disappear from his sight. Only then did the corners of his mouth rise, "If Yan'Er was here, she would definitely say that I'm a woman's woman."