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Very few people knew what Gu Liuyan was thinking.

At this moment, she slowly got up and walked around the table with light steps as if she was walking in front of Duan Feng.

The eyes of Duan Feng, who had supported himself on the table with one hand just a moment ago and had taken off his mask, were now filled with coldness. "Now that Duan Chengxuan is willing to help you win the throne, I can pretend to be in love with you. Shouldn't you give me some rewards by placing bets on the imperial court?"

Although his voice was low, it did not sound weak at all.

Duan Feng raised her eyebrows and said: "I have yet to say anything to you. After knowing Duan Chengxuan's intentions, Mu Qing became my servant and Su Yuwan even helped me. But now, Su Yuwan has kept quiet about what you have said and Mu Qing has kept quiet as well."

It turned out that Su Yuwan and Mu Qing had long since found someone else.

He only thought that Gu Cheng was the one who had snatched the five points away from him, while the other five points were only due to luck. Thinking this way, she no longer tried to cover it up: "Gu Cheng is so loyal to you, yet you still want to act in front of him?"

"Who would like a chess piece who has his own opinions? Besides, I have the bloodline of the Duan Dynasty flowing in my body. He's only a mother who admires me, so how much can I trust him for that?" Duan Feng sneered coldly. She raised her hand to try and grab Gu Mingyan's wrist, but the latter dodged it without a trace.

"Now, I don't know what you want either."

"Can you see that I'm not what I seem to be? You can't even see my purpose?" Duan Feng did not stand up in anger, but the expression on her face made Gu Tinyan feel very strange.

This kind of aura made him look more like a thirty to forty year old middle-aged man who had experienced many things. He didn't look like a little kid who was close to twenty.

Gu Danyan took a step back and checked if his bones weren't as they used to be. In the next moment, the person in front of him leaned forward, and the tip of his nose almost collided with the person's. Gu Danyan was startled and stared at him with wide eyes, but his back was already pressed against the wall: "You …"

Was there anyone else from anywhere like her?

This thought frightened her, but Duan Feng had already spoken in a soft voice, "The third time I was assassinated, I already knew everything. Duan Cong was not worthy of being a father or emperor, and when those eunuchs and maids pointed at my nose and said that I might not be the son of Duan Cong, I swore."

"I want to pull him down from his current position. I want to destroy this wrong Duan Dynasty."

As he finished speaking, Duan Feng's hand had already fiercely grabbed onto Gu Danyan's neck. "You're the person Duan Chengxuan loves the most, but you don't know in the slightest that only Duan Chengxuan can do whatever he wants without a care. We don't even have a shred of protection from royal father."

So it turned out that the only person that truly wanted to obtain the throne was Duan Chengrui.

Beneath Duan Cong's fatherly face was a hidden deceit of the palace, and the words that were comparable to sharp blades had long since sliced these princes into pieces. Only Duan Chengxuan was the only one who received the affection of a brother.

Regardless of whether it was Duan Chengrui's obsession with her due to his loneliness, or the love Duan Chengye had at first sight, or even the light that Duan Chengye gave his when he was living under the shadow of Duan Chengxuan, after that, it all changed into unwillingness towards that lofty halo of Duan Chengxuan's and his pursuit of her, until now, he was completely controlled by others.

Even Duan Feng was the same.

There was no place to return to for the unprotected.

"Just because of Duan Chengxuan's luck, do you all have the qualifications to blame him one by one?" This time, Gu Liuyan actually leaned against the wall obediently with a torch-like gaze: "It's not that Duan Chengxuan took everything, but only if all of you think like this. Only then will you feel better. But when all of you are in a mess, and when war is about to break out, you will no longer be worthy of the word 'prince'. So, what reason would you have to ascend to the throne? "

Duan Feng frowned as the corners of her mouth continued to curve, "So we failed the negotiations?"

The hand on his neck suddenly tightened, Gu Daiyan finally knew the reason why he dared to attack her.

Since that was the case, he could of course use his own death to add fuel to the fire to ignite the war. Even in the face of imminent death, Gu Cheng was still a good scapegoat — a prime minister who betrayed the country.

"I don't want to die yet." The desire to live made Gu Daiyan grab Duan Feng's wrist, her eyes filled with panic.

She couldn't keep her cool to deal with these sudden situations.

Only then did Duan Feng relax a bit. "So you know how to beg for mercy."

"If your goal is the Emperor, of course I believe that you will make good use of me. But with things as it is, what kind of deal do you want me to make? " If one really had to calculate it, Duan Cong was Duan Cheng Xuan's respected brother. How could she possibly help Duan Yin deal with him?

"The secret of immortality." Duan Feng's hand slid from Gu Panyan's neck to his shoulder, saying in a low voice, "This can be considered as my gratitude to Gu Cheng."

"Didn't you tell me the truth so that I could use it for you?" Gu Daiyan chuckled. Her fingertips touched her aching neck, but she noticed that Duan Feng did not continue. She said, "Fighting alone must be tiring."

Duan Guolao looked at her with that young and dissatisfied gaze.

"I only told you this because the empress dowager wanted to get rid of you." Duan Feng spoke in such a manner, and before the door opened, she left behind a simple sentence: "The Duan Clan's inheritance has always been to kick away the people of the Yun Clan with one kick."

So that's how it was.

Gu Danyan laughed bitterly. She should have known that everything that happened was not all the work of Duan Chengxuan and Duan Cong since the day she found out about the yellow paper bones and the suicidal incident.

However, he didn't expect that Duan Feng's current reason was that he was an enemy of his enemy.

She still wanted to live, and she might need to waste some time.

However, when Yu Zhi returned to her side, her heart was a barren wasteland.

After so many years of painstaking efforts, she had long been exhausted.

The next person who walked in was Gu Cheng, who was holding a letter. The letter in his hand was not hard to see that it was a secret letter that had come from Duan Chengrui's hand, although he could only clearly read a few words.

"This is the price for the trade. You can only see Duan Chengxuan, and we'll all be watching from the side." Gu Cheng looked warily at Gu Danyan.

"Duan Cheng Xuan actually values me so much?" She had only tidied up her clothes, yet she had taken off the jade hairpin and used a simple jade hairpin to tie up her hair. It made Yu Zhi frown. If it wasn't for Yu Su pulling her hand, perhaps she would have done something.

"Let's go."