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The emperor's eyes flashed with grief. "You …" Do you know who Chu Zongge is? "

Chu Lingyun wiped the tears on his face with her sleeve and looked at him fiercely: "I have a lot of Royal Brother, he is just one of them."

"He's not only your Royal Brother," the Emperor said excitedly as he raised a finger to point at Chu Zongge. "He's also your blood brother, you two are siblings!"

Chu Zongge, who was originally watching the show with an indifferent expression, was now stunned on the spot. Chu Lingyun also opened her eyes wide in disbelief as she looked at him in a daze.

"How could that be," Chu Lingyun said hoarsely, "I am the empress's daughter."

"No, you are not," the Emperor took a deep breath. "You are the daughter of Mrs. Heyi Liu Chengyun, and not the empress."

Chu Zongge's face was full of surprise as he asked, "How could a princess and this son have the same mother? How did she become a child that isn't a empress?"

"Back then, the birth date of the Queen and the Yun Niang was similar, they were only separated by a day's worth of labor," the Emperor said with bloodshot eyes. "The day before Yun Niang gave birth to a female baby, the day after the Queen gave birth to a stillborn baby, just like the day at Consort Hua."

Chu Lingyun hurriedly shook her head, "That's impossible, the one who gave birth to the dead child was obviously Liu Chengyun!"

"It's not the Yun Niang, it's the Empress," the Emperor gritted his teeth, as if the scene that happened all those years ago was right before his eyes, "After the Yun Niang gave birth to you, her body was weakened, and he heard that the Empress gave birth to a stillborn child, so he begged me to give you to the Queen and have her raise you.

It was no wonder that when the Emperor met the two of them, he called them "you two siblings." So there was actually such a profound mystery involved.

Chu Lingyun quickly turned her head and glared at him, "I am not your sister."

Chu Zongge saw the hatred in her eyes and shrugged. "Little Yun, didn't you hear what Royal Father said?

Chu Lingyun spoke coldly, enunciating word by word, "Royal Father, are you afraid that I would be punished like you, that's why you changed me to your birth mother?"

"The mistakes your mother committed have nothing to do with you. We will not punish you," the Emperor reached out his hand with incomparable pain. "We only told you that it was because we didn't want to see you two fight …"

Chu Lingyun avoided his hand lightly and said resolutely, "Who said it has nothing to do with me?"

Chu Zongge sighed softly in his heart. It seemed that Chu Lingyun was going to confess the mistake she had committed.

"mother poisoned Noble Consort Kang and the poison inside her body," Chu Lingyun's face revealed a look of despair as she kneeled down, "I sent this poison to her from the Chiron, and I am willing to accept the punishment."

The Emperor looked at her in surprise. "How could you do such a thing?"

Chu Lingyun said in an innocent voice, "The Prince Jin and I will not be able to stop the crown prince."

"You …" The Emperor pounded his desk painfully. "How could you be so confused? What does their ascension have to do with you!"

Chu Lingyun forced out a bitter smile, "It has nothing to do with me? Could it be that Royal Father thinks that when Prince Jin or I ascend to the throne, there will be a place for me and mother? "

Looking at his painful expression, Chu Zongge felt pity in his heart. "Even if I have to ascend to the throne one day, I will respect the empress for my love and care for my royal sister, furthermore, this can't possibly happen."

Chu Lingyun laughed coldly, "In front of Royal Father, what you say sounds so nice. Who knows if you will hurt her or not if you take charge of all the rivers and mountains in the future."

"We will not hand over the throne to the Prince Jin at all. Why do you have to go through so much trouble?"

"Then will you pass the throne down to the Prince Duan? If the Prince Jin isn't with the death of the crown prince, then the only one left in the palace is the Prince Duan. Chu Lingyun asked with tears in her eyes.

Chu Zongge could not help but be moved, this was something he had always wanted to know.

The Emperor looked at Prince Duan with a complicated gaze and said hesitantly, "... You don't have to worry about that. "

"How could I not care about that? Since young, my understanding of national affairs has been much higher than that of the Prince Jin's Crown Prince and even the Prince Duan's," Chu Lingyun said in a teary voice, "I am not your little princess, I am an independent person. How can you ignore my existence just because of a woman?"

Chu Zongge found it hard to conceal his astonishment. Chu Lingyun's goal was not to help the crown prince, but rather to stay in the Eastern Palace, this princess who was highly favored by the emperor and had many struggles after the death of the crown prince.

The emperor was equally shocked. "How can you have such thoughts? You're the princess of the Great Qin Empire, not a prince of the Great Qin Empire. How can you be the ruler?"

"I only want to ask one thing. Is it because of the girl that Royal Father is unwilling to not recruit me?" Chu Lingyun's eyes flashed with certainty. "If that's the case, then I'm willing to never marry, to compete with Prince Duan or other princes for power."

The emperor gave her a deep look. "Zhen …" I think it's better for you to be a princess of the Great Qin Empire. "

Chu Lingyun opened her eyes wide, and asked in a trembling voice, "Why?

"No," the emperor's eyes dimmed, "You are a very smart child, even smarter than the Prince Duan. It's just that being able to rule the country and rule the world is not something that can be solved by being smart."

Chu Lingyun still did not give up, "Then why?"

"You are not as clumsy as the crown prince, nor are you as stubborn as the Prince Duan. When you were young, you always liked to play a little trick on me. Actually, I know that you do not want to expose me," the emperor faintly said.

"What about the Prince Duan?" Chu Lingyun clenched her teeth, "Is the Prince Duan suitable for his to be king?"

Chu Zongge trembled, he immediately became spirited, and held his breath as he waited for his reply.

The Emperor glanced at him and changed the subject. "This isn't something you should be concerned about."

"Royal Father didn't want to tell me anything, he only treated me like a beautiful doll and hung me by his side for fun," Chu Lingyun said with tears in her eyes, "Now I understand, that I actually existed by Royal Father's side in place of him."

The emperor's face carried a trace of sullenness. "Since when did This Emperor see you as a substitute for your mother? This Emperor loves the daughter of a woman he loves, and it is also my fault if This Emperor dotes on his eldest daughter. Little Yun, watch your words! "

Chu Lingyun was still unrelenting, "Do you really think I'm your daughter? Do you think I'm on the same level as you?"

"I don't know where you learned all this nonsense," the Emperor said, gritting his teeth in anger. "Children are indeed better carried by their birth mothers. Tell the Empress Chen to make you into such a tricky person."

Chu Lingyun sneered a few times: "In the end, mother was the one who raised me to adulthood.

The emperor was momentarily at a loss for words, but after a moment of silence, he brushed his sleeves and said, "Go back first. We still have to go to Changchun Palace to interrogate the empress, and secretly deliver the poison. We will properly find you and get to the bottom of this."

The corner of Chu Lingyun's eyes was filled with tears as she laid on the ground weakly, trembling.

"I have already told you the truth. Zang Ge, help your little sister go back," the Emperor said with a pained heart. "Take good care of her."

Chu Zongge covered the disappointment on her face and reached out to help Chu Lingyun, but she quickly dodged it.

"No need," Chu Lingyun stood up coldly, and walked out without looking back, "I'll go back by myself."

The hazy moonlight quietly enveloped the palace, and the diamond-like star light flickered on the edge of the black cloud.

Xue Ronghua had been waiting in the Xinyang Hall for a long time now, but she finally saw the shadow of a lamp appearing outside the palace door. "How was it," she anxiously asked.

Chu Zongge touched her cheeks with a smile and lightly nodded.

"That's great," Xue Ronghua cheered and shouted. "I've finally pulled her down, then what about the princess, did she admit that she sent the poison from the Chiron?"

"The princess admits it too," Chu Zongge said hesitantly. "It's just that the emperor told me that Chu Lingyun is actually the sister of a fellow countryman of my mother's, a child borne by the Mrs. Heyi."

"How could it be the Mrs. Heyi's child?" Xue Ronghua could not close her mouth in shock. "Then wouldn't the Empress Chen have raised a daughter of the enemy for more than ten years?"

"Yes, this news probably reached Empress Chen's ears. I heard that she immediately flipped the table, and wanted to see the Emperor."

"This is really something unexpected," Xue Ronghua said as she sighed in grief. "But being able to have so many younger sisters also gives me a sense of relief."

"This little sister really can't comfort me," Chu Zongge squeezed out a wry smile. "She's a princess with high ambitions after all."

Xue Ronghua was shocked once again, "Does she want to become the crown prince and fight over the position of the storage monarch with you?"

"She did have this goal in mind and said it in front of the emperor. It's just that the emperor personally destroyed her fantasies and allowed her to peacefully become a princess of the Great Qin Empire."

"Then did you take this opportunity to probe the emperor's intentions towards you taking the throne of the Eastern Palace?"

Chu Zongge's eyes dimmed, "The emperor has always been avoiding this topic, he's not willing to reveal his true thoughts to me."

Xue Ronghua sighed in disappointment and comforted him: "As long as we can pull Empress Chen down, the other matters are secondary. What do you plan to do with Princess Poyang?"

"That will depend on the emperor's intentions. It's just teleporting poison. After all, she hasn't committed any other crimes. I reckon she's also one of those that should be taken lightly."

Xue Ronghua thought for a while before replying: "Actually, it's fine if you keep this princess alive, as she is related to you by blood, you should take care of her."

"The princess doesn't want to admit that we were born of the same mother. She is still insisting that she is the empress's daughter, and is unwilling to believe the emperor's words," Chu Zongge said with a slight smile.

"Princess Poyang isn't an untactful person. After the Queen has punished him, she will lose all of his backing. If you think about these things carefully, you might think that it's more reliable to have a blood brother. You just have to wait quietly for her to come closer."

"I hope that's really the case. Now that the crown prince and Prince Jin are both gone, I don't know who I'm going to fight against."

Xue Ronghua chuckled: "Why would I not think of that? There are so many concubines and without the Empress, I'm afraid the Emperor has more sons."

Chu Zongge smiled at her, then raised his head to look at the sky where the wind and clouds had changed.

Xue Ronghua felt something shiny dripping onto the tip of her nose, causing him to feel a chill, "Yi, it seems to be snowing."