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Within Duke Xuan's manor.

As King Xuan was in his study, he suddenly heard a servant report, "Your Highness, a letter has arrived."

"Quick, let me take a look." After reading the letter, his face darkened and he sat in silence for a long time. After a long while, he suddenly ordered, "Someone, help this prince change his clothes. This prince is going to see His Majesty."

Soon, King Xuan arrived at the royal study.

"Your majesty, your nephew requests to see your majesty."

The Emperor raised his head and looked at him, "Xuan King Ping."

"Your Majesty, your nephew has heard that Prince Rong's army has met with danger in East Peace Country. Is this true?"

The emperor's brows arched slightly. "You've heard of it too?"

"This matter has long been spread throughout the country. My nephew has long heard of it." King Xuan raised his head slightly and glanced at the emperor. "I heard that Fourth Brother was heavily injured, and General Xiao and the others were all injured. Does the emperor know who was behind this?"

"You are very interested in this matter." The emperor was actually upset about this matter. He had received Fang Zinan's imperial report early in the morning and was now in rebellion mode. It turned out that he had been ordered by the King to do this and had signed a contract with him. This was no small matter, but if word of this got out, everyone in the imperial court would definitely discuss it and cause a commotion. He was at a loss as to how to deal with Ding Wang.

"Your Majesty," King Xuan took a step forward. "In fact, your nephew is worried about this very issue. Your nephew is afraid that it will be very difficult for your Imperial Majesty to make a ruling against your second brother.

"You are both close brothers. I really don't know how to deal with King Ding when he does something like this." The Emperor sighed.

"Your majesty, it's impossible to indulge in adultery. It would truly be sad if we were to place a heavy burden on the crime of instituting the king's punishment and causing us brothers to turn against each other." King Xuan also sighed softly.

"Then what do you mean?" the Emperor asked him.

"Your Majesty, your nephew's meaning is actually similar to that of your Majesty. Let's quietly suppress this matter and push all the blame onto Ocean Traveling. "As for King Ding, he is my blood brother after all. Back then, the Emperor treated Big Brother with kindness in his heart. My nephew hopes that the Emperor will also treat Second Brother with kindness today." King Xuan's words were clear and straightforward.

The emperor closed the imperial report, stood up, and took a few steps into the imperial study. He let out a long sigh, then shook his head, sighed three times, and finally announced, "Alright. Since you've already thought of a solution to this matter, I'll hand it over to you."

"Thank you, your majesty!" King Xuan accepted the order and left.

Before long, King Xuan led a group of men to King Ding's mansion.

King Xuan hopped off his horse and ordered his men, "You guys surround the Residence of Dingdong. Don't let a single person out."

"Yes sir!" The soldiers under him quickly surrounded the manor.

King Xuan strode into King Dingdong.

When he heard that King Xuan had arrived, he went to welcome him and asked, "Third brother, how come you have the time to come to my residence?"

"Second Brother, I came here today on the orders of the Emperor to punish you for your crimes." A calm and collected smile hung on King Xuan's face. It was impossible to tell that he was here on a mission, but it seemed like he was here to discuss something with King Ding.

King Ting glanced at him. "If you have something to say, just say it. Why are you putting on an act in front of me?"

"Good!" "Then let's be direct and not speak the truth." King Xuan waved his hand and everyone left, leaving only the two brothers in the hall. King Xuan looked at King Ding and said, "Second Brother, the last time you sent someone to kill Fourth Brother, that person had already been captured by him. Now he has given you up.

"Aren't you involved?" King Ding gave a cold snort. He completely looked down on King Xuan's actions.

"Second brother, you can't speak carelessly. You formed a faction and tried to kill the general. Why do you need to say that now?" King Xuan was still smiling.

"I know that you won't let me go today," King Ding knew that King Xuan must have wanted to kill him, "I know that you won't let me go today." I know that you won't let me go today, but I don't want you to kill Fourth Brother.

"Second brother, since you know what to do, you should know what to do next." King Xuan smiled and nonchalantly glanced toward the west wing of Crown Prince Ding's residence. "I've heard that Crown Princess Ding is pregnant, but we're both blood brothers. Your son is my nephew, and I don't want to see him be cut in half before he's even born."

"Third brother, you …" When King Ding knew that his time was coming to an end, his face turned blue in anger. He wished that he could grab King Xuan and give him a good beating.

"Second brother, you should think more about your nephew. Even if you don't care about yourself, you should think more on behalf of my future nephew and the wangfei."

King Ning heaved a long sigh. It didn't matter if he died, but now that she was pregnant, how could he let King Xuan kill her? With a bitter smile, he said, "The winner is the king while the loser is the thief. I have nothing to say after falling into your hands this time. Where's the wine?"

"Servants, serve wine …" As soon as King Xuan called out, someone came forward with a tray. There was a jug of wine and a glass of wine on the tray.

King Xuan signaled with his eyes and someone immediately poured wine for him.

Prince Ding held the wine cup in his hand and remained silent for a long time. "I have something that I would like to ask of you."

"Second brother, don't worry. I will definitely take good care of my nephew. You and I will be brothers. After all, we are siblings from the same mother, so how can I make things difficult for you?" Duke Xuan said calmly, not a trace of emotion in his eyes.

King Ding laughed loudly. "Brother..." Yes … We are brothers... "It's only because we're blood brothers that you treat me like this …" With that, King Ding raised his head, pouring all the wine in the wine cup into his mouth. Soon enough, King Ding's face started to change, his body started to tremble nonstop, and black blood kept flowing out from his seven orifices. His facial features also gradually became distorted, his two eyes bulged out, and his tongue also protruded out.

King Xuan watched King Dingdong die in front of him before returning to the palace to receive his orders.

"Reporting to the Emperor, your nephew is useless. The Emperor had your nephew issue an imperial edict, but I didn't expect that second brother would know that his crimes are unforgivable and actually commit suicide to avoid them. Your nephew is useless, please punish him." In front of the emperor, King Xuan had changed his look of grief. Even the emperor couldn't bring himself to criticize him.

"What?" King Ding is dead? " The emperor was greatly shocked. He almost couldn't believe King Xuan's words. Only when he saw the heavy expression on King Xuan's face did he dare to believe that this was true! King Ning was too impulsive. He had only sent King Xuan to teach him a lesson. He hadn't expected him to commit suicide out of guilt, which had really taken him by surprise.

"Your majesty, your nephew is doing a bad job. Please punish your nephew." King Xuan knelt down honestly and said tearfully, "Nephew didn't go tell Second Brother about this. I never thought that Second Brother would say anything about the winner and the loser, and since the emperor already knew about this, it'll be difficult for him to survive. As a result, second brother killed himself the moment nephew left King's Manor …" As King Xuan spoke to here, he kowtowed repeatedly on the ground, his voice choked with sobs. "Your majesty, it's all my fault. Not only did I fail to complete the emperor's mission, I even indirectly caused second brother's death. Please punish me for my crimes …"

The emperor stared blankly at King Xuan. He couldn't believe that King Ding had died just like that. Could it be that he was too fearful and knew that his crimes were unforgivable, which was why … Thinking of this, the emperor raised his hand. "You can stand up and speak first."

King Xuan secretly rejoiced and quickly stood up.