"If you really want the throne, you don't have to go through so much trouble," Shen Yu continued.
"Who said that I want the throne?" Prince An scoffed. "I'm not interested in the throne."
"I can see that." Shen Yu nodded. If Prince An was really interested in the throne, he wouldn't have pushed the Seventeenth Prince to the throne.
"Aren't you curious about why I did this? Now that I've lost, there's no harm in telling you. I don't want the Great Huan Dynasty to be peaceful. I want to destroy everything! "
"Why did you help me?" Shang Junlin walked behind Shen Yu and looked down at him.
Shang Junlin was talking about his ascension to the throne. At that time, other than Prince Li, Prince An was also on his side. Although Shang Junlin could have ascended the throne without their help, there would have been more twists and turns in the process. With these two people, the process was much easier.
"Because my good brother didn't want you to succeed the throne. Of course, I didn't want to satisfy him. He threw you in the palace and let you fend for yourself. He wanted to use the excuse of sending troops to get rid of you, but I didn't let him do as he wished. I wanted to see all the fruits of his labor being taken by the child he disliked the most. Moreover, the throne should have belonged to him. If it wasn't for me …" Prince An paused and continued, "I would have returned it to its rightful owner."
"The previous Emperor didn't like His Majesty. Was it related to you?" Shen Yu caught the key point from Prince An's words.
"Yes, he was the most outstanding among my brother's children. I only wanted to see him suffer. How could I tolerate their father-son relationship?"
Prince An closed his eyes. It was as if he could still see the previous Emperor, the previous Empress, and little Shang Junlin's happy family. He joined in with a smile on his face, but his heart was entangled by a poisonous snake. The scene in front of him was so glaring. He should be the one enjoying all of this!
"My men found a secret room in your Imperial Residence. It was filled with portraits of the same woman. The person in the portrait was none other than my Imperial Mother. Shouldn't An Wang explain why you hid those portraits?"
When the Hidden Dragon Guards found the secret room, they did not dare to delay and immediately informed Shang Junlin. Shang Junlin was not interested in the woman in the painting. He did not expect that the woman in the painting was his mother.
The memories of his childhood had been suppressed at the bottom of his heart. The moment he saw the portrait, he couldn't help but think of his mother who had hugged him and whispered softly when he was young. The memories faded, and the portrait was dyed with color again.
Shang Junlin did not tell anyone about this matter, including Shen Yu. The news was suppressed, and those who knew about it were also silenced. At that moment, Shang Junlin's heart was in a mess. He seemed to have found the reason behind Prince An's actions, but he would rather not have found it.
Shang Junlin was not an indecisive person. He directly asked Prince An in front of him. Whether it was true or not, Prince An would be able to give a direct answer.
When he heard Shang Junlin's words, Prince An was stunned. He sighed and said, "So, you found out …"
"You did all this because of my Imperial Mother?" Shang Junlin suddenly felt the pressure around him drop.
Shen Yu moved his fingers and grabbed the man's hand in his sleeve to comfort him.
He did not expect to suddenly hear such news. During this period of time, because of Prince An's matter and the fact that he had left the Capital for a few months, the Imperial Court was very busy. Shang Junlin spent most of his time in the Imperial Study Room dealing with political affairs. Most of the time, when he returned to Yuzhang Palace, Shen Yu had already gone to bed. When he woke up in the morning, the man would have already gone to the Imperial Court.
Other than them, there were only the Hidden Dragon Guards brought by Shang Junlin. There was no need to worry about the news being leaked. This was also the reason why Shang Junlin directly asked.
Prince An did not answer this question. Instead, he said, "You should know that I and the late Emperor are both legitimate children. However, I was born after the Empress."
The previous emperor was the legitimate son of the first wife, but his mother died early. His successor was the younger sister of the same mother. After entering the palace, she treated the previous emperor as her own. In order to take better care of her sister's child, she didn't care about her own child.
"This prince really doesn't understand why this prince, who is her biological son, has to endure and give in to the previous emperor. This prince has heard the most since I was young: 'That's your biological brother, you can't fight with him.'"
"In order to prevent me from threatening the late Emperor's position, she even drugged me. That was the first time she personally made food for me. However, it was to drug me. How laughable. Since then, I hid all my brilliance and devoted myself to the mountains and rivers. I ran out of the Imperial Palace every day. I became the one who did not do proper work among all the princes. Imperial Father knew everything and promised to compensate this prince. This prince doesn't care about his compensation, but he shouldn't have gone back on his word! "
"What did he do?"
"I traveled the mountains and rivers and met the young lady of the Zhong Family who returned to the capital with her father. After returning to the capital, I asked Father to marry the young lady of the Zhong Family. Father agreed. However, after Mother knew about it, she took a fancy to the Zhong Family's background. She felt that the young lady of the Zhong Family was more suitable to be the Crown Princess. I waited and waited until I heard the news that the young lady of the Zhong Family was conferred as the Crown Princess."
The young lady of the Zhong Family was Shang Junlin's mother. Shen Yu and Shang Junlin didn't expect that there was such a secret in the middle.
"I went to find Father and happened to hear the conversation between Father and Mother. They were talking about what was best for the Crown Prince. They didn't mention me, their son. They said that since the Crown Prince was the elder brother, he should get married earlier than me. However, at that time, the Crown Prince already had a concubine with an extraordinary family background. I went to find the Crown Prince again. The Crown Prince said that he liked the young lady of the Zhong Family very much and would treat her well in the future."
"According to what you said, the relationship between the late Emperor and your mother should be very good. Why didn't your mother get the honor she deserved in the end?" Shen Yu had some understanding of the imperial family. He clearly remembered that the late Emperor sent the Empress Dowager to the Imperial Ancestral Temple less than a year after he ascended the throne.
"Because he felt that his mother's death was related to her. It was easy to arouse the suspicion of an Emperor. As long as there were some specious clues, he would rather kill the wrong person than let it go."
This was the first step that Prince An took. He completely denied the kindness of others to the late Emperor. He wanted the late Emperor to feel that everyone who got close to him had ulterior motives. His suspicion and suspicion would not only hurt himself, but also hurt those who really loved him.
Didn't they say that people who sat on the throne would eventually become lonely? Prince An didn't mind letting him have a taste of loneliness in advance.
The matter of the Empress Dowager planted the seed of the late Emperor's change in temperament.
"The Imperial Harem was constantly filled with new people, and your mother was troubled. But she was the Empress and couldn't do anything inappropriate. I told her early on that the Emperor's heart was fickle, but she didn't believe me. So I did a little experiment. Your father didn't let me down. Just based on some groundless rumors, he sentenced your mother to death in his heart."
They all knew what happened after that. The late Empress was neglected and suppressed by other favored concubines. In the face of the late Emperor's distrust, she chose to die to show her sincerity. The Zhong family was also punished because of the late Emperor's unpredictable mood. As the late Empress's son, Shang Junlin was suspected by his father to not be his own child. He was neglected and exiled.
As for why the late Emperor didn't investigate, Shen Yu could roughly guess the reason. Verifying the bloodline would cause a big commotion. The late Emperor probably didn't want to publicize this matter. From the late Empress's death until now, no one knew the specific reason for this.
"You also meddled in Prince Huaiyu's matter?" Shen Yu thought of the people Prince An placed in the Imperial Palace.
Many of these people had been there since the late Emperor's reign. If Prince An had done so many things at that time, it wasn't surprising that there were so many of his people in the Imperial Palace.
Prince An said, "He felt that the late Emperor had mistakenly killed the person he loved. In fact, that person was disguised by me from the beginning to deliberately get close to him. The purpose was to make Prince Huaiyu hate the late Emperor. That way, I wouldn't have to do some things personally."
Shen Yu said, "The late Emperor's temperament changed greatly. Was it related to the medicine you sent to the Imperial Palace?"
Prince An said, "That medicine actually doesn't have much effect on people, but it will subtly magnify some paranoid thoughts. Who told him not to be willing to trust the people around him? Everyone is suspicious, so it's inevitable that his actions will become more and more extreme. "
Shen Yu said, "This medicine, have you ever used it on His Majesty?"
This question could be said to be very unexpected. Even Shang Junlin didn't expect Shen Yu to suddenly ask such a question.
Shen Yu just thought of the past life. In the past life, Shang Junlin became a tyrant in the eyes of the world. His actions became more and more violent. Could it be related to the medicine?
Thinking about the situation of Shang Junlin in the past life, wasn't he the lonely person that Prince An talked about?
Prince An said, "His Majesty was not like the late Emperor who didn't guard against me. I can't do this. If it were you, you could easily succeed."
Shen Yu said, "So, it's just that you can't do it, but it's not that you don't want to do it?"
Prince An said, "Why do you need to delve into it? Isn't the result the same? Father and son, you can't treat them differently. "
Not the same, Shen Yu thought. Of course it was not the same. However, Prince An's words had already given him an answer. Once there was a chance, he would definitely make a move on Shang Junlin.
Shang Junlin didn't forget the other purpose of coming here. He said, "Why do you have something that belonged to A Yu's mother in your hands?"
"When I was patrolling my fief, I met a woman who was being chased. When I saw the imperial token in her hands, I rescued her. Speaking of which, I am the savior of your mother. Those things are the reward that your mother gave to me."
After recovering from his injuries, Prince An brought the woman to the Capital. Of course, he didn't save her for nothing. Shen Yu's mother gave the things she took from the clan to Prince An as a reward. Among them, there was a medical book from the Ji family.
"You used the method in the medical book to create the medicine to control the late Emperor?" So this matter was caused by his mother?
"You can think of it that way." Prince An's tone was full of malice.
Shen Yu calmed himself down and said, "By doing this, you want His Majesty and I to follow in the footsteps of the late Emperor?"
"I didn't do anything, it's just that …"
"It's just that I returned it to its rightful owner."
"If that's the case, why did you send that flower to the palace?" Since he had contact with his mother, he should know the use of the flower. But he didn't say anything and directly sent the flower to the palace. No matter how he looked at it, it didn't seem right.
"When I sent the flower to the palace, I thought that His Majesty wouldn't let the flower appear in front of you. This nephew of mine is very possessive of the people or things that belong to him. You are the person that he has set his mind on. He definitely wouldn't want to let other people's gifts occupy too much of your mind. And if this flower wants to bear fruit, it must be taken care of by the Ji family's bloodline. Who would have thought that this flower would be taken care of by you?"
This point was out of Prince An's arrangement, so he had to adjust his plan.
"So you want to do something to the flower? First, you ordered the people in the palace to put hallucinogenic drugs in the flower room. Now that your plan didn't work, you want to destroy the flower with fire? The former is to make us wary of the flower and achieve the goal of keeping me away from the flower. If it was more extreme, maybe the flower would be destroyed by the angry His Majesty. The latter is even simpler, it is to destroy the flower directly. "
Shen Yu's thoughts became clearer and clearer. Prince An first sent the flower that could cure him to their hands, then created an accident to destroy the flower. Finally, he told them the truth.
"And your purpose of doing this is to let His Majesty taste the despair of falling into the abyss after seeing hope. Now it seems that you are destined to be disappointed."
"I failed, but I didn't completely fail."
Shen Yu knew what he was referring to. With the memory of his previous life, he couldn't completely ignore it.
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