The legitimate daughter was reborn, and the emperor’s little Jiaojiao went crazy.

He finally became a thousand arrows in her hand.

It was a dark night when Cen Yuan quietly came to Shi Anxia to report the development of something.

Before leaving, she gave him a mooncake and said, "Today is Mid-Autumn Festival. I guess you don't want to celebrate it. So, eat mooncakes to celebrate the occasion."

He wanted to say, I don’t like mooncakes.

But because it was her kind gesture, he still reached out and took it.

The moment he took it, he bumped into the girl's glowing pupils.

The girl had a bright face, and her clear eyes sparkled in the moonlight. Her gentle smile reminded him of: The world is like dust, and the world is like dust.

His heart was breached for the first time.

From then on, no other colors were seen again.

Flowers bloom and fall, clouds roll and unroll. In the days to come, whenever Cen Yuan closed her eyes, she would remember the girl's smile under the moon, like a fox that had practiced for a thousand years, cunning and bright.

……

After being reborn in this life, Cen Yuan dealt with his enemies in advance, so naturally he did not have the experience of saving lives in the acrobatic troupe.

That day he reminded Shi Anxia, ​​"Acrobatic Troupe, Broken Skin Drum."

Seeing her confused face, he realized that she was indeed reincarnated, but she had no memory of him at all.

From then on, all the grievances he had in his previous life gradually dissipated.

He still wanted to be with her.

He still wanted her to be his wife, that was his extravagant wish in his previous life.

And that jade pendant was a royal treasure passed down along with the Liang Kingdom's jade seal, and it had always been in Shi Anxia's hands in his previous life.

In this life, the jade pendant, as their engagement token, finally came into Shi Anxia's hands.

After many twists and turns, they are finally together.

Cen Yuan lay quietly, with the corners of her mouth slightly raised, "Xia Xia, I know you are tired. I allow you to rest for a while, but not for too long, do you hear me?"

Shi Anxia didn't wake up, but it didn't affect the death penalty for the Second Prince Xiao Yong and Princess Yunlan.

The Dali Temple finally found out that it was indeed the Second Prince and Princess Yunlan who attacked Emperor Mingde.

Faced with a large amount of evidence and witnesses, the two could not deny it and finally admitted all the facts.

Emperor Mingde actually had been hoping for a lucky break, wondering if there was some misunderstanding, just like when he and Shi Anxia had deduced that the person who drugged him was most likely Li Qinghui.

So what misunderstanding was there?

In the previous life, it was the Empress Dowager who threatened the two siblings by saying that "the Second Prince is not the heir of Emperor Mingde" and drugged Emperor Mingde to death.

In the end, they were silenced by the Queen Mother.

In this life, things have not changed. They chose to bow to the Empress Dowager. The difference is that it is the national law and Emperor Mingde who want their lives, the "Father" they have called for more than ten or twenty years.

Upon hearing the bad news, Concubine Jing desperately broke free from the eunuchs who were guarding her in the cold palace, walked barefoot on the cold bluestone road, and ran towards Emperor Mingde's imperial study.

The eunuchs ran after her, shouting, "Catch her, catch her..."

The guards and palace maids along the way were all shocked when they saw this, but no one dared to step forward to stop it.

Because Concubine Jing looked like a wounded beast, with red eyes and bulging eyeballs.

Concubine Jing had only one thought in her mind: she had to meet Emperor Mingde and beg for mercy for her children in person, even if it was only a glimmer of hope.

The palace lanterns were dim at this time, and the candlelight illuminated her lonely and resolute figure.

Her hair fluttered in the night wind, and tears blurred her vision. "Your Majesty, please spare my life! Please spare my life! I am willing to die to apologize for my crime. I only ask Your Majesty to spare the lives of the children. They are just children..."

Concubine Jing kept muttering to herself all the way, and every word she uttered was trembling.

Finally, she arrived outside Emperor Mingde's imperial study.

The door is heavily guarded.

Concubine Jing didn't care about anything else, she knelt on the ground, pressed her hands on the cold ground, and knocked her forehead hard on the stone slab. Each time, there was a dull sound, as if she wanted to pour out all the fear and resentment in her heart.

"Your Majesty, please have mercy and listen to what I have to say!" Concubine Jing's voice was filled with tears.

Blood had seeped from her forehead, and mixed with the dust on the ground, she looked particularly miserable. "Your Majesty, please spare my life! Please, Your Majesty, please spare my life! I am willing to die to atone for my sins. I only ask Your Majesty to spare the lives of the children. They are just children... This is all my fault..."

The calm and majestic voice of Emperor Mingde came from the imperial study, "Let her in."

The door slowly opened, and Concubine Jing staggered to her feet, almost crawling into the imperial study.

She knelt in front of Emperor Mingde, tears streaming down her face, trying hard not to let her voice tremble too much, "Your Majesty, it's all my fault. Please... spare the children, please!"

Emperor Mingde was originally reviewing the memorials. He put down his pen upon hearing this. His sharp eyes fell on Concubine Jing, whose hair was disheveled. "Then tell me, where did you go wrong?"

Concubine Jing was stunned by the question.

How could she dare to speak out the secret that she didn't even dare to tell in her dreams in the middle of the night?

If I say it out loud, I'm afraid I'll die even more violently.

She didn't dare to say anything and could only kowtow fiercely again and again.

Emperor Mingde was upset, his eyes were looking elsewhere, and he was absent-minded and lost for a moment, "I gave you a chance..."

Concubine Jing looked up at Emperor Mingde, her eyes filled with tears of pain.

Emperor Mingde was not moved by this, and only said calmly, "At the most tense moment, on the eve of the 'Qingchen Plan', I specifically reminded Yong'er. I will confer him the title of King Rui, and I will allow you and Princess Yunlan to go to the fiefdom with him. Do you know what this means?"

Concubine Jing's tearful eyes were filled with sorrow. How could she know what this meant? She only knew that her two children were about to be executed.

Emperor Mingde did not expect her to figure it out, and continued to talk, "I hinted to him not to stand on the wrong side and not to get involved with the Queen Mother's party. But he still insisted on poisoning me."

Concubine Jing cried and shook her head, "It's my fault. It's all my fault! Yong'er's life is so hard, so hard..."

Emperor Mingde looked at Concubine Jing calmly, with a hint of mockery on his lips, "As a son born out of wedlock, he has everything that other princes should have. Except for the position of Crown Prince of my Northern Wing, I have given him everything I can. Tell me, how difficult can it be for him?"

Child born out of adultery! Concubine Jing looked at Emperor Mingde in disbelief, her pupils filled with fear, "Your Majesty, you know everything?"

Emperor Mingde sneered, "Xiao Yong! You gave this name to me. I didn't realize that you named him in memory of Prince Yongle! He is my uncle! Tell me, should Yong'er be my son or my cousin?"

The fig leaf was torn off in an instant, and Concubine Jing's face turned pale as paper. She opened her mouth, wanting to say something, wanting to ask something, but the sound was stuck in her throat and she couldn't make a sound.

Emperor Mingde's voice was very calm, majestic but calm, without a single ups and downs. "You have indeed committed a heinous crime, Concubine Jing, by confusing the royal bloodline."