Although it was still early, the inner courtyard of Prince Dingbei's Palace had already drawn the curtains of night.

The room is filled with heat, and your breath is intertwined and colliding. The cold winter has passed, and the thriving green buds growing in an unknown corner of the cliff have broken through the soil and are growing vigorously.

……

Jiang Xu was so exhausted that he fell asleep without waiting for Helan Jue to call back the troops. When he opened his eyes again, it was already dawn.

Certain memories flooded into my mind like a tide, along with the aches and pains from physical exhaustion.

Some people look aloof and self-disciplined, but actually, beneath that gentlemanly appearance, they are very narrow-minded. They pressed him down and repeatedly asked him many times, whether he was white or tall...

There was no one beside the bed for a long time. He must have gone into the palace. A lot of things happened yesterday. His Majesty passed the throne to Helan Jue, so there were a lot of things to deal with.

Jiang Xu originally wanted to get up, but as soon as he raised his arms, he felt a pain in his back and waist. He sighed slightly and simply lay down again.

Usually Helan Jue always leaves some wiggle room in love affairs. Although he takes good care of her, men... always have some weird desires deep down.

The more measured Helan Jue is, the more Jiang Xu wants to see what he looks like when he loses that measure.

I saw it yesterday. Hmm... the price was quite high, but it was still fun.

What should I say next time...

Jiang Xu turned over and fell asleep again. When he woke up, he smelled the scent of ink in the room and heard the rustling sound of pens falling. It made him feel at ease.

He casually put on his undershirt and stood up and walked over. Helan Jue was slightly bent over and writing something on the table. His handwriting was elegant and handsome.

Jiang Xu asked hoarsely, "You've returned from the palace. What time is it? What are you writing?"

After three questions in a row, Helan Jue was not concerned about these questions. He raised his head and quickly scanned his body, looking at the tiny dots of hair showing through the loose collar, his eyes dimmed slightly.

"It's still chilly in spring, but even in spring you can't be so careless and put on your clothes properly."

Jiang Xu lowered his eyes and followed Helan Jue's line of sight. The arc of his eyelashes and the lingering red at the corners of his eyes gave off another alluring feeling.

"Brother Xunzhi, are you sorry? You branded all of this yourself."

Helan Jue pulled up the corners of his lips helplessly, "You're not embarrassed, worrying about your health, don't you know?"

"Oh," Jiang Xu walked lazily around the table and leaned on Helan Jue like a boneless person, "I have no strength. I have used up all my strength to get up from the bed. I don't want to move now. Otherwise, you can help me put it on."

It had been a long time since he had served anyone, so Helan Jue did not refuse. He put down his pen and went to the cabinet to find him a set of light blue clothes that were similar in color to the moon-white clothes he was wearing.

Helan Jue stretched out his hand and pushed aside everything written on the table. Jiang Xu was embraced by him with both hands, and he lifted him up to the table like a child and sat him down. He spread his arms and let him help him get dressed.

【Dad is my husband, hehe. 】

[Sisters’ sharp comments, I agree, but please keep your mouth shut. ]

"How is your Majesty?" Jiang Xu asked with his eyes closed.

"Not very good," Helan Jue lowered his eyes and fastened his belt, his slender fingers with distinct joints were very nimble, "I asked the Imperial Hospital about what happened in the past few days. Your Majesty has not paid attention to physical maintenance since he got older. The two consecutive poisonings have damaged his dragon body. In addition, Your Majesty is too sad, and there is no way to save him."

Jiang Xu nodded to show that he understood.

From the very beginning, they plotted against the Fourth Prince, and provoked and lured the Crown Prince and Queen Su into taking action. He also anticipated that the Southern Emperor would not have much time left after the matter was over.

There were some things Helan Jue hadn't told him yet, but he could feel that perhaps Helan Jue would have to wait until the Southern Emperor passed away before opening the window containing the secret to him.

No rush, he has plenty of patience.

"Then the matter of ascending the throne..."

"The Ministry of Rites is making arrangements," Helan Jue half-knelt down, grabbed the slender white ankles dangling under the table, and patiently put on shoes and socks for him. He stood up and looked at Jiang Xu's quiet appearance with his eyes closed. He couldn't help but rubbed his face with his fingers, "Don't worry, even if you enter the imperial city, your current life will not change. Those people can't make trouble in front of you. Just sleep peacefully like now."

Jiang Xu opened his eyes, which were bright and beautiful in the twilight. She raised the corners of her beautiful lips and called his name.

"Helan Jue."

"Yeah," Helan Jue responded in a low voice. Jiang Xu grabbed his wrist, and his eyebrows relaxed. His eyes were so gentle that they seemed to be dripping with water. "I'm here."

"Your hands just put on my shoes and socks, and now you're touching my face?"

Helan Jue: “…”

After being speechless for a long time, King Dingbei withdrew his hand as if nothing had happened, and said without blushing or beating his heart, "Yesterday you sucked my finger and I didn't see you dislike it."

Jiang Xu: “…”Pinch it.

【? Detailedly, she is holding her finger in her mouth! Her cheek is supported and her eyes are full of stars.jpg】

[Isn't it a bit awkward for you guys to have so much fun in private without showing it to me? ]

……

The Turkic king was nearly captured by Helan Jue and suffered a crushing defeat in the battle. Before Helan Jue rushed back to the capital, he had already deployed everything at the border.

He negotiated with the Turks and opened up border trade, thereby temporarily stopping the problem of nomadic Turks frequently invading the border due to insufficient supplies, and signed a 20-year ceasefire treaty.

This means that as long as the current Turkic king is still alive or his throne is not shaken, there will be at least twenty years of peace on the border.

The civil officials in the court had always advocated peace and were extremely satisfied with the news brought back by Helan Jue. No one had any objection to the Southern Emperor passing the throne to Helan Jue.

He is good at riding a horse to stabilize the country, and good at governing the country and protecting the borders. Looking around, who is more suitable to succeed to the throne than Helan Jue?

The Southern Emperor was also very satisfied with this. His complexion seemed to be better, but it was just an illusion. He had been hollowed out inside.

As for Helan Yun and Empress Su, who were imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison awaiting punishment after the new emperor ascended the throne, no one cared about them. Only Prime Minister Su, with Helan Jue's approval, went to visit them in the Heavenly Prison. No one knew what they said, but Empress Su looked much older.

It is not surprising that Prime Minister Su did not plead for Queen Su, and that he and his son did not participate in the rebellion.

Prime Minister Su is different from Wei Ting. When the prince was at the peak of his power, he also maintained a neutral attitude. If anyone was to be loyal to, it was only to the current emperor.

The day soon arrived, the much-anticipated day of the new emperor's coronation. The court officials who had participated in the coronation ceremony of the previous prince were still a little frightened, but fortunately everything went smoothly.

Helan Jue was wearing a bright yellow dragon robe and standing at the highest point overlooking the imperial city. It was the peak above millions of people, no...

There was another person beside the new emperor.

The tall and graceful young man was extremely dazzling against the gorgeous black clothes with python pattern.

That was the beloved young master of the Duke's Mansion, and also the princess married by the new emperor before he ascended the throne. Logically, she should be the queen now.

The court officials below the platform were all stunned when watching this scene. It was not that there was no precedent for a new emperor to ascend the throne with the queen.

Although the decree to make Jiang Xu the queen has not yet been issued, Helan Jue's action is equivalent to announcing to the world that Jiang Xu is his queen.

It would be fine if she was a princess, but it is unheard of that this man could be a queen!

But Helan Jue's move came suddenly, and there was no sign of it before. If they wanted to hold the coronation ceremony and the queen-crowned ceremony on the same day, it was not impossible, but their new emperor didn't say anything.

Now, with such an important position, it seems that he wants to execute first and report later, and directly announce it to the world, skipping the ceremony of conferring the queen and causing them to oppose it.

Even if the court officials wanted to oppose, they did not have the courage to cause trouble at the new emperor's coronation ceremony.

Therefore, it was natural for Princess Dingbei to skip rank and become the queen, and that was decided.

The coronation ceremony ended perfectly, but there was one imperfect thing.

The former crown prince Helan Yun escaped from the Tianlao prison with the help of his old subordinates. When the Ministry of Justice, which was in charge of the Tianlao, heard the news, it was so frightened that its legs went weak.

The new emperor ascends the throne and the former crown prince who plotted treason escapes from prison. Can he still keep his official hat?

The head of the Ministry of Justice was terrified when he went before the new emperor to report the matter, but the new emperor did not react much. He just told him to follow the rules for dealing with fugitives and did not ask him any questions.

As a result, Helan Yun’s arrest warrants were posted all over the streets of the capital.

At the same time, Prime Minister Su went to the imperial study and pleaded for his sister for the only time, asking for a quick death for her. Not long after, the emperor gave her a cup of poisoned wine and sent it to the Tianlao, and Queen Su died.

Helan Yun was on the run and did not know the news. When he fled the capital, he only took his personal guards with him, and also took Zhong Chaoci with him.

The group frequently disguised themselves and changed their identities as they headed to Jiangnan. The governor of Jiangnan was once the man of the fourth prince Helan Cheng, and was Helan Cheng's fallback. He raised a group of private soldiers in Jiangnan.

Helan Yun went there to get in touch with this connection and make some other plans.

He and Zhong Chaoci escaped from the pursuers and arrived in Jiangnan with great difficulty. He secretly contacted the governor of Jiangnan, thinking that a turning point would come. However, he didn't know that every move he made since escaping from the Heavenly Prison was watched by Helan Jue and Jiang Xu.

In an old inn in Changzhou, Jiangnan.

Zhong Chaoci looked at the bland dishes on the table, frowned and had no appetite at all. He looked at He Lanyun who was wearing a coarse gray coat beside him, "How long will we have to do this?"

He didn't know what was going on. He was originally waiting at home for the good news of Helan Yun's ascension to the throne, but suddenly he heard rumors on the streets that the prince was plotting treason and King Dingbei rushed back to the capital from the border to protect the emperor.

It was a huge scene that day. When he opened the window on the second floor of Hao Zhai Lai, he saw Helan Jue, who was dressed in white, with flying black hair and a strong aura, leading the southern country soldiers in military uniforms rushing towards the imperial city.

The light shone on Helan Jue, and he looked like a god from heaven.

At that moment, Zhong Chaoci almost forgot to breathe, and suddenly realized that he seemed to have bet on the wrong horse.

He also wanted to take over Helan Jue's network, and did not discriminate against Helan Jue because of his disability.

But why didn't he continue to work on Helan Jue?

Zhong Chaoci thought carefully and realized that it was because of Jiang Xu. All his attention was diverted away by Jiang Xu.

Now that I think about it, Jiang Xu probably had his eyes on Helan Jue at that time. He must have known something, so he ignored the Crown Prince and the Fourth Prince and only guarded Helan Jue!

When Zhong Chaoci thought of this, he gnashed his teeth. He was completely fooled by Jiang Xu! He was played around by Jiang Xu, and now the biggest winner in the situation has become him, Jiang Xu!

Jiang Xu made a leap forward and became the high and mighty queen. No matter how hard he tried, he was just a wealthy businessman in Beijing. There was a world of difference between him and Jiang Xu in terms of status!

Before Zhong Chaoci could sort out his feelings, He Lanyun sneaked into his room at night. Before he could say a few words, he knocked him out and took him away.

Although he did not understand the imperial power and intrigues, he knew that Helan Yun was the loser in this game and a traitor. There would be no benefit in getting involved with Helan Yun and it would only bring disaster to himself!

But he was powerless and was taken on the road by Helan Yun. He didn't dare to say it out loud despite his dissatisfaction, so he could only speak in a nice manner.

He had been traveling all the way south from the capital for these days, and not only had he to sleep in the open air, he hadn't even had a good night's sleep!

Now he didn't know how long he would be forced to wander with Helan Yun. At this moment, Zhong Chaoci thought of the stable life that Zhang had told him many times.

"Almost there." Helan Yun's eyes swept across the inn from time to time, his voice was very hoarse. Jiang Xu didn't know what medicine he had taken. Although he could speak after the effect of the medicine wore off, his voice was no longer as warm as before.

The old inn was reluctant to light candles, and the light was dim, making Helan Yun's brows look a little gloomy as he looked around, and he no longer looked as noble and dazzling as before.

"We will meet and negotiate with Mei Jianan's people tonight. Helan Jue must know everything about him and the Fourth Brother. If he doesn't want to be a butcher, he has no choice but to cooperate with me and give it a try."

The fourth brother secretly raised only a few private soldiers in Jiangnan, only about 10,000, but it was enough to cause trouble in Jiangnan.

The people had no idea what had happened in the capital, so he only needed to find someone to spread the rumor that King Dingbei had taken control of the military power and forced the emperor to the throne, and he could guide public opinion.

The reason he brought Zhong Chaoci out this time was not because he was worried about him and had to have him by his side.

He just felt that Zhong Chaoci had a lot of clever ideas and was a business genius, so maybe he could be useful if he had him around.

The meal was not peaceful. Helan Yun was cautious now. Seeing that more and more people were drinking in the inn, he pulled Zhong Chaoci back to their lower-class room.

Zhong Chaoci felt very depressed. He was forced to take this trip and he didn't have a penny in his pocket. He Lanyun did have some money, but he was reluctant to spend it for fear of attracting attention.

At night, Mei Jianan quietly sneaked into the back door of the inn and met Helan Yun. Zhong Chaoci listened in the corner and had to admit that Helan Yun was a guy who was very good at taking advantage of people's hearts.

Seeing that their talk was going well, Zhong Chaoci couldn't help but think in his heart, if Helan Yun really could make a comeback this time, wouldn't he be able to do so as well?

On the way to escape, Helan Yun did not forget to take him with her, which shows that he has him in his heart, and he cannot show too much resistance.

After reaching an agreement with Mei Jianan to visit his house the next day, Mei Jianan quietly left into the night with his entourage.

In the lower-class room, which was filled with the damp smell of moldy wood, only Zhong Chaoci and Helan Yun were left.

Helan Yun sat at the table with a gloomy face: "Helan Jue, you didn't kill me all at once that day. You wanted to laugh at me, so you should have known this day would come."

This was very different from the way Zhong Chaoci knew him in the past. Somehow he suddenly remembered the way he saw Helan Jue whipping his horse and riding it on the long street that day.

He wanted to live a brilliant and wonderful life when he went to ancient times, not hide like a rat in the gutter like he does now.

But the person standing next to such a dazzling person was Jiang Xu.

Zhong Chaoci's eyes also became a little gloomy.

Jiang Xu, who kept him away from the center of power, is now at the pinnacle of power.

Why?

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