Reborn to marry the regent and seize the throne as queen

Gu Yanbai was dressed in white and holding a small wine jar in his hand. Although it was pitch black, it could be easily identified.

When Jiang Qingwu saw Gu Yanbai standing in the hallway, he was dazed for a moment.

The palace was in ruins, but the man became more and more vigorous. The bright young man finally became a man dressed in white, covered with the vicissitudes of life.

"It's the middle of the night. Why are you running here instead of taking a good rest?" Gu Yanbai said, sitting down on the steps.

Jiang Qingwu came back to his senses and gestured to Wanyue, "You go back first."

"Yes……"

After sending Wanyue away, Jiang Qingwu followed Gu Yanbai's example and sat on the stone steps with him.

"Before, I just thought you loved drinking because you were used to wandering around at night. This time, Xu He said that drinking can actually suppress the poison in your body."

"You don't need to drink, it's okay, it's just that you get used to it in the beginning."

Gu Yanbai looked at Jiang Qingwu, who was wrapped in a cloak and looked sick, and a look of helplessness appeared on his face.

"You're hiding from me because you've recovered your memory and you don't want to tell me, right?"

"You don't have to deny it. I guessed it. If it was so easy to say it, Ah Chen wouldn't have been willing to let me misunderstand him and hate him, and would not have told me the truth."

"You hate him..." Jiang Qingwu murmured, then laughed bitterly, "You have the right to hate him."

"What? You really... remembered everything?" Gu Yanbai looked at Jiang Qingwu in surprise, although he was mentally prepared.

But Jiang Qingwu at that time was, after all, just a child less than eight or nine years old. How much could he remember?

Jiang Qingwu did not answer Gu Yanbai. He looked around and said, "That day, I was injured and lost my memory in the valley."

"I once had a dream that I was lost in the palace."

"Later, an older brother took me to a magnificent palace."

"After returning to the palace, I sneaked in here and bumped into Fang Wen by accident. I went to the Langting Palace."

"But when I arrived at the Langting Palace, I found that it was not the palace in my dream."

"It was not until later when Fang Wen's body was found... and I heard the name of Xifeng Palace that I suddenly realized that maybe this was the Xifeng Palace I was looking for."

Gu Yanbai seemed to be lost in thought as he listened to Jiang Qingwu's words. He chuckled and said, "That was the first time we met."

"There was a banquet in the palace, and the Jiang family entered the palace with their families. You accidentally entered the harem and were picked up by Yan Xiuchen, who brought you to me..."

Gu Yanbai murmured, let out a bitter laugh, and put the jar of wine to his mouth.

"I've always wanted to ask, your mother, Concubine Xijia, must have been the most favored by the emperor at that time, you must have been very glorious."

"Why are you so dependent on Yan Xiuchen?"

Gu Yanbai was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Jiang Qingwu, "You're right, I am indeed more successful than Yan Xiuchen."

"Although his mother is the legitimate daughter of a noble family, her mother's family is not in the capital after all."

"When Yan Xiuchen was young, he was proficient in poetry and literature, and his literary talent was brilliant. His martial arts, riding and archery were even more outstanding than anyone else."

"But at that time, several of the brothers in the palace were in the limelight, and those who stood out did not end well."

"He hid his talents, was careful in everything, and did not dare to show his talents in government affairs."

"Bullying and humiliation, not daring to fight back with physical strength."

Jiang Qingwu listened and seemed to understand something, "So, you helped him?"

"I was very successful back then. Everyone knew that I had a powerful backer and my mother was favored, but... I was not good at poetry and literature, my martial arts were mediocre, and I was very naughty."

"So, he helped me cover up my homework, and I helped him vent his anger and support him."

"They complement each other. No one knows that I am an uneducated person, and no one knows that he is proficient in both literature and martial arts."

"But his reliance on me is fake, because he has real skills and can fight back."

“I rely on him, it’s true.”

Gu Yanbai said with a wry smile, and turned to look at Jiang Qingwu, "Until ten years ago, he showed his martial arts for me..."

"That day he said that your father had come to the palace and brought you here. He wanted me to go find him and have dinner together."

"In the evening, when he was about to pick you up at the palace gate, a large number of imperial guards rushed in."

"They said something happened in Xifeng Palace and they wanted to put me in death row..."

"That was the first time he disobeyed the imperial decree. It was also the first time he showed his martial arts prowess and beat back the imperial guards."

"And he told Concubine Zhong... to trap me in the Showa Palace."

As Gu Yanbai was talking, his eyes suddenly glowed red. After taking a sip of wine, he smiled softly.

"To this day, I still don't know what happened in Xifeng Palace that day."

"I know." Jiang Qingwu murmured, and when he turned to look at Gu Yanbai, tears fell uncontrollably.

After meeting Gu Yanbai's gaze, she quickly restrained her emotions, wiped away her tears, and turned her face away.

"That day, my father and I entered the palace. Perhaps it was a little early, so I didn't see anyone waiting to greet me at the palace gate."

"So I went to Xifeng Palace alone. I thought you were all in Xifeng Palace."

"You are in Xifeng Palace, so, you know something that I don't know?" Gu Yanbai murmured and sat up straight.

"What happened?" Gu Yanbai asked.

But Jiang Qingwu didn't know how to start, so he closed his eyes tightly.

She couldn't bear to tell what happened that night, nor did she want Gu Yanbai to know that the Gu family's disaster was caused by the emperor's discovery of the scandal between the imperial concubine and Lu Changqing.

Seeing that Jiang Qingwu didn't say anything, Gu Yanbai suddenly stood up and stood in front of Jiang Qingwu.

"Jiang Qingwu, you said you would stand by me and help me find the truth."

"At this point, even you are going to follow Yan Xiuchen's example and hide everything from me?"

"What on earth happened? Why did the emperor start killing people overnight?"

"Do you know that on that night, all the members of the Gu family were arrested or killed, including my cousin Lu's family, who were also massacred..."

"I know." Jiang Qingwu blurted out, slowly stood up and walked towards Gu Yanbai.

"When the emperor gave the order...I was there..."

"I also know... who led the troops to capture the Gu family, and I also know who led the troops... to kill the Lu family!"

Jiang Qingwu murmured, his eyes were bloodshot, and his pale face was slightly mottled with tear marks under the moonlight.

Gu Yanbai suddenly came to his senses, turned around, walked up to him and grabbed Jiang Qingwu.

"You know? You even know this?"

"Tell me, who was it that led the troops to the Gu family and the Lu family... Tell me..."

Jiang Qingwu said all this because he was planning to reveal the whole truth to Gu Yanbai.

But when it really came to his lips, he didn't know how to start, and could only let Gu Yanbai grab him with his uncontrolled emotions.

Before Jiang Qingwu could speak, a clear answer came from outside the door in the distance.

"It was me. I led the troops to the Gu and Lu families."