How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

After Cao Qingran left, Nanny Qing looked at Xie Jinyu, who was standing there with a changing expression, and sighed softly.

"Your Highness, the Queen has never placed anyone around you." Nanny Qing defended Cao Qingran, "She has never interfered with your power. Please believe the Queen, she will never harm you."

"Heh." Xie Jinyu sneered, thinking it was ridiculous. "Just believe what you say."

Won’t it harm him?

When he was young, she punished him and left him alone with injuries to face the cold night and blizzard, but she never showed any mercy.

He was no longer at the age to ask her whether she loved him or not, nor did he want to know why she, as a mother, treated him like this. He had his own eyes and his own judgment, and he understood clearly that Cao Qingran had nothing in her eyes except to let the bloodline of the Cao family ascend to the throne.

Xie Jinyu turned away. Although he disliked Cao Qingran, he also knew that Cao Qingran would not lie to him. It seemed that there was someone else behind the two ministers.

who can that be?

In the imperial prison, Xie Jinyu found Shen Yuan who was imprisoned.

The handsome and unrestrained man was sitting on a pile of rotten grass, but his temperament was still as elegant as the breeze and the moon. There was not a trace of dirt on his clean face and prison uniform. It seemed that he was well taken care of.

As for who that person is, you can tell with just a thought.

"It seems that Lord Shen is living well in this prison." Thinking of his close relationship with Xie Chengze, Xie Jinyu couldn't help but sneer.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is here." Shen Yuan was not surprised to hear Xie Jinyu's voice. He slowly opened his eyes and looked at the young man with a gloomy expression and jealous eyes across the door, and sighed softly.

He was still so stubborn. If Xie Chengze in this life had not been well-behaved and kind, Shen Yuan could not imagine how Xie Jinyu would have repeated the same mistakes as in his previous life, and how difficult his own path of persuasion would have been.

"I thought the Crown Prince would not come to see me." Shen Yuan stood up and walked to the prison door. "After all, I always irritate His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"I told you not to get too close to my second brother." Xie Jinyu looked at him solemnly. "Why are you helping my second brother in everything now?"

"Hmm..." Shen Yuan gently tapped his chin, "Helping the Second Prince? If you think about it from another angle, you are indeed helping him?"

Xie Jinyu frowned.

If you think about it from another angle, is this helping your second brother?

What if you don’t change it?

"What on earth does this mean?" Xie Jinyu stepped forward and held the cell door. "What on earth are you planning?"

Why did he feel that Cao Qingran seemed to be planning something, and his second brother and Shen Yuan were also planning something?

Is it the Dragon Throne?

But I also have a vague feeling that it's not just the dragon throne.

They seemed to be in collusion and kept it from him alone.

"Rather than answering this, Your Highness, I heard that the Cao family has changed its owner?" Shen Yuan looked at him, "Could it be the Queen who did it?"

Xie Jinyu was silent for a moment, then nodded.

"Then, it seems that the Queen asked His Highness to come and see me." Shen Yuan guessed.

"You!" Xie Jinyu raised her eyes suddenly, "How do you know? Are you——"

Cao Qingran’s people?

Shen Yuan smiled faintly and shook his head. "I am from Jian'an, not from a certain faction. The Queen asked you to come to me, probably because she wants me to tell you who those two ministers who committed suicide belonged to, right?"

The queen was actually the most hidden person, but for some reason she had always been unwilling to help the prince. It was not until the prince's life was in danger in his previous life that she mobilized a force that even he was surprised about. Only then did he realize that this queen should not be underestimated.

Xie Jinyu stared at him closely, "As expected of Lord Shen, even though he is in prison, he knows so much information."

"Your Highness, thank you for your praise. It was the Second Prince who asked someone to tell me."

Shen Yuan smiled gently, and his gentle and affectionate eyes made Xie Jinyu feel even more glaring. She scolded in a low voice, "Enough! I'm not here to listen to you bragging!"

If he didn't want his second brother to hate him, he would have already -!

"Okay." Seeing Xie Jinyu getting angry, Shen Yuan put away his smile and said seriously, "Your Highness, the court has always been difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood. Since it is impossible to get the answer from the dead, then we should seek the source and see who is taking over the Second Prince who is now isolated and helpless."

Just as Su Qinghe was only valuable for marriage in the eyes of the Su family, Xie Chengze was naturally only valuable for being a puppet emperor in the eyes of the emissaries behind the scenes. If they want to make the other party a puppet, isn't the first step to undermine his power and make him available to their own use?

Xie Jinyu's eyes were shocked, and then he turned and left.

"Your Highness." Shen Yuan stopped him, his tone solemn, "The Second Prince has his own arrangements, please do not be impatient and disrupt his plans."

"I will trust my second brother."

After saying this, Xie Jinyu quickened his pace and left.

Shen Yuan looked at it and couldn't help shaking his head.

It seems that even with his own teachings, without the trials of the trip to Yizhou and the snow disaster, the prince ultimately matured a little slower than in his previous life.

But no problem.

He and Xie Chengze can both wait for him to grow up slowly, until the day when he can protect Jian'an.

……

"I want to drink more, I want to drink more!"

In Chenghuan Palace, a gorgeous young man in a scarlet palace robe reeked of alcohol. He sat on the ground with a jar of wine in his arms, looking ungraceful, but still charming. His fair cheeks were stained an eye-catching red by the drunkenness, and the resentment and grievance in the corners of his eyes made him look even more pitiful, making people want to comfort him.

"You bastard Emperor Jian! You bastard Crown Prince! You are just jealous of me! How am I not better than you? If I were not here, could you solve the flood in Yizhou? Could you help the people in the north survive the snowstorm?"

"I am the one who should be the emperor! You are all trash! Just like beggars, you are all trash!"

"Wuwuwu... You, the Xie family, are bullying me! Mother, if you were still alive, you would definitely support me..."

The handsome young man lay on the steps of the desk and burst into tears. His flushed cheeks were washed by his tears and became crystal clear and moist. His body, which rose and fell with his crying, was extremely frail. It was so pitiful to look at him that one could not wait to hold him in his arms and comfort him.

"Who bullied His Highness like this?"

Just as Xie Chengze was crying sadly, he suddenly heard someone's voice in the hall. He was slightly stunned for a moment, looked around and saw no one, and asked in shock, "Who! Who is talking?"

"Your Highness, have you forgotten my voice so quickly? I am really sad." The man chuckled and said, "Why don't you look up? The moonlight tonight is very pleasing to the eyes!"

Xie Chengze blinked his hazy eyes, looked up, and found that one of the roof tiles above his head had been lifted up, and the sound came from there.

He rubbed his eyes, got up from the ground, walked out of the hall quickly, stood in the yard and looked up at the eaves.

I saw a man half-sitting on the roof, wearing a slim dark purple robe that made his body look tall and pleasing to the eye. He was sitting on the green and red tiles with one leg bent, and his slender fingers were grasping a jar of Lanqiao Fengyue wine. When he met Xie Chengze's gaze, he raised the jar of wine in his hand towards him.

On Sheng Shihuai's handsome face, there was a friendly and uninhibited smile, "Second Prince, what's the point of drinking alone? Why don't I accompany you to enjoy the moon and drink?"

Xie Chengze looked around and saw no ladder. He couldn't help but curl his lips and said unhappily, "I can't get up!"

Sheng Shihuai couldn't help but laugh. He stood up and jumped down from the roof. His black boots landed quietly beside Xie Chengze. He put his arm around his waist and flew to the roof the next moment.