Tonight, Chu Heyi was wearing a white brocade dress with green piping on the collar and cuffs. When she entered the palace, she was wearing a red cloak and a hat with white fox fur on the edge, which was dazzling.

Although she had taken off her red cloak, she still shone like a pearl.

When Dongfang Shuo entered the table, he noticed her at first sight. He noticed her brilliance, her brightness, and the smile on her face, and he hated her to the extreme.

The glorious achievements in the battle of the northern border should have been his. But the Chu family, father and son, used conspiracy and trickery to kill his adviser, causing him to be imprisoned, his entire army to be annihilated, and his reputation to be ruined.

If not, the person who would be the center of attention tonight should be him! His mother, his sweetheart Chu Runxue, and everyone around him! Not the Chu brothers, not Chu Heyi!

Dongfang Shuo wanted to destroy her, destroy the apple of the Chu brothers' eye, make them cry and even collapse.

His hatred was surging, and he couldn't wait for Chu Runxue's plan to be implemented.

The dancer accidentally scratched Chu Heyi's face during the performance. What does it have to do with him?

He was just a prince who watched the show quietly.

Dongfang Shuo stared at the long sword, which was about to slash towards Chu Heyi's face. He was extremely happy.

However, before a smile could appear in his eyes, he saw Chu Heyi slide backwards. The long sword just slid past her face and sank into the tree trunk behind her, making a clanging sound.

The dancer knelt on the ground with a plop, "Your Majesty, I beg you to forgive me. I almost hurt Miss Chu because of my carelessness."

Chu Yi and Chu Ren had already stepped forward and helped Chu Heyi up. The two brothers looked very ugly and their eyes were very cold.

Chu Heyi said, "You lost your hand by coincidence. It was not someone else's wife or daughter, but the sister of a great general who just won a battle! The person who instigated you to do this, are you so unconvinced that my father and brother won the battle?"

She spoke lightly, but her words were so sharp that the dancer trembled all over.

It was true that Chu Heyi was shocked by the prince's profile, but it was also true that she was always on guard in such a lively place.

After all, the Xie family, which was as prosperous as it was in the previous life, could also be uprooted by someone, and her father and brother had just won a victory, and some people were filled with hatred and jealousy. How could she not be on guard?

"No, I didn't. I just accidentally did it! Please punish me, Miss Chu. I have no complaints!" The dancer burst into tears.

The emperor was furious: "How dare someone do this in front of me! Come, take her away and torture her to extract a confession!"

Immediately, guards came forward and took the dancer away.

Dongfang Shuo's face turned pale. He quickly raised his glass to drink, and used his sleeves to hide his facial expression.

After this incident, Chu Ni and Chu Ren asked Chu Heyi to sit between them and the brothers to protect her at all times, fearing that something like that would happen again.

"Fortunately, you reacted in time, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous." Chu Ren said, stroking his chest.

Chu Heyi smiled playfully: "Big Brother and Fourth Brother, you don't have to be so nervous. I am always on guard."

Her original intention was to comfort her two brothers and tell them to enjoy the banquet in peace, but her words made her two brothers even more ashamed.

As a girl, she had never been to the battlefield and was just attending a banquet, but she was so cautious, and they actually relaxed just now.

Chu Ren asked: "Sister, do you think the dancer can be interrogated?"

"Probably not. She will be silenced soon."

Chu Ren pursed his lips and said, "Then who do you think would attack you?"

It was Chu Yu who answered him: "It was His Royal Highness King Cheng. I noticed that he had eye contact with the dancer just now, and before the incident, His Royal Highness King Cheng stared at my sister for a long time."

At that time, he thought that Dongfang Shuo was just angry that they did not help him win the battle, and took his anger out on his sister.

He didn't expect that Dongfang Shuo would bribe the dancer and attack his sister right under the emperor's nose. It was really bold.

Chu Heyi said: "It is indeed His Royal Highness King Cheng. He hates our entire family."

When she was watching the song and dance performance, she felt a cold gaze on her. That gaze came from Dongfang Shuo, and she had been on guard since the beginning.

Passing Chu Heyi, Chu Xie and Chu Ren looked at each other, and the two brothers tacitly kept silent.

Dongfang Shuo's plan failed, and he was so angry that he couldn't eat. At the same time, he felt that the singing and dancing were disturbing...

Furthermore, he noticed that the Chu brothers looked at him differently, so he decided to find a reason to withdraw.

He had been in a bad mood during this period, and the emperor was surprised that he could attend the New Year's Eve banquet tonight. So when he went to the emperor to tell him that he was not feeling well and wanted to leave first, the emperor did not make things difficult for him and directly agreed.

Anyway, the emperor didn't want to see him - a failed son who had lost the battle.

Not long after Dongfang Shuo left, Chu Xie and Chu Chen stood up at the same time and said they wanted to go downstairs to change their clothes.

The emperor let the two brothers go down, and the rest of the people continued to watch the singing and dancing performance without any suspicion.

Only Chu Heyi looked at the backs of his two brothers leaving with a meaningful smile.

Later, everyone heard that on New Year's Eve, His Royal Highness Prince Cheng accidentally fell into the lotus pond on his way out of the palace after a banquet. The guards failed to rescue him properly, and when His Royal Highness Prince Cheng was pulled out, he was already unconscious, with a swollen nose and face, and his right arm was dislocated, as if he had been held in the water and beaten severely.

"That's the imperial palace. Who would dare to push His Royal Highness Prince Cheng into the water and beat him up under the Emperor's nose?"

"That's right, His Royal Highness King Cheng lost the battle. Who would beat up a loser?"

"Everyone is eating, drinking, chatting and laughing in Yi'an Palace. Who would be willing to give up such a good time to beat up His Royal Highness King Cheng?"

"...Do you think it's possible that the fifty thousand soldiers died unjustly, and their wronged souls followed His Royal Highness King Cheng back, took the opportunity to drag His Royal Highness King Cheng into the lotus pond and beat him up?"

"It's very possible!"

There are all kinds of theories, but the most popular one is the theory of the wronged soul. It is said that Dongfang Shuo owed the lives of 50,000 soldiers, which led to this disaster.

Dongfang Shuo, the person involved, was still lying on the bed. His severed arm had been reattached, but it still hurt to move it.

Of course, it wasn't just his arms that hurt, but every part of his body. The other party pushed him into the water and punched and kicked him directly, causing him to be injured all over, but not to the point of taking his life.

The place was pitch black, and after he fell into the water, he was filled with water. In his panic, he couldn't see clearly who was beating him.

But later he sent people to find out who left after he left, and learned that it was the Chu brothers. He was convinced that it was the Chu brothers who had done him such a cruel thing.

Unfortunately... there is no evidence.

The Chu brothers, whom he hated so much, were currently shopping with their sister. Today was the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the streets were particularly busy.

Unexpectedly, Chu Heyi met someone unexpected.

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