The real big guys are those with connections in the eyes of the system!

Ever since the Nanyuan Marquis's mansion was ransacked, the Prince Regent has become more and more outrageous and unreasonable.

Seeing that more and more people were being persecuted, ministers wrote letters one after another, demanding that the regent be punished.

But the emperor was determined to dote on his younger brother and refused to agree.

Everyone said that if this continued, the Regent would sooner or later do something outrageous.

The emperor didn't care and even laughed at their stupidity behind their backs, not guessing that the regent was just a knife in his hand.

They didn't know that everything was his own doing, so the curses didn't fall on him.

How could he be willing to give up such a good sword so easily?

Unless one day the knife becomes blunt, he will naturally not keep useless things around him.

The emperor thought with malice.

He thought he was in control of the situation, but he didn't expect that the knife would point at him one day before it rusted.

——In the 21st year of Tianyue, the Regent forced the emperor to abdicate.

There was a fierce battle and blood all over the ground.

The regent entered with a sword in hand, and the emperor pretended to talk about brotherhood.

It was not until the sword was placed on his neck that his hypocrisy was completely exposed. Facing those eyes full of hatred, he realized that his methods had long been seen through.

"I was right. You really have evil intentions. If I had known this would happen, I would not have been soft-hearted. I should have killed you earlier."

"Raising a tiger brings trouble, it really brings trouble!"

The emperor looked at Liu Yuechen viciously, his eyes full of resentment.

Even though he already knew this man's true face, Liu Yuechen's heart still sank when he suddenly saw his ferocious appearance without disguise.

He hated the other party's high-sounding words and refuted directly, "Have you ever been soft-hearted towards me? I have tried my best to survive to this day. Look at my face..."

He took off the mask on his face, revealing a large area of ​​uneven scars.

"this--"

"It's all thanks to you!"

He gritted his teeth.

I couldn't help but recall the fire.

He almost died.

Although he survived in the end, Xu Bo was trapped in the fire forever.

He tightened his grip on the sword, and his knuckles turned white. "I have never seen a person as strange as you. On the one hand, you give me power, but on the other hand, you are afraid of me getting power."

“They are obviously the ones who care least about blood ties, yet they insist on playing the role of brothers and sisters in front of the world.

Is it because the more a person lacks something, the more they emphasize it? Or... is it because you want to cover up the fact that the deaths of other brothers are actually related to you? "

The emperor was silent for a long time, but when he heard this, he suddenly raised his eyes.

Seeing his big reaction, Liu Yuechen understood everything.

"It seems that the results I found are correct." He was so disappointed that his heart was no longer moved. He said expressionlessly, "You are more cruel than I thought."

The emperor's eyes turned, as if he had thought of something, and he stiffened his neck and refused to admit it, "Nonsense! Even if you throw ten or twenty buckets of dirty water on me, it can't change the fact that you are a traitor!"

He looked at Liu Yuechen with a resentful yet complacent look, "Your reputation has long been tarnished. Even if you kill me, you will not get the support of the ministers."

"Kill me if you dare! Regicide is a capital crime!"

"Come on, come and kill me!"

He even tilted his head up to show his neck more clearly.

Liu Yuechen didn't know where he got the confidence from and felt that he didn't dare to kill him.

He was too lazy to go into details, but as a brother, he was willing to fulfill his last wish.

——Then kill him.

The blade slashed and blood splattered.

The emperor looked at him in shock, opened his lips to say something, but was too late to say anything.

Before his consciousness faded, his whole calculated life flashed before his eyes.

Framed his brother for killing his father.

I hate the baby in the cradle who obviously knows nothing but is given the name "Yuechen" by my father out of favoritism.

Chen is a nickname for the throne.

Did the emperor give him this name because he wanted to pass the throne to him?

Even if he couldn't become emperor in the end, adding the word "Yue" was intended to make him superior to the emperor?

He hated the name and the child.

He wanted the child to die, but he was unwilling to let him die so easily.

Doesn’t the emperor have high hopes for him?

He wanted to control this child's life so that his honor and disgrace would be affected only by his own likes and disgrace.

He wanted to make him useless, so that he would have no ability to be a king and no qualifications to be emperor.

Can……

Fate seemed to have been predetermined.

The emperor died unwillingly.

Liu Yuechen stood there for a long, long time.

A tear ran down her cheek.

He wiped it off.

Then he wanted to pick up the mask on the ground and put it back on, but saw that it was stained with blood.

The outstretched hand stayed in the air for a long time, and finally was retracted.

He twitched his lips and said, "Forget it, I won't wear it."

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The morning light is faintly visible.

When a minister came to attend the morning court, he saw blood all over the floor and realized what had happened last night.

They denounced the regent for his treason and cruelty, and even after seeing the emperor's body, they did not approve of the regent's ascension to the throne.

Until a group of people not wearing official uniforms rushed into the palace.

The ministers thought that the palace gate was not guarded properly, allowing the people outside the palace to break in. They were about to drive them away, but some people gradually recognized some familiar faces.

——These were the nobles and ministers who should have been exiled or killed by the regent.

At this moment, they were all standing in front of everyone alive and intact.

They cleared the regent's name and publicly exposed the crimes of the previous emperor.

Some of the ministers who had long been on the side of the regent saw the wind changing and began to shout loudly to add momentum to their cause.

For a time, it seemed that the regent's enthronement as emperor was what everyone wanted.

Everyone thought he would ascend the throne, but he refused on the grounds that his face was damaged.

Everyone was stunned.

Although there has been an unwritten rule in all dynasties that those with disfigured faces cannot be crowned emperors.

But this rule has always bound those who have not yet become emperors.

In a situation like the Regent where the throne is within reach, as long as he wants to be emperor, he can completely ignore this rule.

Now that he is doing this, does he really not want to be the emperor, or is he just pretending to refuse for the sake of face?

Everyone tends to the latter, so they persuade and plead very cooperatively.

But Liu Yuechen really didn't want to be emperor.

He doesn't have that much ambition.

He just felt that a person without moral integrity was not worthy of being a king, and he was tired of living in fear and being controlled by others.

So no matter how others persuaded him, he refused to be emperor.

Although he is the only brother left of the late emperor, he still has many descendants.

Among them, the eldest prince, Prince Duan, is the most capable and the most principled.

Then, Prince Duan ascended the throne and changed the country's name to "Xianghe".

In the same year, Liu Yuechen wrote a letter to abolish the position of "Regent".

The late emperor acted as he pleased and created the position of "Regent", which had never appeared in any dynasty. After discussion among all officials, it was concluded that this position had no basis in previous dynasties and its powers were not clear, so it should be abolished.

The emperor approved.

Since then, the title of "Regent" disappeared, and the Ministry of Punishment was incorporated into the Ministry of Justice.

Later, Liu Yuechen was named King Xiaoyao and was given a not-so-large fiefdom in the south.

Everyone lamented that its former glory was no longer there.

But Liu Yuechen thinks this is a good idea.

The scenery in the south is beautiful and it is far away from the center of power. The fiefdom is neither too big nor too small, which is suitable for management, and it is not eye-catching.

I can finally live a relaxing life from now on.

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