On a moonless night with overcast clouds, the air was damp and heavy.

There was muffled thunder from the sky, and heavy rain was coming.

The houses are hidden among the trees, and there is a faint light on the windows.

Cheng Jiuyuan leaned on Chu Heng's chest and listened to him reading a storybook. His slightly hoarse voice was quite effective in helping one fall asleep.

Cheng Jiuyuan suddenly looked up and asked, "Is Qi Zhen going to be forced to undergo a bone-drip test to test his paternity?"

Chu Heng put down the script, pulled the quilt up and covered her.

"I have arranged everything according to your request, but your medicine..."

Cheng Jiuyuan smiled confidently: "No matter whose corpse he replaces it with, or what he does with his hands, the blood will definitely not seep into the bones."

It was only after she went to another world that she realized that the methods of identifying kinship by dropping blood or dropping bones were totally inaccurate and could be changed by human beings.

"Then let's wait and see the show."

Chu Heng hugged her sideways and said softly, "Don't worry about it."

Cheng Jiuyuan closed her eyes and was about to fall asleep when she heard Chu Heng say again: "By the way, guess who I met when I went to Beilin?"

"Who?" Could Bei Lin have any acquaintances?

"Jiang Qingli."

Cheng Jiuyuan opened her eyes wide in surprise: "Isn't she in Northern Qi?"

"When Qin Qiuming went to Beiqi, he somehow met her and took her abducted to Beilin."

Cheng Jiuyuan frowned, "Miss Jiang, are you willing?"

"Of course I don't want to. Fortunately, although Qin Qiuming can't be called a gentleman, he doesn't bother to force me."

"They have kidnapped people, but it's not forced."

"Don't worry, I have arranged secret guards to be by her side. After we finish dealing with Northern Qi, if she wants to leave, the secret guards will take her away. But..."

"Just what?"

"It's just that I think Qin Qiuming is very serious about her."

"You have to be serious about it if Miss Jiang is willing. Besides, Miss Jiang has suffered so much in the past that I'm afraid she would be too shy to avoid love."

"You're right. Okay, stop worrying about others and go to sleep."

Cheng Jiuyuan closed her eyes in his arms, but she didn't feel sleepy.

If she had not been reborn, Jiang Qingli would not have married Chu Jing.

Jiang Qingli is just like her in her previous life, she loves the wrong person.

She understood Jiang Qingli very well and was probably afraid that she didn't want to be involved in love anymore.

If she hadn't met Chu Heng in this life, she would have lived alone for the rest of her life.

Is Qin Qiuming the second Chu Heng?

Will it cause secondary harm to Jiang Qingli?

Knowing that she was still awake, Chu Heng patted her back gently, like coaxing a child.

"I shouldn't have told you if I had known. Go to sleep."

……

Imperial Tomb of Northern Qi

The Taoist priest was dancing and singing on the side, and the three princes were staring at the coffin.

Qi Zhen looked indifferent. He glanced at his three brothers and a hint of murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

All the officials hung their heads and dared not speak a word.

After reciting the spell, the Taoist priest shouted, "Open the coffin!"

The three princes and Qi Zhen knelt one after another, and all the officials followed suit.

The heavy coffin was opened and four people stood up and stepped forward.

The prince asked someone to bring a knife and looked at Qi Zhen: "Please."

Qi Zhen curled his lips, picked up the knife and slowly approached the prince.

Thinking of Qi Zhen's bloodthirsty cruelty, the prince quickly stepped back.

Qi Zhen sneered, showing disdain.

With this much guts, you still dare to compete with him for the throne?

Qi Zhen slowly turned around with the dagger in his hand and approached the coffin step by step.

Suddenly, he turned around and looked at the three princes: "My three royal brothers, what if the rumors are proven to be false?"

The three kings looked at each other, and the first king said, "Isn't it better if it's fake? It proves yourself."

"That's it?"

The second king asked, "What do you want?"

"Because of some unfounded rumors, you forced me to perform a bone test to verify my kinship with you, and disturbed my father."

The impulsive and irritable three kings asked: "What should you do?"

"If I can prove that the rumors are false, you will hand over your military power and return to your fiefdom."

The three princes looked at each other.

Although the late emperor favored Qi Zhen, he also understood Qi Zhen's character, so he gave each of the three of them military power to protect themselves.

"What? You don't want to? Then I don't think we can do this bone test today..."

"Okay! We agree!" Sang Yewang said loudly.

"Third brother!" The eldest prince frowned.

"Brother, all the evidence shows that his identity is suspicious!"

Qi Zhen nodded: "Okay, then just keep your eyes open and watch!"

He looked at the human bones in the coffin and raised his hand.

The dagger cut the sleeve without hesitation, and the blood instantly soaked the sleeve.

The three princes immediately stepped forward and stared at the scene closely.

Qi Zhen curled his lips and watched the blood on his hand dripping onto the bones.

One drop, two drops...

Four pairs of eyes stared intently, afraid of missing anything.

The blood gathered into a stream and slid down.

The smile on Qi Zhen's lips gradually froze.

"Hahaha! You're just a bastard!"

"You are indeed a bastard! What else do you have to say!"

"Did you kill the emperor? Tell me!"

The ministers came forward one after another, and when they saw that the blood had not seeped into the human bones, their faces changed drastically.

Except for a few of Qi Zhen's confidants, the rest all stood behind the three kings.

Qi Zhen looked into the coffin with disbelief in his eyes.

That's impossible. He clearly replaced the bones, and the blood on his hands belongs to the corpse's child.

What went wrong?

He quickly guessed that the three kings might have tampered with the corpse.

"There's something wrong with this corpse! Someone must have tampered with it! The three of you come and shed some blood!"

The three princes are not fools, and no one will come forward to prove himself.

"Someone, come! Capture this bastard who killed his father and seized the throne!"

Almost all the royal family members and ministers stood on the side of the three kings. Upon seeing this, Qi Zhen immediately flew over and tried to capture the eldest prince.

The prince retreated again and again, and his personal guards immediately protected him in the middle.

"Quick! Capture this bastard, dead or alive!"

The imperial mausoleum was instantly in chaos, and several of Qi Zhen's trusted aides protected Qi Zhen as they rushed out.

"Your Majesty, as long as you have the green mountains, you will not be afraid of running out of firewood. We will protect you and fight your way out!"

But two fists are no match for four hands, as there is a huge gap in strength between the two sides.

Qi Zhen's men fell one by one, and Qi Zhen was also injured.

Finally, he was kicked to the ground by a general and a sword was put to his neck.

Seeing that Qi Zhen was seriously injured and subdued, the three kings dared to step forward.

"You have been favored by the emperor for so many years, and he gave you the throne. I never thought you would be a bastard!"

"Empress Dowager Huici? Bah! We just happen to be in the imperial mausoleum. Let's go dig out the whore in the harem and grind her bones to dust!"

I thought Qi Zhen would be angry after hearing this, but he was unusually calm.

The eldest prince was afraid of a change, so he said, "This bastard killed my father and disturbed the royal bloodline. Take him to my father's coffin and execute him on the spot!"

"Correct!"

Several soldiers escorted Qi Zhen to the coffin of the late emperor, and the three princes knelt down and kowtowed several times.

"Father, I am an unfilial son. I never thought you would die at the hands of this bastard!"

"Father, I will make this bastard die in front of you today to pay his sins."

Qi Zhen looked at the three people worshiping the corpse that came from nowhere, and immediately laughed out loud with his head raised.

"Bastard, what are you laughing at!"

"He is still so arrogant even when he is about to die. Quick, kill him!"

"It would be too easy for him to kill him with just one sword. Give me the sword!"

The third prince stepped forward with a knife and struck Qi Zhen with the knife again and again.

Instead of screaming, Qi Zhen laughed even more wildly.

"Hahaha, come again! Hahaha..."

The laughter, accompanied by the smell of blood, made everyone present shiver.

"Mad man! He is indeed a mad man!"

Qi Zhen died, almost cut into a stick by the three kings.

From then on, civil strife in Northern Qi began.

The three princes of Northern Qi were unwilling to submit to each other and became a loose group.

Dongling and Beilin suddenly declared war on Northern Qi. Under the double attack, Northern Qi, which was in civil strife, was simply vulnerable.

In less than three months, Northern Qi was completely defeated.

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