The loyal minister was forced to marry the traitor

"He will be..." Huai Chun seemed to be dazed, "No one else can do it, no one can do it."

"Only him!"

Bai Yan's face turned cold: "You still want to continue to force him?"

Having said all this, Huai Chun is still obsessed with ghosts and refuses to give up.Just now the peaceful conversation between the two stopped, Huai Chun stared straight at Bai Yan: "Why did you pull Song Que out, you clearly know that I want you to talk about the Second Highness."

His eyes were red, "I have been scheming for so long, and I did not hesitate to send myself to this disgusting place, so that His Royal Highness can become the crown prince without any encumbrance, and now you actually..."

"So you think I did something wrong?" Bai Yan interrupted him with no warmth on his face.

Huai Chun's voice became louder and louder: "It's wrong, it's all wrong!"

"Even if Wei Chengdan is unwilling, even if he gets hurt all over his body for the throne he doesn't want, even if he will be depressed and suffer for the rest of his life..." Bai Yan stared at Huai Chun, "Are you willing to do this? "

Huai Chun was startled.

Bai Yan threw the cloak on his shoulders and threw it back to him viciously, "I used to think that you were doing it for revenge and for him, but now I think you are only using Wei Chengtan."

"Why can't revenge be reported? Why do you have to force him to become emperor?"

Bai Yan lamented his misfortune and was even more angry at him, "What did Wei Chengtan do wrong again? You forced him to step back step by step. I don't believe you don't know why he came back. He clearly planned to stay in the Buddhist temple for the rest of his life and stay away from Yingdu. , but he just came back after Wei Chengfeng was deposed..."

Before that, Bai Yan didn't think deeply about it, but now he couldn't help but doubt it.

"It's me..." Huai Chun stared at the cloak under his feet, even these were sent by Wei Chengdan to find a way to bring them in.

"Wei Chengfeng has been deposed, even if the emperor doesn't want to, he has to be allowed to come back." Huai Chun suddenly paused, and then said again, "Isn't this the destiny of heaven?"

"So what if the emperor loves the other princes? Wei Chengfeng is stupid and incompetent. Although Wei Chengju is a descendant, he is not an elder, and he is the most suitable person."

Huai Chun lowered his head, "But why do you want to disobey me?"

His hair was slightly disheveled, "I'm really sorry for you, and used to deceive you, but... this is my only chance left."

"I'm not what Wei Chengdan wants to see here today," Bai Yan stared at Huai Chun, "Haven't you thought about it?"

"Who deliberately asked you and me to sit face to face?"

After Bai Yan finished speaking, Huai Chun was completely stunned.

He always wanted to ignore those things, but Bai Yan wanted to spread them out for him to see: "You are so focused on revenge, have you forgotten who the emperor is?"

The current emperor is not the eldest son, but he quietly eliminated the other princes back then, and now there are only some powerless princes left. You don't need to think about how clever his methods are.

Huai Chun wholeheartedly wanted to pull the emperor off the dragon seat, and then help Wei Chengdan up, but he forgot that the person holding the chess is also a chess piece in someone else's hands, and the emperor had already taken precautions against him, otherwise he would not Knowing that the two of them are familiar with each other and have a close relationship, they are locked in the same place.

It's not difficult to understand that the emperor was telling Bai Yan and Huai Chun that he knew about the "collusion" between the two of them in the past, and now he still holds the power over their life and death.The emperor got angry and laid down millions of corpses. The emperor couldn't tolerate their wanton behavior.

Bai Yan always felt like he missed something. In the past, Huai Chun was also a thoughtful person, and he always tried to be foolproof in everything he did, but now he seemed to be obsessed with ghosts, and couldn't listen to Bai Yan's words.

"Now that Wei Chengju's army is outside the city, and Wei Chengfeng is also in name only, the only one who can be qualified to be crowned prince is His Highness the Second Highness...that's all I'm asking for."

Huai Chun didn't know whether he was convincing Bai Yan or himself, his eyes were burning: "Although what you did today was beyond my expectation, it is still a way. The vigilance has been greatly reduced, and it is not in vain to make such a fuss."

Bai Yan was angry in his heart, but he couldn't vent it. He pointed to the outside and said in a low voice, "Have you ever thought about the people outside?"

He said so much, but Huai Chun was still unmoved, so he was inevitably depressed, so he spoke in a bad tone: "Look at the lives of the people outside are in danger, Wei Chengju is still clamoring in the city, if he attacks today When you enter the city, where do you put those people? Where do you put the others? No matter if it is Wei Chengdan, Wei Chengfeng, or even the emperor, which one can escape?"

Bai Yan asked three rhetorical questions in succession, Huai Chun lowered his eyes and remained silent.

Looking at Huai Chun like this, Bai Yan always felt very uncomfortable, but he had to say:

"Today you put the entire Yingdu people in a dangerous situation for your own selfishness. I don't care if you ever tried to provoke Wei Chengji to make him plan this in advance. Even today's predicament is in your plan, but I just I want to say that I have always wanted to assist Ming Jun and Ren Jun, but if one day you really hold power, at that time, did you play with power, or did power eventually bite you back?"

Bai Yan didn't pretend to be false, he told the truth straight to the point, and directly pointed out Huai Chun's subtle thoughts, the two of them were silent for a long time.

After a long time, Huai Chun spoke slowly.

"You're right. Today's incident has nothing to do with me. Wei Chengju didn't make an attack at this time. I forced him and Yun Zhong to do it earlier. As you can see, the emperor is not in good health now. If one day, He really died, and the Second Highness was not in the palace at that time, so it is still unknown who will occupy that position in the end. So I can't wait, and I dare not wait."

It was just speculation before, but now even Huai Chun has admitted it. Looking at him, Bai Yan felt that the person in front of him was very strange.

"When did you start planning?" It was hard for Bai Yan not to think too much, he always knew that Huai Chun had something to hide from him, and this person was thoughtful, and the city was extremely deep, no one could do what Huai Chun wanted to do. can stop.But no matter what, Bai Yan never thought that one day Huai Chun would take advantage of the common people and the struggle for the throne to start a desperate struggle with Wei Chengju and the emperor.

"Before the Second Highness came back." Huai Chun said in a low voice, "I just want His Highness to become the crown prince in a legitimate way, and the princess's mansion must be avenged."

Speaking of this, Huai Chun glanced at Bai Yan, he was silent for a while, and finally asked: "Don't you want to take revenge five years ago? The Marquis of Pingjin treated you well, and Xiao Jiuqin is now with You have an extraordinary relationship, the two of you have never thought about the reason for the incident five years ago?"

"How could I not have thought about it..." When Bai Yan heard the words Pingjin Houfu, his heart felt as if he had been slashed by a knife. He will never forget the tragedy of Pingjinhoufu five years ago... In the end, only A Xiao Jiuqin.

Every time Bai Yan thinks of his powerless days in the imperial prison, his heart feels like a big stone.

"Others can't empathize with me, but I think you can," Huai Chun sighed: "Some hatred is as deep as the sea, and it will not fade with time, on the contrary, it will be more unforgettable."

"I can't forget the hatred in the Princess Mansion. Which one of the dozens of people is not innocent? Even the youngest is just a baby. What did they do wrong?"

The hatred in Huai Chun's heart lasted forever, in the two years after the Princess Mansion was destroyed, as long as he fell asleep, those tragedies would turn into nightmares and haunt him constantly.

Those familiar people in the dream were no longer as close as before, and even had hideous faces, reaching out to him for help.

Huai Chun woke up from the dream time and time again, dripping cold sweat profusely.

He slowly began to have trouble sleeping.

don't want to sleep.

Until Bai Yan came to him.

"You have guilt, so you keep torturing yourself to make that guilt go away."

Compared with Huai Chun, Bai Yan really wants to be more adaptable, no, he seems to be invincible.

Huai Chun had heard about the Pingjin Marquis Mansion, and he was almost wiped out, but Bai Yan seemed to come out of the nightmare very quickly.

He left the Grand Master's Mansion, bearing all the speculation and infamy.

Then climb up step by step.

He didn't smile, but he never shed tears. Every time he was framed by someone, he was calm and indifferent.

Huai Chun asked him, "Don't you want to take revenge?"

How did Bai Yan answer?

He picked up a sharp stone and cut a gash on the back of his hand, and said lightly, "Even if this injury heals, can you forget it?"

He smiled softly: "Wounds will leave scars..."

"How can you not take revenge, it's just that the time has not yet come."

To this day, Huai Chun couldn't help but ask Bai Yan: "Is it still the case that you said that the time has not yet come?"

Under his gaze, Bai Yan slowly shook his head: "It's time."

"Then why did you stop me?" Huai Chun's eyes were sharp.

"It's not to stop you." Bai Yan looked at Huai Chun: "I never thought of stopping you, on the contrary, I hope you can do what you want."

"But this is not a reason to disregard the life and death of the common people." Bai Yan pointed to the outside: "Why are the common people innocent?"

"Did you ever think about them when you communicated with Wei Chengju?" Bai Yan sighed: "Now you are avenging everyone in the Princess Mansion, but you are also taking the lives of innocent people to fulfill your own selfishness."

"Don't the common people have a home? They also have blood ties, but once you take their lives as a martyr for your revenge, then... what is the difference between you and the murderers who killed everyone in the Princess Mansion?"

Huai Chun argued: "I never thought of sacrificing them..."

"Then, have you ever thought about letting Wei Chengju's army invade Yingdu, and then...he commits chaos, kills the king and brother, and you have a reason to get rid of him."

"It's justified, isn't it?" Bai Yan showed a smile: "You have taken every step and counted all the possibilities, but there is only one thing you forgot..."

"what's up?"

"That means Xiao Jiuqin can defend this city."

Bai Yan looked at Huai Chun, "You don't take the lives of the common people, but some people care... Xiao Jiuqin can do it."

"Although Wei Chengju's privately raised soldiers couldn't catch up, they also restrained Xiao Jiuqin's men and horses. Only the imperial army and imperial forest army want to defend Yingdu. You think highly of him."

"He can." Bai Yan didn't hesitate at all.