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Chapter 1644 Substitute Bride 48
The power of the eldest and second princes' factions was already greater than that of the third prince, and now that they also have the Ding family, the third prince is naturally even less of a match.

Seeing that he couldn't win, the Third Prince wanted to transfer troops from the capital's main camp.

But this time, he didn't have that chance.

Both groups had been sending assassins to kill him, and this time, the assassination was successful.

The assassination was successful without Linlang's influence.

Of course, Ding Shi also played a role in this—she was afraid of being beaten and dared not not help—she learned about the Third Prince's movements by controlling someone close to him, and then told the Second Prince's people. The Second Prince's people then told the First Prince's people, and the two sides joined forces to assassinate the Third Prince.

Besides the third prince, one of his sons was also killed.

The third prince is not old and only has this one son.

Clearly, the factions of the First and Second Princes would not allow the Third Prince's son to live, lest he ascend to the throne again.

But after the third prince's line died out, the sickly son of the first prince became the target of everyone's attacks.

This time, the people targeted are those of the Second Prince and the Third Prince.

Needless to say, the Second Prince's lineage is extinct, so they naturally cannot bear to see the First Prince's lineage ascend to the throne. The same goes for the Third Prince's lineage; they too are extinct and naturally do not want the First Prince's people to take the throne. In particular, their family was killed by the First Prince's men, which is a blood feud, so it is even more impossible for them to allow their descendants to ascend to the throne.

Although they knew that killing the eldest prince's son would kill off the royal line, and that they would have to find someone from the imperial clan to succeed him.

However, they preferred to find someone from the royal family to succeed to the throne rather than let the eldest prince's son benefit from it. After all, they were sworn enemies and they were unwilling to let the other become emperor.

Actually, the eldest prince's son doesn't need them to target him, because he's already sickly, so it doesn't matter whether they target him or not.

Even so, they still had to target him, because what if he was like the eldest prince, who lived to be over thirty even though he was in poor health? Wouldn't that mean the end for him?

Moreover, the eldest prince's son will be able to get married and have children in two years. If he feels that his health is not good and gets married and has children ahead of time, it will be even more difficult to deal with the next generation when they are born. Therefore, it is natural to deal with him immediately.

The Crown Prince's faction was being relentlessly pursued and attacked, which naturally infuriated them.

The Third Prince was killed before he could ascend the throne. Now they are worried that the First Prince's son, who is rightfully the rightful heir to the throne, will also be killed. So they are protecting the First Prince's son tightly, for fear that he will be secretly killed by the Ding family.

However, even if no one harms the eldest prince's son, he will not survive, because his health is even worse than that of the eldest prince himself. In addition, the recent tense atmosphere has made him anxious, which has made his health even worse.

So when the forces of the Second Prince, the Third Prince, and others failed to succeed, the First Prince's son himself was no match for them.

Seeing that the eldest prince's son was dying, his faction naturally suspected that the second and third princes had Ding Shi in their hands and were plotting something. The two sides fought fiercely. However, neither side sought to send reinforcements from the capital's military camp or anyone else to the capital to defend the emperor. The main reason was that the eldest prince's son was dying, and they knew the situation was hopeless. There was no need to summon the military men to the capital; they feared that if they failed to remove them, the military men would seize power and cause a major political upheaval, leaving them with eternal infamy. Naturally, they didn't want to be infamous, so seeing that things were beyond saving, they stopped making a fuss.

While the two sides were locked in a life-or-death struggle, they also began to look for a successor.

Since this branch of the royal family has died out, it is natural to find a member of the imperial clan to inherit the throne.

This search naturally led to the Prince Wei's residence, since this branch of the family was the closest to the royal family.

However, not to mention that the Prince Wei's family also has difficulty producing offspring and is not suitable to be the heir, even if they were suitable, the people of the Prince Wei's family would not dare to agree. After all, how many members of the royal family have died in recent years? They are afraid that if their own child becomes the heir, he will not be like those members of the royal family, who were killed because someone was dissatisfied.

Although the Prince Wei's mansion did indeed covet the throne, the struggle was too brutal, and they should stay out of it. Otherwise, if they failed and ended up like other members of the royal family, they would be wiped out, which would be disastrous.

They didn't realize that the one who would be adopted would be the one killed. In that case, if the adoption failed, only that one child would die; if the adoption succeeded, they would gain wealth and honor, so it wouldn't be a loss no matter how you looked at it.

It's impossible for the adoption to not affect the family at all. Once those people's ferocity is unleashed, they will definitely act recklessly and even kill the people in the Prince Wei's mansion. They don't want to be wiped out like the First Prince, the Third Prince, and others.

It should be noted that after the Second Prince ascended the throne, the First Prince and the Third Prince were also granted the title of Prince. Originally, like the Prince of Wei's family, they became idle members of the imperial clan. However, after the Second Prince's line was wiped out, they became ambitious and insisted on vying for the throne. In the end, they were killed and their clans were exterminated.

The eldest and third princes are idle princes like them, and they will die and their families will be exterminated. If they get involved in the struggle for the throne, they will also suffer the same fate if they are unlucky. This is why they do not agree to be adopted.

Wealth and status are good, but life is more important. In any case, they are already noble princes, so there is no need to take this risk.

Unlike the eldest and third princes, they were not born princes, unlike the eldest and third princes who were princes and had the right to inherit the throne. They could not accept not getting it.

They were born princes, so if they can't have it, they can't have it; they're better able to accept it.

Of course, even if the Prince of Wei's family wanted them, those people in the court wouldn't be willing to choose them, because their family members were also not good enough, and it was difficult to have offspring. If they were chosen, what if they died out in a few years and had to choose again? That would be too troublesome.

Therefore, they turned their attention to the Qinghe Prince's Mansion, a direct descendant of the Wei Prince's Mansion.

The Qinghe Prince's family has a much larger offspring. Not to mention how many brothers the Qinghe Prince has, even if the Qinghe Prince himself did not take a concubine, he already has three children, two sons and a daughter, and could easily adopt one of them into the royal family.

So they planned to wait until the eldest prince's child died before approaching the Qinghe Prince's residence to discuss adoption.

Since the eldest prince's child was dying, he would naturally pass away soon, without having had time to marry and have children to continue the family line. Even if he were gone, his son could still become emperor, so he simply gave up on that idea.

After the death of the eldest prince's child, the ministers in the court who had not been killed in the struggle immediately discussed the matter and came to Prince Qinghe to discuss the adoption.

It's no wonder they're in such a hurry. Since the young emperor's death, the court has been without an emperor for some time, and a country cannot be without a ruler for a day. Naturally, they need to quickly find a successor to inherit the throne and stabilize the situation.