Jie teaches the Immortal Sweeping Heaven’s Cultivation of All Heavens

As the two were talking, a young eunuch approached and whispered to Miss Li, "Your Highness, the young prince invites you to take a walk in the garden and enjoy the moon."

Song Xuelan laughed: "Your young prince is so charming, you should go now."

Miss Li blushed and muttered softly, "This guy, doesn't he even know where he is?"

Despite his complaints, he honestly got up and followed the young eunuch out of the palace.

Liu Tong initially didn't care, but then he discovered that everyone else in Prince Cheng's mansion had left the main hall for various reasons.

Liu Dong: "...Heh."

Suddenly, he heard a crisp sound.

It was the sound of the cup falling from Lao Qi's hand and shattering on the ground.

Next, the sound of shattering cups rose and fell, and even the emperor's wine cup fell onto the wooden table, leading to a suicide rate.

Following the crowd, Liu Dong loosened his grip slightly, letting the wine glass fall to the ground.

His body went limp again, and he collapsed onto the table.

"Hahaha..." The Crown Prince laughed wildly as he stood up, walked up the steps, and came to Emperor Qianming's side.

"Father, how does this cup of soft and fluffy pastry taste?"

Emperor Qianming glared at the Crown Prince: "It was you! You poisoned the wine?"

The crown prince readily admitted, "It was me. But Father, you forced me to."

Emperor Qianming: "How did I force you?"

Crown Prince: "Father, are you planning to depose me from my position as Crown Prince at today's Mid-Autumn Festival banquet? I am unwilling. Without the title of Crown Prince, I will die. To protect myself, I have no choice but to strike first."

Emperor Qianming: "..."

Liu Tong: "..."

The person hiding in the shadows: "..."

Did the Empress throw away her real child during childbirth and only keep this placenta?

Deposing the crown prince is a serious matter that should be announced in the court, not at a banquet for entertainment.

Who deceived the Crown Prince?

The person who lied to the prince: I was just saying it casually, I didn't expect him to actually believe it.

Emperor Qianming: "Do you think you can become emperor by doing this? The ministers will not recognize you as a usurper."

The Crown Prince chuckled: "Father, the palace and the entire capital are now in my hands. Who would dare to oppose me? Aren't they afraid of death? Even if those ministers themselves aren't afraid of death, aren't they afraid of their wives and children dying?"

Crown Prince: "Thank you, Father, for hosting the banquet and allowing the ministers to bring their wives and children into the palace, which has given me so many more hostages."

The ministers who were slumped over their desks, unable to straighten up, were both angry and afraid, but dared not glare at the crown prince.

They were indeed afraid of death, and also afraid of losing their wives and children. They could only curse the Crown Prince in their hearts for being so despicable as to use such a low-down method as poisoning and threatening their wives and children's lives.

For their own sake and for the sake of their wives and children, they had no choice but to compromise with the crown prince.

Hopefully, Emperor Qianming can understand them.

It doesn't matter if you don't understand; given the current situation, the Crown Prince is bound to win.

Once the crown prince ascends the throne, Emperor Qianming will no longer pose a threat to them.

Sigh, anyway, this is a matter between the father and son of the Tian family, it has nothing to do with them. They can just pretend to be dead. Don't get involved in their conflict just because you think it's their business, or you'll die for nothing.

Crown Prince: "Father, please write an abdication edict by your own hand."

As he spoke, the chief eunuch beside the empress brought over writing brush, ink, paper, and inkstone.

The emperor glared at the empress, who sat calmly to the side, and said coldly, "You knew about this wicked son's actions all along? Did you have the poison put in the wine?"

After all, within the palace, besides the emperor, the empress and the imperial concubine held the greatest power, enabling them to poison the wine without anyone noticing. The empress gave Emperor Qianming a mocking smile.

She naturally knew all along; in fact, she was the one who helped devise the plan to administer the drug.

Rather than being an empress who is not valued or favored by the emperor, and constantly fearing being replaced by a concubine, it would be better to be the high and mighty empress dowager.

Empress: "Your Majesty, please write the imperial edict."

Emperor Qianming: "What if I don't write it?"

The Empress chuckled: "Then your most valued son will lose his life."

Emperor Qianming glanced in Liu Tong's direction and said, "Do you think I'm afraid? Even without the fourth prince, I still have other sons."

Empress: "Then all your sons will be crippled."

The Empress shouted sternly, "Why haven't you made a move yet!"

As the ministers fell, the soldiers under the command of the Empress and the Crown Prince stormed into the main hall.

At this moment, a man dressed in armor stepped forward.

Upon closer inspection, the emperor recognized the man as Li Zhi, the deputy commander of the Imperial Guards.

Emperor: "You've managed to bribe even my most trusted confidants."

The Empress said, "It's all Your Majesty's fault for stealing Commander Li's beloved. Does Your Majesty know that Consort Rong and Commander Li were in love, but she was summoned to the palace? In the end, you didn't cherish Consort Rong and caused her to die young. How could Commander Li not hate you?"

The emperor scoffed.

He didn't believe Li Zhi would betray him for a woman; there must be some other reason.

There was indeed a reason why Liu Dong gave the emperor a thumbs up.

What the emperor didn't know was that Consort Rong was quite audacious.

The emperor disliked her, so she cheated on him by having an affair with her former lover and becoming pregnant with his child.

The emperor's nominal tenth prince is actually the biological son of Consort Rong and Li Zhi.

The Empress must have known about this, so she used the Tenth Prince to threaten Li Zhi, forcing him to join the Crown Prince's faction and help the Crown Prince rebel.

Li Zhi walked up to Liu Dong, drew his sword from his waist, and slashed down three times...

Liu Dong was ready to use the Turtle Breathing Technique to feign death, but instead of feeling any pain, he heard three screams in his ears.

Liu Tong turned his head and saw that the three slashes had hit the sixth, seventh, and eighth people.

Li Zhi chopped off one arm of each of the three men.

The Crown Prince smiled at Emperor Qianming: "Father, look, my third brother, the sixth, seventh, and eighth, are no longer qualified to ascend the throne. If you don't want your other brothers to end up like them, you should write an edict as soon as possible."

Emperor Qianming: "You beast."

He berated the crown prince but refused to write the edict.

He didn't take these three princes, the sixth, seventh, and eighth, too seriously, as their chances of ascending the throne were not high to begin with.

Now, all they've done is cut off their hands, completely extinguishing their hopes of ascending to high positions. The emperor doesn't care and feels no remorse.

The Crown Prince's gaze swept over the ninety-two princes, but when he saw the tenth prince, he looked away.

If this child's true identity is exposed, he will not only fail to become emperor, but he will also lose his life.

He poses the least threat to me. The Ninth Prince and the Tenth Prince are the same age, so let Ren Ci stay and show his abilities.

The Crown Prince gave Li Zhi a look, and Li Zhi placed his knife against Liu Tong's neck.

The Crown Prince interrupted Emperor Qianming's tirade: "Father, the next one is my fourth brother. I will certainly take special care of your favorite child. I won't cut off his arm; I will send him on his way safely." (End of Chapter)