Then let them show their loyalty!

Chapter 580: Is the Crown Prince of Kang a fake? ( words, please give me a monthly ticket!)
First of all, Princess Xi basically ruled out the option that Qiu Tu was attracted by her beauty.

Just as she analyzed before: Qiu Tu is a typical politician.

Politicians' hearts are always cold and cruel, and they only put their own interests first.

As for his "lust", it is just a disguise to the outside world.

If he was really "lustful", he wouldn't have betrayed me after promising me something, and he would have betrayed me so thoroughly.

You know, anyone who is not so insidious and cunning will not pretend to continue to abide by the contract after breaking it and then eat up the original partner in one bite.

This has absolutely no political bottom line at all.

Once it is made public, Qiu Tu’s political credibility will be destroyed and no one will dare to become his ally or do business with him.

But! It was precisely because Qiu Tu was too exaggerated in this matter that Princess Xi suspected that Qiu Tu had other plans.

After all, in her interactions with Qiu Tu, she discovered that Qiu Tu and Kou Xuan were very similar, both of them were people who took one step and planned ten steps forward.

Such a person would not be so unwise as to make such a big mistake. So.
'He must have a backup plan!'

Thinking of this, Princess Xi felt inexplicably more at ease.

She was not afraid of anything else but death. Or rather, she was afraid of dying before her enemies.

If she died before killing all the enemies who had bullied, hurt and betrayed her, she would die with regrets!

As for whether Qiu Tu would violate himself, insult himself, or torture himself?

Princess Xi is not afraid. She has survived all the darkest moments of these years. As long as she can survive, she will be able to take revenge on Qiu Tu sooner or later!
At this moment, just as Princess Xi was thinking about it, Qiu Tu finally spoke.

He stood up, stretched out his hand to Princess Xi who was half limp on the ground, and said, "Let's talk, Xixi."

"I think there may be some misunderstanding between us."

Princess Xi was stunned when she heard Qiu Tu's overly intimate address.

If Qiu Tu addressed other women in this way, the other women would probably get goose bumps.

After all, in relationships between men and women, using intimate terms that go beyond the scope of a relationship will not bring them closer together, but will easily create bad feelings.

But Princess Xi is different.

Hearing that intimate name that she hadn't heard for who knows how many years, Princess Xi was a little dazed for a moment. Inexplicably, she felt as if her heart was touched.

After all, he was captured for experimentation when he was a child, and then locked up in a dark laboratory to extract his "catastrophic power" regularly; after his revenge was successful, he was abducted to King Kang's tent, deceived again, and began revenge again.
From childhood to adulthood, she has received almost no family love or care.

This kind of intimate name is almost never heard.
But it’s a pity that Princess Xi is no longer the little girl she used to be.

If she had encountered Qiu Tu's tactics before she was cheated for the second time, she might have really developed a liking for him, or even slowly fallen in love with him.

But now, she has been tempered for 13 years and is now a woman standing at the top of the imperial pyramid!

So, it only took her a second to come back to her senses, then she laughed at herself and did not take the hand that Qiu Tu extended, but stood up from the ground by herself.

Although his hand reached out and nothing was left, Qiu Tu didn't care.

He smiled and took his hand back, then gestured towards the sofa in the inner room and said, "Let's go sit down and talk."

Princess Xi knew that with Qiu Tu's strength, she couldn't escape, so she might as well see what Qiu Tu was up to.

So, without even any hesitation, she took the initiative to walk to the sofa in the inner room and sat down.

Seeing this, Qiu Tu also walked over and sat next to Princess Xi, then said, "Xixi, are you very disappointed in me now?"

Even though she has become a prisoner, Princess Xi still has great dignity due to her more than ten years at the peak of power.

She looked at Qiu Tu with her blue eyes, and then said bluntly, "Yes."

Qiu Tu was not surprised. He smiled and said, "What if I said that I was actually helping you?"

Perhaps she saw that Qiu Tu was not going to kill her, or perhaps she was just giving up, Princess Xi sneered twice, "Haha. Then I believe it."

The expression on Princess Xi's face was obviously the opposite of what she said, so Qiu Tu grabbed her hand, put it in his palm, and then said earnestly, "Xixi, listen to me and I will explain it to you slowly."

"What is the purpose of your coup?"

"Is it to regain power over the Sanctuary? To become the Lord of the Sanctuary?"

There was no change in Princess Xi's expression. She still sat there in a dignified manner, looking straight ahead.

Qiu Tu, "But, even if you become the master of the 6th Shelter, what's the point?"

"What is your basic base for governing? What is your political foundation?"

At this point, Qiu Tu paused, giving Princess Xi enough time to think, and then slowly answered herself, "It's Prince Kang."

"Your ruling base is the royalists, the group of people who were most loyal to King Kang back then."

"Your political foundation is that you are the mother of King Kang's child."

"To put it bluntly, their loyalty is not to you, but to that child."

"You are just a product of transition."

After hearing Qiu Tu's analysis, Princess Xi's eyes, whose expression had remained unchanged, finally showed a slight fluctuation.

As a woman standing at the pinnacle of power in Shelter 6 and able to compete with Kou Xuan, she had actually discovered this problem a long time ago.

But there was no other way. All her political foundations came from King Kang. Without King Kang, it would be difficult for her to make a big splash in the 6th Sanctuary.

In other words, given her identity, no one believed that she was not from King Kang's faction.

Of course, she had thought of ways to solve this problem.

Thinking of this, she glanced at Qiu Tu, and then said bluntly, "I have thought about everything you said."

"But! I have time!"

"King Kang is dead. His influence will continue to decline over time."

"As long as I take control of the Sanctuary, power will be concentrated in my hands. In the next decade or so, I can cultivate loyal confidants and forces to gradually weaken King Kang's influence."

Qiu Tu smiled and pointed out the core problem of Princess Xi's plan. "But will you have enough time to cut it all down?"

"Or can the so-called Prince Kang really last that long?"

Upon hearing Qiu Tu's words, Princess Xi, who had been calm all along, suddenly contracted her pupils and her body tensed up.

Perhaps realizing her own gaffe, Princess Xi hastily suppressed her inner shock.

She glared at Qiu Tu and bit back, "You actually want to murder Prince Kang?!"

Qiu Tu shook his head slightly, then said, "Princess, there are only two of us in this room."

"And your life is in my hands."

"Why don't we be honest with each other? Why do we have to be so secretive?"

Princess Xi:
However, as an excellent politician, Princess Xi knew that there were some things she could do, but she must not admit them.

After all, no matter how extreme something is, you can always find an excuse.

But once it is acknowledged, it becomes difficult to refute.

So, she remained silent for a while, without saying a word. Seeing this, Qiu Tu knew that there was still a long way to go to capture Princess Xi.

So he didn't force it, but stroked Princess Xi's hand and said earnestly, "You always said that I betrayed you."

"But in fact, you have been plotting against me all along."

"I didn't know about your past, so I never thought about it that way."

“But after I found out, I immediately felt something was wrong.”

After summarizing, Qiu Tu said with a distant look, "You have a dual catastrophe path. The surface catastrophe path is "Order-Reshaping", and the inner catastrophe path is "Destruction-Revenge."

"As for the 'Destruction-Revenge' path, the more ruthless the revenge, the greater the increase in strength."

"Your first enemy is your family, the Lin family. Your second enemy is the Queen. Your third enemy is King Kang."

"They are all people who have betrayed you, hurt you, and bullied you."

"So, every time you successfully take revenge on someone, your strength will increase dramatically."

"When you joined King Kang's camp, you were just entering the 4th stage. So after you avenge the queen, you will most likely have reached the middle stage of the 4th stage."

"I don't know what your talent is."

"But this special catastrophe path should be difficult to improve through daily practice."

"Plus, your original foundation is weak, so you need to consolidate your foundation and secretly become the lord of the region. You also need to improve your strength in the "order" path. With this calculation, it seems reasonable to spend seven or eight years."

When Princess Xi heard this, the expression on her face was completely put away. Her eyes were as deep as the bottom of the sea, without any ripples, but full of darkness.
Qiu Tu gently touched her hand and said, "So, I guess that maybe exactly three years ago, you finally succeeded in breaking through to the fifth level."

"Gained the third Cataclysm ability."

"I don't know exactly what this catastrophic ability is. But I guess it may be related to pregnancy, offspring, blood parasitism, etc."

At this point, Qiu Tu looked at Princess Xi deeply and said, "After all, the timing of Prince Kang's appearance is too bizarre."

"If you and King Kang were happy, you would have had a child long ago."

"And if your relationship has always been bad, it shouldn't suddenly get better and then get pregnant."

Princess Xi took a deep breath and closed her eyes. This is a typical escapist mentality in psychology.

A hint of understanding flashed across Qiu Tu's eyes, and he knew that his speculation was most likely correct.

So, he continued, "Of course, the reason why I suspect that there is something wrong with Prince Kang is because there is a sentence in all the intelligence about you and Prince Kang."

"King Kang accepted you as his successor because of the queen's last wish before her death." (Chapter 563, Chapter 571)
Qiu Tu said, "This is a very interesting statement. It is difficult for people who are not in the officialdom and are very careful to understand the potential value of this intelligence."

"What this sentence really means is that King Kang doesn't have much affection for you and is not willing to marry you."

"And follow this information to deduce."

"This information did not come out in the year you got married. It was summarized by major shelters in recent years."

"Then why did you come up with this piece of information?"

"It's obvious that it's because you and King Kang have had a bad relationship over the years. The major shelters investigated the cause and came to this conclusion."

Qiu Tu said, "After I deduced this information, I also tentatively asked the Kou family for confirmation."

"As I expected, although you are the princess, you have been living alone all these years under the pretext of "cultivating alone". You only appear with King Kang on important occasions."

"And there doesn't seem to be much deep affection between you and King Kang. It seems like you are just in name only."

"Until three years ago, your relationship with King Kang suddenly improved rapidly. And you took the initiative to stay overnight in King Kang's palace."

"A month later, you were pregnant."

"After that, as you became pregnant, King Kang's health suddenly deteriorated, and he became completely ill until the birth of the child."

Qiu Tu looked at Princess Xi, and then said earnestly, "This is too much of a coincidence. It's so coincidental that even Prince Kang himself discovered the problem."

After hearing Qiu Tu's analysis, Princess Xi finally couldn't deny it anymore.

She sighed slowly, then opened her eyes and looked at Qiu Tu with her azure eyes. Hatred was written all over her exotic face. "That's right. It was me who harmed King Kang!"

"He deserves to die!"

At this point, Princess Xi also glared at Qiu Tu, with a look of extreme repression and resignation, "And you're right! The way I killed King Kang was with the child!"

"Blood Demon Fetus! My third catastrophic ability after I was promoted to level 5!"

"As long as I extract a ray of the target's spiritual power when the target is defenseless and merge it with my own spiritual power, I can breed a "demon fetus" in my body!"

"The Demon Fetus is no different from an ordinary baby during its growth period, and its bloodline is the same as mine and the target's, so it is not afraid of any inspection. However! The Demon Fetus does not need the mother's nutrition to grow, but the target's life!"

"As the demon fetus grows and is born, the target's life will be constantly drained. Unless he discovers the problem and kills the demon fetus, the demon fetus will drain his life for every day he lives!"

"King Kang is already very powerful and has a tough life. I originally thought that he would die the moment the "demon fetus" was born, but I didn't expect him to hold on for nearly two more years!"

Seeing that Princess Xi agreed, Qiu Tu nodded slightly.

He said, "But it shouldn't be possible for the Demon Fetus to grow up, right?"

Princess Xi looked at Qiu Tu deeply and said, "Yes. The demon fetus can only live to be a little over 2 years old at most."

"That is, when a normal baby starts to show signs of consciousness, it will die."

“When the time comes, the life it draws will be fed back to me, helping me to improve further.”

Qiu Tu nodded slightly, "This is also the reason why you are looking for external aid at this point in time."

Perhaps even the biggest secret has been seen through by Qiu Tu, so Princess Xi has nothing to hide anymore.

So she directly and generously admitted her conspiracy, "Yes."

"I left Shelter 6 on purpose for two reasons."

"Give the Kou family a chance. And find a scapegoat."

"The Kou family has always been ambitious. And they took advantage of the faction of King Kang being seriously ill to transfer the royalists away. This shows that they have long had the intention of usurping the throne."

"I left the 6th Shelter, and the Demon Fetus stayed in the center. Whether the Kou family was trying to harm King Kang or the Demon Fetus, they helped me eliminate the hidden dangers and deal with the loopholes."

"Even if they don't plot against me, I will take the initiative to kill the 'demon fetus' and put the blame on them."

"Then I can unite the royalists and foreign aid and counterattack."

"By that time, Prince Kang and the Crown Prince would have died. If the Kou family was destroyed, I, the former Princess Xi and the mother of Prince Kang and Crown Prince, would be the only one in the entire Shelter 6 who would have the highest legal status and could hold the power."

Qiu Tu nodded slightly, and then said, "And if the Kou family did not assassinate King Kang, then you can bring in external aid, that is, me to the 6th Shelter."

"After destroying the Kou family, you will hand over the power to me, and then let the "demon fetus" die and frame me for it."

"Force me, or get other shelters to put pressure on me to leave Shelter 6."
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