Dad, don't be greedy! My brother climbed into the emperor's bed, and I became famous overn

Gu Mingli was so anxious that he almost blurted out:

Dad, I'm bound to a palace intrigue system!

But just as he had organized this truth and hadn't even uttered a single word, a sharp electronic buzzing sound erupted in his mind!

【warn!warn! 】

[Host intent detected as violating rules! Disclosure of system type and core rules is prohibited!]

[Violation will result in immediate mission failure and elimination!]

Gu Mingli, who had already opened his mouth, forcibly closed it and swallowed the rest of his sentence.

"Father! I'm begging you, please don't kill Xiao Ye!"

"My son... he can't do anything without Xiao Ye!"

"If Xiao Ye dies now, I will be declared a failure. And the consequences of that failure... will be extremely serious! Utterly devastating!"

Gu Debai looked his son up and down in astonishment.

"Oh? How serious is it?"

Gu Mingli said with a serious expression, "It's so serious that I can't even go on living."

This wasn't considered a violation, and the alarm didn't sound in my mind again.

He cleverly circumvented the system's specific rules, only throwing out a vague but fatal consequence.

Upon hearing this, Gu Debai's brows furrowed, and he looked at his son with a strange expression.

"He's dead, and you can't go on living?"

Gu Mingli nodded vigorously.

Gu Mingyue, who was listening nearby, couldn't help but cover her face.

Her brother was really going all out to save Xiao Ye's life.

Hopefully, her father won't break her brother's leg.

Fortunately, Gu Debai didn't misunderstand; he was carefully trying to figure out the true nature of his son's mission from that statement.

What kind of mission could possibly make his son unable to survive?

Gu Debai became alert and asked in a different way, "Then what constitutes completing the mission?"

Gu Mingli considered his words for a moment, "It's roughly... uh..."

I can't possibly make Xiao Ye's affection for me reach its maximum level, leaving me with no rivals in palace intrigue, can I?

Gu Mingli stammered as he tried to make amends.

"Nothing I do is wrong, and whatever I say, the emperor thinks is right..."

Gu Debai: "..."

"To what extent does the emperor need to agree that it's 'right'?"

"Uh... well..."

The more Gu Mingli wrote, the more he found it difficult to express, and for a moment he couldn't find the right words to describe it.

Gu Mingyue, who had been hunched over her porridge, couldn't take it anymore. She slowly swallowed a mouthful of porridge and added coolly with four words:

"I need to coax the emperor into obeying my brother's every word."

Gu Mingli's eyes lit up suddenly. He glanced gratefully at his sister and nodded frantically at his father, "Yes, yes, yes! We'll obey you without question!"

A brief silence fell over the dining room.

Gu Debai pinched his chin, frowned, and fell into deep thought.

"What kind of strange job is this? Did I guess wrong before?"

"Could it be...?"

Gu Debai looked at his son with a complicated expression.

Gu Mingli nervously swallowed.

Hopefully, his father won't guess his palace intrigue mission, otherwise his father might break his legs.

Gu Debai raised one eyebrow, and asked suspiciously:

"Is your destiny to become the Imperial Tutor? To mold Xiao Ye into an emperor who obeys his teacher without question, and that's considered fulfilling your mission?"

"ha?"

Gu Mingli was taken aback at first.

Upon closer reflection, in a sense, it seems... there's nothing wrong with understanding that I'm currently holding the title of "Master"?

Having figured this out, he quickly went along with it, nodding his head like a chick pecking at rice.

"Yes, yes, that's exactly what I meant! Dad, you're so brilliant!"

"My current important task is to find ways to discipline the emperor, making him obedient, diligent in his duties, and loving towards the people!"

"Hmph!"

Gu Debai slapped his thigh, suddenly realizing what was happening, and his tightly furrowed brows instantly relaxed.

"Dad thought it was something incredibly difficult. I understand now, it's simple!"

He waved his hand with great magnanimity.

"Li'er, from now on, you just need to focus on disciplining her. Teach her boldly and confidently. Leave all the other trivial matters to your father!"

As Gu Mingli listened to this solemn guarantee, an ominous premonition welled up in his heart.

"No, Father, what...what have you figured out now?"

Gu Debai grinned.

"Later, Father will send someone to the Southern Frontier to get a few top-grade 'Mother-Child Gu' to secretly implant in Xiao Ye."

"At that time, I guarantee he'll be a good student who obeys you in everything."

"Once you've finished disciplining him, Dad will kill him and use the proceeds to pay homage to your maternal grandparents in heaven."

Gu Mingli: "..."

So, after going through all this trouble, is Xiao Ye still destined to die?!

Gu Mingli now seriously suspects that Xi Tong's claim that Xiao Ye was destined not to live past thirty was not due to some kind of jealousy of talent, but rather that he was killed by his father!

"Father, I beg you, please calm down."

Gu Debai smiled and picked up a piece of pickled vegetable with his chopsticks, then took a sip of porridge.

"Don't worry, son. I've been in the court for so many years, and I always plan carefully before I act. I'm just as confident as I can in delay killing Xiao Ye."

Gu Mingli was on the verge of tears, but his survival instinct made him turn to his sister for help.

As a result, Gu Mingyue just kept her head down and sipped her porridge, completely unaware of her brother's pleading eyes.

Her mind was completely focused on how to get rid of that ten million dollars, and she simply couldn't spare any extra energy to get involved in her father's dangerous talk about killing the emperor.

Gu Mingli gritted his teeth and had no choice but to argue with his father on his own.

"Father, have you considered what would happen to the Great Yong Dynasty if Xiao Ye were to die now?"

Gu Debai raised an eyebrow and let out a disdainful snort from his nose.

"What can they do? Dynastic changes are all about the victors and the vanquished. The way the Xiao family killed Emperor Guangxian back then is the way others can kill the Xiao family."

Gu Mingli took a deep breath, making sure his tone was calm.

"Father, although the Cui family has just fallen, the remaining three major clans are secretly colluding and joining forces!"

"Don't you hate the four great clans the most, and the emperor second only?"

"If the emperor were to die suddenly at this moment, the court would be leaderless, and powerful clans would immediately seize the opportunity to make a comeback!"

"At that time, not only will the Lu family be unable to clear their name, but the world will inevitably descend into chaos, and in the end, won't it be the common people who suffer and die?"

Gu Mingli looked directly into his father's eyes and spoke earnestly.

"My maternal grandparents were indeed murdered by powerful clans and the late emperor. But think back, what exactly was my maternal grandfather doing all his military career?"

"He commanded a large army, yet he never considered using it for personal gain. He was protecting the country and its people, striving for peace throughout the land!"

"After decades of chaos, we are finally seeing a glimmer of hope for reform and renewal in the young emperor Xiao Ye."

"If it's for personal revenge, why stir up the whole world into chaos at this critical juncture..."

"This is probably not what my maternal grandparents would want to see in heaven, is it?"

"Father, please, don't kill him."