The whole family is obsessed with love? The princess woke them up one after another.

The crown prince was stunned for a moment, looking at Qi Zhiyu with surprise.

Qi Zhiyu looked at the Crown Prince, her eyes filled with longing: "He has great love in his heart."

If her words had been spoken at a different time, the Crown Prince would have taken them as sarcasm.

However, he could tell that Qi Zhiyu was telling the truth when she said that.

The crown prince suddenly understood something and asked directly. Since things had already come to this point, what did he have to worry about?

"The eight months that the princess mentioned was the time the princess gave to Emperor Kangwu, not the time Emperor Kangwu gave to the princess."

Although it was a question, the crown prince was absolutely certain that he had guessed the answer correctly.

Upon hearing this, Qi Zhiyu sighed helplessly: "That's already the limit for my grandfather and the others."

"After all, they want to take over northern Yunnan smoothly, and they don't want chaos, so they need to prepare in advance."

"So people like you are just a hassle to get things done."

"Actually, you could have taken advantage of the chaos to benefit yourself, but you didn't. Instead, you chose to protect... your father and brothers."

The Crown Prince was not surprised that Qi Zhiyu had seen through his intentions. He gave a helpless bitter smile: "Father and Prince Ning, they have their own... ideas. But who can guarantee that they are not self-serving?"

"Perhaps if the princess hadn't come, I would have taken that position. At my father's age, I would have cared even more about the power I held than my father did."

He could understand his father's concerns.

As people get older, they instinctively develop a fear of certain things.

We are all human; who can be without desires or wants?

Qi Zhiyu smiled and said, "Don't worry, they won't die."

"My grandfather and his ilk did not like bloodshed. Moreover, treating them well would allow the people of the world to see the benevolence and tolerance of His Majesty the Great Rui."

"In this way, emperors from other countries will have fewer concerns when they come to surrender."

Qi Zhiyu's words left the Crown Prince speechless for a moment.

He had so much to say, but suddenly he didn't know how to say it.

He had only one thought: Qi Zhiyu really wanted to unify the world.

Faced with absolute power, all his struggles and resistance were futile; he could only choose the path that would minimize the losses to his country and loved ones.

Otherwise, do we really want to let the people of northern Yunnan fight amongst themselves?

If that's the case, even with heavy losses, it will all come to nothing in the end.

Why bother?

"The princess just said that there are other things we can do. What are they?" the crown prince asked worriedly.

He has already betrayed Northern Yunnan. If something happens to Northern Yunnan again, he will truly be guilty of a thousand deaths.

Qi Zhiyu rested her chin on her hand and said with a smile, "Anyway, Bei Dian borders Qi Kingdom, so why don't we take Qi Kingdom back and let my grandfather and the others deal with it together?"

"Whether you're herding one sheep or two, it's all the same, so why not?"

The crown prince was dumbfounded, staring blankly at Qi Zhiyu.

Is it really possible to do this so conveniently?

Did you incidentally take over a country?

How about we do it on the side?

It took the prince a while to find his voice, and he spoke dryly, "Princess, it's not good that Bei Dian attacked Qi Kingdom without any reason."

Although there are frequent frictions at the border, they have not yet reached the point of escalating into a major conflict.

He chose this route to protect northern Yunnan; it would be absolutely unacceptable if it led to the destruction of northern Yunnan.

"How could it be for no reason?" Qi Zhiyu looked at the Crown Prince in surprise. "It must be the Qi Kingdom that provoked us, and Bei Dian could no longer tolerate it, so they took action."

"Qi Kingdom... has provoked us?" The crown prince was completely confused.

How could he, as the crown prince, not know this news?

"Yes, they'll provoke us soon." Qi Zhiyu calculated, "It'll be just over six months, less than seven months, after deducting the time wasted on the journey between the two countries' troops..."

"Time is tight and the task is heavy!"

"Your Highness, we must hurry."

The crown prince was completely stunned.

He suddenly felt like he had boarded a pirate ship, and this ship was going quite fast; he was feeling a little... dizzy standing on it.

I'm not used to it.

"Come, come... let me tell you something." Qi Zhiyu waved happily to the Crown Prince, "You know, the Princess Consort of Qi Kingdom is the third princess of our Great Rui Kingdom."

"She's always looked down on me, so will she come to watch the drama unfold after I marry and move to northern Yunnan?"

The crown prince was momentarily stunned, and subconsciously replied, "It's unlikely that the princess would travel thousands of miles to another country to see another princess."

"Yes, that's unlikely. But... what if your two countries discussed how to deal with Da Rui together?" Qi Zhiyu raised an eyebrow and smiled.

"Under the guise of Princess Qi visiting Princess Ning, they are actually plotting to seize control of Da Rui!"

"Look, I was forced into this marriage."

"My grandfather and father dote on me so much, they definitely don't want me to get married."

"Besides, I was forced into this marriage. Is that a humiliation or a loss for Da Rui? Oh well, never mind, none of that matters."

"Anyway, Da Rui definitely won't let this go."

"Qi Yanhe will make your father think this is a good opportunity for Northern Dian and Qi Kingdom to unite against Da Rui!"

"See, this way they have a perfectly legitimate reason to come, and then..."

"Princess," the Crown Prince weakly interrupted Qi Zhiyu's excited ramblings, "I just wanted to ask, was this idea of ​​yours sudden, or was it something you had already planned before coming to Northern Yunnan?"

Qi Zhiyu looked at the Crown Prince innocently, her big, watery eyes blinking, looking utterly pure and harmless.

The Crown Prince suddenly felt very tired. He already had the answer: "In other words, the Princess already had this plan when she was in Da Rui."

Qi Zhiyu found the Crown Prince's words rather pointless: "Crown Prince, the way you're saying things... when you do something, do you only ever think of one method, one direction?"

"The future is unpredictable, and development is multifaceted. Shouldn't we be flexible and adaptable in our actions?"

"Isn't the princess's resourcefulness a bit too much?" the crown prince couldn't help but ask directly, "to conquer another country."

Who would dare say such a thing?

Qi Zhiyu felt very wronged: "I made a special trip out of my way, can't I even get a little more done?"

Crown Prince: "..."

Suddenly, I realized he had nothing to say.

"How is the princess?" the crown prince asked weakly.

He realized that his thoughts were really not keeping up with Qi Zhiyu's.

Fortunately, those two days of torment led him to make the right choice.

After choosing to surrender, he struggled for a long time, feeling as if he had been through hell again and again.

Suddenly, he felt relieved.

Fortunately, he chose to surrender; otherwise, if Qi Zhiyu had been allowed to cause trouble, who knows what would have happened to Bei Dian.

"First of all, we need to bring Qi Yanhe over. Their Qi Kingdom's pace is too slow. And then..." Qi Zhiyu chattered on and on to the Crown Prince.