Three Kingdoms: I am not Liu Bian

Chapter 1 Father, I have decided that there can only be one crown prince today!
Luoyang Imperial Palace, Nangong, Qingliang Hall

Liu Hong lay comfortably on a soft couch, supporting his head with one hand and admiring the beautiful white scenery in front of him.

In front of him was a huge swimming pool, his summer retreat.

The sunlight shines through the gaps between the colorful flowers, plants and trees, casting bits of golden light that sparkles on the water.

Amid the rippling water, a group of gorgeous ladies wearing only bellybands were dancing in the water, making this already fairyland-like summer resort even more intoxicating.

The high walls surrounding it not only blocked some of the scorching sun, but also seemed to isolate all troubles outside this cool palace.

As Liu Hong's eyes moved, he caught a glimpse of a beautiful woman. Her proud figure could not even be covered by a bellyband. The wet bellyband was tightly attached to her perfect body curves, outlining a captivating arc along the round shape, as if she was about to burst out.

thump!
Liu Hong jumped into the water, splashing a huge splash and causing a burst of moans.

Just as Liu Hong shook off the arms that were wrapped around him and set his sights on the beauty he had taken a fancy to before, ready to perform a diving and capturing a beauty scene to have some fun, some noise quietly entered his ears.

"Your Highness, Your Highness cannot enter. The Emperor is enjoying the cool air inside. How can Your Highness...ah!"

"How could Your Highness...ah!"

The two consecutive screams startled Liu Hong and his body trembled uncontrollably. The fear that had been forgotten for a long time ago made him recall the days of fear when he was controlled by the Dou family.

Could it be that the scholars broke into the palace to kill the eunuchs?
He Jin or Yuan Wei?

No, they were calling him "Your Highness"?
Soon, the sound of running was getting closer and closer. Liu Hong subconsciously hid behind the beauties, as if he wanted to protect himself with this human barrier that was enough to stop any man.

However, what caught Liu Hong's eyes was neither the scholar nor the butcher He Jin, but a young figure in tight clothes.

"Bian'er?"

Liu Hong was stunned for a moment, but soon noticed the blood drops on Liu Bian's face, and then his eyes fell on the eight-sided Han sword in his right hand that was still dripping with blood, and the ball-shaped object in his left hand that was also dripping with blood.

"Father."

Liu Bian grinned, like a son who had finally found his father. However, the smile on that tender face stained with blood looked so evil and creepy in Liu Hong's eyes that he was actually a little afraid to look into the eyes of this child who was only twelve years old.

"Father, I've made up my mind." Liu Bian threw the ball in his left hand towards Liu Hong. With a fierce look in his eyes, he roared, "Today there can only be one crown prince!"

However, Liu Bian’s accuracy was a little poor.

Or, at the moment when the blood-dripping ball formed a parabola in the air, the beauties in the swimming pool scattered like birds and beasts. The people behind pushed the people in front, and they just used the flesh wall to block the ball for Liu Hong, staining the bellyband on her chest and the clear water in the pool red.

The screams made Liu Bian a little irritated. The nausea brought by his first murder was still hitting his brain, making him feel between murderous rage and fear.

The head floating on the water, perhaps after being washed by the swimming pool water, revealed a face that was very familiar to Liu Hong.

It was also a childish face, even more childish than that of the twelve-year-old Liu Bian.

"what!"

Liu Hong cried out in horror, held up the head tremblingly, and said sadly: "Xie'er!" Seeing Liu Hong so sad, a trace of pity and guilt flashed in Liu Bian's eyes, but it was only a flash.

As a father, Liu Hong had several sons before Liu Bian was born, but all of them died young.

Therefore, they did not even dare to clear Liu Bian's name, and called him "Shi Hou". They sent him out of the palace and handed him over to Shi Dao Ren, who claimed to have great magical powers, to be raised. He was only allowed to see his mother He once a month.

It doesn't sound like a big deal. The death of those princes was not necessarily caused by natural disasters. It seems extremely reasonable to send him out of the palace to prevent him from being assassinated in the harem.

But what about Liu Xie, who was also worried about dying young and being persecuted by the harem?
Liu Hong's choice was to give the child to his mother, Empress Dowager Dong, to raise him and visit her often.

In short, Liu Xie's life after birth was full of fatherly love, but while Liu Hong was teasing Liu Xie, Liu Bian was living a lonely and helpless life in a Taoist temple.

For twelve years after he was born, there was no "father" figure.

Even the fact that he was able to return to the palace was due to Empress He and He Jin's repeated compromises with Liu Hong.

But even so, when the ministers proposed to make his eldest son the crown prince, Liu Hong actually said bluntly at the court meeting that "the prince is frivolous and has no dignity, and is not fit to be a ruler."

If he was not the eldest son, this sentence would probably have completely cut off his path to becoming the crown prince.

Although he understood that Liu Hong was unwilling to make him the crown prince because Queen He hated the whole family after she killed Concubine Wang, and because he was afraid of the alliance between He Jin and those scholars, he still belittled a son he had never raised in such a way at the court meeting, and said such harsh and derogatory words.

As the person involved, Liu Bian could not accept it.

So he disguised himself as much as possible, pretending to be cowardly, and even took the initiative to say that he was not worthy of the position and was not worthy of being the crown prince, and was willing to support Liu Xie as the crown prince. He paid his respects to Liu Hong and Queen Dowager Dong every morning and evening. Over time, he gained a certain trust and practiced archery with Liu Xie on the pretext of exercising.

As time went by and it was midsummer, an old lady like Empress Dowager Dong naturally couldn't bear it anymore and returned to the palace to rest. However, Liu Xie, who was only six years old, believed in his daily PUA that only by persisting in exercise could he achieve success in his studies and become a wise ruler. This also gave him the opportunity to be almost alone with Liu Xie.

Even though it was just an ordinary hunting bow with a power of five dou, at such a close distance, even a teenager like him could kill with one shot, with the arrow piercing his throat!

"Rebel!"

"That's your own brother! Why did you kill him?!"

Liu Hong observed the head again and again, as if trying to find some flaws, imagining that the owner of the head just looked like his beloved Xie'er, and hoped that everything was just a bad joke played on him by Liu Bian.

But after repeated confirmation, he finally accepted his fate. This was his Xie'er.

This made Liu Hong both afraid and angry.

What he was afraid of was that Liu Bian dared to kill his Xie'er, and he must have something to rely on behind the scenes.

Did He Jin lead his army to force the emperor to abdicate?

What made him angry was that this was the last thought left to him in this world by his beloved Concubine Wang. He hoped that she would be made the crown prince and become the son of the future emperor of the Han Dynasty, but she died at the hands of this rebellious son!
He killed Concubine Wang, and now this rebellious son has killed his Xie'er!
They are truly mother and son, both have the same vicious heart and the same cruel heart!

(End of this chapter)