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Under Emperor Yuan's questioning gaze, Prince Yu's cold smile became even more sinister.

Prince Yu put down the dagger in his hand and picked up Prince Su's memorial tablet again. The moment he looked at the tablet, his eyes softened, as if he were looking at his most beloved elder brother.

"Back then, my brother Emperor Su said he loved the territory of Dajing, but he was busy with court affairs and could not go to see it in person, so he asked me to go and see it for him."

"At first, I believed, so wherever I went, I recorded what I saw and heard, and presented it to my brother, the Emperor Su, upon returning to the capital."

"But I later learned that my brother, the Emperor Su, did not want to see the vast territory of the Great Jing. He knew that I was born disliking power and fighting, and that the outcome of fighting for that position was uncertain. If I failed, it would cost me my life."

"He wanted to get me out of the way so that I wouldn't get involved in the struggle for the throne."

"During my travels, he sent trusted confidants to accompany me, firstly to protect my safety, and secondly to prevent me from knowing about the situation in the court. However, some important matters could not be kept secret."

"Everyone knew that the King of Qin had ascended the throne and the Prince of Su had been imprisoned. At that time, I was in Nanlin. My brother, the Emperor Su, had ordered his guards to imprison me in Nanlin. He wouldn't let me return to the capital because he was afraid that the new emperor would find out about my close relationship with him and implicate me."

"Although I am not born of the same mother as my brother Su, he treats me like a brother."

"But when I returned to the capital, I didn't even have the chance to attend his funeral. Everyone said that he was unwilling to accept his failure to seize the throne, so he burned everyone in the Prince Su's mansion to death, making the entire mansion be buried with him. Everyone said he was cruel."

"But my brother Su is extremely kind to Princess Su, the heir apparent, and even the concubines in the household. Even if he knew he was going to die, he would definitely try to save their lives."

Prince Yu spoke very softly.

A hint of guilt flashed in Emperor Yuan's eyes.

That night, Prince Su did indeed kneel down and beg him to spare the lives of the other members of Prince Su's household, saying that he would face death with equanimity.

However, if you don't eradicate the root of the problem, there will be endless troubles in the future.

He couldn't allow even the slightest potential danger to remain in this world.

"But..." Prince Yu's voice suddenly turned sharp, "But all of the more than one hundred people in the Prince Su's mansion died in the fire. At that time, I knew that something was amiss."

"Later, I secretly went to the imperial mausoleum and dug up my brother Su's tomb. I saw the wounds from his suicide attempt, which made me even more certain that he did not commit suicide, but was murdered."

"Suicide? Ha, Your Majesty, you think you've disguised the signs of his suicide very well, but you don't know..."

Prince Yu seemed to have thought of something, his eyes trembled, and he slowly spoke:

"I was six years old that year. My mother committed suicide. I was terrified. With my mother dead, there would be no one to protect me in this world. I would be unable to move an inch in the palace. So I took a sword and wanted to follow my mother and commit suicide."

"At that time, I couldn't even hold a sword properly. I was afraid of death, afraid of pain, but I was even more afraid of this palace that devoured people without spitting out the bones, and afraid of those who forced my mother to her death."

"I closed my eyes, ready to end it all, but a voice interrupted me."

"The voice was in the darkness. He said, 'I'm too weak. I didn't cut deep enough. I won't die immediately. The blood will flow slowly. It will hurt a lot before I die.'"

"I saw him emerge from the darkness; it was my ten-year-old brother, the Emperor Su."

"He went to his mother's side, looked at her body, and said that his mother hadn't been ruthless enough when she committed suicide, and that she bled for a long time before dying. He told me how to cut and how to use force to minimize the pain."

"At that time, I felt that he was scaring me and bullying me. I swung my sword to cut him, but I was too weak. After only a few swings, the sword fell to the ground."

"He laughed at me for not being able to hold a sword properly, and told me time and time again that it would be very painful to commit suicide. He said that as brothers, he would teach me how to use a sword and how to commit suicide."

"He truly taught me for countless days and nights afterward, but when I learned how to use a sword and how to exert force, I no longer wanted to die."

"At that moment, I clearly saw my brother Su breathe a sigh of relief, and I realized that he hadn't been bullying me that night; he was saving me."

"In the eyes of the world, my brother Su is fighting the Crown Prince for the throne. He forms factions, is good at scheming, and uses tricks. No matter how despicable he is, no matter how much dirt others have thrown at him, in my eyes, he is just my brother."

"That corpse, the cut on its neck, so shallow, clearly showed it bled a lot before dying. If it really committed suicide, it would have been a quick and decisive act, so..."

Prince Yu looked at Emperor Yuan before him with a sharp, knife-like gaze. "It was you. You not only wanted to eliminate the threat completely, but you also wanted to let my brother Su die slowly. Emperor Yuan, in terms of ruthlessness, despicableness, heartlessness, and hypocrisy, my brother Su is not even a fraction as good as you."

Emperor Yuan's eyes flashed with anger; he disliked the accusation.

A hint of regret lingered in his eyes.

He regretted being deceived by Prince Yu's carefree and unambitious appearance, never knowing that he and Prince Su had such a past.

Brotherhood...

What brotherhood do royal families talk about?

He never took Prince Yu seriously, and because of the rumors about Prince Yu's background during the late emperor's reign, he believed he had a way to control Prince Yu.

I doubt he would dare to have any ambitions.

That's why he spared his life.

In retrospect, he was wrong; he should have left none alive.

Prince Yu saw the ruthlessness in Emperor Yuan's eyes. In the firelight, Prince Yu suddenly leaned closer to him and asked, "Do you regret it?"

His voice chuckled lightly, laced with sarcasm and disdain.

He despised Emperor Yuan from the inside out, from beginning to end. He was selfish, insecure, power-hungry, and ruthless; there was nothing about him that he respected.

But ironically, the throne ended up in his hands.

"But regret is useless. For so many years, I have been a carefree prince, trying my best to make you think I am harmless. But I have been waiting every day for a chance to avenge my brother, the Emperor Su."

"By the way, there's something you probably don't know. Back then, your Consort Shen plotted to harm Empress Meng, but ended up getting injured herself. Do you really think she was stupid?"

"She's not stupid. Guess what I did during that accident?"

That "accident" was orchestrated by too many people in the shadows. Consort Hui, Shen Ao, and he—they cooperated with each other and covered for each other. They all knew each other's intentions, making the "accident" seem like it really was just an "accident."

A madness burned in Prince Yu's eyes. He suddenly gritted his teeth and said, "Consort Shen betrayed my brother, Emperor Su, so she deserves to die! And now..."

Prince Yu suddenly stood up, the firelight illuminating his face, revealing his murderous intent.

Emperor Yuan realized that he intended to kill him to avenge Prince Su!

But how could he dare?!

"Ugh..." Emperor Yuan grabbed his wrist tightly, his eyes filled with anger and condemnation.

But given his current situation, what right does he have to be angry and condemn?

Prince Yu easily shook off his hand with just a little force.

Emperor Yuan fell to the ground.

Prince Yu looked down at him, took a few steps back, and then, holding Prince Su's memorial tablet, changed his deliberately lowered voice and resumed speaking in the tone of "Prince Su".

He gave the order word by word:

"You killed me, you slaughtered my entire Prince Su's family, and now I demand you kowtow and atone for your sins! Will you kowtow or not?!"