I just want to be a princess, no, you want to be a queen

Chapter 168 Awkward Ending

At the cave entrance, Pei Mian stopped the imposing Chu Mingxing and said, "Prince, what do you want to say to His Majesty? Can you explain it clearly?"

"None of your business!" he roared at the top of his lungs.

Pei Mian grabbed Chu Mingxing's arm, turned towards the cave, and advised: "If you admit your mistake to His Highness, this matter will be over. Why are you so stubborn?"

Chu Mingxing suddenly looked up.

Chu Mingzheng felt a pang of discontent when he heard his younger brother say, "No wonder Father always thinks I'm not as good as you." During the years he'd been away from home, it had always been his younger brother who had been fulfilling his filial duties, fulfilling his responsibilities as a son and brother, and doing his utmost to support the Prince of Jin's Mansion.

To be fair, if I knew that everything I wanted to protect was taken away, I might not do better than him.

Chu Mingzheng walked towards his brother silently, his tone softening: "Prince Jin's Mansion was left to you by our father, no one can take it away!"

Chu Mingxing, who had been holding back his tears, burst into tears uncontrollably upon hearing these words: "It's different. In my mother's heart, it's different after all."

Chu Mingzheng turned around and asked Leng Lingfeng: "Did you find out?"

Leng Lingfeng came over with the wine jug and said, "This is the wine that Princess Jin wanted the Crown Prince to drink. It's laced with a fake death drug. My master made it, and no one except me and my uncle can detect it. I remember three years ago, Princess Jin asked my master for a portion."

As he spoke, he looked at Chu Mingzheng: "I guess he wanted to use it on you, but then he heard that you were seriously injured, and he was afraid that you couldn't withstand the effects of the medicine, so he gave up."

Chu Mingzheng threw the wine jug into his brother's hand and said, "I don't believe Mother would harm you, just as I don't believe you would kill me. The reason I didn't tell you in advance was because I wanted you to learn a lesson and know who you should truly trust."

"Brother!" Chu Mingxing choked.

"Go!"

Chu Mingzheng picked up the long sword from the ground and handed it to his brother. He remembered that this long sword was made by his father himself. He said sourly, "Such a good sword, I don't even have one!"

People are not made of clay figurines, all alike. Even the love a parent feels for their children is naturally different.

Chu Mingxing was a little confused: "Where are we going?"

Pei Mian reminded: "Of course, you should do whatever His Majesty tells you to do."

Watching Chu Mingxing's receding figure, Pei Mian couldn't suppress his curiosity and asked, "Your Highness, why did that mysterious person inform you?"

Chu Mingzheng said: "He is surrendering to me."

"Then why didn't he just say it?" They were busy all night last night and almost missed it.

Chu Mingzheng smiled, "He's telling me that he won't vote for incompetent people."

Pei Mian immediately got angry: "Who does he think he is?"

"Let's take a look!"

This time, Song Wei's plan was truly meticulous, and he used the kidnapping as a diversionary tactic to distract himself from other matters. If it weren't for the mysterious person's help, who knows how bad things would have gotten.

No wonder Yangyang was so scared!

Not long after, Song Wei led the Yulin Guards and escorted Prince Ningyuan and Prince Jin to the Imperial Garden Terrace, followed by a large number of captured assassins.

There was silence on the Imperial Garden Terrace, but there was no more tension and anger, only embarrassment and awkwardness.

Song Wei had a bad feeling, but he still walked to the center and knelt down to report: "I have arrested Prince Ningyuan and Prince Jin."

"Cough, cough!" The emperor coughed heavily, trying to suppress Song Wei's voice, and urged: "Untie them quickly!"

Song Wei looked up in surprise and looked at his elder sister.

Concubine Song smiled and said, "It was a false alarm. The imperial physician has examined the wine and found no poison. It was simply that the Yuquan wine was accidentally mixed with the grape wine, creating the illusion of poisoning."

Princess Jin bowed and said, "It is my fault for frightening Your Majesty and Your Majesty!"

"But..." Song Wei was shocked and subconsciously pointed at the "assassin" under the stage of the Imperial Garden.

The "assassins" kneeling at the foot of the Imperial Garden kowtowed in unison. The leader cried out, "Your Majesty, I am a craftsman on my way to Yongzhou to build a temporary palace. I didn't know Your Majesty was here, so I just wanted to take a shortcut. I deserve death for disturbing Your Majesty. I deserve death for my crime."

The crowd followed suit, kowtowed, and shouted "Long live the emperor" and "Death to him."

Every cry slapped the emperor in the face and turned into a laugh. From today on, I'm afraid everyone in the world will laugh at him, scared out of his wits by a glass of wine.

The emperor glanced at Chu Mingzheng, who had just taken his seat, with a look of shame and anger, and said angrily, "When a banquet is held in the Imperial Garden, ordinary people are never allowed to pass through. Don't you know that?"

"Your son... admits his guilt!" Chu Mingzheng raised his eyes.

Eye to eye!

At this moment, the emperor had a momentary illusion that his son had done it on purpose and arranged all this deliberately so that he, the Son of Heaven, would be laughed at by the world.

At this moment, the emperor was a little timid, thinking quickly in his mind when he had offended his son, but in the end he was suppressed by the majesty of his emperor.

"I will not pursue this matter this time. You should reflect on how to relieve your father's worries!"

"Yes!" Chu Mingzheng said loudly, "Your Majesty, I thank you!"

It was like another loud slap in the face.

The Qiwu Banquet held for his son was turned into a mess. The emperor was very depressed and he didn't want to go hunting, but he got on the horse himself.

Everyone stood under the Imperial Garden Stage and watched the emperor leave. Lu Mingyang turned to look at Chu Mingzheng with questioning eyes, as if to say: Didn't you say that you prepared wine specially for me?

Chu Mingzheng tapped the tip of his nose and asked in a smug tone, "Don't you think you don't care?"

Lu Mingyang didn't expect him to understand, and embarrassedly hit him. Chu Mingzheng took advantage of the situation and grabbed her wrist, bringing her into his arms.

“There are so many people!”

Lu Mingyang pushed him in panic, looked around, and met Song Wei's gaze.

Song Wei smiled coldly and walked away. He couldn't understand what had gone wrong with his flawless plan.

Princess Jin still didn't know what had happened. She looked at Chu Mingxing with guilt and panic in her eyes.

The same is true for Chu Mingxing.

Chu Mingzheng took Lu Mingyang's hand and walked towards them, calling out softly, "Auntie Huang." Actually, most of the people around had already left, and the voice was so soft that he didn't really need to call out, but he still called out.

"Some things have happened, and they are gone forever. From now on, let Ah Xing stay by your side!"

In the final analysis, this disaster that almost happened is not my fault, neither my mother nor Ah Xing, but my own fault for being too greedy.

Princess Jin looked at her son's departing figure and cried out, "Zheng'er, do you hate your mother?"

Chu Mingzheng paused, but did not turn back. Lu Mingyang looked back and saw Princess Jin leaning in Chu Mingxing's arms, sobbing uncontrollably.

She was actually a little curious about the answer, but thinking of her embarrassing identity, she didn't ask. However, Chu Mingzheng spoke.

"No, really not!"

He spoke with great confidence, but Lu Mingyang could clearly feel that his grip on his hand had tightened noticeably.