In the early morning, just after the seven bells of the palace, Queen Cassia had woken up from her sleep. She was wearing a luxurious silk nightgown, and she was sitting in front of the dressing table and was helped by the maid.

Although she is already the mother of an eighteen-year-old child, Queen Cassia in the mirror is still beautiful and moving.

Pei Yin's appearance has largely inherited the queen's advantages.

Especially the eyes of the two of them are the same dark blue, which looks like a deep night sky and a vast sea, full of mysterious attraction.

"Queen, Your Highness is outside asking to see you." The maid hurried to report.

When Cassia heard that her son had returned safely, she couldn't contain her joy, and stood up quickly: "Let him in."

Pei Yin quickly entered the queen's bedroom and bowed first.

Cassia screened back and gave her son a hug happily, "My child, you are finally back, it's fine."

Pei Yin just patted his mother's back lightly, and didn't give much enthusiastic response.

Cassia looked up at Pein, her blue eyes filled with distress, "Why are you so haggard after you haven't seen each other for a few days?"

Pei Yin said lightly, "Because I've been imprisoned in the dungeon of Scarlet Rose for the past few days, I almost can't come back."

Cassia was shocked, looked up and down Paine, and asked excitedly, "How could this happen? Are you not injured?"

"No, someone sacrificed himself to save me, and I am safe and sound." Pei Yin said, "Mother, I have something to tell you."

Cassia pulled Pein onto the sofa and asked kindly, "What do you want to tell me?"

"This operation failed because someone betrayed me." Pei Yin said bluntly, "That person is Your Majesty."

Cassia opened her eyes slightly and was about to question, but Peiyin interrupted her: "You don't have to doubt, I have caught the spy he sent to me, and the spy has explained everything."

Cassia's face paled, and her breathing became heavy.

"How could this be?" Cassia murmured in disbelief, "He clearly promised me that I would not hurt you, he and I swore..."

Pei Yin sneered and said, "He didn't kill me personally, he wanted to get rid of me under the guise of someone else's hand, so that he wouldn't break his oath to you."

Cassia still couldn't believe it. She grabbed Pein's hand tightly, "Is there any misunderstanding? I know you've always been dissatisfied with him, but he's been very good to you for so many years..."

"Empress mother, are you still unwilling to face the truth?" Pei Yin pulled out his hand indifferently, "That spy is named Longton, many people in the royal army know him, and I have handed him back to him after I came back. Nip, if he hasn't been executed, you can go to Nip's place now and ask someone to come and question him."

This is what Peyin said. Even if Cassia didn't want to believe it, she couldn't find an excuse to excuse Nip.

With her husband on one side and a child on the other, Cassia was at a loss, "How could this be..."

"Mother, I've always wanted to ask you a question." Pei Yin suddenly stood up and said.

Cassia raised her head in a daze, looked at her tall son, and suddenly felt a sense of panic in her heart, "What, what?"

"When my father passed away, I was young, and you didn't tell me a lot of things carefully." Pei Yin asked with a solemn face, "I investigated later and found that my father was on an aircraft while patrolling the south. The propellers were malfunctioning, so that's why the plane crashed, right?"

Cassia lowered her eyes, "Yes."

Pei Yin looked down at her and continued to ask: "What makes me feel unreasonable is that when the father visited the south, according to the usual practice, the queen should accompany him, but why didn't you go with the father?"

Cassia's face turned pale, and she looked up at Paine in shock, and her voice became sharper.

"What do you mean?! What do you mean, do you think it's reasonable for me to be killed with your father on that wrecked aircraft?!"

"Of course I didn't mean that." Pei Yin looked at the queen calmly and asked, "I just want to know the reason, please tell me why you didn't accompany the father and the king?"

Cassia's lips twitched together, "It's too long ago, I forgot... Maybe I'm sick... Or maybe I've been delayed by something else..."

Pei Yin: "It turns out that your father's death is so unimportant in your heart, you actually forgot?"

Cassia: "Pein, my child, are you doubting your mother? Do you suspect that I murdered your father?"

"Of course it won't be you, but I can't guarantee it will be someone else." Pei Yin tickled the corner of his mouth coldly, "I wonder if you remember a maid named Oli? I remember she served you for a long time, but I haven't seen her since my father passed away. You said it was a coincidence that someone sent her to my mansion just two days ago."

"Ao, Li?" Cassia's face turned ashen when she heard the name, "Is she still alive?"

"Why, should she die?" Pei Yin sneered at the corners of his mouth, "Does she deserve to die just because she knows you and Nip have an affair?"

Tears welled up in Cassia's eyes. She wanted to grab Pei Yin's hand, but Pei Yin avoided it. The poor queen fell to the ground without standing still. Her waist-length blond hair was scattered over her face, covering her face. shame on.

Pein's voice was extremely cold: "Your affair with Nip was discovered by the father, he planned to make a judgment on the crimes you two committed after he visited the south, but Nip took the lead and moved his hands and feet on the aircraft. Killed him and stole the throne! The truth, isn't it?!"

Cassia whimpered in pain and covered her face in embarrassment.

"Don't say it, please don't say it..."

This secret buried in Cassia's heart is a nightmare she can never get rid of.

Eighteen years ago, she first fell in love with Derain Nip, but was later robbed of love by Payne's father.

That person was the king of the empire, and Cassia could not resist, so she could only marry Teresa VI with unwillingness.

But after marriage, she and Nip couldn't restrain their love, and they often cheated in the harem when Theresa VI was away.

But the paper could not contain the fire, and the adultery between Cassia and Nip was finally discovered by Therese VI.

Derain VI was furious, but because of the royal face and man's dignity, he did not make the scandal public.

He planned to come back after patrolling the south and then make a ruling on Cassia and Nip, but he didn't expect Nip to act one step ahead of him, and made a move on the aircraft, causing the Derain VI machine to be destroyed.

And Nip, with the help of Cassia, forged a will and ascended the throne.

"An unfaithful woman and a despicable careerist have killed a generation of wise and worthy kings," Pei Yin sneered uncontrollably, pointed to the bed in Cassia's bedroom, and asked angrily, "Mother, you Don't you have nightmares every night in this bed where you and your father slept together?!"

"Don't say it!" Cassia screamed, got up with her hair disheveled, covered her chest, and wailed, "Do you think I want this? But I have no choice! The person I love is not your father. King! But because I am the kind of Omega he needs who can give birth to excellent offspring for him, regardless of my resistance, he marked me for life! In your eyes, he is a great father, but in my heart, He is a shameless rapist!"

"In my childhood memory, my father was very good to you. No matter what you want, he will satisfy you, no matter how cold you are to him." Pei Yin's calm expression finally couldn't be maintained, and there was pain and sorrow in his eyes. Sad and angry, "But you not only betrayed him, but also killed him together with the despicable villain!"

Cassia whimpered: "I didn't... I never wanted to kill your father."

"Then now, Nip's spearhead has already been aimed at me," Pei Yin pointed to his chest, "husband and son, only one can survive, who do you choose to stand on? If you still choose love, neither will I. I will resent you, and I am willing to walk up to Nip immediately and let him kill me."

"No!" Cassia hugged Pei like crazy, looked up at Pei with tears in her eyes, and didn't know when, her child had become more and more like the late king, not only in appearance, but also in temperament. more and more like.

Yes, after all, Pei Yin is the bloodline of the previous king. Like the previous king, there is a cold and domineering heart hidden under his gentle appearance.

Cassia tried to touch Paine's face, her deep blue eyes were full of sadness, "I will never let anyone hurt you! You are my child, the flesh that fell from my pregnancy in October, how could I possibly look at it? I'm going to send you to death!"

"But I know the truth now! Do you think our Majesty will let me go?" Pei Yin's face was tense but determined, and he said coldly, "Even if he wants to, I don't want to forgive him! I will kill him with my own hands, Send him to the underworld to repent of what he has done with his father!"

Cassia has been crying to tears, no longer the usual dignified and elegant, sobbing: "Why must this be? I can persuade him not to hurt you..."

"There will be a banquet in the harem in three days, and I will do it at the banquet." Pein held Cassia's shoulder and smiled bleakly, "I have already told you my plan, if I want a husband or a son, It's up to you to decide."

Pein left the queen's bedroom, and at the same time, in another palace in the palace, Nip's inner courtier, Gu Zhong, was reporting to His Majesty the king's every move of Pein in the past few days.

There is a holographic image in front of the desk, and the appearance and identity of the people who enter and leave the crown prince's residence these days are displayed on it.

Nip didn't look at the screen, lowered his head and carelessly wiped an old revolver wooden warehouse with the wooden warehouse cloth.

"Has he come out of the Queen's Palace?" Nip asked Gu Zhong.

Gu Zhong opened the personal terminal on his wrist and glanced at it, "I have already left."

Nip stopped wiping, was silent for a while, and said half-smiling, "Guess what he's going to say to the queen?"

Gu Zhong: "I'll go and find out now."

"Forget it, I don't need to guess, I know that the child has grown up, his wings are hard, and he wants to avenge his father for me." Nip waved his hand, mocking the corners of his mouth, and snorted coldly, "I just came back here. How long has it been since he saw the Prime Minister and the Queen again, for fear that others would not know what he wanted to do. He already knew how his father died, and he would definitely be unable to hold himself back and want to tell the world and expose the crimes of my uncle. There will be a banquet in the harem three days later, and the princes, ministers, and royal relatives will all come to attend, and that is the best time for him to do it."

The inner courtier, who was loyal to the king, immediately asked, "Has your majesty already made a countermeasure?"

Nip turned the revolver around the wooden warehouse, smiled and asked Gu Zhong, "Do you know what this is?"

Gu Zhong answered in a straight-forward manner: "The revolver's wooden warehouse, which is often filled with non-automatic wooden warehouses, is a backward weapon that has long been eliminated by the times."

Nip opened the magazine, loaded a bullet, turned the magazine a few times, and suddenly pointed the mouth of the wooden magazine at his temple.

In the exclamation that Gu Zhong had no time to stop, he pulled the trigger and fired five shots at his forehead!

However, only five crisp "clicks" were heard, and the expected bullets were not shot.

The revolver, Mukang, had a total of six rounds of bullets, but he didn't fire the first five rounds. Nip's luck was really good.

Gu Zhong was so frightened that cold sweat broke out, and he asked in surprise, "Your Majesty, who are you?!"

Nip shrugged his shoulders easily, opened the magazine with a flick of his hand, took out the bullet inside, and pinched it at his fingertips.

"Don't worry, this gun has been improved by me, no matter how many times it is turned, the bullet will be fired at the end."

Gu Zhong heaved a long sigh of relief, "It turns out that this is the case, the minister was just frightened."

Nip chuckled, "Have you ever heard of a game?"

Gu Zhong was confused, "What?"

"It's a game of life gambling. Put a bullet in the revolver and aim it at your head. You shoot, I shoot. The one who gets shot dies and loses." Nip threw the gun to Gu Zhong, " On the day of the banquet, I will let one person gamble with Pei Yin, and then you can take this wooden warehouse out."

Gu Zhong thought for a while with the gun in his hand, and then hesitantly asked, "But how can you be sure that Your Highness will agree to play this life-threatening game?"

Nip raised his eyebrows confidently, and his voice was piercingly cold, "No, I'm not letting him play games, but letting him live. It's just that this way of life has been blocked by me."

Gu Zhong left the palace with the things the king gave him, and Nip also explained to him other tasks. He boarded the aircraft and was about to take off, suddenly lost consciousness, fell into deep chaos, and collapsed in the driver's seat. .

In the narrow control cabin, Lu Shi had been waiting for Gu Zhong for a long time this morning.

He got out from under the driver's seat and patted Gu Zhong's face, but Gu Zhong didn't respond.

"This hypnosis card is also very useful, and it's cheap. It only costs 500 achievement points, so I can get a few more cards another day."

Lu Shijin found the revolver from Gu Zhong and weighed it in his hand.

He knew exactly the content of the secret conversation between Nip and Gu Zhong, but Nip didn't say what the gun did.

"The bullet can't be fired until the sixth shot," Lu Shijin pondered for a while before he came up with a clue, and complained angrily, "What the hell is this old bastard thinking about."

711: "It wouldn't be a good idea anyway."

Lu Shijin pouted, "That's true."

He put away the gun, moved Gu Zhong from his seat, dragged him to the toilet in the flight cabin, and folded his hands towards Gu Zhong and bowed.

"I'm sorry big brother, I'm sorry you have been sleeping here for a few days."

Then he instructed 711 to use a "makeover card" on himself, and he transformed himself into the appearance of Gu Zhong.

Lu Shijin, who had a Gu Zhong face, hooked his lips and smiled brightly, "No matter what the old bastard thinks, he will die in three days."

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Three days later, it is the day when the palace opens once a year and a grand palace banquet is held to celebrate the National Day.

On this day, all the prestigious princes, ministers and nobles will be invited to the palace for a banquet.

It can be said that this is a banquet where the power controllers of the empire gather.

In the huge dressing room that belonged to the king, Nip had just changed into his uniform and casually adjusted the sash on his chest.

Gu Zhong took the initiative to help Nip straighten the sash behind him, and reported the news he had found: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness is already in the banquet hall, and his personal guards are now waiting outside the palace."

Nip: "Where's the queen?"

Gu Zhong: "I'm still changing clothes."

Nip snorted coldly: "It's a hassle to dress up a woman, let someone urge her, the banquet will start soon, and let her take a second look at her son," after a pause, he twitched the corners of his mouth as if in a good mood, " After all, we will never see you again.”

Nip put on his hat and took a picture in the full-length mirror, satisfied with his tall and mighty image.

"I asked you to explain what Diffin was going to do. Did he remember it clearly? Don't go wrong when the time comes."

Dieffen is Nip's biological son, not by Queen Cassia, but by Nip and another woman, Omega.

"His Royal Highness has already figured it out," Gu Zhong said respectfully, "I believe that with His Highness's ingenuity, you will definitely not be disappointed."

Nip didn't trust his son's IQ much, but who made him only have such a son.

Although Difen's aptitude is many times worse than that of Pei Yin, the throne that he finally won cannot be easily returned.

Nip had a headache thinking of that unsatisfactory son, and frowned impatiently, "I hope so."

After Nip finished dressing, he walked to the dressing room, stopped halfway there, and instructed Gu Zhong behind him: "By the way, there will definitely be a riot at the banquet later, and you will take advantage of the chaos to deal with the Prime Minister."

Gu Zhong was taken aback, "You mean Prime Minister Lu?"

Nip: "That's right, he has been in the position of Prime Minister for so many years and it is time to replace him. His son fell into the hands of the blood owl, and I can't save it and I can't save it. It's better to take this opportunity to eradicate it directly."

Gu Zhong blinked his eyes twice, lowered his head and said decisively, "Yes!"

At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the king and queen entered the banquet hall on time accompanied by a solemn ceremony and music, and everyone quieted down and bowed to the two most noble people in the empire.

As Nip's personal follower, Gu Zhong has been following behind Nip every step of the way.

He quickly looked around in the banquet hall and saw Payne in a white uniform in the crowd on the right.

The little prince put on a neat and handsome royal uniform, which made him more personable and valiant, especially among the Alphas.

The obvious contrast is another prince, Derain Dieffen, who is also of royal blood, but Dieffen is not only mediocre but also incompetent.

Not many nobles are optimistic that this prince can inherit the throne, so there are very few people around Diffin.

Difen has been jealous of Peiin since he was a child. He is obviously Nip's biological son, but Peiin has been favored many times more than him.

However, thinking that Pei Yin might not survive today, and that he will be the crown prince of the empire in the future, Diffin couldn't help feeling happy, and raised his chin proudly.

King Nip and Queen Cassia took the seat hand in hand. Nip stood up with a toast and was about to make a speech to announce the start of the banquet.

Pei Yin suddenly stood up from the crowd and slowly stepped forward with a firm pace.

"A person who usurped the throne by insidious means is not worthy to stand in a place where only successive kings are qualified to stand."

Nip raised his hand and looked at Payne with a smile, "Son, what did you say?"

Cassia's face was pale, she clutched the armrest of the seat tightly, and looked at her child pleadingly, "Pein... Please, don't..."

Payne turned to face the crowd, "I said, Derain Nipp, he doesn't deserve to be here, to be king of this country! Because," he pointed back, and clattered on the floor, "you are the murderer of the old king. !"

There was a sudden burst of murmurs in the crowd.

"My God, what is His Highness the Crown Prince talking about? Is he crazy?"

"A bloody storm is coming, God bless!"

"Stay away, I don't want to be affected."

"Son, why did you get drunk before the banquet started?" Nip put down the glass, his thin face continued to smile, and his tone was gentle, "The late king died in a plane crash, and we investigated it at the time. It was an accident."

"Whether it's an accident, you know best," Pei Yin said sternly, "It was you who sent someone to do something on that aircraft, and it's all your conspiracy!"

"Where's the evidence?!" Diffin rushed out and pointed at Pei Yin angrily, "You said that my father killed your father, you can show the evidence! Who do you want to convict with just a few words of yours? I see You are out of your mind!"

"Go back, Diffin." Nip stepped down, stood in front of Peiin, and patted Peiin on the shoulder, "I know you have a lot of dissatisfaction with me, and you have many doubts about the death of the late king, but Peiin, you I'm eighteen years old, I'm not a child anymore, adults should be responsible for their actions, understand?"

"Of course I understand," Pei Yin shook off his hand, "of course I have evidence."

Payne glanced in Cassia's direction, but Cassia just sat with a terrified face, and didn't mean to stand up to speak for him.

Pei Yin closed his eyes in disappointment and ordered to the guard at the door: "Bring people in!"

The guard brought a middle-aged woman into the banquet hall, and the ministers made way for the middle-aged woman to walk in front of the king.

"Your name." Pei Yin asked the woman.

The woman said in a gnat-like voice, "Oli."

Pei Yin: "Identity."

Oli looked up at Cassia tremblingly, and lowered her head in a hurry, "Once she was a maid serving the queen."

Pei Yin: "Since you are the queen's maid, why did you become a fugitive?"

Ollie lowered her head deeply and said with a trembling voice, "Because I know a secret of the queen."

Difen suddenly sneered disdainfully, "Pein, don't you think that just relying on the confession of a lowly maid can convince us? Who knows where you got this maid from, or if it is? You have already made offerings!"

Pei Yin said in a low voice, "Whether Ollie's identity is real, the queen should know better than me."

"Son, you are too much," Nip said in a bitter voice, "I can understand your resentment towards me, and I can understand your absurd behavior today, but now, are you forcing your mother to lie with you? You What do you want your mother to say? If she helps you, she will be unfaithful to her husband, and if she doesn't help you, she will be unkind to you. You can hate me and blame me, but you can't hurt the mother who loves you deeply! "

With tears in her eyes, Cassia looked at Pein and shook her head slightly, silently begging Pei to stop talking.

"If you want your mother to be a disgraced slut, you should let Ollie tell the secret." Nip lowered his head and finished speaking in a voice that only he and Pein could hear, then raised his head and scolded Pein with a serious face. , "Son, I have a clear conscience to you over the years, I have done everything a father should do, I don't expect you to be grateful to me, but I can't condone your willfulness, you know that you are What are you doing? You are not only slandering me personally, you are slandering the ruler of a country!"

Pei Yin looked at Nip's fake face with disgust, "You're still pretending, Nip, don't you think your acting is too disgusting?"

Nip's face sank, "I have finished what I should say. Since you are still obsessed, I have no choice. There are family rules and national laws. Pei Yin, you can make up a lie and say that I killed the late king, but I hope you can also bear the consequences of your lies being exposed! Ministers, Pei has no respect for his superiors, offends your Majesty, and has a lack of morality. What do you think should be done?"

"I think," said Prime Minister Lu suddenly and loudly, "It's okay to listen to this maid's testimony!"

Nip was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Prime Minister Lu with a half-smiling smile, "Is the Prime Minister serious? You go crazy with him too? This maid is a fugitive, what can't the fugitive say in order to survive? Any filthy words that come out will only pollute our ears!"

Prime Minister Lu lowered his eyes and said humbly: "It is about the death of the late king, and I think I should be cautious. No matter what the testimony of this maid is, I should let all the ministers listen to it and distinguish it. If what this woman said is true There are many loopholes, and after the identification, the innocence of His Majesty can be returned, and I believe that there will be no such remarks that slander His Majesty's reputation in the future."

"Prime Minister Lu!" Difen walked up to the ministers with his head held high and raised his chin proudly, "What you said is wrong, how can you just allow a fugitive to pour dirty water on the ruler of a country? Pei Yin , you slandered my father for murdering your father, do you dare to vouch for what you said?"

Pei Yin looked at Difen like a clown jumping on the beam, "Of course I dare."

"Just dare!" Difen snorted, "I also dare to vouch for my father's character. Since it is vouching, I have to mortgage something, Pei, you dare not dare to be with me. Make a bet and use your life as a mortgage?"

Pei Yin didn't understand what Diffin meant, so he frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"

Pei Yin is familiar with his cousin. He has always been timid and mediocre. Today, his behavior is suddenly so radical, which is really unusual.

Di Fen rolled his eyes in disdain, hooked his fingers towards Gu Zhong, Gu Zhong obediently walked over, took out the revolver around his waist and handed it to Di Fen, then stepped back.

When passing by Pei Yin, Gu Zhong lowered his head and quickly moved his lower lip while everyone's attention was on the gun in Difen's hand.

Pei Yin heard Gu Zhong say three words to him.

"Gamble with him."