Du Gu Luanyue turned her head away and began to strongly dissuade:
"Your Majesty, please sober up!
Is this suddenly emerged elder brother of yours really a good person?
He clearly wants your throne. He deliberately designed to kill Huo Wei. Now you don't have any capable military generals by your side, not even the guards for the imperial palace.
But no matter what, after Huo Wei was in charge of state affairs during your absence, he didn't harm your life, did he?"
Mu Rong Min picked up the vermilion brush and started writing furiously to revise the imperial edict of abdication. Hearing this, he couldn't help pausing the brush and looked at Mu Rong Lian:
"Yes, why did you suddenly appear and know so many things from that year?"
Mu Rong Lian was the crown prince for a while before him.
He was dragged down from the position of the heir apparent because of the collapse of his family and the involvement of his maternal relatives.
After that, he had been in low spirits for many years and then chose to practice for the country. He had been living in a temple.
Mu Rong Lian said with a gloomy face: "Brother Emperor, have you forgotten our old friendship?
If I wanted to seize power all these years, why would I go to the temple? I could have directly competed with you in the court and allied with the noble families, couldn't I?
If you suspect me, you don't have to pass the throne to me. But you should also understand that once the throne falls on that young prince who is still wet behind the ears, the future of the Northern Yan Dynasty will be in turmoil.
The Northern Yan's ambition to dominate the world and unify all countries will be out of reach for a long time."
The Mu Rong clan of the Northern Yan Dynasty had always been war - like and disliked peace. Conquering other countries had always been the lifelong pursuit of the emperors of the Northern Yan Dynasty.
After the imperial edict was written, Mu Rong Min was too weak to hold the Imperial Seal. He held it in mid - air with difficulty.
Du Gu Luanyue was extremely anxious. If this Mu Rong Lian came to power, he would surely be a warmonger.
He was so ill - intentioned, designed to kill Huo Wei, and knew many things. He must have been the one who had been planning for a long time.
She said urgently: "Mu Rong Min, wake up.
This Prince Chen has been practicing. Why did he suddenly kill Huo Wei?
Moreover, it must not have been Huo Wei who killed the Second Prince and the Third Prince.
You know how hard Huo Wei worked to find evidence in the case of the Third Prince Mu Rong Jue. Even after he became the crown prince and was in charge of state affairs, he never slackened his pursuit of the murderer.
If it had really been Huo Wei who did it, he wouldn't have investigated the case for the Third Prince after he became the crown prince.
I guess it was your elder brother who killed the Second Prince and the Third Prince!"
Mu Rong Lian looked at Du Gu Luanyue with blood - thirsty eyes and roared at her:
"Du Gu Luanyue, you are also a bitch. It was all because of you that our plan was disrupted!"
The hesitation in Mu Rong Min's eyes grew stronger. He put the Imperial Seal heavily on the imperial desk, looked down with a heavy gaze, but his body was already on the verge of collapse:
"None of you are good people."
Mu Rong Lian winked at the clan elder:
"Stop talking nonsense. This queen is just a princess for marriage. She's not to be feared.
Our people have been lurking in the imperial palace for many years. Now there are many killers disguised as imperial guards gathered outside the Zichen Palace. They won't know what's going on inside!"
The clan elder asked: "When can we get the military tally from Huo Wei?"
Mu Rong Lian said confidently: "The steward of the prince's mansion will send it to us soon. We're just waiting for Mu Rong Min to finish writing the imperial edict! After all, his handwriting can't be easily imitated by ordinary people."
The imperial edict of abdication had to be shown to all the civil and military officials for verification. Just writing it was not enough.
Mu Rong Min threw the Imperial Seal at Mu Rong Lian: "I knew you didn't even have the patience to act anymore!"
The Imperial Seal didn't hit Mu Rong Lian. He sneered and picked it up from the carpet and handed it to the clan elder: "Seal it for me."
Du Gu Luanyue realized that something was wrong. Taking advantage of others' inattention, she ran towards the door of the palace to inform Aunt Mei Jiang.
She had only taken a few steps when she was pulled back by Mu Rong Lian, who pressed her on the tea table and tightly choked her neck:
"If only Huo Wei had killed you, he could have led his troops to the Southern Chu.
It was because you seduced him again and again that our plans were disrupted again and again.
Neither you nor Shen Guilan are good people.
You helped a mere martial artist rise from a prisoner to the crown prince of the Northern Yan Dynasty and even the regent crown prince. What a calculating and strategic princess of the Southern Chu!"
Du Gu Luanyue saw the killing intent in his wrinkled eyes. She was choked until her vision went black and her legs kept kicking.
Mu Rong Lian said to the clan elder: "This queen can't be left alive. After Mu Rong Min dies, throw her into the imperial mausoleum for human sacrifice."
Mu Rong Min was pressed on the dragon throne and only then realized how big a mistake he had made.
The clan elder wanted to enter the palace to see him when he was seriously ill, so he sent a message. Mu Rong Min let him in without much defense, but he never thought that these people had hidden their true intentions so deeply.
The clan elder pulled the rope from the bed curtain, wrapped it around Mu Rong Min's neck and tightened it:
"Mu Rong Min, what right do you have to be the emperor? You just happened to become the crown prince back then!"
Mu Rong Lian watched as Du Gu Luanyue's breathing gradually weakened and his smile became even more crazy:
"After years of planning, it's finally going to succeed. All of you can go to hell!"
Du Gu Luanyue's eyes opened and closed. She only saw this man's ferocious and crazy expression, having lost his normal calmness and only remaining crazy.
Just when she was about to give up resistance, the door of the palace was kicked open, and the imperial guards filed out, showing their snow - white long knives.
A tall and dark figure rushed in. The thick and powerful arm grabbed Mu Rong Lian by the back of the neck and threw him hard on the ground. Mu Rong Lian's back hit the corner of the imperial desk, and a sharp pain hit him. It felt as if his bones were about to break.
Huo Wei's heroic and cold eyebrows were full of killing intent. He was like a god of killing. He pointed his long knife at Mu Rong Lian: "He Zhi Zhou, it's you who should die."
Shen Guilan also rushed in behind him and shouted sharply: "Someone, arrest the man behind His Majesty!"
Mu Rong Lian and the clan elder were pressed on the ground by the imperial guards and were completely subdued. Shen Guilan looked at Mu Rong Lian with complete disappointment, as if she had fallen into an abyss.
Huo Wei helped Du Gu Luanyue sit on a wide chair. She gasped for breath: "I knew that a little poison couldn't kill you."
Huo Wei gently patted her on the back. His fierce black eyes softened a little: "I'm not going to die so easily."
Mu Rong Lian was extremely shocked and roared hysterically on the ground: "What on earth is going on? What on earth is going on!
The news from the prince's mansion said that they had seen you drink the poisoned wine with their own eyes. Why aren't you dead yet!"
Huo Wei held the long knife, and his tall figure covered Mu Rong Lian like a black curtain:
"Maybe Shen Guilan forgot to tell you that I'm now immune to all poisons. The Nine - Lives Golden Pill of the Southern Chu is really effective."
Mu Rong Lian looked at Du Gu Luanyue and roared: "You bitch, you even gave Huo Wei what the emperor of the Southern Chu ate, disrupting all my plans. You're really generous!"
Huo Wei kicked him hard in the abdomen: "Mu Rong Lian, I'll make you know what it means to live in hell later."
He said to Meng Tan: "Bring the special interrogation potion and feed it to him."
Du Gu Luanyue stood behind Huo Wei and asked uneasily: "Huo Wei, Mu Rong Lian said there were their people in the palace who had been lurking near the Zichen Palace for a long time. Have you eradicated them?"