After Lin Yinan returned to his residence with Lu Zhiyao, he entered the study alone. Lu Zhiyao stood outside the door, silently looking at the closed door, feeling a little confused.

The emperor named Lin Yixiang as the king at this time, so soon Lin Yixiang will move out of the palace with Lu Zhiqing and choose another palace. But Lin Yinan is still the prince, what the emperor means is to let everyone understand that Lin Yinan still has a chance to compete with the prince, and it is still unknown who will fall into the hands of the throne?

Lin Yinan didn't seem shocked when he heard the news, maybe he had known that Lu Dao would be like this, after all, the emperor was the one who supported him behind his back, so even if he really inherited the throne one day, it would be reasonable.

Lu Zhiyao always thought that Lin Yinan would join forces with the emperor for some kind of benefit. But when the sky gradually darkened, and Lin Yinan appeared in front of her with a tired body, Lu Zhiyao couldn't help but be stunned. It's rare to see him so tired.

"Is there anything I can do to help?" Lu Zhiyao lightly opened his lips and asked in a low voice.

Lin Yinan glanced at Lu Zhiyao, shook his head slowly, looked at her, and said, "I'm hungry, let's go eat." ”

Lu Zhiyao didn't say anything more, and followed Lin Yinan out of the house. From time to time, he looked sideways at his face, and Lu Zhiyao found that Lin Yinan's moody kung fu was really much better than himself. Because from the moment she went out, she never saw on his face a look similar to the one she had just been in the house, which made her think that everything was an illusion, that she was thinking too much about herself.

After dinner, before the two had time to say much, they were interrupted by Lin Yixiang, who came uninvited.

Lu Zhiyao carefully observed Lin Yixiang's appearance, smiled, and said to Lin Yinan: "I'll wait for you in the room." ”

The corners of Lin Yinan's lips raised slightly to see Lu Zhiyao leave, and then turned his head to look at Lin Yixiang and asked, "What's the matter with coming to me?" ”

"You're having a leisurely life." Lin Yixiang also withdrew his gaze from Lu Zhiyao's body, looked at Lin Yinan and asked, "Do you know the matter of my father's decree to make me king?" ”

"Knowing the way, how can you not know the way. That's what you're here for? ”

Lin Yixiang couldn't get used to the smile on Lin Yinan's face, frowned, and asked him, "Doesn't my father intend to give you a title?" ”

"Then we have to ask him, what is the emperor's mind, which we can guess casually." Lin Yinan didn't seem to care much about this matter, but this was just his attitude, but he didn't know how annoyed the prince and the others were because of this matter.

"Are you sure this has nothing to do with you?"

Lin Yixiang didn't believe Lin Yinan's words, in fact, since he insisted on marrying Lu Zhiyao and the two got married, Lin Yixiang has always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't find anything wrong with Lin Yinan's body for a while. Although the Eight Emperors Mansion has few people, not everyone can sneak in casually and take a peek here. When and how the masters around Lin Yinan were found, Lin Yixiang didn't know what to do. It seemed that overnight, there were a few more people around him, and it seemed that from the beginning, they were all the same.

"Seal the king's fiefdom, be happy, do you think I don't want to live such a day?" Lin Yinan looked at Lin Yixiang and asked rhetorically. "If you come to Xingshi today to ask about your sin, then I'm afraid you won't hear any useful news from me. You are now a prince, much more powerful than me, the little eighth prince, if I can, I would like to exchange with you, the queen and the prince of the province think I am an eyesore all day long, and always send people to inquire into my thoughts. ”

The mockery in Lin Yinan's words, how could Lin Yixiang not hear it. He looked at Lin Yinan fixedly, and after a while, he slowly chuckled.

"You're getting more and more inscrutable." Lin Yixiang stood up and spoke softly, looked down at Lin Yinan and said, "Even if I don't ask more about this matter, the prince will find you sooner or later." ”

"Then thank you for your concern, when the prince comes, I will think about how to deal with him."

Lin Yixiang couldn't find a trace of useful information from Lin Yinan's mouth, and his attitude couldn't be seen from his face. Walking out of the room, Lin Yixiang saw Lu Zhiyao in the courtyard. Looking at the gaze of Shanglu Zhiyao, Lin Yixiang smiled slightly and walked over.

The familiar smile on Lin Yixiang's face made Lu Zhiyao lower his eyes, listening to the footsteps of Lin Yixiang walking past him, Lu Zhiyao only said to Lin Yinan, who was already standing behind her, after he walked away, "You don't seem to make him very happy." ”

"You want me to coax him into good cheer before leaving?" Lin Yinan asked lightly with raised eyebrows.

"Then I'll be the one who is unhappy." Lu Zhiyao looked back at him, "However, you don't seem to be very happy now." ”

Lu Zhiyao saw the hidden emotions in Lin Yinan's eyes, turned around and looked directly at him, and asked guessingly: "The Seventh Prince came to you to ask about the king?" ”

Lin Yinan didn't answer but didn't deny it, and Lu Zhiyao both went back to the room, Lin Yinan's unhappy and angry expression made Lu Zhiyao stare at it for a long time.

"What do you think?" Lin Yinan raised his eyes to see Lu Zhiyao's inquiring gaze, put down the teacup in his hand and asked softly.

"I'm wondering if the emperor likes your son or not. I don't make you the crown prince, and I don't make you the king, the more I think about it, the more I feel ......" Lu Zhiyao said, his voice gradually lowered. Some words are only suitable for thinking in the heart, and if they are spoken and listened to by those who have a heart, it will be a big thing.

"What do you think?" Lin Yinan looked at Lu Zhiyao's speechless appearance with interest, curious if she really saw something.

"When I didn't say anything." Lu Zhiyao smiled at Lin Yinan flatteringly, and didn't dare to tell him what he wanted easily.

"But it doesn't hurt to say it, I don't blame you." Lin Yinan lured Lu Zhiyao to say what she thought, "Do you think that the emperor is not very kind to my son?" ”

"yes, that's what it means." Lu Zhiyao was stunned for a moment and then nodded, looked at Lin Yinan hesitantly and said, "I always feel that the emperor is using you as a target, which can contain the prince's faction, but he doesn't mean to pass on the throne to you." ”

Lin Yinan listened to Lu Zhiyao's words, and suddenly smiled slightly. Her feelings and guesses were right. The throne of the kingdom of Charlai, he could not get. Even if he took it, Lin Yunlong would not be able to give it to him. Because he has the bloodline of the remnants of the previous dynasty, which is a big taboo for the emperor of this dynasty.

Lin Yinan's mother also entered the palace because of this reason. Fortunately, the emperor was not bad to their mother and son, but they still had no good results after the worst death.

I love the country and the beauty. This is not a fault for the emperor who is high above. Lin Yunlong was wrong, it was his fault that he could protect that person in front of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military ministers, but he couldn't save her life in the hands of those beauties.

The past is vivid, and to this day, Lin Yinan can still remember the words she said to him before she died.

She has spent her whole life in fear and regret, she has tried to live in the deep palace compound, and she has also wanted to leave that terrifying place day and night.

Before she died, she told him and Lin Yixiang that they should never fight the idea of the throne, as long as they lived this life plainly, it would be better. When Lin Yinan was young, he still lived in the palace. At that time, he asked her what the world outside was like, and she said that outside he could breathe much cleaner air than in the palace, meet good people who were much kinder than in the palace, do things he did not dare to do in the palace, and meet his wife who was devoted to him regardless of the reason.

The young Lin Yinan still didn't understand the meaning of her words, but he often heard her whisper that in Jiangnan, it was a very happy thing to be able to join hands with a person until he was old. Looking back now, Lin Yinan can still vaguely feel how embarrassing the situation of their mother and son was at that time. The power of the Nangong family is too strong, and the queen Nangong Liuxi is also difficult to calculate everywhere because of her beauty. Most of the minions around her were bought by the queen, so many times all she could do was whisper in front of the window in a daze, or hug him and tell him stories he didn't understand.

"The Ye family, the Jiang family, and many ministers of the prince's faction, the emperor all deliberately wanted to get rid of them." After Lin Yinan was silent for a while, he slowly opened his mouth and said to Lu Zhiyao: "Between me and the emperor, it's just a transaction. As a pawn to help him contain the crown prince, he gave me enough space to stop me from living in the lifeless palace. My mother is the daughter of the remnants of the previous dynasty, so it is not my turn or Lin Yixiang to inherit the throne. ”

Lu Zhiyao looked at Lin Yinan quietly, listening to the words that came out of his mouth. She stared at him very seriously, but from his face and eyes, she didn't see the slightest complaint or regret.

The feeling of distress arose spontaneously, and Lu Zhiyao knew very well what it was like to be used by his relatives.

She used to be Xia Yao, she was held in the palm of her hand by so many people, and she was used to her. So when the person she personally chose betrayed her and used her, she was almost torn apart by that pain. Later, she was Lu Zhiyao, and she could clearly feel that she was useless to the entire Lu family. If you want the people around you to be kind to you, you have to work hard to prove that you are profitable for them.

This feeling made Lu Zhiyao both helpless and cold. In just a few months, she had grown tired of that life to the extreme. And think about Lin Yinan now, how did he survive so many years and be alone? He is too aware of his identity and status, and he knows what can be touched and what cannot be touched. was coerced and lured by his biological father and lived in the rules and regulations for so long, is he really dead, or can he only choose to live this kind of life in desperation?