Lin Yanxi fiddled with the knife in his hand, the tip of the knife slowly cut through his wound, Shen Qingyun gritted his teeth in pain to prevent his painful moans from overflowing, his trembling eyes looked at the tip of the knife going down slightly, and finally hit his heart.

His clothes were covered in viscous blood, his consciousness began to blur a little, and his body was getting colder and colder.

When he was swallowed up by the fear of death, Lin Yanxi unhurriedly withdrew the tip of the knife and said slowly, "I want you to tell me who is behind the black cloak?"

"As soon as you tell who that person is, I'll help you stop the bleeding immediately."

Shen Qingyun's eyelids were half-drooping, and after hearing her question, his vague consciousness gradually returned, like a dying person grasping the last straw.

But then he lost hope.

Holding on to the last of his strength, he said, "I don't know."

Lin Yanxi and Shen Muzhou glanced at each other, and the two didn't believe his words at all.

Shen Muzhou took the dagger from Lin Yanxi's hand and pressed it directly against Shen Qingyun's throat, the sharp blade made his neck immediately see a shallow bloody cut, and the sharp pain made him sober up a little.

Shen Qingyun's cold sweat dripped down his forehead, his hands and feet were tied and he couldn't break free, and his voice raised a few points, "I really don't know, I've never seen a real speller."

"He, he always sent a man in a black cloak to contact me, and that man, that man occasionally wore the clothes of the little eunuch. I really don't know the rest."

"Between us, he sent men to me. It's true, believe me, believe me!"

Lin Yanxi asked, "Then how did he find you?"

Her hand was on Shen Muzhou's arm, he glanced back at her, coldly withdrew his arm, and frowned slightly.

His reaction made Lin Yanxi a little embarrassed.

Shen Qingyun's throat was free of that layer of threat, and he couldn't help but breathe a little easier, "I...... Although my father made me the crown prince, I know that the person he values in his heart is not me."

"Do you think it's easy to sit in the East Palace all these years? I am careful in everything and kind to others, for fear that others will find something wrong, and the position below one person and above ten thousand people is not as difficult as treading on thin ice."

"Just when I was exhausted in the affairs of the outer domain of Xizhou, there was a little eunuch who was short and couldn't see clearly, blocking my way, saying that his master wanted to help me, I asked who his master was, but he didn't answer, I thought it was a little eunuch who wanted to play tricks on me, and wanted to order him to be arrested and questioned, but he presented me with the jade bone flute that Xizhou wanted the most at that time, which relieved my urgent need."

"And then he was pretty much there, he was always there when I needed him, and then he started making some exchanges."

"The weapons hoarded in the prison this time are also their doing."

Shen Muzhou snorted coldly and asked, "As the crown prince, you are actually treasonous! Hoarding weapons for others?"

Shen Qingyun looked at him for a while, staggered his gaze, and said helplessly, "Do I have a choice? The things that my father has given me must be done safely and beautifully, and any errand will be pulled down from the position of prince, and I have no other way but to rely on the magicians to help me, at first they just ask for some gold and silver, then they want to leave the palace token, and then it becomes more and more uncontrollable."

"Shen Muzhou, do you really want this crown prince?"

Shen Muzhou stood not far from him, his back was straight, his posture was outstanding, and his face as perfect as jade carving was incompatible with the filth of this water prison, and he said solemnly: "The position of the prince should not fall into the hands of people like you, I only know that if I sit on this prince in the future, I will definitely put Nan Min first and the people first in everything."

Shen Qingyun looked at him and smiled inexplicably, not knowing whether he was laughing at him or mocking himself.

Lin Yanxi turned around and walked to a small square table, there was pen, ink and paper on the table, she waved her pen and wrote for a while, then picked up the paper and looked at it, "This is a confession, admitting that it is the crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason, making weapons privately, harming the people, and buying and selling official positions."

"The other one, you write it yourself, stepping down as the crown prince."

Shen Muzhou looked at her with a straight face and did not speak.

Shen Qingyun said, "I won't sign it.

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Lin Yanxi smiled, "That's right, you just wait here to die."

The wound on Shen Qingyun's chest was still oozing blood, his face became more and more pale, and his hands and feet began to be numb and cold.

He knew he wouldn't last long.

Lin Yanxi easily put down the confession in his hand and said to Shen Muzhou, "That's fine, if he dies, it will be easy."

"Anyway, Your Majesty had this intention a long-time being, but it was because of the queen's side that he didn't make up his mind."

Shen Muzhou was dissatisfied with her assertion, but he still cooperated with her and said, "Well, so be it."

After saying that, the two of them walked to the place where the small wooden stick was placed, and wanted to leave.

Shen Qingyun couldn't hold back any longer, he was already weak, and he didn't know where he got the strength to shout loudly, "I write, I write!"

"I can't die here!"

As long as he lives, everything will turn around.

When you're dead, there's nothing!

Lin Yanxi looked back at him and smiled, smiling like a flower, but it was very cold and terrifying.

Shen Muzhou loosened Shen Qingyun from the wooden frame, Shen Qingyun had recognized his situation, and raised his pen without hesitation.

Lin Yanxi looked at the things in his hand with satisfaction, and Shen Qingyun asked, "When can I leave here?"

She shook the confession and said, "Get out of here? Will the emperor let you go with these incriminating evidence? The lightest is to exile you to a bitter cold land."

Shen Qingyun is not a fool, after writing these two pieces of paper, he instead sat there calmly and said, "You will not hand over these incriminating evidence."

Lin Yanxi frowned and said, "Then it depends on how you treat my sister."

After speaking, Shen Muzhou grabbed her shoulders and led her to jump to the opposite side of the high platform, not letting her walk the wooden stick by herself.

The door of the water prison opened, and the house doctor was already waiting outside, and Shen Muzhou ordered, "Help him stop the bleeding."

The palace doctor bent down and said, "Yes, my lord."

Lin Yanxi held Shen Qingyun's confession in her hand, and handed another piece of paper to Shen Muzhou, she thought about it and explained, "I wanted to discuss it with you earlier, but you ...... Busy all the time."

Shen Muzhou's gaze fell on the distance and didn't look at her, "This is a deal, as for whether you want to kill him or let him go, I don't care."

He looked indifferent, but he didn't leave, still standing beside her, and walked out together, "Don't you have anything else to say to me?"

"Huh?"

Lin Yanxi looked up at him, and immediately understood what he was referring to, but she really didn't have anything to explain, she didn't want to stay.

Just stop giving others hope.

She lowered her eyes beside him and whispered, "I may go to Cong'an, I heard that it is very beautiful, the four seasons are like spring, and the people are simple, and when the time comes, you will be His Royal Highness the Prince, and I will depend on you."

"For the sake of past friendships, I'll send you a letter."

Shen Muzhou walked in front, the two of them were about half a step apart, and he kept walking forward without looking back.

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Nan Min Palace, Fu'an Palace.

Since Shen Qingyun was imprisoned, the prince often summoned by the emperor turned out to be not Shen Muzhou, but Shen Yu.

The emperor always has a preference for Shen Yu, the most unsuccessful prince, which inevitably makes people suspect that the position of the crown prince will fall on Shen Yu's head.

He sat on the main seat, and in the center of the hall stood Shen Muzhou and Shen Yu.

Emperor Nanmin's fingers rubbed the jade plate finger on his thumb, and his eyes fell on a blood book on the table, which was the crown prince Shen Qingyun who was about to step down from the position of crown prince.

"Ridiculous! Nan Min can only be deposed, where did he come from to step down on his own?" Emperor Nanmin's black and suppressed eyes fell on Shen Muzhou unhappily, "This is the idea you came up with?"

"I heard that the second lady in your house is very methodical, and she went to the Dark Night Division, so the prince took the initiative to resign."

Shen Muzhou knelt on the ground and said, "This matter has nothing to do with Lin Yanxi, it is all the minister's idea."

"Your idea? Lone asked you to investigate the case, but did you ever use lynching? What Shen Qingyun does with it is up to Lonely, Xiao Jiu, this is the first time you have done things out of proportion."

Emperor Nan Min directly picked up the fold on the table and threw it down.

Shen Yu stepped forward to block the play, and said with a smile: "Father, since the imperial brother is unwilling to be the crown prince, then don't do it, this doesn't just solve the problem of the father, and it can also block the mouths of the people in the world."

The emperor has been worried about Shen Qingyun's affairs for several days, and it seems that deposing him as the crown prince is also the best solution.

Emperor Nan Min glared at him and scolded angrily, "You heartless and lungless."

Shen Yu didn't have a serious smile on his face, rolled his eyes and said, "Father, don't be in a hurry to scold people, I have an idea to let Xiao Jiu atone for his sins."

Emperor Nan Min didn't believe that he would come up with any good ideas and directly refused, "Come on, what good ideas can you come up with."

Shen Yu said seriously: "It's better to punish Xiao Jiu to personally take the county lord of Chaoyang back to the house, since this father has already given marriage to the two of you, don't always make trouble."

Emperor Nan Min turned the fingers on his hand and looked at Shen Muzhou, "Well, just do what your Fifth Emperor Brother says."

He was worried that Shen Muzhou would not do it, so his expression became more serious and said, "Xiao Jiu, you have to remember what Rigu said to you that day, if you want to be the prince, you must put Nan Min's interests first in everything."

"If you find that anyone or anything interferes with your choice, then ......."

"Yes, Erchen understands."

Shen Muzhou knelt on the ground and saluted.

Emperor Nanmin's eyebrows were a little more pleasant, "Xiao Jiu, get up."

"In two days, it will be the day of Tian Hunting, Xiao Jiu, this matter will be left to you, don't go wrong."

Shen Muzhou bowed his head and said, "Father, don't worry."

Since he came back from the Dark Night Division yesterday, Lin Yanxi hasn't seen Shen Muzhou again, and he doesn't seem to have returned home, so he doesn't know what he's busy with.

In the past two days, she always recalled Shen Muzhou's cold look in prison.

"Chestnut, I think I'm sick of my heart." She lay on the bed with her hands on her heart.

Chestnut leaned over nervously and said, "Miss is not feeling well, or I will call the house doctor to come and take a look."

Seeing that Chestnut was really going to run to call the house doctor, she hurriedly stopped and said, "Hey, no, no."

"I'm just in turmoil, I don't know why I always think of Shen Muzhou, as soon as I close my eyes."

After saying that, she closed her eyes, opened them again, and said helplessly, "It's over, now I can't even open my eyes."

When Chestnut heard Miss say this, she immediately understood, and she smiled and said, "Miss, I think you are suffering from lovesickness."

"What do you say! How could I ...... How could you fall in love with Shen Muzhou?"

Chestnut said, "Since the young lady misses the prince, why don't you go and see him?"

"I saw Xiaoliu just now, and I heard that the prince has returned home."