He took a sip of tea and said, "You can also see that those three people yesterday were a precedent, and it was only because they were betrayed by the Third Highness that they came to me in a hurry. Then others will follow in their footsteps and come up to my gates."

Su Ling nodded and said, "If you look at it this way, there is indeed this possibility, but what about you?" Are you going to support Your Highness?"

Su Ling was worried that even if they no longer supported the Third Highness, after all, the Great Highness was also Nie Yunhua's eldest son. Jiang Duanchen and the Third Highness don't like each other, and the only one he can support is His Highness.

Jiang Duanchen saw Su Ling's worries, so he smiled with relief: "Don't worry, Your Highness has already turned against the queen, and their relationship has not been very good since childhood, and the queen cares about me even more than him, so there is very little family affection between them."

Su Ling nodded, then frowned and said, "I heard that there are four sons and two princesses in the Holy Saint, why can the matter of choosing the prince only be His Royal Highness and the Third Highness?"

After Jiang Duanchen heard Su Ling's question, his eyes lowered, and his tone became heavy, "The Second Highness was born to a palace maid, with a humble status, and was killed by Nie Yunhua before he could finish his life, and the Fourth Highness is the child of Concubine Yan, and in order to save the life of the Fourth Highness, she handed it over to her brother and took her to the border to join the army."

Su Ling saw that Jiang Duan Chen's eyes had dimmed, so he asked worriedly, "Duan Chen, are you okay?"

Su Ling screamed several times, but Jiang Duanchen didn't come back to his senses. Su Ling didn't know why he suddenly became like this.

"Duan Chen? Duan Chen?"

Su Ling called him over and over again, and he finally came back to his senses, with bloodshot eyes in his eyes.

Su Ling looked at him like this, raised his hand and touched his forehead and said, "What's wrong? Isn't it comfortable?"

"No, I just remembered some old things." Jiang Duanchen took Su Ling's hand down, put it in the palm of his hand and said. But Su Ling felt that his hands were full of sweat.

She vaguely felt that the incident he remembered must be a bad memory. And just now, he only became like this after talking about the Second Highness.

So she asked tentatively, "Is it related to the Second Highness?"

Jiang Duanchen raised his eyes and said with guilt in his eyes, "It's me who is sorry for him."

"What's going on?" Su Ling asked puzzled.

This memory was the last thing Jiang Duanchen wanted to mention, but this matter had been pressed in his heart for so long, if he hadn't mentioned it today, he wouldn't even think that no one would be asking about that person.

He is Xiao Zhi, the second highness, and Jiang Duanchen was ten years old when he met him. At that time, Xiao Zhizui was sweet-hearted and kind, and he was able to write and martial arts, and he was very pleasing to Xiao Guangji, although he was the child of the palace maid, but he also endured his intelligence and attracted everyone's attention.

Jiang Duanchen was forced by Nie Yunhua to learn all kinds of things, and once his endorsement was wrong, he was whipped a few times by Nie Yunhua in college, and then let him kneel outside for five hours.

Where did the young Jiang Duanchen endure this kind of torture, and in less than an hour, he fainted.

After waking up again, it is Zai Xiaozhi's dormitory.

Xiao Zhi came to Jiang Duanchen's bed with a bowl of medicine in his hand. When Jiang Duanchen saw him, he hurriedly wanted to stand up and salute. Xiao Zhi stepped forward to stop him, "Your injury is not healed, let's lie down first."

He handed the medicine in his hand to Jiang Duanchen and said, "This is the medicine prescribed by Imperial Doctor Zhang, it is very effective, you can get better if you drink it."

"Thank you, Second Highness, for saving your life." Jiang Duanchen took the medicine and held it tightly, he still remembered the temperature of the bowl of medicine, it was unusually warm. It seemed to warm his whole body and mind.

"I've paid attention to you, and you've often been forced to learn all sorts of things by the queen mother, but you're also quite smart, and I admire you, can we be friends together?" Xiao Zhi smiled heartily. new

Jiang Duanchen's pupils widened, and he said in shock, "Are you willing to be friends with me?"

Xiao Zhi asked rhetorically, "Why not?"

Jiang Duanchen lowered his eyes and said in a depressed tone, "Everyone else thinks I'm a weirdo, I only know how to study, and I'm never willing to approach me."

"Then I'll get close to you, and if she's persecuting you in the future, I'll be a classmate with you, anyway, I love to learn, hehe." The boy didn't put on a royal shelf, and smiled like an innocent child.

For the first time, Jiang Duanchen felt the kindness of others.

He didn't expect that there would be people in this deceitful palace who could truly regard him as a friend.

But I didn't expect the good times to last long.

Because Xiao Zhi accompanied Jiang Duanchen to learn the content arranged by Nie Yunhua. Nie Yuhua wanted to train Jiang Duanchen to be her right-hand man to win the throne in the future, and he would hand over any scheming methods to him.

So in Nie Yunhua's eyes, Xiao Zhi's move was like telling her again that he was also staring at that position.

Later, Nie Yunhua's thoughts of getting rid of Xiao Zhi became deeper and deeper.

She knew that Jiang Duanchen and Xiao Zhi had always been good friends, although Xiao Zhi's biological mother was humble, but his intelligence was very much liked by the Queen Mother, so he was raised under the Queen Mother's name.

Now the only one who can get rid of Xiao Zhi for Nie Yunhua without knowing the ghost is Jiang Duanchen.

She knew that Jiang Duanchen and Xiao Zhi would share each other's food when they studied together. It was only because the meals she prepared for Jiang Duanchen were too bad that Xiao Zhi proposed to exchange meals.

This gave Nie Yunhua a chance to do something, she secretly poisoned Jiang Duanchen's food, and in this way, Xiao Zhi died under the food of his most trusted friend.

Nie Yunhua took Jiang Duanchen's food away as soon as possible after the incident, and blamed Xiao Zhi for preparing the meal.

But Jiang Duanchen has had a heavy sense of guilt since then, and he has always felt that he killed Xiao Zhi. Later, when he grew up, he learned a word called "borrowing a knife to kill", and he realized that it was Nie Yunhua who borrowed his hand to get rid of him.

He has always pressed this matter in his heart, and he didn't make it clear to Nie Yunhua, after all, his current achievements depend on her.

But now it's different, he has clearly seen what kind of person Nie Yunhua is, and he wants to abandon the "kindness" she once had to him, and let her pay back all the debts she owes over the years.