The melodious sound of the harp sounded again.

In the center of the hall, a man and woman are dancing to the music, showing off their most elegant dances.

Samwell picked up his plate again, eating the goldentail shrimp as he watched Duke Lanley and Margaery, a pair of golden boys and maiden figures, whirling around the dance floor with a mysterious smile on their faces.

He remembered that in the original book, Duke Lanli asked Duke Eddard Stark with a portrait of Margaery, and the portrait of the girl in the painting did not resemble his sister Lyanna Stark.

And this Miss Lyanna is the former fiancée of the current King Robert I.

It was also the trigger for the famous Raiders War!

Miss Lyanna was betrothed to Robert, but was taken captive by the former prince Rhaegar Targaryen.

Robert, who was then the Duke of Storm's End, learned of this and rebelled in a fit of rage.

This is the direct cause of the Retainer War.

Although Robert had killed Rhaegar with his own hands, overthrown the Targaryen dynasty, and avenged his wife, Miss Lyanna had already died in the war.

This became a wound in Robert's heart that would never heal.

The reason why Duke Lanli asked Duke Eddard that Margaery resembled Lyanna was obviously intending to sacrifice Margaery to King Robert to replace Cersei Lannister as queen.

But judging from the later plot development, this plan did not succeed.

Think about it too. Although Robert has been unreliable since he sat on the Iron Throne, he ignores political affairs all day long, and only cares about drinking and drinking; Prostitutes, hunting, and a bad relationship with Queen Cersei, but he's not really brainless.

It is impossible to go out of your way for a girl who looks a little like her old lover.

You must know that Queen Cersei is not without a backstage, her mother's Lannister family is the richest family in Westeros, and her father, Duke Tywin, is also one of the most powerful people in the Seven Kingdoms.

Unless she can grasp Cersei's real lethal trick - the three children she gave birth to the king are actually all messed with her own brother Jaime Lannister; A product of Lun!

Otherwise, Cersei's position as queen is not something that anyone can shake.

Unfortunately, while the secret King's Landing should have been known, or at least suspected, no one could have come up with proof.

This kind of thing is difficult to confirm unless it can be caught in bed.

All three children have the blond hair of the Lannisters, not the black hair of the Baratheons, which is not real proof.

After all, it is normal for offspring to inherit their mother's hair color.

In fact, in the eyes of most people, it is common sense that the king's three children are blonde.

After all, since the legend of the "clever" Rann stealing the sun's light and dyeing his hair golden, the Lannisters' blonde hair has been passed down for more than 6,000 years (which is a genetic miracle), and the Baratheon family has a total history of more than 300 years, so it seems that "the lion's golden color suppresses the stag's carbon black" seems to be a matter of course.

So for all these years, King Robert never doubted that his three children were blonde.

Duke Lanli obviously has no evidence, so he wants to use this roundabout way to depose the queen.

The real ironclad evidence of Queen Cersei's fatal trick will not be until Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, discovers it in the tome "Genealogy and History of the Families of the Principal Nobles of the Seven Kingdoms", but unfortunately he also became the fulcrum of a certain conspirator to stir up the situation, and officially kicked off this power game.

Of course, that's all for later.

At this time, Samwell looked at the personable Duke Lanli on the dance floor, and guessed in his heart the motive of the other party's plan.

Judging from this person's later performance in the Rebellion of the Five Kings, this Duke of Lanli may have coveted the Iron Throne for a long time.

However, as the younger brother of the king, he is in line of succession after Cersei's three children and the second brother Stannis Baratheon.

This time, he deliberately wanted to abolish the eldest brother, and he should want to abolish the inheritance rights of the three children.

In this way, the heir to the throne in front of him is only the second brother Stannis.

In the eyes of Duke Lanli, the eldest brother's boredom with the second brother is almost obvious.

During the Reaver War, Stannis's life was defended by Stannis, the lair of the Baratheon family, but after the war, Robert actually made Lan Li, who was still a crying kid at the time, the Duke of Storm's End, but left the highly decorated Stannis on Dragonstone.

Although the Duke of Dragonstone has always had the implicit meaning of the Iron Throne Prince, it was the custom of the Targaryen dynasty, and what does it have to do with the current Baratheon dynasty?

Dragonstone is not the Dragonstone of House Baratheon.

Stormlands is.

Staying in the Storm's Rest Castle and enjoying the Blue Rite of service throughout the Stormlands, looking at Stannis, who could only blow the sea breeze on the barren Dragonstone Island, I am afraid that I have long had no doubts about the preference of the eldest brother.

Therefore, in the eyes of Duke Lanli, as long as Queen Cersei is abolished and her three children are deprived of the inheritance rights, the first heir to the Iron Throne must be himself.

Samwell put down his knife and fork and suddenly thought of another question - what role did the Tyrells play in this?

Then, a playful smile appeared on his face.

When he watched the TV series in his previous life, he noticed that many of the characters who are considered to be the protagonists in the play often die suddenly soon, as if the author was deliberately showing the cruelty of the power struggle and the impermanence of fate in this way.

However, if you think about it carefully, you can find that the deaths of these protagonists seem impermanent, but there are traces to follow, and even predestined.

This Game of Thrones is actually just a game of a few conspirators, who hide behind the scenes, and what they do, think, and think is almost imperceptible to the audience.

And those so-called "protagonists" are actually just puppets in the hands of these real players, who are ...... by honor, hatred, love, and power This thread pulls and pulls, fighting, fighting, and dying in the center of the stage...... is performing a wonderful and heart-wrenching drama, but even if they die, they may not be able to figure out why they died.

The young, noble, and charismatic Duke Lanli in front of him is not such a "protagonist".

And the person holding the silk thread behind him at this time is probably one of the top players in this game - Lady Olenna, the "Queen of Thorns".

Come to think of it, how did the Duke of Lanley learn that Miss Margaery looked like King Robert's old lover?

Samwell guessed that the biggest possibility was that the "Knight of the Hundred Flowers" Loras "inadvertently" told Duke Lanli about it during a certain joke.

Then, Duke Lan Li, who had long coveted the Iron Throne, came to the High Court in a hurry-

No, it's not the High Court, it's the Tower.

The scheming Lady Olenna would not let Duke Lanli go to the High Court, wouldn't that make it clear that the Tyrells were also involved.

In the name of visiting relatives, Margaery and Duke Lanli "encountered" in the Tower of Heaven, which was not so conspicuous.

In the future, if this deposed plot succeeds, the Tyrells can pretend to be innocent and let Duke Lanli bear the wrath of the Lannisters of the West.

And if it doesn't work out...... The Tyrells didn't give anything anyway.

It was just an "inadvertent" mention by Loras and a portrait of Margaery, which made the Duke of Lanli, an iron-clad man, run around for the throne of the Tyrell family and take all the risks.

This kind of subtle and unsmoky tricks, Samwell felt more and more that it should be the handiwork of Lady Olenna, the "Queen of Thorns".

Moreover, he was sure that if Margaery was really allowed to become queen, Lady Olenna would definitely abandon Duke Lanli as soon as possible, whether it was to use it as a scapegoat to appease the anger of the West, or to clear the inheritance obstacles for the princes and princesses who would have the blood of the Tyrell family in the future, the tragic end of Duke Lanli was doomed.

It's a pity that the young Duke of Storm's Rest can't see this clearly, and is still working there stupidly for nothing.

It seems that the blacksmith in King's Landing had a pretty accurate assessment of the three Baratheon brothers—

The boss Robert is real steel and can stand the test of fire; The second Stannis is pig iron, which is too hard and easy to break; The third blue gift is bright copper, which looks beautiful, but it is not worth a few dollars.

At the end of the song, the men and women on the dance floor stopped and walked out of the arena.

The Duke of Lanli, on the other hand, took Miss Margaery to the small room next to him.

Seeing his "scheduled" daughter-in-law being taken away, Samwell did not panic at all.

If it was someone else, he might have to worry about the other party doing something else besides painting, but Duke Lanli.

This guy is not only a "bright bronze", but also a gay.

When you say you want to paint, you really want to paint.

Samwell smiled and lowered his head to get the goldtail shrimp, only to find that the plate was empty!

Damn, I actually ate it all.

Do you want to let Earl Layton go up again?

But wouldn't that be too much......

Sir Caesar, who knew everything, was distressed.