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The emperor's eyes flashed with grief. ”You …” Do you know who Chu Zongge is? ”

Chu Lingyun wiped the tears on his face with her sleeve and looked at him fiercely: ”I have a lot of Royal Brother, he is just one of them.”

”He's not only your Royal Brother,” the Emperor said excitedly as he raised a finger to point at Chu Zongge. ”He's also your blood brother, you two are siblings!”

Chu Zongge, who was originally watching the show with an indifferent expression, was now stunned on the spot. Chu Lingyun also opened her eyes wide in disbelief as she looked at him in a daze.

”How could that be,” Chu Lingyun said hoarsely, ”I am the empress's daughter.”

”No, you are not,” the Emperor took a deep breath. ”You are the daughter of Mrs. Heyi Liu Chengyun, and not the empress.”

Chu Zongge's face was full of surprise as he asked, ”How could a princess and this son have the same mother? How did she become a child that isn't a empress?”

”Back then, the birth date of the Queen and the Yun Niang was similar, they were only separated by a day's worth of labor,” the Emperor said with bloodshot eyes. ”The day before Yun Niang gave birth to a female baby, the day after the Queen gave birth to a stillborn baby, just like the day at Consort Hua.”

Chu Lingyun hurriedly shook her head, ”That's impossible, the one who gave birth to the dead child was obviously Liu Chengyun!”

”It's not the Yun Niang, it's the Empress,” the Emperor gritted his teeth, as if the scene that happened all those years ago was right before his eyes, ”After the Yun Niang gave birth to you, her body was weakened, and he heard that the Empress gave birth to a stillborn child, so he begged me to give you to the Queen and have her raise you.

It was no wonder that when the Emperor met the two of them, he called them ”you two siblings.” So there was actually such a profound mystery involved.

Chu Lingyun quickly turned her head and glared at him, ”I am not your sister.”

Chu Zongge saw the hatred in her eyes and shrugged. ”Little Yun, didn't you hear what Royal Father said?

Chu Lingyun spoke coldly, enunciating word by word, ”Royal Father, are you afraid that I would be punished like you, that's why you changed me to your birth mother?”

”The mistakes your mother committed have nothing to do with you. We will not punish you,” the Emperor reached out his hand with incomparable pain. ”We only told you that it was because we didn't want to see you two fight …”

Chu Lingyun avoided his hand lightly and said resolutely, ”Who said it has nothing to do with me?”

Chu Zongge sighed softly in his heart. It seemed that Chu Lingyun was going to confess the mistake she had committed.

”mother poisoned Noble Consort Kang and the poison inside her body,” Chu Lingyun's face revealed a look of despair as she kneeled down, ”I sent this poison to her from the Chiron, and I am willing to accept the punishment.”

The Emperor looked at her in surprise. ”How could you do such a thing?”

Chu Lingyun said in an innocent voice, ”The Prince Jin and I will not be able to stop the crown prince.”

”You …” The Emperor pounded his desk painfully. ”How could you be so confused? What does their ascension have to do with you!”

Chu Lingyun forced out a bitter smile, ”It has nothing to do with me? Could it be that Royal Father thinks that when Prince Jin or I ascend to the throne, there will be a place for me and mother? ”

Looking at his painful expression, Chu Zongge felt pity in his heart. ”Even if I have to ascend to the throne one day, I will respect the empress for my love and care for my royal sister, furthermore, this can't possibly happen.”

Chu Lingyun laughed coldly, ”In front of Royal Father, what you say sounds so nice. Who knows if you will hurt her or not if you take charge of all the rivers and mountains in the future.”

”We will not hand over the throne to the Prince Jin at all. Why do you have to go through so much trouble?”

”Then will you pass the throne down to the Prince Duan? If the Prince Jin isn't with the death of the crown prince, then the only one left in the palace is the Prince Duan. Chu Lingyun asked with tears in her eyes.

Chu Zongge could not help but be moved, this was something he had always wanted to know.

The Emperor looked at Prince Duan with a complicated gaze and said hesitantly, ”... You don't have to worry about that. ”

”How could I not care about that? Since young, my understanding of national affairs has been much higher than that of the Prince Jin's Crown Prince and even the Prince Duan's,” Chu Lingyun said in a teary voice, ”I am not your little princess, I am an independent person. How can you ignore my existence just because of a woman?”

Chu Zongge found it hard to conceal his astonishment. Chu Lingyun's goal was not to help the crown prince, but rather to stay in the Eastern Palace, this princess who was highly favored by the emperor and had many struggles after the death of the crown prince.

The emperor was equally shocked. ”How can you have such thoughts? You're the princess of the Great Qin Empire, not a prince of the Great Qin Empire. How can you be the ruler?”

”I only want to ask one thing. Is it because of the girl that Royal Father is unwilling to not recruit me?” Chu Lingyun's eyes flashed with certainty. ”If that's the case, then I'm willing to never marry, to compete with Prince Duan or other princes for power.”

The emperor gave her a deep look. ”Zhen …” I think it's better for you to be a princess of the Great Qin Empire. ”

Chu Lingyun opened her eyes wide, and asked in a trembling voice, ”Why?

”No,” the emperor's eyes dimmed, ”You are a very smart child, even smarter than the Prince Duan. It's just that being able to rule the country and rule the world is not something that can be solved by being smart.”

Chu Lingyun still did not give up, ”Then why?”