Chapter 225 - 223. Arrest Him II (1/2)
Third-person POV
The atmosphere in today's morning court was very heavy because they had heard that the Royal Palace was attacked by Bei Zhou. At first, they were shocked to see Weisheng appeared at the main hall and wanted to ask him about his sudden appearance. But after seeing a sinister aura around Weisheng, they decided to shut their lips and stood silently.
Wei Yunru was acting as usual during the whole morning court. Weisheng gripped the armrest as he tried to hold himself back from killing Wei Yunru. After reading the letters that Hong er had kept for months, his blood boiled even more than before.
Pieces started to come together, the real reason why Wei Yunru did all of these was that he wanted to rob the throne from Weisheng. But he was aware of his powerlessness if it has to be compared to Weisheng's.
A few years ago, when Weisheng was still fighting with his paternal uncle for the throne, the Wei family supported his paternal uncle in the dark. The Wei family helped him by gaining allies from the old-fashioned ministers that disagreed with Weisheng's ideas to change the slavery system.
The old-fashioned ministers kneeled days and nights in front of the Royal Palace's main hall, begging for the (previous) emperor to change the crown prince from Weisheng to his paternal uncle.
But the previous emperor was not a fool, he knew that his own brother fed him a slow-reacting poison, therefore, the time the poison consumed his whole organs, it would be too late to find the cure.
And the one to provide him the poison was Wei family. They were considered as the third most powerful family in Da Qi after Liu Royal Family and Lu family. The Lu family had half of the power in the court and needless to say, the Lu family was on Weisheng's side as Lu Cixi is Weisheng's birth mother.
Since Lu Cixi married the previous emperor when he was still a crown prince, she had noticed her husband's elder brother's thirst for power. She had put up a guard against him for decades and assisted his husband with every power she had for him to ascend the throne.
The previous emperor's elder brother's mother was a concubine therefore he instantly lost his position as a crown prince the moment Weisheng's father was born. He hated him to the core, he tried to kill his own younger brother even before his younger brother could walk with his own feet.
And after the previous emperor ascended to the throne, he immediately wrote an imperial decree and announced that the 2-month-old baby in Lu Cixi's stomach will be the crown prince.
It goes without saying, his elder brother was enraged by this sudden announcement but he couldn't do anything to him because it would be considered as rebellion. The previous emperor also couldn't eliminate his elder brother as he was gifted the First Rank Prince from their father.
(A/N: I'm sorry if it is confusing but I run out of name ideas.)
The elder brother attempted numerous assassinations on the unborn baby but always ended up in failure because of Lu Cixi's overprotective tendency. 7 months later, Weisheng was born. It became more difficult for him to kill Weisheng after he was born.
There was an unknown shadow that protected the baby Weisheng from any harm. And to add it, Weisheng emitted such a strong killing aura even as a baby.
At that time, the Wei family was known to be neutral. They didn't take anyone's side, that's why Lu Cixi let down her guard for a bit by having Lu Ping, Weisheng, and Wei Yunru became friends as they were close in age.