He did it to repent of his sins and free himself.

After Xiao Tingyan read the suicide note, he looked at Prince Zhuo's coffin with complicated eyes.

He was supposed to offer incense to Prince Zhuo.

In the end, he put his suicide note into Prince Zhuo's coffin and turned around and left without saying a word.

Early the next morning, Xiao Tingyan informed the world about Prince Zhuo's past crimes.

He deprived Prince Zhuo of all his throne and achievements, and demoted Prince Zhuo to a commoner. His bones could not be placed in the imperial mausoleum.

Since then, no one has continued to investigate the cause of death of Prince Zhuoqin.

Everyone thought that everything should be settled.

Little did they know that two days later, several horrific corpses were placed at the entrance of the palace.

The palace attendants ran out, looked carefully, and quickly recognized the identities of the corpses.

The palace officials were extremely frightened and quickly reported the matter to the police.

People from the royal family came to claim the bodies, crying and howling. Some of those who died tragically were princes and princesses.

There is another princess who is of the same generation as the late emperor.

This princess was the late emperor's youngest sister, and she was born from a palace maid. When the late emperor was still alive, this princess was not favored, and she was not a princess at that time.

When the late emperor ascended the throne, he was kind and caring about family ties, so he promoted her to the title of Princess Jiaming.

Under the protection of the late emperor, Princess Jiaming lived a prosperous life that a princess should live.

Later, the late emperor arranged a marriage for her and asked her to marry Ge Qingquan, the newly promoted number one scholar.

Princess Jiaming was grateful for the late emperor's kindness to her, so she had no complaints about all the late emperor's arrangements.

Ever since she married Ge Qingquan, she has always been quite law-abiding. Although she is a princess, she does not have the airs of a princess.

She was gentle and virtuous, and worked hard to help Ge Qingquan run the mansion.

Ge Qingquan didn't like her at first, but after getting to know her slowly, he gradually fell in love with this gentle and quiet woman.

The two have been together for many years, and Princess Jiaming gave birth to a son and a daughter. It can be said that the family is extremely harmonious and happy.

After the late emperor was poisoned, Princess Jiaming became more and more low-key and lived in seclusion.

Ge Qingquan even quit his job and took a job as a sinner, living a very low-key life.

Therefore, after this family ascended to the throne of Xiao Chongshan, they were not tainted by any of the bloodshed that occurred when they seized the throne.

Over the years, Xiao Chongshan slowly discovered some of Ge Qingquan's talents.

Gradually, he began to reuse Ge Qingquan.

Little did they know that Ge Qingquan had long been under the command of King Yan.

On the surface, he was loyal to Xiao Chongshan, but in fact, he was King Yan's confidant.

The reason why Xiao Tingyan was able to successfully escape from Kyoto back then was naturally helped by Ge Qingquan.

In his own words, he was grateful to the late emperor for granting marriage to him and Princess Jiaming. Both of them have always been grateful to the late emperor for his kindness.

The late emperor was persecuted and Xiao Tingyan was hunted. They fought to the death and secretly visited Chencang to help Xiao Tingyan escape from Kyoto and go to the North.

In these years, it was Ge Qingquan who helped Xiao Tingyan recruit those old ministers who were loyal to the late emperor in the court.

Therefore, after Xiao Tingyan executed Xiao Chongshan, he was able to quickly control the Southern Chu Dynasty and stabilize the situation of the previous dynasty.

All this is thanks to Ge Qingquan’s help.

He is a huge help!

But after everything was settled, they thought everything was over, and Princess Jiaming and Ge Qingquan also breathed a sigh of relief.

Ge Qingquan still thought that when the court became more stable, he would resign and take Princess Jiaming to travel around the world and visit the great rivers and mountains of Nanchu.

But I don't think that things in the world are unpredictable and human life is so fragile. In just a blink of an eye or a turn of the head, the people around you are gone.

Ge Qingquan received the news and hurried to the palace gate.

When he saw Princess Jiaming lying on the ground, her face completely disfigured and dead, he was heartbroken and immediately spat out a mouthful of blood.

Xiao Tingyan quickly stepped forward and supported his arm.

"Uncle, are you okay?"

Ge Qingquan's body couldn't stop trembling.

In just one breath, his half-white hair turned all white.

He seemed to have aged more than ten years all of a sudden.

His eyes were filled with tears, and he looked at the princess lying on the ground with tears in his eyes.

He was so distressed that he was almost numb.

He pushed away Xiao Tingyan's support, stumbled to his knees, and tremblingly took Princess Jiaming's body into his arms.

"Jia'er... you don't know, I've been looking for you for several days... I almost went crazy. We have been married for so long, and we have never been apart for such a long time. How can you bear to not come to see me? of?"

"Are you still angry that I only focused on handling official business a few days ago and ignored you? Jia'er, I was wrong, can you forgive me? As long as you are not angry with me anymore, I will resign immediately. Officer, can I accompany you to play around?"

"I don't want anything anymore, I don't want to care about anything, I just want to be with you. Jia'er, can you answer my question? Over the years, I have made you follow me, and I have been so scared that you have lived a lot of hardships. ."

"You are obviously a princess, but you have never enjoyed any glory or wealth in your life. Before you got married, you were made things difficult and bullied in the palace. After you got married, you became the princess of the country, but you did everything for me, a common man. Tang, take care of the Ge family for me. Jia'er, I can't help you... I didn't let you live a comfortable life for a day."

Xiao Tingyan knelt down and listened blankly to Ge Qingquan's belated confession.

Ge Qingquan is actually a very taciturn man.

My aunt has been married to him for so long, and she has never heard him say so many love words at once.

It's a pity that my aunt will never hear these love words again.

Xiao Tingyan felt extremely uncomfortable, and her eyes were filled with crystal tears.

His ears were filled with countless cries, painful and desperate sobs.

The greatest sorrow in the world is separation between life and death.

These people will be gone if they say no.

Human life is so fragile that it seems to disappear in the blink of an eye.

Not all members of the Xiao family's royal family are cold-blooded and ruthless people.

His aunt, and even Ge Qingquan, they are all kind-hearted people. Over the years, in order to repay his father's kindness, they have helped him without any purpose or asking for anything in return.

Without their help, he would not have been able to control the entire Nanchu court so smoothly.

In addition to his aunt, the Xiao family royal family, and many, many people are helping him secretly. These people are all his relatives.

They are all family members who share the same blood with him.

Although his father, emperor, mother and concubine were gone, these people were using everything they had to help him protect him.

Ge Qingquan still hugged Princess Jiaming's body tightly and kept mumbling to himself.

"Jia'er, why is your body so cold?"
Chapter completed!