With one hand she heals, and the other hand she kills, the princess vows to rule the world!

Chapter 573: Confrontation in Tongle Palace, Punishment or Protection?

In the magnificent hall, traces of the banquet were still there. The palace servants who were cleaning up were stopped outside, and the imperial guards isolated the entire hall into a quiet and mysterious space.

Everyone had heard about the Fourth Prince being detained by Prince Li in Tongle Hall, and they all sent out spies to investigate. However, the Imperial Guards prevented anyone from approaching Tongle Hall.

Baili Moyin stood in front of Baili Moqing and looked at him. The calmness and indifference on his face made him feel dazzling and funny.

"Seventh Brother, do you think you won?"

He had an ambiguous smile on his face, which seemed to be both sarcastic and wry.

"All the power and status in Kyoto may be yours today, but who knows who will own it tomorrow?"

"Do you really think that the emperor is handing over my power to you because he trusts you and wants to reuse you?"

"I tell you, it's impossible!"

"You will never be able to sit in that position in your life!"

"Haha, you and I are the same, just a pawn for him to demonstrate the supremacy of imperial power!"

Baili Moqing didn't say anything and continued to look at him indifferently.

He said these words earlier than he realized, so these words did not arouse any emotional fluctuations for him.

Baili Moyin's eyes flashed with disgust, and then a smile appeared. "Seventh Brother, who do you think will be able to sit in that position in the end, between you, me, and Eighth Brother and Ninth Brother?"

For some reason, Shu He read a hint of confidence in his eyes.

"Do you think it would be you?" Shu He asked, unable to understand why he still had such thoughts now?

Baili Moyin's gaze met Shu He's. Her eyes were clean and clear, like water that could put out a fire, which inexplicably calmed the anger in his heart.

He stared at her and asked calmly, "Do you think it's impossible?"

She couldn't help but sneer, a hint of sarcasm appearing in her eyes, "Fourth Prince, even at this point, you still have such naive ideas! I really don't know whether to call you naive or blindly confident!"

Baili Moyin didn't care about her ridicule, and the complacency on his face became more and more intense.

"Just think of me as being confident! But if I say that the Seventh Brother will never be able to sit in that position and will never gain the trust of the Emperor, would you believe it?"

Shu He didn't say anything, but she agreed with his last words in her heart.

The Emperor could never truly trust Baili Moqing.

There seemed to be stars shining in Baili Moqing's deep eyes, making people dare not look too deeply.

"Fourth brother, you think you hold our father's greatest secret, so he can't possibly do anything to you, right?"

As soon as the words fell, Baili Moyin's face, which had been full of confidence just now, froze. His pupils trembled slightly, and a hint of panic spread in the depths of his eyes.

"You, what did you say?"

"I say, that thing you thought you were the only one who knew about, is actually no longer a secret."

His thick brows were tightly furrowed, and Baili Moyin's face was full of disbelief.

Hiding his panic, he snorted coldly, "Do you think I'll believe you just because you said that? Aren't you looking down on me a bit too much when you use that kind of trick on me?"

In this world, only he and his father knew about that matter. How could Seventh Brother know about it?

"Listen to the dagger!"

Baili Moqing's words made Baili Moyin stunned. The shock in his eyes turned into a cloud of smoke, which seemed to cover the entire hall.

"Second brother, you killed him, right?"

Baili Moqing's face, which had always been calm and composed, showed a trace of pain when he talked about Baili Mo Ran.

"I always thought it was Lao Jiu who did it. Because all the evidence and witnesses pointed to Lao Jiu."

"During those years in Beisha City, I tried every possible means to present evidence and doubts to my father. But for four whole years, he never once accepted the evidence I presented..."

"I used to think that my father was too fond of Old Nine and was deliberately biased towards him, so he ignored the things that were placed before him."

"Now I know that the reason he has been afraid to touch that thing is not because he likes Lao Jiu, but because he is afraid to face the absurd and heartless things he has done!"

"You! You actually..." I know everything!

Looking at the shock on Baili Moyin's face and the disbelief in his eyes, he smiled sarcastically, "Are you curious about why I know this?"

"You think you've done it perfectly, but unfortunately, someone already knows everything about you."

Baili Moqing looked at him with sincere admiration in his eyes. "Fourth Brother, I have to say, you are really smart! At least, for five years, you really kept me in the dark and I couldn't find the real truth."

"But I have to admit that you are really stupid sometimes!"

Baili Moyin looked at him coldly, anger on his face, "What did you say?!"

"Isn't that so?" Baili Moqing chuckled. "Do you really think that Father believes what Concubine De said about today's incident?"

"As a prince, he secretly mined iron ore and forged weapons. Fourth brother, do you think this is a greater threat to our father's throne, or when Second Brother is around?"

"You, what do you mean?!" Baili Moyin clenched his fists, as if he understood what he meant, but did not dare to admit it.

It was obvious that things were developing in the direction he wanted, and he was holding the biggest secret in the world. Even if his father was afraid of him, he would never choose to kill him!

After all, the dagger was still in his hand.

"Do you know what your biggest failure today is?" Baili Moqing said with a smile, "You shouldn't have brought up that incident at that time!"

"You want to threaten him, but don't you know that what he hates most is the existence of 'threats'?" Otherwise, how could he have killed his second brother? How could he have used such a shameful method on him?

"Impossible!" Baili Moyin roared.

Perhaps he hadn't realized that the more guilty a person was, the harder it was to control their voice. His fury was actually a hint that he had already believed Baili Moqing's words.

But he still refuted Baili Moqing as if he was brainwashing himself.

"If I hadn't used that incident to 'remind' him of what happened today, how could he have let me go so easily?"

"Deprivation of the title and three years of house arrest may seem like a severe punishment, but it's much better than what you received back then, isn't it?"

"Who knows what the sky in Kyoto will look like in three years?"

"You think this is a punishment, but I think it's protection!"

After they have fought to the death and both sides have suffered heavy losses, how many people who can become emperors will be left in Kyoto?