Yin Muxue, worried someone might be eavesdropping outside the window, specifically got out of bed and walked to the window to check.

Pushing open the window, the cold wind howled as it rushed into the room. There was no one outside the window, nor any sign of anything amiss.

So Yin Muxue returned to the bed, took Yin Zheng’s hand, and cautiously asked, “Sister?”

Yin Zheng snapped back to reality, beginning to suspect that Yin Muxue was truly mad.

Firstly, the matter of rebirth itself was unbelievable, not to mention that in Yin Muxue’s memory, Yin Zheng would marry the Prince.

If the former was still possible, the latter was simply impossible. She could not marry the Prince, absolutely not!

Yin Muxue saw the disbelief in Yin Zheng’s eyes and became anxious, “Sister, don’t disbelieve me. I can prove that everything I say is true.”

Yin Zheng asked her, “How can you prove it?”

Yin Muxue said, “I have experienced the future and know what will happen. As long as I tell you, you will know that everything I say is true.”

Eager to prove herself, Yin Muxue hurriedly asked Yin Zheng, “What day is it today?”

Yin Zheng told her, “The twelfth year of Tian He, the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.”

Upon hearing this, Yin Muxue’s face changed, “What! Today is the sixteenth day of the first lunar month of the twelfth year of Tian He!?”

Yin Zheng’s eyelids twitched, a slight ominous premonition rising in her heart, “What’s wrong?”

Yin Muxue grasped Yin Zheng’s arm tightly and hurriedly said, “Quick! Quickly report to the authorities, tell them someone has planted gunpowder in the Sitian Tower!”

Yin Muxue was anxious to change the future and didn’t realize the impact her words had on Yin Zheng—the gunpowder had been planted by Yin Zheng herself. It was impossible for Yin Muxue to suddenly know about this after waking up unless, as she said, she had memories from a past life.

But judging from Yin Muxue’s reaction, she only seemed to know about the gunpowder and didn’t know who had planted it… Yin Zheng subtly adjusted her breathing and asked her, “What gunpowder? Who wants to blow up the Sitian Tower?”

Yin Muxue choked, hesitated for a moment, and then said, “It’s the Prince, he wants to blow up the Sitian Tower.”

Yin Zheng suspected she had misheard, “…Who did you say?”

Afraid that she would ruin this marriage, Yin Muxue quickly said to Yin Zheng, “But don’t worry! Although the Prince acts absurdly, it was all before he married you. He treats you very well! He listens to almost everything you say, and after he ascends the throne, he even abolishes the imperial draft, only devoted to you!”

Yin Zheng wavered between Yin Muxue being mad and not being mad.

Seeing that Yin Muxue was still urging her to report to the authorities, Yin Zheng said, “Don’t be anxious. If what you say is true, there will definitely be other reborn people who will report to the authorities.”

Yin Muxue thought this made sense and calmed down.

Yin Zheng then asked her, “Who discovered the gunpowder in your past life?”

Yin Muxue shook her head, dejected, “No one discovered it. The Prince planted the gunpowder on the pretext of searching on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month and detonated it on the seventeenth. The National Teacher living in the Sitian Tower died as a result.”

Different, Yin Zheng thought. Last night, she had sent the Boy to deliver a message to evacuate everyone from the Sitian Tower and cancel the plan to destroy the Sitian Tower tomorrow, but in Yin Muxue’s memory, the Sitian Tower was still blown up.

Why? Did her subordinates not listen to her, or were there no reborn people in her past life, and she didn’t have any ominous premonitions, so she didn’t temporarily cancel the plan in the middle of the night?

Yin Zheng didn’t know the answer. She continued to question Yin Muxue, trying to get more clues and information about the future.

Yin Muxue also told her everything she knew—

“After the National Teacher died, His Majesty’s medicine was also cut off, and he had to be bedridden, handing over the power of supervision of the state to the Prince. But,” at this point, Yin Muxue suddenly became excited, “But the Prince has no interest in court affairs at all, and he also arrested many people on the pretext of the Sitian Tower case. Father, Second Uncle, and Eldest Brother were all imprisoned.”

Yin Zheng was suddenly shaken, “What?”

Yin Muxue felt that she could understand Yin Zheng’s shock at this moment, “It’s strange, right! It was clearly unrelated to our family, but they were arrested. Also, the Wangyin Temple outside Yongdu, the merchant house selling red bamboo in Dan Nan, the underground business association in Sudong, and the Guanshi Tower in Linxi were all implicated, and even a group of people from the Qianbei Military Command were arrested.”

Yin Muxue remembered this difficult time especially clearly. She relentlessly criticized the Prince, feeling that there was no one in this world more inexplicable than him.

Yin Zheng fell silent—the people Yin Muxue had just mentioned were all related to the Praying Lantern, so it was not surprising that they were arrested. However, Wangyin Temple had no dealings with the Sitian Tower, and it was her place, hiding her people.

In that case, the Yin family men were arrested not because the Prince was incompetent and randomly arresting people, but because the Prince had investigated the Yin family.

Yin Muxue, having scolded her good-for-nothing brother-in-law enough, continued, “At that time, our household was in chaos. Mother was frightened and bedridden. Second Aunt saw Second Uncle’s concubine trying to run away, and she was knocked unconscious by the concubine and her lover and thrown into the well to drown. Later, Fifth Sister and Sixth Sister found Second Aunt. They were afraid to call the servants, so they took ropes themselves and climbed into the well. As a result, Fifth Sister also drowned. Although Sixth Sister survived, she survived by clinging to the corpses of Mother and Brother in the well. After being rescued, she fell ill and kept having nightmares.

“At that time, you, Sister, were always by Sixth Sister’s side, but unfortunately, Sixth Sister still didn’t make it through.”

After saying this, Yin Muxue paused for a long time.

Yin Zheng lowered her eyes and asked Yin Muxue, “What about Grandmother?”

Yin Muxue shook her head, “Grandmother couldn’t hold on alone. After Second Aunt left, Grandmother collapsed, but fortunately, you, Sister, were there.”

Yin Muxue’s tone changed, and she grasped Yin Zheng’s hand, her eyes full of light as she looked at Yin Zheng, “It was you who rescued Father, Second Uncle, and Eldest Brother from the imperial prison.”

Yin Zheng met Yin Muxue’s eyes, not flinching or dodging, as if she didn’t know what “guilt” meant at all.

“Later, not only our family but the whole world was in chaos. I don’t understand court affairs, but I also know that this was all the Prince’s fault. It was because the Prince’s supervision of the state was unfavorable and he messed around, which caused DaQing to fall into such a disaster, causing the four regions and thirteen states outside Yongdu to be mired in war and suffering, with the people living in poverty.”

Yin Muxue also specifically described the causes and processes of those disasters. After hearing this, Yin Zheng felt puzzled, very puzzled.

According to what Yin Muxue said, she could be sure that these chaos were all planned by her. How could it become the Prince’s fault?

Also, the Prince Wen Ze, since he had the ability to investigate the Yin family and Wangyin Temple through the Sitian Tower case, why would he let others put such a big blame on him? This was too strange.

Before Yin Zheng’s doubts could be answered, Yin Muxue threw out another bomb. She said, “When the Yin family encountered misfortune, it was you, Sister, who supported the entire Yin family. Later, when the country suffered, it was also you, Sister, who stepped forward, racking your brains to save the people from the brink of disaster, and even abandoned your past grievances to marry the Prince, assisting the Prince in reorganizing the country and returning a peaceful and prosperous world to the world.”

Yin Zheng suspected that Yin Muxue was not talking about her at all.

A peaceful and prosperous world?

Impossible, what she hated most was a peaceful and prosperous world.

…

Zichen Hall, the largest hall in the inner courtyard and also the Emperor’s bedroom.

At the moment, besides the Emperor and Empress who had just woken up, there was also the Prince Wen Ze, who had been up all night.

Yesterday’s palace banquet lasted until very late. The Emperor and Empress returned to Zichen Hall together to rest, but unexpectedly, the two of them fell asleep on the Sedan and couldn’t be woken up no matter how they were called.

The most honored couple in the world both falling asleep and not waking up was no small matter. Soon, Wen Ze received the news. While rushing to Zichen Hall, he issued orders to seal off Yongdu and the entire palace, and he specifically sent the Imperial Guards to surround the embassies of various envoys, not allowing anyone to enter or leave.

For a time, the entire palace fell silent. It was not until dawn this morning, when the Emperor and Empress woke up together, that this suffocating storm passed.

But soon new problems arose. The imperial physicians couldn’t see anything wrong with the Emperor and Empress, but the Emperor and Empress’s reactions after waking up were obviously very wrong.

Wen Ze immediately dismissed the palace maids and eunuchs serving in the hall and began a conversation with the obviously strange Emperor and Empress.

After the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Wen Ze roughly knew what had happened to his imperial father and mother.

Unlike Yin Zheng, who wouldn’t easily believe others, Wen Ze quickly accepted this statement and remembered that last night, people from the harem and outside the palace had come to invite imperial physicians, hearing that the symptoms were the same as the Emperor and Empress.

Wen Ze had Jia Yuan take his orders to send the concubines in the harem with similar symptoms, as well as the princes and princesses who had not yet left the palace to establish their own residences, to Qing Si Temple, which had the most rooms, and sent the Northern Camp’s Long Night Army to guard them. As for the royal officials and ministers who came to invite imperial physicians from outside the palace, Wen Ze only sent people to secretly monitor them one by one and didn’t make too much of a commotion.

In addition, Wen Ze also sent people to surround the Sitian Tower, preparing to invite the National Teacher into the palace to stay for a while.

After arranging everything properly, Wen Ze returned to Zichen Hall and found the Emperor and Empress staring at him expectantly.

The Empress asked him, “Have you sent someone to bring A Zheng into the palace yet?”

The Emperor urged, “I remember the gunpowder is hidden under the Sitian Tower dungeon. This time, you have to investigate carefully, and don’t let people falsely accuse you again.”

Clearly, the Emperor and Empress, as Wen Ze’s parents, were very clear that Wen Ze was not the culprit in the Sitian Tower case, and they also didn’t know that Yin Zheng was the mastermind behind the scenes.

Wen Ze was a bit sleepy after being up all night, and his answers to the Emperor and Empress were also very perfunctory, “No rush.”

The Emperor and Empress exchanged glances. Finally, the Emperor asked his son, “Do you have other plans?”

Emperor Tian He not only had a refined and elegant appearance but also had an exceptionally good temper. No one knew how he had given birth to a blockhead like Wen Ze, whose whole body exuded an aura that begged to be beaten. “Yin Zheng, huh? This son doesn’t want to marry her. If Mother truly likes her, you can take her as a foster daughter and let Father bestow her a princess title. As for the Sitian Tower…”

Wen Ze smiled. His handsome face, which perfectly inherited all the strengths of the Emperor and Empress, revealed a demon-like wickedness, “So many people have memories of their past lives, so the mastermind or someone by his side must also have someone like you. Even if they don’t, they should have heard the rumors.”

If the mastermind was an impatient person, seeing that the gunpowder in the Sitian Tower had not been searched out, he might take a chance and risk blowing up the tower, and in doing so, he would inevitably reveal his identity.

If he was a patient person, it didn’t matter as long as the National Teacher was safe. Even if the Sitian Tower was blown up, it didn’t matter. In that case, it would be better to just leave the gunpowder in the Sitian Tower and see if he could induce more reborn people to report to the authorities as a result, so that he could get a list of reborn people.

However, all of Wen Ze’s plans were declared bankrupt due to a small oversight.

The person he sent to pick up the National Teacher had not yet arrived at the Sitian Tower when Pu Qianjun, whom he had sent to search the tower last night, returned, saying that he had found gunpowder in the Sitian Tower dungeon and had already loaded it onto carts and transported it out of Yongdu, sending it to the Southern Camp’s garrison outside the city.

In his past life, Pu Qianjun had also gone to search the Sitian Tower, but he had found nothing. This time, he found it.

Wen Ze propped up his head and listened to Pu Qianjun reporting to him. After listening, he asked, “Did you already know where the gunpowder was hidden, or did someone tell you?”

Pu Qianjun was stunned, looked up at Wen Ze, his thoughts almost written on his face, and at the same time, he said them out loud, “Your Majesty, Your Highness suspects that I directed and acted in this myself?”

Although he corrected his address in time, he was still so anxious that he even forgot the self-addressing “this official.”

“Of course not.” Wen Ze smiled, not at all angry that his plan had been ruined by a bad teammate, but rather somewhat expectant, “I just wanted to ask: Qianjun, are you also a reborn person?”

A look of astonishment appeared on Pu Qianjun’s face, not at all like a commander of an army, looking foolish.

He asked, “Does Your Highness also…”

Wen Ze shook his head, “I’m not, but others are. In this palace alone, there are at least six reborn people. There are even more outside the palace. Didn’t you know?”

Pu Qianjun shook his head, “After this official woke up, he confirmed the time from the adjutant, and then immediately took the Tiger Roar Army to the Sitian Tower, and didn’t know that there were others who were the same as this official.”

Wen Ze believed him, because Pu Qianjun was different from others. He was the son of Pu Xiang, and he had been by Wen Ze’s side as a study companion since he was a child. Now he was also the commander of the Tiger Roar Army, and the Tiger Roar Army was under the direct command of the Eastern Palace, completely the private army of the Eastern Palace.

Moreover, Wen Ze knew Pu Qianjun’s character very well. He had a beast-like keen intuition in command, but other than that, he was a straightforward simpleton, not stupid, but not smart enough to play tricks in front of Wen Ze. Most importantly, he, like his father Pu Xiang, had a burning loyalty.

Wen Ze had many secrets that even the Emperor and Empress didn’t know, but Pu Qianjun knew.

So after confirming that Pu Qianjun was also a reborn person, Wen Ze was very happy and asked him, “Do you know why I took the blame for blowing up the Sitian Tower in my past life?”

Regarding this, Pu Qianjun really knew, “It was for the Empress.”

Wen Ze frowned, “Mother?”

Pu Qianjun was silent for a moment, remembering that Wen Ze had not yet ascended the throne, so he changed his words, “It was for the Princess Consort.”