Never divorce, never stop getting rich

Chapter 178 The past cannot be pursued

"I will not abdicate!" The empress leaned back in her chair, as if looking at a group of jumping clowns.

The eldest prince Fu Lilu looked at the guards rushing in, but he felt particularly uneasy. It was obvious that their people had already taken control of the palace. He even asked the people from the Moon Worship Sect to silence them. Now that the border was in danger, those peasants who were loyal to the empress had also left.

The empress has almost no room for recovery. The aristocratic families do not look favorably upon her, the royal family does not approve of her, and now even the imperial guards are his people, and the city gates have been replaced by their own subordinates, but why doesn't she show any panic?

Could it be that the Empress was just holding on? Had she actually already accepted her fate?

"Then don't blame me for being rude. Capture Pei Yuan and send him on his way immediately!" The eldest princess gave the order excitedly without even waiting for the eldest prince to speak.

She had finally waited for this day. With just one order from her, this nightmare in her life would end completely. She wanted to watch the empress lose her love, just like she had done back then. What she couldn't get, no one else could get.

"Aunt, wait a minute..." Pei Yuan was dead, so what could Fu Lilu use to control the empress? He was so anxious that he rushed forward to stop him.

"Hurry up! Do you need me to urge you? Go up and kill him! Kill him!!!" The eldest princess didn't know where she got the strength from, but she pushed Fu Lilu away and shouted madly.

Fu Lilu was angry and annoyed, and tried to stop the imperial guards in a panic, but the imperial guards didn't move at all and didn't even draw their swords.

"Okay... okay, you can leave now." The eldest prince Fu Lilu had a bad premonition, and those royal family members also wanted to leave.

"Come on, I'm telling you to get off. You're not needed here anymore!"

"Hurry up, don't force me!" The eldest prince Fu Lilu took an inkstone and smashed it hard at the feet of the guards. Unfortunately, those people remained motionless and didn't even blink.

"Well...it's getting late. Actually, we came here to protect the Crown Prince today because we were afraid he would do something irreversible. The abdication incident just now has nothing to do with us. We were not aware of it before we came. I hope Your Majesty will investigate it."

The clan leader suddenly stepped forward and spoke in a panic, wiping the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief in his hand.

The sudden betrayal by the royal family caught the eldest prince and the eldest princess off guard. The eldest princess' smile gradually faded, and the eldest prince trembled and kept looking outside the door.

"Don't look, the person you are waiting for will not come." The empress looked at the farce in the study, her heart was extremely complicated. It should not have come to this, but the throne was like this. Power could make couples hate each other, mothers and children kill each other, and brothers turn against each other. There was no room for a second person here.

"How dare you play tricks on me?" The eldest prince finally reacted. All his worries had come true. These guards were apparently bribed by his people, but it was all a scam. His mother had already placed spies around him, and all his actions were under his mother's control.

Just like when he was a child, Fu Lilu, who was complacent some time ago, felt that his life was like a joke, but could he not fight? He was his father's only son. Wasn't he the only legitimate heir to the throne?

It's gone, all gone. Like his father, he will always be a joke to his mother.

"Mother, do you think you've won? Can this vast world really accept a woman becoming emperor? Can it accept a woman who isn't from the Fu family taking over your throne?"

Fu Lilu was too unwilling to accept this. He was also his mother's son. Just because he was his father's son, did he have no right to compete with that bastard?

"The people of this world don't care whether the throne is occupied by a man or a woman. They only care about how much money they get each month, how their lives are, and whether they have enough food to eat during the New Year. As long as they can eat well and wear warm clothes, and live a peaceful and prosperous life, how many people in this world care whether the throne is occupied by a descendant of the Fu family?"

The empress looked at her son with disappointment. This child inherited the bloodline of the cowardly late emperor and was spoiled by the eldest princess. His mind was full of the interests of the aristocratic families and the superiority of the imperial power.

But they all forgot that the population of Tang Kingdom is thousands of times more than that of the nobles in the capital. She became the emperor not to serve the nobles, but to sit on the dragon throne for the people of the world.

"No, the aristocratic families won't agree. They'll be here soon...they..."

"I won't let you get in my way. You must abdicate. I won't let you ruin my plan like you did before, no one can!!!" Before anyone could notice, the eldest princess pulled out a dagger from her sleeve and rushed towards the empress. Prime Minister Pei subconsciously hugged the empress in his arms, trying to block her.

"How dare you! Protect the emperor!" One of the guards drew his sword and rushed forward, knocking the dagger out of the Grand Princess's hand as quickly as possible. In a hurry, the helmet on his head fell off, revealing a face that was particularly familiar to the Grand Princess.

"Mu Lang!!"

The eldest princess was so surprised that she wanted to hug the man, but he pushed her away with disgust. The guards beside her only then moved and arrested all the rebels in the study.

"Grand Princess, please respect yourself. I think you recognized the wrong person!"

"Your Majesty, all those who have caused disturbances in the capital have been suppressed by us. They are now in the Dali Temple, and are being interrogated one by one by the Dali Temple Shaoqing."

Another person came out from the Imperial Guard, who was a teenager like General Mu.

The empress was still in shock. She had expected the eldest princess to be desperate and do something desperate, but she had not expected Pei Yuan to risk his life to protect her. She almost lost the person most important to her.

But the situation forced her to do so, and before she could calm down, she gave the order, "General Mu, General Guan, you two have worked hard. Is there any news from the academy?"

"Someone from the academy has reported that the people who besieged the academy have been captured and sent to the capital. They will probably arrive at the Dali Temple soon. However, these people are seriously injured and need medical treatment first."

"You... didn't you go to the border?" Fu Lilu stared for a long time before recognizing the two men. He had clearly conducted trade with the neighboring country before, and the border should have been in dire straits by now. Why didn't these two rush to the border? Could it be that the border was really guarded by only those two old generals at this time?

"Yes, why didn't you go to the border? Did you want to watch your father die?" The eldest princess reacted, her makeup smudged, her jewelry fell off, and she was pressed to the ground in a mess, crying hoarsely, "You are indeed the child of that bitch. If it weren't for you, Mu Lang would not have left the capital, and he wouldn't be killed by you now. He would die at the border!"