The Villain Loaded My System

Chapter 86

In the palace, the preparations for Crown Prince Yuchi Lan and Gu Xiyu stretched from inside the palace to the garden outside. The princess’s natal family will definitely not be present, so the guests were all those who were close to Yuchi Lan, or were officials of higher rank.

The Crown Princess and her father, Prime Minister Zhang, were also present. After all, she was the main wife. Originally, the court had made all sorts of vows to her that no side concubine would ever threaten her position, but now there was a princess from a small kingdom, and she was not happy about that.

To be crown princess, the Prime Minister’s family had brought her up very well, and she was a master of the zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting, as well as elegant and intelligent. She may have been very rowdy in private, but she still had to show her elegance and generosity in front of people to get compliments.

Men are lustful, and the Crown Princess has understood this since before she married. Today, she came here not only to accept the imperial arrangement to receive the side concubine’s salutes but also to see the legendary princess from the Dayan Kingdom, which is said to be full of beauties, that even the Crown Prince insisted on having her.

Anyway, there was no way she would go along with their wishes tonight and let the Crown Prince and the Princess from the Dayan Kingdom consummate their marriage.

The Crown Princess had been married to Yuchi Lan for six or seven years but had never gotten pregnant. This must be why the Empress finally gave her consent to Yuchi Lan’s side concubine. She had gone to see the Empress about this and hadn’t asked her directly, but from the way the Empress said that she wasn’t opposed to it and had even insinuated that she wanted to have grandchildren, it showed that she wanted to silence her so that she would have no reason to continue to oppose the marriage.

She could not allow the side concubine to get pregnant before her!

“The auspicious time has come, the bride is here!”

The Crown Princess sat on the side, and on the main seats in the middle were the very majestic Emperor and Empress. She was a little unhappy; although this was not as grand as her wedding, why should a small side concubine have the audience of the emperor and empress?

The emperor and empress were seated, and the other guests came in one by one from outside. Only court officials and the royal family were allowed in the main hall. The married princesses were more stable, sitting elegantly in their seats, and even when they spoke to the other concubines, they kept their voices low, looking noble and calm. On the other hand, the younger princesses, who rarely attended such a banquet, were in a particularly excited mood, chatting excitedly together.

Compared to the princesses, who had a lot to say to each other, the atmosphere at the table with the princes was cold, as they seemed unfamiliar with each other even though they were brothers. They had nothing to say even when sitting next to each other.

The most scandalous one, whom everyone couldn’t help but glance at, was naturally the third prince, who was wearing an exquisite silver mask and had an aloof and detached air. The young princes seemed to be afraid of him and chose to sit at the far end of the table. Yuchi Rong also stayed with his brother, making his table a little cold. But he didn’t really care. It was as if he didn’t notice the eyes and whispers of the crowd, and had already tasted some wine and eaten a few pieces of fruit and cakes before the banquet even started.

It was as If he was already doing them a favor by sitting here.

The Crown Princess’s natal family sat in a row at the bottom of the seats, but there was no joy on their faces. Yuchi Lan was in the middle of the hall, waiting for his concubine to be led into the hall. But strangely enough, he did not show much of a smile and instead looked distracted.

Yuchi Lan was naturally thinking about all the things that had happened during this period. Why did that unidentified lunatic, who kept sending parts of his subordinates to him every day, deliberately pick this moment to do these things? If the other party really saw him in a bad light and wanted to make things difficult for him, how could he possibly let him finish this wedding in comfort?

In his early days, before he was formally made crown prince, Yuchi Lan once met an old, grey-bearded charlatan when he was out and about. At that time, the other party was holding a small banner to invite customers, and when he saw him, he stroked his beard and said, “You are brave, resourceful, wise, and ambitious, a true dragon among men.”

He was pleased to hear this and was about to ask someone to reward him, when the old man went on to shake his head and say, “Unfortunately, there is no general. I advise you not to do anything to hurt people or harm their virtue, for what you are not destined to have, you cannot force yourself to have.”

At that time, the competition for the crown prince was at its most intense, so when the old man said that, wasn’t he insinuating that he would not be the crown prince or emperor in his life?

Yuchi Lan was furious, and thinking that it was a fake Taoist arranged by one of the princes to annoy him, he had the old man dragged into an alley and killed on the spot.

Of course, it was all false.

Yuchi Lan tried to calm down and reassure himself that what the man had said was not true at all; he was now the crown prince. In his early years, when the harem had been heavily contested, many of the princes who should have been crown princes had either died shortly after birth, at a young age or had simply died in the womb.

So it was all fate! It was his destiny to become the future emperor of the Yao Kingdom! Moreover, his father is no longer young; he will probably die in a few years due to health problems, and he will be able to take that position soon…

“Phew! Fortunately, I made it in time!” Before the princess of the Dayan Kingdom had even entered, a young man in fancy clothes stepped in first with leisurely steps, speaking in a loud voice, and instantly drawing the attention of the crowd in the hall.

Yuchi Lan looked back and saw the fifth prince, Yuchi Sheng, walking in the direction of the center of the hall. He was obviously just a guest at the wedding banquet, but he went out of his way to steal the host’s momentum. Not only did he not take his seat immediately, but he also walked up to him with a provocative expression.

Not long after Yuchi Sheng arrived, the princess of the Dayan Kingdom also came in. The maids and close attendants who had been escorting her were not expecting such a scene in the hall and did not dare to enter directly, wondering if there was something important being discussed and they needed to avoid it.

Yuchi Lan knew that Yuchi Sheng and his mother were doing everything to take the position of crown prince away from him

They had always competed, so their brotherhood was not very strong, and it was even particularly bad. In the early years, he was worried that Yuchi Sheng would trip him up, but after discussions with the Empress and her natal family, he gradually realized that Yuchi Sheng and his mother were small fries. Even if they used all kinds of tactics, they were not able to get to the stage.

Moreover, Yuchi Sheng had a stubborn and irritable temperament. He has been fishing for three days and drying the net for two days since he was a child. In terms of talents and achievements, there was nothing that could pose a threat to him, so he has been ignoring them. Occasionally, when they made some big trouble, he would reach out and deal with it effortlessly.

Outside the palace, Gu Xiyu was once again wearing a red veil and could only learn of what had happened to Yuchi Lan in the past few days from the reports he received from the intelligent system. No one noticed that the wedding dress he wore today was not the embroidered phoenix dress that Yuchi Lan had personally chosen for him, which was particularly beautiful and gave off a girly temperament. He was actually wearing a plain dress with only a few dark patterns in addition to the red.

In fact, he did not even wear his usual disguise.

The Great Demon said that he would take care of things and would not let him marry the Crown Prince, so all he had to do at this moment was wait a little longer.

[Wei Chiyan is sitting inside; uh, he’s looking at you now. Do you want to sneak a peek at him?] The intelligent system spoke without any hesitation.

Gu Xiyu’s face was expressionless: “I am about to marry the crown prince, where’s the decency if I start peeking at his brother here? Are you trying to help me leave this world early?”

[Heh.] The system chuckled mechanically.

“Fifth Imperial Brother, since you’re here, take your seat.” It was a happy day, and it seemed like Yuchi Lan did not want to bring the disagreement between the brothers to the surface, and the tone of his speech was quite calm.

However, Yuchi Sheng was someone who liked to do these things that made people talk, and he said with a smile, “Don’t be in a hurry, you are accepting a side concubine today, of course, I have to give you a congratulatory gift.”

Yuchi Lan watched Yuchi Sheng’s men walk towards them with a rectangular wooden box half the size of his arm, and his right eyelid, which had barely calmed down, began to twitch again.

He remembered the bloody body parts he had been receiving for a while now.

…… Was Yuchi Sheng the culprit?

Yuchi Lan’s eyes as he stared at Yuchi Sheng instantly became terrifying as he gritted his teeth and asked in a low voice, “Was it you?!”

But Yuchi Sheng raised his eyebrows and sounded puzzled. “What about me? I haven’t done anything lately, don’t accuse me wrongly, big brother.”

“Forget it, I think big brother would be very interested in the congratulatory gift, maybe father would like it too.” With that, he had the box opened, and it was too late for Yuchi Lan to stop him.

There was no finger, toe, tongue, or any other organ inside, as Yuchi Lan had expected, but instead, there was a thick stack of letters and documents, seemingly interspersed with bronze and iron tokens and so on. But these items made him feel more alarmed than if he had seen a human head.

Yuchi Sheng noticed the change in his expression and raised the corners of his mouth in satisfaction as he took the papers out of the box and slammed them down on him. The old letters and scrolls clattered to the ground after hitting Yuchi Lan, looking particularly dazzling on the dark carpet.

The emperor on the main seat couldn’t bear to watch, thinking that Yuchi Sheng was so jealous of his brother that he had come to the wedding banquet to cause trouble, so he rose up and questioned, “What is this?”

“Sheng’er, We have always ignored your mischievous deeds, but today is the crown prince’s wedding day, you are out of line!”

The emperor shouted a warning at him, but Yuchi Sheng was not in a hurry, and he cupped his hands together to make a report: “Father, this son is not making trouble. It’s just that the Crown Prince has done so many things behind the scenes that are detrimental to the kingdom, and yet he is still able to get a beautiful woman as his side concubine and receive the blessing of the people. I am worried that Father and the courtiers are being deceived by his disguise and that the princess from the Dayan Kingdom will be innocently implicated afterward, so I came forward to stop it.”

The empress slapped the arm of her chair heavily, her eyes ruthless: “How dare you! As the crown prince’s younger brother, how can you make a fool of yourself and slander him on such a day?”

Facing the old emperor’s doubt and the empress’ anger, Yuchi Sheng smiled with some confidence, “This son did not slander the crown prince.”

“Father, in order to win and secure the hard-earned position of Crown Prince, Big Brother colluded with many officials and ministers in private. He was worried that he would not be able to stay in this position for long and even began to hope that Father would…,” Yuchi Sheng said, and then sighed sadly before continuing, “All in all, Big Brother has gone too far. Father is still alive but he is already thinking about what will happen after he inherits the kingdom.”

“In order to secure the throne in the future, he has joined forces with General Zhou and colluded with the Huns in the north. We all know that the Huns have always been at odds with our kingdom, and there are often battles at the border, resulting in numerous deaths and injuries. But Big Brother has not only cooperated with them, giving them help in terms of money and food but has even secretly installed many of their people in Yao kingdom. Moreover, he has even introduced them to the court!”

Gu Xiyu was slightly stunned when he heard these words.

The Huns had a bold and warlike character, and were never afraid of fighting, so several of the surrounding kingdoms had been harassed by them. He knew that the Dayan Kingdom was supposed to be destroyed by their hands, but he did not expect that Crown Prince Yuchi Lan would have some cooperation with them. To be able to persuade the princes of the two kingdoms to work with them, these people had to be quite good at playing with people’s hearts.

The letters that Yuchi Sheng spilled on the ground should be the evidence, but Gu Xi Yu didn’t believe that he really got these things himself.

From what the system said, Wei Chiyan was now sitting in the hall with the casual attitude of watching a good show, but from what he knew, the Great Demon liked playing with people from behind the scenes, so he must have investigated these things and delivered the evidence to Yuchi Sheng.

What a way to borrow a knife to kill someone.

“Father, if this is the crown prince you want, this son naturally does not dare to have any opinion. However, please forgive me for not being able to acknowledge such an immoral crown prince from the bottom of my heart! Even if Father were to punish me, I cannot force myself to acknowledge him!” With that, Yuchi Sheng actually knelt to the emperor, with the appearance of risking his life to admonish him.

The Emperor had never known about this matter and was naturally very surprised. But the empress knew that her brother, General Zhen Guo, and her son were privately plotting for the future, but she did not know that it was such a serious matter. Her face turned white as she listened, and her slightly bent body instantly fell back into her chair.

The emperor was trembling with anger as he glanced at Yuchi Lan. He saw the gloom and panic in his eyes, and his heart instantly went cold.

Yuchi Sheng lowered his head to hide his uncontrollable smile and said to the old emperor in a serious tone: “If Father doesn’t believe it, you can have someone bring these letters to you for inspection. The content is on the collusion between Big Brother and the corrupt officials in the kingdom, as well as foreign enemies.”

Perhaps it had reached the stage of breaking the jar, and the accused Yuchi Lan suddenly let out a loud laugh.

His slightly bloodshot eyes were like those of a debt-collecting evil spirit. He took on a condescending air as he looked down at the kneeling Yuchi Sheng, asking with a thin, cold smile, “If this prince is not worthy, then you, the prince who has colluded with the kingdom’s enemies, who has tried to take the throne away from his own brother, and who has taken the opportunity to rob the court of its wealth so that he can prepare for the future forced takeover…is worthy?”

At these words, the smile on Yuchi Sheng’s lips suddenly froze, and he subconsciously looked up at Yuchi Lan, his eyes changing from confidence and complacency to disbelief.

Yuchi Lan laughed even more happily: “Yuchi Sheng, don’t talk so arrogantly, how clean are you?”

“I will drag you down to hell with me!”

This wave after wave of melons has long stunned the crowd, and the old emperor was so furious that his chest rose and fell dramatically, feeling that the face of this royal family was about to be disgraced.

The only calm and detached person in the room was probably the third prince, Wei Chiyan, whose temperament has always been unpredictable. He even beckoned a palace maid carrying the wine jug behind him and said to her in a warm voice, “Give this prince more wine.”

The palace maid was so frightened that she could barely hold the jug.

Two princes had reached a stalemate in the middle of the hall, and if this third prince was revealed to be a murderer wanted outside the palace for years, she would not hesitate to believe it.