The Devoted Second Male Lead Decided to Favor Someone Else - Chapter 75.3

I’m a Professional at Inner Palace Fights (3)

At this time, someone with the regent brought up the prince in the cold palace, Li Chong.

Li Chong’s mother had low status, as did her family. Li Chong was the perfect candidate to control and use as a figurehead, so the regent made Li Chong ascend the throne.

After Li Chong ascended, the empress dowager formally recognized Lu Shijin as her stepson. Li Chong gave him a title that was just below a prince, guaranteeing him a life of prosperity and success. It could be considered to be a consolation to the nanny’s soul in heaven.

“My lord, don’t be capricious. The emperor just got a new beauty today. He probably flipped that beauty’s tablet and will spend the night with her. He might not have time to see you, why don’t you go back with this servant?” The eunuch spoke like he was coaxing a child, “Once we go back, this servant will buy you tanghulu, okay? There’s also hibiscus cake, this servant will tell the kitchen to make it as soon as we go back.”

Lu Shijin had pretty much gotten the general gist of the story and looked at the eunuch called Wang Xi, frowning and blinking.

Right, he was an idiot who thought like an eight year old, no wonder Wang Xi was talking to him like that.

“I’m fine.” Lu Shijin acted like an eight year old, waving his sleeves and letting Wang Xi help him up, “Since emperor-gege doesn’t have time to see me, then let’s go back. I’ll come back tomorrow to play with emperor-brother and mother.”

“That’s right!” Wang Xi happily helped Lu Shijin up. “My lord is so obedient, next time we see the empress dowager, this servant will definitely tell her how obedient my lord is. The empress dowager will definitely be happy.”

Lu Shijin reluctantly smiled and tidied his clothes, striding out the garden.

“Convenience store, do you have 211?” Lu Shijin asked 711 as he walked.

711 came out, “Yup.”

“So who is he this time?”

711 said hesitantly, “He’s your emperor-gege.”

“… What kind of system?”

“No OOC system.”

Lu Shijin was speechless, that was so tragic.

Not only was Li Chong a cannon fodder, he was a wearer of the green hat.

As mentioned previously, Li Chong made the female lead Liu Zhenhuan into his consort, but Liu Zhenhuan gave Li Chong a huge green hat.

Not only that, Li Chong was just a puppet emperor, so all his actions needed to be approved by the regent. Under Liu Zhenhuan’s encouragement, Li Chong began favoring Lin Yongnian, wanting him to be his confidant and convince ministers to support him.

But Lin Yongnian was a double agent. He pretended to help Li Chong while telling everything to the regent.

Knowing Li Chong’s thoughts, the regent became very angry. If it wasn’t for his support, Li Chong and his mother would’ve died in the cold palace a long time ago. How could they be able to enjoy the luxuries they have right now?

Since the puppet wanted to leave his control, he naturally couldn’t stay.

He was just a puppet after all, and puppets were dispensable.

At this time, Lin Yongnian suggested that consort Liu had a young son. Wouldn’t it be much easier to control a toddler than Li Chong?

The regent agreed with Lin Yongnian’s words and praised him, then asking him to think of a way to get rid of the emperor. He would fully support Lin Yongnian.

Lin Yongnian wasn’t stupid, the regent needed someone to take the blame for regicide. If he personally acted, he couldn’t guarantee that the regent wouldn’t place the blame back on him.

So Lin Yongnian turned to Lu Shijin, the idiot.

Li Chong grew up in the cold palace and became very paranoid. He would normally go out with a lot of guards and pay a lot of attention to what he consumed. He would even use silver to test his tea, so it would be very hard to assassinate him with poison.

Although he was paranoid, there were two people he trusted unconditionally.

One was the empress dowager and the other was Lu Shijin, who he grew up with.

Which is exactly why Lin Yongnian wanted to use Lu Shijin.

But even though Lu Shijin was mentally eight years old, he wouldn’t talk to anyone but Li Chong and the empress dowager. He was also hard to approach.

Lin Yongnian thought of a plan to let Liu Zhenhuan get close to Lu Shijin and gain his trust.

Soon, Lu Shijin was drawn in by this pretty sister in law who gave birth to his nephew and gradually began trusting Liu Zhenhuan.

One time, LIu Zhenhuan suddenly decided to teach Lu Shijin how to make a steamed cake. After Lu Shijin made it, he happily brought it to Li Chong to taste.

Hearing that Lu Shijin made it himself, Li Chong didn’t let anyone test it and took a bite, praising Lu Shijin.

But that night, the emperor suddenly died. After checking the body, the imperial physician found that he was poisoned. After a thorough investigation, the only possible suspect was Lu Shijin.

At this time, one of consort Liu’s maids came out to testify that Lu Shijin would often flirt with consort Liu. He definitely wanted his sister in law, which is why he would poison the emperor.

Under the regent’s rule, no matter how weak the explanation was, no one could question it.

Poor Lu Shijin became a scapegoat and went to the underworld with his emperor-gege. As the emperor’s only heir, consort Liu’s son naturally became the new emperor. Consort Liu instantly became the empress dowager and the real master of the inner palace.

Thinking of Li Chong’s ending, Lu Shijin couldn’t help but lament that all his plans and intelligence were ruined by “Lu Shijin,” his pig-headed teammate.

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