I have a date with the devil

Chapter 20

As Ye Miao stood frozen, outside the hidden doors suddenly came a "bang -" a loud bang.

The two heavy doors were pushed open, footsteps came and went, countless soldiers with weapons poured in, surrounded the place heavily.

Fortunately, Ye Miao happened to be in the depths of the room at that time, and the draped curtain obscured her figure. When she saw the change, she reflexively ducked down and hid behind a pillar, her heart thumping, her head peering out sideways.

The queen barely held back the pain in her belly, sat up straight, and said sternly: "What are you doing?

Between the swords, there was silence, no one answered her words. Soon, from behind them, a man slowly stepped out, it is a calm second prince.

The queen's eyes widened in disbelief and she slapped the tabletop: "You ......!"

Unlike the Queen, who could not accept the reality, Ye Miao saw that the visitor was the second prince, the only words that came to mind were "not surprisingly".

The second prince, finally still can't hold back, and move.

The first one is the first one to be invited to the Queen's bedchamber.

What does he want to do? The Queen's death by poison, to frame the Prince?

No, no. ...... Since he has brought so many people to the division, should not use such a roundabout way, but to directly showdown to silence the mouth.

Ye Miao took a deep breath, the sweat on her arms stood up.

What to do, she seems to - rolled into the secret coup event that should not see.

The second prince did not come alone, there was a man and a woman behind him.

One of them is undoubtedly the chancellor's youngest daughter. Finally no longer need to hide, she came forward to take the second prince's arm, her eyes full of the excitement and pure joy as desired. The gesture of intimacy and snuggling allowed this unseen relationship to come to the surface.

And the other follower turned out to be the chancellor's son who had appeared at the banquet!

Inside the chancellor's three children, the eldest daughter and the third daughter all have impeccable beauty and temperament. The only son in second place, although the appearance is also very handsome, but the eyebrows are always shrouded with a lingering aura of shadowy, so that Ye Miao impressed.

The pair of sons and daughters of the Chancellor are actually involved in the second prince's scheme?

The chancellor's son walked in, looked around, and was vaguely smug: "Your Highness, the Second Prince, your plan has succeeded. Shouldn't we now ......"

"Wait first." The second prince, naturally cautious, said to the soldiers behind him, "Take someone to clear this palace to see if there are any suspicious people in ambush."

Ye Miao's body was tight.

The bedchamber, however spacious, was still limited space, and a living person as big as her could not hide after all, and was soon discovered by the soldiers and escorted to the front.

Those three people obviously did not expect that there was really a person hidden inside. The chancellor's son blurted out, "Isn't this that Princess Kadam?"

The second prince was also slightly surprised, and after coming back to his senses, he made a gesture and had the soldiers tie up Ye Miao, the queen, and the first prince's hands and feet, all with rough ropes respectively. Also took away the weapons on the eldest prince.

Perhaps it was instructed in advance, Ye Miao found that when tying her and the queen, the soldiers did not slacken in the slightest, and the rope loop was maintained at a tightness that was just too tight to break free and not abrasive to the skin.

However, for the queen, who has been standing on the throne and giving orders for more than ten years, this is definitely a great shame. She sat on the floor, eyes wide open, roaring with rage: "How dare you! How dare you ...... whoo!"

She could not resist the cramping pain in her abdomen and fell down on the stage with her teeth.

Seeing this, the second prince's movements seemed to stall. It was the chancellor's son beside him who took the opportunity to say: "Your Majesty, your antidote tea has been changed in the middle of the day and the juice of the silver narcissus has been added. Although drinking it will cause abdominal pain like strangulation and weakness, but as long as you take the antidote|pill before dawn, you will not have any problems. In order to alleviate the pain, it is better for you not to move around."

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the soldiers swarmed the queen and brought her under control.

After making such a big commotion, the great prince, whose sanity had been eroded by alcohol, woke up in a ghostly way. Finding himself tied up and surrounded by strange soldiers, he instantly sobered up from his dazed state and turned to his brother, the one who had started it all, in both shock and anger: "What do you want?

"What do I want?" The second prince laughed lowly and spread his hands, "Brother, you shouldn't be able to see that, right?"

The first prince frowned, drew a backward breath, and curled his body. The chancellor's son, with a smug look on his face, then repeated the Silver Narcissus passage again, warning him not to act rashly.

Ye Miao's hairy wooden mind suddenly cleared for a moment.

Something is wrong.

The Great Prince was lying on the ground from the beginning. The pot of questionable antidote tea, he had not even touched a drop, there is absolutely no possibility of poisoning ......

"You guys ......" The queen's face was blue and she drank, "Are you crazy?"

"Probably." The second prince smiled coldly: "I went crazy when I learned that you, the mother queen, are planning to make an edict tomorrow night, announcing that my brother will inherit the throne next year, and also send me to the border to be stationed there."

Ye Miao was stunned.

So that's how it is! The queen made up her mind to send the eldest prince to the throne, and at the same time, prepared to send the second prince, who might pose a threat to this, away from Frameton.

The Chancellor, as the Queen's close vassal, must be the one who knows. It is not surprising that his son or daughter overheard the secret and passed it on to the second prince.

Once the edict is made public, the first prince's position will be more secure. And the second prince, once at this juncture left Flan Eden, then, everything he has worked so hard for so far, including contacts, plans, pawns, will be devastated ......

Under the Queen's step by step, in order not to sit on the sidelines, the second prince must make a pre-emptive strike.

"So you have been deliberately trying to usurp the throne all along ......" the first prince could not break free from the ropes, gasping for breath, and said in a hateful voice: "So it seems that the Hydra that suddenly appeared at the enthronement celebration, and the one who falsely accused me The concubine who falsely accused me must also have something to do with you, right?

"That's right, since a few years ago, I have been in contact with dark magic, and besides that hydra, those missing women in your harem are also related to me." The second prince smiled peevishly: "However, brother, you are only right about the second half of the sentence. I have not always been scheming. At least, until six years ago, I was not interested in the throne at all."

The Queen said dully, "Then why ......"

"Coincidentally, Mother, I also have a 'why' to ask you." The second prince approached a little closer, his expression tinged with a slight grimace, no longer his usual elegance. He stared at the queen for a long time, and a sentence finally popped out between his teeth: "Why - are you always so biased?"

"My brother and I are both your children, yet you always treat us differently. If I can't compare to him, then there is indeed nothing to say."

　"But! Fondly ask yourself, since childhood, where am I not better than my brother? My father is a noble and distinguished general, his father is just a nobody! I have excelled in both civil and martial arts, and I can do no wrong in dealing with people and assisting in government. I have tried to play the role of a perfect son and never let you bother me. What about my brother? He is irritable, lustful and unmotivated, yet you have always tolerated him unconditionally and favored him! The approval I've gone to so much trouble to get, he can get it with the crook of his finger!"

As if pouring out all the long-suppressed words in his heart, the second prince's voice was extremely agitated, every syllable, hitting the listener's eardrums heavily.

"When I was a child, I even suspected that I was not your child." The second prince revealed a twisted self-deprecating smile: "I thought that as long as I was many times better than my brother, I could get so much love from him and you would be impressed with me. For this reason I worked hard, and when my brother was pampered in your arms, I was practicing my sword, and I didn't cry out of exhaustion even though my palms were rubbed with blood blisters. I even learned how to please my brother! The result has no meaning at all."

The queen's lips trembled sharply, but there was no arguing.

The second prince spoke faster and faster, and said indignantly: "The women in my brother's harem keep disappearing, and everyone is speculating that the man-eating monster is related to him, but you ordered that it is forbidden to talk about it. The evidence of the brother keeping the hydra was overwhelming, and you killed the witnesses overnight to remove the incriminating evidence against him. This time the pre-war sacrifice, you know that I am the one who is qualified to stand up, but still gave him the position. Even to drive me out of Flan Eaton for his sake ...... I have endured enough!"

"However, thanks to your eccentricity, it also gave me a heart of defiance. As I became more and more outstanding and received more and more praise, I became more and more defiant." The second prince reached out, pointed at the eldest prince on the ground, and sneered, "This punk, just because of a stupid eldest son succession system, because he was born a few years earlier than me, he can lie down and become the future king without putting in any effort, and from childhood to adulthood, he can get things for nothing that I can't touch even if I work for them. What makes him? Is that fair?"

"Shut up!" The Great Prince roared, "Are you a qualified king for keeping a hydra?"

"Stop arguing." The queen's face was ashen, her eyes closed and her body shook, "What do you want?"

"Your Majesty, this is the edict you ordered my father to draft, but the choice of the king, which has been changed to His Highness the Second Prince, is set for three days later. As for this one, it is a confession of guilt admitting to having collusion with dark magic and keeping the Hydra, please sign it by the First Prince." The chancellor's son duly took out the two documents and sincerely said, "His Highness the Second Prince has no intention of harming you, as long as things go well, both of you, can be released without charge."

The first prince gave a fierce bah: "Acquitted? That's a nice thing to say. I'm afraid that in the end, you will either be silenced or imprisoned to death!"

The second prince smiled: "Do not worry, brother, as long as my wish is fulfilled, you and the mother I will not hurt."

At this time, the chancellor's youngest daughter, who had not said anything, suddenly shook the second prince's arm and pointed at Ye Miao: "Your Highness, the queen and the first prince can be acquitted, but this woman has heard so many secrets, we can't let her walk out alive."

Ye Miao jerked his chin up and caught a hint of hostility from the other party's eyes, and his scalp tingled.

Could it be that this woman is still holding a grudge against the drunken nobleman at the banquet who flirted with the "second prince and Princess Kadam are very compatible"? Because of jealousy, she wanted to kill her as soon as she opened her mouth, this is also too terrible ......

Fortunately, people who still have their senses know that killing Princess Kadan at this time is to force Kadan to rebel, thus causing their own back to the enemy. The second prince glanced at Ye Miao and said in a deep voice, "No, Princess Kadan's life must be kept."

The chancellor's son echoed, "That's right, just lock her up ......"

"No." The second prince smiled loftily, and his next words made everyone's jaw drop: "I plan to marry her."

Ye Miao: "......"

In her ears, it was as if a death knell was playing ......

The two siblings were shocked, especially the chancellor's youngest daughter, her eyes of anger and cynicism, as if she wanted to pluck Ye Miao into pieces with a knife, and her voice was so sharp that she went crazy: "No, you can't marry her! You said you would only love me!"

The second prince frowned and placated her perfunctorily: "Of course I will love only you. It's just that marrying Kadam's princess and gaining Kadam's support will do my reign a hundred favors, you should understand."

"No! No! You can't! ......" The chancellor's youngest daughter could not accept it and began to spill, being pulled far away by her own brother to appease her. Successive kings would have several side concubines in addition to the queen, and her brother was well aware of this, so he did not see a problem and naturally sided with the second prince, whom he followed faithfully.

The second prince seems to be unable to hear her distant screams, in addition to the first sentence of comfort, simply indifferent.

Ye Miao's heart drummed straight, running through a chill.

This is too cruel. The second prince, he really does not have love for this girl, just using her ......

However, who is he not using? Just now, it was only because of the title of Princess Kadam that he proposed to marry her, right?

The second prince made a wink, and the edict of confession was placed in front of the first prince. The soldier pointed his sword at him and discreetly loosened one of his hands, thus allowing him to sign the confession.

The First Prince lowered his head, pursed his lips, and stared at the strip of guilt without moving.

The second prince shook his head and laughed, "Brother, when a king is made and lost, do you think you have a choice?"

"Success and defeat for the king ...... well said." The first prince raised his head, his gaze shining, and slowly said, "However, I think it is time for this farce to end here."

Just when everyone failed to react, things took another peak turn. The hidden door was kicked open with a loud bang, and a new group of soldiers poured in, more than twice the number of the Second Prince's men!

The second prince's face changed dramatically.

While the soldiers guarding him froze, the First Prince leapt up, roared, snatched the soldier's sword, and after settling the men around him in three or two blows, pulled the Queen up from the ground, pushed her behind his own men, and turned around and kicked a soldier away.

The scene fell into a chaotic battle, the screen curtain shattered, tables and chairs turned sideways, and there were screams everywhere.

Ye Miao was both frightened and moved to the side with immense difficulty, using a knife that had fallen to the ground to cut the rope on her hand, inadvertently cutting her skin with a bloody scar. She frowned slightly, not caring to stop the bleeding, and immediately stomped off the rope on her legs. The pressure of the lack of blood in the legs has long been numb.

Before she could stand up, her afterimage had seen a blinding white light coming at her. In the midst of the confusion, the chancellor's youngest daughter returned to the scene, grabbed the dagger regardless, and came at her with a face full of hatred.

The first time she agilely dodged away. The chancellor's youngest daughter took the opportunity to sit on her, and this time came at her head, and there was no way to avoid it!

In the nick of time, only to hear the "poof" sound, Ye Miao was so scared that she closed her eyes tightly, her body trembled, but did not feel the pain of the blade stabbed into the face or heart. She opened her eyes with trepidation and saw a fair and slender hand in front of her, the silver dagger had pierced his palm.

Too late to take a closer look, the chancellor's youngest daughter then seemed to be viciously knocked away by a burst of transparent force, grabbed the dagger, and flew exaggeratedly to the wall ten meters away, spitting blood and fainting to the ground.

"Ye Miao, you're not hurt, are you?"

A voice that could never have been here.

The owner of the hand lifted her up and pulled her to the corner. Ye Miao's face was white, and she tilted her head to meet a pair of worried dark red eyes.

As if seeing an illusion, she raised her hand in disbelief, touched the other party's cheek, and squeezed out a sentence in a million difficult words, "......Berial?"

How could Berial be here, he could come out? The monster let him out?

Berial reached out, wrapped her in his arms, blocked the sight of others with his black robe, isolated her in a safe place, and his voice was gentle as never before: "It's me, don't be afraid."

The strange thing is, obviously still in danger, Berial is also just a handless slave boy, but Ye Miao suddenly not afraid, as if the one who came is her patron saint.

Because of the excessive shock and pale face soon surged red, she was in a trance for a while, suddenly remembered the thrilling scene just now, anxiously grabbed his hand: "By the way, Berial, your hand, just now not pierced by a dagger ...... Huh?"

She was surprised to examine Berial's right hand. Long and strong, pale as if the skin has not seen the sun for a long time. Looking left and right, there was not a single scar.

Could it be that he was looking at the wrong hand? Ye Miao grabbed his other hand again, still no scars.

She muttered, "What's going on, did I look at it wrong ......"

Berial showed his beautiful hand and winked: "Things are as you see them, no injuries."

Just now the situation is urgent, and by him so said, Ye Miao as if he saw wrong, confused again by his hug, softly coaxed.

In the time between their words, the outnumbered rebels had almost been subdued.

The victory was reversed, and this time, it was the second prince who was controlled on the ground.

His eyes were covered with blood and he said in a sandy voice, "How could you possibly know ......"

"Brother, in this world, no one will be stupid for the rest of his life, much less suffer repeatedly and still not learn to be wise." The great prince paced up and down in front of him, finished in a condescending manner, and then said towards the door, "You may come in."

As soon as the door was pushed open, the chancellor, with his face full of anger, stepped into the palace and came to his son, who was pinned down on his knees, with his beard shaking straight, and kicked him over.

The chancellor's eldest daughter also came, and she went up to the second prince and said softly, "Your Highness, this brother of mine, the reason why he chose to follow you, started because my father chose me as his successor instead of him. He is sincere and loyal, but unfortunately, not a vigilant enough person. Your plans for tonight have long been detected by us. So, I have discussed it with my father and His Highness the Grand Prince, and I intend to put the plan into action. That pot of antidote tea, His Highness the Grand Prince did not drink it at all."

"Being a prince but learning dark magic, designing to falsely accuse the crown prince, poisoning the queen, plotting to rebel and usurp the throne ...... no need to plead guilty, all the people here are witnesses. These few charges are enough for you to be deposed as a prince and stay in jail for the rest of your life." The Great Prince waved his hand and said, "Escort them all away."

Ye Miao shrank into Berial's arms, eyelashes trembling, and watched the scene without blinking.

It turned out that the Grand Prince was not completely unaware of the abnormality, nor was he a man without a city. From the time he was dry heaving on the wall, he was awake, but he fooled everyone. Even the action of unintentionally grabbing the corner of her coat is also pretending to be drunk. The reason for holding back for so long and staying put is to gather a heavy enough charge to send the second prince to hell.

The second prince has been smart for a lifetime, the organs are calculated, with the help of the people around him to obtain information, but also defeated on the people around him, so that the plan are leaked out ......

As the monster said, there is no absolute stupidity in the world, and there is no absolute intelligence.

When you are thinking about this, Ye Miao's head and neck suddenly stiffened.

Not only the head and neck, but also the whole body is slowly becoming stiff.

At this moment, her ear was pressed against Berial's heart. The party was thinking about things and didn't pay attention, but now she realized - she couldn't hear any sound.

The teenager Berial, there is no heartbeat.

Some things will only create a confusing appearance, but forget to put in a living heart, so will reveal the horse. Of course, if a little more cunning, he will thoughtfully add the heartbeat sound, then it is really to fake the real thing.

But, how realistic, there is a moment of negligence, forgetting to disguise the time.

Ye Miao's lips are slightly open, and the blood on her face is slowly fading away.

The person holding her naturally felt the difference in her body long ago. After the heart has a number, but he seems to have no intention to hide, but let out a low laugh.

Ye Miao face completely miserable white, teeth chattering lightly.

A somewhat regret-like, sweet and seductive voice, came from overhead.

"Oops ...... dewy."