Quick Transmigration: Cannon Fodder's Daily Rise to Power and Face-Slapping

Chapter 358 Slapping the Face of the Incompetent Prince 17

"Leng Yuexing! Did you have someone steal our weapons?!" Ling Xi roared angrily.

He was forced to kneel on the ground by the soldiers. The pain in his body, coupled with his hatred for Leng Yuexing, made his eyes bloodshot.

Leng Yuexing stared coldly at Ling Xi. Although he had no evidence to prove that his lover's injury was related to this outsider, he knew that it must have been done by the outsider.

Thinking of her lover whose soul was divided into four parts, Leng Yuexing slowly walked forward, and then, under the outsider's resentful gaze, slapped him hard across the face!

"Crack!" There was a sound.

Ling Xi's face was slapped to the side, and the sharp pain made him break out in a cold sweat instantly.

"You dare hit me? You actually dared to hit me? Leng Yuexing, I will not let you get away with this!" Ling Xi glared at Leng Yuexing with hatred, his eyes filled with murderous intent.

However, Leng Yuexing's eyes, as cold as an icy pool, made his body tremble involuntarily.

Leng Yuexing leaned down and said in a voice only the two of them could hear, "You've touched his soul, I won't let you get away with this!"

"I will reclaim all the fortune of the chosen ones of Heaven!"

Ling Xi's eyes first showed doubt, then suddenly turned dark. "You?"

Ling Xi's voice suddenly became hoarse and low, devoid of any emotion.

Leng Yuexing narrowed her eyes and looked at him, "Me!"

Ling Xi wanted to say something more, but in the next instant, his eyes regained their brightness. "What are you saying? You want to compete with me for the position of Crown Prince, don't you? I knew you wanted to take what didn't belong to you!"

"If you hadn't shown up, the position of crown prince would have been mine!"

"The position of Crown Prince will never be yours!" the Emperor's voice suddenly rang out.

Ling Xi looked in the direction from which the sound came and saw the emperor standing at the entrance of the bedchamber.

He shouted, "Father! Your son was wrong! Your son was blinded by hatred. Please forgive your son this time!"

"The crime of regicide, and you still want to forgive it? Absolutely not!" the emperor said in a deep voice, his eyes cold and ruthless as he looked at Ling Xi.

"Why? Is it because of Leng Yuexing? If it weren't for him, I would be the Crown Prince!" Ling Xi roared.

The emperor slammed his sleeve and said, "Even without the eldest prince, you would never have become the crown prince!"

"Why? Your subject refuses to accept this!"

"Because you're stupid!" the emperor said in a deep voice. "You allowed your maternal clan to accumulate power for you, but once you ascend the throne, you'll be nothing more than their pawn!"

Before this, the emperor had considered giving the position of crown prince to the third prince.

But after that, he knew that even without Leng Yuexing, he would never have handed the throne to the Third Prince Ling Xi.

A prince who was manipulated by his maternal clan was nothing more than a figurehead even after becoming emperor.

Ling Xi wanted to argue, but the emperor had already lost patience and issued an edict to execute all the rebels, including the third prince and the prime minister.

He then rewarded the Imperial Guards who had quelled the rebellion, appointing Chu Mu as the new commander of the Imperial Guards before turning and leaving.

Leng Yuexing ordered the soldiers to take Ling Xi away, but Ling Xi seemed to have gone mad and started laughing wildly.

He laughed as he looked at Leng Yuexing and said, "What are you so smug about? What's there to be so smug about? So what if you won? Do you know that your four husbands are hiding things from you?"

Wen Yunsheng's brows furrowed. "Mo Ran! Shut his mouth!"

Just as Mo Ran was about to leap up, Leng Yuexing reached out to stop him, "Let him speak!"

"Everyone else, step back!" Leng Yuexing said coldly, her face ashen.

At his command, the numerous attendants and soldiers who had been surrounding him turned and left in a rapid, surging tide.

Ling Xi stood still, his gaze sweeping fiercely over the four husbands beside Leng Yuexing. He raised his hand, pointed at them, and shouted, "In order to restrain each other, they consumed the life-and-death Gu!"

"You think they married you because they love you?"

"You're wrong!" Ling Xi said coldly, "They're only after the families behind them!"

As Ling Xi finished speaking, Wen Yunsheng instantly grabbed Leng Yuexing's wrist. "Yuexing, listen to me! I..."

This was the first time Leng Yuexing had seen Wen Yunsheng so out of control. Seeing the anxiety in his eyes, Leng Yuexing reached out and pressed her finger against Wen Yunsheng's lips, instantly silencing him.

"You can explain this to me later," Leng Yuexing said softly.

He then turned to look at Ling Xi, "I thought you were going to say something serious, but it turned out to be just this little thing."

Ling Xi scoffed, "You're just being stubborn..."

Before Ling Xi could finish speaking, he clutched his neck and collapsed in disbelief.

Mo Ran slowly withdrew his arm, and said viciously, "Talking too much deserves to die!"

Seeing that Ling Xi had fallen, Leng Yuexing ordered Chu Mu to send soldiers to take away his body, then turned and left without saying a word.

After returning to the East Palace, the four husbands thought that Leng Yuexing would be so angry that she would never speak to them again.

Unexpectedly, Leng Yuexing immediately ordered her servants to summon the imperial physician to treat their illnesses.

After examining everyone's bodies, Leng Yuexing asked worriedly, "How are they?"

The imperial physician stroked his long, thin beard and bowed respectfully, saying, "The four husbands are all in good health, but their liver fire is rather excessive and needs to be regulated."

"What about the Life-and-Death Gu? Won't it affect their bodies?"

"The Life and Death Gu only links the lives of the four husbands together. If one dies, the other three will also die. The others will not be affected," the imperial physician said respectfully.

Leng Yuexing frowned and asked, "But you vomited blood before! What happened then?"

Upon hearing this, the imperial physician seemed to have thought of something, glanced at his four husbands beside him, and hesitated in his eyes.

"Physicians, speak freely! I guarantee they won't cause you any trouble!" Leng Yuexing gave her four husbands a warning look.

The imperial physician then respectfully said, "Those afflicted with the Life-and-Death Gu, besides sharing life and death, if... they develop murderous intent towards each other, it will cause the Life-and-Death Gu to become agitated, resulting in them spitting out blood."

“They’re mutually intent on killing each other…” Leng Yuexing repeated in surprise.

After a long while, Leng Yuexing finally instructed the imperial physician to leave.

Only Leng Yuexing and her four husbands remained in the bedchamber.

He sat in his high seat, looking at them with an inscrutable expression. "So, the reason Yun Sheng vomited blood last time was also because of this?"

Wen Yunsheng gripped the fan handle tightly. "Yuexing, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hide it from you last time!"

He had expected Leng Yuexing to be furious at his deception, but to his surprise, Leng Yuexing's eyes suddenly welled up with tears.

"Moon and Star!" Four different voices shouted at the same time.

They rushed to Leng Yuexing's side, and seeing the heartbroken expression on her face, they felt their hearts ache so much they could hardly breathe.

Leng Yuexing hadn't expected that his previous guess had already come true. They had long harbored murderous intent towards each other, and if it weren't for the Life and Death Gu, they might have already perished together.

Leng Yuexing decided that regardless of whether they believed it or not, he would tell them about the soul.

Then, with tears in his eyes, he looked at them and said, "There is something I must tell you!"