The Story Behind the Jade Pendant
The truth is revealed

the first prince also gathered the participants who participated in this event in a field. After gathering the emperor went there and told witnesses to give an explanation, the second and Li Shang came forward.The emperor told them to explain the details of the incident to him as well as everyone here.

"father emperor, third sister had a stab wound when me and the others arrived on the scene"

"and the murderers have been lying and killed because of the fierce fighter and fortunately Li Shang came to the rescue of the third prince when the attack occurred" said the first prince

"your majesty, what the first prince said was true, at that time the servant went to the place of the third prince because in the place where the servant was invisible there were prey that could be hunted, but I accidentally saw a forest rabbit running into the forest"

"the servant lantas followed the rabbit, as the servant entered the slave forest by accident saw that there was a group of assassins attacking the third prince, who was attacking the third prince, then the servant came there and helped the third prince"

"when the servant arrived the third prince had already suffered a stab wound on his body and it was also caused by the murderers. then the servant helped the third prince by attacking them using arrows and finally some of them were killed on the spot, but we did not forget to leave a murderer so that later, we will, he can explain who is behind this incident"

"where is the killer then?" ask the emperor

"dad, the killer was while we were holding him somewhere, so he wouldn't get killed telling the truth"

"in that case, you invite some people to come with you and bring the killer here safely, I want to hear who told him to make a troublemaker in my place"

"all right, father, then I'll let you go for a minute"

"father can I go with the first brother there, as well as I can help to supervise him" said the second prince

"second brother is here with dad, let me and my subordinates go there and you're calm without you we can also look after and watch over the killer well"

"Then go and come back as soon as possible" said the emperor

moments later, the first prince returned with the killer, and the emperor told the killer to reveal who the man who had told him to hear that the second prince began to panic, he was afraid the killer would say his name.

"*well, tell me who told him to do that! is that person among them?"

...Killer, pointing towards the second prince...

"his highness the one who ruled me was the second prince, I threatened the second prince to do that and if I didn't do that then he would kill all my family"

"what are you talking about? father emperor, I was slandered, obviously I went to the scene with first brother and how could I do that to third brother?" the second prince said while avoiding the charges

"your majesty, I dare to swear that the second prince is the mastermind behind all this, please your majesty can trust me"

"well, do you have any other evidence besides that?"

"permission answered father, just after we examined some of the bodies of the killer we found a badge with a second prince's name engraved on one of the clothes of the killer's corpse" said the first prince

"Hem how about the second prince, are you still willing to dodge the accusation? all the evidence is on you, so what do you want to say again?" firmly the emperor

"dad, I didn't do that, I must've been framed, I was framed by him" pointed at the killer

...Then the second prince took the sword and he immediately finished off the murderer in front of the emperor...

"what are you doing? why did you kill the killer?" the emperor said angrily

"father, I was slandered by him and I do not accept with it. how a lowly person like him can be trusted, must be a trap" cried the second prince

"that's enough, the bodyguards bring the second prince back and hold him in the palace, don't let anyone visit him. I'll be right back after giving the other an explanation"

"well emperor, carry it out"

"dad please don't get angry again, hold your emotions for now.we'd better get back to the palace and investigate the truth"

"yes you're right, we better get back to the palace and I'll interrogate the second prince myself, then you explain to them that the hunt will stop here and give them 1,000 silver teals to compensate for this"

"all right I will do, then the father of the emperor beware"

after that the emperor along with others returned to the palace.Accordingly in the royal palace of the second prince was detained in a dark room, then he was tied up near a chair. moments later the emperor came with his guards.

so the emperor asked the second prince, was he really the one who committed the murder? the second prince was still evasive and he said that if he was not the perpetrator.The emperor was getting more emotional with him, then he told his guards to tie him to a torture stake.

then the emperor asked him again why he could hurt his brother, he did not answer.then the emperor took a whip and he immediately whipped the second prince. he warned the second prince that if he did not tell the truth he would continue to get lashes from him.

the second prince still did not want to say that, what he said was he was slandered.then the emperor again asked him who had slandered him? he could not answer, and the emperor again whipped him.

he screamed in pain and finally chose to say everything.

"*it's true that I told the killer to kill him" the second prince shouted

"why do you want to kill him? what did he do until you killed him?"

"you still ask why? you wanna know? well I'll tell you, it's all because of you! you as a father, you are too picky, you always care about him, what do you always praise and me for? you never did that. I tried desperately to get affection from you, but what did I get? you only care about him and that's why I hate him and that's why I want to kill him" the second prince shouted at the emperor

...emperor was silent for a while after hearing that...

"second prince let me explain to you, you want to know why I did that to you?"

"it's all your mother's fault, because the ruse from your mother got me trapped by her. she tricked me and she also killed my empress, the mother of the first and third princes. you're not really my son, you're the son of an ill-gotten relationship between your mother and minister Yan. I didn't kill you and I raised you, I raised you, I raised you, because I could not bear to finish off a child as small as you and at that time you were 2 months old.that's when I found out that your mother had played crazy with Minister Yan and they also intended to rebel. now you know why I treat you that way, don't you?"

" then why don't you kill right now? hah" cried the second prince*

the Emperor remained silent and did not answer the second prince, then he told his bodyguards to hold the second prince in the cold palace and the emperor also asked some people to keep an eye on the second prince and not let him out of that place.

after the prince was taken away, the emperor went to see the condition of the third prince who is now in the palace medicine room.After the emperor there he saw that the third prince had been conscious, he said, he went in and asked how the third prince was doing.

the third prince replied that if he was okay now, his wounds had been treated by the healer and the healer said that this did not endanger his life. the Emperor was very happy to hear that, he was also grateful that his son could survive.

the third prince also felt the warmth of the emperor, he did not expect that the emperor would embrace him.After knowing that the third prince was fine, he did not expect that the emperor would embrace him, he told the third prince to stay in the palace until his wounds were completely healed.

inevitably the third prince had to say yes.The emperor also told the servants to prepare what the third prince needed and after that the emperor returned to his palace.At some time after the emperor left, the emperor left, the first prince came to visit her.

he brought some wound medicine for his sister, then he asked the third prince.

"*why are you willing to hurt yourself so badly? I've already told you, if you just need to make a little wound"

"sorry brother, all I did was for this plan to work and run smoothly without suspicion and now you don't have to mess with me"

"Hem how I'm not worried, you know, when I found you you were unconscious and you also shed so much blood"

"sorry about that, I was in too much of a hurry then so I used too much force while stabbing and it ended up being so"

"then what about Li Shang? isn't he not in our plan? how does he know if you're in danger?"

"well, I haven't had a chance to talk to him either, but once this wound heals, I'll ask him myself"

"yes well, then"

"and one more sis, please don't tell anyone including Xiao Yan, I'm afraid they'll be worried if they hear of my injury"

"yes you take it easy, no one will know but you and me"

"all right, brother, then thank you"

"yes, then you take a break and don't move too much if you want to get well soon, you understand?"

"yes, brother, I know that*"