Chapter 358: The Imperial Edict Deciding the Successor
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Although Mo Xiangbin knew that his decision couldn’t satisfy everybody, after hearing Mo Junhao’s rebellious words, he was stunned evidently.
Then he burst into anger.
“Mo Junhao, do you know who you are speaking to?” Mo Xiangbin tried his best to restrain himself, yet his voice was trembling obviously.
He was really pissed off.
However, Mo Junhao was irritated a lot, and he had already forgotten everything.
He didn’t admit his fault at once but sneered. “I certainly know what I am saying. You are really an old and fatuous man, right, Father?”
Mo Xiangbin was speechless.
It was his first time to be scolded as an old and fatuous man, and he choked and almost didn’t know how to lose temper.
In the end, he couldn’t help laughing.
He was too angry.
“Junhao, I know that you are in a bad mood, so I won’t bother about your impertinent remarks today. Go back to your mansion now to pack up and go to the northern border as soon as possible. Then you are still my good son.”
Mo Xiangbin sighed deeply. After all, this was his biological son whom he had spoilt and even pinned hopes on in secret, so he wouldn’t be heartless.
However, Mo Junhao didn’t notice Mo Xiangbin’s concession but stepped forward.
He asked aggressively, “What if I don’t do it?”
Mo Xiangbin’s eyes darkened. “Junhao, don’t force me to put you under house arrest.”
Once Mo Junhao was under house arrest, it meant that he was detested and rejected by the emperor and had no chance to inherit the throne.
Such a punishment was once Mo Junhao’s nightmare.
Nevertheless, after hearing that, Mo Junhao just smiled and asked impassively, “Father, don’t you think that issuing that imperial edict is the same as putting me under house arrest?”
Mo Xiangbin was dumbfounded.
Then he heard Mo Junhao continue in that cold voice, “You have told me that not only the crown prince can take the throne in the future, but all your sons have chances, and you encouraged me to work hard for this reason.
“I am strict with myself by the standards of the heir to the throne all the time as you said, yet now everything changes after you issue an imperial edict.
“Is this the emperor’s kindness as you mentioned?”
In the beginning, Mo Junhao said in a calm and even stiff tone, but later, he got emotional and almost questioned harshly in the end.
Mo Xiangbin had considered letting Mo Junhao inherit the throne and taught him like this, so when Mo Junhao pointed out these things directly, the emperor looked embarrassed.
He turned away with guilt involuntarily and didn’t dare to meet Mo Junhao’s eyes. He could only forcefully keep his dignity as the emperor.
He stated firmly, “Anyway, I have made an imperial edict. Just do as I said. You can’t mention it again.”
Afterward, he stood with his hands behind his back and turned around, showing Mo Junhao his back indifferently.
“Go away!”
Mo Xiangbin said coldly, yet as a father, he felt guilty.
“Son, don’t blame me. Compared with the crown prince, you can’t assume responsibility, nor do you have the right title. For the whole country, I have to sacrifice you.”
The emperor apologized to this son in his heart, and these words that he didn’t speak out expressed his guilt.
He could do nothing but try his best to compensate Mo Junhao in the future.
For example, he could reward Mo Junhao with more gold, silver and jewelry.
After the hostilities at the northern border were settled, he could take the opportunity to reward Mo Junhao…
Mo Xiangbin had thought a lot and even decided to make Mo Junhao’s title as a king hereditary endlessly in the future in order to remedy his fault.
He pondered for a long time, but when he came back to reality, he found that Mo Junhao behind him was silent all the time.
Did he go away?
Mo Xiangbin looked back in confusion and wanted to check, yet he saw that Mo Junhao stood behind him and stared at him evilly.
He was shocked and took a step backward all of a sudden, shouting, “Junhao, what are you going to do?”
Mo Junhao didn’t retreat but walked forward, asking with a cold and bloodthirsty smile, “What do you think I am going to do?”
Mo Junhao who acted like this was so weird. Even though Mo Xiangbin had seen a lot, he was scared by Mo Junhao in this state.
Mo Xiangbin moved backward again and swallowed unconsciously. “Do you, do you want to give offense to your father?”
“Aha, give offense to you!” Mo Junhao laughed and showed bloodcurdling breath all over his body.
When Mo Xiangbin almost cried for help involuntarily, Mo Junhao took actions.
Mo Junhao did everything at lightning speed. Before Mo Xiangbin reacted, his neck was gripped, and his voice was stuck in his throat.
Mo Xiangbin opened his eyes wide in fear and wanted to shout, yet he could only make feeble and pointless air sounds in his throat.
He wanted to save himself, while he could do nothing but put his hands powerlessly on Mo Junhao’s wrists which pinched his neck, and he couldn’t move a bit.
“What…do you want…to do? I…I am your father…” Mo Xiangbin made sounds with difficulty and wanted to awaken Mo Junhao’s reason.
However, Mo Junhao just showed a coldblooded smile.
He seemed to laugh at Mo Xiangbin’s naivety.
“Father?” Mo Junhao murmured in a weird voice.
Then he suddenly had a bright smile, while it couldn’t make Mo Xiangbin feel warm, but he felt that it became cold around seemingly.
“Are you qualified to be my father?”
Mo Junhao cut off their relationship as the father and son with his cruelest voice.
He said to Mo Xiangbin, stressing each word, “You are the most selfish person in the world and consider for yourself all the time. Your random decision can deny all my efforts.
“Aha! But it doesn’t matter. It’s fine that you don’t admit it. I don’t need you to admit it…”
Mo Xiangbin felt that he breathed more slowly and started to feel dizzy. He couldn’t see or hear anything as his sense organs became weaker. Everything around seemed to become unclear.
In the end, he just felt that it was dark before his eyes, and then he didn’t know anything.
Mo Junhao strangled Mo Xiangbin all the time till this old body stopped struggling in his hands and then didn’t move in the end.
Then he seemed to be stung by something suddenly, and he loosened his hands quickly.
Mo Xiangbin fell on the floor feebly.
Mo Junhao finally realized what he had done. He woke up all of a sudden and hurriedly reached out his index finger and put it under Mo Xiangbin’s nose to feel his breath.
Mo Xiangbin stopped breathing now.
Mo Junhao moved a few steps backward in panic till he bumped into a wooden table with a bang and the tea set on it fell on the floor, with a crack.
“Your Majesty, is there anything wrong?” Quan outside heard the crack and knocked at the door in doubt. It seemed that he wanted to push the door and come in.
Mo Junhao’s heart beat fast, and he hastily shouted, “Nothing. Don’t come in.”
The bedroom was sound-proofing with heavy solid wood separating them, so Quan could only hear Mo Junhao’s simple order but couldn’t tell the speaker’s tone.
Without thinking much, he didn’t even notice that it was not Mo Xiangbin’s voice. Then he expressed respectfully, “I am waiting outside. If you need something, please call me, Your Majesty.”
“I see,” Mo Junhao answered in haste.
He quickly walked to the door and observed the situation outside through the crack. After conforming that Quan didn’t find anything wrong, he bolted the door from inside soon.
After he did everything, he slowly walked to Mo Xiangbin lying on the floor.
He took every step nervously. When he walked to Mo Xiangbin, he had sweat all over his head and lost the courage to check Mo Xiangbin’s breath under his nose.
“What should I do? What should I do?” Mo Junhao walked back and forth in the room in a flurry and murmured, at a loss for what to do.
He didn’t know why he lost his mind and killed Mo Xiangbin.
Mo Junhao didn’t know what to do. He had all kinds of thoughts in his brain, yet every way led to his death.
He pulled his hair with both hands and almost collapsed. He had no idea what he could do.
He had killed his father, the emperor.
When Mo Junhao was almost desperate, his eyes lit up, as he suddenly saw a bright yellow satin under the pillow on the emperor’s bed. It was like…an imperial edict?
Suddenly Mo Junhao had a brainwave and subconsciously crossed Mo Xiangbin’s body. Then he walked to the bed and lifted the pillow.
A scroll of imperial edict was lying under the pillow.
Mo Junhao was shocked and grabbed the imperial edict, opening it.
It was the imperial edict in which the next emperor was decided.
Although Mo Junyu was the crown prince and should be most likely to inherit the throne, with this imperial edict, he would get that position openly without doubt.
Mo Xiangbin would really give the throne to Mo Junyu.
This information made Mo Junhao grit his teeth with hatred, and his guilt about Mo Xiangbin disappeared in an instant. He only felt more furious.
Mo Junhao didn’t regret it anymore but even felt lucky as he had killed Mo Xiangbin and intercepted this imperial edict by accident.
He coldly looked down at Mo Xiangbin lying on the floor and spat. “Old man, I have tried every means to flatter you for so long, yet you give the throne to somebody else secretly.
“Since you are so heartless, don’t blame me for my cruelty. Now it’s fine that you have died. Leave everything to me next.
“Don’t worry. Mo Country will be prosperous in my hands.”
Mo Junhao vented his anger and depression on Mo Xiangbin’s dead body and finally felt better.
The idea in his brain became clearer.
Mo Junhao grasped the imperial edict more tightly and put it in his pocket. Then he lightly walked to the bed and left a hole. Afterward, he walked back swiftly and moved Mo Xiangbin to the bed, putting the bed curtain down.
After he made a false appearance that Mo Xiangbin had gone to bed, he hid in the bed.
He lowered his voice in the bed curtain and shouted at the person outside, “Quan, come in.”
Quan pushed the door and entered. Seeing that nobody was in the room, he was doubtful, thinking, “Didn’t Prince Junhao have a secret talk with His Majesty in the room? Why is he nowhere to be seen so soon?”
“Go and send my oral instruction. Tell the crown prince to see me.”
One corner of the bed curtain was lifted from inside, and Quan couldn’t see the person in it clearly. Only the deep and hoarse voice came out.
Quan was shocked and looked at the bed in doubt. When he saw that the pale fingers and the sleeve revealed on the wrist outside the bed curtain were Mo Xiangbin’s, he felt relieved.
However, he still doubted that he misheard.
“Your Majesty, shall I go right now?”
It was almost at midnight. It was too late.
“Go now!” A low roar came from the bed.
Quan didn’t dare to say more, so he answered obediently, “I am going.”
After saying, he bowed and prepared to go out, yet after he walked for only a few steps, he couldn’t help but look at the bed again, wondering where the fourth prince was.
Did he…
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Although Mo Xiangbin knew that his decision couldn’t satisfy everybody, after hearing Mo Junhao’s rebellious words, he was stunned evidently.
Then he burst into anger.
“Mo Junhao, do you know who you are speaking to?” Mo Xiangbin tried his best to restrain himself, yet his voice was trembling obviously.
He was really pissed off.
However, Mo Junhao was irritated a lot, and he had already forgotten everything.
He didn’t admit his fault at once but sneered. “I certainly know what I am saying. You are really an old and fatuous man, right, Father?”
Mo Xiangbin was speechless.
It was his first time to be scolded as an old and fatuous man, and he choked and almost didn’t know how to lose temper.
In the end, he couldn’t help laughing.
He was too angry.
“Junhao, I know that you are in a bad mood, so I won’t bother about your impertinent remarks today. Go back to your mansion now to pack up and go to the northern border as soon as possible. Then you are still my good son.”
Mo Xiangbin sighed deeply. After all, this was his biological son whom he had spoilt and even pinned hopes on in secret, so he wouldn’t be heartless.
However, Mo Junhao didn’t notice Mo Xiangbin’s concession but stepped forward.
He asked aggressively, “What if I don’t do it?”
Mo Xiangbin’s eyes darkened. “Junhao, don’t force me to put you under house arrest.”
Once Mo Junhao was under house arrest, it meant that he was detested and rejected by the emperor and had no chance to inherit the throne.
Such a punishment was once Mo Junhao’s nightmare.
Nevertheless, after hearing that, Mo Junhao just smiled and asked impassively, “Father, don’t you think that issuing that imperial edict is the same as putting me under house arrest?”
Mo Xiangbin was dumbfounded.
Then he heard Mo Junhao continue in that cold voice, “You have told me that not only the crown prince can take the throne in the future, but all your sons have chances, and you encouraged me to work hard for this reason.
“I am strict with myself by the standards of the heir to the throne all the time as you said, yet now everything changes after you issue an imperial edict.
“Is this the emperor’s kindness as you mentioned?”
In the beginning, Mo Junhao said in a calm and even stiff tone, but later, he got emotional and almost questioned harshly in the end.
Mo Xiangbin had considered letting Mo Junhao inherit the throne and taught him like this, so when Mo Junhao pointed out these things directly, the emperor looked embarrassed.
He turned away with guilt involuntarily and didn’t dare to meet Mo Junhao’s eyes. He could only forcefully keep his dignity as the emperor.
He stated firmly, “Anyway, I have made an imperial edict. Just do as I said. You can’t mention it again.”
Afterward, he stood with his hands behind his back and turned around, showing Mo Junhao his back indifferently.
“Go away!”
Mo Xiangbin said coldly, yet as a father, he felt guilty.
“Son, don’t blame me. Compared with the crown prince, you can’t assume responsibility, nor do you have the right title. For the whole country, I have to sacrifice you.”
The emperor apologized to this son in his heart, and these words that he didn’t speak out expressed his guilt.
He could do nothing but try his best to compensate Mo Junhao in the future.
For example, he could reward Mo Junhao with more gold, silver and jewelry.
After the hostilities at the northern border were settled, he could take the opportunity to reward Mo Junhao…
Mo Xiangbin had thought a lot and even decided to make Mo Junhao’s title as a king hereditary endlessly in the future in order to remedy his fault.
He pondered for a long time, but when he came back to reality, he found that Mo Junhao behind him was silent all the time.
Did he go away?
Mo Xiangbin looked back in confusion and wanted to check, yet he saw that Mo Junhao stood behind him and stared at him evilly.
He was shocked and took a step backward all of a sudden, shouting, “Junhao, what are you going to do?”
Mo Junhao didn’t retreat but walked forward, asking with a cold and bloodthirsty smile, “What do you think I am going to do?”
Mo Junhao who acted like this was so weird. Even though Mo Xiangbin had seen a lot, he was scared by Mo Junhao in this state.
Mo Xiangbin moved backward again and swallowed unconsciously. “Do you, do you want to give offense to your father?”
“Aha, give offense to you!” Mo Junhao laughed and showed bloodcurdling breath all over his body.
When Mo Xiangbin almost cried for help involuntarily, Mo Junhao took actions.
Mo Junhao did everything at lightning speed. Before Mo Xiangbin reacted, his neck was gripped, and his voice was stuck in his throat.
Mo Xiangbin opened his eyes wide in fear and wanted to shout, yet he could only make feeble and pointless air sounds in his throat.
He wanted to save himself, while he could do nothing but put his hands powerlessly on Mo Junhao’s wrists which pinched his neck, and he couldn’t move a bit.
“What…do you want…to do? I…I am your father…” Mo Xiangbin made sounds with difficulty and wanted to awaken Mo Junhao’s reason.
However, Mo Junhao just showed a coldblooded smile.
He seemed to laugh at Mo Xiangbin’s naivety.
“Father?” Mo Junhao murmured in a weird voice.
Then he suddenly had a bright smile, while it couldn’t make Mo Xiangbin feel warm, but he felt that it became cold around seemingly.
“Are you qualified to be my father?”
Mo Junhao cut off their relationship as the father and son with his cruelest voice.
He said to Mo Xiangbin, stressing each word, “You are the most selfish person in the world and consider for yourself all the time. Your random decision can deny all my efforts.
“Aha! But it doesn’t matter. It’s fine that you don’t admit it. I don’t need you to admit it…”
Mo Xiangbin felt that he breathed more slowly and started to feel dizzy. He couldn’t see or hear anything as his sense organs became weaker. Everything around seemed to become unclear.
In the end, he just felt that it was dark before his eyes, and then he didn’t know anything.
Mo Junhao strangled Mo Xiangbin all the time till this old body stopped struggling in his hands and then didn’t move in the end.
Then he seemed to be stung by something suddenly, and he loosened his hands quickly.
Mo Xiangbin fell on the floor feebly.
Mo Junhao finally realized what he had done. He woke up all of a sudden and hurriedly reached out his index finger and put it under Mo Xiangbin’s nose to feel his breath.
Mo Xiangbin stopped breathing now.
Mo Junhao moved a few steps backward in panic till he bumped into a wooden table with a bang and the tea set on it fell on the floor, with a crack.
“Your Majesty, is there anything wrong?” Quan outside heard the crack and knocked at the door in doubt. It seemed that he wanted to push the door and come in.
Mo Junhao’s heart beat fast, and he hastily shouted, “Nothing. Don’t come in.”
The bedroom was sound-proofing with heavy solid wood separating them, so Quan could only hear Mo Junhao’s simple order but couldn’t tell the speaker’s tone.
Without thinking much, he didn’t even notice that it was not Mo Xiangbin’s voice. Then he expressed respectfully, “I am waiting outside. If you need something, please call me, Your Majesty.”
“I see,” Mo Junhao answered in haste.
He quickly walked to the door and observed the situation outside through the crack. After conforming that Quan didn’t find anything wrong, he bolted the door from inside soon.
After he did everything, he slowly walked to Mo Xiangbin lying on the floor.
He took every step nervously. When he walked to Mo Xiangbin, he had sweat all over his head and lost the courage to check Mo Xiangbin’s breath under his nose.
“What should I do? What should I do?” Mo Junhao walked back and forth in the room in a flurry and murmured, at a loss for what to do.
He didn’t know why he lost his mind and killed Mo Xiangbin.
Mo Junhao didn’t know what to do. He had all kinds of thoughts in his brain, yet every way led to his death.
He pulled his hair with both hands and almost collapsed. He had no idea what he could do.
He had killed his father, the emperor.
When Mo Junhao was almost desperate, his eyes lit up, as he suddenly saw a bright yellow satin under the pillow on the emperor’s bed. It was like…an imperial edict?
Suddenly Mo Junhao had a brainwave and subconsciously crossed Mo Xiangbin’s body. Then he walked to the bed and lifted the pillow.
A scroll of imperial edict was lying under the pillow.
Mo Junhao was shocked and grabbed the imperial edict, opening it.
It was the imperial edict in which the next emperor was decided.
Although Mo Junyu was the crown prince and should be most likely to inherit the throne, with this imperial edict, he would get that position openly without doubt.
Mo Xiangbin would really give the throne to Mo Junyu.
This information made Mo Junhao grit his teeth with hatred, and his guilt about Mo Xiangbin disappeared in an instant. He only felt more furious.
Mo Junhao didn’t regret it anymore but even felt lucky as he had killed Mo Xiangbin and intercepted this imperial edict by accident.
He coldly looked down at Mo Xiangbin lying on the floor and spat. “Old man, I have tried every means to flatter you for so long, yet you give the throne to somebody else secretly.
“Since you are so heartless, don’t blame me for my cruelty. Now it’s fine that you have died. Leave everything to me next.
“Don’t worry. Mo Country will be prosperous in my hands.”
Mo Junhao vented his anger and depression on Mo Xiangbin’s dead body and finally felt better.
The idea in his brain became clearer.
Mo Junhao grasped the imperial edict more tightly and put it in his pocket. Then he lightly walked to the bed and left a hole. Afterward, he walked back swiftly and moved Mo Xiangbin to the bed, putting the bed curtain down.
After he made a false appearance that Mo Xiangbin had gone to bed, he hid in the bed.
He lowered his voice in the bed curtain and shouted at the person outside, “Quan, come in.”
Quan pushed the door and entered. Seeing that nobody was in the room, he was doubtful, thinking, “Didn’t Prince Junhao have a secret talk with His Majesty in the room? Why is he nowhere to be seen so soon?”
“Go and send my oral instruction. Tell the crown prince to see me.”
One corner of the bed curtain was lifted from inside, and Quan couldn’t see the person in it clearly. Only the deep and hoarse voice came out.
Quan was shocked and looked at the bed in doubt. When he saw that the pale fingers and the sleeve revealed on the wrist outside the bed curtain were Mo Xiangbin’s, he felt relieved.
However, he still doubted that he misheard.
“Your Majesty, shall I go right now?”
It was almost at midnight. It was too late.
“Go now!” A low roar came from the bed.
Quan didn’t dare to say more, so he answered obediently, “I am going.”
After saying, he bowed and prepared to go out, yet after he walked for only a few steps, he couldn’t help but look at the bed again, wondering where the fourth prince was.
Did he…
Although Mo Xiangbin knew that his decision couldn't satisfy everybody, after hearing Mo Junhao's rebellious words, he was stunned evidently.Then he burst into anger.Mo Junhao, do you know who you are speaking to? Mo Xiangbin tried his best to restrain himself, yet his voice was trembling obviously.He was really pissed off.However, Mo Junhao was irritated a lot, and he had already forgotten everything.He didn't admit his fault at once but sneered. I certainly know what I am saying. You are really an old and fatuous man, right, Father?Mo Xiangbin was speechless.It was his first time to be scolded as an old and fatuous man, and he choked and almost didn't know how to lose temper.In the end, he couldn't help laughing.He was too angry.Junhao, I know that you are in a bad mood, so I won't bother about your impertinent remarks today. Go back to your mansion now to pack up and go to the northern border as soon as possible. Then you are still my good son.Mo Xiangbin sighed deeply. After all, this was his biological son whom he had spoilt and even pinned hopes on in secret, so he wouldn't be heartless.However, Mo Junhao didn't notice Mo Xiangbin's concession but stepped forward.He asked aggressively, What if I don't do it?Mo Xiangbin's eyes darkened. Junhao, don't force me to put you under house arrest.Once Mo Junhao was under house arrest, it meant that he was detested and rejected by the emperor and had no chance to inherit the throne.Such a punishment was once Mo Junhao's nightmare.Nevertheless, after hearing that, Mo Junhao just smiled and asked impassively, Father, don't you think that issuing that imperial edict is the same as putting me under house arrest?Mo Xiangbin was dumbfounded.Then he heard Mo Junhao continue in that cold voice, You have told me that not only the crown prince can take the throne in the future, but all your sons have chances, and you encouraged me to work hard for this reason.I am strict with myself by the standards of the heir to the throne all the time as you said, yet now everything changes after you issue an imperial edict.Is this the emperor's kindness as you mentioned?In the beginning, Mo Junhao said in a calm and even stiff tone, but later, he got emotional and almost questioned harshly in the end.Mo Xiangbin had considered letting Mo Junhao inherit the throne and taught him like this, so when Mo Junhao pointed out these things directly, the emperor looked embarrassed.He turned away with guilt involuntarily and didn't dare to meet Mo Junhao's eyes. He could only forcefully keep his dignity as the emperor.He stated firmly, Anyway, I have made an imperial edict. Just do as I said. You can't mention it again.Afterward, he stood with his hands behind his back and turned around, showing Mo Junhao his back indifferently.Go away!Mo Xiangbin said coldly, yet as a father, he felt guilty.Son, don't blame me. Compared with the crown prince, you can't assume responsibility, nor do you have the right title. For the whole country, I have to sacrifice you.The emperor apologized to this son in his heart, and these words that he didn't speak out expressed his guilt.He could do nothing but try his best to compensate Mo Junhao in the future.For example, he could reward Mo Junhao with more gold, silver and jewelry.After the hostilities at the northern border were settled, he could take the opportunity to reward Mo JunhaoMo Xiangbin had thought a lot and even decided to make Mo Junhao's title as a king hereditary endlessly in the future in order to remedy his fault.He pondered for a long time, but when he came back to reality, he found that Mo Junhao behind him was silent all the time.Did he go away?Mo Xiangbin looked back in confusion and wanted to check, yet he saw that Mo Junhao stood behind him and stared at him evilly.He was shocked and took a step backward all of a sudden, shouting, Junhao, what are you going to do?Mo Junhao didn't retreat but walked forward, asking with a cold and bloodthirsty smile, What do you think I am going to do?Mo Junhao who acted like this was so weird. Even though Mo Xiangbin had seen a lot, he was scared by Mo Junhao in this state.Mo Xiangbin moved backward again and swallowed unconsciously. Do you, do you want to give offense to your father?Aha, give offense to you! Mo Junhao laughed and showed bloodcurdling breath all over his body.When Mo Xiangbin almost cried for help involuntarily, Mo Junhao took actions.Mo Junhao did everything at lightning speed. Before Mo Xiangbin reacted, his neck was gripped, and his voice was stuck in his throat.Mo Xiangbin opened his eyes wide in fear and wanted to shout, yet he could only make feeble and pointless air sounds in his throat.He wanted to save himself, while he could do nothing but put his hands powerlessly on Mo Junhao's wrists which pinched his neck, and he couldn't move a bit.Whatdo you wantto do? II am your father Mo Xiangbin made sounds with difficulty and wanted to awaken Mo Junhao's reason.However, Mo Junhao just showed a coldblooded smile.He seemed to laugh at Mo Xiangbin's naivety.Father? Mo Junhao murmured in a weird voice.Then he suddenly had a bright smile, while it couldn't make Mo Xiangbin feel warm, but he felt that it became cold around seemingly.Are you qualified to be my father?Mo Junhao cut off their relationship as the father and son with his cruelest voice.He said to Mo Xiangbin, stressing each word, You are the most selfish person in the world and consider for yourself all the time. Your random decision can deny all my efforts.Aha! But it doesn't matter. It's fine that you don't admit it. I don't need you to admit itMo Xiangbin felt that he breathed more slowly and started to feel dizzy. He couldn't see or hear anything as his sense organs became weaker. Everything around seemed to become unclear.In the end, he just felt that it was dark before his eyes, and then he didn't know anything.Mo Junhao strangled Mo Xiangbin all the time till this old body stopped struggling in his hands and then didn't move in the end.Then he seemed to be stung by something suddenly, and he loosened his hands quickly.Mo Xiangbin fell on the floor feebly.Mo Junhao finally realized what he had done. He woke up all of a sudden and hurriedly reached out his index finger and put it under Mo Xiangbin's nose to feel his breath.Mo Xiangbin stopped breathing now.Mo Junhao moved a few steps backward in panic till he bumped into a wooden table with a bang and the tea set on it fell on the floor, with a crack.Your Majesty, is there anything wrong? Quan outside heard the crack and knocked at the door in doubt. It seemed that he wanted to push the door and come in.Mo Junhao's heart beat fast, and he hastily shouted, Nothing. Don't come in.The bedroom was sound-proofing with heavy solid wood separating them, so Quan could only hear Mo Junhao's simple order but couldn't tell the speaker's tone.Without thinking much, he didn't even notice that it was not Mo Xiangbin's voice. Then he expressed respectfully, I am waiting outside. If you need something, please call me, Your Majesty.I see, Mo Junhao answered in haste.He quickly walked to the door and observed the situation outside through the crack. After conforming that Quan didn't find anything wrong, he bolted the door from inside soon.After he did everything, he slowly walked to Mo Xiangbin lying on the floor.He took every step nervously. When he walked to Mo Xiangbin, he had sweat all over his head and lost the courage to check Mo Xiangbin's breath under his nose.What should I do? What should I do? Mo Junhao walked back and forth in the room in a flurry and murmured, at a loss for what to do.He didn't know why he lost his mind and killed Mo Xiangbin.Mo Junhao didn't know what to do. He had all kinds of thoughts in his brain, yet every way led to his death.He pulled his hair with both hands and almost collapsed. He had no idea what he could do.He had killed his father, the emperor.When Mo Junhao was almost desperate, his eyes lit up, as he suddenly saw a bright yellow satin under the pillow on the emperor's bed. It was likean imperial edict?Suddenly Mo Junhao had a brainwave and subconsciously crossed Mo Xiangbin's body. Then he walked to the bed and lifted the pillow.A scroll of imperial edict was lying under the pillow.Mo Junhao was shocked and grabbed the imperial edict, opening it.It was the imperial edict in which the next emperor was decided.Although Mo Junyu was the crown prince and should be most likely to inherit the throne, with this imperial edict, he would get that position openly without doubt.Mo Xiangbin would really give the throne to Mo Junyu.This information made Mo Junhao grit his teeth with hatred, and his guilt about Mo Xiangbin disappeared in an instant. He only felt more furious.Mo Junhao didn't regret it anymore but even felt lucky as he had killed Mo Xiangbin and intercepted this imperial edict by accident.He coldly looked down at Mo Xiangbin lying on the floor and spat. Old man, I have tried every means to flatter you for so long, yet you give the throne to somebody else secretly.Since you are so heartless, don't blame me for my cruelty. Now it's fine that you have died. Leave everything to me next.Don't worry. Mo Country will be prosperous in my hands.Mo Junhao vented his anger and depression on Mo Xiangbin's dead body and finally felt better.The idea in his brain became clearer.Mo Junhao grasped the imperial edict more tightly and put it in his pocket. Then he lightly walked to the bed and left a hole. Afterward, he walked back swiftly and moved Mo Xiangbin to the bed, putting the bed curtain down.After he made a false appearance that Mo Xiangbin had gone to bed, he hid in the bed.He lowered his voice in the bed curtain and shouted at the person outside, Quan, come in.Quan pushed the door and entered. Seeing that nobody was in the room, he was doubtful, thinking, Didn't Prince Junhao have a secret talk with His Majesty in the room? Why is he nowhere to be seen so soon?Go and send my oral instruction. Tell the crown prince to see me.One corner of the bed curtain was lifted from inside, and Quan couldn't see the person in it clearly. Only the deep and hoarse voice came out.Quan was shocked and looked at the bed in doubt. When he saw that the pale fingers and the sleeve revealed on the wrist outside the bed curtain were Mo Xiangbin's, he felt relieved.However, he still doubted that he misheard.Your Majesty, shall I go right now?It was almost at midnight. It was too late.Go now! A low roar came from the bed.Quan didn't dare to say more, so he answered obediently, I am going.After saying, he bowed and prepared to go out, yet after he walked for only a few steps, he couldn't help but look at the bed again, wondering where the fourth prince was.Did he
