novelaction Chapter 228 Completely Replace Her
Chapter 228 Completely Replace Her
Ye Zhaonan was silent for a long time before he spoke:
"The fifteenth of next month is the Mid-Autumn Festival. According to tradition, the palace holds a Mid-Autumn Festival banquet every year. At that time, all civil and military officials above the third rank, as well as noble families such as dukes, marquises, and earls, will bring their families to the palace."
"And this day is also the best time to take action."
"As long as I poison my father before he attends the palace banquet, and then send troops to surround the place where the banquet is held, and hold all the civil and military officials and their families hostage, I can force him to abdicate at the lowest cost."
After hearing this, Shi Lidie just smiled indifferently:
"Your Highness has a strategic mind and naturally has a perfect plan, but you don't need to tell me about this plan. Only your confidants need to know it. After all, the more people know about it, the more likely it is to be leaked."
"I am just a princess from a foreign country. I don't have many people I can use. Apart from this bottle of poison, I can't help you in any way. I can only wish your highness a successful start and everything goes well."
Ye Zhaonan laughed after hearing this:
"Princess, please rest assured. Everything will go smoothly for me. When I succeed and inherit the throne, I will marry you in a grand ceremony and we will never be separated in this life."
"Okay, I'll wait for the day when Your Highness fulfills his promise." Shi Lidie nodded with a smile.
After the two men finished talking, Ye Zhaonan left with the poison. He had to intensify the training of Lin Pianpian because the most important prerequisite for this palace coup was that the emperor lost his ability to move.
Therefore, Lin Pianpian is the first step that cannot fail.
Shi Lidie looked at Ye Zhaonan's departing back, lowered her head and smiled: The capital of Ye State is about to be in chaos.
During the following period of time, she pretended that she knew nothing and still went to the palace every three days to treat the emperor. She also did not go to see Concubine Xian again, because she believed that with Concubine Xian's ability, as long as she was sure that Ye Zhaonan had some unusual movements, she would be able to guess that he would take action on the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet.
The remaining matter is the competition among these forces, which has nothing to do with her, a foreign princess.
The Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet soon arrived.
Shi Lidie shouldn't have entered the palace for treatment, but the emperor of Ye State also invited her to attend the palace banquet, so logically, she should still enter the palace, but she didn't plan to go.
Because today, someone went in for her.
In the afternoon, Ye Zhaonan quietly sent Lin Pianpian to the princess's mansion and asked Huixiang and several other maids to dress up Lin Pianpian. Everything was done according to Shi Lidie's usual habits.
They gave Lin Pianpian Shi Lidie's favorite hairstyle, dressed her in Shi Lidie's favorite clothes, and used makeup and other means to make Lin Pianpian look more like Shi Lidie.
Originally, the two of them were only 60% to 70% similar, but through changes in clothing and hairstyle, they became 80% to 90% similar. With the addition of makeup to embellish the details, overall, Lin Pianpian looked almost exactly like Shi Lidie.
Shi Lidie suddenly sighed, no wonder in the original plot, Ye Zhaonan could let Lin Pianpian replace the original owner.
This is so similar.
"Let's take a few steps and take a look." Shi Lidie said.
Lin Pianpian glanced at her, took a few steps forward, and changed her usual timid and delicate appearance, twisting her waist and hips, and actually imitated Shi Lidie's walking posture about 70% of the time.
Even the expression on her face no longer looked like the little white flower she used to be.
When she and Shi Lidie stood together and didn't talk, it was impossible to tell who was who. They were truly indistinguishable from the real thing.
Seeing this, Shi Lidie nodded at Ye Zhaonan.
Ye Zhaonan smiled, and he warned Lin Pianpian, saying:
"You must remember what I told you. Whether you can succeed or not depends on you. After entering the palace, follow the steps we have discussed. Don't do anything unnecessary. Once you are close to the emperor, immediately make a cut on his body and pour the poison on him."
"Father treats you as Princess Yun'an. For the sake of the relationship between the two countries, he will not kill you casually. Instead, he will keep you to ask the Emperor of Dayin Dynasty for an explanation, so you will be fine."
"You will only be imprisoned in the prison temporarily, and when I succeed, you will be released. Remember?"
Lin Pianpian nodded, indicating that she remembered it.
Afterwards, Shi Lidie handed her usual medicine box to Lin Pianpian, and asked Wen Tan to follow Lin Pianpian into the palace:
"Wen Tan, act according to circumstances."
"Yes, Princess." Wen Tan nodded.
Soon, Lin Pianpian, who pretended to be Princess Yun'an, entered the palace accompanied by Wen Tan, and Crown Prince Ye Zhaonan also went to prepare for the upcoming palace coup.
After Shi Lidie sent them away, she waited for the results in her own house.
The carriage swayed forward. Lin Pianpian and Wen Tan in the carriage were silent, and no one spoke.
Wen Tan was thinking about what Shi Lidie had said to her before -
"If Lin Pianpian wants to impersonate me, you must stay with her, because I always bring you with me when I enter the palace. But since the Emperor of Ye State began to be wary of me, every time I went to treat him, she only let me enter Yongkang Palace alone and asked you to stay outside."
"And this is your good opportunity. After Lin Pianpian enters Yongkang Palace, you can find an excuse to leave. Don't worry about her life or death. You are good at martial arts and hiding. You can find an opportunity to hide and wait for the palace to become chaotic before leaving."
"Your life is much more important than Lin Pianpian, and much more important than the prince's plan. Regardless of whether Lin Pianpian can successfully poison you, you must come back alive, regardless of whether Ye Zhaonan's plan can go smoothly."
"Anyway, no matter if he is obedient or not, the Ye Kingdom Palace will always be in chaos, and it will not cause any loss to the Dayin Dynasty."
Wen Tan remembered Shi Lidie's words clearly. She knew very well that this Lin Liangdi went into the palace to die.
At this moment, Lin Pianpian was thinking about what Ye Zhaonan had said to her before -
"I want you to pretend to be Shi Lidie and assassinate my father. Although this is very dangerous, your life will not be in danger because my father will treat you as a princess of the Dayin Dynasty and keep you alive while negotiating with the Dayin Dynasty."
"And I will force my father to abdicate after the coup, and ascend the throne myself. Then I will find an opportunity to kill Shi Lidie and let you completely replace her. By then, you will be the real princess of the Dayin Dynasty."
"Her tavern, her money, her dowry, everything she has, is yours. You have imitated her 70% to 80%. When the time comes, as long as I kill all the maids and guards around her, no one will be able to discover your identity."
"I know that you love me deeply and you risked your life to save me. Over the past few years, I have come to understand that you are the only woman I love the most. So, Pianpian, do this for me. As long as I become the emperor, we can be together forever."
"Your identity is not enough to stand by my side legitimately, so I can only find a way to change your identity, Pianpian, this is my promise to you."
Ever since Ye Zhaonan said this to her, Lin Pianpian has been thinking about completely replacing Shi Lidie.
She believed that Ye Zhaonan was certainly easier for her to control than a foreign princess. If she could take on the identity of a princess, it would be more beneficial to Ye Zhaonan.
So, she agreed to this risky plan because she felt that it was a fight for her own life.
But what she didn't know was that this was a road of no return.
Everything Ye Zhaonan said to her was just a lie to trick her into believing that she was willing to die.