He Couldn't Control It

Consort Rou had indeed fallen for the trap. Fearing that sending someone personally would make the emperor suspicious, so she could only ask the third prince to bring some people over.

Passingly, the first prince had revealed the news of the third prince entering the mountain to the crown prince because he wanted to add another heavyweight to bring down Consort Rou.

But there was one thing that the first prince would never admit for the life of him.

The men in black who wanted to lure the two out of the room were his men.

Luring them out was meant to avoid the crowd and move a few boxes of evidence into the secret room.

Many of these items were spread out from the officials' families that Consort Rou had secretly harmed. The first prince took great pains to collect them.

He did everything he could to take revenge for his mother.