After cleaning up for a while, Tianyou asked: "Then why did you take the newborn prince to Xiyan? This is unreasonable!"

Ji Yao's eyes were red, tears were filled with tears in her eyes, and her face was full of pain: "Mom has no choice! If possible, how could she be willing to separate her flesh and blood instead of sharing the joy of family?"

Tianyou did not answer the conversation, but waited for Ji Yao to explain.

"Many secrets from back then were unknown to outsiders, but the one who was in the game was the one in the game, so naturally they knew more. I wonder if you have heard of the organization of the Night Temple?"

Tianyou nodded gently. "Since I can remember, Xiyan has been taking me around, sometimes as if I was chasing someone, sometimes as if I was hiding something. Later, I gradually figured out that the person who was chasing us was the killer of the Night Temple. Those years were really..."

Hearing this, the tears in Ji Yao's eyes finally couldn't control themselves and broke out. She hugged Tianyou again, and said in tears: "You've been miserable, Tianyou!"

When he was first hugged, Tianyou tried to struggle a few times, but he couldn't twist Ji Yao's strength. However, he found that Ji Yao's feelings were not as fake, so he felt really distressed, so he calmed down. However, he was still analyzing what was going on in his heart.

When Ji Yao first recognized each other, she was obviously fake and had no feelings at all, but what happened to the true feelings? Did she suddenly recognize each other before and didn’t change her emotions for a while? Or did she become more and more smooth and she has been possessed by the actress and has completely integrated into the character’s psychology?

After hugging Tianyou and crying for a while, Ji Yao's feelings calmed down again. She smiled and laughed and said, "You are laughing at me for a moment of losing your composure for my mother."

Tianyou didn't know what to say, so he could only take out a handkerchief from his body and hand it over. As a result, Ji Yao was so moved that she almost lost her composure again. After wiping her tears, Ji Yao suddenly noticed that there were embroidery on the handkerchief. She opened it and looked at it, but found that there were a few words that were almost unrecognizable.

"This is……?"

"Xiyan embroidered. Once she was injured and trapped in a family to recuperate. She couldn't go out of the house. She suddenly remembered embroidered this when she was bored. But she didn't do this. She only embroidered a few crooked words and threw them aside!"

Ji Yao didn't know what she thought of, but suddenly burst out with tears on her face. "It's still that little junior sister back then! She's still so impatient. After learning Nu Hong from me for half a day, she couldn't continue to learn it. She probably only in the world can embroider such an ugly embroidery!"

"Well, Fairy Biyou, haven't you said why you handed over the little prince to Xiyan and took it away?"

"You kid, you still call me Fairy Biyou?" After pausing, seeing that Tianyou didn't mean to change his words, he said to himself: "Forget it, it's better for you to call me like this anyway, so as not to be noticed. By the way, the Night Temple was in its heyday and was doing everything he wanted. As long as you can afford the price, even the king of a country would dare to take action."

"I've heard of this."

"Yes! After I married the king, many invasions and assassinations broke out in the palace. The king's two younger brothers, one sister, and three princes were killed one after another. For a moment, the palace was in a panic."

How keen Tianyou was, he realized in an instant that there was something wrong with the assassination list.

"The ones who were killed were crown princes with inheritance?"

Because the ten countries checked and balanced each other and suppressed by major factions in the neutral zone, the external pressure was quite huge, and it might be a crisis of destruction of the country. Because of this, the royal families of all countries were very cautious in the issue of inheritance rights, and were no longer a hasty elder son inheritance system, but mostly adopted a competitive employment system. Moreover, this competition scope not only includes princes, but also princesses, as well as younger brothers and sisters who are far from the king.

In other words, any close relatives within three generations of the royal family can compete for the throne as long as they are younger than a certain range from the king. The former kings also only choose virtuous people and do not look at relatives.

This method of selection is a product of high pressure and a change for survival, so no king dares to choose a prince based on his own preferences. Tianyou's experience on his way back to the royal city with Ying Ying is also a product of this competition system. As long as the struggle is not put on the table and as long as national security is not endangered, the king will not interfere with the competition between his children and younger siblings. Because only the new king born under this cruel competition method can lead the country to survive tenaciously in this Shenzhou Continent, which is preyed on the weak.

The attacks of Chu State were all crown princes with competitive qualifications. This purpose was too strong, and it was no wonder that Tianyou discovered the clues immediately.

Ji Yao nodded and said, "Yes, the king immediately discovered the reason, and soon locked in the fact that the one who hired the murderer was one of his younger brothers."

"What after?"

"This way of hiring murderers does not conform to the reasonable way of the crown prince's competition. After the verification was completed, the king ordered the execution of the clan brother. However, there is a rule in the Yeshen Temple - as long as the task is taken, unless the employer uses double remuneration to cancel the task, the task will not be terminated even if the employer dies."

Tianyou frowned and said, "That is to say, no one can terminate the assassination mission against the Crown Prince of Chu now?"

Ji Yao nodded. "After that the crown prince who was qualified to inherit the throne in Chu State was killed one after another, and you became the last crown prince."

"Why did the Night Temple kill all the crown princes but leave me alone?" Tianyou realized that he had asked a stupid question as soon as he finished asking.

Ji Yao didn't know that Tianyou had already thought of the answer after asking, and still explained: "Although I just gave birth to you and my body was relatively weak, I was a half-step spiritual cultivator at that time. No matter how weak I was, a few assassins would still be able to do anything to our mother and son."

Tianyou guessed this result just after asking, and now he has been confirmed by Ji Yao, which also confirms his guess.

Unlike other successors of the King of Chu, Tianyou has the innate guarantee of Ji Yao. Although the assassin in the Night Temple is strong enough and crazy enough, it is also a task that cannot be completed without fighting. As long as you cannot pass Ji Yao's level, Tianyou is safe.

"Since that's the case, why did I be given to Xiyan for raising me?" Tianyou himself did not notice that he had actually admitted his identity because he no longer used "prince" to call the missing child that year, but directly used the self-proclaimed "me". In other words, Tianyou was convinced that he was the prince who was captured back then.

Ji Yao didn't notice this detail for a moment and continued to explain to Tianyou: "The Night Temple assassinated you many times but failed, but she refused to give up and strengthened the assassination again and again. Although I am still very strong, I can't cover everything. Finally, that night, a large number of assassins raided the royal city, and the other party changed its strategy and sent three groups of assassins at the same time."

"Three groups? Do the Assassins still bring wheel battles?"

"No, it's a way to attack the west. After entering the palace, the assassins of the Night Temple were divided into two. A group with a large number of people pretended to attack the King's bedroom, restraining a large number of guards. The remaining elite assassins in the group raided the bedroom where our mother and son lived. Five of the most elite assassins besieged me, and tightly restricted me to the bedroom where I could not rescue me. The remaining few people rushed to the warm pavilion next door where you lived."

"Xiyan was also among the assassins at that time?" Tianyou thought of some possibility.

Ji Yao indeed nodded and admitted Tianyou's judgment. "Yes. One of the five assassins responsible for restraining me started to daze after seeing me. After a moment, he suddenly turned against me and helped me kill the other four assassins. At that time, I was surprised why this assassin performed like this. It was not until she removed the face towel that I realized that she was the junior sister Xiyan who had been missing for many years!"

"In other words... Xiyan was expelled from Zixiao Palace and then joined the Night Temple?"

"This is not uncommon. Assassins in the Night Temple originally had two sources. One was the dead soldiers they trained themselves, but more were all kinds of monks and warriors recruited everywhere. After Junior Sister Xiyan was expelled from the mountain gate, she must have encountered something and finally joined the Night Temple."

When Ji Yao said this, the whole thing was already clear. Tianyou frowned and thought for a while, then tentatively speculated: "So you sisters solved the crisis together after recognizing each other, but you also understood that Ye Shen Temple would never give up. So instead of guarding against assassination in the open, it would be better to simply turn from light to dark and let Xiyan take me out of the royal city. Compared to breaking through the strict defense of the royal city, it is more difficult to track Xiyan, who has no place to live. So you want to use this method to protect my safety, right?"

Ji Yao nodded excitedly and admitted Tianyou's guess.

"My son is indeed extremely intelligent. The facts back then were almost the same as what you said. After killing all the assassins who restrained me, I saved you with Xi Yan. But when I thought that as long as you were still in the royal city, the assassins in the Night Temple would attack one after another, I could no longer bear to put you in danger. At this time, the invading assassins had been surrounded, and the king also rushed to you and me under layers of guards. So I put forward my own ideas to the king, and the king agreed with my plan.

Then it's almost the same as what you speculated. We entrusted you to Yu Xiyan to take care of you, and to the outside world, we claimed that you were kidnapped by assassins. At the same time, we sent a large number of imperial guards to search and pursue you, creating a situation where you were really kidnapped. In order to be realistic, we also let several assassins go away, so that they could see Xiyan holding you away from the royal city by a coincidence. In this way, no one would suspect that you were still in the royal city.”

"I'm still in the royal city?"

"Yes. Xiyan actually just took you out for a walk and led away the pursuers, and then returned to the royal city. It was not until we were arranged by us that we were secretly sent out of the royal city."

When Tianyou heard this, he frowned again because he found something that was incomprehensible.

If the royal city is not safe enough and the great guards cannot stop the assassin of the Night Temple, then as Ji Yao's identity, why don't you send yourself to Zixiao Palace?

Tianyou didn't believe that no matter how powerful the assassin in the Night Temple was, could he still hit Zixiao Mountain? Is it a good thing to be a true orthodox immortal sect?

However, Ji Yao did not do that. She did not send Tianyou to Zixiao Palace, but gave it to Xiyan who was wandering outside. She put a safer and more comfortable environment, but sent her son to an environment with a very high risk and absolutely extremely difficult situation. Tianyou really couldn't figure out what Ji Yao was thinking.

It would be fine if Ji Yao had a brain stuck alone, but the key is that the King of Chu was beaten by this matter at that time. Ji Yao had a brain stuck alone, so why did the King of Chu have a brain short circuit with her? If there was no Zixiao Palace, I wouldn't say anything. Although it was risky to let Xiyan take it away, it was much safer than staying in the royal city. But Ji Yao's identity determined that she had a safer retreat path to choose from, but strangely, she gave up this choice and let Xiyan take Tianyou away.

Tianyou couldn't figure out the truth, so he could only ask.
Chapter completed!