Gu Huai's expression changed, and he slowly said, "Then why are you telling me now?"

The people around Ye Baien said, "Because Lord Ye feels that the time has come."

"Okay, whatever Uncle Ye says is what it is." Gu Huai lowered his head slightly, his eyes dimmed, and no one knew what he was thinking at the moment.

They calculated the time when the guards would patrol, hid outside for a while, and then sneaked into the emperor's bedroom when the guards were not paying attention.

"We've searched every corner of the palace, but this is the only place no one has entered. We need to hurry, as time is running out."

Gu Huai nodded: "I understand."

The two men acted separately and carefully searched the emperor's bedroom.

Time passed slowly, they had searched everywhere but found nothing.

"Impossible! If there's no place like this, where else can the dog emperor hide people?" Ye Baien's men said angrily.

He was sweating profusely in the cold weather.

Gu Huai thought about what Xie Yunjiao had said. She said that sometimes the most inconspicuous things are the most useful.

He looked around quickly again and suddenly found something strange: there was a strange palace lantern on the bookshelf. There was no wick in it and it didn't emit any light at all.

Why is a non-luminous palace lantern placed here? It doesn't fit in with the decorations inside at all.

"What are you doing? Don't mess with the things inside."

Gu Huai ignored the advice and moved the strange-looking palace lantern.

Suddenly the emperor's bed made a creaking sound, and a moment later, the entrance to a dark room appeared in front of them.

The man's eyes lit up when he saw the entrance. "Wait outside. I'll go downstairs to explore the way. If anything goes wrong, leave quickly and don't worry about me."

Gu Huai thought about it and stopped the man: "I want to go down by myself."

The man's expression suddenly changed: "No, Lord Ye asked me to protect you, you can't let anything happen to you."

"I want to go by myself. I will be careful. If anything goes wrong, I will be responsible myself." Gu Huai said.

For some reason, he always felt that the dark room had a pull that made him want to go in and find out what was inside.

"But..." the man said hesitantly.

But Gu Huai didn't give him any chance to hesitate, and jumped into the entrance of the dark room while he was not paying attention.

The man had no choice but to grit his teeth and resist vigilantly while looking around.

Gu Huai walked along the stairs and suddenly felt his vision become wider. He lit the lamp on the wall with a tinder.

Gu Huai saw the coffin in the middle of the dark room, his pupils shrank, and he walked towards the coffin.

When he got closer to the coffin and saw the bloody clothes inside, he was stunned.

He was about to reach out and grab the bloody shirt, but an old voice shouted, "Don't touch him! Don't touch him!"

Gu Huai was stunned for a moment, and looked in the direction of the sound. He saw a woman with white hair sitting on the bed with her hands and feet tied with iron chains.

The woman looked towards him warily.

When she saw Gu Huai's face clearly, she was stunned: "My child, is that you? You came back to take mother down, right? Mother has been praying for so many years, you finally heard my prayer, right?"

Gu Huai looked at the woman suspiciously but did not approach.

The woman's face darkened. "You're not him! Who are you?!"

Gu Huai slowly approached the woman. When he saw her withered hands, cloudy eyes, and pale face, his heart ached. He knelt down in front of her and said, "Grandma, I am your grandson. I finally found you."

The woman's pupils shrank, and she looked at Gu Huai in disbelief: "Are you really Jing'er's son?"

"It's me."

Gu Huai told the woman his life story, and she finally believed what he said. She tightly grasped the longevity lock that Gu Huai showed her.

"Grandma, I will rescue you now." Gu Huai said.

"Don't touch it!" The Queen Mother wanted to stop Gu Huai, but it was too late. As soon as Gu Huai touched the iron chain, he felt the whole wall shaking.

"Oh no, let's go!" The Queen Mother said to Gu Huai resolutely.

Before Gu Huai could react, the Queen Mother suddenly pulled out a tiny key from her hair, handed it to Gu Huai and told him an address.

"Go away, and don't show up here again!"

The Empress Dowager used all her strength to push Gu Huai away.

At this moment, Ye Baien's men hurried in and said, "Gu Huai, hurry up. For some reason, more and more people are gathering at the door of the palace, and they seem to be trying to break in."

Gu Huai looked deeply at the iron chain on the wall. He didn't expect that there was a mechanism here. The dog emperor clearly didn't want the empress dowager to leave here.

Gu Huai nodded to the Empress Dowager and left in a hurry.

As soon as the two of them came out of the dark room, they saw and heard the bedroom door being opened.

"You jump out the window and leave, I'll deal with them." said Ye Baien's men.

Gu Huai looked at Ye Baien's men guiltily. If it weren't for him, the mechanism would not have been triggered.

"Let's go together!" Gu Huai said.

Just as the Imperial Guards opened the door and came in, Gu Huai threw a flash ball towards the door.

A dazzling white light flashed, followed by a burst of thick smoke, and the Royal Guards standing in the front row fell down instantly.

Gu Huai and his stunned men quickly broke through the window and escaped.

At this moment, the pursuers came from behind and Gu Huai and his men fought with them.

Gu Huai fought one against three and seriously injured several of them.

But Ye Baien's men were injured, and Gu Huai injured his shoulder while trying to save him.

Gu Huai threw out the last flash ball again and quickly fled with Ye Baien's men.

They hid in the bushes and did a simple bandage, thinking about returning to the imperial garden.

Suddenly, a royal guard was seen passing by hurriedly heading towards the Imperial Garden. Soon, many royal guards surrounded the Imperial Garden.

The singing and dancing suddenly stopped, and the emperor sat there with a surprised look on his face, and asked someone to start counting the number of people.

She began to get scared, grabbed Lian Yan's hand and whispered, "Could there be an assassin? What if they hurt us?"

Xie Yunjiao's heart was in a knot, and she was looking at the entrance nervously.

Now the Royal Guards have surrounded the passage, and not even a fly can fly out of the scene.

Gu Huai hasn't come back yet, I'm afraid the Lian family will be implicated!

Xie Yunjiao looked at Lian Yan, who still looked calm, but she noticed that his hands hidden under the table were clenched into fists.

Xie Yunjiao looked at Ye Baien again, but Ye Baien didn't look at her. He seemed to be talking to someone next to him, as if he didn't take this matter seriously.

Xie Yunjiao knew that Ye Baien was just pretending to be calm.

I didn't expect that they had so many people stationed in the palace, who were familiar with the environment of the palace and even knew the patrol schedule of the Royal Guards very clearly, but they would fail at this time!