Chapter 966: Daydreaming

"It's all my fault!"

Xue Ru squatted beside the bed with red eyes, unable to hold back her tears any longer: "If I had been more careful, if I hadn't been taken advantage of, if I hadn't introduced him to you and made you curious and summon him to the palace, you wouldn't have ended up in this situation. It's all my fault..."

How could she be so careless as to harm her sister!

Tang Ning patted her head and said, "It's none of your business. Lu Zhinian is not an ordinary person. Since he deliberately sneaked into the capital to poison me, even if it wasn't you, there would be someone else."

He had already given up everything, even using the abandoned child sent to the palace by the Lu family. Moreover, even she had not noticed the identity of "Zhu Xiyan", and no one was on guard against him. Even if Aju was not used by him, with Lu Zhinian's means, he would be able to get close to her sooner or later by using that identity.

"Don't blame yourself, it was my own carelessness."

Tang Ning comforted Xue Ru for a few words before looking up at Cao Dejiang and saying,

"Lord Cao, no matter what Lu Zhinian wants, I want to stay alive."

If he wanted to use her to control the Wei court, he would not let her die. Only if she was alive could he get the greatest benefit. Once she died, Lu Zhinian would get nothing.

And if he wanted to take her away because he loved her, he would not take her life.

Cao Dejiang nodded: "I understand. I will take you to the Lu family."

Tang Ning said "hmm": "Don't alarm others."

"I'll leave the affairs of the court to you and Lord Feng for now. Send people to search for His Majesty's whereabouts with all their might. A'ru, you and your aunt will help me take care of the children."

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At the Lu family mansion, Song Mo looked over the railing at the densely packed guards below and couldn't help but glance at the sky.

It had been more than an hour since Feng Qiuli and the others left, but there was no movement outside. Instead, there were more and more people guarding downstairs.

He couldn't help but worry. Now they were trapped in this house, and the people brought by the master had almost been captured. Although they left other people outside the city, if those people really wanted to perish together with the master, then the master would probably have no hope of escape.

Song Mo's face under the mask couldn't help but feel a little anxious: "Master, will they send people over?"

Lu Zhinian said, "Yes."

Song Mo: "But she is the Queen of Wei after all, and judging from what Madam Xue and Feng Qiuli did before, they might not be willing to compromise..."

What the master wants is the queen, and he also wants to take her away from the capital.

He did not hide his feelings for the queen at all. When Miss Xue came out of the waterside pavilion, she looked like she wanted to kill her master. Besides, Miss Song is now the queen of Wei. Even if she was poisoned, would those people really send her to the master?

Lu Zhinian sat quietly, the steam rising from the hot tea brewing in front of him. "It's because she's the queen, the most honorable person in the Wei Dynasty besides Xiao Yan, that they would definitely send someone here."

He sent everyone to kill Xiao Yan and watched him fall off the cliff with his own eyes. Although the news was suppressed in the palace, no matter whether Xiao Yan was alive or dead, the Wei Dynasty could not afford for the queen to get into trouble as well. Moreover, even if they hesitated, Tang Ning would definitely want to survive.

She had schemed against Lu Jiuan and Ming Ke before, and she was no longer the innocent and straightforward girl she used to be. With her current personality, she would definitely not choose to perish with him.

"If Xue Ru and the others really wanted to kill me, they would have already done it in the waterside pavilion. Since they didn't, they would definitely send Tang Ning here."

Song Mo opened his mouth when he heard this: "But what if..."

"Nothing will happen."

Lu Zhinian interrupted coldly. If they really didn't send the person over, then what he said before was true.

Even if Tang Ning died of poison, he would not survive alone.

He will go to hell with Tang Ning.

Seeing his master's sudden cruelty, Song Mo felt a little scared.

He didn't know why his master was so obsessed with the former Miss Song, so obsessed that he was terribly crazy. It was obvious that his master didn't care about Miss Song at the beginning, but since the two of them broke off the engagement, his master's temperament suddenly changed.

Song Mo opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but suddenly there was a noise outside, and a moment later there was the sound of armor colliding.

He hurried to the railing and saw that the black-armored guards who had surrounded the attic had dispersed to the left and right. On the empty road in the middle, a sedan chair was being carried closer.

The black-armored guards and imperial guards were guarding nearby.

Song Mo was instantly surprised: "Master, they seem to be here."

Lu Zhinian's hands trembled, and the calmness just now disappeared. He hurriedly stood up and saw that the sedan chair slowly stopped in front of the attic. The curtain was clearly drawn and he couldn't see who was inside, but he inexplicably felt that it was Tang Ning inside.

There was no longer any trace of the calmness on Lu Zhinian's face that he had when he was confronting Feng Qiuli and the others. He walked quickly downstairs in a panic.

When he reached the door, he suddenly stopped.

"Master?" Song Mo asked in confusion.

Lu Zhinian was filled with homesickness. He straightened his hair and clothes, then shook his sleeves. "Am I okay?"

Song Mo said, "Master, everything is fine."

Lu Zhinian finally felt relieved. He took several deep breaths, suppressed the tension in his heart, and walked out of the attic. However, before he got close to the sedan chair, someone blocked his way.

"What are you doing?!"

Yue Jian looked at him warily, and Yu Yanfeng and Wu Kui protected him on both sides, with their swords drawn from their waists, as if they were ready to attack Lu Zhinian at any time.

"Yue Jian."

Tang Ning's voice came from the sedan chair.

Yue Jian's expression changed, and she glared at Lu Zhinian fiercely before retreating with Yu Yanfeng and the others.

From the moment Lu Zhinian heard that voice, the severe pain in his head suddenly dissipated, as if the warm and comfortable sunlight suddenly shone through the fog, making him look at the sedan in obsession.

Then he saw the person in the sedan chair, Su Bai's soft hands, pull the curtain aside, revealing the face he had been thinking about day and night.

"Lu Zhinian, long time no see."

Lu Zhinian's heart trembled: "Tang Ning..."

He wanted to say it had been a long time since they last met, that he missed her so much, that he had no choice but to do so, and told her how much he had missed her over the past two years. But before he could say anything, he saw that the person in the sedan looked weak and cold.

"I didn't expect that after not seeing you for two years, you'd made yourself look like this."

Tang Ning's eyes fell on this completely unfamiliar face that showed no trace of the past, and he sneered:

"If you weren't still as ruthless and unscrupulous as before, I wouldn't have recognized you."

All of Lu Zhinian's eagerness turned into embarrassment. Although his headache was suppressed, his heart seemed to be clenched tightly by something, as if he was recalling the time when she was determined to break off the engagement with him.

Lu Zhinian's eyes were filled with pain:

"Tang Ning, don't do this to me."