Chapter 950

Upon returning to the Prince's residence, she saw Huo Yue standing at the entrance. Seeing that she was unharmed, he breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

"What happened in the palace?"

"This is not the place to talk."

Zhong Jie kept walking and made her way back to her own courtyard.

Huo Yue turned to Huo Zhao and Shen Rang, who had followed him all the way, and said, "Zhao Zhao, you should go back and rest too. Your mother is fine."

"Can......"

Huo Zhao looked towards the courtyard gate.

Zhong Jie is no longer visible.

She had no choice but to say, "Alright, if anything happens, Father will send someone to fetch me."

Huo Yue nodded and stepped into the courtyard, making sure to close the gate behind him.

Huo Zhao sighed, "What could possibly happen in this palace? Why haven't I found out yet...?"

Shen Rang put his arm around her shoulder: "Alright, Mother is already back. What serious matter could it be? You've been standing at the palace gate for so long, you should go back and get some rest."

In the courtyard, as the two voices faded into the distance, Huo Yue sat down next to Zhong Jie and asked, "What happened?"

Zhong Jie turned her head and looked directly into Huo Yue's eyes.

It seemed like she hadn't looked at those eyes so intently in a long time.

Those eyes were dark and deep, containing the vicissitudes of decades on the frontier.

The eyes look very different from when I first left Luoyang.

Zhong Jie took a deep breath: "I... killed her."

"Consort Jing?"

Zhong Jie nodded.

Huo Yue was not surprised: "Don't worry, I'll go to the palace in a bit and see how His Majesty handles it. At worst, we can just go back to Yunnan."

“His Majesty will not take any action,” Zhong Jie said. “His Majesty ordered me to do it.”

Huo Yue was genuinely stunned.

"What... happened?"

Zhong Jie closed her eyes.

Thinking of what Consort Jing had said, she felt a pang of panic.

However, she quickly calmed down and told Huo Yue everything that Consort Jing had asked her to do.

Finally, she said, "I don't want Zhaozhao to know about this."

Huo Yue nodded: "I'll listen to you."

If Huo Zhao knew that he had once been in such a vortex, where he could have been shattered to pieces if he wasn't careful, he would definitely be terrified.

Even though Consort Jing is now dead and no one in the world will harm her anymore, there is even less need for Huo Zhao to know.

Thinking about it carefully, it really wasn't easy for Huo Zhao to be born into their family.

The next moment, Huo Yue's eyes sharpened as he looked towards the latticed window in the courtyard wall: "Who goes there?!"

When there was still no movement, Huo Yue grabbed the teacup beside him and smashed it against the lattice window.

"Father-in-law!"

Outside the latticed window, Chen Rang's urgent voice rang out.

Huo Yue's pupils contracted, but Zhong Jie reacted even faster, already getting up and walking outside.

Seeing Huo Zhao standing there unharmed, Zhong Jie breathed a sigh of relief: "You silly child, why did you overhear me?"

Huo Zhao, though lacking conviction, said confidently, "I was just curious."

Zhong Jie sighed helplessly, "Did I hurt you?"

"No."

Seeing this, Zhong Jie took Huo Zhao's hand and led her into the courtyard: "I didn't tell you because I was afraid you would overthink it."

Huo Zhao shook his head.

She was indeed deeply shocked.