Li Zhan's personal guards rushed over, and the men in black were immediately at a disadvantage and retreated step by step.

"Let's go!"

The assassin wanted to retreat, and Li Zhan, who was holding Shen Shuyi, sneered, "Search the mountain, don't let anyone go!"

"Yes, sir!"

Li Zhan's hand gripped her wrist tightly, so tightly that it almost crushed her bones.

Shen Shuyi raised her eyes and met his bloodshot pupils, which were filled with anger, disappointment, and a trace of pain that she could not understand.

Li Zhan didn't say anything, he just carried the man onto the horse's back, then jumped on it and galloped back to the camp with the man in his arms.

"Call the imperial physician!"

He put the person on the bed in the tent and checked Shuyi's injuries from head to toe. There was a lot of blood on her back.

"How about it?"

Shen Shuyi opened his mouth weakly, "I'm fine, the cut wasn't deep, just a minor skin injury."

"Don't talk, let the imperial physician treat and bandage your wound." Li Zhan's voice was hoarse.

Shen Shuyi grabbed Li Zhan's hand and saw that he was covered in blood. "Prince, are you injured too?"

Especially the arms, which were still bleeding.

Li Zhan looked down at his arm and said, "It's a minor injury, nothing serious."

The imperial physician came in to examine the wound. "Fortunately, the wound isn't deep. All that's needed is cleaning, applying medicine, and bandaging."

"Leave the medicine here and get out."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Li Zhan personally treated Shen Shuyi's wounds. Seeing the hideous bloodstains on her back, his heart tightened.

When Shen Shuyi saw him applying medicine and bandaging the wound, veins bulged on his forehead, as if he was trying hard to endure something, and the knuckles of his fingers wrapped in bandages turned white and were tense.

After he finished bandaging it, he closed his eyes and said, "It's done."

"You rest first. You don't have to wait for me tonight."

Shen Shuyi grabbed his hand and said, “Your Highness, your wound has not been treated yet.”

"I will go out and ask the imperial physician to bandage the wound."

Li Zhan stood up and left, his eyes full of icy coldness. He reached down and pinched the sachet around his waist, his fingertips unconsciously stroking it gently.

Such a big thing happened in the hunting ground, and no one present was allowed to leave without permission. They had to wait for the royal guards to find the assassin before they would stop. Everyone was in a panic for a while.

Shen Shuyi was lying on the hospital bed chatting with System 66, "66, he should have discovered that I am on the assassin's side."

"Today's assassins are a bit strange, it seems there are two groups."

[Dear host, the assassins have been captured. Li Zhan's men are torturing them severely. I never thought Lu Zhen'er would take this opportunity to send someone to assassinate you.]

Shen Shuyi was shocked, “It’s a big fight, a mess, a mess.”

[Dear host, please think about what to do. Li Zhan knows your background.]

Shen Shuyi nodded, “I also have a feeling that a storm is coming, let the storm come even harder!”

[Host...66 feels you are playing with fire.]

Shen Shuyi was really not in a hurry, she just wanted to have a good sleep now.

…

Li Zhan went out to bandage the wound, and when he returned to the bedside, he saw Shuyi sleeping on the bed, her nose twitching and her breathing weakly.

He sat by her bed, holding her hand and looking at her sleeping face, lost in thought.

"Your Highness." Chen Qing's voice was heard outside the tent.

Li Zhan gently let go of her hand and tucked her little hand into the quilt. Then he put on his outer robe and slowly walked out to the next tent.

Chen Qing reported what he had found out, "These assassins have long been lurking in the Nanyuan Hunting Ground, and the person in charge of the Nanyuan Hunting Ground is the Empress Dowager's nephew, Liu Zhigao."

"Liu Zhigao must have received orders from His Majesty or the Queen Mother to send assassins into the hunting ground..."

Liu Zhigao was originally an uneducated man. It was only after the Emperor and the Empress Dowager came to power that he was promoted to be the manager of the hunting ground.

They did not dare to assign any official position that was too obvious. After all, the Regent was very strict in selecting talents, and all the talents in the world came from the imperial examinations and military examinations.

Li Zhan sat back in his chair, pinched his eyebrows, and his handsome features looked a little tired.

The man tapped the desk lightly with his slender fingers, his brows full of sneer.

"Mother and son can't wait."

Chen Qing hesitated for a moment before finally saying, "There are two groups of assassins today. The other group was arranged by Concubine Zhen to assassinate the princess."

"As for why the assassins arranged by the emperor showed mercy to the princess, they confessed everything under duress. The real Princess Xuanhua had long since died in Lu, and the one who came in her place was Shen Shuyi, a secret guard Your Majesty had kept while he was a hostage in Lu."

When Shen Shuyi was mentioned, Li Zhan's eyes flashed with the scene where she said she wanted to give herself a name and she grabbed his hand and wrote the word "Shuyi".

And...the way she threw herself forward to block the assassin's sword when it attacked from behind.

Li Zhan lowered his eyes slightly, and when he spoke, his voice was almost inaudible, "She is just a pitiful chess piece."

Chen Qing was slightly startled, and when he looked at the prince, he caught a flash of pain in his eyes.

Who would have thought that the future Princess Regent would actually be a spy planted by the enemy...

"No need to investigate further. Pass on my order to dismiss Liu Zhigao, the governor of Nanyuan, and Yuan Xiu, the commander of the Yulin Army, from their posts and punish them with 100 strokes of the cane. All other related personnel will also be investigated and punished."

Even a grown man would not be able to escape after being lashed with the stick 100 times. Even if he survived by chance, he would have to lie in bed for the rest of his life.

Liu Zhigao was killed because of his poor management. Dealing with the commander of the Yulin Army was tantamount to cutting off the emperor's protection and exposing the emperor's safety to the imperial city.

Both of them are the emperor and the empress dowager's men, and the regent is tantamount to slapping them in the face.

Li Zhan tapped his knuckles lightly on the table, "And Concubine Zhen, give her white silk."

Chen Qing froze. The prince was going to break off relations with His Majesty. Everyone knew that Concubine Zhen was His Majesty's most beloved concubine.

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