The sunlight slanted in from the window behind Xiao Yu. The man on the desk had an elegant figure and his fingers holding the pen and ink had distinct joints.

He was writing something with his eyes lowered, looking serious and somewhat melancholy.

Li Huashi was half lying on the couch, and her attention was involuntarily attracted by the man in front of her.

She hadn't turned the page of the notebook in her hand for a long time.

She had seen Xiao Yu, who was arrogant and domineering, and who was complacent because he thought he had figured out everything. She had seen Xiao Yu, who used his charm to seduce her like a peacock advertising tickets. She had also seen Xiao Yu, who acted in front of her, showed weakness, pretended to be pitiful, and played palace tricks.

She had even seen the proud prince care for her considerately and feed her.

Just like the soft couch she is lying on now, which was not there originally and was added later.

Because I don’t like sitting on that hard chair, and I don’t have any regular sitting posture.

She has seen many versions of Xiao Yu.

But at this moment, Xiao Yu was serious, dedicated and focused on doing one thing.

This was the first time she had seen it.

It is said that serious men are the most handsome. Li Huashi suddenly understood what this sentence meant.

I don’t know why... She seems to be starting to care about Xiao Yu.

"Your Highness."

At this moment, the guard walked in from outside the door and called out softly, interrupting Li Huashi's thoughts.

After Li Huashi reacted, she silently raised the notebook in her hand to cover her face.

Xiao Yu's mouth corners, which had been suppressed for a long time, finally couldn't help but slowly rise.

The guard continued, "There's a message from Prince Ao Yu of Nan Jue. Their messenger invites you to meet him tonight."

When Li Huashi heard this, her eyes darkened and she thought about her arrangements in her mind again to make sure that there were no mistakes.

Xiao Se sent someone to contact Li Hanyi and Zhao Yuzhen secretly, although Li Huashi didn't know what they said.

But the two of them will never use Li Huashi again.

Even if nothing was said and it was just a tactic to sow discord, Li Huashi didn't plan to use it again.

But it's still possible to use it in the end.

For example, Li Huashi gave Li Hanyi and Zhao Yuzhen an order, asking them to lobby Wushuang City to support King Chi.

Li Huashi's purpose was just to make Xiao Se think that she had no other moves, and to send them away from Tianqi in advance just in case Li Hanyi and Zhao Yuzhen finally rebelled and caused trouble for her.

Because Xiao Yu had been connected with Nan Jue behind the scenes for a long time before she met Xiao Yu.

So what Li Huashi was worried about was that these people in the underworld would suddenly accuse Xiao Yu of colluding with other countries, and then find a righteous excuse for themselves, saying that they could not repay the life-saving grace, but could not become a traitor and betray their side.

Xiao Se's eyes were fixed on Wu Xin. In that case, I would take advantage of your illness to kill you. You reach out to Wu Xin to snatch Wu Xin away, then I will reach out to the throne.

Xiao Yu changed into a nice red dress and went to meet Ao Yu.

However, Li Huashi certainly knew that the so-called Ao Yu was Xiao Se's plan to lure Chi Yu away from Chi Wang's Mansion.

And tonight is the Lantern Festival, which only happens once a year. It is Li Huashi's first time in Tianqi, so there is no way she would not go and have fun.

Even Xiao Yu, who didn't attend such festivals, knew that he would definitely go, so before leaving, he said that he would come and accompany him as soon as he finished his work.

So when Li Huashi and Huqi were strolling around the lantern festival, Xiao Se led people to intercept Xiao Yu. On the surface it was an assassination, but secretly they sneaked into Chi Wang's Mansion and wanted to take Wu Xin away.

With the help of Jin Xuan, a character card has quietly slipped into the palace.

The reason why Jin Xuan's help was needed was to prevent Xiao Yu from being traced.

With Jinxuan's help, many things can be done more cleanly.

Xin Baicao has secretly treated Xiao Ruojin and restored his consciousness.

Since the poison can be successfully detoxified in time, then let's assassinate him.

Now two of the five great supervisors are dead and one has escaped. Although Qi Tianchen and Lan Yuehou are still there, Bai Du, who is in the mysterious realm of wandering, can at least keep them at bay for quite some time.

So Li Huashi asked Bai Du to directly appear and attack the palace to divert attention, and then another character card took advantage of the chaos to assassinate Xiao Ruojin.

Even if the assassination fails, it’s okay. Li Huashi has already confirmed with Huqi that cards don’t feel pain when they are injured or die.

So Li Huashi told that character that if the assassination failed, he should directly sprinkle the flint powder, also known as white phosphorus, in the iron box onto Xiao Ruojin. At the same moment, he should self-ignite and then hold onto Xiao Ruojin tightly to ensure that Xiao Ruojin would be burned to death.

Just in case, Li Huashi bought this character newly.

So he appeared out of nowhere and no one could find out about him.

Even if Xiao Se could guess that it was his person, what could he do without evidence?

Of course, Li Huashi also transferred 500 gold coins to that character as a consolation.

There was no other way. I originally wanted to poison Xiao Ruojin to make his death less painful.

But since he doesn't want to, I can only suffer a little.

What if an innocent person is implicated?

Then Li Huashi could only say sorry. If the other party's family came to seek revenge in the future, she could also issue an edict of repentance.

In this case, the other party should forgive me anyway, since I have already apologized.

Li Huashi also gave Jin Xuan the forged Dragon Seal Scroll. Jin Xuan looked at the fake Dragon Seal Scroll and thought of the document signed by all the officials. In the end, he said nothing.

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