Song Yaozhu's inner garment was loose and baggy, and the underpants under her outer robe were short. When she lifted her leg to "touch" someone, her beautiful and slender calves would always be exposed.

When Xie Liwei rushed into the cabin with murderous intent, he saw Song Yaozhu scatter a handful of quicklime. The assassin was unexpectedly stung and couldn't open his eyes. A short blade pierced his abdomen, and he staggered back against the ship's wall. Xie Liwei kicked him out of the window.

After dealing with the assassins on the pleasure boat, Song Yaozhu lay in Xie Liwei's arms as he rubbed her lower abdomen.

"Would you like some water?" Xie Liwei was covered in blood and smelled unpleasant. But he was reluctant to jump into the lake to wash himself.

"I'm not drinking anymore, let's go home."

Xie Liwei carried her to the soft couch and went out of the cabin to sail the ship.

At dawn, the pleasure boat docked. Xie Liwei carried Song Yaozhu off the boat, and the imperial guards on the shore froze when they saw that both of them were covered in blood.

I hope the prince and princess didn't get into a fight on the boat.

While they were still in a daze, Xie Liwei's cold voice rang out: "Last night, the king and the queen were attacked by assassins. Inform your commander about this."

The Imperial Guards felt a chill run down their spines.

They were the Emperor's guards, representing the most formidable military force of the Great Chen Dynasty. Under their protection, the entire Summer Palace should have been impregnable. Instead, a murder occurred followed by an assassination attempt—a slap in the face to their Imperial Guards!

When Caijin and Caiyin saw their prince and princess return in such a disheveled state, they quickly ordered someone to boil water for them to bathe.

After sitting in the comfortable bathtub, Song Yaozhu breathed a sigh of relief. Her sore body was enveloped in water, and all the tension in her body relaxed.

But at that moment, a hand stroked down the back of her neck, causing her spine to straighten and her to tremble uncontrollably.

A splash of water erupted as Xie Liwei entered the bathtub. The tub was large enough to accommodate two adults, but Song Yaozhu was still stingy and unwilling to share it with him.

The main problem is that this person is too unrestrained!

"Hurry up and finish washing up, then go eat and sleep!" Perhaps the Imperial Guard Commander Jiang Peiwang is already waiting outside to question you.

"That's why it's faster to shower together." Xie Liwei pressed one of his large hands against her lower abdomen, teasing her repeatedly. "Aren't you full enough?"

Song Yaozhu grabbed his hand and bit it hard, leaving bright red teeth marks on his tiger's mouth, forcefully suppressing all those delicate moans.

Caijin and Caiyin are both waiting outside!

"Xie Liwei, you are simply..." Before she could finish her curse, he kissed her and then coaxed her, "I can't help it. I can endure it before I've tasted the sweetness of the flesh. How can I not miss it after I've tasted it? Be good, call me Ali."

"Waaah... Ahri..."

"Hmm, good girl."

Sister...

Song Yaozhu's prediction was correct. When Jiang Peiwang heard that the couple had been assassinated, he immediately reported it to the emperor and then came to their courtyard to wait for questioning.

However, the couple made him wait for more than half an hour before they finished getting ready.

"I have already sent people to retrieve the bodies from the lake, but I don't know how the Prince and Princess escaped?" Jiang Peiwang's eagle-like eyes searched the two faces, trying to find something in their expressions, but unfortunately he found nothing.

Everyone outside knows that Xie Liwei is a scholar who is good at composing poems, but no one knows that he is also skilled in martial arts.

"Hmm?" Xie Liwei looked puzzled. "I thought that the imperial guards sent by Commander Jiang to protect us were the ones who rescued my wife and me at night."

Jiang Peiwang looked at Xie Liwei in confusion, and heard Xie Liwei say, "Last night, I was bowing to the Princess Consort... Ouch!"

Before he could finish speaking, Song Yaozhu pinched the soft flesh of his waist hard.

"Commander Jiang, please listen to me. Yesterday at midnight, the Prince and I were enjoying the night view on a pleasure boat when we heard a noise on the lake. The Prince thought there were fish swimming, so he took a harpoon to spear one for me to eat. Unexpectedly, he accidentally killed someone with the spear. Then the assassins were exposed and boarded the boat to commit the murders."

While the prince and I were at a loss, a skilled martial artist appeared, walking on water. With cries of surprise from both of us, he swiftly dispatched the assailant. The prince and I, disoriented in the lake, groped our way back for quite some time before finally finding our way.

Seeing that she choked up as she spoke and looked extremely frightened, Jiang Peiwang's doubts lessened by half. However, he remained skeptical of the "expert" she spoke of.

No one in this world can walk on water!

"At this time, I will report to the Emperor that the Prince and Princess have been frightened, and it would be best to ask the imperial physician to come and take their pulses."

After Jiang Peiwang left, the imperial physician indeed arrived. Only after everyone else had left did Song Yaozhu eat and lie down to rest.

Yongle didn't come over until evening.

"I came secretly, without letting anyone know. Could your assassination attempt be related to the Imperial Concubine?"

Song Yaozhu neither confirmed nor denied it, but she felt that Yuwen Wuji played a major role in this.

"That's why I told you to stay away from me. If something happens, your mother will tear down the Prince Xiaoyao's mansion, won't she?"

"Don't worry, I thought you were just trying to comfort me before, and I didn't take it seriously. Now that I see how miserable you are, I won't come even if you ask me to. I came here today to tell you to stop bothering me."

Song Yaozhu: "......"

These two best friends from a past life broke up so quickly.

After Yongle left, Yuwen Xian and the other ladies came to inquire after him. Their words were full of probing, causing a sense of unease among them.

Perhaps the commotion was too great, so the Imperial Concubine did not take any further action against them. The day to return to the city arrived peacefully, and once back in their own residence, their tense nerves relaxed considerably.

Granny Qin helped Song Yaozhu pack her luggage, and then asked Princess Caijin and Princess Caiyin if anything had happened between them and the Prince.

When she heard that the two had been assassinated, Granny Qin turned pale with fright.

"Amitabha! Amitabha! Heaven protects us! Thank goodness the princess and the prince are both safe, otherwise how could I explain this to my master!"

Song Yaozhu came out of the inner room and, upon hearing Qin Mama's words, smiled and asked, "Mama, can you tell me about Ali's mother?"

Granny Qin was taken aback. No one in the Xie family, except Xie Lu, knew Xie Liwei's true identity; they only told others that his mother had died young. Xie Lu was unwilling to mention it, and outsiders speculated that his birth mother was a woman of low status.

Granny Qin opened her mouth, unsure how to begin. Over the years, to protect Xie Liwei, she had remained silent and endured the slander against her master from others.

Now that the princess had asked, she was overwhelmed with emotion, tears streaming down her face, and she couldn't say a word.

"She is a very good mother..."