Gan Qiongying cried and rubbed against Li Hua's chest, breaking Li Hua's heart, before she finally managed to tell him the truth, albeit haltingly.

As the saying goes, "love me, love my dog," even though Li Hua had only met Gan Lin a few times, and Gan Lin had even threatened Li Hua on several occasions, as long as the name Gan Lin came out of Gan Qiongying's mouth, Li Hua was shocked to hear that he had been persecuted in this way.

Having ascertained the details of the matter, Li Hua's expression was icy cold, even extremely gloomy.

Unfortunately, at this moment, Gan Qiongying was buried in Li Hua's gentle embrace, her eyes blurry with tears and red and swollen. Even if she raised her head, she could not see Li Hua's appearance at this moment.

"Don't worry, I'll help you. Don't cry. I'll have Manyue apply some ointment to your eyes, otherwise they'll get even more swollen later."

Gan Qiongying refused to lift her head from Li Hua's embrace. She poured all her weakness and vulnerability into Li Hua, trusting and relying on him completely.

She hummed twice to indicate that she didn't want to move, and Li Hua really didn't move. He held Gan Qiongying tightly, his heart tightening and relaxing with her every breath.

"I will definitely help you, you don't need to worry anymore." Li Hua gently rubbed his chin against Gan Qiongying's head. From an angle where Gan Qiongying couldn't see, he lightly fiddled with the Buddhist beads that Gan Qiongying had given him, his eyes revealing a murderous intent.

Those who hold power in this world, even those from slightly noble families, all look down on merchants, always thinking that they are scheming and despicable, bowing and scraping for money and a little bit of vulgarity.

But the marketplace is a silent battlefield, and Li Hua has orchestrated one war after another without gunpowder. He is already a "battle-hardened general".

People die for money, and Li Hua would never dare to say that he had never taken a life.

Li Hua had never subjectively intended to kill anyone, but at this moment, his beloved woman was curled up in his arms, crying helplessly because her family had been bullied, and Li Hua truly and sincerely wanted to kill the Regent.

During this time, he had already planted dozens of spies around the regent. Li Hua quickly calculated in his mind what method he could use to minimize the loss of soldiers and generals in this battle, or even to retreat unscathed.

Just as Li Hua was starting to come up with a plan, Gan Qiongying suddenly stopped crying. After she had cried enough, she had Manyue bring her cold water and, while sobbing, applied ice to her skin.

Then, revealing one eye, he turned his head and said to Li Hua, "Don't worry about this matter; let me handle it myself."

“I can make him wish he were dead myself,” Gan Qiongying said through gritted teeth. “Give me some time to plan this out.”

She already had a vague idea; now she just needed to confirm a few things, then visualize those ideas, and gradually turn them into reality.

“I can help you,” Li Hua said urgently. “I can do anything, I’m more capable than you think…”

Gan Qiongying switched to applying ice to one eye and looked at Li Hua with the other eye, saying, "You don't understand, I have to do this myself."

"He harmed my 'child,' and only by taking revenge myself can I experience the joy of vengeance!"

"Don't worry, I'll definitely ask you for help whenever I need it." Gan Qiongying's expression was unusually firm; she was never one to rely on others for everything.

Even though she was still timid and weak, Gan Qiongying was unwilling to rely on anyone or let anyone take revenge for her.

Although Li Hua desperately wanted to prove his masculinity, he had many martial arts figures at his disposal. Even in the case of simple assassination, he could have waves of skilled assassins frequently attempting to kill him, making the Regent live in constant fear and afraid to even sleep.

Until he finally died at the hands of that group of people.

However, Gan Qiongying said she didn't need him. Although Li Hua really wanted to help, he respected Gan Qiongying's opinion.

Li Hua never thought that Gan Qiongying was just a weak and incompetent person. He used to think that Princess Duanrong was tyrannical and arrogance, but from a certain day onwards, Princess Duanrong changed in Li Hua's heart and eyes.

She is gentle and sweet, resourceful and intelligent. She always manages to do things that surprise Li Hua. She's just a regent, she'll do a good job.

However, although Gan Qiongying did not involve Li Hua in this matter, she did not hide anything from Li Hua when doing things.

Li Hua had been keeping a close eye on Gan Qiongying's movements. Over the next period of time, based on Gan Qiongying's various actions, he had roughly pieced together what she was going to do.

Then Li Hua was shocked once again.

Gan Qiongying has attempted to assassinate the Regent three times in the past few days, all with people from her own household or even those close to her.

On one occasion, she even left behind the guard token of her princess residence, and the regent had survived three assassination attempts, yet his guards did not take any precautions.

Clearly, the regent had no respect for Gan Qiongying, and because of Gan Qiongying's desperate assassination attempt, he gradually became more and more fearless.

When the Regent actually dared to meet with his colleagues and arrange to drink in a brothel, Li Hua knew that Gan Qiongying had achieved her goal of completely lowering the Regent's guard.

Throughout this process, Gan Qiongying maintained a very good balance. Her guards never harmed the Regent in the slightest, and were even frequently injured themselves. Because of this, even when the Regent found the token of the Princess's guards, he never pursued the crime of assassinating a court official.

Because Gan Qiongying understood the Regent's thoughts very well, he had just tormented Gan Lin, and tormented him by deceiving Gan Lin.

If he were to punish Princess Duanrong again now, Gan Lin would surely fight him to the death.

Gan Qiongying was stuck on this line of events, repeatedly using all sorts of disgusting methods to lower the Regent's guard, and even letting some people in the court know that the Regent and Princess Duanrong had been having frequent conflicts recently.

Although they did not know what had happened between the two, none of them believed that Princess Duanrong could do anything to the Regent.

Meanwhile, Gan Qiongying frequently appeared with her entourage at places where the Regent was talking to others, whether it was a brothel or a pleasure boat; wherever the Regent was, she was there too.

When the regent listened to music, she would send people to wail and mourn; when the regent watched a dance, she would send people to brandish swords and spears; she even joined the regent in vying for the title of courtesan.

To those around the Regent, Princess Duanrong was like a mad dog, unable to bite a tiger or hurt the Regent even a little bit, no matter how wide she opened her mouth.

Even the regent himself thought so.