"Li Mufeng, wake up, wake up..."
Looking at Li Mufeng lying in a pool of blood, "Blood Purple Rose" felt a brief moment of panic.
Just now, I was so focused on saving people that I didn't notice behind me that Li Mufeng had taken an arrow for me. I wanted to bandage him and stop the bleeding, but there were too many assassins, and Li Mufeng didn't have many men with him when he left the city today. Arrows were raining down, and I didn't have time to spare. Li Mufeng was also fighting the enemy with his wounds. Now that all the enemies have been killed, he has also collapsed on the ground due to excessive blood loss.
"Am I...am I going to die? If...if I die, could you please grant me one request, for the sake of our past as husband and wife..."
Li Mufeng spoke haltingly, his voice choked with emotion, "Blood Purple Rose."
"Don't talk nonsense. I won't let anything happen to you. Conserve your strength, and I'll stop the bleeding right away."
"Help...help me save...save the Crown Prince, protect...protect Chen'er."
Li Mufeng grabbed the hand of "Blood Purple Rose" holding the silver needle, pleading intermittently, as if giving his last words.
“These are two separate things. I can’t do it. You have to get better on your own, otherwise I won’t take care of them.”
"Blood Purple Rose" said cruelly, and once again picked up the silver needle in her hand to stop Li Mufeng's bleeding.
"The most...most poisonous heart is that of a woman."
A moment of disappointment flashed in Li Mufeng's eyes, just as Wang Feng came to report.
"Your Highness, I followed the last remaining assassin and discovered that he entered the Jingnan Prefecture. I leaped onto the roof beam, and the man removed his veil. He is Cui Teng, the deputy general of the Jingnan King."
"It's him? Murong, how dare you hurt my 'Blood Purple Rose' man, I'll make you pay with your life."
"Blood Purple Rose"'s voice was as cold as ice, but a moment of joy flashed in Li Mufeng's eyes, simply because the woman in front of him said that she was his man.
But why was it "Blood Purple Rose" instead of "Cold Purple Rose"? Li Mufeng couldn't care less anymore. His eyelids grew heavier and heavier, and he eventually fainted.
"Your subordinate will immediately go to the palace to request an imperial decree to arrest Prince Jingnan."
Wang Feng volunteered, but "Blood Purple Rose" countered with a question.
"With the Feng family protecting him, will Prince Jingnan be in any trouble? If he insists that Cui Teng acted on his own initiative and knew nothing about the assassination attempt on the prince, what should we do then?"
"this……"
Wang Feng was speechless, after all, "Blood Purple Rose's" concerns were not without reason.
"Is this all we're going to do?"
Wang Feng was indignant, while Zhao Hu spoke in a deep voice.
“If my men storm into the Jingnan Prince’s Mansion and dare to harm the Prince, my Xuanlong Army will wipe them out in blood.”
"Don't be reckless."
"Blood Purple Rose" intercepted again.
"This won't do, that won't do, does Your Highness intend to just let it go like this? Or is Your Highness afraid of the Feng family?"
Zhao Hu snorted in dissatisfaction, and Wang Feng kicked him.
"Is this how you speak to the princess? Also, the princess seems like someone who's afraid of trouble?"
If they were afraid, they wouldn't have dared to take General Mu's leg, much less threaten Prince Jingnan with poison and introduce him to the palace. Don't forget that last time the Prince escaped danger, it was the Princess who intervened.
Upon hearing Wang Feng's words, Zhao Hu was speechless.
"It seems it's time to make Prince Jingnan fall ill."
"Blood Purple Rose" curled the corners of her lips into a smile, her eyes gleaming, and beckoned to Wang Feng with a finger.
"Go and do something for me."
At this moment, in the Jingnan Prince's residence, Mu Rong was pacing anxiously back and forth. A short while later, his deputy, Cui Teng, rushed in, panting heavily.
"Your Highness, Your Highness, it's done, it's done..."
"Did our people kill Prince Longxuan?"
Mu Rong was overjoyed, while Cui Teng shook his head.
"He's not dead yet, but he'll be soon. He's been hit by a poisoned arrow and has lost too much blood. Unless a god descends to earth, he's certain to die."
"Alright, I knew it. If you send so many people and still can't kill Li Mufeng, then you'll truly be useless."
Murong laughed triumphantly, then said coldly,
"To dare to humiliate my niece is to humiliate my daughter, and to slap me in the face. How can I let him off?"
It turned out that the news of Han Ruyi being betrothed by the Emperor yesterday and then having her engagement broken off by Li Mufeng had quickly reached Mu Rong's ears. Just as he was thinking about how to teach Li Mufeng a lesson, Empress Dowager Feng Xiuzhen sent him a message saying that Li Mufeng was on a cliff outside the city and that he should send someone to strangle him to atone for his crime.
If it weren't for his persuasion of the Empress Dowager to allow "Blood Purple Rose" to heal the Emperor, Li Mufeng and Emperor Li Hongwen would have died long ago. Because of this, Empress Dowager Feng Xiuzhen has always held a grudge against Murong.
This time, we want to give him a chance to redeem himself through good deeds.
Upon learning of this, Mu Rong dispatched over a hundred elite soldiers, determined to take Li Mufeng's life, and thus ordered everyone to coat their swords with deadly poison.
"only……"
After his moment of triumph, Mu Rong noticed Cui Teng hesitated, so he sternly shouted,
"Speak your mind. What kind of behavior is this, beating around the bush?"
“All the men we sent out were wiped out, except for one of my men.”
Cui Teng lowered his head, feeling the chill emanating from Mu Rong, and trembled with fear.
"What? Not a single one of our hundreds of elite soldiers survived? Didn't the Empress Dowager say that Li Mufeng only took a few men out of the city? How could he have killed over a hundred of us?"
Murong strained his voice, while Cui Teng's voice was barely audible.
"But the men that Prince Longxuan brought were all warriors capable of taking on a hundred men each. Wang Feng and Zhao Hu alone were fierce generals, and even Prince Longxuan, though poisoned, was not to be underestimated. Even Princess Longxuan..."
"Useless, a bunch of useless people..."
Mu Rong shouted angrily, just then a sweet, delicate voice came from behind him.
"Oh! Who is this, who has angered the Prince so much?"
This person was none other than Cui Teng's younger sister, Cui Meier. In order to curry favor with Murong, Cui Teng sent his own sister to Murong's bed.
The delicate little beauty was truly adored by Murong, and he spent his days in passionate lovemaking with her. When those tender hands climbed onto Murong's neck, all his anger vanished, and he would scoop her up in his arms, speaking in a deep voice...
"A bunch of useless trash, let them die!"
After saying that, he gave the beauty a quick peck on the cheek.
"It's still early, let's go back to our room and spend some time together."
"Your Highness, how annoying! My brother is still here!"
Cui Meier's voice was so sweet it could melt your heart. She winked at her brother Cui Teng before being carried into the inner room by Mu Rong.
Just as Cui Teng breathed a long sigh of relief and was about to leave, he heard his sister scream.
"ah……"
Then, disheveled, he ran out of the room.
"Mei'er, what happened?"
Cui Teng pressed for more information, and Cui Meier's trembling hand pointed to the room.
"His Highness... he... he vomited blood."
Inside the room, Prince Jingnan, Murong, had his eyes closed, and a pool of black blood on the ground was a shocking sight.
"Doctor Wei, what's wrong with the Prince? Why is he vomiting blood?"
Madam Shen Qinglian rushed over upon hearing the news and anxiously inquired about the situation.
"Yes! Doctor Wei, say something!"
The son, Mu Xi, was equally anxious. The Mu family relied entirely on his father, and if anything happened to him, the Mu clan would likely collapse.
"Reporting to Your Highness, Young General, the Prince has been poisoned."
Wei wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and spoke with her eyes lowered.
"What? The prince has been poisoned? Who poisoned the prince?"
Wei's voice suddenly became shrill, and then her sharp eyes turned to Cui Meier.
"It must be your doing, you bitch?"
"It wasn't me, it wasn't me, sob... Your Highness, you can't make such false accusations, sob..."
Accused by Wei, Cui Meier cried heartbrokenly. Seeing this, Deputy General Cui Teng quickly stood up to defend his sister.
"Your Highness, you can't make things up without evidence. My sister is so favored by the Prince, she has no reason to harm him!"
"You want evidence? Fine, I'll give you the evidence."
As Wei spoke, he shouted in a deep voice,
"Men, search Cui Meier's room."
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