Chapter 241 Let's watch this good show together
Looking at her son's eyes, twisted with jealousy and hatred, Old Madam Huo felt a pang of fear and quickly advised, "Don't think about those things now! Shen Qingci is now the Regent's Consort, and Chu Jichen is behind her! She... I'm afraid she's not easy to deal with!"
"Not easy to deal with?" Huo Yunzhan turned his head sharply, his eyes like poisoned blades, staring intently at his mother. "Don't you want revenge?! The Huo family is in this state because of her! Me too!"
Old Madam Huo looked at him, opened her mouth, and the words "all of this is clearly your own fault" rolled in her throat, but in the end she swallowed them back down.
She could only take a deep breath and try to comfort him haphazardly: "Mother... Mother can only see how things go. I think Shen Qingci is probably not easy to deal with now. Even if something really happens to the Regent, she herself will not be easy to deal with."
Seeing Huo Yunzhan frown, Old Madam Huo could only say again, "Mother will do her best."
Having said that, she didn't linger any longer and turned to leave quickly.
Yuanbao, disguised as Eunuch Zhu, walked in again.
“There are too many people and too many eyes in the capital,” he said in a shrill voice, “and I’m afraid we’ll have to offend General Huo.”
"We plan to use a coffin to disguise you as a dead person and transport you out of the capital. But we're afraid something might go wrong on the way, so we have to drug you first."
Huo Yunzhan's face was somber, but he simply nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Eunuch Zhu."
After Huo Yunzhan was knocked unconscious again by a chop to the neck and taken away by Yuanbao, Shen Qingci and Chu Jichen slowly emerged from the shadows.
Shen Qingci looked in the direction Huo Yunzhan was taken away and sneered, "Still thinking of taking this opportunity to arrest me? You're still dreaming."
"In seven days, he will be on the guillotine."
"I wonder what kind of wonderful reaction he will have when he finds out he's going to the guillotine."
Chu Jichen looked at her and asked, "While he's still here, should we wake him up and see him?"
Shen Qingci shook her head: "Forget it, let's wait and see to avoid any complications."
"If he finds out the truth and secretly spreads the news, causing trouble, it would be a loss. I've waited this long, so a few more days won't matter."
The two returned to the Regent's Palace together, and Shen Qingci finally remembered the news that Qingming had reported earlier.
She turned to look at Chu Jichen, her voice heavy with concern: "The Shen family's secret service has discovered that Liu Wenyuan... is most likely hiding in the palace."
Chu Jichen, however, did not seem surprised.
He slowly unbuttoned his outer robe, gripped the armrests of the wheelchair with both hands, and slowly stood up!
Then, he took another step forward and sat down on the bed.
Shen Qingci was stunned!
She quickly knelt down in front of him, looked at his legs, and asked incredulous surprise, "You...you can walk now?"
Chu Jichen chuckled, his voice tinged with helplessness: "I merely used the momentum to take a step forward; it doesn't count as walking."
“However,” a hint of relief flashed in his eyes, “it’s much better than before. Before, I trained to stand and walk with support every day, and recently I’ve been doing acupuncture and medication, so it can be considered as having yielded results.”
"That will be soon!" Shen Qingci was very happy. "It's already great that there's progress!"
As Chu Jichen looked into her bright, sparkling eyes, his mind involuntarily drifted back to the time when he, under the alias "Xiao Tu," spent the entire night in the camp discussing military strategy and conducting sand table exercises with her.
At that time, her eyes seemed to be filled with stars.
For a long time, the stars in her eyes disappeared.
Now... finally, it's back.
Chu Jichen lowered his head and gently kissed her eyes, which were filled with joy.
Then she slowly said, "I will get better."
“There are many positions,” he said, his voice hoarse and ambiguous, “but you need to be in good legs to do them.”
"I'm somewhat... interested in giving it a try."
Caught off guard, Shen Qingci could only reach out and push him away, which only made him chuckle softly.
After Chu Jichen laughed, he took her hand again and whispered, "I also know a little about Liu Wenyuan's affairs."
“My people have been looking for him and have some leads.”
Shen Qingci's attention was diverted when he finally got back to the main topic. She asked, "If he is really in the palace, could it be... that he's secretly colluding with Emperor Yongming to deal with you?"
Ji Chen's lips slowly curved into a smile, and his deep phoenix eyes gleamed with all-knowing wisdom and shrewd calculation.
He looked at Shen Qingci and asked instead of answering, "If you were Emperor Yongming, and you knew that Liu Wenyuan had gone to great lengths to sneak into the palace, what would you think?"
Upon hearing this, Shen Qingci spoke almost without thinking, her voice filled with chilling coldness:
"He's here to kill me!"
“That’s right.” Chu Jichen nodded, his eyes full of approval. “If it were before, Emperor Yongming might have believed Liu Wenyuan. But,” his voice was full of endless sarcasm, “things are different now.”
"Emperor Yongming has assumed personal rule."
“And Liu Wenyuan,” a hint of mockery flashed in his eyes, “is already irrefutable in his crimes and has treasonous intentions.”
"Moreover," his voice suddenly turned cold, "Liu Wenyuan is not of the same surname. He is Emperor Yongming's greatest hidden danger!"
"The same applies to Liu Wenyuan."
“He would think that since he had successfully infiltrated the palace, if he could assassinate Emperor Yongming silently, then the throne and the world... would be his.”
Chu Jichen narrowed his eyes slightly, his dark eyes filled with madness and calculation.
“Even if they don’t think that way,” his voice was like a ghostly whisper, “I will find a way to steer them in that direction.”
"I will make Liu Wenyuan feel that he has a chance to kill Emperor Yongming."
"At the same time," a cruel smile curled at the corner of his lips, "I will also let Emperor Yongming know that Liu Wenyuan has infiltrated the palace. I will even make Emperor Yongming keep a close eye on Liu Wenyuan, making him pay attention to his every move, so that Emperor Yongming will think that Liu Wenyuan wants to kill him!"
“And I…” he looked at her, his eyes filled with an irrepressible smile, “I only need to sit on the sidelines and watch the tigers fight, and find ways to make them both suffer heavy losses.”
“It would be best,” his voice was light, yet filled with a deadly chill, “that they all die.”
Shen Qingci listened quietly, feeling as if the blood in her body was boiling instantly!
This scheme is truly... insanely crazy, and... ruthlessly vicious!
The slightest mistake could lead to utter ruin!
Can……
Looking at the man before her, at his eyes filled with strategic thinking and unwavering determination, the slight worry she felt due to the risk gradually dissipated.
She believed him.
I don't know when it started, but this trust has become ingrained in my bones.
She slowly curved her lips into a smile, and in her clear phoenix eyes shone the same excited light as him.
“Okay.” She looked at him and said, word by word, “Then we… shall watch this good show together.”
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