After Lin Xiuyan finished speaking, she picked up a wooden stick from the side and started hitting the guards wildly.
Knowing he was in the wrong, the guard dared not retaliate and could only step aside, saying, "Please calm down, Your Highness!"
"I didn't mean to!"
Lin Xiuyan retorted angrily, "What do you mean you didn't do it on purpose? What? Did you intentionally come to see this?"
"You are completely disregarding me, the crown prince! I will go and ask my father to stand up for me!"
He Shen stared in disbelief at her actions.
He was already surprised that she could change her clothes in such a short time.
The way she opened the door just now, if he hadn't seen her enter the room with his own eyes, he probably would have thought she had been woken up from her sleep.
Her fierce and shrewish appearance actually made He Shen feel a sense of familiarity, as his mother also had a similarly shrewish personality.
After Lin Xiuyan's outburst, the guards no longer dared to barge into her room and were driven out of the courtyard by her sticks.
He Shen chimed in, "How dare you lay a hand on the Crown Princess!"
It was perfectly reasonable for Lin Xiuyan's guards to help at this time.
After Lin Xiuyan shooed away the guards who had barged into the courtyard, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
The longer they can delay, the greater the chance that Ye Junfei will be able to return.
But before she could fully relax, Lei Song, the head guard of the Prince's Palace, came over with a dark expression.
He said coldly, "Since the guards saw the man in black break into the residence of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess, then for your safety, you must search it."
"Please, Princess Consort, do not make trouble. Otherwise, if you encounter assassins, we will not be able to explain to the Prince."
He was a confidant of the Prince of Pingnan and was in charge of the defense of the entire Prince's residence.
Although he was called the head of the guards, he actually also led a guard unit of the Prince's Palace.
It is said that he once saved the life of the Prince of Pingnan and was highly trusted by the Prince of Pingnan.
Normally, once he'd said this much, Lin Xiuyan should have stepped aside.
However, Lin Xiuyan's actions can never be judged by common sense.
Lin Xiuyan leaned against the courtyard gate, her body slightly tilted, a wicked glint in her eyes: "Judging from your words, you seem quite responsible."
"Alright, kill the guard who hit me and peeked at my chest, and I'll let you in."
Lei Song frowned slightly: "He was just accidentally injuring the Crown Princess while performing his duties. There's no need for the Crown Princess to make such a big deal out of it."
Lin Xiuyan chuckled and said, "I'm making a big deal out of this? Then let me ask you, when you're on official duty, if you injure the Princess, can you just pretend nothing happened?"
Lei Song's brows furrowed even more deeply.
In his heart, although Ye Junfei and Lin Xiuyan held the titles of the heir apparent and heir apparent's wife of the Prince of Pingnan, Lei Songzhen didn't take them seriously.
After all, he knew that the Prince of Pingnan had always wanted to depose Ye Junfei.
However, Lin Xiuyan does indeed hold the title of Crown Princess, and if such a thing happens openly and becomes a big deal, he will indeed be punished.
Lin Xiuyan smiled wickedly at Lei Song and said, "Also, your squad of guards made all sorts of excuses to rush into my room today."
"With your behavior, can I reasonably suspect that you are lusting after my beauty and trying to take advantage of me?"
After she finished speaking, she reached out and tugged at the collar of her shirt.
She was only wearing a thin nightgown, and when she pulled it up, her undergarment was vaguely visible underneath.
Even if Lei Song didn't take her seriously, she was still the legitimate Crown Princess, and he didn't dare to look at her.
He immediately lowered his head and said, "Princess Consort, please have some self-respect!"
Lin Xiuyan sneered: "You broke into my room in the middle of the night, barging in before I could even get dressed."
"Not only did you beat me up, but you kept glancing at my chest, and now you're telling me to have some self-respect?"
"Commander Lei, is it I who need to show self-respect, or are you all the ones who need to show self-respect?"
Lei Song: "..."
Men and women are different, and if they were to say such things, they would be in the wrong anyway.
However, his men saw a dark figure jump into Lin Xiuyan's residence, and they couldn't ignore it.
He gritted his teeth and said, "If I have been impolite today, I will leave the punishment to the Crown Princess in the future!"
"But tonight an assassin has infiltrated the palace, and it is my duty to capture him."
"If the Crown Princess doesn't move aside, don't blame me for being impolite!"
Lin Xiuyan glanced sideways, raised one leg and placed it on the opposite door frame, asking with a half-smile, "How exactly are you being impolite?"
Lei Song's facial muscles twitched, and he said coldly, "The Crown Princess insists on not letting us in. Could it be that she is harboring assassins?"
Lin Xiuyan wasn't afraid of him labeling her that way.
She clapped her hands and said, "It's one thing for the guards of the Prince's mansion to be disrespectful to the Crown Princess, but to also accuse them of harboring an assassin is truly eye-opening! I admire them! I admire them!"
She looked at Lei Song and said, "Go ahead and try to pin these accusations on me. If you're so capable, just kill me right now!"
Lei Song: "..."
He had been the commander of the royal guards for many years, but this was the first time he had encountered someone as difficult as her.
He Shen witnessed firsthand what it means to lie through one's teeth tonight!
He feared following a useless master, but he wasn't afraid of a master with ability.
At that moment, he thought about many things. His previously conflicted feelings dissipated after witnessing Lin Xiuyan's blatant lies.
He pulled Lei Song aside and said, "She is, after all, the Crown Prince's wife."
"Even if someone saw the man in black arrive just now, after all this commotion, he's probably already gone."
Lei Song and He Shen knew each other before. He Shen used to be the person of the Princess of Pingnan, so the two had some relationship.
Under normal circumstances, if He Shen smoothed things over, Lei Song should have let the matter drop.
Lei Song was extremely uncomfortable at the moment. The more Lin Xiuyan tried to stop him from going in, the more he wanted to go in.
He felt there must be something shady going on in this courtyard.
Lei Song said in a deep voice, "Whether there are assassins or not, we will know after we go in and check. If the Crown Princess tries to stop us again, she will be the same as an assassin!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he reached for his sword, his eyes filled with a fierce look.
He has taken many lives, and the murderous aura emanating from his gaze is something an ordinary woman could not withstand.
But Lin Xiuyan had seen Ye Junfei, who was even more murderous, so Lei Song's appearance was nothing to her.
Just as Lin Xiuyan was about to speak, suddenly with a "boom," a huge flame rose from the residence of the Princess of Pingnan.
In the blink of an eye, the place became a sea of fire.
Lin Xiuyan was slightly surprised, because that sound was so similar to the sound of the ball she had created.
Lei Song's expression changed drastically. He no longer cared about Lin Xiuyan and immediately led his guards to rush towards the residence of the Princess of Pingnan.
Lin Xiuyan crossed her arms slightly, squinted at the sea of fire, and swallowed hard.
Could this have been done by Ye Junfei? Bombing your own house like that is incredibly audacious!
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