"Your Highness, what's mine is yours. Feel free to look around!"
He turned to look at Madam Zou and urged, "Don't just stand there, quickly take Her Highness the Princess for a stroll in the garden."
Ms. Zou was startled and hurriedly went to greet her.
But Qin Yue Zhao raised her hand to refuse: "General Ling, your wife is heavily pregnant, how can I trouble her?"
"How about this, let the commander of your guards show me around. He can protect me if anything happens."
"Okay, okay, that's good too!"
Ling Tianen hurriedly turned his head and shouted towards the main entrance, "Ling Buyi, are you deaf? Hurry up and come in to accompany Her Highness the Princess for a stroll around."
Ling Buyi walked in from outside the door, a barely perceptible glint of cold light flashing in his eyes.
But when he walked up to Qin Yue Zhao, he acted extremely submissive, kneeling down and clasping his hands in greeting: "Yes!"
Qin Yue Zhao looked at the man in front of her.
This man was a few years older than Ling Tianen. He had dark skin, but thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a muscular physique. Even in times of war, he was still very well-trained.
"Your name is Ling Buyi. How long have you been with General Ling? Since you share the same surname, you must be from the same family?"
Walking through the vast mansion garden, Qin Yue Zhao chatted with him casually.
Ling Buyi kept his head down the whole time, his voice neither soft nor loud.
"Your Highness, I am indeed a member of the Ling family, but from an unfavored branch."
"Really? Then General Ling must trust you a lot, bringing you all the way to the front lines."
Ling Buyi's lips curled up slightly, whether in a mocking or proud manner was unclear:
"I grew up with General Ling since I was a child. He is my master, so I naturally trust him."
Qin Yue Zhao paused slightly, casually plucked a leaf, and played with it in her palm.
"Is that so? Then why did you do such a heinous thing, putting him in a position of being unrighteous, disloyal, and unfilial?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the leaf in his hand whistled out and struck Ling Buyi's face like lightning.
Ling Buyi lightly touched the ground with his foot, took a step back, barely dodging the sharp leaves, and then knelt heavily on the ground, clasping his hands in a fist and bowing respectfully.
"Your Highness, this humble general does not know what he has done wrong to anger you so much. Please enlighten me!"
Upon hearing this, Chen Wan'er couldn't wait to step forward and pointed at his belt, asking, "As the deputy commander of the Imperial Guards, you don't even know that the buckle on your belt is missing?"
Ling Buyi's gaze fell on his belt. When he saw that the dark brown jade stone on the right was missing, his face turned pale. He then took out a dart and threw it at Qin Yue Zhao.
"careful!"
Chen Wan'er shouted loudly.
A flash of sword light appeared, and the sharp sound of weapons clashing resounded through the sky.
Ling Buyi leaped into the air and drew his sword to slash at Qin Yuezhao.
Upon seeing this, Chen Wan'er instinctively drew her sword and launched a counterattack.
However, the next second, Qin Yue Zhao simply turned her body slightly to the side and caught the whistling broadsword with one hand.
"Clang!"
The broadsword snapped between her fingers, and she slapped Ling Buyi's shoulder blade with her backhand.
Ling Buyi was sent flying three meters away, crashing into a flowerpot in the corner of the wall before falling heavily to the ground, but he was still cursing under his breath:
"Qin Yue Zhao, I only regret that I didn't kill you when you were sick!"
It turns out that he had visited the general's mansion when Qin Yuezhao was sick.
However, Chen Wan'er and four guards surrounded the bedchamber, making it impossible for him to make a move. That's why he assassinated Huo Zichu, hoping to cut off Qin Yuezhao's path to investigating the person behind it all.
Unexpectedly, Qin Yue Zhao found out about him because of a single button.
Knowing he had nowhere to escape, he pulled out poison from his sleeve, preparing to commit suicide by taking it.
Unexpectedly, Chen Wan'er reacted quickly and kicked him, sending him flying again.
This time, he was kicked to the feet of Ling Tianen, who rushed over, and the poison rolled several meters away.
Ling Tianen stared blankly at the brutal fight scene.
"Your Highness, what's wrong? Did Ling Buyi anger you? Tell me, and I'll put him in solitary confinement!"
"Solitary confinement?" Qin Yue Zhao sneered. "Selling out one's country for personal gain and assassinating members of the royal family—does that really need to be dealt with by solitary confinement?"
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