Chapter 20 You must protect him well

Li Jinchen glared at Xie Anci and stormed out.

Gu Lingyu hurriedly followed.

"What are you doing? Do you want all these years of hard work to go to waste?" Gu Lingyu couldn't help but persuade him.

"Xie Anci has gone too far this time. If anything happens to Zhou Yunqing, how can I explain to my teacher?" Li Jinchen's face became even gloomier when he thought of Master Zhou.

Xie Anci did not hesitate to bring down the entire Zhou family because of Zhou Yunqing.

Thinking of Master Zhou's tragic death, Li Jinchen now wanted to lock up Xie Anci and beat him up.

"What happened in the past is in the past. With our current strength, we can't overthrow Xie Anci. We still need to be patient."

Gu Lingyu sympathized with Li Jinchen very much and knew the pain in his heart.

He, Li Jinchen and Zhou Yunqing grew up together, so there is no need to say much about the relationship between them.

On the other side,

Xie Anci was left alone in the palace.

On the bed lay the unconscious Zhou Yunqing.

Xie Anci stared at the pale-faced Zhou Yunqing on the bed with a gloomy look.

The person on the bed had a slightly rising and falling chest, with his hands crossed on his chest, motionless.

After a while, Xie Anci couldn't help but speak: "Are you still not awake? Are you still pretending to sleep?"

Zhou Yunqing on the bed slowly opened his eyes when he heard this.

His eyes were as calm as water, and his pupils were clear, not like someone who had just woken up from a coma at all.

"Regent Prince, long time no see." Zhou Yunqing chuckled, like a pure white jasmine blooming.

"I really underestimated you. You managed to come back alive from such a long distance." Xie Anci sneered.

"Because I have a grudge that has not been avenged, and I am unwilling to die like this."

"Regent Prince, do you think I can get revenge this time?" Zhou Yunqing stared at him with a smile.

Xie Anci was still as handsome as ever, with a tall and straight figure like a pine tree, and his bright red official uniform made him look like white jade.

The teardrop mole at the end of his eye added a bit of melancholy and scheming to him.

"Humph, I don't know what grudge you have." Although Xie Anci felt that Zhou Yunqing's return was a bit tricky, he was not afraid of him.

Giving Zhou Yunqing a way out before was already his biggest concession.

Dare to talk about revenge?

Joke.

"Revenge for the murder of my father." Zhou Yunqing's eyes were full of frost.

"Then you come and try." Xie Anci looked down at him, stretched out his slender fingers and clamped his chin.

"If I can get you away once, I can get you away a second time. If you want to die, I will naturally fulfill your wish."

Xie Anci stroked Zhou Yunqing's Adam's apple, and his nails slid lightly on the skin, as if hinting at something.

"You..." Zhou Yunqing felt a chill on his back. He didn't expect Xie Anci to be so reckless.

However, when he caught a glimpse of the figure outside the door, his expression immediately changed, and he pleaded with an innocent and pitiful face:

"Prince Regent, please don't kill me. If you want me to leave, I will leave now. Please don't kill me..."

Zhou Yunqing grabbed Xie Anci's sleeve tightly, and his nails almost dug into the flesh. Xie Anci felt pain, his face darkened, and he slapped him.

Snap!

The crisp sound rang in the palace, and Zhou Yunqing's pale face suddenly became red and swollen.

"Xie Anci! What are you doing!?" Li Jinchen saw Xie Anci bullying Zhou Yunqing from a distance, and he went forward in anger and pushed Xie Anci to the ground.

Xie Anci groaned, and the fragments of the jade bowl that had just fallen to the ground pierced into his palm.

Li Jinchen and Gu Lingyu hurried to see Zhou Yunqing.

"Yunqing, are you okay?" The two asked with concern.

Zhou Yunqing covered his face with a look of grievance.

"It's all my fault. I angered the Regent when I came back. I'd better leave." Zhou Yunqing was about to get up and leave, but Li Jinchen grabbed him.

"Where can you go? The Zhou Mansion is gone. You will live in the palace from now on. As long as I am here, no one can touch you." Li Jinchen glanced at Xie Anci meaningfully.

Xie Anci stood up silently and put his hands into his sleeves.

But his eyes suddenly went dark, and Xie Anci staggered and almost fell.

"Yes, I can protect you too. Don't worry in the palace. No one can hurt you." Gu Lingyu also assured.

But Zhou Yunqing's pale face was swollen and it didn't look very convincing.

Zhou Yunqing's delicate face looked pitiful because of the injury, and his eyes were full of tears.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, General Gu." Zhou Yunqing's voice trembled, as if he had suffered a great injustice.

"Why are you still polite between us? It is also our responsibility that we didn't protect you well before." Gu Lingyu felt very sorry for this playmate who grew up with him. Zhou Yunqing

was just a weak scholar who was powerless. Xie Anci was really cruel and hit him so hard.

"Come here, call the imperial physician." Li Jinchen said coldly.

"Prince Regent, won't you give me an explanation?" Li Jinchen looked like he was going to eat someone, and he looked really angry.

"What is there to explain? It's just what you saw."

Anyway, both of them would side with Zhou Yunqing no matter what, and he did slap him.

"You! Xie Anci, don't go too far!"

"Then you must take good care of him, and don't let him disappear again after a while." Xie Anci made a harsh remark.

Li Jinchen and Gu Lingyu stared at him angrily.

"Jinchen, my face hurts..." Zhou Yunqing leaned weakly in Li Jinchen's arms.

Li Jinchen hurriedly comforted him, "The imperial physician will be here soon."

"Your face hurts, and my hand hurts too." Xie Anci was too lazy to watch these three people pretending, and walked out of the palace.

"Thank you for leaving! Who allowed you to leave? Thank you for leaving!" Li Jinchen shouted hurriedly.

This person wanted to just walk away after hurting Zhou Yunqing?

Xie Anci seemed to have not heard anything and walked out with firm steps.

Gu Lingyu was also very dissatisfied with Xie Anci, but when he saw the broken jade pieces on the ground that had not been dealt with, he immediately frowned.

"Someone! Clean up here." Gu Lingyu was a little dissatisfied. How could these people be so inconsiderate?

There were a few bloodstains on the fragments of the white jade bowl, and bloodstains could be seen faintly on the ground.

Gu Lingyu asked Zhou Yunqing with concern, "Apart from the injury on your face, are you injured anywhere else?"

Zhou Yunqing shook his head with a confused look on his face.

"What's wrong?" Li Jinchen asked in confusion.

"Nothing." Gu Lingyu shook his head. Was the bloodstain on the ground from Xie Anci?

Gu Lingyu thought about it and decided to forget it.

It wasn't a serious injury.

Xie Anci walked a long way before he heaving a sigh of relief, leaning weakly against the tree trunk beside him.

Looking closely, Xie Anci's face was flushed, and it was obvious that he was ill. The wound on the palm of his hand was still oozing blood.

The broken jade pieces on the palm of his hand were still embedded in the flesh, which looked very painful.

Xie Anci was panting, cold sweat oozed from his jade-like face, and his eyes were black from time to time.

"Regent? Are you okay?" A voice like a clear spring sounded in Xie Anci's ears.