This person was originally a stand-in he was keeping. King Qi knew that he coveted the throne and intended to rebel, and if he was discovered, he would be sentenced to death.
So he had prepared an escape route for himself from the start, so that a substitute could die in his place at the critical moment, and he could escape in this way.
These assassins were not acting on the orders of King Qi, but rather under Xie Qi's other identity, Qi Xie.
Cai Xian and Wei Ping moved faster and faster, their faces turning red and white in turns.
A sense of humiliation at being fooled made them so agitated that they mistook the assassins in front of them for Xie Qi and attacked him with deadly moves!
By the way, his name isn't Xie Qi anymore; he's changed it to Qi Xie!
"This person is truly cunning! They faked their death to escape, so why did they still try to assassinate me? What deep-seated hatred could drive them to expose their existence!"
On the surface, he only filed one complaint, and the four major families implicated him, but she didn't participate at all.
He probably thought he had done it perfectly, and that even if the assassination failed, no one would guess that it was him.
After all, he's a dead man now. In this world, besides Xie Zhiyao, who was sent for a political marriage, only his beloved son and his favored concubine know about this.
"So, Xie Zhiyao's last glance back before his wedding was a secret signal he was giving his father?"
[It should be. From the moment the King of Qi was placed under house arrest and the emperor began investigating his properties, he had already prepared to fake his death.]
Over the years, he has spent a lot of money training people, so the accounts of the Prince Qi's mansion cannot withstand scrutiny.
He knew from the beginning that his plot to rebel would be discovered sooner or later. He only told her about his faked death the night before Xie Zhiyao's marriage proposal.
Xie Qi must have considered the Western Qiang as his escape route, otherwise he wouldn't have told Xie Zhiyao.
He didn't even tell his beloved son, so why should he tell a woman who married out of the country? Isn't it because he's after her future status?
"Little Pearl, why didn't you say so sooner? Otherwise, this assassination attempt might have been avoided."
"Master, I only learned of this recently by connecting these assassins to their master. You know me; I can't unleash even one ten-thousandth of my divine power..."
"Alright, I understand. It's not your fault. It was just an assassination attempt, nothing serious!"
"Little Bead, you said that next time we encounter an assassination attempt, we should let our guard down and see if I can have an epiphany when I'm on the verge of death. What do you think?"
Yue Fuguang's eyes darted around as she started tapping. Although she had the system's protection, it still consumed energy.
Therefore, in order to save energy, we must start from the source.
Upon hearing her words, Cai Xian, Huo Ying, Wei Ping, and the others clearly panicked. They fought as they moved closer to Yue Fuguang, gradually forming a line with the Yu family father and son.
These people were afraid that the loyal divine artifact master would actually listen to the little immortal lord's words.
【No good! Master, you are now a mortal. Swords and blades have no eyes; people can really die!】
Everyone nodded in agreement. The Divine Artifact Master was right!
"So what if we die? There are three thousand minor worlds and three thousand medium worlds. We can just choose one and start over!"
[Would you be willing to let me grow up from a baby to an adult?]
"Uh... Little Bead, how about we pretend I didn't say anything earlier?"
Hearing Yue Fuguang's words, Wei Ping and the others did not lower their guard. They could not trust the young master's unpredictable temperament.
If she were to give orders to the Divine Artifact, just like His Majesty gave orders to Eunuch Qian, even if she felt it was inappropriate and disagreed, she would definitely carry them out!
Before they had even finished drinking a cup of tea, two squads of Imperial Guards attacked from both sides of the street.
The assassin leader, who had been directing operations from his high vantage point, saw that the reinforcements had arrived faster than they had anticipated. Without lingering for battle, he decisively ordered, "Withdraw!"
This was achieved by using internal energy, and even Shen Kang, who was on the outermost edge of the Imperial City Guard and had come to provide support, heard the assassin trying to escape.
Quickly take your men to surround and block the area.
According to what the system later told her, this chase, this desperate struggle that lasted all night, still resulted in some people escaping.
[Master, these people are very familiar with the capital city. They even used the abandoned hideout of 'Brother Shameless' and his gang after they were captured as a temporary refuge.]
"Since he's one of Prince Qi's men, it's normal for him to be familiar with the capital. I just wonder where Prince Qi is now. Could he have gone to serve Xie Zhiyao like Bai Yu did?"
[Rest assured, Master! Prince Qi will not leave the capital until he obtains the treasure left by the late Emperor for Prince Rong.]
"The King of Qi wants to seize the late emperor's treasury? How did he know about this?"
Yue Fuguang sat on the throne in the imperial court, found a comfortable position, and began her work of eating melons and earning points.
Everyone in the court pricked up their ears. Two officials who were arguing about their differing political views in the main hall suddenly stopped, leaving their opponent stunned.
Why did this person suddenly stop arguing? You were about to win the argument, so what does it mean when he stops?
Judging from the opponent's expression, is this guy going to have a 'lapse' at this moment?
Clearly, this gentleman is a prime example of someone who has become a doctor through his colleague's long illness; just by looking at his face, you can tell that the person opposite him is having an attack!
When the late emperor was still alive, the Prince of Qi had placed many of his own people in the residences of his brothers. In this respect, the Prince of Qi was indeed a master.
One of his spies, whom he had planted in the Prince Rong's residence in his early years, actually rose to the position of a close confidant of the Prince Rong a year before the old emperor's death.
At this time, King Qi had only been married to Feng Suiyu for less than two years, and Xie Zhiyao was still in her mother's womb.
Later, knowing his days were numbered, the old emperor explained the matter of the treasury to Prince Rong, intending to watch his son take the treasure while he was still alive.
Unfortunately, he didn't foresee that he would die young.
This also caught Prince Rong off guard. Before he could even open the treasure vault, his father died, and his old rival took the throne, leaving him with no chance to retrieve the treasure.
Emperor Mingxi had only been on the throne for a short time when he used ruthless methods to suppress all sides, and he acted too quickly against Prince Rong.
So much so that he only had time to instruct his eldest son to take his confidants to dig for treasure before he and his sons and confidants were arrested.
Xie Qi's confidants only had time to have their youngest daughter inform the Prince of Qi that he, as a confidant of the Prince of Rong, had been arrested by the new emperor's men.
That little girl was Xie Wei, the most trusted first-class maid in Xie Qi's household.
Emperor Mingxi's eyes flashed. Back then, his brothers' families and subordinates numbered in the thousands. In addition to focusing on whether any of his brothers and confidants had escaped, his men did not even spare a single one of their sons.
However, it's not impossible that a little girl might have run away.
They tend to subconsciously overlook certain things when it comes to female relatives.
"Since Xie Qi knew about the treasure vault, why hasn't he gone to retrieve it all these years?"
Because even the trusted confidants didn't know the exact location, they only knew that a treasure vault key was needed to open it, and the route map was hidden inside the key.
Her confidante only glanced at the key. Her daughter was only six years old at the time, and it's unclear whether the child's description was inaccurate. Xie Qi has been searching for the treasure key she described all these years.
Two years ago, he found out some information about the key.
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