Liuli paused for a moment, then asked doubtfully, "Are you really going to give me the imperial seal?"
Xuan Yuanhao said gently, "I said back then that if you want that jade seal, I will give it to you."
A long-lost warmth spread through Liuli's cold heart, making her eyes soften slightly. She nodded and said, "Okay, thank you."
Xuanyuan Hao smiled and nodded. He slowly walked out of the hall. When he saw the corpses of several guards outside the hall, he paused for a moment, then walked away silently.
Xuanyuan Hao values quiet most when he paints, so there are usually no palace maids serving him in the Jingxin Palace. Apart from a few guards outside the palace, no other people dare to approach. It is precisely because of this that after Liuli silently killed the guards outside the palace, even after such a long time, no one has discovered what happened here.
Not long after Xuanyuan Hao left, several guards arrived outside the Jingxin Hall. Liuli, who had been lost in thought with her eyes downcast, frowned upon hearing the footsteps, a terrifying aura flashing in her eyes.
She assumed these guards were summoned by Xuan Yuanhao to kill her, and the warmth that had just filled her heart vanished instantly, replaced by a murderous aura. Her grip on the chair armrest tightened abruptly, her knuckles turning white. She moved to stand up, but the guards outside the hall showed no sign of coming in. They merely whispered among themselves, collected the corpses outside the hall, and left one after another.
Liuli's tense body slowly relaxed, her hands gripping the armrests loosening little by little. She leaned back in her chair, her expression softening, a hint of guilt appearing in her eyes. For the first time in twenty years, she felt even a trace of remorse for killing someone.
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