"Well done, Xiao Yun'er, you truly are my brother."
"I didn't lie to you, did I, Xiao Qing?"
"Long time no see, Xiao Lingzi."
"Have you found a wife, Mu Bai?"
I was actually starving, but considering how much effort they had put into rescuing me and Ji Ruchen, I dragged my tired body to greet everyone. Unfortunately, no one paid any attention to me; they were all busy dealing with the trouble behind them.
"Are you alright, cousin?"
King Lingguang looked at Ji Ruchen with great concern in his eyes, but he disregarded me, no longer displaying his former domineering demeanor.
She resembled that hotheaded Gu Changzhou, her eyes sparkling with deep affection—this was the image of a legendary rival in love. Clearly, rivals in love transcend gender.
Ji Ruchen nodded, helped me into the carriage they had prepared, and then jumped in himself. He then asked Prince Lingguang:
"What's the situation now?"
Prince Lingguang also jumped onto the carriage and became the driver, answering as he drove:
"The court is controlled by the Gu faction, and our people have been almost completely wiped out by Prime Minister Gu. All we know is that His Majesty is imprisoned in Weiyang Palace, and my aunt is missing. In addition, the Anguo army has arrived outside the city."
On the second day of last month, three out of seven kingdoms and sixteen continents were wiped out overnight, leaving the entire world in a state of panic.
The refugees fleeing Kyoto were heading in the same direction as the Anguo army, and they were all captured, with countless dead or wounded.
It seems another war is brewing. Those kings and generals will be lonely, and the common people will suffer.
"Yes, let's leave quickly."
Ji Ruchen seemed to have expected this, looking quite confident.
Luo Qingyun and Xiao Qing were both excellent at light-footed skills; they had already disappeared far away while we were talking.
It was just past dawn, and everyone says that the morning air is the air of life, but to me it looked dark and oppressive, like the end of the world was coming.
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Since I was rescued from the death row that day, I have been living in a secluded villa in Dongguanfang, which was arranged by Ji Ruchen for more than three and a half months. By the way, he is no longer a prince, but a fugitive.
Father was worried about Second Mother, so he took Xiao Qingling back to Minchuan. Luo Qingyun also failed to join the army and is now a strategist under Ji Ruchen.
It turns out that after I was arrested that day, Luo Qingyun went to the Ministry of War and said in the afternoon that the official was a member of the Crown Prince's faction who was plotting a rebellion, and that everything he said was fabricated. The Anguo army was invited by the King to assist him in capturing the rebel.
Ji Ruchen said that the imperial edict to recruit soldiers was issued at his request and at the request of his mother, the Empress. Unfortunately, less than half a day later, he went to the palace to discuss with his father, the Emperor, how to deal with the Anguo army's invasion of the border.
His father, however, arrested him on charges of treason and rebellion, and sentenced him to death. That's how I ended up seeing what happened.
Since Ji Ruchen was imprisoned, the court of Yi Kingdom has completely fallen into the hands of Prime Minister Gu Zian, and the king and queen have both died at his hands.
Speaking of which, my newly appointed father-in-law is also a pitiful person. He is said to be a high and mighty monarch, but in reality, he has never been in charge of anything for a single day.
As a child, he was adopted by the Empress Dowager, who was then a concubine, because his mother was a lowly slave. At that time, the Empress Dowager made him fawn over her without any limits in order to maintain her position in the harem.
He faced all sorts of attacks, both overt and covert, but he managed to overcome them all. Relying on his father's favor, he married the daughter of the General Who Protects the Nation and became the ruler of the country.
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