The emperor's arrival couldn't have been more timely.
When he arrived, he saw her alone in a room with a man.
Whether or not something happens, it will certainly arouse suspicion.
After all, what emperors have in abundance is suspicion.
But how could it be such a coincidence?
A thought popped into Gu Jiangli's mind: She had been set up!
The thought of this possibility led her to target Liu Bufan on the ground.
"So it was you who brought the Emperor here?"
Liu Bufan jolted to his feet, his face turning deathly pale, and he could barely speak.
"What...the Emperor has arrived?!"
Gu Jiangli rubbed his forehead, utterly speechless.
"Then I'm sorry, we can only save one of us."
"...What do you mean?" Liu Bufan asked hurriedly.
Gu Jiangli didn't have time to explain to him anymore. She turned around, picked up a vase, and smashed it on Liu Bufan's head with a crisp "thud".
Liu Bufan, who had just gotten up from the ground, suddenly rolled his eyes and collapsed back to the ground, blood streaming down his forehead...
Broken pieces of the vase were scattered all over the ground.
Gu Jiangli looked at the bloodstains on her hands and put on a very aggrieved expression.
She lifted the hem of her skirt and ran outside.
While running, he also shouted:
"Help! Help!"
Gu Jiangli hadn't run far when she ran into the Emperor and Consort Shu, who were heading towards her.
She found the right angle, twisted her ankle, and fell into the emperor's arms.
The emperor pulled her into his arms.
"What's wrong? What happened?"
He looked anxious.
He had just reached the door when he heard cries for help, which startled him so much that he rushed inside immediately.
Unexpectedly, she saw Consort Xian running towards her in a panic, her hands covered in blood, looking extremely frightened.
His hands, which were holding Gu Jiangli, were trembling; he was terrified that she had gotten hurt.
"You're bleeding, are you injured? Who hurt you?" He asked several questions in a row, his voice filled with anxiety.
He was completely oblivious to the pale, shocked face of Consort Shu beside him.
Gu Jiangli caught a glimpse of Consort Shu's expression out of the corner of his eye and secretly guessed that this matter must be related to her.
At the same time, they did not forget to put on a good show in front of the emperor.
Her crying was heartbreaking; she trembled uncontrollably in the emperor's arms.
"Your Majesty...Your Majesty, I'm so scared...I think I...killed someone."
"What?!" Consort Shu asked along with the Emperor.
"What exactly happened?" Consort Shu asked.
She kept stretching her neck into the room, but it was pitch black and she couldn't see anything.
The emperor immediately understood and issued an order on the spot:
"Guards! Surround Yilan Palace! No one is allowed to enter or leave without my order!"
Then he turned to Gu Jiangli and said:
"Don't worry, with me here, no one can hurt you."
"Tell me, where are you injured? Besides your hand, where else does it hurt?"
The emperor's gentleness changed Gu Jiangli's opinion of him.
The fear on his face was an act, but the worry in his eyes was real.
Gu Jiangli sobbed twice, then said in a trembling voice:
"My hand is injured, but the rest of my hand is fine."
The emperor's brows furrowed so deeply they could trap a fly, as he stared intently at the wound on Gu Jiangli's palm.
The wound wasn't deep, but the blood was shocking to see.
"I'm still not at ease. I'll have the imperial physician come and take a look later."
Consort Shu, who was standing nearby, could not stand it any longer and asked:
"Consort Xian, please don't be afraid. Since you are not injured elsewhere, you should be fine. Why don't you tell me what happened just now? His Majesty... is very worried."
Despite Consort Shu's best efforts to conceal it, Gu Jiangli still saw through the urgency in her expression.
Gu Jiangli smiled smugly to himself.
In fact, His Majesty didn't care at all about what had just happened; he only cared whether she was injured.
Compared to the emperor, Consort Shu was the one who wanted to know the truth even more.
It seems she really was the one who did it.
Perhaps she knew Liu Bufan would come to see her today, so she deliberately brought the emperor over to catch them in the act?
Then everything makes sense.
She knew that there was no such thing as a coincidence in the world.
Hmph, since Consort Shu wants to act, then I'll just play along.
Thinking of this, Gu Jiangli held her forehead with one hand, then her body went limp, and she leaned all her strength on the emperor.
The emperor immediately became extremely nervous.
"What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell somewhere?"
Gu Jiangli shook her head, "Your Majesty, I'm just a little dizzy, but if the Imperial Concubine wants to know what happened last night, I'll tell you right away."
"Tonight, I felt thirsty and wanted to ask Lotus to bring me some tea, but no matter how much I called, Lotus wouldn't come in."
"At that time, I felt dizzy and weak, but in the dim light I saw the door open and a shadowy figure sneaking in."
"Your Majesty was terrified. That figure was clearly a grown man. This is the inner palace! How could a man sneak into a concubine's room?"
"Therefore, I believe that it must be an assassin. So, even though I was weak and dizzy at the time, I still used all my strength to grab a vase and smash it on his head when the man closed the door."
"That assassin seems to have been killed; he's not moving at all..."
At this point, Gu Jiangli cried even harder.
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