Ye Zhao glanced back at the corpse, then set it on fire.
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"Cough cough..." Wan Ge woke up by the river and looked at the completely unfamiliar place, feeling a terrible headache.
"Ruanruan, what's going on?" Wan Ge slowly stood up, looking at the vast expanse of reeds in front of her, completely bewildered.
Suddenly, some images flashed through her mind, and Wan Ge slowly accepted all the memories.
When she stood up, she had her past memories; those fragments after she stood up reminded her of this world.
Where is this place?
Ruan Ruan then obediently replied, "My lord, do you remember? You fell off a cliff? There happened to be a river, and you fell into it and were swept away to this place. This place is far from the palace, but not far from the capital."
After saying this, Ruan Ruan was silent for a moment before speaking again: "You forgot to tell Marquis Jing'an that the plan was canceled, so now everyone thinks you are dead."
"..." Wan Ge paused for a moment, thinking about the method she used to fake her death before she regained her memories. Later, she truly accepted Ye Zhao and no longer wanted to fake her death to escape, but she never told her family that she was canceling the plan.
But I only asked them to arrange replacements, not suicides! Where did these assassinations come from?
Wasn't this just a lucky accident? The family must think it was her doing, which is why a queen's corpse appeared.
Looking down at her current state, Wan Ge thought that going to the Jin Palace rashly might not be appropriate. She should return to Kyoto first to see how things were going before making any further plans.
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Half a day later, the secret guards who had been following the Marquis of Jing'an and his son quickly gave Ye Zhao an answer.
"Your Majesty's guess was indeed correct; this matter is related to Marquis Jing'an. But I've always wondered why Prince Nan's men were involved, yet in their conversation, they seem to believe that the assassin was sent by Her Majesty."
What did they say?
The guard honestly recounted everything he had heard.
I overheard the father and son talking, saying that this time, faking their deaths to escape was the Empress's idea.
However, they couldn't find the Empress's whereabouts or receive any signals from her, which made them uneasy and worried that something might have gone wrong.
Therefore, Marquis Jing'an also instructed the young marquis to send some people to secretly search for the young princess.
"You faked your death to escape, little Ge'er... Do you really want to leave me? Haven't I treated you well? Why do you still want to leave me? When I find you, I will definitely break your legs so that you can never run away again and never leave me again."
Ye Zhao slammed his fist on the table, and the table shattered into pieces the next second.
The guards stood silently to the side, not daring to utter a sound, for fear that the next thing to break wouldn't be the table.
"Is there any news about Her Majesty the Empress now?"
The guard shook his head: "Below the cliff are animal carcasses and tangled plants. We haven't found Her Majesty the Empress. However, there is a river nearby. Her Majesty the Empress must have fallen into the water, which is why we have been searching for so long without finding her."
"Then continue searching for me. If there aren't enough secret guards, call upon the Imperial Guards as well."
"Yes." The guard answered and obediently left, while Ye Zhao looked at the piece of jade in his hand again.
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