Qin Xiangyang quickly helped Pei Zhi up and was about to question the coachman outside.
The coachman shouted, "Assassin!"
Upon hearing this, Qin Xiangyang immediately shielded the princess behind him without hesitation.
Suddenly, a sword pierced through the side of the carriage. Pei Zhi reacted quickly and pushed Qin Xiangyang aside.
Otherwise, the sword would have pierced Qin Xiangyang's body.
Pei Zhi immediately said, "Let's get off the carriage first."
The carriage was too conspicuous; they couldn't see what was happening outside, making it difficult to hide.
"I'll protect the princess," Qin Xiangyang said, but the carriage door was kicked open.
Pei Zhi immediately drew the soft sword from her waist, grabbed Qin Xiangyang by the collar with one hand, and rushed forward.
Qin Xiangyang was just a businessman, so his martial arts skills were naturally average.
Pei Zhi kicked the person who climbed onto the carriage, saying, "I'll get off first. Find a place to hide yourself."
Pei Zhi was quick and agile, and in one swift motion, she got off the carriage.
The masked man who had been fighting with the guards immediately rushed to Pei Zhi's side.
Pei Zhi understood; this was all aimed at her.
After fighting the masked men, Pei Zhi discovered that they were quite skilled.
Moreover, they are not afraid of injury or death.
Pei Zhi glanced around and saw that there were about thirty masked men.
Even if Pei Zhi had three heads and six arms, he wouldn't be a match for this group.
Pei Zhi thrust her sword at the masked man in front of her, but the masked man neither dodged nor avoided it.
The sword pierced the masked man's chest, but the masked man's hand gripped Pei Zhi's sword tightly.
Pei Zhi was caught off guard and did not immediately dodge the knife beside her.
Pei Zhi's right hand, which was holding the sword, was slashed, and blood immediately gushed out.
Pei Zhi took the jade pendant from her waist and shouted, "Where are the secret guards?"
At Pei Zhi's command, the guards who had been watching from the sidelines all appeared.
Although these assassins were highly skilled, they were naturally inferior to Emperor Pei's secret guards.
The secret guards were numerous and quickly dealt with these assassins.
Pei Zhi held her sword to support herself, which prevented her from falling.
"Princess, are you alright?"
Pei Zhi shook her head and looked at the guard, "Where is the prince consort?"
Pei Zhi looked around but didn't see the prince consort.
The guard replied, "When the prince consort saw that the princess was injured, he tried to rush forward, but was kicked unconscious."
Knowing that Qin Xiangyang was still alive, Pei Zhi stopped asking questions.
"Please clean up this mess."
The guard immediately replied, "I did my best to spare their lives, but each of them has poison in their mouths..."
"I understand."
In other words, there's no way to prove it now that the dead are dead.
Pei Zhi was assassinated on the official road; the assassin went to great lengths to kill him.
If Pei Zhi only had these few guards around him, he would have been meeting his maker long ago.
Pei Zhi was escorted back to her residence by the guards, where the bleeding was stopped and medicine was prescribed.
Pei Zhi's face was terribly pale; the force of that slash was considerable.
If Pei Zhi hadn't dodged it, her arm would probably have been chopped off.
When Yuan Chengyu arrived, Pei Zhi was applying medicine.
The doctor applied more medicine to Pei Zhi's wound, and Pei Zhi trembled all over in pain.
Upon seeing this, Yuan Chengyu immediately stepped forward and embraced Pei Zhi.
"If the princess is in pain, then bite me."
Pei Zhi was in so much pain that she couldn't speak and buried her head in Yuan Chengyu's arms.
Upon seeing this, the doctor quickly applied medicine, stitched up the wound, and bandaged it.
After the wound was treated, Pei Zhi looked as if she had been pulled out of the water.
Yuan Chengyu gently patted Pei Zhi's shoulder, "It's alright, it's alright."
Pei Zhishen sighed, "It's alright, my hand is still there."
Yuan Chengyu was furious to see that Pei Zhi could still joke around.
Yuan Chengyu said angrily, "Princess, you knew it was dangerous, so why did you still run away?"
Pei Zhi retorted, "How can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger's den?"
Pei Zhi wants too much. If she doesn't give something in return, how could she get it so easily?
The fourth prince was stripped of his official position, and he would likely retaliate against her.
Since Pei Zhi didn't go out, the fourth brother couldn't make a move.
Pei Zhi guessed that the fourth brother would make a move today.
The fourth brother was ruthless; he wanted her dead.
However, the fourth prince did not expect that his father's secret guards were still in her hands.
In this battle, her fourth brother lost everything.
"If the princess wants something, just say so. Why gamble with your life? What if something bad happens today..."
Yuan Chengyu was unable to say anything more.
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."
The person who claimed to be sensible developed a high fever that very night.
The doctor prescribed medicine, but I couldn't swallow it.
Pei Zhi's face was flushed red from the fever, and Yuan Chengyu stayed by her side, wiping her body with warm water.
They used alcohol to reduce Pei Zhi's fever, and it wasn't until dawn that her high fever subsided and became a low-grade fever.
This illness kept Pei Zhisheng in bed for three days.
Once she was able to get out of bed, Pei Zhi immediately had someone send her to the palace.
Emperor Pei was naturally aware of Pei Zhi's assassination.
Emperor Pei even knew who had done it.
Pei Zhi knelt in the Hall of Mental Cultivation to pay her respects to Emperor Pei, who quickly ordered someone to help her up.
"You're already injured, why did you go to the palace? Shouldn't you be recuperating at home?"
Pei Zhi handed over the jade pendant: "Your subject has come to return your father's things."
Emperor Pei remained silent, and his personal eunuchs dared not make any moves.
“A few days ago, I planned to return the jade pendant to Father, but an unexpected incident occurred.”
Pei Zhi said with a self-deprecating smile, "It must be a coincidence. If it weren't for Father's secret guards, I would never have seen Father."
Emperor Pei changed the subject, asking, "Is your wound alright?"
Pei Zhi shook her head, "I was slashed and suffered some pain, but fortunately my arm is still intact."
Emperor Pei asked cryptically, "Then tell me, right under the emperor's nose, who is so audacious as to attempt to assassinate a princess like you?"
Pei Zhi said pitifully, "Your subject dares not speak."
Emperor Pei said, "Speak boldly. I will not hold it against you because you are injured."
After much thought, only my fourth brother remains.
Pei Zhi knelt on the ground, "Father, it is not my place to ask which of my brothers the throne will be passed on to. I am a woman."
"But Father, my fourth brother is even willing to kill a woman like me. What will happen if he really does one day..."
"Can he really treat his other brothers and sisters well?"
Emperor Pei looked at Pei Zhi with a dangerous gaze, while Pei Zhi's eyes were full of pleading.
“Father, you should know that if it weren’t for your secret guards, I would never have seen you again.”
Emperor Pei naturally heard about the tragic events of that day from his secret guards.
Thirty-odd assassins surrounded and killed a princess.
"I was slashed and then I remembered that I hadn't returned the secret guard to Father. But my fourth brother doesn't know that Father's secret guard is with me."
Pei Zhi cried out, "Fourth brother never intended for me to live from the very beginning."
Emperor Pei didn't care much about the life or death of a princess.
Emperor Pei was somewhat disappointed that the Fourth Prince was so petty, going to such great lengths for a woman and still failing.
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