Only a white candle in the mourning hall was flickering.
Xie Shizhu walked up to him, looked at him, and knelt beside him.
Song Yan turned his head, his eyes deep, staring at her quietly for a long time, and suddenly said nonchalantly: "Queen, go back to bed, I will be left alone here."
Xie Shizhu was rather afraid of this kind of vigil scene, so he hesitated for a moment and didn't say anything polite.
She stood up from the ground and reminded him to eat something before leaving, her face full of worry.
Under her gaze, Song Yan raised the corners of his lips gently.
Xie Shizhu walked out of the mourning hall. Song Yan looked at her back, and his originally gentle face became cold and gloomy.
He quickly stood up and closed the door of the mourning hall.
After moving from the prince's mansion to the imperial palace, Song Yan changed the transaction location to this mourning hall.
After a while, a pigeon flew in from outside, flapped its wings, and landed on his shoulder.
Song Yan took down the pigeon and thought, this is the last time.
As long as this is over, he will no longer be an assassin.
Song Yan took the note from the pigeon and spread it out with his slender fingertips. The words on it made him frown.
Song Yan never thought that the last mission was to kill Xie Shizhu and the reward would be 100,000 taels of gold.
He burned the note and stared into the flames with deep eyes.
I wondered who wanted to kill Xie Shizhu?
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Outside, after Xie Shizhu came out of the mourning hall, he walked straight towards his own palace.
As she walked, she felt a shadow behind her stretched by the moonlight.
She swallowed and looked back, but there was nothing.
Thinking of the late emperor's recent death, her back stiffened.
Just as he was about to run, the footsteps behind him were getting closer and closer, and Xie Shizhu's face turned pale.
Suddenly, a hand was placed on Xie Shizhu's shoulder, and she shrank her shoulders in fear.
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