Jiang Li had grasped a hairpin in her hand at some point, and when Chu Huaizhi approached, her eyes flashed, and she instantly raised her hand and stabbed him in the chest!

"His Majesty!"

Madam Zhou exclaimed, and her heart skipped a beat! The other palace maids' pupils shrank, and they stared blankly in place! However, as soon as she raised the hairpin, Chu Huaizhi grabbed her wrist.

Chu Huaizhi sensed something was wrong the moment Jiang Li opened her mouth. The reason why he obeyed Jiang Li's order calmly was that he wanted to get closer to her to verify further.

"Let go, let me go!"

Jiang Li kept struggling, glaring at Chu Huaizhi with a sullen look on her face.

Chu Huaizhi looked down at her and easily clamped her wrist: "Your Majesty, the important matter you are talking about is to assassinate this king?"

"Regent, you are so bold! You are just the regent sent by my father to assist me before his death. Do you want to kill the king now?!"

"Don't think I don't know what you are thinking behind my back. On the surface, you assist me in handling state affairs, but in fact, you secretly collude with the ministers to instruct them to disobey me and impeach me."

"Don't you just want to take away all my power and turn me into a puppet so that you can take over the Jiang family's kingdom in the future? I won't do as you wish!"

Jiang Li looked at Chu Huaizhi with a ferocious face and spoke seriously. She kept struggling with her wrist that was held by him, wanting to stab him again.

Chu Huaizhi glanced at the silver-glowing hairpin in her hand and said, "Come here, His Majesty is tired, take His Majesty back to rest."

“Yes, yes!”

Nanny Zhou was the first to come to her senses. She agreed and quickly came to Jiang Li's side: "Your Majesty, please give me the hairpin. Be obedient and don't hurt yourself!"

While coaxing her, Nanny Zhou tried to take the hairpin from Jiang Li's hand, and it took her a long time before she was able to take it from her.

Nanny Zhou casually handed the hairpin to the palace servant behind her and continued, "Your Majesty is tired. Come back with me to rest."

Nanny Zhou held Jiang Li's other arm and coaxed her softly, not daring to anger her at all.

Under Nanny Zhou's gentle coaxing, Jiang Li showed a hint of struggle in her eyes, and finally her stiff body gradually relaxed.

She frowned, looking confused: "Uncle?"

After hearing the familiar name, Chu Huaizhi knew that she had returned to normal and released the big hand that was clamped on her wrist.

He ordered the palace servants, "Your Majesty is tired. Help Your Majesty go back and rest."

"yes."

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty has always respected you. What you just said was definitely not your Majesty's intention. Please don't blame me."

Before leaving, Nanny Zhou made a special explanation, fearing that Chu Huaizhi would take her words to heart.

Your Majesty is already walking on thin ice in the court, with only the prince and a small number of people protecting him. If you lose the prince as your backer, Nanny Zhou dare not imagine how difficult your Majesty's life will be in the court in the future.

"Um."

Chu Huaizhi moved his gaze away from Jiang Li's face and uttered a word softly from his throat.

Madam Zhou heaved a sigh of relief when she heard this: "I'll take my leave."

After saying that, he turned his head and looked at Jiang Li: "Your Majesty, let's go back."

Nanny Zhou grabbed Jiang Li's arm with one hand, and put her other hand around her back and turned her around.

Just as she was about to return to the Yangxin Palace, the moment she turned around, Jiang Li's gaze, which had originally regained clarity, instantly became sinister.

"You want me to become a walking corpse, a puppet at the mercy of others? Even if I die, I will never do as you wish!"

Jiang Li broke free from Nanny Zhou's hand and rushed towards the red pillar outside the door! "Your Majesty!"

The palace servants were startled and quickly reached out to stop him, but they were one step too late.

Just as Jiang Li was about to hit her head against the pillar, a mysterious shadow flashed by at the critical moment.

Click——

The moment Jiang Li fell backwards, Chu Huaizhi reached out and grabbed her arm, pulling her into his arms.

In just a cup of tea, Nanny Zhou's mood went through many twists and turns, and now her face was pale with fright.

She swallowed and walked tremblingly to Jiang Li.

"My Lord, please leave His Majesty to this old servant."

Chu Huaizhi glanced at Nanny Zhou's clothes that were already wet from the rain, then bent down and picked up Jiang Li in his arms.

"Hold an umbrella."

"yes!"

The palace maids were also frightened by what had just happened. They came to Chu Huaizhi tremblingly and held the umbrella over him and Jiang Li's heads.

The umbrella was so big that it took four palace servants to hold it up.

Chu Huaizhi and Jiang Li's figures were covered under the umbrella. He pursed his lips, held Jiang Li in his arms and walked down the steps in front of him, heading into the storm.

Upon seeing this, Nanny Zhou clutched her robe tightly with both hands, not daring to delay, and chased after him.

Upon seeing this, the palace maid hurriedly held the oil-paper umbrella over Nanny Zhou's head and followed Chu Huaizhi back to the Yangxin Palace.

"Greetings to His Royal Highness the Regent!"

The moment the four-clawed dragon robe appeared in the Yangxin Palace, the palace servants knelt on the ground.

Chu Huaizhi held Jiang Li and walked straight to the inner hall, then leaned over and gently placed her on the bed.

Jiang Li's wet hem instantly soaked the bed sheet.

Nanny Zhou, who had followed him, felt her heart rise to her throat when she saw the tall figure standing in front of the bed.

In order to avoid others noticing anything unusual, Nanny Zhou took a deep breath and walked to the bedside pretending to be calm.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for sending His Majesty back. It's getting late, Your Majesty..."

"Your Highness, the suspect has been brought here."

Before Nanny Zhou could finish her words, she was interrupted by Eunuch Zhu.

Jiang Li's reaction just now was too abnormal. When she went to Yunxiao Palace, Eunuch Zhu thought carefully about what was wrong. This thought immediately reminded him of the palace maid who had bumped into Jiang Li in broad daylight.

He immediately sent someone to the Ministry of Rites to bring the palace maid back from Madam Rong.

Upon hearing this, Chu Huaizhi turned around and walked towards the outer hall. After he left, Nanny Zhou breathed a sigh of relief and quickly sent the palace maids away to help Jiang Li change her clothes.

Chu Huaizhi is known as the God of Evil. It is said that he has hundreds of ways of torturing people, making them wish they were neither alive nor dead. His face is much more useful than those torture tools used by the Ministry of Punishment.

After Chu Huaizhi arrived at the outer hall, he sat down on the armchair and looked down at the palace maid kneeling in the center of the hall.

Seeing this, Eunuch Zhu pinched his throat and said, "Who ordered you to murder His Majesty? Tell me now!"

The palace maid shuddered: "I, your servant, don't understand what you are saying, eunuch!"

"You slut, you still dare to be stubborn even after all this. Come on, open your mouth!"

Eunuch Zhu was about to have the stubborn palace maid taught a lesson when Chu Huaizhi, who was sitting on the armchair, spoke up.

"Look up."

These four simple words made the palace maid feel as if she was in an ice cellar, and her whole body was cold.

After the cold voice sounded, the palace maid raised her head with a stiff neck...