When Li Rong heard Li Chuan's loud shout, she turned around hastily and vaguely saw Li Chuan chasing after her from the crowd like an arrow from a bow.

Also chasing after them were Pei Wenxuan, who was startled by Li Chuan's loud shout, and Su Rongqing who was in the crowd.

She only saw a shadow, and was reminded by the guard behind her: "Your Highness, lie down!"

After saying this, the horse suddenly raised its hoof and leaped forward. There was another hail of arrows, and no one knew where they went.

"Sister!" Li Chuan watched Li Rong enter the forest. He whipped his horse like crazy, his eyes bloodshot. The people behind him followed him and said anxiously, "Your Highness, we are going into the forest to rescue the princess. Your Highness, please don't put yourself in danger!"

Li Chuan ignored what others said and rushed straight into the forest.

Pei Wenxuan saw from a distance that both the brother and sister rushed into the dense forest. He couldn't help but secretly curse Li Chuan for being reckless in his heart. His riding skills were far superior to Li Chuan's. Although Li Chuan rushed over first, he was caught up by Pei Wenxuan shortly after entering the forest.

Pei Wenxuan rode side by side with Li Chuan and said anxiously, "Your Highness, the jungle is dangerous, you..."

"Do you need to tell me it's dangerous?!" Li Chuan turned around and cursed, "Why are you following me? Go save people!"

Hearing this, Pei Wenxuan suddenly realized that Li Chuan had entered the forest on purpose!

Those people forced Li Rong into the dense forest, their purpose was actually to target Li Chuan, so as long as Li Chuan came in, most of the troops would be used to encircle and suppress Li Chuan, so as to buy more opportunities for Li Rong.

"Pei Wenxuan, my sister is in your hands," Li Chuan tightened the reins, turned his head and looked at Pei Wenxuan, and gritted his teeth and said, "If you dare to let her down, I will not let you go even if I become a ghost!"

After saying that, Li Chuan suddenly changed direction and rushed to another part of the dense forest. Pei Wenxuan watched Li Chuan cursing while running into the depths of the dense forest. He did not hesitate and led his men and rushed towards Li Rong.

Li Rong couldn't figure out where she was running to or where she was going.

She only felt that there were pursuers behind her, and the guard who was protecting her was finally shot off his horse by an arrow. Blood splashed all over her, and Li Rong took out a dagger from her bosom and stabbed the horse. The horse was frightened and rushed forward madly. She lay on the horse tightly, closing her eyes and not daring to look back.

Pei Wenxuan looked at Li Rong who was running in front of him. There were countless killers between them. Li Rong couldn't stop. If she stopped, he would have no time to save her.

But if Li Rong didn't stop, given Li Rong's speed, he wouldn't be able to save her now.

So he could only chase after Li Rong closely, and when he was dangerously close to Li Rong, he had his guards protect him while he dealt with the assassins who came to stop them, and when he was dangerously close to Li Rong, he drew his bow and directly shot and killed those who were close to Li Rong.

After a stalemate, the guard next to him finally reminded: "Sir, you must stop His Highness immediately. There is a cliff ahead!"

Pei Wenxuan pursed his lips and said nothing. He leaned forward slightly and stared at Li Rong in front of him.

He calculated the distance between the two of them. Li Rong's horse could no longer stop. If it stopped, with the number of assassins around Li Rong, it would be too late to rescue him.

Someone must get to Li Rong's side in advance to protect her and give them a chance to get to Li Rong!

It was at this moment that he heard a loud call from afar: "Pei Wenxuan!"

When Pei Wenxuan looked up, he saw Su Rongqing in the distance, running towards Li Rong from the side.

Pei Wenxuan immediately understood that Su Rongqing was the person who protected Li Rong for a moment and gave Li Rong a glimmer of hope!

He saw it, and the hidden killer also saw it. Before Su Rongqing could get in front of Li Rong, the last wave of arrows came down like a rain of arrows!

Li Rong grabbed the horse's mane tightly and rushed forward. She heard the horse scream in surprise, and then Li Rong felt dizzy. The horse was shaking wildly due to the pain. She finally couldn't hold on and was thrown out by the horse.

There was a cliff in front of her. When she realized she was falling, her will to survive made her desperately grab anything she could.

Just when she was in despair, a cold hand suddenly reached out and grabbed her tightly.

Half of the man's body was already sticking out of the cliff. In this position, he had almost no place to bear the weight.

So Li Rong only had time to look up and see the man's face clearly, and then saw him fall down with her.

At the moment when the man fell with her, Pei Wenxuan finally arrived, but he only had time to touch half of Su Rongqing's sleeve, and watched the two of them fall straight down together.

Before he could react, Zhao Chongjiu grabbed him and shouted: "It's no use if you jump with me!"

Pei Wenxuan was a little distracted. Zhao Zhongjiu cut off the assassin who rushed over with a knife and grabbed Pei Wenxuan's arm tightly: "Sir, the most important thing now is to protect the prince first."

Pei Wenxuan listened and turned to look at him. His arm, which was held tightly by Zhao Chongjiu, seemed to be trying his best to control his emotions. Zhao Chongjiu could not help but lower his voice: "Sir, you are His Highness's greatest hope now. The sooner we find His Highness, the more chances His Highness will have."

"I know."

Pei Wenxuan lowered his head and controlled his tone, "Immediately send someone down the cliff to search the bottom of the cliff and find the princess."

"Other people, go find the prince."

When he said the first sentence, his voice was still trembling a little, but by the time he said the second sentence, he had completely calmed down.

He propped himself up and stood up, brushing away Zhao Chongjiu's hand that was supporting him, as if nothing had happened, and comforted others: "I'm fine, I'm fine."

As he said this, he turned his head and looked at the battle going on behind him.

Li Chuan attracted most of the assassins in the dense forest. Li Rong fell off the cliff, so Pei Wenxuan no longer had to worry about anything. Looking at the assassins surrounded by his men in the dense forest, he whispered: "Leave two alive for interrogation, and kill the rest."

After giving the order, he was escorted by other guards and walked out of the forest. He arranged everything as he walked, as if what had just happened had not affected him at all. However, when Zhao Zhongjiu moved his eyes, he saw that the hand holding the sword was shaking uncontrollably.

When Pei Wenxuan led his men out of the dense forest, Shangguan Ya and Su Ronghua had already brought the Yulin Guards under control of the situation.

Li Ming returned to the palace early, and Li Chuan was rescued from the forest.

His body was covered with wounds. Pei Wenxuan rushed over. Li Chuan forced himself to open his eyes and looked at Pei Wenxuan, panting: "Where is my sister?"

"The princess is fine. Your Highness, please rest first and take care of yourself."

Pei Wenxuan responded calmly, and Li Chuan breathed a sigh of relief. He still had a feather arrow stuck in his shoulder, panting softly, and told Pei Wenxuan: "I... I need to sleep. Wait for me, wait until I wake up, I want to see my sister."

As he spoke, Li Chuan raised his eyes and looked at Pei Wenxuan, with a bit of pleading in his eyes: "I'm afraid of you... afraid that you will lie to me, I... I'm worried."

"Don't worry, Your Highness," Pei Wenxuan stood up and ordered someone to carry Li Chuan into the tent. Then he turned to look at Li Chuan with a calm expression, "If anything happens to the princess, I will bring her head to you."

After hearing this, Li Chuan finally felt relieved. He took a breath, closed his eyes, and let people carry him into the tent to recuperate.

After Li Chuan entered the tent, Pei Wenxuan looked back at Shangguan Ya and instructed Shangguan Ya on all matters that should be handled tonight: "If Li Cheng is not dead, someone in the palace should keep an eye on him. There may be some variables in the northwest, so let Lu Feibai's troops be ready to enter the country in advance. The injury of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince must be kept under close watch, and no matter whether he is dead or alive, no news can be leaked. There shouldn't be any major incidents tonight, wait for me to come back tomorrow."

"Wait for you to come back?"

Shangguan Ya frowned: "Where are you going at this time?"

"Your Highness has fallen off a cliff. I will go find Your Highness."

Shangguan Ya was stunned. Pei Wenxuan was too calm for her to imagine that something had happened to Li Rong.

"I'll leave the rest to you, young lady."

Pei Wenxuan bowed and turned away without waiting for Shangguan Ya to respond.

Shangguan Ya finally reacted and said quickly: "Pei Wenxuan, you..."

"I'm fine. I'm fine." Pei Wenxuan turned his back to Shangguan Ya and nodded gently, "Miss, don't worry."

After saying this, Pei Wenxuan stepped forward.

Now it was night, and he was walking alone in the darkness. Every step he took was steady, but for some reason, Shangguan Ya could see some determination and rage that had long been out of control in his pace, which he tried hard to control.

It seems like this person has already tried his best and there is no turning back.

Shangguan Ya realized clearly at that moment that it was Li Rong who fell off the cliff, but it was Pei Wenxuan who fell into hell.

"Aya." Su Ronghua walked behind her, but Shangguan Ya did not look back at him.

She stared at Pei Wenxuan's back as he walked away, and said softly, "Did you see that, Su Ronghua?" Shangguan Ya turned around and looked at the young man standing behind her. She smiled, "Su Rongqing has long been out of control. He had long since formed an alliance with Concubine Rou, supported Prince Su, and used Hongde to frame Pei Wenxuan. Your brother was involved in the military pay case, the imperial examination case, and even the current tax reform and the winter hunting assassination."

"He couldn't tolerate His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ascending the throne, and the Crown Prince couldn't tolerate him either."

"I also thought so," Shangguan Ya turned her head and looked into the distance. Even in the suburbs, the winter stars were not very clear. Shangguan Ya smiled and said, "Except for His Majesty, there are not many obstacles between us. As long as we wait until the crown prince ascends the throne, we can be together. In fact, you are right. I also think so."

"But later I slowly discovered that Su Rongqing could not tolerate the prince, and you could not give up Su Rongqing. I asked you before if you were willing to be the head of the Su family, and now I ask you again."

Shangguan Ya raised her eyes to look at him: "If the price for the crown prince to ascend the throne is that Su Rongqing must die, are you willing?"

Su Ronghua did not reply.

Shangguan Ya's eyes were clear, and she smiled: "You don't want to. But the prince is the foundation of my Shangguan family. I can't give up the prince, nor can I betray my family. So you see," Shangguan Ya's eyes were a little misty, "you and I are doomed."

"I am grateful to you."

Shangguan Ya walked up to Su Ronghua, stretched out her hand and took out a deck of leaf cards that Su Ronghua had given her.

"Thank you for letting me see that even if I am a child of an aristocratic family, I can still live with my heart. But I'm sorry," Shangguan Ya said hoarsely with a smile on her face, "I will never touch Ye Zi cards again in my life."

Shangguan Ya handed the leaf card to Su Ronghua. She looked up at the people in front of her. They were so close that she could feel their breath and temperature. Everything seemed like two streams of incense rising up.

"Su Ronghua," Shangguan Ya finally spoke, "leave Huajing, travel around, and don't come back."

When the training ground was in chaos, Li Rong was held tightly by Su Rongqing and fell directly into the pool under the cliff.

The waves hit Li Rong hard and she instantly lost consciousness. When she woke up again, she found herself lying on a pile of dry grass with a fire next to her.

Li Rong straightened up suddenly, and immediately felt a sharp pain in her foot. She took a breath of cool air and quickly lowered her head. She saw a long wound on her calf. It had been bandaged, but it still hurt when she moved.

Li Rong looked around again and found that this was a cave. The interior was not very big. There was a fire in the middle and a small bed made of dry grass next to it. Li Rong slept on it peacefully.

In a corner not far away, Su Rongqing was hiding in the dark. He had the dagger that Li Rong had brought with him when he fell off the cliff next to him. He was only wearing a white shirt. He seemed to have wounds all over his body, and his white shirt was stained red by the blood that seeped out, which looked very sinister.

He seemed to have fainted, his hair was disheveled, his face was a bit sickly pale, and he was leaning on a protruding boulder with his eyes closed and his brows furrowed. Even though Li Rong got up and made such a big noise, he was not awakened.

Li Rong dragged her injured leg to Su Rongqing's side, bent down and took the dagger. As soon as she touched the dagger, Su Rongqing suddenly raised his hand and held her hand. Li Rong raised her eyes coldly and saw Su Rongqing looking at her panting with a hint of pleading in his eyes.

"Don't worry," Li Rong saw what he meant, pulled away his weak hand, took out the dagger, and said calmly, "I still have something to ask you, so I won't kill you for now."

So saying, she turned around, dagger in hand, and sat down by the fire again.

The sharp weapon gave her some sense of security. She hugged herself, holding the dagger, and sat there blankly for a while.

I don't know how long it was before it started to drizzle outside. The sound of the rain could be heard, and Su Rongqing finally spoke. He seemed to have caught a cold, and his voice was a little hoarse: "Your Highness, what do you want to ask me?"

Li Rong didn't say anything. She looked at the dancing flames for a long time before she spoke: "I don't know where to start."

"Your Highness doesn't have to ask."

Su Rongqing's voice was very soft.

But in fact, they all knew that when Li Rong was about to ask him, everything was already in Li Rong's mind.

All she did was confirm it.

"In my last life, before I died, Pei Wenxuan came to see me. I smelled a fragrance on him. He was good at blending perfumes, and the fragrances he liked were all restrained and mellow. That fragrance didn't belong to him, so I paid more attention to it. Afterwards, I argued with him, and he threatened to kill me. After he left, you brought me a bowl of medicine. I drank the poison, and you told me it was Concubine Xiang. I thought Pei Wenxuan poisoned me to support the Second Prince. That sachet was Concubine Xiang's fragrance, and that bowl of medicine was Concubine Xiang's medicine."

"Later, Pei Wenxuan and I were reborn together. We checked the situation at that time, and I realized that the fragrance on Pei Wenxuan's body was the sachet you gave him. You said that I was not feeling well, and the people from the outer room needed to bring herbal sachets when entering the house to avoid irritating me to cough. I thought you had killed me."

"At first, you were not reborn, so the truth of the matter was not important, and I did not investigate further. Later, when I learned that you were reborn, I asked you about it, and you told me that you killed me, so I took this matter as a final conclusion."

"Then," Su Rongqing's voice was a little weak, "Your Highness, what else do you want to ask today?"

"But today I feel that this matter is not that simple."

When Su Rongqing heard this, he slowly raised his eyes and met Li Rong's gaze.

"Today, Pei Wenxuan used the Fragrant Beauty to poison Xie Chunhe, but after Xie Chunhe was poisoned, the poison did not take effect immediately, which shows that something was delaying the onset of the poison in Xie Chunhe. When I arrived, I found that Xie Chunhe had a strange fragrance on his body, which was exactly the same as the last fragrance I smelled from Pei Wenxuan in my previous life."

"At first, I thought it was Lady Xiang," Li Rong recalled the details of today, "but then the servant took the sachet away. When the sachet left his body, Xie Chunhe immediately vomited blood. The servant dipped the sachet into water and said that an expert had instructed him that it was an antidote. Then he asked Xie Chunhe to mix the ingredients in the sachet with water and drink it. So, I have reason to doubt," Li Rong paused, she raised her head and looked at the young man in the dark, "what you gave Pei Wenxuan back then was not poison, but an antidote to delay the onset of Lady Xiang's poison."

"Your Highness is not good at mixing perfumes, I'm afraid you smelled it wrong."

Su Rongqing answered calmly.

"You don't even know what I smelled like," Li Rong couldn't help laughing, "Are you so sure that I smelled it wrong?"

Su Rongqing did not answer. Li Rong looked at him and said, "Tell me, who killed me that year?"

"It's me." Su Rongqing admitted decisively.

Li Rong looked at him and smiled: "Su Rongqing, I saved you."

Su Rongqing's eyelashes trembled slightly. Li Rong stood up and limped to Su Rongqing. She bent down and looked down at him: "I am your master. I have raised you for twenty years. I have never asked you for anything in my life. Today I beg you, tell me."

There was moisture in her eyes: "Who killed me?"

"Your Highness..." Su Rongqing looked up at her, "It's not important."

"If it's not important," Li Rong laughed, "you can go back and help Sagawaer take the top position with me."

Su Rongqing's eyes narrowed. Li Rong observed every detail of his expression. She squatted down and looked up at Su Rongqing: "Didn't you say that if you entered my princess's mansion, I would be indebted to you and repay you with my life or death? Su Rongqing, do you want to break your promise?"

"No……"

"Then how about you come with me to help Sagawa ascend the throne?"

"Your Highness, Li Chuan, he killed my entire family."

"But now he hasn't done anything," Li Rong pressed on, "Why don't you let him go?"

"You and I are both reborn, and we can avoid many things. Together we will help Chuan'er ascend the throne, and you will be the head of your Su family. You can be fine in this life, and I can be a matchmaker for you and let you marry a girl you like. With me here, Chuan'er will not do anything to the family. You don't have to worry too much," Li Rong said in a gentle voice, "Together, we will make Chuan'er the emperor, and then we can be fine..."

"It won't be alright!"

Su Rongqing finally couldn't help himself. He raised his hand and placed it on Li Rong's shoulder: "Your Highness, you don't have to worry about it. Just go back and take Pei Wenxuan away from Huajing. I will take you back in a year."

"Are you coming back to see Chuan'er ascend the throne?" Li Rong asked expectantly.

Su Rongqing could no longer control himself and shouted, "He cannot ascend the throne!"

After shouting this, the two of them stopped talking.

Su Rongqing realized what he had said. He did not dare to raise his head. He placed his hands on Li Rong's shoulders, lowered his head, and breathed slightly.

Li Rong looked at Su Rongqing with a sad face.

"So what if I tell you?" Li Rong said calmly, "It's a matter of a lifetime. Do you think I care? It doesn't matter who betrays me in the palace. I won't be sad."

"Even if you don't tell me, I know it. I must have been poisoned by Lady Xiang, otherwise you wouldn't have used Lady Xiang's antidote. After Su Ronghua's death, only three people knew Lady Xiang's formula: you, Pei Wenxuan, and..." Li Rong felt that those two words were particularly harsh. It seemed like she had spent all her life trying to say them, "Li Chuan."

"If it's not you, if it's not Pei Wenxuan, then who else could it be?"

"Rong Qing, I am not a canary kept in the house. I can weather the storm and have seen the vastness of the sky and the sea. If you still think of me as your highness, look up at me and tell me," Li Rong looked at him with a gentle voice, "who killed me?"

Su Rongqing said nothing.

There was a sound of rain outside, and Li Rong was waiting for him patiently.

After a long time, Su Rongqing finally spoke.

"Everyone."

Li Rong was stunned. Su Rongqing's hand holding her shoulder was shaking slightly. He raised his eyes and looked at Li Rong: "It was me, Li Chuan, and all of us who killed you together."

There was a sudden thunder outside the cave, and Su Rongqing's face was full of tears, but he seemed to have finally let go of something and smiled especially happily.

"So, Your Highness, do you know why, even if I were to be reborn, I would never allow Li Chuan to ascend the throne?"

"Do you know why? I was reborn, I'm back, I'm fine, I'm still a man, but I have to watch you marry someone else?!"

"Don't I want to fight? Don't I dare to fight? Can't I beat him?! None of them!"

"It's just because," Su Rongqing lowered his voice and looked at Li Rong with a smile, "I don't have the qualifications."

"People like me and Li Chuan deserve to live in hell."

"I deserve to die, Li Chuan," Su Rongqing's eyes seemed to be filled with weeds and a graveyard, "I don't deserve to live either."