"What time is it now?"
In the Purple Star Hall of the Laifeng Kingdom's Imperial Palace, Nalan Yunzhi, dressed in a bright yellow nightgown, lay on a broad agarwood bed beneath a brocade tent. He propped his head up with one hand, his long legs crossed, his eyes tightly closed, and lay leisurely on his side.
As soon as she finished speaking, a figure dressed in crimson purple clothes and wearing a half-gilded butterfly-shaped mask on his head jumped down from the beam.
"Your Majesty, it's already five o'clock in the morning."
An Yi knelt on one knee and bowed his head in front of the bed to report.
"Yeah. How is she?"
Nalan Yunzhi lying on the bed slowly opened his eyes and glanced at An Yi outside the pearl curtain.
"Your Majesty, there are only minor skin injuries, but nothing serious. According to spies, after Miss Qingcheng left the capital, she encountered a group of assassins from the Jade Maiden Sect of the Rakshasa Sect on the outskirts of the city. Fortunately, the assassins' actions were disrupted by another group of masked men in black, and Miss Qingcheng and her companions continued their journey south. That night, at the Yunlai Inn on the border of Wanzhan Province and Qiandeng Province, Miss Qingcheng and her companions encountered another group of assassins from the Ghostly Sect of the Rakshasa Sect."
An Yi, kneeling on the ground, reported the news sent back by carrier pigeon from the outside world to Nalan Yunzhi truthfully.
"Oh……"
"She hasn't even become a princess yet, and she's already hated so much?"
Nalan Yunzhi, who was lying on the bed, had a cold look in his eyes as he glanced leisurely in the direction of Qiandeng Province.
It seems that someone can no longer hold back...
"Your Majesty, since you knew that Miss Qingcheng would be in danger along the way, why did you only let us observe secretly but not allow us to take action? This time we were just lucky and happened to have someone to help us. What if we are ambushed next time and no one helps us?" An Yi lowered his head and finally couldn't help but ask the doubts in his heart.
"An Yi, luck is also a part of strength. Besides, what I need is an heir who can shoulder the responsibility, not a princess who can only hide behind me and seek safety. If she can't even withstand this little danger, how can she sit firmly on my throne in the court full of intrigues in the future?" Nalan Yunzhi narrowed his eyes slightly, suppressing his impatience.
"Pass on my order. Unless it's a matter of life and death, you are not allowed to help!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
It wasn't that Nalan Yunzhi was cruel, but being born into an imperial family meant a life of uncertainty and uncertainty. Even if Hua Qingcheng was Feng Lingyan and her biological daughter, she couldn't avoid this fate. If she were to raise a child of the royal family to be docile, that would truly be a disservice to her!
Previously, in the eastern suburbs of the capital, although some of the disciples of the Jade Maiden Sect of the Rakshasa Sect who assassinated Hua Qingcheng were captured alive by General Feng Cailan, the assassins eventually died from the pain of torture, and some of them committed suicide by biting through the hidden poison. In any case, they all died in the end, and the clues were cut off.
Whether the next step in her journey to regain her status as the legitimate princess will be a blessing or a curse depends entirely on Hua Qingcheng's own luck...
On September 2nd, at the hour of Mao, Hua Qingcheng, the much-loved woman, was in Room 3 on the second floor of the Yunlai Inn, sleeping sideways on the same bed with her three husbands. As for the long legs that extended beyond the bed, they were left lying across a chair.
"Boss, it seems we are still late."
In an alley not far from the gate of Yunlai Inn, Jun Jia, dressed in black and masked, looked at the waiters in front of him who were still busy tidying up the broken tiles, and said regretfully to Ji Liangchuan, who was wearing the same clothes as him.
Upon hearing this, Ji Liangchuan frowned slightly, his face looked a little gloomy, but he didn't say anything.
"Boss, I found out!"
"explain!"
While Ji Liangchuan was concentrating on thinking, another masked man in black came to report to him.
"It is said that forty-eight gray-clad masked assassins died, and their bodies have been taken away by officials from the Tianshui City government office." Jun Yi replied with a little shock.
"Oh? It seems that the people of the Ghost Sect are becoming more and more useless!" Ji Liangchuan sneered disdainfully.
"Are there any casualties among Hua Qingcheng and the others?"
"According to the information gathered by our disciples, although Miss Qingcheng was captured by Gui Cangwu, she only suffered minor skin injuries."
"Caught by Gui Cangwu?"
Ji Liangchuan's face darkened. This ghost Cangwu was from a male-dominated nation, lustful by nature, and he didn't care about meat or vegetables. If Hua Qingcheng fell into his hands, he would probably take advantage of her.
"Don't worry, Boss. Hua Qingcheng was just kissed. She's not seriously injured. It's just that the eldest son of the Meng family was hit by Gui Cangwu's Spirit Snake Palm while trying to protect Hua Qingcheng."
"The Meng family, one of the four great families of Laifeng Country? This Meng family is truly known for producing infatuated people!"
Back then, Si Tianyu hired assassins from the Luosha Sect and the Ghost Sect to pretend to hunt down Meng Lishi. Si Tianyu acted out a heroic woman saving a beautiful man, thus winning Meng Lishi's favor and making him fall in love with her.
Three years after Meng Lishi's death, Si Tianyu's husband, Nangong Chen, hired the Jade Maiden Sect to assassinate Si Lingfeng. It was truly unfortunate that Meng Lishi had known Si Tianyu. After his death, the Si family even went after his son.
Outsiders naturally didn't know the inside story. Although Ji Liangchuan hadn't witnessed it himself, he knew about it. Because, in Luoshamen, no matter how big or small the task list was, it had to be registered.
As the right-hand man of the Luosha Sect's young leader, Ji Liangchuan naturally had to go to the headquarters to check the account books for Zuo An from time to time. After all, his sect leader was really lazy and often disappeared year-round, so basically all the affairs of the sect, big or small, had to fall on his head.
"Send someone to report to the Sect Master about Gui Cangwu's flirting with Hua Qingcheng."
"Yes, Boss."
Ji Liangchuan, now 25, had once fallen in love with a woman, but that woman was tortured to death by Gui Cangwu. Ji Liangchuan had long wanted to deal with him, but due to the rules of the Luosha Sect, while he couldn't kill Gui Cangwu himself, that didn't mean he couldn't borrow a knife to kill him. And the knife he borrowed was Zuo'an, the leader of the Junzi Sect and the young master of the Luosha Sect...
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