Chapter 104: What I Want
As soon as Lin Zhaoyue sat back in the carriage, Mu Ying came to take care of her.
"Princess, you've suffered a lot these days." Mu Ying's tone was filled with heartache as she gently straightened her messy clothes.
Lin Zhaoyue said softly, "I was trying to lure the snake out of its hole, but I didn't expect something unexpected to happen. I was too careless."
She knew that someone would be unable to hold it back any longer and would definitely attack her.
And she also needs such an assassination to become a bargaining chip.
But I didn't expect such an accident to happen.
Instead, he almost lost his life.
She even suspected that some force might have done it intentionally to correct the plot's intention to kill her.
But she didn't die.
This crisis is also a good thing for her.
At least, she was sure that she could control her own destiny.
And Xiao Tingye...
Her eyes dimmed slightly, and she temporarily removed the man from her mind.
"Has the assassin been tracked down?"
Mu Ying nodded. "Fortunately, Princess, you had already made arrangements. The Black Eagle Guards, hiding in the shadows that day, tracked the fleeing assassin all the way back to the capital. They even found relevant evidence at his resting place."
"There's another person left alive, but his mouth can't be pried open. He's just like the one who was sent to the Punishment Bureau before."
Lin Zhaoyue curled her lips slightly, "Whether I can pry her open or not is unimportant. What I want is for everyone to know that I have captured the assassin."
"Inform everyone. No need to leave anyone alive," she said calmly. "Have you arranged everything else?"
Mu Ying nodded. "It's all arranged. We've found two male prisoners on death row who are skilled in martial arts and are about the same height as the assassins. We've also taken care of their families, and they're incredibly grateful to the princess."
Lin Zhaoyue hummed, then closed her eyes and began to rest.
She had arranged all this long before she fell off the cliff.
The only accident was her fall off the cliff.
Even if her life or death is uncertain, Mu Ying and Feng Mian will still do everything she has arranged properly.
Her people don't need her to explain everything all the time.
They naturally know what to do and when to do it.
"Where is Chu Yinyin?" She asked casually as if she suddenly remembered.
Because in fact, she already knew Chu Yinyin's basic situation through the subtitles.
"The prince has secretly met with Chu Yinyin twice again. Now Chu Yinyin is just hanging on to her last breath. But she is really lucky. She is not dead even after being tortured." Mu Ying said with a little surprise.
"Chu Yinyin's family has been exiled. According to the spies who returned, Chu Yinyin's father scolds her every day and says he would have not allowed her to come to the capital. But the prince secretly asked someone to take care of them, so they are not too miserable."
After she finished speaking, Mu Ying saw that the princess closed her eyes and didn't say anything, so she tactfully stopped talking.
He covered the princess with a blanket and sat aside.
The Chu family was exiled, which was considered as mercy from the current emperor.
However, what surprised Lin Zhaoyue was that Lu Chenzhou, who was supposed to protect Chu Yinyin all the time, did not send anyone to settle the Chu family.
What made her even more confused was...
These times, the way Lu Chenzhou looked at her was completely different from the guilty and hesitant look he had when she just returned to the capital.
When she just returned to Beijing, including the period of divorce that followed.
He was more unwilling to accept himself, and she could clearly feel that he had Chu Yinyin in his heart.
But now, the way he looked at her seemed to have returned to the way it was before, and with an extra sense of paranoia.
But if... Chu Yinyin lost her weight in his heart, then she would have to make other plans if she wanted to use Chu Yinyin to control him.
When the carriage was about to arrive outside the city gate of the capital.
Zhao Yue's voice came from the carriage, "We are almost entering the city. Sir Xiao will no longer be needed to escort us."
Xiao Tingye's horse had always been following the carriage's side, never leaving for a moment.
Along the way, Zhaoyue almost fell asleep listening to the leisurely sound of his horse's hooves.
He woke up when he was about to arrive in the capital.
"Princess, do you think it's shameful to return to the capital with me?" His voice was filled with a hint of playful ridicule.
Lin Zhaoyue was annoyed: "Why? Do you want everyone to know that you and I are inseparable?"
She had meant it as a mocking remark.
But unexpectedly, Xiao Tingye's hoarse voice rang out: "I couldn't ask for more."
Lin Zhaoyue: “…”
[Princess: I feel ashamed]
[Lao Xiao, please lower your smile. It's ruining your image.]
[Laughing to death, the villain is so happy]
[Believe it or not, as long as you nod, he will immediately pick up a loudspeaker and shout everywhere]
[This is like the princess slapping him, and the villain is so happy that he even takes it in his mouth!!]
[Sister, your metaphor is too harsh! ! ]
Lin Zhaoyue said calmly, "Master Xiao, you'd better think it over carefully."
Xiao Tingye suddenly leaned forward. Although separated by a carriage, his voice seemed to be right next to him.
"Your Highness, are you excuse me?"
There seemed to be a hint of laughter in the teasing tone, which brushed lightly across her heart like a feather.
She didn't answer and didn't want to talk.
Xiao Tingye and she have always been on two different factions in the court, and there are many interests involved.
One is a princess who holds power in the court, and the other is a close minister of the emperor who holds military power and has influence over the court and the country.
Now, any change in the relationship between the two of them may lead to changes in the government and the opposition.
If at this moment, if people really knew that she and Xiao Tingye had an ambiguous relationship.
First, she really couldn't bear the shame she had suffered over the years.
Second, it was a turbulent time and she didn't want anything to happen that was out of her control.
What's more, she has nothing to do with Xiao Tingye now.
But if Xiao Tingye insists on doing it his own way.
She was too lazy to pay attention to him.
Suddenly, the frequency of the horse's hooves changed.
The horse seemed to have turned its head.
"I have never been one to disobey Your Highness."
After leaving these words, he rode away.
"drive!"
As he left, Xiao Tingye's men also left the team in an instant.
Lin Zhaoyue slowly opened her eyes.
Looking ahead calmly.
Thinking of what he had just said, he scoffed, "Bullshit."
He can tell such nonsense so seriously.
Don't disobey her?
What are these so many outrages?
[Hey, with just one word from the princess, the villain will solve any obstacles that stand in the way of you being together.]
[Yes, Lao Xiao has no concerns about being with the princess. The only concern is that the princess doesn't want to be with him.]
But the princess has concerns.
This is the difference between a love brain and an intellectual brain.
[Wait, the two of them haven't even talked yet, why are you guys acting like they're talking?]
【Wuwuwuwu, what's the difference between this and talking about it? 】
Mingxi heard the sound of people leaving and looked back.
After a moment, he looked away.
"Sister Mu Ying, is this person familiar to His Highness?" he asked casually.
Mu Ying glanced at Ming Xi, and when her eyes fell on his face, she quickly looked away, fearing that she would be deceived by his beauty.
The main reason is that Mingxi doesn’t usually call herself that.
Whenever someone called her name with the word "sister" in it, it meant that they either had something to ask her or wanted to take away the job of serving the princess.
Mu Ying nodded and whispered, "Lord Xiao and Her Royal Highness the Princess have known each other since childhood... but their relationship has never been good..."
Ming Xi raised her eyes slightly, a hint of coolness hung on the corners of her lips, and she said softly: "Have we known each other since childhood..."
Not long after Xiao Tingye and his men parted with Lin Zhaoyue and the others, the carriage had already arrived outside the city gate.
Before they entered the city, they were stopped by a group of people.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
