After talking with Zheng Yong, he said he needed to return to the palace to investigate Lü Yun. The two stayed until dawn, when Zheng Yong returned to the palace and Nan Yi returned to Tongzhou.
Things seemed to have suddenly reached a dead end again. She was probably the most frustrated time traveler in history. Despite having a powerful cheat ability, she still lived a timid and hesitant life.
She's so unwilling to accept this; what should she do?
Nan Yi rode alone, facing the rising sun, her expression pained and confused, a crazy idea popping into her mind every now and then.
She wanted to go to the palace immediately, eliminate Green Cloud, and then return to her residence to settle old scores with Lady Nian.
But at the same time, another thought popped into her head and stopped her. Green Cloud was the Crown Prince's concubine. If she rashly entered the palace and killed Green Cloud, would it affect the Fourth Prince? Would the Crown Prince and the Fourth Prince develop a rift beforehand? And what about Emperor Kangxi? How could he take his anger out on the Fourth Prince? He would be guilty of failing to discipline him properly.
Then there's Lady Nian. The Nian family behind her is an important pawn in the Fourth Prince's struggle for the throne. Will her actions affect the Fourth Prince's future fate?
She remained steadfast in her belief that she could not change history.
Unable to change history, she had no other way to avenge the Tong family.
Halfway down the road, she suddenly jumped off her horse, threw down the reins, and sat alone by the roadside, lost in thought.
He was ashamed to face the Tong family.
He didn't know how long he had been sitting when the sound of horses' hooves came from the road. Nan Yi didn't raise his eyebrows and was still in a daze.
The Eighth Prince led the way, followed closely by the Ninth, Tenth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Princes. They spotted a man sitting by the roadside in the distance and took a second look out of curiosity.
“Hmm, it looks like Nan Yi,” said the Ninth Prince.
"Impossible, how could Sister-in-law Tong be here?" Thirteen categorically denied.
Fourteen stretched his neck, "Eighth floor is."
The Eighth Prince whipped the horse's rump a few times, and the horse galloped to Nan Yi's side. He pulled hard on the reins, and the horse neighed loudly, its front hooves raised high.
Once the horse calmed down, the Eighth Prince jumped off and walked up to the dazed Nan Yi. "Nan Yi, what are you doing here?"
The ninth, tenth, thirteenth, and fourteenth princes also came over one after another, looking at her with strange expressions.
Nan glanced at them, looking dazed, and said, "I don't know either."
The Ninth Prince frowned, pulled her up from the ground, and scolded her with concern, "Look at you, the ground is so cold, aren't you cold? Where...where are you going?"
"I don't know," Nan Yi said calmly.
"I don't know." The Ninth Prince looked at Nan Yi with surprise, then looked at his brothers beside him. "I feel like there's something wrong with her."
"Hmm, Fourth Sister-in-law seems to have lost her soul," Fourteen said. "Could it be that she is too heartbroken and her mind is elsewhere?"
The Tenth Prince walked over and said, "Nan Yi, we're going to your mother's house in Tongzhou to pay our respects. Come back with us; we don't know the way either."
"I won't go, I'm too ashamed to face them." Nan Yi pushed away the Ninth Prince, didn't even look in the direction, and started walking away, almost stepping into the roadside ditch.
"Be careful." Ninth Prince tugged at her, looking at her worriedly. "Nan Yi, what's wrong? Is something not going well? It's okay, we're here for you. We'll help you."
“I can’t help them, I can’t touch them,” Nan Yi said.
"Fourth Sister-in-law, is there anyone in the world you can't touch? Who is it? Tell me, little brother." Fourteenth asked in disbelief.
With his fourth brother as a powerful backer, his sister-in-law can do whatever she wants in Beijing.
Nan Yi smiled bitterly. There are many people in the world she can't touch. She can't touch her fourth brother, and she can't touch the people her fourth brother protects either.
"You should all go back. Don't go to Tongzhou." The Tong family were just commoners; why should a group of princes condescend to go and offer condolences?
“Fourth Sister-in-law is definitely not right. The loss of the Tong family has been a huge blow to her. Look at her, her eyes are like still water, and her face is completely devoid of life. This is nothing like Nan Yi.” The Tenth Prince said with great concern.
Fourteenth Sister seemed to be deep in thought. “Didn’t you all hear that Fourth Sister-in-law seems to have found the person behind the destruction of the Tong family? But Fourth Sister-in-law seems to be very wary of them. She knows who her enemy is, but she doesn’t dare to take revenge. How can she not be frustrated?”
The Eighth Prince frowned. Who could be the person Nan Yi was wary of? Besides those in the palace, who in the capital had such power that she could say, "They can't help me with anything"? It was too strange.
If you say they can't harm people, there are very few in the entire Qing Dynasty; you could count them on your fingers.
"I'm so curious about who this person is," the Ninth Prince said through gritted teeth.
Fourteen tapped his palm with his fan and said leisurely, "The same goes for my younger brother."
Seeing that Nan was wandering aimlessly by herself, the Tenth Prince quickly stepped forward to stop her, saying, "The road is over there."
"Oh." Nan glanced at the road and turned to walk back.
"Hey, don't look like you've lost your soul. I have good news for you. The assassin has been found." The Tenth Prince threw out something that Nan Yi was interested in.
Nan Yi's eyes lit up, and she immediately asked, "Where?"
The Tenth Prince twitched his lips, scratched the back of his head, and said apologetically, "We arrived too late. There were twelve assassins in black. When we found them, they had already committed suicide by poisoning themselves, and they didn't have any documents to prove their identities."
“Silence them. You didn’t complete the mission, and you made such a big fuss that the mastermind was worried that the assassins would be exposed, so he killed them first to make it impossible for anyone to investigate.”
“Eighth Brother and Fourteenth Brother said the same thing.” The Tenth Prince nodded and added, “But Eighth Brother also said that, in this case, he suspects that the person behind it is very likely hiding in the capital. If he makes another move, we will definitely be able to find him.”
"By the way, are you still going back to Tongzhou?" the Tenth Prince asked again.
"Won't."
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