After breakfast,
Gu Mu made an excuse to renovate the Imperial Study and took Chen Ling with him.
Shen Ling looked at the winding trail of blood in the courtyard of the Imperial Study.
She couldn't help but clench the handkerchief in her hand and give His Majesty a deep look.
She heard that after His Majesty came out of the Imperial Study, the guards and palace maids were all drugged. His Majesty had to walk a long way before someone was found to take him, who was seriously injured, to the Imperial Study.
This winding trail of blood,
This is proof that Gu Mu kept seeking help.
For some reason, Shen Ling felt a pang of sympathy for His Majesty.
Your Majesty has truly survived countless near-death experiences to become the Your Majesty you are today.
Fortunately, His Majesty survived because of her; otherwise, the world of the Fallen Spirits would have been plunged into darkness...
Looking at the bloodstains on the ground, Shen Ling felt a lingering fear.
Following the trail of blood into the Imperial Study,
Shen Ling's heart grew heavier and heavier.
Then, upon arriving at the entrance of the Imperial Study,
Shen Ling raised her eyes and saw shocking bloodstains inside, staining half the room red.
Overturned tables and chairs, extinguished candles on the floor, and memorials scattered all over the place...
The more chaotic the scene, the more it shows the intensity of the battle His Majesty experienced last night.
Suddenly, Shen Ling's eyes reddened.
...
Having achieved his goal, Gu Mu found an excuse to send Shen Ling back to Kunning Palace.
This time,
He decided to use the parchment scroll as a guide to personally interrogate Shen Chao.
During this period,
Eunuch Cheng and the assassins also found a lot of clues, but they always lacked some key points.
Eunuch Cheng said that it was as if an invisible hand had hidden all the key points, so they could not piece together all the clues to prove Shen Chao's treason.
Gu Mu knew that these crucial hands actually belonged to Shen Ling.
This elaborate scheme wasn't just to make Shen Ling forgive him...
Also because...
Gu Mu wanted Shen Ling to focus on other things and interfere less in Shen Chao's affairs.
Only in this way can his men find the crucial evidence to convict Shen Chao.
Compared to Shen Chao, Gu Mu was very confident that Shen Ling would care about him more.
On the way to the dungeon where Shen Ling imprisoned Shen Chao, Gu Mu and the sheepskin scroll...
After Shen Ling arrived at Kun Ning Palace, she locked herself in her room.
We began to piece together the clues about the Hidden City...
During the Empress Dowager's coup, Your Majesty was capable of withstanding a thousand troops alone, yet the assassin who tried to kill Your Majesty was only one person, who was able to easily injure Your Majesty severely...
Your Majesty's skill is unmatched by any human in the world.
The person who assassinated His Majesty, just as His Majesty suspected, was most likely the Lord of Hidden City.
The Lord of Hidden City once boasted that he would personally kill His Majesty… and now, he can no longer restrain himself and is making his move against His Majesty…
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
A ruthless glint flashed in Shen Ling's eyes...
She summoned Lu Ming and said softly, "To enter the Hidden City, you need a Hidden City Token..."
She looked up, revealing a mischievous little tiger tooth: "I'm very interested in Hidden City..."
"Yes, Your Highness, I will get you a pass to enter the city right away!" Lu Ming said with his head down, extremely capable.
Soon, the deer's cry disappeared again.
She would do whatever the Empress commanded as quickly as possible, without any delay.
In the grove, the parchment scroll was huffing and puffing as it dug at the soil with its four corners.
"It's not here..."
"It's not here either..."
For a moment, it felt envious, wondering why it hadn't made a deal with Shen Ling's little digging creature back then.
The little guy's digging posture wasn't cool enough.
Or was it because its burying posture wasn't elegant enough?
"Pipi is so tired, Pipi just wants to find a place to rest..." The parchment scroll quietly made a cute gesture.
But clearly, this tactic didn't work on Gu Mu.
"Damn!" Gu Mu glanced at it coldly: "Who told you not to remember the exact address?"
"After you're done digging, remember to fill it back in and cover it with grass. Don't let Ling'er find out we were here!"
The parchment scroll: I'm still just a child...
but,
It's useless.
"It's alright, as long as my master's master is happy, my suffering and exhaustion are nothing..." The parchment scroll experimented with various styles.
Seeing that he couldn't escape his fate of digging in the dirt, he reverted to his sycophantic nature.
finally--
The parchment scroll shook its four corners excitedly: "Your Majesty, I've dug it up! I've dug it up!"
There was a large hole in front of us.
Below the cave was an iron gate.
At this moment, the parchment scroll was covered with poisonous insects.
These poisonous insects were all arranged by Shen Ling to guard the exit.
If they come into contact with humans, an average human will be paralyzed and unable to move for at least a whole day...
But parchment scrolls are not people, after all.
Although those poisonous insects were wriggling densely on the parchment scroll,
However, this still couldn't stop the parchment scroll from dancing vividly in the air.
Gu Mu lifted the iron gate with his hand and jumped down into the hole.
The iron gate was only there to prevent the soil covering it from falling off; it wasn't locked.
Beneath the iron gate was a stone wall, covered with a layer of sheet iron.
Gu Mu followed the narrow secret passage and finally saw a prison cell.
A person covered in blood was bound to a cross, with chains on his hands and feet.
Although he had heard about it from the parchment scrolls before, Gu Mu was mentally prepared.
But upon seeing it, Gu Mu still had to sigh: Shen Ling is truly ruthless.
After all, he was her own brother.
After sighing, Gu Mu was left with only endless heartache...
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