Chapter 90 Come on, take advantage of it!

If surprise could be embodied, it would be the dazzling fireworks in the sky, the vast stars at night, or the sparkling waves on the sea.

Or now.

Hidden under the white silk are a pair of beautiful eyes as captivating as the stars in the sky. The movement of her eyes is enough to make one's heart stop beating and unable to extricate oneself.

Shen Zhi opened his hands, and the white silk in his hands fluttered in the night wind. Xiao Lang couldn't help but stretch out his hand, and the end of the white silk passed over Xiao Lang's fingers and flew away like a butterfly.

The moonlight was clear. Xiao Lang had wondered what the Crown Prince would look like after his eyes recovered, but he had never imagined it would be like this. The cold obsidian eyes stared at him steadily, as if they wanted to suck in his soul.

Shen Zhi glanced at Xiao Lang's dazed face and curled his lips silently. He had seen countless people fall for his looks, and he had also heard them blush and glance at him, then curse him in a low voice for his cruelty and willfulness.

Shen Zhi actually found it quite interesting to be looked at like this by Xiao Lang.

Shen Zhi raised his hand, and his slender white fingertips gently traced Xiao Lang's still youthful eyebrows and eyes. The legendary majestic general was only nineteen years old. No matter how powerful he was, there was still a trace of innocence in his deep black pupils.

"You look like this, very different from the painting." Shen Zhi had never met Xiao Lang. When Xiao Lang was fifteen years old, he became the commander of an army. All he sent back to the capital was his portrait.

The handsome and bright young man has nothing to do with the untidy bearded man in the painting.

Xiao Lang's brows felt numb. He could hear the Crown Prince praising his looks, and his Adam's apple tightened involuntarily.

Shen Zhi smiled, and his long black hair brushed across Xiao Lang's shoulders as he turned his head. The bright moonlight cast a bright halo on him, making him look like a fairy ascending to heaven.

"When my mother passed away, I was still young. The concubines in my father's harem were all saying that I would be deposed," Shen Zhi told the story as if he was the most qualified storyteller, full of emotion but as if he was telling someone else's story.

Shen Zhi turned his head and looked into Xiao Lang's deep eyes, raised his lips, "But Xiao Lang, I don't want to be abandoned. I want to stand at the pinnacle of power and take over everything that belongs to me."

"Your Highness..." Xiao Lang's voice was dry, and his hold on Shen Zhi's hand tightened.

Shen Zhi didn't think it was a big deal. Instead, he thought Xiao Lang's expression was very interesting. "Are you sympathizing with me?"

Shen Zhi joked, pinching Xiao Lang's chin hard, not understanding his emotions.

Shen Zhi shook his head in amusement, "No need, Xiao Lang, no need to sympathize with me. You should know how far I will go to get that position."

The green wolf eyes flickered in the darkness, and the wolves gathered together with their fangs bared, looking eerie and terrifying. Xiao Lang was of the same kind as them, so naturally he was not afraid.

Shen Zhi restrained his smile, patted Xiao Lang on the head, and said, "Let them go away."

Xiao Lang did not hesitate. A strange howl echoed through the jungle, and dozens of wolves scattered.

Xiao Lang's ears twitched slightly. Besides the noise of the wolves, there seemed to be another danger lurking in the dark night.

Xiao Lang bent his fingers and put them to his lips. A loud whistle sounded, and the horse he rode came to Xiao Lang's side immediately.

"Leave first," Xiao Lang put Shen Zhi on the horse, gripped the horse's belly and galloped away.

The rustling sound of the wind in the jungle at night became more and more obvious. The other party had almost no intention of hiding. Xiao Lang had a solemn face, and estimated that there were at least dozens of people hiding to kill them.

The sharp arrows, accompanied by the whistling sound of the wind, broke through the air and headed towards the two people on horseback.

Xiao Lang quickly pushed Shen Zhi down to avoid him, but the man in black who was chasing them from behind had no intention of letting them go.

The footsteps were getting closer, but Xiao Lang did not dare to stop because he had his Royal Highness the Crown Prince in his arms.

Xiao Lang was so fast that the sound of the wind became a straight line in his ears, turning into a blade that cut Shen Zhi's eardrum.

"There's no escape," Shen Zhi's sigh dissipated in the wind and also reached Xiao Lang's ears.

Xiao Lang's palms were stained with blood and emitted a faint bloody smell. He did not answer because he had to send Shen Zhi to a safe place.

There are too many people who want to kill the prince, especially now that he has recovered. In order to avoid being retaliated by the prince, those who defected before must eliminate future troubles.

But what Xiao Lang didn't know was that those people were not the ones who killed the prince.

Shen Zhi also put his hand on the reins and wrapped them around his hand twice. The galloping horse was so powerful that two red marks were left on the back of Shen Zhi's delicate hand, but Shen Zhi didn't care.

"Bang!" Xiao Lang fell off the horse.

As Xiao Lang fell off his horse, Shen Zhi suddenly tightened the reins and turned the horse's head, forcing it to stop.

Xiao Lang fell from his galloping horse, his back hitting the ground and causing pain in his chest. He looked up.

Shen Zhi, dressed in white, rode on a tall horse with a haughty look in his eyes. At this moment, he truly looked like an emperor ruling the world.

"Xiao Lang, what I said is," Shen Zhi was afraid that Xiao Lang couldn't hear clearly, so he spoke every word very clearly, "You can't escape."

The man in black behind him followed closely, drew his weapon and put it on Xiao Lang's neck, leaving a bloody line.

Shen Zhi's eyes fell on the void. The horse kept walking back and forth. Shen Zhi loosened the reins. His hands were also stained with blood, which strangely mixed with the blood on Xiao Lang's hands on the reins.

"When I was slaughtering the Fan family, I was wondering why my father wanted to give this matter to me." Shen Zhi looked far away, and suddenly smiled and curled his lips, "He wants to abolish Chu."

Shen Zhi's beautiful eyes were particularly thrilling in the dark night, and Xiao Lang felt a chill to the bone. "I don't want to, I want to be the master of the world."

"I have thought of a way, Xiao Lang, guess what it is?" Shen Zhi smiled, but the smile did not reach his eyes.

Xiao Lang looked into Shen Zhi's ruthless eyes, and a terrible guess arose in his heart.

"Did you do this to your eyes yourself?" Xiao Lang was shocked by his own thoughts.

Shen Zhi suddenly laughed because of Xiao Lang's words.

"If it weren't for these blind eyes, I wouldn't have let my father lose his vigilance and tolerate me to be so presumptuous that I became the crown prince he couldn't touch," Shen Zhi did not refute.

Shen Zhiyang shouted: "Catch the traitor Xiao Lang!"

His delicate facial features looked particularly cold under the cold moonlight. Xiao Lang knew what his crime meant. It was not that Shen Zhi wanted to kill him, but that Shen Zhi wanted to take over Xiao's army in a legitimate way.

Shen Zhi turned over and dismounted, stepping barefoot on the dead branches and fallen leaves. Sharp pain was imprinted on the soles of his feet, but Shen Zhi seemed not to feel it and walked step by step to Xiao Lang.

Shen Zhi leaned over, looked at Xiao Lang, who was like a trapped beast, with clear eyes, and said softly: "Don't look at me like that, Xiao Lang, this ending is destined. Remember my words."

The last piece of information that Zhong Wenshu exchanged with Shen Zhi was that Xiao Lang would commit treason and massacre the country.

Zhong Wenshu was right. In the original text, Xiao Lang killed most of the disobedient ministers for Shen Zhaoheng, which allowed Shen Zhaoheng to sit firmly on the throne. Xiao Lang then became Shen Zhaoheng's favorite person.

Xiao Lang saw with his own eyes the dagger that Shen Zhi had wiped today stabbing into his body. His blood immediately flowed back and his bones felt cold.

Blood flowed from Xiao Lang's lips. What he actually wanted to say was that if the Crown Prince wanted the Xiao family army, he could just hand it over. There was no need to make things so embarrassing.

He wanted to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince whether he liked him, but the pain of the sharp knife entering his body told him that the cold-hearted Crown Prince had no feelings for him at all.

Shen Zhi left barefoot, just like when Xiao Lang first saw him, walking barefoot in the vast snow, all alone.

It seemed as if he had never changed, as if all the tenderness he showed towards me was an illusion.

Shen Zhi returned to the Prince's Mansion and first went to see the Snow Wolf. He whispered, "It is said that wolves only have one partner in their lifetime. I wonder if it is true."

If this is true, then Xiao Lang is in big trouble.

Shen Zhi opened the cage that contained the snow wolf, and the snow wolf inside came out hesitantly. Shen Zhi was not afraid of this ferocious beast at all and touched its head.

"I never keep any animals, you are an exception," Shen Zhi said softly with his eyes narrowed.

The snow wolf tilted its head, and its queen seemed to be talking to it but also seemed not to be talking to it.

The tip of the snow wolf's nose moved slightly as it smelled the scent of its boss.

The deep green eyes were dark and dangerous, Shen Zhi stopped and said, "You go too."

The snow wolf paced back and forth, turning around anxiously.

There were footsteps approaching the door, and the person who came knelt down and said, "Please forgive me, Your Highness. I..."

As if he was having a hard time speaking, he spoke haltingly before he could finish his words, "My subordinates did not catch Xiao Lang."

Shen Zhi then looked at him straight in the eye, a light laugh escaped from his throat, and he said in a good-tempered tone: "I stabbed him. There were thirty-six of you there, and Xiao Lang actually ran away?"

An anxious defense sounded, "Your Highness, it's not that I didn't do my best, but someone came to save Xiao Lang..."

The man was stained with Xiao Lang's blood and was smelled by the snow wolf. The man who was anxious to report did not notice that there was a loose wolf in the yard.

By the time he realized it, the wolf had already pounced on his arm and bit off a piece of flesh.

"Ahhhhh!" He roared in fear and rolled and crawled to avoid the snow wolf's attack.

Shen Zhi watched the fight between the man and the wolf at a leisurely pace. When it was almost over, Shen Zhi spoke, "Come back."

The snow wolf seemed to have a spirit and opened its mouth.

Shen Zhi glanced at him indifferently and said, "Find out who shot the arrows today. You should know what to do."

The blood-stained man nodded repeatedly.

Shen Zhi asked him to step back and burn the reins of the horse today.

The man went down in a hurry.

When Shen Zhi returned to the study, Yuanbao had already prepared the pastries.

The chubby Yuanbao frowned and said in distress: "Your Highness, Master Qingqing in the mansion is missing."

It didn't matter about the others. Young Master Qingqing had served in the emperor's bed after all, even though he was replaced by General Xiao in the end. But Yuanbao was still found by someone.

The strange thing is that no one was found after searching the entire Prince’s Mansion.

"Don't worry about it. We won't see each other again in the future," Shen Zhi said calmly while flipping through the book in his hand.

Yuanbao was naturally overjoyed when he learned that the Crown Prince had recovered, but before he could even get there, he was called into the palace by the Emperor, so Yuanbao couldn't help feeling a little worried.

Shen Zhikou wrote a letter, saying something ambiguous: "Shen Zhaoheng checked me out last time and confirmed that I was really blind. I recovered this time thanks to the good doctor he brought with him. There is nothing to worry about. It was all their setup."

He was just following their plan, there was nothing to doubt.

Yuan Bao was confused after hearing this. He did not understand the Crown Prince's plan. He just wanted to ask: "Did General Xiao really commit treason?"

This reason does not apply to Xiao Lang at all. It is ridiculous. Will anyone really believe it?

Yuanbao was afraid that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would suffer backlash.

Shen Zhi lowered his eyes, his long eyelashes leaving ink marks under his eyelids, "Who knows?"

It's just a reason for the party to unite and attack the dissidents, no one cares whether it's true or not.

Such a false reason would surely cause quite a stir when the truth was revealed.