Chapter 472: Never Leave
When Lin Miaoyin entered the Princess's mansion, the copper bells on the eaves jingled in the night wind. She gathered her brocade cloak and rubbed her fingertips on the pattern of the dagger in her sleeve. The guards in the mansion stood on both sides holding torches, and the flames stretched her shadow long and short, like a silk thread that could break at any time.
"The princess is here——"
Following the eunuch's shrill announcement, the red lacquer door slowly opened. In the main hall, candles were lit brightly, and gilded incense burners were emitting curling green smoke. Princess Beigong Mingyue was leaning on a rosewood couch, playing with a string of coral Buddhist beads. She was wearing a crimson-purple palace dress, and the nine-phoenix hairpin holding a pearl in her hair glowed coldly under the lamplight.
"Daughter-in-law greets mother." Lin Miaoyin knelt down and saluted, her drooping eyelashes hiding the dark emotions in her eyes.
"Get up." The princess' voice sounded like ice. "Where have you been these days?
"Mom, I'm just strolling around." Lin Miaoyin maintained a perfect smile.
The princess suddenly placed the teacup heavily on the table. The clinking sound startled the night birds roosting outside the window. Lin Miaoyin saw the tea splashing on the cloud-patterned brocade, leaving dark brown marks.
"Do you really think I don't know?" The eldest princess's nails scraped across the rim of the cup. "In the past half month, you have sent six letters to Renxin Hall and met the Shen family three times in the old alley in the south of the city." She suddenly leaned forward, with a dangerous light flickering in her phoenix eyes.
"Lin Miaoyin, what are you going to do? Cui Xi and Nanny Wu are both dead. I asked you to find a concubine for my son, but I didn't expect you to be so jealous and even dare to contact the Shen family behind my back!"
Lin Miaoyin clenched her hands in her sleeves. She had set up the secret line of Renxin Hall herself, and even Beigong You didn't know everything. She forced herself to relax her shoulders and showed a confused expression: "I'm afraid my mother has misunderstood."
"Cui Xi was killed by Madam Wu herself. What does this have to do with my daughter-in-law? Besides, Cui Xi threatened my daughter-in-law, saying that she wanted to give birth to a firstborn son. My daughter-in-law only has one daughter, You An, who is still fertile, but she doesn't have much energy."
Lin Miaoyin stared at the princess' eyes and said, "Mother, if you really want to take a concubine for the prince, I will agree. But I am the princess, so the concubine cannot climb over my head."
As she spoke, Lin Miaoyin's eyes became a little vague.
Before coming, she met Yu Lingxiu privately. After all, she was the eldest princess's person, so she must know about Shen Yu's existence.
Although the broken arm sent was fake, she was still worried about Shen Yu being in the Princess's Mansion.
Shen Yu is too important to herself. She can't let him stay alone in the Princess's Mansion. Even if Beigong You doesn't want to, she will rescue him.
"Mother, my daughter-in-law wants to see Shen Yu."
The princess paused while drinking her tea and smiled: "It seems you know."
"I see. That broken arm is not Shen Yu's."
"As long as I can see Shen Yu once, I will be a member of the Beigong family in life and a ghost of the Beigong family in death."
The princess clapped her hands and laughed, and the coral beads clattered on her wrists. She clapped her hands three times, and the sound of iron chains dragging on the ground came from behind the screen. Two guards carried a bloody man out, and Lin Miaoyin smelled the smell of rotten meat mixed with rust. When the man raised his head, she almost knocked over the teacup - the sleeve of Shen Yu's right arm was empty, and the wrist where he used to paint was wrapped with bloody linen.
"A...Yu?" Her voice trembled. Shen Yu's cloudy eyes moved, and a few breaths came out of her cracked lips.
The princess chuckled: "The broken arm given to you is naturally not Shen Yu's, but it doesn't mean that Shen Yu is fine."
Lin Miaoyin dug her fingertips deep into her palm, and the taste of blood spread in her mouth.
Shen Yu's hollow eyes were like a blunt knife, cutting her internal organs inch by inch.
The eldest princess's Nine-Phoenix hairpin shone blindingly under the candlelight. Lin Miaoyin suddenly remembered the blood-stained jade button that Birong had stuffed into her pocket when she came to see her - it was the evidence taken from Cui Xi's body.
Cui Xi wanted to be Beigong You's concubine at the order of the eldest princess, and the blood-stained jade button was given to her by the eldest princess.
"Mother, are you really going to be so ruthless?" Lin Miaoyin suddenly chuckled and pulled out a roll of bright yellow silk from her sleeve, "Do you recognize this?" When the silk was unfolded, the gilded incense burner suddenly made a crackling sound, and the eldest princess' pupils suddenly shrank - the bright red jade seal mark on the lower right corner of the silk was as glaring as blood in the green smoke.
Suddenly, the sound of armor clashing could be heard outside the door, and twelve Jinwu Guards entered with halberds in hand. The leader held up the token: "The imperial edict has arrived! Princess, please accept it!"
The princess's purple sleeves swept the teacup off her shoulders, and she knelt on the ground in a hurry, the broken porcelain splashing onto the blood-soaked linen cloth.
"Birong searched the mass grave and finally found it among Cuixi's belongings."
The iron boots of the Jinwu Guards crushed the silence in the room, and the princess suddenly laughed like an owl. She ripped off the Nine Phoenix Step Shake and threw it at Lin Miaoyin, but the golden phoenix beak was cut off in mid-air by the commander's sword. "The princess has harmed countless people and is cunning. She will be punished for multiple crimes." The commander pronounced in a cold voice, "From now on, she will be confined to the mansion and will never leave."
When the iron chain clicked and locked the eldest princess' wrist, Lin Miaoyin had already cut Shen Yu's rope.
Lin Miaoyin supported Shen Yu's thin body, her eyes fell on his bloody arm, and she couldn't control her tears and finally flowed down.
"Shen Yu, I'm here to save you, I'm here to save you..."
Shen Yu's body had been tortured for too long, and he was already at the end of his strength.
There was a foul odor coming from him.
"Miaoyin, don't cry..."
Lin Miaoyin's tears fell drop by drop on his blood-stained face, leaving traces that became increasingly red: "Shen Yu, Shen Yu, don't talk anymore, I'll save you, I'll save you!"
Shen Yu was numb from the pain, and his cloudy and empty eyes finally lit up the moment he saw her.
"Miaoyin, I..."
Shen Yu breathed in more than he breathed out, his face was pale, and he completely fainted.
"Someone, call the doctor!"
Several people worked together to bring Shen Yu out, and they just saw Beigong You who hurried over in the moonlight. Seeing that she was covered in blood, his worried eyes fell on Shen Yu, and Beigong You's eyes became completely cold.
The aura around him was cold and intimidating.
"Wonderful sound..."
Lin Miaoyin took a step back to avoid his captivating gaze.
"Lin Miaoyin..." Beigong You saw clearly who the bloody person was and gritted his teeth.
"My Lord, Shen Yu is my close friend, I must save him." After saying that, Lin Miaoyin directed people to take Shen Yu back.
Beigong You's fists were clenched so tightly that they made a creaking sound. Seeing that she was about to leave, he put his big hands across her waist and pushed her against the cold wall.
"Lin Miaoyin, you are great."
"If Your Majesty wants to blame me for the eldest princess's matter, I have nothing to say." Lin Miaoyin said coldly, slapped his hand away and turned to leave.
Beigong You watched her back as she left, then looked at Huihong, and the Princess's Mansion which was sealed off by the Jinwu Guards.
Beigong You clenched his fists, thought about what happened before, and turned towards the direction of the palace.
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