"The nearby..." The man in black robes was about to say something.
Wu Shang rushed over from a distance and landed beside Ji Fengyao. Seeing the elderly palace maid who had died on the ground, he hurriedly looked Ji Fengyao up and down anxiously: "Your Highness, are you alright?"
"It's nothing, how did you find your way here?" Ji Fengyao picked up the blood-stained whip in her hand.
"Your Highness, please come with me! The Prince has been poisoned!" Wu Shang disregarded etiquette, stepped forward, rolled up Ji Fengyao's sleeve, wrapped it around her hand, and pulled her away.
Ji Fengyao was also startled when she heard this, and sped away with Wu Shang.
The man in black robes stood silently, watching Wu Shang and Ji Fengyao depart into the distance, remaining motionless and silent for a long time.
The servant wearing the ghost mask glanced silently at the man in black robes again: He felt that the unfinished sentence from the Venerable One was an order for him to eliminate those people sent by the Gaoqi Kingdom to find the Ninth Princess.
After taking her time to bathe, Chu Ling ordered her maid to apply powder all over her body to moisturize her skin. Then, she put on a thin and transparent off-white gauze dress and, surrounded by eight maids, went through the secret passage of Zhegui Palace to Yisi Terrace.
The secret passage passes beneath the lake, extremely dark and mysterious, and no one knows about it.
Eight maids, carrying two glass lanterns and adorned with fresh flower petals, led Chu Ling forward as if welcoming a queen.
The exit of the secret passage leads directly to the sleeping quarters of the main hall and the side halls.
“Princess, this is the entrance to the side hall and the sleeping quarters. The Ninth Prince is up there right now. His men are guarding outside the hall, and there is only one personal guard inside,” Xiang Lan said, stopping at a certain point in the secret passage and pointing to a movable hidden panel above her head.
"A bunch of idiots," Chu Ling said with disdain.
Xiangfen and Xiangguan tiptoed to open the hidden panel, and quietly jumped up to take a look. They found themselves in a small, dark room that could only accommodate about three people.
A faint sound of water and voices came from outside: "Your Highness, we can't add any more ice; your lips have turned purple."
"It's alright, I'll add more." Shang Xiye's skin was already numb from the cold, but the heat in her body had not subsided at all.
This kind of extreme situation, where one feels both ice and fire, is truly unbearable.
Wu Ying, watching from the side, felt sorry for his master and wanted to advise him many times to find a palace maid instead.
Under such circumstances, if the prince were to find a palace maid with a clean background, the princess would probably not blame him.
"Your Highness..."
"No problem, add it!"
Shang Xiye clenched his teeth; he didn't even dare to ask where the little bandit had gone.
Even the thought of a single glance from the little bandit girl made him feel like he would collapse.
Xiangfen and Xiangguan jumped down into the secret passage and said happily, "Princess, the Ninth Prince is up there, taking a bath with ice."
"The Ninth Prince is still conscious?" Chu Ling was quite surprised.
"He seems quite lucid, but judging from their conversation, it sounds like he's been chilled to the bone," Xiangfen said.
"Then let's wait a little longer. Once he's been drugged, a mere mortal can't harm him," Chu Ling said with great patience.
Actually, she was also afraid that Shang Xiye was still conscious and might say something hurtful to her.
She swore that she never wanted to hear such hurtful words again in her life!
Wu Ying added more ice to the bathtub. Seeing that Shang Xiye's brows were furrowing more and more, he couldn't help but place his palm on Shang Xiye's back and channel his inner energy into him to help him resist the cold.
Who would have thought that as soon as the shadowless, masculine internal force entered Shang Xiye's body, it was like water droplets splashing into a boiling oil pan, instantly creating a monstrous heat wave!
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