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Even though it was already night, the Fourth Prince Palace was still brightly lit. Inside the study, Shi Jinchen was thoughtfully looking at the cloth in his hand. The flickering candlelight reflected on his increasingly gloomy expression, and a group of well-trained dark guards and guards of the Duke Palace kneeled in front of the office desk.

"Is this what I usually say to you all to protect Xiao Sui? So many people, yet they couldn't even look at an unarmed girl? What did I raise you pieces of trash for? " Shi Jinchen stood up from his seat, and looked at his subordinates who were kneeling on the ground with an expression filled with the desire to rain and rain.

"This subordinate deserves to die, please forgive me, Your Highness."

"Let me ask you, who is this cloth?" The Shi Jinchen really did not expect that the matter which he had taken full precautions against had still happened in the end.

He suddenly thought of the servant girl who had always been silent behind Xiao Sui. Seeing that Fourth Prince was about to flare up again, he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "My prince, I remember this kind of fabric, it's the clothes worn by the girl last autumn."

"Late autumn? is it the servant girl that has been following behind Xiao Sui? " He had clearly warned all the servants in the Palace not to leave the Palace on their own accord. Why did they have to go out in the autumn to be captured by the assassins from the Palace? Furthermore, he had arranged for the entire Fourth Prince Palace to be protected by three layers on the outside and three layers on the inside.

The guards of the Duke Palace were unquestionable, the hidden guards training at the Shi Jinchen himself were all people that he had trained with a lot of choices. This late autumn was going to be captured, unless she could run out by herself, then the killers at broken sword cliff would have an opportunity. But the question was, how was she able to avoid the spies of the guards and guards of the mansion and sneak out without anyone noticing?

Thinking about that unknown woman who followed behind Xiao Sui, his intuition told him that this late autumn would definitely not be as simple as a normal girl.

Just then, a black shadow suddenly appeared in the room. It was the hidden guard that Shi Jinchen had sent to investigate the black alley.

"Your Highness, your subordinate has already investigated the Black Lane, and there are no traces of a fight at the scene. It can be seen that for the time being, Miss Xiao Sui is still safe, but your subordinate has found out that last night, there was a carriage that stealthily drove out of the city gates."

After hearing that, Shi Jinchen looked at the guard sternly, "Have you found out where the carriage is?"

"Reporting to your highness, your subordinate was investigating the tracks along the way, but that horse carriage disappeared after entering the forest outside the city. Your subordinate was useless, the forest was dense, and your subordinate had also searched for it before, but to no avail."

Interesting, this carriage had disappeared for no reason after entering the forest. No matter how he looked at it, there seemed to be a problem.

"You guys, follow me to the forest and take a look." The Shi Jinchen immediately issued an order.

"Yes, Your Highness."

The moon hung high in the sky, and a few crows crowed from the quiet forest outside the city. Shi Jinchen and his group followed the ruts and entered the seemingly ordinary and unremarkable forest.

The forest was not big, but there were a lot of trees and bushes. It was summer and the mosquitoes were rampaging in the forest. It was very annoying. Suddenly, a shout came from one of his subordinates, as if he had discovered something.

"Your Royal Highness, there is a piece of tree bark here that is worn out!"

"I have one here too!"

When Shi Jinchen heard the noise, he walked forward and carefully observed the uneven bark, whose bark was flipped outwards. It did not look like the claw of a beast, but more like the scratch of a blunt instrument, just that in the dark forest, who would be so bored to use such a blunt instrument to leave such a mark on the tree trunk? There must be something fishy about this.

While everyone was distracted, a shadow suddenly shot through the branches of the tree. Shi Jinchen reacted very quickly, and immediately drew the whip from his waist. The branch that had disappeared into the darkness trembled a few times, and with a painful groan, the shadow disappeared, but a hidden weapon came piercing through the wind.

Of course it wouldn't harm the Shi Jinchen, he dodged it easily and the concealed weapon brought the slip of paper which was then fiercely stabbed into the thick tree trunk behind him.

"Prince, are you alright?" The guards in the distance also hurried over when they heard the commotion.

"Nothing." He removed the concealed weapon from the tree trunk and unfolded the paper. The paper clearly stated that at the same time tomorrow night, broken sword cliff was going to execute Xiao Sui!

"Damn it." Shi Jinchen smashed onto a large tree at the side. A few leaves followed the movement of Shi Jinchen as they fluttered down from the big tree. Shi Jinchen had truly never imagined that yesterday, the girl who was still alive and kicking in front of him would be executed because of her negligence.

Why didn't he ask more about that late autumn? Leaving such a dangerous mission by his side just because of some simple words from Xiao Sui?

This silly girl, Xiao Sui, how many times have I told her that, to obediently stay in the Duke Palaces without listening, she actually ran out and obediently got captured for the sake of a maid? Now that this girl had been captured by someone from the broken sword cliff, he himself didn't even know where the broken sword cliff was!

Once again heavily smashing onto the thick branch in front of him. Shi Jinchen had never hated his incompetence like this before. What should he do now? His heart seemed to have lost a piece. Since when had that little girl become more and more important to him, and right now, he didn't even know what she was thinking.

It had always been a one-sided teasing. He had watched her angry, watched her get angry because of his shame, told himself that doing this was wrong, and even when he saw her crying over him, he didn't take it to heart. At that time, Xiao Sui must have been very sad, right? In her heart, shouldn't she have been a pacified and defeated Royal Highness?

What about her now? If she was betrayed by someone she was close to in a strange place, would she be sad? With her crying personality, she would definitely be scared. If he was by her side, would she throw herself into his arms and cry out in grievance?

It was no wonder that Xiao Sui would be so tired while staying by his side. In fact, it was the complete opposite of what he had imagined, that this heartless girl, Xiao Sui, had relied on his own broken sword cliff being mistaken to be Ke Yuehua, to change patterns everyday so her subordinates could cook and give him to eat. Besides being under house arrest, he had never received any kind of material treatment.

Jian Qiuying was afraid that she would be bored from being locked up, so much so that she would come in and tell her stories at the right time every day. Of course, it was all about the past of broken sword cliff, and Xiao Sui happily danced with their red lances, lying on the stone bed and enjoying the handsome guy playing the flute.