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When the last bit of moonlight was obscured by the thick dark clouds, the land was immediately engulfed in complete darkness.

Even the wind had calmed down, and the surface of the lake was as still as ice.

The tall grass at the entrance of the valley was slightly overturned, and the rustling sound was even softer than the wailing of the autumn insects. If one did not use a torch to illuminate the area, it would be impossible to find anything crawling in the grass.

Like a zombie.

He was covered in blood, but the worst injury was on his thigh. Only the leg of his pants was attached to his wound, while the other parts of his blood had dried up and formed a solid mass.

As he got closer and closer to the house, he looked at the dim light coming from the window and crawled even faster.

At this moment, Hua Ruyu was lying on the other side of the bed with her arms around him. Her fingertips had lightly cut open the collar of his undergarment, yet he'd taken hold of her hand.

"No." A trace of coldness appeared in Shen Youhuang's eyes.

"Prince …" Hua Ruyu was full of resentment as she acted like a spoiled child, but he had already flung her hand away.

"Gao Xing has brought people to the medicine hut to investigate, it's about time for them to return." As Shen Youhuang spoke, she had already lifted up the quilt and picked up the shirt that hung over the head of the bed.

At this moment, someone knocked on the door. It was Gao Dazhi's voice.

"Your Highness! "Your Highness!" Gao Dazhi said breathlessly, "Pei..." Pei Shi is back! "

Shen Youhuang unlatched the door and opened it to take a look. She saw Gao Zhenren standing outside, two personal guards of Prince Cheng's residence behind him. One on each side was a man covered in blood.

It was Pei Shi.

When Shen Youhuang saw this situation, she asked in a low voice, "Are there others who are still alive?"

Gao Zhen guiltily shook his head: "Reporting to Your Highness, this servant will carefully search around the medicine hut's vicinity. However, under the broken mountain rock, there are only broken limbs and mutilated bodies. I can't even find half a whole body … "Pei Shi was the one who crawled out of the pile of corpses. I don't know how he climbed up to this place …"

As he spoke, he glanced back at Pei Shi, and felt that he was in a terrible situation.

Pei Shi was too tired to crawl. After he was discovered by the personal guards, he immediately relaxed and fainted.

Shen Youhuang was the one who ordered Pei Shi to be placed in the kitchen to treat his wounds.

After an hour, the acupuncture woke Pei Shi up, and he spoke of what had happened at the medicine hut.

It was only then that Shen Youhuang knew that it was Shen Lingjue who had secretly sent people to follow Ye Bailu and use him as bait, luring the killers and Pei Shi to kill each other and seizing the opportunity to ignite the gunpowder, causing all those loyal to Shen Youhuang to perish.

If Pei Shi hadn't used the bodies of others to block the firepower of the explosives, he would have become a pile of meat paste under the mountain rock.

Shen Youhuang landed a palm on the firewood with great hatred, fresh blood immediately flowing from her palm.

"Just like that, my years of hard work were completely destroyed by Shen Ling Jue!"

Gao Wang quickly stopped him from harming himself and advised, "Prince, this Ye Bailu is still alive, but these assassins are completely gone. If we were still in Ningnan, then we would be in a more passive position. Why don't we return to the capital and plan …"

Shen Youhuang raised her hand and coldly rejected this suggestion.

"NO!" Since this duke has come, I must sever Shen Ling Jue's wings and make it so that he will never be able to stand up again. It would be best if … We will never be able to return to the capital! "

As he spoke, his peach blossom eyes slightly narrowed as his gaze turned extremely sinister.

He returned to his bedroom and held onto Hua Ruyu's hand. He said sinisterly: "Ruyu, I want you to immediately write a letter to meet someone."

Hua Ruyu rolled her eyes when she heard this and immediately understood what Shen Youhuang meant.

She smiled sweetly and wrapped her arms around Shen Youhuang, "Yes, chenqie will obey."

A letter was quickly written and sent to the Southern Ning military camp unbeknownst to anyone.

Half an hour later, Hua Ruyu was wearing a plain white outfit, a thin cloak, and a head of loose black hair. She was standing at the edge of the small lake.

The night wind blew against her hair. In the darkness, her plain, unadorned appearance was even more charming and lovable than when she was wearing heavy makeup.

Such a figure would not only arouse the sympathy and sympathy of a man who thought himself a hero, but it would also be an unsolvable poison.

Very quickly, a burly man's figure appeared behind her. Borrowing the cover of a large tree, he exposed half of his body to silently gaze at her back, as if he wanted to forever remember this back …

Hua Ruyu raised her handkerchief and lightly wiped her tears, causing the man to be even more moved.

She seemed to have sensed it. When she turned around, her face was covered in tears.

"Miss Biao!" Yue Qing couldn't help but call out softly as he walked out from behind the tree, "Why are you crying again in the night wind? "Prince Cheng, he …"

"It's not His Highness Duke Cheng …" Hua Ruyu slowly walked towards Yue Qing and said sorrowfully, "I heard a piece of news tonight that really made me despair. I didn't dare to cry in front of the prince, and my heart was filled with depression, but I didn't know who to say it to, so … "I just thought of you, Brother Yue …"

As he called out "Big Brother Yue", a few tears could be felt from the Hundred Refinement Steel.

How could Yue Qing block it? He couldn't help but clench his fist. "It's hard on you …"

Hua Ruyu turned around and looked at the dark lake, muttering her thoughts.

"My life was miserable, and I lost both my parents when I was young. The Hua family said that I was unlucky, but fortunately, my uncle took me in so that I could live to this day. But Uncle has always been biased towards me, and everyone knows that Cousin has always been a tyrant. For the sake of my own future prospects, I offered up a dance at the night banquet, hoping that I would be favored by the princes and leave this place of suffering. "

As she spoke, she seemed to sink into a reminiscence. Although her tears had yet to dry, she was smiling happily.

"That night, His Highness Duke Cheng took a fancy to me and gave the flower in his hand to me. Thus, our relationship was settled … I had originally wanted to ask Uncle for his permission, but who knew that Yu Wang would propose marriage to my cousin first? My status was low, so how could I dare to steal my cousin's limelight? Thus, I had no choice but to conceal this matter. "Fortunately, Prince Cheng still remembers me. Before the Grand Selection Ceremony, he personally kneeled down and begged the empress dowager to grant him a marriage …"

She described the affair of her colluding with Prince Cheng in a beautiful and moving manner.

Yue Qing was moved. Although he felt happy for her, he also felt that it was too late to see her.

At this point, Hua Ruyu suddenly broke down and covered her face:

"But, Cousin is Princess Yuwangfei! She was afraid that I would be on equal footing with her, so she spoke up before Her Majesty, bestowing me only as a secondary concubine … Then, she ordered me to drink the medicine of the cold, so that I could not conceive, never again have the opportunity to recuperate! "She even sent assassins to kill the crown prince, Shen Di. This was something she personally admitted before the empress dowager and the emperor!"

When Yue Qing heard this, he was so shocked that he immediately retreated a few steps. "Miss Biao, what did you say!? How could Young Marshal be such a person! "

"If I tell even half a lie, I'll die a horrible death!"

Hua Rui acted like a mad woman, laughing and crying. She grabbed Yue Qing's hand and said sorrowfully: "She somehow found out that I came to Ningnan to look for Ye Bai to treat his illness, so she brought him here from the Southern Wilderness to be placed under house arrest. Now that I know that the prince and I are here, I have moved Ye Bailu away and ordered my men to protect him closely … Didn't Brother Yue know about this matter as well? "

Of course Yue Qing knew, Ye Bailu was sent by Shen Lingjue to receive him, and also was released by Shen Lingjue.

But he didn't know where Ye Bailu was right now, and whether it was because Feng Ning Yan had sent someone to spy on him.

He could not believe that his Young Marshal, whom he admired and revered, would be like what Hua Ruyu had described, vicious and unscrupulous.

However, as he looked at Hua Ruyu, his trust towards Feng Ningyan had already been broken by her tears …

"I …" He resisted the urge to hug Hua Ruyu and asked softly, "What can I do for Miss Biao?"