C195 Private trial(1)

Gu Qingli couldn't help but laugh when they left the palace.

Xiao Yi Xiu shook his head. "You shouldn't have forced them into this state by pretending."

Gu Qingli laughed, "Seeing the stalemate between them, if we don't push them from behind, I'm afraid the outcome will be even more unpredictable."

"When did you become as willful and childish as Princess Lan Xun?" He shook his head with a slight smile and stroked her face lovingly.

"If I don't push you, Princess Orchon, with her reckless personality, will really marry you for the sake of forcing Prince Chen." "Then what should I do?" Gu Qing Li's expression was full of protest, pouting dissatisfaction.

Xiao Yi looked at her with a smile, "Am I not going to resist?"

"This sort of thing is not something that you can resist."

Xiao Yi Xiu's smile vanished as he said, "As long as it's something that I don't want to do, no one in this world can force me, including Imperial Father."

"Then when you first married me, you weren't the slightest bit unwilling?"

"Back then, I didn't have you. But now, I have you." He gently pulled her into his arms and looked at the street outside through the window, slowly saying, "This princess doesn't understand Ah Yan at all. This kind of coercion would only allow him to walk far away."

"Where are we going?" Gu Qingli suddenly realized that the route of the carriage had deviated from the way back to the Mo King's Manor.

"To see two people."

Gu Qingli's gaze shifted as she instantly thought of the two dancers she'd kidnapped. No wonder those people had only kidnapped two dancers, she had always been thinking, with that organization's decisive and decisive style, they should have ambushed people on both sides of the road and directly fired at them, turning the two dancers in the carriage into sieves, in order to prevent future troubles.

There was no need for such meticulous planning. He had placed so many people in order to rob the prisoners.

She couldn't help but laugh as she shook her head. She thought that Xiao Yi Xiu would try to interrogate two other dancers, but it seemed that she had underestimated his methods.

The carriage stopped in front of the entrance to the Xuanhua Tower. The two of them got off the carriage and entered the building. After the warm fragrance led them into the secret room, they stayed outside.

He discovered that it had only been a few months since he had started building such a huge project. On top of the original foundation, there was a secret passage that led to another direction. With every step he took, he would touch some of the walls, making it seem as if there were no traces at all.

"There are many traps here, not in the original tunnels. I have already set up more than forty traps in the secret passage. Even if we let someone accidentally enter or discover us, we absolutely cannot end up safe and sound. "

"These... were all built in these few months? " Gu Qingli was amazed at the vastness of these projects. The establishment of an Emperor's underground palace usually took years, yet he only needed a few months to set up so many traps.

Xiao Yi Xiu looked back and smiled at her. Holding her slender waist, he said, "Don't move too far away from me. I don't want to accidentally trigger the traps."

Gu Qingli had only controlled the restaurant in the past, but had never truly operated it. Ever since Xiao Yixiu had taken over, the entire pavilion had begun to function, including the circulation of money and the expansion and application of information.

Actually, he was the one behind the whole thing, obstructing the Empress' line of sight.

"Where does this secret passageway lead to?"

"We'll know when we get there."

The torches on both sides of the narrow and dark path rippled in the wind they passed. After walking for about an hour, they finally reached the end of the path. They saw a huge, dark, heavy iron gate. There were no knobs, no rivets, and there was nothing they could do about it.

Xiao Yixiu pressed the door a few times, and seven circular columns appeared on the door. He held them in a strange order and turned them three times before the columns withdrew again. Then, the door moved back with a heavy weight, revealing a brightly lit path.

He continued along this path and soon turned into a hall. It seemed like a simple arrangement, but there were ten patrolling guards standing there. They were dressed in black and had a normal face that people would forget just by looking at them.

"Greetings to the prince and princess." The patrolling guards bowed.

Gu Qingli immediately recognized them as the shadow guards of the palace. She exclaimed, "So your shadow guards are all here?"

"No, they are only part of it. They are not the ones you've seen."

"This …" Gu Qingli didn't think that she was blind, but these shadow guards' appearances were beyond her expectations. They were so ordinary that it was difficult to remember them with just a few glances. "Where did you find so many people with blurred faces to train them?"

"You don't know what a disguise technique is?" Xiao Yi Xiu couldn't help but laugh.

Gu Qingli smiled coyly. She'd forgotten about that.

The shadow guard opposite her looked at her with a smile, but his face was expressionless. It could be seen that he was wearing a mask.

Gu Qingli suddenly became curious. "Can you guys take off your masks and let me see? When I see your faces in the future, I'll be able to recognize them."

The shadow guards hesitated. Xiao Yi Xiu smiled and shook his head. "He's really childish." He then ordered them to remove the human skin mask.

When the ten or so shadow guards took off their masks, Gu Qingli was surprised to discover that they weren't all men. There were actually four or five young women mixed in with them.

One of the shadow guards pressed his hand against the wall and paused for a moment. Then, he moved aside a hidden door and revealed a secret passage that led to another room.

Gu Qing Li followed behind Xiao Yi Xiu as the hidden door silently closed behind them. She suddenly whispered, "Your personal shadow guards also have women?"

"Yes." He caught her meaning and looked at her with a half-smile.

Her face suddenly turned red as she glared at him. "Then, on our wedding night, are there any women peeping outside?"

"Isn't that called peeping … They're just here to protect me. "

"Then when you bathe, they will also 'stay close' to protect you?"

Xiao Yixiu stopped and looked at her. The smile in his eyes grew wider and wider until it finally overflowed with joy. He couldn't help but pull her into his arms and laugh. He smiled until her cheeks were red, his ears were burning, and his heart was a little sore.

"Xiao Yi Xiu!" What's so funny? "

"Qing Li, let me ask you this seriously. If I've really had other women before, if I really had a female shadow guard outside while I was bathing …" Would you mind? "

Gu Qingli suddenly pushed him away. Her red face looked as if it would bleed at any time, and her eyes were filled with faint emotions.

"When I married you, I already had a secondary wife."

"Humph!" Gu Qing Li turned to leave, but he held her from behind.

He laid his chin gently on her shoulder and whispered, "Don't run away. Tell me the truth."

Gu Qingli calmed her breath for a long time before furiously saying, "When I was with you, I didn't know where you were …" But after you know me, if there's another woman, I'll never forgive you. As for the shadow guard … I don't want anyone to see you... "Yours …"