Chapter 188

188 SOMEONE HANGING FROM THE CEILING

In the end, Bai Chen decided to take Zhu Ge with him as he immediately brought his feet to the Imperial Palace. He actually wanted to ask Zhu Ge a few questions:

“You said something big might happen in the Imperial Palace, and you also said that you were worried if I wouldn’t be able to take it well so I had to take you there. Then, what are you going to do to me if I really can’t take it well?”

That was the question Bai Chen wanted to ask Zhu Ge, but he only swallowed it because he assumed that he didn’t need to ask such a question. ‘Maybe he’ll just say that he’ll hug me if I can’t accept the reality that might happen in the Imperial Palace,’ Bai Chen thought to himself as he could barely help but roll his eyes lazily.

After all, Zhu Ge was indeed a man who could say something like that even in this kind of situation, and that was why Bai Chen decided to put his curiosity aside as he walked with Zhu Ge to the Imperial Palace.

Zhu Ge also didn’t say anything. Bai Chen expected the man in red would tease him after he agreed to bring the man to the Rongyao Imperial Palace, but he got no taunts from the man.

Instead, Zhu Ge just continued displaying a grim expression for some reasons unknown to Bai Chen.

However, Bai Chen chose to ignore the man’s bizarre behavior, and they finally arrived at Rongyao Imperial Palace.

Surprisingly, when the two of them arrived at the front gate of the palace, there were no guards guarding the gate, and even if Bai Chen was confused by it, he simply motioned for Zhu Ge to continue walking through the tall gate.

Maybe it was a good thing for him that there was no one guarding the gate. He could enter the Imperial Palace freely without needing to tell the guards his intention to come to the palace, and that was indeed an advantage for him.

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‘But it’s very dangerous if the gate isn’t guarded like this, right? What happened inside the palace that even caused the guards to leave their posts?’ Bai Chen once again wondered to himself as he and Zhu Ge walked past the palace grounds.

From a distance, his blue eyes could see the many people gathered in front of the main door of the Zuigao Hall, and he felt even more confused when he saw it.

“Something happened in the Zuigao Hall? But the court meeting has ended, and I believe there is no other meeting in the hall,” Bai Chen muttered again, and Zhu Ge who was walking beside him could hear his low voice.

Yet, Zhu Ge didn’t say anything and just continued walking toward the stairs that would lead them to Zuigao Hall. Even if they didn’t say anything about their destination, it seemed that they had a tacit understanding that they had to go to Zuigao Hall now, and that was why they quickly walked toward the stairs.

Their long legs began to carry them up the stairs in front of the great hall, and they could see that the palace guards were gathering in front of the Zuigao Hall. Apart from the guards, the officials in the Imperial Palace were also there, and it seemed like they were whispering something about what was going on inside the great hall.

“How could something like this happen? I’m sure he looked quite normal when the court meeting ended earlier.”

“Haiz... You said he looked pretty normal before? He didn’t look good, and I think he was too desperate. That’s why something like this ended up happening.”

Those were the whispers that greeted Bai Chen’s ears, but he didn’t understand the meaning behind the whispers, so he just silently continued to walk amidst the palace guards and officials gathered in front of the door of the Zuigao Hall.

The hall door was wide open, but because there were many people gathered in front of the door, Bai Chen was unable to see what was going on inside the great hall, and that was why he tried to slip his body between the people who were still busy whispering to each other.

Those people were too engaged, and they didn’t even notice Bai Chen’s presence. That was why Bai Chen did not find it difficult when he tried to slip his body into the Zuigao Hall.

If those people noticed his presence, they might question why he was in the Zuigao Hall, but because they failed to see his appearance, Bai Chen was finally able to enter the hall without receiving any questions from the guards and officials.

It turned out that Zhu Ge also managed to follow in his footsteps even though Bai Chen didn’t tell the man to follow him, and the man wearing the red hanfu managed to enter the hall with the Werewolf Prince.

However, the Prince immediately froze in his position as his feet managed to land on the floor within the Zuigao Hall. His blue eyes were fixed on one spot, and they didn’t even blink as their owner continued to stare in one direction. He had even forgotten how to breathe, and only his heart suddenly worked erratically behind his ribs.

Zhu Ge quietly followed Bai Chen’s line of sight, and he finally saw the thing that caused Bai Chen to lose all the blood on his face as the Prince suddenly looked as pale as paper.

There, in the center of the great hall, was something hanging from the high ceiling of the hall. It might not be correct to say that it was something hanging from the ceiling. It would definitely be more accurate to say that it was a person hanging from the ceiling of the hall.

It was a man wearing a white hanfu, and his long hair was also white. It was Bai Renshu who had hanged himself from the ceiling, and that was the reason why Bai Chen couldn’t even move his body right now.