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A flight of stairs made of marble dropped from the top of the stage. Other than this long ladder, there were no other paths leading to the top of the stairs in the entire Cloud Locking Pavilion.

Huai Jin stepped onto the first step and raised her head to look at the sky. Cloud Locking Pavilion that stood high up in the clouds looked like a magnificent cage from afar.

Li Changde walked forward and lightly knocked on the door knocker. The Cloud Locking Pavilion's door creaked, and the heavy wooden door automatically opened behind.

He excitedly ran in front of a bookshelf and directly pulled out a book from within. His rough actions made even Li Changde, who was at the side, feel his heart ache.

Yuwen Fei shot him a glance, and said indifferently: "This book of poems in the old relative's letter was personally promised to me by royal father. It will be mine sooner or later anyways, how about —"

Li Changde cursed inwardly. Ever since Yuwen Fei came back from the Luzhoushan, he frequently stole and gave the books from the palace's Book Collection Vault to Mr. Dong Li. This caused the emperor to be extremely angry.

However, with Yun Jing by his side, no matter how many people there were, they would be unable to stop him. In desperation, the Emperor moved some of his solitaries to the Cloud Locking Pavilion.

Later on, Yuwen Fei searched through the Compendium Pavilion, but was unable to find any good books. He was unable to find any traces of books in the palace for the past few years. At this moment, seeing these books, how could he bear with it? He directly stuffed the book of books containing Elder Xun's poems into his bosom and said, "Why don't you just let me take it away."

Li Changde watched helplessly as Yuwen Fei stuffed the book of poems into his pocket, his eyelids twitching non-stop as he shouted anxiously, "Seventh Prince! "It's better if we report this to His Majesty first!"

"Take it and report it. It's the same."

Li Changde also could not really let him take out the thing he kept in his bosom.

After placing away the book of poems, Yuwen Fei started to wander in front of the other bookshelves, Li Changde was afraid that he would fall in love with something else, and would take it all away, so he quickly went forward to lure Yuwen Fei over and push him towards the bookshelf in the center.

After the sound of the door being opened, the bookcase automatically flipped over, leaving only one person on each side of the door.

After sending the two into the small door, Li Changde bowed and stood guard at the entrance.

"Why isn't Eunuch Li coming in?"

Huai Jin looked at Li Changde who was outside the small door, as if she had no intention of entering.

Li Changde dusted off the dust on his hands, then said with a smile: "How can this servant enter here, this servant is standing guard at the door, there is naturally someone inside to guide the way for the two princesses."

With that said, he pressed down on the mechanism, and the bookcase once again flipped over. The two small doors that were for passersby also disappeared.

"Please proceed forward."

The moment the bookcase closed, a voice suddenly drifted over from the void. The two followed the voice's instructions and arrived at a small room. There was already a blue-clothed man sitting there, waiting for them.

"I have offended you!"

Just as Huai Jin was about to ask, she heard someone say that she had offended her, and then, her body went soft, and she uncontrollably fainted.

His ears could still hear, but his eyelids felt like they weighed over a thousand pounds, and he couldn't open them.

Vaguely, Huai Jin felt as if someone had pushed him into a wheelchair. The blue-clothed person just now pushed the wheelchair behind him and said softly, "Princess, there's no need to panic.

Huai Jin was unable to reply and could only prick up her ears to determine the distance between him and the house just now, and her position as well as the arrangement of the mechanisms in her surroundings.

She had done this countless times in her previous life. Even without using her eyes to look, just by listening, she could still determine the direction of the training.

The wheelchair was now made out of wooden wheels, and as Huai Jin walked on the road that was a little uneven, she felt her body shake violently.

After jolting back and forth all the way, the wheelchair stopped. The person behind him also turned to leave, and not long later, Huai Jin heard another wheelchair being pushed in.

"Seventh Prince, Princess, try to open your eyes."

Hearing the voice, Huai Jin tried to raise her eyelids, although it was difficult, but in the end she was able to open his eyes. On the other side, Yuwen Fei had already opened his eyes as he curiously sized up his surroundings.

Behind the layers of mechanisms in the Cloud Locking Pavilion was a huge prison. The cells here were no different from those in the ordinary yamen, except that there weren't that many prisoners.

After arriving at the prison, the blue clothed man did not speak anymore. Huai Jin and the other man also stayed silent as they followed behind him. They went all the way to the small room where Su Geying was kept.

The blue clothed man stepped forward and opened the door to Su Geying's single room. Yuwen Fei frowned, he pulled Huai Jin in front of him and inhaled the fragrant scent on her clothes. He took a deep breath, then pulled Huai Jin's shirt and placed it under her nose to block the pungent smell.

Huai Jin felt his clothes becoming tight behind him, and when she turned around, he saw Yuwen Fei moving closer to him. She glared behind her, pulled her clothes back, and stepped inside first.

Inside, Su Geying's body had not been dealt with yet. Her corpse was lying stiffly on the mat on the ground.

The cause of death of Su Geying was very simple, she used a hairpin to stab herself in the heart. There was even a hairpin on the corpse. There was not much ornamentation on the jade hairpin, and it looked extremely ordinary.

Yuwen Fei pinched his nose and pulled out the hairpin from Su Geying's chest. After looking at it for a long time, he threw it on Su Geying's body and said disdainfully: It's just an ordinary white jade hairpin worn by a normal palace maid, it's nothing special.

Huai Jin nodded towards the blue clothed man at the door, "Are you the only one here?"

The blue-robed man didn't say much and only replied with one word, "Yes."

"If you enter, is there only one passageway?"

This time, the blue-clothed man didn't even bother to say another word and only nodded his head.