Bai Yueguang, the stand-in for Prince Sick Jiao

Lingling ran out like crazy, when she saw Xia Cheng, her eyes lit up, and she shouted, "Hurry up, save me, someone is going to kill me!"

"Where is the assassin?" Xia Cheng drew his sword and stepped forward, blocking her behind, concentrating on observing the surrounding situation.

Lingling was still in shock, pointing to the yard over there with trembling fingers, and said, "Over there, there is a masked man in black."

Xia Cheng looked around and didn't even see a ghost, let alone an assassin.

"Could it be that you were wrong?"

"No!" Lingling hastily denied it, she was sure that she read it right, "There really is an assassin! He still has a knife"

When it came to knives, she had a sudden pause.

It was just a quick glance, she didn't notice what the knife in the assassin's hand looked like, but now looking at the knife in Xia Cheng's hand, it was exactly the same as the weapon held by the assassin.

Why are their knives the same?
There is only one answer - that assassin is from the palace, and it is very likely that Fu Mingjue sent it.

Realizing this, Ling Ling's heart jumped wildly. What Shen Xuhuai said was right, there is really a big secret hidden in the palace, a secret that can shock everyone!
Now, she knows the secret, so Fu Mingjue wants to kill her.
Xia Cheng didn't notice the change in her expression, put away the knife, and said indifferently: "Since I'm fine, I'll go back first."

"No!" Ling Ling grabbed him, "You can't go!"

Xia Cheng said impatiently, "What do you want to do?"

If it weren't for the fact that she was the princess's cousin, he would have thrown her out long ago.

Ling Ling stared at the distance with lingering fear, holding on to Xia Cheng like she was holding on to a life-saving straw.

"Miss Ling, please let go." Xia Cheng suffocated his anger and said, the lonely men and widows in the middle of the night were chatting, Ling Ling was shameless, he wanted more!
"No, someone is going to kill me."

When the two were at a stalemate, Ling Youyao came.

"Cousin, why are you here?"

Seeing Ling Youyao, Lingling burst into tears, crying, "Youyao, you must help me, now only you can save me"

Ling Youyao was a little confused: "What happened?"

"There is an assassin, he wants to kill me." Lingling held her arm tightly, her eyes were terrified, and she seemed to be greatly frightened.

Ling Youyao glanced at the pitch-black courtyard in the distance, and softly comforted her: "The palace is heavily guarded and there will be no assassins. Cousin, don't be afraid."

"no"

Just as Lingling was about to defend herself, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a black shadow in the forest. She was so frightened that she shrank a little closer to Ling Youyao.

"Cousin, what's the matter?"

Facing Ling Youyao's concern, Ling Ling just shook her head stiffly, the person who wanted to kill her was Fu Mingjue, and Ling Youyao was Princess Jing, she would not help herself, the only one who could save her now was Shen Xuhuai.

She must see Shen Xuhuai as soon as possible.

Ling Youyao didn't know what was going on in her heart, she just thought she was frightened, so she said: "Cousin sister, don't be afraid, I'll let Xia Cheng take a look later, let's go back first."

"Well, good..." Lingling nodded.

Although Ling Youyao may not necessarily help her, she can only rely on Ling Youyao now...

After they left, Fu Mingjue, who was standing in the dark, looked away.

Jiang Liu bowed his head and knelt on the ground, saying: "This subordinate failed to complete the task, please punish me, my lord."

Fu Mingjue's whole body melted into the darkness, and his voice was indifferent: "I'll give you a chance to make amends. Keep an eye on Ling Ling and see what kind of deal she has with Shen Xuhuai."

"Yes, my subordinate understands."

Jiang Liu paused for a moment, then asked again: "Does the princess need to be reminded?"

"No need." Leaving those words behind, Fu Mingjue left in a huff.

Jiang Liu was stunned for a moment, then got up and went back to the yard.

As soon as he entered, Sun Fuzhi was waiting for him at the door. Seeing him coming, he asked, "How is it? Is he dead?"

"No." Jiang Liu said angrily.

Ling Ling was lucky today, if the concubine hadn't come suddenly, she would probably be a corpse by now.

Sun Fuzhi asked strangely: "Aren't you known as the first knife in the capital? There are still people who can escape from your hands?"

"The concubine is here and happened to save Lingling, so it's hard for me to do it again."

Sun Fu knew it clearly, and said: "So it's like this...but why did the princess come over suddenly?"

Speaking of this, Jiang Liu was negligent. The princess had run into a ghost here before and never set foot here again, but she came here today, and she brought Xia Cheng with her.

Did she also discover something?

In fact, Ling Youyao did discover the clues, but not before coming here, but after meeting Lingling.

The reason why she went over tonight was because Lubao said that Lingling sneaked into the backyard at night.

In order to find out the purpose of Lingling's coming to the palace, she took Xia Cheng and followed her, but she didn't expect that when she saw Lingling, she said that someone was going to kill her, but the palace is heavily guarded, so where is the assassin? ?
Then there is only one possibility - that is not an assassin, but someone from Fu Mingjue.

Fu Mingjue and Ling Ling had no grievances or enmities, and he would never kill her for no reason. It must be because Lingling discovered something that made Fu Mingjue want to kill her to silence her.

But what secrets could there be in that remote yard?
Ling Youyao looked at Ling Ling's blurred figure through the screen, and thought about everything carefully, from Ling Ling being trapped in Suizhou, to then suddenly appearing in the capital, there must be someone helping her.

And who is that person?
……

"Youyao, can you stay with me tonight?" Lingling's voice pulled back Ling Youyao's wandering thoughts.

Ling Youyao looked up at her: "What did my cousin just say?"

Lingling bit her lower lip, sat down beside her with red eyes, and was about to cry: "Youyao, I'm so scared, can you stay with me?"

"Okay." Ling Youyao agreed readily, and it's fine to stay, but there are still many things she doesn't know.

Hearing this answer, Lingling breathed a sigh of relief, as long as Ling Youyao was around, at least Fu Mingjue couldn't do anything to her tonight.

Ling Youyao patted her hand and said, "Cousin, don't go there in the future."

"Why?" Lingling asked subconsciously, did she also know that there was someone hiding there?

Ling Youyao lowered her voice and said, "To tell you the truth, I ran into a ghost there before, and it frightened me. Later, I heard from the prince that a maid was hanged there."

Seeing her serious expression, Lingling's uneasy heart trembled inexplicably, she held her hand instead, and said, "Really? How could there be ghosts in the palace?"

Shouldn't it be human?
Ling Youyao sighed helplessly: "Cousin, you may not know when you first came to the capital. Outsiders say that the prince is cold-blooded and ruthless, and murders like hemp. I didn't believe it at first, but I didn't understand until I saw it with my own eyes. Those words... it is true!"

When she said the last sentence, she deliberately raised her voice, which made Ling Ling tremble in fright.

Lingling was so flustered that there was even a hint of crying in her voice: "Youyao, you must help me, I didn't mean to go there..."

She was really scared. If she had known that Fu Mingjue was so dangerous, she shouldn't have agreed to Shen Xuhuai in the first place.