One hundred and twenty-seven hidden arrows wound people

  Seeing the sly look in his wife's eyes, Yan Mo's mouth twitched. What was she up to now?

  "You like the palace, then let's stay for now." He replied thus.

  Bai Xin glared at him with a cold eye. What made her like the palace, which of his eyes saw that she liked it here?

  She wanted to stay, but also hoped to get closer to Fu De Wang. Moreover, the emperor had summoned several children and didn't intend to return them, giving them a reason to stay.

  It's a fox who will always show its tail, she doesn't believe that Fude Wang would keep the fox tail hidden all the time!

  Yin Du transformed into a eunuch and followed Bai Xincheng as they entered the palace. In the afternoon, Bai Xincheng took him directly to the Long'an Palace where Liu Xuelan lived.

  The two palaces are not far apart, and in the grand and spacious winding imperial palace, Changping Hall and Chang'an Hall can be considered neighbors.

  In the Chang'an Hall, a couple was quarreling, and it was all because of what happened last night.

  "You, with the surname Xia, don't be too arrogant! Didn't you say you wanted to make that person useless? I was just trying to help you, and you don't even know how to be grateful. Instead, you come back and scold me, are you still human?" She had no idea that the people of Sui Shui Palace were so abnormal, they actually arranged for the palace staff to be in such a secluded place, she didn't think of it at all, so she accidentally bumped into them. If she had known earlier, she wouldn't have needed to take the secluded path, and maybe if she had appeared boldly, no one would have discovered her.

  Xia Li Xun's face was black with anger, and his eyes were also spewing fire: "Who allowed you to go behind my back? In the middle of the night, you actually hit my sleep acupoint, and then snuck away by yourself. Are you trying to get yourself killed?"

  This dead woman is so infuriating, we agreed to send someone to scout out the terrain of the Sui Shui Palace at night, but as soon as she got impatient, she went alone and even snuck up on him when he wasn't paying attention, hitting his sleep point and making him sleep till dawn, while she almost got discovered.

  Fortunately, she wasn't injured. If she dared to come back with injuries, he wouldn't just scold her today, but for the rest of his life, he would lock her in the house and even build a cage for her, to see if she still dared to run wild!

  This woman has no self-awareness at all, she did something wrong and still argues loudly here.

  He now somewhat wants to strangle her to death.

  Liu Xuelan stiffened her neck, unwilling to back down: "What's this nonsense about sending me to my death? Can't you put it in a more pleasant way? Those people, am I supposed to be afraid of them?" She used to sneak into the palace secretly, but nothing ever happened. Her understanding of the inner workings of the imperial guards was no less than anyone else's; last night was just an accident.

  Xia Li Xun suddenly loosened his clenched fist and grabbed the woman's collar, then twisted her up like a small chicken. He took a few steps to the bedside and threw the woman onto the bed. His outstretched hand didn't retract, but instead slapped the woman's buttocks.

  "You're such a dead woman, you've done something wrong and still have the nerve?"

  "If I don't teach you a lesson today, tomorrow your butt will be flying high!"

  "Just you wait and see how I'll deal with you today!"

  One slap, two slaps, three slaps... landed on the woman's buttocks like a fan.

  "Ah——Xia's surname——ah——" The room was filled with Liu Xue Lan's wailing voice.

  The palace maids outside couldn't help but burst into laughter.

  Inside, Liu Xue Lan was slapped with over a dozen palms, her eyes brimming with tears, her whole body trembling, and it's unclear whether she was enraged or beaten. The quilt covering her head, the sound of her crying kept coming out from under the quilt, and the more pitiful she looked, the more heartbreaking her cries were.

  Xia Li Xun was on a roll, originally intending to properly collect his woman, but looking at the woman's pitiful appearance, he couldn't bring himself to do it, and the fire in his heart dissipated by half, leaving him dazed and unsure of what to do beside the bed.

  It seems he was a bit too heavy-handed just now...

  "Lin'er?" He suddenly called out after a long while. His outstretched hand froze in mid-air, but he finally couldn't help himself and lifted the quilt off the woman's head, embracing her tightly.

  Looking at the face that had cried until it was red and swollen, as well as the nose and tears, he pursed his thin lips, sat down on the bed, put her on his lap, pulled out a silk handkerchief from her waist, and began to wipe her face.

  Liu Xuelan didn't refuse his conciliatory behavior, she just kept crying nonstop.

  She looked like a wronged child in Xia Lixun's eyes, and for a moment, he didn't know what to say.

  Tears welled up in his eyes and he couldn't wipe them away no matter how hard he tried. Helpless, he finally opened his mouth and said, "Alright, it's not like you're going to beat me to death or anything. At worst, I'll just hit you back."

  Liu Xuelan continued to cry silently, biting her lip, which made Xia Lixuan feel both heartbroken and annoyed.

  "Alright, I won't hit you again. Who told you to sneak out quietly? Don't you think about where this place is? What if you were caught right now or accidentally got hurt?"

  It's rare for him to be so nice, and it's even rarer for him to be so serious. The worried look on his face and the concerned tone in his voice were completely genuine. All of these things Liu Xue Lan could feel, but...

  "Your surname is Xia, you're a bastard... My butt hurts..."

  Upon hearing this, Xia Lixuan couldn't help but laugh softly, laughing somewhat heartlessly: "Now you know the pain? Who told you not to listen?"

  He wiped it off and then gave her another wipe on the face, suddenly lowering his voice to coax: "Don't cry, you're already ugly, if you keep crying, you'll be even uglier."

  Liu Xuelan suddenly got furious, her red eyes staring at him: "Xia, if you think I'm ugly, then hurry up and divorce me, go find your precious Meijiang! I won't spend another day with you!" It's better to go back and find Liu Lao, even though she would fight with Liu Lao too, but Liu Lao wouldn't hit her!

  Xia Lixun's face was a bit dark, but thinking that he had indeed been somewhat wrong earlier, if this were to spread to Old Man Liu, he would probably come looking for him in the middle of the night. So he could only hold her in his arms and patiently coaxed: "Alright, stop yelling, even if you grew up like a pig, wouldn't I still like you?"

  "Damn it, can you or can't you comfort people?" If you can't comfort, then don't try to, damn it. It's not easy to hear him say a few gentle words, but the result doesn't even sound like something a human would say.

  Xia Li Xuan pouted and stopped talking, instead she hugged her tightly and rubbed her face against hers.

  "......?!" Liu Xuelan felt a chill run down her spine.

  Just as he was about to say something, a palace servant came in to report that Princess Chong had arrived.

  Liu Xuelan hastily pushed his head away with a cold face: "Xin Ran is here, you quickly get out for me!"

  Xia Li Xun glared at her with the corner of his eye: "Since you're here, just wait and go, why should I go out?" He felt that the current atmosphere was quite good, and he hadn't had enough fun yet.

  "You're a Xia, you just hit me and I haven't settled the score with you yet. Don't be ungrateful, hurry up and get out before I lose my temper!" Liu Xue Lan gritted her teeth and glared at him fiercely.

  Seeing this, Xia Li Xuan hastily put her on the bed. Before leaving, she didn't forget to bite her fiercely, venting her anger.

  When Bai Xin entered, she saw Liu Xue Lan lying on the bed, wailing and rubbing her buttocks with her hands. She couldn't help but burst out laughing.

  "Look, look, what's going on here? How did it end up like this?" Anyone with eyes can see what happened, she absolutely wouldn't say that she was gloating, nor would she say that she was a veteran.

  "Wooo... Heartache, come and help me rub it." Liu Xue Lan looked at her with tears in her eyes, now only wanting to find some comfort from this good sister.

  Bai Xin walked over with a smile and sat down on the edge of the bed, his hand falling onto her buttocks, intentionally pressing down.

  "Ah...... it hurts......" Liu Xuelan cried out with her mouth open.

  Bai Xin suddenly lost her temper and scolded her: "Do you know it hurts? Why didn't you think about the consequences when you were doing things last night?"

  Upon hearing this, Liu Xuelan looked at her with some surprise: "You already know everything?"

  Bai Xing let out a sigh, ignored her, got up and went outside to call the palace staff to bring hot water. She made Liu Xue Lan take off her pants and looked at her, seeing that only one side was red and swollen, she almost laughed again. This Prince Feng De is doing it on purpose, isn't he? Spanking someone's butt but only hitting one side!

  She scolded the palace maid, while applying a hot compress to Liu Xue Lan's buttocks, saying: "You're also at fault, you deserved to be beaten. This is in the palace, not outside, how can you just run around? What if something unexpected happened, it would still be your loss. You're such a big person, but you don't think about the consequences of your actions. No wonder Prince Feng De wanted to beat you, when I heard what happened last night, I also wanted to beat you!"

  Liu Xuelan squeezed out two tears and said to her, "Xin Ran, you wouldn't really hit me, would you? I'm already like this, can you bear to do it?"

  After being discovered last night, she knew that she shouldn't have acted rashly. But she had already taken action, what could be done now?

  Moreover, she heard this morning that the Emperor had sent more people to guard the Weiyang Palace, and she regretted her actions even more. She wasn't a fool, of course, she knew that the Emperor's move would make it even harder for them to get close to the Weiyang Palace in the future, so when she was beaten, she didn't dare to make a sound.

  If you dare to do it, then you should be prepared to take the consequences; if you've done something wrong and get beaten up for it, that's only to be expected.

  Besides, let that man be beaten, maybe she'll even gain good fortune from misfortune. Look at how much he's hurting, humph!

  Bai Xin's hand shot out and poked her forehead, with a face full of disdain: "Don't pretend to be pitiful in front of me, go find comfort from Wang Fengde."

  Liu Xue Lan immediately pouted. "He wouldn't comfort anyone, he would only infuriate people!" A few words of consolation from him could almost suffocate her. Who needs his comfort anyway?

  The towel on her buttocks had cooled down, so Bai Xintian wrung out a hot one and reapplied it.

  "Tell me, how were you discovered last night?" she asked seriously. She knew about Liu Xue Lan's skills, if there weren't any other unexpected events, it would have been impossible to expose her actions.

  To her, Liu Xue Lan naturally didn't have anything good to hide. So she told her everything that had happened from start to finish last night.

  After listening, Bai Xincheng couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time. Suddenly, she couldn't hold back and slapped her buttocks with a loud slap: "You really deserve to be beaten, you actually set your own man on fire!"

  If she did that, I'm sure the whole Mo family would scold her severely, let alone Prince Feng De, who has a bad temper to begin with. Just slapping one side of her butt is already considered lenient.

  "Ah......" Bai Xincheng patted her lightly, and Liu Xuelan immediately let out a sharp cry, then quickly squeezed out two tears, still shouting in her mouth, "Xincheng, I hate you...I hate you..."

  Bai Xin was so moved to tears and laughter that she couldn't speak, and then she changed the hot compress for her again.

  Liu Xue Lan said with a flat mouth: "I didn't know I would lose my hand. Originally, I planned to sneak into the Si Shui Palace and beat that man up, take off one of his arms and legs, and give Xia a surprise, but who knew I'd be so unlucky."

  Bai Xin's face twitched as she bit her lip, then looked at her seriously: "In the future, don't be so impulsive, after all, this is the imperial palace, and we should be more cautious. Otherwise, if something unexpected happens, not only will you not help, but you'll also add trouble for them."

  Liu Xuelan nodded: "I know, at worst I won't act alone in the future." To avoid being beaten again, although this little physical pain is nothing, it's very embarrassing.

  Two people were talking in the bedroom, and after a while, a sharp voice came from outside, deliberately disguised as a eunuch's voice by Yin Du.

  "I have something to report to Your Highness."

  Upon hearing this, Bai Xin furrowed her brow. She knew that if nothing was wrong, Yin Du would not have come to disturb her.

  "Xue Lan, you rest first, I'll come find you later."

  But then Liu Xue Lan suddenly jumped up from the bed, pulling up her pants as she said: "Xin Ran, I'm going with you. This place is suffocating and I don't want to be here alone."

  "Alright then, I'll bring you along since you're willing to take the beating."

  Anyway, everyone's common goal is Suishou Palace, and she doesn't think there's anything good about hiding it.

  Who would have thought that Liu Xue Lan tidied up her clothes and suddenly asked: "Xin Ran, can we play mahjong in this palace?"

  Bai Xin almost fell to the ground. Is this guy's gambling addiction too severe? Losing so much silver, and King Feng De doesn't even bother to intervene?

  Bai Xinzhen couldn't have imagined that the beating he took from Liu Xuelan today was actually for the sake of paving a way to play mahjong with silver in the future.

  The entrance of the palace

  Bai Xinzhi and Liu Xuelan walked here as if they were admiring the scenery, with a tall and majestic 'eunuch' following behind them.

  Regarding Yin Du's disguise, Liu Xue Lan brought up a few more suggestions as they walked.

  "Eunuch Du, go back and tidy up your face, don't let the stubble show." If a eunuch is found to have grown a beard, can he still be called a eunuch?

  "And another thing, don't walk with your chest out and head held high, learn to hunch over. Do you see any eunuchs walking around like that, with their chests puffed out? You're clearly a eunuch, but you insist on acting like a general. If someone finds out, be careful or they'll haul you in for an examination. Or else you'll go from being a fake eunuch to a real one, and then you'll be done for. Your family will have to live with the shame for generations to come."

  Upon hearing this, Yin Du nearly spat out blood and died. He dared to guarantee that Princess Feng De was doing it on purpose!

  Because he lost money playing mahjong, his resentment towards Blood Shadow was transferred to him!

  Reached out and touched his own chin, last night with Blood Shadow together, this morning didn't have time to fix up, will go back and fix it later.

  As for bowing and stooping, Princess Deokhye must have done it on purpose to provoke him because she was short!

  Bai Xin listened in on the side, laughing so hard she almost got a cramp. She didn't notice these details, it turned out being a famous eunuch wasn't that easy after all.

  At the palace gate, a palace maid was being checked by the gatekeeper guard, handing over her waist card, apparently wanting to leave the palace.

  "Halt!" Looking at the scene in front of him, Bai Xincheng stopped smiling and shouted coldly.

  "Presenting Princess So-yong and Princess Pungdeok!" As the two women approached, a row of guards standing at attention by the palace gate hastily bowed to them.

  "Get up." As she walked closer, Bai Xincheng raised her hand slightly, but her gaze was cold and fixed on the palace maid who was about to leave the palace. It wasn't someone else, but that very same palace maid she had met in the Imperial Garden yesterday, who claimed to be a new servant at the Sishui Palace.

  "I have seen the Crown Princess and the Princess of Fengde." The palace maid, seeing that Bai Xincheng was staring at her, quickly curtsied.

  "Where are you going?" Bai Xincheng didn't let her get up, but instead asked seriously.

  Responding to the queen's words, I am going out of the palace to buy some things for Prince Fu De. The palace maid replied with her head lowered.

  "What's your name?"

  "In response to Your Highness's words, I am called Duan Xue."

  Upon hearing this, Bai Xing's eyes narrowed slightly as she raised her head and stood up. She then continued to ask: "Since there are specialized personnel in the palace responsible for procurement, why did Fude Wang still have you leave the palace?"

  "As for the queen's words, these days are all about me taking care of Wang De, so Wang De trusts me more, that's why he let me go out of the palace to handle things."

  Bai Xin's eyebrows rose slightly as she smiled ambiguously: "I heard that Fu De Wang was rescued from Sheng Yi by a woman, looks like it was you, right?"

  "Yes." The palace maid nodded in acknowledgement.

  The white-robed woman's eyes flashed with a hint of coldness: "I'm very curious, how did you manage to rescue Fude Wang from the hands of the Holy Doctor?"

  "This..." Suddenly, the palace maid seemed a bit tense, although she still had her head down, but her hands involuntarily clenched.

  Taking everything in at a glance, Bai Xinzhen suddenly shouted out loud ——

  "Look out!"

  She deliberately kicked her stomach with one foot after shouting.

  "Uh——" The palace maid seemed to have no reaction at all, covering her stomach and retreating several steps in a row.

  After kicking the person, Bai Xin's eyes narrowed as she looked at the group of guards and suddenly laughed: "It's nothing, nothing. I just wanted to know what kind of ability the famous Saint Doctor has to save Fude Wang from his own hands, but unexpectedly..."

  Unexpectedly, it's up to everyone to understand on their own now.

  As they watched the scene before them, the guards could only avert their eyes. Not to mention that Princess Cheng was trying to test the palace maid's skills, even if she deliberately wanted to make things difficult for her, they could only pretend not to see it.

  The palace maid's face suddenly turned pale and white, covering her stomach but didn't say a word.

  Bai Xin turned her head to look at the palace maid who was secretly seething with anger, and suddenly burst out laughing coldly, not hiding her mockery: "To be honest, I have had the good fortune of seeing the Holy Doctor once or twice, and his skills are far superior to those of my queen. You, a person without any foundation in martial arts, I am really curious, what method did you use to defeat the Holy Doctor and rescue Fude Wang? Can you teach my queen a few moves, so that next time she encounters someone she can't handle, she can also adopt your methods?"

  Upon hearing this, the palace maid's face looked even more unsightly, but she kept her head down and didn't say a word.

  Bai Xin's gaze deepened as she looked at her twice, then turned to the guard with a serious expression: "The palace procurement has always been handled by specialized personnel. How can you let a small palace maid go out of the palace privately? Are you not afraid that there will be problems in this? I am not here today to overstep my authority and criticize you, but yesterday the palace just received news of an assassin. You should be cautious in your actions, otherwise when the emperor holds you accountable, none of you can escape responsibility. Do you understand?"

  Her stern and severe words made all the guards tense up.

  The leading guard hastily bowed and saluted her: "Thank you for reminding us, Princess. We will definitely be more careful in the future."

  The white-robed woman nodded slightly: "I, the princess, know you are working hard, but for the emperor's safety, I, as the imperial daughter-in-law, had no choice but to speak out a few words, and I hope you won't hold it against me."

  When she suddenly spoke with a hint of apology, the guards hastily saluted in unison and replied: "We dare not."

  Before leaving, Bai Xinzhen took another look at the pale-faced palace maid, a cold smile flashing across her lips.

  Want to go out? The door is gone!

  If you have the ability, fly out from the palace walls!

  On the way back, Liu Xue Lan had a puzzled face: "Xin Ran, what's wrong with that palace maid?"

  According to her understanding of Xinzhen, she is not a person who likes to show off, let alone use her identity to pressure others. Just look at her attitude towards the people under Cheng Wangfu. But why does she have to be so serious with a palace maid whom she has only met twice?

  Was it just because that palace maid was from Suishui Palace?

  Bai Xing sighed and for a moment didn't know how to explain it to Liu Xue Lan. Could she say that she suspected the identity of that palace maid was actually that person?

  After seeing the palace maid named Duan Xue yesterday, she let Yan Mo Yu investigate and found out that he was brought into the palace by Fude Wang and was also known as Fude Wang's lifesaver.

  What a lifesaver, it's probably an underground lover!

  Others don't know the bottom of Fude King, but they do know a thing or two about it.

  Who else can follow Fu De Wang and be brought into the palace by him?

  She wouldn't ignore the embroidered shoes that Yin Du brought back for the little baby, nor would she ignore the disappearance of Empress Chu. It was precisely because of these thoughts that she had someone pay close attention to the movements of that palace maid, and unexpectedly, her guess was correct. This was just after entering the palace for a short time, and yet she was already in a hurry to leave...

  Want to go out? Unless she can shrink like Liu Xuelan and drill into dog holes!

  Otherwise, trap them in the palace and see how long they can be pleased.

  If they had come back in a straightforward and honest manner, she could have let bygones be bygones and even felt good about helping them out. But since they chose to return in such a way, don't blame her for being ruthless...

  ……

  Suishui Palace

  Looking at the woman who came and went, the man lying on the bed was very puzzled, frowning and asking: "What's wrong?"

  The woman's face was filled with resentment as she sat down on the bed and told him everything that had happened at the palace gate. As she finished speaking, the resentment in her heart grew even deeper.

  "That woman is really too much, she actually instructed the guards not to let me out!"

  The man's face also turned cold.

  "What's good now? Can't get out of the palace gate, don't know how your mother is doing, and I'm also worried about the child. Moreover, Sheng Mo was not willing to be controlled by us from the beginning, if he knows we can't get out of the palace, will he deal with his ancestors and grandchildren? And this poison must be taken within half a month, otherwise there will be life worries."

  It's all the fault of that damned Sacred Doctor! If only she had forced him to hand over the antidote before entering the palace, now she can't leave the palace and can't get the antidote either. What if they miss the timing for treating the poison?

  At this thought, a hint of murderous intent welled up in the woman's eyes. These people, she would eventually kill every single one of them!

  The man's face was also filled with gloom, and after a moment of silence, he said in a cold voice: "Since we can't leave for the time being, we can only slow down. Let me think carefully about how to arrange your departure. There are still half a month left, and we don't need to be overly anxious."

  The woman's face was twisted with anxiety and tension: "I think that damned woman has already suspected me, I don't know if they will..."

  The man frowned and interrupted her: "What's the use of suspecting? They don't have any evidence, do they? Since you can't leave the palace now, just stay in the Xishui Palace for the time being and don't go anywhere. Even if they want to deal with you, it's impossible for them to rush into the Xishui Palace to make trouble. You just need to avoid them."

  The woman touched her face and nodded. The mask on her face was made by the sacred doctor, not something that ordinary people could see through. Even if those people suspected her, as long as she refused to admit it, they couldn't do anything to her.

  Changping Hall

  A small table, three women, rubbing mahjong brought from Cheng Wang Fu, playing with great joy.

  "Damn it, why do I always have such bad luck?" Liu Xue Lan drew a tile and cursed as she discarded it. "Another two bamboo! Why does this stupid two bamboo always follow me?"

  Xue Ying remained silent on the side, winning without a sound. To accompany a certain woman to play mahjong, her work was replaced by Yin Du, for which Yin Du vomited blood nonstop. However, these women gambled too much and those in charge didn't care, letting them run wild in the palace.

  Bai Xin lost again, not too hot or cold, and when he saw Liu Xue Lan, he started losing again. He smiled at her and said: "Actually, mahjong is a very mysterious thing, the more you scold it, the less it will listen to you. Look at Blood Shadow, she never says anything bad about mahjong, that's why she always wins money."

  Upon hearing this, Liu Xue's eyes lit up. Is there such a saying?

  Xue Ying's cold, hard lips twitched. "......?!" What did this have to do with her? The King of Feng De was no match for others...

  "Xīn rǎn, you say it's true or false. If I don't scold people anymore, will my luck turn for the better?" asked Liǔ Xuě Lán with sparkling eyes, looking at Bái Xīn Rǎn.

  Bai Xin's face was dyed with a hint of a smile as he nodded, "It should be okay, but you've scolded him many times already, I don't know if the Mahjong God will forgive you?"

  This woman is getting more and more addicted to gambling, it's really fortunate that she married Prince Gong. If she had married another man, I reckon she would have been driven out of the house long ago, or else she would have bankrupted her husband's family.

  This woman still keeps saying that King Feng De is stingy with her. Tell me, which man would be willing to give thousands of taels of silver to a woman to lose?

  When she heard Bai Xincheng's words, Liu Xuelan suddenly became tense, opening her eyes wide and looking around as if there was really something microscopic observing her.

  When it was her turn to draw a tile, she stretched out her hand and gently picked up a wooden mahjong tile, then covered it with both hands like a treasure and brought it to her mouth to blow on it twice.

  "Mahjong, mahjong, I'm not scolding you, just forgive me this once and give me a slightly better tile."

  She muttered to herself, then opened her hands and suddenly a small face lit up with joy, almost jumping up to applaud in celebration.

  "Ah?! It's really effective! As expected, a good card has arrived!"

  Xue Ying sat across from her, his forehead silently dripping with black lines.

  Bai Xinzhen sat under her hand, almost laughing so hard that her internal organs were about to cramp up.

  This guy is hopeless...

  In the study

  Xia Li Xun's face was dark, and he sat opposite Yan Mo Yu, his black eyes full of venom, as if they could kill the man in front of him.

  Yan Mo sat at his desk, calm and composed, intently reading the memorial in his hand, seemingly oblivious to a certain pair of venomous eyes.

  He glared for half a day, but the other party didn't even give him a straight look. A certain man was furious and walked up to slap his hand on the table: "What's wrong with you? That scoundrel has obviously come back to deal with us, but you want me to hold back, what do you mean?"

  Mo Yan raised an eyebrow and swept a glance at him: "His Majesty is now extremely fond of him, do you want to seek death by acting at this time?"

  Xia Lixun raised his chin slightly, with a cold and ruthless expression: "That kind of thing, keeping him is just a disaster. I want to get rid of him secretly right now, so that I don't have to be on tenterhooks every day!"

  Yan Mo let out a sigh, furrowed his brow and said: "Do you think that by getting rid of him, the Emperor won't suspect you? You can take action if you want, but don't drag me into this. I still have a wife and children, I'm not willing to die with you."

  "You!" Xia Lixun's face turned black, but he couldn't say a word.

  "With a cold gaze, I stared back at him: 'Now that he's in the palace with no one close or trustworthy, it would be easy to get rid of him. But have you considered the consequences? If he can remain calm, why can't you?"

  What's more, he seemed to be on the verge of losing his temper.

  Xia Li Xuan pressed her thin lips together, suddenly returned to the chair, and continued to glare at the person in front of her with a venomous gaze.

  He just wanted to get things done early and take a certain woman back, these days, living in the palace, that woman even ran to Changping Hall every day, and often mentioned the fact that he had beaten her buttocks, making him dare not say a word of refutation.

  He should have endured and not hit her that day...

  That dead woman did it on purpose!

  ……

  At night, the mahjong battlefield finally dispersed, and everything returned to calmness.

  Yan Mo returned to her room and saw the woman sitting on the bed, counting silver and laughing.

  He really admires them. These women know how to have more fun than men!

  When he saw him return, Bai Xinzhi immediately put all the silver into his bag and then hastily packed it into a small box. Seeing this, Yan Moyu couldn't help but twitch the corner of her mouth.

  "Moyu, I think it's about time to reel in the net. This has been troubling them for over ten days now." Bai Xintie finally spoke seriously after tidying up everything.

  Yan Mo nodded in agreement with her words.

  He pulled her onto the beauty couch and sat down, putting aside the main topic, raising an eyebrow and asking: "Have you won a lot recently?"

  Upon hearing this, Bai Xincheng couldn't help but smile foolishly. "It's not much, most of it was won by Blood Shadow, I just picked up some leftovers."

  Those few hundred taels of silver she had were nothing compared to the nearly ten thousand taels of silver tickets that Blood Shadow had won.

  Yan Mo was left speechless and amused. They win every day, causing a certain man to make faces at him all day long, shouldn't he ask her for a share of the winnings?

  ……

  In the side hall, Yin Du was also helplessly watching the woman who was collecting her belongings.

  Ever since his wife started making money, he always felt that he was no longer a man. This woman is too good at winning, how can he bear to be her husband?

  ……

  On this day, outside the palace gate

  A horse carriage drove out of the palace and stopped on a quiet street outside.

  A woman in a palace dress quickly got out of the carriage, said something with a smile to someone inside the carriage, and then disappeared around the corner.

  Little did he know, a ordinary horse carriage had been secretly following him from behind all along.

  The palace maid who got off the horse carriage turned left and right, and finally stopped in front of a simple civilian house somewhere. After looking around, she didn't even knock on the door and quickly entered the gate.

  At the corner, Bai Xin's eyes turned red with anger as he saw the bloodstains on the wall. The two of them didn't enter through the main gate, but instead flew onto the rooftop of a residential house.

  The small courtyard looks a bit desolate, as if no one has lived here for a long time. The yard is overgrown with weeds everywhere.

  This is a small courtyard house, crouching on the roof, it's easy to observe the movements around. However, after two people crouched for half a day, they didn't hear any movement at all.

  "Blood Shadow, split up and act separately." Bai Xincheng moved his mouth slightly, giving a silent order.

  Two figures quickly fell into the corner of the place, dispersing east and west.

  The white heart stained the east-facing house, but the shabby window could see everything inside the house at a glance, and it didn't need her to make any effort. After looking through the houses on the east and south sides in succession, not even half a footprint was found. The furnishings in each house were extremely simple, and from the window, everywhere was covered with a thick layer of dust and spider webs. No matter how you looked at it, it didn't seem like anyone lived there.

  Turning back to look at Xue Ying, he saw that she was walking towards him, apparently also unaware of anything.

  She narrowed her eyes and Bai Xincheng once again swept his gaze across the four directions of east, south, west, and north.

  While Xue Ying walked over, she suddenly whispered to her, "Princess, which room has the sound of a child crying." As she spoke, she pointed to one of the rooms.

  A bright light flashed in her eyes, and she quickly ran over, pressed against the window to listen carefully. Indeed, there was a faint sound coming from inside. However, when looking through the window, not even a single hair could be seen, let alone the person making the noise.

  She thought of that one underground search, furrowed her brow, with a hint of bloodstain, and pushed open the tightly closed door.

  "Whoosh——"

  The door had just been opened a crack when suddenly a piercing sound came through the air, and with the naked eye, something could be seen shooting straight at the two people's faces.

  Bai Xin was momentarily stunned and before she could react, a figure suddenly appeared in front of her, blocking her way.

  "Hmm!"

  "Blood Shadow!" Hearing the sound of something piercing flesh and Blood Shadow's muffled grunt, Bai Xincheng's eyes widened in shock, his heart suddenly filled with alarm.

  "Princess... let's go back first... there are mechanisms here." The corners of his mouth overflowed with blood and water, and the pale face began to turn white.

  "Alright!" Seeing this, Bai Xincheng's heart skipped a beat, and his eyes instantly turned red. Without staying for long, he quickly supported Xueying and left hastily, "Xueying, bear with it, I'll take you back to treat your injuries soon."

  She didn't have the courage to look at the bloodstain and see where she was hurt, but she knew that the injury was definitely not simple.

  It seems this time she miscalculated. She didn't expect that there would be a trap set up here, and she just pushed the door slightly...

  Those people must have been on their guard since they were searched last time...

  ……

  Back in the palace, Blood Shadow's mouth had already turned purple.

  Yan Mo ordered someone to quickly go and invite the imperial physician over, then again had someone go notify Yin Du.

  Looking at the person who had already fallen into a coma on the bed, in the moment when Mo Yu hurried back, Bai Xinzhi seemed to see a lifesaver, and tears could no longer be held back.

  Digression

  Ai Xueying's doll is a bit too much, Liangzi pot cover is not enough, hide first ~