Can it be detected by the naked eye?!
Impossible.
Colorless and tasteless, how could it be seen?
"Slled it out."
Xiao Jinxing leaned over to take a sniff at this mont.
Couldn’t sll anything else at all.
"Believe it or not, it’s up to you," Ye Qichi comnted, clearly sensing Xiao Jinxing’s distrust, "I’m not eating it anyway, you can eat if you want."
Being such a cautious person, Xiao Jinxing, of course, would not eat it after Ye Qichi ntioned there was sothing wrong.
Very soon.
Xiaowu returned to the room.
He respectfully said, "Reporting to Prince, I just checked and almost everyone has started their dinner. If what Princess ntioned is true, then everyone might have diarrhea tonight and won’t be able to leave tomorrow."
"It’s not about leaving or not now," Ye Qichi interjected, "It’s about whether we can survive tonight."
Xiaowu imdiately understood.
He turned to look at Prince, a bit at a loss.
Xiao Jinxing’s expression also seed a bit grim, and he coldly said, "I didn’t expect him to be so impatient."
"Are you talking about the Chu King?" Ye Qichi directly clarified the topic.
Xiao Jinxing looked toward Ye Qichi.
This woman really knows everything.
"He wants to go to Yuzhou, can’t wait to go now, of course he’d want to silence us sooner! That he waited till tonight to make his move, he has quite the patience!" Ye Qichi spoke in a calm and light manner, "I always thought we’d be ambushed midway today!"
Xiao Jinxing’s eyes narrowed, and he instructed Xiaowu, "We leave secretly tonight."
"Personally, I think for safety, it’s best if Xiaowu doesn’t co with you," Ye Qichi said bluntly.
Xiao Jinxing looked at her.
"Everyone knows Xiaowu is your personal guard... precisely your personal attendant. If Xiaowu leaves with you, it might alert the enemy," Ye Qichi stated, "Instead, you might take another trustworthy Imperial Guard to leave, Xiaowu could instead distract those trying to assassinate you, giving you enough ti to retreat safely."
"I can’t leave Prince," Xiaowu hurriedly said, "Apart from myself, I don’t trust anyone else to protect Prince."
"There’s soone you can trust," Ye Qichi glanced at Xiaowu, completely ignoring him.
"Who?" Xiao Jinxing asked.
"The head of the Imperial Guard, Yuan Wenkang."
"He is an Imperial Guard, the closest to the imperial power in the Imperial Palace, he is very likely to be Chu King’s man," Xiaowu argued, advocating to protect Xiao Jinxing himself.
"He’s not," Ye Qichi stated clearly, word by word.
All this way, it seed like she was asuring the scenery through the curtains, but in fact, she was secretly observing who followed Xiao Jinxing away.
And then she noticed Yuan Wenkang.
Yuan Wenkang, from a young age due to his strong martial arts, was selected to enter the palace as an Imperial Guard. After struggling for over ten years, he beca a first-class guard. This year, at the age of 32, he’s the leader of the guards leaving the palace, and is also soone Xiao Hezhen likes.
Xiao Hezhen, from birth, lacked fatherly love, his mother, the Princess, was uncompetitive and unassertive, sotis even if they suffered grievances in the harem, they would just endure silently. Naturally, the Emperor also didn’t visit the Princess’s bed chamber often, maybe just once every half a year.
Yuan Wenkang and Xiao Hezhen had interactions because once when Xiao Hezhen was playing in the Imperial Palace, he accidentally fell into the lake, and Yuan Wenkang, who was patrolling nearby, did not hesitate to jump into the water and rescued Xiao Hezhen. That year Xiao Hezhen was only 10 years old but developed feelings of gratitude towards Yuan Wenkang because of this life-saving grace.
Since then, Xiao Hezhen always tried to find out Yuan Wenkang’s duty timings, often passing by him intentionally or unintentionally.
Once Yuan Wenkang was nearly imprisoned due to being frad by his colleagues, it was Xiao Hezhen who helped clarify the truth and rescued him from jail, even turning the misfortune into a blessing by promoting him from a third-class guard to a second-class guard. Yuan Wenkang has always been grateful to Xiao Hezhen since then.
As for how their feelings transford from an initial unrequited love to mutual affection... it all started from a stormy night.
That night, the rain was particularly heavy.
The Princess was in labor with the little Prince.
According to customs, Xiao Hezhen couldn’t stay in the Princess’s bed chamber, as it was always believed in ancient tis that won exhibiting bleeding are bad luck. Xiao Hezhen, being a Princess, naturally couldn’t stay in such a place, but when she left and saw her mother’s pale and pained expression, her heart felt imnsely distressed.
She was led to a side room palace, taken care of by her personal palace maid. The other attendants had to take care of her mother; the night was filled with thunder and rain, and Xiao Hezhen, out of fear and worry, really couldn’t sleep, so she got up and left the palace with her palace maid, walking in the courtyard outside, unexpectedly seeing Yuan Wenkang stationed within the Imperial Palace, soaked by the heavy rain.
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