Rebirth: The flatterer prince I raised couldn't be so clingy

Feng Zhanye and Pei Xie killed most of the assassins, and both of them were covered in blood.

Under their protection, Mrs. Chen Qi hid safely in the altar. She gradually adapted to the current situation and carefully poked her head out from the edge of the altar.

As time passed, the white smoke dissipated a lot, and the surrounding scene could barely be identified with the naked eye.

Pei Xie's eyes swept across the corpses on the ground and he calmly dealt with the remaining assassins.

He swung out a flying blade, accurately killing the assassin who appeared beside him, and looked at the corpses scattered all over the ground and asked casually: "Your Highness, do you feel that this is a bit weird?"

"how you said that?"

Feng Zhanye wiped the blood off the blade of the sword on the corpse.

"The assassins' array doesn't look like an assassination. They knew that His Majesty was in the side hall, yet they dared to send so many people so blatantly. It is really puzzling. If they don't have ulterior motives, are they just not thinking straight?"

Feng Zhan Ye pondered for a moment, but still had no idea about Pei Xie's question.

He shook his head and said, "This matter is indeed strange. Perhaps there is another hidden story behind it."

Suddenly, there was a sound coming from outside the door, and the sound of iron armor rubbing reached Feng Zhanye's ears. He realized that the imperial guards had arrived.

He thought for a moment, turned the sword over, pointed it at himself, and under Pei Xie's puzzled gaze, lightly cut a little flesh on his neck.

"Your Highness, what are you doing..." Pei Xie was puzzled.

Feng Zhanye lowered his slender eyes, as if he could not feel the pain, and cut his hand again.

Blood slowly seeped out from the cut skin, and he looked indifferently towards the closed door of Chonghe Hall.

"My father is suspicious by nature and doesn't have much trust in me. Now that things have come to this, we must succeed." The young man said in a firm tone.

On the other side, the concubines who heard the noise surrounded Queen Zou and came out to check the situation.

I saw a team of silver-armored imperial guards escorting the furious Emperor Yu towards the main hall.

Everyone looked at each other in confusion.

"What's going on? The time hasn't come yet, why is Your Majesty going to the main hall now?"

"Could it be that Prince Duan has caused some trouble again and angered Your Majesty?"

"Empress, His Majesty doesn't look right. Could it be that the evil spirit in Prince Duan's body is causing trouble, or that something has happened in the main hall?"

The concubines asked Queen Zou one after another, and she slowly said, "The evil spirit is dangerous. We can't let Your Majesty go alone. Let's go and take a look together."

All the concubines thought it made sense and followed Queen Zou to the main hall.

The door was pushed open, bright and dazzling sunlight poured into the hall, and the armored imperial guards swarmed in.

The remaining assassins were captured alive by the imperial guards and held aside. Then the imperial guards made way, revealing Emperor Yu, the Empress, Concubine De, Gao Ye and others.

When they saw the situation inside the hall clearly, everyone was shocked.

The ground was covered with dark red corpses, scattered weapons, and overturned incense burners. It was hard to imagine what had happened here.

Everyone saw the young man under the statue of the Three Pure Ones at a glance.

The smoke that had not yet dissipated swirled around him, making him and the three pure statues behind him look as if they were from the same origin.

He stood tall and straight, holding two swords, his picturesque eyebrows were stained with blood, and his slender eyes were filled with a hint of murderous intent.

"How dare this evil star kill people in front of the palace, and in front of the statues of the Three Pure Ones? It's really terrifying..."

Some concubines were discussing in low voices.

Queen Zou raised her eyebrows slightly and glanced at Pei Xie beside Feng Zhanye. She remembered that he seemed to have been following Gao Ye before, and glared at Wu Heng coldly.

Wuheng had no choice but to lower her head even more.

What a pity! If it weren’t for Concubine De’s help, he might have died.

"This! How could such a thing happen in broad daylight, in the imperial city!"

Nei Guan Han stared at the scene in the palace with wide eyes, and seeing that Emperor Yu was about to check the situation personally, he hurried forward to protect Emperor Yu.

"Your Majesty, be careful of the evil spirit."

Empress Zou also spoke out to remind him and stopped Emperor Yu.

Emperor Yu's face was grim. He only glanced at Empress Zou without any expression. He turned around and ordered He Chongjin, the Palace Guard, "Stop the ritual, clear the Chonghe Hall, and interrogate the thief."

"Yes!"

He Chongjin took the order and ordered his guards to move all the corpses and thieves out of the Chonghe Hall.

"Prince Duan, come here."

This was the first sentence Emperor Yu had spoken to Feng Zhanye today. Although his tone was still stiff, it was obviously not as cold anymore.

Feng Zhanye took a deep breath, put down the sword in his hand, and walked slowly towards the entrance of Chonghe Hall.

He stood in front of the Chonghe Hall door, not daring to take another step forward. He just bowed properly and called out softly.

"Father."

At a not-so-close distance, Emperor Yu looked at his collar soaked in blood and the blood drops sliding down his palm, and was silent for a while.

Just when the concubines thought he was going to get angry and scold Feng Zhanye, he suddenly turned around and told Han Neiguan: "Go find the imperial physician."

The concubines were all confused. He had killed so many people, but His Majesty not only did not punish him, but he even felt sorry for the injury of this evil star?

After a while, everyone moved to a side hall and gathered together. Emperor Yu's face was as gloomy as water, and he waited with a dark face for the imperial physician to finish treating Feng Zhanye's wounds.

The cleansing work in Chonghe Hall has been completed, and He Chongjin also entered the hall to report the situation to Emperor Yu.

"Your Majesty, we have kept some prisoners alive for interrogation, and the rest of the traitors have been executed."

Emperor Yu nodded, looked around, and ordered, "Go, call Cao Shuyi and Xianzhi over."

Soon, a young eunuch led Cao Shuyi and Xianzhi into the hall.

Facing the gazes of the crowd, Cao Shuyi felt quite uncomfortable, but she still pretended to be calm and asked, "Your Majesty, what happened?"

As soon as she finished speaking, her eyes fell on Feng Zhanye, who was sitting next to her unharmed, and then she saw Mrs. Chen Qi behind him.

Just now, when she heard that the ritual was suddenly stopped by the emperor, she began to feel uneasy. Now that she saw that the two men were unharmed, she could hardly maintain her calm on the surface.

Cao Shuyi's eyes were red with anger, but in front of so many people, her delicate face could only remain motionless, with only her nails hidden in her wide sleeves digging into her flesh and trembling slightly.

Xian Zhi, who was standing behind her, looked even paler than paper.

Emperor Yu did not signal her to sit down, but directly said to everyone: "I am holding a ritual today to mourn Concubine Hui and to exorcise evil spirits, so I summoned Prince Duan to come and offer sacrifices."

His gaze shifted to Cao Shuyi, as if with some deeper meaning.

"Unexpectedly, I was used by the bad guys to set up a killing trap to put Prince Duan to death. Who dares to rebel under my nose?"

Feng Zhanye sat aside and watched coldly. Looking at the reactions of the two people, he felt only irony and ridiculousness in his heart.

When they poisoned his mother and framed him, these two people didn't even blink an eye. How cruel and cold-hearted they were.

Now that what I have done is about to be exposed, why has it become like this?

"Cao Shuyi, tell me, what exactly is going on?"