The Time Traveling Prince Consort Plans to Rule the World for Me

Mu Jin returned to the tent, washed up quickly, then lay down on the couch with his clothes on and closed his eyes to take a nap.

Although she was extremely tired physically, her mind was exceptionally clear, especially because the laughter of royal officials coming from outside the tent made it even more difficult for her to fall asleep.

Mu Jin opened his eyes only when the noise outside the tent gradually subsided and was replaced by the low hum of insects and animals in the forest, and then was covered by the sounds of servants who had gotten up early and were preparing to eat.

Mu Jin did not close her eyes that night. She was always paying attention to the movements outside the tent. She wondered if Su Yi had drugged her, otherwise how could she not fall asleep one day because of worrying about him.

Mu Jin sighed and got up from the bed. Ru Feng Ru Ying heard the noise inside the tent and came in with the toiletries. After Mu Jin finished washing up, he leaned back in the chair, squinted his eyes, and rubbed his temples with both hands.

"Miss Mu, didn't you sleep well last night?"

Mu Jin was startled when he heard Ruying ask this. He did not answer, but asked, "Did any unusual movement occur outside the venue last night?"

Ruying replied, "In the middle of the night, because the emperor had not returned, the Lin and Xie families and some military officers rushed into the arena, seemingly intending to go inside to look for the emperor."

"Can you send someone in with you?"

Ruying shook her head and said, "The master has ordered that you are not allowed to enter the inner court. I was really worried and wanted to go in with those military officers, but I was stopped."

Mu Jin was very confused and asked, "Why do you want to stop us?"

Ruying replied, "Most of the beasts rest during the day and usually come out at night, so the danger in the inner court is even greater at night. Therefore, the guards of Shanglin Garden who guard the inner court resolutely refused to let me in."

"But those generals only stayed in there for more than an hour. I heard that there were too many ferocious beasts in the inner field last night, and the visibility was poor at night, so they all withdrew from the inner field again."

"Didn't the Moon Shadow Guards in the inner court send you any signals?" Mu Jin asked doubtfully, "Did your master tell you whether he would send you some signals after success or failure?"

Rufeng and Ruying were both stunned. They looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time.

Rufeng replied: "For this operation, the master only asked us to do our best to protect you, Miss Mu. As for all other plans, we were not allowed to participate."

Mu Jin sighed softly and said helplessly: "Then you go out first and ask the people who came back from the inner field at midnight yesterday to see if you can get some information from the inner field."

Ru Feng and Ru Ying left the tent as soon as they received the order.

Watching the two people leave the tent, Mu Jin couldn't help but feel a little discouraged. Thinking about not knowing what the situation was like inside, she felt even more headache. She simply ate a few bites of food and opened the tent door to go out.

Just after she walked a few steps, she saw Ruying running towards her from a distance and shouted to her, "Miss Mu, the master is back!"

When Mu Jin heard this, he quickly asked, "Is he injured?"

Ruying replied apologetically, "Before I had the chance to take a closer look at you, I couldn't wait to come over and tell you the good news."

Hearing this, Mu Jin couldn't help but feel relieved, and quickly said to Ruying with a smile: "Glad that you're back, let's go over and take a look first!"

After saying that, Mu Jin took Ruying and walked quickly towards the inner entrance.

When Mu Jin heard that Su Yi and his group had returned, she felt relieved. As she walked, she asked Ruying, "Did the emperor come back as well?"

Ruying was stunned when she heard this, and replied, "I didn't see the emperor just now, I only saw the master and the Yueying Guards running back from the inner court."

Hearing Ruying say this, Mu Jin's heart, which had just calmed down, unconsciously rose again, and he ran towards the inner court even faster.

Not far from the entrance to the inner field, Mu Jin saw a group of Moon Shadow Guards running out of the inner field. The leader was Su Yi. However, what was very strange was that Emperor Gaozong did not come out of the inner field with Su Yi, and even none of the emperor's royal guards were seen.

Those with a sharper eye would see that there seemed to be scarlet bloodstains on the bodies and weapons of Su Yi and the Moon Shadow Guards.

In the tent not far away, many royal members and officials seemed to have received the news as well. This time, they were putting on their clothes and hurried towards the inner entrance.

Su Yi looked at Mu Jin while riding on his horse. When he saw that Mu Jin was fine, he quickly looked away.

Soon, the inner entrance was surrounded by a dense crowd of people.

An official who was over fifty years old asked, "Young Prince, where is the Emperor? Why didn't he come out of the inner court with you?"

Mu Jin looked at the official. Ruying approached Mu Jin and bowed her head and said, "This is the Secretary of the Central Secretariat, Lu Changwei."

Mu Jin understood clearly that this was the secret historian named Lu who was on good terms with the Lin family.

Mu Jin saw it clearly. Among the people who gathered around, Xie Maochang and the ministers around him looked normal. On the contrary, Lin Zhengyong looked at Su Yi with a cruel look in his eyes.

Su Yi did not answer Lu Changwei's words. Instead, his face looked slightly cold. He raised his hand and signaled the Yueying Guard behind him to bring the things up.

The shadow guards behind him threw a large bag of things pulled by several horses to the ground with a "bang", which immediately caused the women around to exclaim.

That thing was none other than the corpse of a huge black bear.

The black bear was covered in blood and had several broken hunting arrows stuck in its body. It is not difficult to imagine how dangerous it was to hunt this black bear.

Some girls from aristocratic families beside Mu Jin looked at Su Yi with shy blushes on their faces as they were happy. They whispered with the people around them, praising Su Yi's bravery. After all, it was Su Yi who won the first prize.

Seeing that Su Yi ignored him, Lu Changwei secretly looked at Lin Zhengyong, and then continued to speak to Su Yi.

"My young prince, didn't the emperor enter the inner court with you? How come the bear was hunted? Why didn't the emperor leave the inner court with you?"

Su Yi glanced at Lu Changwei, then turned his head and stared at Lin Zhengyong, his eyes as cold as ice, and said in a deep voice: "Yesterday, the emperor and I were ambushed by a group of masked assassins in the inner court."

"Then we killed the group of assassins. When we were about to leave the inner field, we ran into this black bear that had been drugged."

"The emperor was unfortunately injured by the black bear during his desperate fight. Now I have ordered the imperial guards to escort the emperor back to Bianliang for treatment from the other end of the inner court."

When everyone heard Su Yi's words, they were suddenly in an uproar.

The emperor was assassinated, what a shocking event!

If Su Yi could conceal the truth a little, perhaps the Southern Shu Kingdom's court could still barely maintain superficial calm.

However, at this time Su Yi did not shy away from it and openly announced in front of all the royal family members and ministers that "the emperor had been assassinated." This was undoubtedly a formal declaration of war on those traitors!