Swap, the involutionary regent palace fight also forced me to rebel

When Nan Yingzhi heard that there was new information about Yun Yan's disappearance, she couldn't help but be a little surprised.

This news came so quickly?

She had just asked Lin Chi to send people out, and didn't even wait for Lin Chi to come back and say anything to her.

However, it's always a good thing to have some clues.

Lifting her chin slightly, Nan Yingzhi signaled Lingyu to speak directly: "Tell me more about it."

"Just now, the guards at the city gate came to report that the city gate was closed, but someone outside was shouting that he wanted to come in. I thought it was normal for someone to want to enter the city in the middle of the night, and I didn't want to break the rules, so I ignored him.

"Just at this moment, a woman holding our palace's token wanted to leave the city in the middle of the night. The guards guarding the city gate opened the door, and the people outside immediately rushed in.

“Originally, the guards guarding the city gate wanted to stop them, but they found that the person holding the badge of the Seventh Princess’s Palace was in his hand.

"Since I specifically instructed the guards at the gate to keep an eye out for the Seventh Princess, the guards did not dare to neglect it and quickly welcomed them in and passed the news to us."

Nan Yingzhi guessed that the woman who asked to leave the city in the middle of the night and held the token of the royal palace was Lin Chi. She sighed and said, what a coincidence! If she hadn't sent Lin Chi out, Yun Yan and the others might not have been able to get in.

After listening for a while, Nan Yingzhi understood the whole story and realized that Yun Yan had returned. She thought for a moment, "In other words, Yun Yan has returned now?"

"Yes," Ling Yu nodded, "The princess is now in the reception room, talking to her housekeeper."

"Well, you seemed to have mentioned the word 'they' just now," Nan Yingzhi grasped the key point sharply, "Didn't Yun Yan come back alone?"

After being stunned for two seconds, Ling Yu nodded to recall the scene of Yun Yan's return, "Indeed, in addition to the princess's personal maid, there was also a strange man accompanying the princess."

Stranger, man?

Vaguely feeling that this man had the potential to be discovered as a royal consort, Nan Yingzhi couldn't help but gossip, "What does this man look like?"

After thinking about the man's face, Ling Yu gave a fair evaluation: "He has regular features, but he looks a little childish."

The word "childish" successfully aroused Nan Yingzhi's curiosity. She stood up and walked towards the living room while asking Lingyu, "Why do you say that?"

Scratching his head for a while, Ling Yu couldn't think of a better explanation. He was at a loss for words and just said, "You'll know when you see it."

When Nan Yingzhi arrived at the reception room, it was filled with candles, illuminating everyone's expressions clearly.

Yun Yan was originally talking to the housekeeper when she saw Nan Yingzhi coming from afar. She immediately left the housekeeper behind, stood up and ran towards Nan Yingzhi.

Completely frightened by what happened tonight, Yun Yan ignored etiquette and threw herself straight into Nan Yingzhi's arms.

Although she didn't want to have physical contact with someone she didn't know well, Yun Yan was the blood sister of the "Prince Regent" after all, and Nan Yingzhi couldn't push her away forcefully, so she had to gently use her palm to keep a little distance between them.

Yun Yan's voice was a little hoarse, as if she had been crying: "Royal brother, I am so scared, I feel like my soul is being frightened away, woo woo, I almost thought that I would never come back and never see my royal brother again!"

Nan Yingzhi originally wanted to ask what happened tonight that made her come back so late, but seeing that Yun Yan was very emotional and talking like a machine gun, Nan Yingzhi knew that now was not a good time to ask.

Swallowing back the words, Nan Yingzhi patted Yun Yan's shoulder gently, acknowledging her anxious mood: "It's okay, I'm glad you're back."

Yun Yan sobbed and wiped her nose with a handkerchief, her voice unclear: "Royal brother, Yan'er can come back thanks to this young master! If it weren't for the young master's help, Yan'er would never see my brother again!"

Nan Yingzhi followed Yun Yan's words and looked at the man behind her.

This man was of burly build, and looked like someone who had practiced martial arts for many years. Logically, he should have a ferocious aura.

But the strange thing is that he has delicate features, double eyelids, and a pair of big watery eyes, and looks extremely sincere.

Although it would be out of place for a muscular man to have delicate features, it looks very normal on him, as if he was supposed to look like that.

"Thank you, brother, for saving my sister," Nan Yingzhi stretched out her hand and asked the man's name, "What's your name?"

Before being called, the man had been leaning against a pillar with his arms folded, observing the communication between the "brother and sister".

Now that he was called, he held his chest in a friendly manner, bowed slightly, and saluted to Nan Yingzhi: "Greetings, Your Majesty."

Feeling his hand hanging in the air, feeling awkward as no one was paying attention to him, Nan Yingzhi took his hand back as if nothing had happened and continued to ask him his name: "What's your name, brother?"

As if he was afraid that a long sentence would reveal something, the man answered briefly: "Lou Yi, Lou means tall building, Yi means energetic."

"Lou Yi, what a nice name," Nan Yingzhi said casually, and then asked Lou Yi to sit down, "How did you rescue the princess?"

"Influenced by Master's words 'You should go out and see the world more', I travelled around and happened to see a man carrying a heavy object on his carriage, which made a whimpering sound from time to time, so I asked him about it.

"The man was in a hurry and only said a few words to evade the question. He then quickly drove the carriage to another place. I felt that this was strange, so I immediately opened the curtain of the carriage and rescued the princess."

At this point, Lou Yi cast his gaze towards Yun Yan, his expression gentle: "Thank goodness I couldn't see through this matter, so I asked, otherwise, the beautiful princess would not be able to escape this disaster."

Yun Yan was very impressed by this. Her face flushed and her voice, which had just been howling to the point of sending the roof down, became softer: "Thank you, Mr. Lou, for your help. This princess would like to thank you here."

Lou Yi tilted his head, and from Nan Yingzhi's angle, she could see that there was an ear hole on Lou Yi's earlobe.

Seeing this ear hole, Nan Yingzhi's brows, which had originally relaxed because of Yun Yan's safe return, slowly frowned again.

In the minds of the Dali people, piercing the ears will make people feminine, so they advocate women wearing earrings and oppose men piercing their ears.

Unlike the people of Dali, in the eyes of the people of Beishuo, ear piercing does not discriminate between men and women, but only between family backgrounds.

The wealthier the family, the more likely they are to let their children pierce their ears and wear earrings to show off the family's status.