After swallowing my anger and taking the blame, I became the lucky little queen

With the help of kerosene, the fire grew bigger and bigger. The entire row of cells was burned, and the thick smoke rushed towards the gate of the prison at a rapid speed.

The guard at the gate heard the noise behind him and turned around to see a huge cloud of black smoke coming towards them. The two of them were instantly covered in the black smoke.

-

"So the emperor is in the prime minister's residence now?" Nian Su Su was surprised.

Qin Junyu had just told her the whole story of how the emperor escaped from the palace with the help of Li Zhongquan that night and hid in the prime minister's residence.

Qiao Yue was a great help, otherwise, given the Queen's vigilance, they would have been discovered before they even left the palace.

But when he thought that Qiao Yue was actually Nian Qiaoyue, Nian Susu couldn't be moved.

"As expected of Li Zhongquan, he actually thought of hiding the emperor in the prime minister's residence. In this way, even if we can't get back in time to take charge of the situation, the queen won't dare to make a scene in the prime minister's residence." Nian Susu shook his head and smiled. He just didn't know how Li Zhongquan convinced Nian Chengyun.

Nian Chengyun is a man of convention and always seeks stability. It takes a lot of persuasion to get him to agree to something so crazy and risky.

Qin Junyu smiled and said, "After all, we are relatives. Even if it's just for Miss Nian's sake, my father-in-law will definitely help."

"Tsk." Nian Susu curled his lips.

The East Palace was in front of them. It took them about three quarters of an hour to walk from the Imperial Study to the East Palace.

At night, under the willow trees, everything was quiet. The sound of footsteps came from behind, getting closer and closer.

"Water-"

"Your Highness! There's a fire—"

The two of them were stunned at the same time and exchanged surprised looks.

The young eunuch who reported the message stopped in front of Qin Junyu, panting.

"Where is the fire?" Qin Junyu asked hurriedly.

Nian Susu's heart was beating very fast, he was flustered and had a bad feeling.

She held her chest and breathed heavily.

Qin Junyu's attention was on the little eunuch and he didn't notice the changes in the people around him.

The young eunuch managed to catch his breath and managed to utter four words: "Heavenly Prison... Fire..."

Qin Junyu frowned and thought of the queen.

"go!"

The young eunuch led him forward a few steps. Qin Junyu suddenly stopped and looked back. Nian Susu was already squatting on the ground.

"Lingling!" Qin Junyu immediately turned around to check on her condition.

He half-knelt and held her in his arms, calling her name and gently kissing her face, but she closed her eyes, always maintaining a painful expression, holding her chest and gasping for breath.

[Warning! Warning! Abnormal vital signs detected in Nian Qiaoyue! ]

[The system will perform an irresistible elimination on the host 24 hours after the death of Year Qiaoyue.]

Her heart felt like it was being clenched into a ball, rubbing it repeatedly, causing her to not dare breathe in pain. The ringing in her ears continued, with Qin Junyu's voice in between, but she couldn't hear it clearly.

Nian Susu once again felt the feeling of being on the verge of death. She fell into the abyss. Her body became very light, but she fell at an extremely fast speed and she could no longer hear any sound in her ears.

"Ling Ling——"

Nian Susu suddenly opened his eyes, and saw Qin Junyu's red eyes. He burst into laughter, his joy visible to the naked eye, "Lingling, are you awake?"

With the last bit of consciousness left, Nian Susu told him: "Qiao Yue...save Qiao Yue...you must save her..."

Qin Junyu listened to the general idea but didn't understand what it meant. When she wanted to ask for clarification, she had already fainted.

Qin Junyu picked up Nian Susu and ran towards the East Palace. At this time, he no longer cared about Qiao Yue. He only knew that the person in his arms must be safe.

"Your Highness!" The young eunuch was stunned and ran after him, but he was very fast and the distance between them widened in an instant. The young eunuch hurriedly shouted: "Your Highness! What should we do about the fire in the prison!"

Qin Junyu didn't even leave a trace as he disappeared behind the gate of the East Palace.

The young eunuch looked around and saw the Eastern Palace on one side and the Heavenly Prison on the other. In the end, he chose the latter.

There were two imperial doctors who went to the east wing with Qin Junyu. They almost ran all the way back with Qin Junyu. Ah Falcon, with a medicine box slung over one shoulder, ran even faster than the imperial doctors.

"The Crown Princess fainted suddenly. She kept covering her chest and complaining about pain before she passed out completely." After putting Nian Susu on the bed, Qin Junyu pushed the imperial physician forward, "Quick! Check the Crown Princess' pulse. We must find out the cause of the illness!"

The imperial doctors stepped forward tremblingly to take the patient's pulse.

Axuan called the aggressive Qin Junyu outside the door. He watched from the side like a demon. The two imperial doctors were so scared that their hands were shaking. How could they diagnose patients?

"Your Highness, there is an imperial physician inside. The Crown Princess will be fine."

"Maybe... his body couldn't take it after traveling by boat and train for the past ten days. It reached its limit and that's why he fainted all of a sudden." A Falcon tried every possible reason to comfort Qin Junyu.

In fact, he was not good at this, because Qin Junyu's emotions had been extremely stable since he was a child, and he seldom experienced extreme joy or sorrow. Just now, he was so anxious that his eyes turned red and his fists were clenched. A Falcon could see that he had been trying very hard to control his emotions.

Only when it comes to matters concerning the Crown Princess would His Highness' mood fluctuate so greatly.

Qin Junyu pinched his brows, closed his eyes, and sighed: "I hope so..."

What scared him was that this was not the first time that Nian Susu had suddenly "fallen ill". He was worried that she might have some hidden illness that had not been diagnosed, causing her to always feel inexplicably uncomfortable and in pain.

He was afraid of anything he couldn't control.

Qin Junyu stood silently at the door, not going anywhere, and Axuan stood silently beside him.

Half a minute later, Qingyu rushed in and brought two pieces of news: "The fire has been put out, eight people died, and fifteen were injured. The queen was burned to death in the cell. When she was pulled out, her body was burnt, but she still had her arms covering her face to protect her features, so her identity can be vaguely identified by her face."

"Also... there is an extra maid in the prison."

Qin Junyu's eyes, which had been calm all this time, moved. He suddenly remembered that Nian Susu had repeatedly told him to save a person named "Qiao Yue" before he fainted.

Only then did he realize that "Qiao Yue" was the palace maid who served Qin Fengtian mentioned by Li Zhongquan, and who made a significant contribution in the operation to rescue the emperor.

Could the extra person in the sky prison be the "Qiao Yue" that Nian Susu had instructed him to save?

Qin Junyu thought to himself that something was wrong.

"Is the person still alive?"

"He was still alive, but he looked like he was dying. His entire body was burned and smoking, and he was unrecognizable. He was only breathing when he was dragged out of the fire."

Qin Junyu had a picture in his mind and frowned subconsciously.

"How could a palace maid end up in the prison?" he asked again.

Qingyu didn't expect him to ask this. He paused for a few seconds to sort out the information he knew, and then said, "According to the guards, the maid went in to deliver food to the queen, and did not come out until the fire spread to the door."