The Prince Consort's Beloved

New Year's Eve should have been a good day for family reunion, but it ended up making everyone uneasy.

Li Yuanrou was a little worried: "Grandmother has been staying indoors for years, praying to Buddha. I guess she won't see me now. I should go see my mother first. My eldest sister should be there, and Yuanqi should be there too."

When they arrived at Fengqi Palace, they found the gatekeeper maid lying on the ground unconscious. Li Yuanrou was shocked and hurried into the yard.

The two secret guards in the yard who were sent by the eldest princess to protect Fengqi Palace all year round were knocked unconscious, and several maids who usually served them were also lying on the ground.

There were only a few people in Fengqi Palace, and no one was awake at the moment.

Li Yuanrou's heart began to beat rapidly and she had a bad feeling.

She walked quickly towards the main hall and pushed the door open very quickly. She was so scared that she took a step back and bumped into Xiao Luobai.

Inside the palace, Prince Yun continued to tug at the same battle with the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother's eyes were red and her collar was slightly open. Prince Yun was holding her hand and pulling her into his arms.

Li Yuanrou felt her heartbeat pause: "What are you doing!"

She ran in and separated the two of them very quickly, glaring at King Yun and loudly asking again: "What are you doing!"

There were hurried footsteps outside the hall. Li Yuanqi stood still outside the hall, followed by Eunuch Fulai, four palace maids and two guards with swords.

Li Yuanqi drew out the long sword carried by the guard behind him, his brows furrowed, and he said coldly: "Li Yuming, close the gate of Fengqi Palace for me."

Li Yuming, whose sword was taken away, nodded in response and ran back to close the palace gate. After closing the gate, he did not go in any further and just stood guard at the palace gate.

Li Yuanqi raised his sword and slashed, and another guard beside him fell to the ground. Blood splattered on the ground of Fengqi Palace. It was extremely dazzling in this bleak winter night. The guard who fell to the ground was already dead.

The maids and Fulai behind him knelt down trembling with fear.

Several maids kowtowed repeatedly, their foreheads hitting the ground with a loud clanging sound, and their skin was broken after just two hits. They kept shouting, "Your Majesty, please spare me, Your Majesty, please spare me..."

When the people in the hall heard the noise, they all looked outside.

Li Yuanqi's eyes were deep and cold, like a ghost.

Li Yuanrou thought that he was going to come in and kill Prince Yun, but he saw him kill the palace maids who were knelt on the ground and begging for mercy one by one with his sword without hesitation.

Li Yuanrou was so shocked that she felt like she was frozen in place and unable to move at all.

Xiao Luobai quickly walked over, raised his hands to cover her eyes, and held her in his arms.

Fulai knelt on the ground, silent as a mouse, and handed over a handkerchief with trembling hands. Li Yuanqi put the sword in Fulai's hand, took the handkerchief to wipe his hands, then threw the handkerchief away and strode into the main hall.

Li Yuanrou pulled Xiao Luobai's hand away. She was so shocked that she couldn't recover for a long time. The bloodthirsty man had been holding her in his arms an incense stick ago, crying like a child and saying that he was so tired.

The coldness in Li Youan's eyes disappeared, replaced by an indifferent look, as if the person who had just killed people like killing chickens was not him.

He smiled and said, "Mother, uncle, it's time to go and ask the grandmother to come. My eldest sister has already taken An'er there."

Li Yuanrou looked at his brother in disbelief, his mouth slightly open, his voice trembling: "Yuanqi..."

She turned to look at Prince Yun, her eyes changing from shock to anger. She said to Li Yuanqi in a harsh voice, "Didn't you see him flirting with mother just now?"

Li Yuanqi's eyes were empty and no emotion could be seen, but there was a faint smile on his face.

He said in a gentle voice: "Sister, you are mistaken. The emperor's uncle is only here to pick up mother to visit the emperor's grandmother."

Li Yuanrou's eyes were full of astonishment. She was even in a daze for a moment and thought that she had indeed seen it wrong.

She looked at the empress dowager's slightly open collar and the palace maid lying dead outside the palace, and made sure that all this was not an illusion.

She glanced at Prince Yun angrily, then glared at Li Yuanqi and said sternly: "Yuanqi, are you afraid of him?"

After saying that, she quickly walked out of the hall and snatched the sword from Fu Lai's hand, her eyes showing determination and resoluteness.

She walked into the hall holding a long sword in her hand and said in a deep voice: "Yuan Qi, I will help you kill him today!"

As she spoke, she swung her sword at King Yun. King Yun frowned, but as he had practiced martial arts for many years, he dodged the attack easily.

Li Yuanrou's eyes were red, and he turned around and slashed with his sword, gritting his teeth and saying, "I will kill you."

Xiao Luobai frowned, walked over quickly and grabbed Li Yuanrou's arm, his face full of worry.

Li Yuanrou seemed to have lost her mind, and blood seemed to be dripping from her eyes.

She raised her arms vigorously, her eyes filled with the rage of wanting to torture someone to death: "Let go, I want to kill him!"

She used all her strength to shake off Xiao Luobai and stabbed King Yun with the sword at an extremely fast speed.

Because she didn't know how to use a sword, she chopped randomly without any rules. Prince Yun might have grown impatient with hiding, so he grabbed her sword-holding hand, glared at her and said angrily, "Rebellious son, do you want to kill your father again?"

Li Yuanrou's heartbeat seemed to stop, and she looked at him in astonishment: "What are you talking about?"

Patricide? Again?

She turned her head and looked at the people in the hall. Except for her who was extremely shocked, no one else reacted. It was as if Prince Yun saying that he was her father was like saying that the weather was really nice today, which made people feel that there was nothing abnormal.

She came back to her senses in shock, looked at her mother blankly and asked, "What nonsense is he talking about?"

Xiao Luobai and Li Yuanqi stepped forward and supported Li Yuanrou on the left and right.

Li Yuanrou looked at Li Yuanqi with a surprised expression: "Yuanqi, did he just say that I killed my father?"

Li Yuanqi pursed his lips, lowered his eyes and said nothing.

Li Yuanrou looked at her indifferent mother and the unhappy King Yun, and thought of her brother who had just killed someone to silence him. Her head buzzed and she felt dizzy.

She was gasping for breath like a dying fish, and her heart was pounding as if it was about to burst through her chest.

She shook off Li Yuanqi's hand that was grabbing her arm and swayed her body.

She held Xiao Luobai's arms with trembling hands, her voice weak and trembling: "Xiao Luobai, I want to go home, I want to go home..."

Li Yuanqi's voice was choked with sobs, full of worry and heartache, and he called softly: "Sister..."

Xiao Luobai was frightened by Li Yuanrou's appearance. He quickly supported her and let her lean on him to walk out.

His eyebrows were tightly knitted, his eyes were full of heartache, and he whispered softly: "Okay, let's go home, let's go home, I'll take you home..."

Before leaving the hall, Li Yuanrou staggered.

Today's wake-up call dealt her a heavy blow, as if it had brutally torn her apart.

She felt as if her vitality was rapidly draining away. She even told herself in her heart: I am Li Yuanrou but I am not Shanyang. I am fake. I don’t need to be sad. These people have nothing to do with me…

It doesn’t work…

Li Yuanrou still felt like she was going to die. She turned her head with difficulty, trying hard to hold back the mist in her eyes. She choked up and said to the three people in the hall: "You all lied to me."

Her eyes went dark and she slid away from Xiao Luobai and fell to the ground.

The moment she lost consciousness, she heard three panicked voices calling her.

"Rou'er!"

"Sister!"

"Rou'er..."

Li Yuanrou thought: This palace is really unlucky for me.

However, before she could hear clearly who the third voice was, she completely lost consciousness.