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The secret guard had a complicated expression on his face. Only his eyes could move, and he stared at Yan Yunshu closely.

His eyes fell on the pastries on the table again.

That was obviously his father's favorite pastry, Osmanthus Pastry.

He should have had doubts just now about who the girl was. During the years they had been together, he knew very well that she was meticulous and had an unmatched ability to plan ahead. This was hardly what a girl from a wealthy family who had been pampered and carefree since childhood should have.

But it was only just now that he realized that the girl was not only meticulous but also had a broad mind.

She saw through his thoughts, yet still spared his life.

She said she wanted him to tell her who was behind the scenes, but how could a meticulous and cautious girl not guess that in today's chaotic world, who else could be eyeing the imperial power and her covetously?

I just wanted to give him a chance deliberately.

After thinking about this matter to this extent, it was impossible for Ji Dian not to regret it. Even looking at the pastry, he understood.

It turned out that the girl had always been caring and paying attention to his only living relative, his elderly father, who was also his only concern in this life.

The girl should have guessed long ago that someone must have threatened him with his father's life today.

Now, the pastries have been here for several days. They have been replaced with fresh ones several times. These are pastries that the girl doesn’t use very often. There is such a neatly arranged big box right in front of her.

What I'm waiting for is his betrayal.

The girl waited for his betrayal, but he didn't expect to wait for the girl's forgiveness.

A man of integrity, but his sense of justice is not as strong as that of a weak woman.

Jidian regrets his decision.

He thought to himself that even if his old father, who was not very clear-headed, knew about this, he would definitely scold him severely.

He closed his eyes, not daring to look at the girl in front of him with clear eyes.

Over the past few years, the girl's treatment of him was not very kind, and could even be considered distant. Whenever she gave him instructions, she acted impartially, rewarding him if he did a good job and punishing him severely if he did not.

I have never heard that the girl cares about their relatives.

But the girl gave him, the leader of the secret guards, the greatest trust.

This is the most rare and precious thing in this chaotic world.

He sighed heavily.

At this time, the night was already dark.

After a period of silence, a figure suddenly appeared in the room.

The black figure stood with a sword in his arms, looking at everything in front of him with a look of fear on his face.

"This……"

Then, the black figure knelt in front of Yan Yunshu.

"Your subordinate, your subordinate is guilty."

This was the first time that Ying Feng called himself a subordinate in front of Yan Yunshu. He knew how big a mistake he had made. With the new emperor ascending the throne, he was very busy and had to stay awake day and night to constantly remind him to protect his future queen.

But today, he just received a letter from the palace, asking him to come to the palace to discuss the attack on Fenglin City. However, within an hour of leaving, the situation in the Mansion of the Loyal and Brave Marquis seemed to have changed completely.

The secret guards he arranged were obviously the best among the secret guards, experienced in battles and extremely cautious.

However, they all met with an inexplicable ambush and fell to the ground one by one. They only woke up when he arrived.

When asked, they didn't know what had just happened.

This matter was really strange. When he saw this scene, he immediately returned to the palace to report to the new emperor.

But when he entered the room and saw the secret guard lying on the ground beside Yan Yunshu, and the maid who looked panicked and nervous.

And I didn't dare leave without permission.

He was worried that if he left like this, something would happen here again, and he would really have no choice but to die to atone for his sins.

"I have deployed numerous secret guards to guard the young lady day and night, preventing even a mosquito from getting in. But for some reason, all of them collapsed today as if drugged. This is truly bizarre, and I've ordered a thorough investigation."

"A thorough investigation is one thing. The most important thing is to prevent such things from happening around the girl again."

Xiulian said to Yingfeng.

Yingfeng agreed repeatedly.

Then, he looked at the familiar secret guard lying on the ground, and then carefully looked at Yan Yunshu's expression.

Yan Yunshu pondered for a long time, trying hard to recall every detail of what had just happened.

I recalled every scene in the dream carefully again.

Finally, in that tense atmosphere, she remembered something that did not belong to this courtyard.

And that weird scene.

Thinking of this, she hurried towards the window where she had just fallen into a dream.

Then she opened the window and looked at the wintersweet that kept breaking in her dream.

There were no bright red wintersweets, only branches of strange shapes scattered everywhere.

The night is dark.

She stared intently at the branches of the wintersweet tree, and finally, among the branches silhouetted against the night sky, she saw a pitch-black crow.

A pair of eyes reflecting the moonlight, hidden in the darkness.

Yan Yunshu looked at it and felt a strong sense of familiarity.

She clenched the hidden weapon in her hand and pressed it down without hesitation.

The flying needles came towards the crow.

The crow flapped its wings twice without making a sound and fell to the ground in the yard.

Then, it flapped its wings a few times, one high and one low, tilted its body, and flew up under the cover of night.

Yan Yunshu ran into the courtyard and kept using hidden weapons in the direction it left.

However, the night was too dark and the crow was too black. Without the pair of eyes looking at each other, it had completely blended into the night.

Or let it fly away.

"Miss, it's rare to see a crow flying into the courtyard, but why did you shoot it with a hidden weapon?"

Xiulian looked at Yan Yunshu who was standing opposite the wintersweet tree.

"girl……"

Yan Yunshu came back to her senses. She picked up a feather from the ground through her handkerchief and handed it to Yingfeng.

"Shadow Wind, look."

Yingfeng carefully took the black feather from the handkerchief.

Reflecting the light coming through the corridor in the courtyard, I could actually see almost invisible black-brown powder evenly scattered on the black feathers.

He was about to put the powder to the tip of his nose to see what it was.

It was snatched away by Yan Yunshu.

Holding the feather, he trotted back into the house.

In the room, Ji Dian, who had just regained consciousness and was half-kneeling on the ground, had no time to speak, apologize to Yan Yunshu, or explain why he was coerced.

But Yan Yunshu was seen holding a feather in one hand and covering her mouth and nose with the other.

Then, in the stunned eyes of Ji Dian, he picked up the feather in his hand and shook it hard towards Ying Feng's face.

Yingfeng looked confused. He opened his mouth and wanted to speak, but a light and strange fragrance came to his nose.

"Aunt..."

Just said one word.

He rolled his eyes and fell down.

At the moment he fell, he heard Yan Yunshu say calmly, "How many times did you count just now?"

He struggled for a few seconds in his last moments of consciousness before finally sinking into a blank consciousness.

……

in the room.

Yingfeng looked at Yan Yunshu in surprise.