The prince stepped on me to get to the top, I angrily flirted with the enemy's hostage

Su Rou bravely stepped forward to check. The tombstone was not new, but the red words on it were freshly painted.

A chill spread from the soles of my feet to the top of my head.

Su Rou stretched out her hand and carefully stroked the words on the stone tablet. Her fingertips were stained with scarlet, and the color looked even more strange on her hand.

She leaned forward and sniffed the color.

This is not blood.

It's just the cinnabar commonly used when filling in words on tombstones.

Su Rou felt strange. Since someone was taking care of this tombstone, who would erect a tombstone for Gong Yu here?

Is it Gong Yu?

This was the answer in her mind, but she didn't dare to think further.

"Click" There was a noise behind her, and Su Rou turned around to look.

A sharp blade flashing with cold light slashed towards her, and Su Rou dodged it.

A masked man attacked her with a long knife in his hand, but Su Rou dodged quickly and the long knife in the masked man's hand hit Su Rou's horse.

The horse's screams pierced the silent night sky.

Su Rou said, "You are from the South? Why did you attack me? I have never bullied you."

The masked man said in a deep voice, "Miss, I'm sorry. I've been asked to do this. You must die here tonight."

Su Rou dodged the masked man's attack and said, "My horse is very expensive. If it's damaged like this, do you have to compensate me with a new one?"

The masked man probably thought that she was mentally ill and did not respond to her.

Su Rou raised her hand and a dagger slipped out of her sleeve. This time she did not dodge and directly took the attack from the masked man.

Su Rou said, "To dare to attack me on the territory of the Southern Kingdom, either it was instructed by the Southern Kingdom Emperor, or someone else wanted to frame the Southern Kingdom Emperor, or there is another possibility that the person who sent you is stupid."

Su Rou exerted ruthless force on her hand, blood splattered everywhere, and the masked man fell straight to the ground in front of her.

Su Rou shook off the blood on the dagger and turned to check the injured horse. The knife cut was so deep that the bone was visible, and the horse was covered in blood and flesh.

She sighed, "This was Third Brother's horse, and it was hacked to death like this. How can I explain this to Third Brother..."

……

Gong Yu returned to the bedroom and took off his cloak, but found in the moonlight that the person on the bed had disappeared.

He was stunned, and the hand holding the cloak paused. He quickly stepped forward and touched the bed that Su Rou had rolled into a doghouse with his palm.

The bedding was already cold.

Gong Yu realized that Su Rou had gone out at night and had not returned yet.

Gong Yu put his cloak on again and stood outside the door. He seemed to have caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye and made a gesture.

"Come out, where have you girls gone?"

The soldier hiding in the dark came out and said, "The girl didn't see you at night, so she rode her horse to the outskirts of the city..."

They naturally didn't dare to say it directly because the last place they saw him was outside the city...

Gong Yu's voice suddenly turned cold, "I understand."

Finally, he heard the soldier behind him say in a low voice, "How did he know where we were hiding?"

He had long known that Su Rou had sent people to ambush around the palace, and he also knew that Su Rou was trying to monitor her.

He turned around and went to the palace stable to get a horse, and followed the same route he took today to look for Su Rou. He saw Su Rou wandering around the cemetery like a headless fly.

Su Rou saw a figure from afar, with a horse following him. The two figures were not far from her.

A man and a horse stood motionless.

It seemed like he was still looking in her direction.

She was a person of integrity and had nothing to fear from the shadow, and had never done anything against her conscience, but the scene before her made her feel even more terrified.

Su Rou's scalp felt numb and she turned around and ran away.

"Tick, tick, tick, tick..."

Behind me came the sound of horse hooves trampling on the ground, and the sound was getting closer and closer.

Su Rou felt dizzy and was picked up by Gong Yu and carried on the horse's back. She thought she would fall into a bloody mouth in the next second.

Gong Yu's voice came to my ears, "What are you doing in the cemetery in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?!"

Su Rou found that nothing was wrong with her. When she opened her eyes, she saw Gong Yu's stern face.

Ok……

It’s Gong Yu.

No, is it the living Gong Yu?

Su Rou sat up and ran her hands all over his body.

Gong Yu grabbed her hand and said, "What are you doing? You don't choose the place to molest someone."

Su Rou felt a little relieved when she felt the warmth from Gong Yu's hot palm.

"Ah, it's so scary in the middle of the night. I should be the one asking you this. What are you doing in the cemetery in the middle of the night?"

Why did she come here? It was because she followed Gong Yu!

After she arrived, not only did she not see Gong Yu, she was also assassinated and almost died in this cemetery!

Gong Yu rode his horse and took her all the way back to the city. "I see you're just feeling guilty. You're so scared. What shameful things have you done?"

Su Rou punched him in the chest, "You are the one who is shameless!"

After returning to the palace, Gong Yu sent the horse back and walked side by side with Su Rou on the gravel road.

Gong Yu said, "You didn't see anything strange tonight, did you?"

Su Rou realized that Gong Yu might be trying to trick her, and the matter of the tombstone was a bit suspicious.

Su Rou said, "I was attacked there before you came, but I killed the man and buried him out of kindness. Does anyone often go to places like that?"

Gong Yu looked at her. "Were you attacked?"

Su Rou nodded. She did not mention the tombstone, but only talked about the appearance of the masked man.

She didn't know who was in Gong Yu's grave, and she wouldn't do such a wicked thing as digging up someone's grave...

Gong Yu said, "That cemetery is the Southern Kingdom's graveyard. When the Northern Kingdom and the Southern Kingdom were at war, all the people who died in the Southern Kingdom were buried there."

Su Rou continued, "Last time, Madam Gong told me that you actually have an older brother, right?"

She thought Gong Yu would deny it, but unexpectedly he nodded.

"I do have a brother who died on the battlefield a few years ago."

Su Rou shifted her gaze away from Gong Yu and focused it on the road beneath her feet.

She had another guess in her mind: was that grave Gong Yu's brother's?

But why is Gong Yu’s name written on it?

Gong Yu added, "You look so absent-minded. Are you scared? The cemetery is huge. People with poor sense of direction could easily spend the night there."

Su Rou's head ached from thinking so much. These things were inextricably linked, but she couldn't figure it out.

"It's almost dawn. You can go back and get some sleep. Where are you planning to go tomorrow? Be sure to tell me before you leave my sight." Gong Yu had disappeared twice, and she was panicking, worried that Gong Yu would really run away.

Gong Yu suddenly stopped and grabbed her hand. "Are you really not moved by me at all?"