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

As Su Rou came out of the prince's bedroom, she heard a burst of uniform footsteps coming from outside.

somebody is coming?

Su Rou jumped and climbed onto the roof. She hid in the dark and observed the situation below.

The guards rushed in from outside the yard and looked around.

The leader said, "Don't disturb His Royal Highness's rest. Go in and take a look."

Su Rou also found it a little funny. These people actually regarded Xie Yuan as the prince.

She lay on the eaves calmly, wanting to see how they would react when they entered and saw the situation in the house.

The Imperial Guards should still have a wave of troops in the hands of the Right Prime Minister Gu Huaqing.

They came over suddenly, I guess they were discovered...

Su Rou's eyes darkened slightly. Could it be that Shen Yao had been captured?

"Ah!" A scream came from the house, breaking the silence of the night sky.

"Quick! Go and tell the Emperor! The Crown Prince... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is gone!"

Su Rou glanced down and confirmed that they were quite frightened, then she turned around and left with satisfaction.

She did something else to Xie Yuan's body. The person who went in first must have been pretty scared.

She returned the same way to find Shen Yao.

When Shen Yao saw Su Rou returned safely, the solemn expression on his brows disappeared.

"No one discovered it, right?"

Su Rou said, "The Imperial Guards went there, but I didn't run into them. Someone secretly tipped off the emperor."

She actually didn't know how the emperor knew about it, and he happened to go to the prince's bedroom where she was.

Shen Yao said, "It seems that there are spies in the palace that the emperor has planted in the South Country and the desert."

Su Rou asked him, "Why do you say that?"

Shen Yao said, "The Southern Kingdom has already sent people here, and they plan to take action today."

Su Rou was startled, she frowned, unable to conceal the surprise in her eyes...

"Why are you telling me this now?!"

Shen Yao said, "I wanted to tell you before, but you left, and you never asked me again."

Su Rou took a breath of cold air. If what Shen Yao said was true, then the Southern Kingdom was planning to attack both internally and externally this time.

In her previous life, the Southern Kingdom had never adopted such a strategy.

Su Rou blinked twice. How come in this life, not only did the war between the North and the South start earlier, but even the method adopted by the South Country changed?

Su Rou said, "I have a question. Right Prime Minister Gu Huaqing holds the military power of the Imperial Guard. Will this affect our ability to kill the emperor? If so, we should go back now."

Anyway, her target has always been Xie Yuan, to avenge her past life.

Only the emperor is left. Her father is not here, and the Southern Kingdom has already sent people here early. So the emperor will not be able to escape death even if she does not need to take action.

Shen Yao said, "You should know this better than me."

Su Rou fell silent. What he said was right. She indeed knew more than him.

If they went there too, she was worried that they would come into direct conflict with the Southern Kingdom...

To be honest, this is not what Su Rou was worried about.

But it was a problem that she had been worried about for a long time. She was afraid that sooner or later she would become hostile to Gong Yu.

Gong Yu is a good person at pretending, so if a fight really breaks out, the only thing she wants to ensure is that their Su family will not be implicated by him.

Su Rou stood there, and Shen Yao looked at her, as if waiting for her to make a decision.

She said, "Let's go back. I don't want to face Nan Guo head-on."

Shen Yao put away the bow in his hand and said, "Okay."

His well-behaved and obedient appearance made her feel a little fond of him.

Su Rou asked him, "You are so obedient to me, aren't you afraid that I will put you in danger?"

Shen Yao said, "Ever since my family surrendered to the Southern Kingdom, I have had no choice."

What Shen Yao said was true...

On their way out of the palace, the two of them chatted as they walked.

Su Rou asked again, "If your family had not directly surrendered to the Southern Kingdom, would you choose to protect the Northern Kingdom's royal family?"

A dark cloud passed by, just blocking the moon above our heads.

Su Rou couldn't see his expression, but she vaguely felt that his eyes were filled with affection...

After leaving the palace, Su Rou stretched. She had always determined her future by taking revenge on Xie Yuan.

After walking out of the door, she felt much more relaxed.

Su Rou said, "I have taken revenge and am going to the Southern Kingdom to find my father and mother before they attack me. Do you still want to stay and wait for them to completely calm down the war?"

Shen Yao responded, "When do you plan to leave?"

Su Rou said, "I have to find my friend first. I will come to find you before I leave."

She curled her eyes and smiled sweetly.

Shen Yao nodded, "Okay. Do you have any money on you?"

As he spoke, he took out a purse.

Su Rou said, "I'm very rich, so you don't have to give it to me. Just keep it. I won't sleep at your place tonight."

She had been staying at Shen Yao's place these days, and the food she had was so good. Shen Yao had people prepare food for her that was even more exquisite than what she had eaten at the general's mansion.

She didn't know how he was treated as the Left Prime Minister, but she was sure that Shen Yao treated her well.

There were not many people on the street, only the occasional passerby who saw Brother Ji sitting at the stall eating.

There is a stall selling osmanthus cake on the corner of the street.

Su Rou bought two pieces of osmanthus cake from the vendor. Looking at the steaming sweet dessert on the steamer, she couldn't help swallowing.

She took it from the vendor, picked up a piece and was about to take a bite when "whoosh" an arrow shot into the osmanthus cake in her hand.

The cake was stuck on the arrow with such great force that it overturned the entire osmanthus cake stall.

Su Rou bared her teeth, "You bastard, don't you have eyes?"

The next moment, a dagger flew towards her at such a speed that Su Rou had no time to dodge it.

A streak of blood oozed across her fair cheek.

"Ah Si! Capture her alive! I'm going to break her arms and legs!"

Su Rou thought the voice sounded familiar, so she looked up and found that the person coming was the Ninth Princess whom she had met in the South Country before.

Shen Yao said that the Southern Kingdom sent people over today.

Is this kid the one who’s sentimental?

The man who had just attacked her looked at the Ninth Princess blankly, "Your Highness... We need to go to the palace and can't delay."

The Ninth Princess stared at Su Rou fiercely, "I don't care, I want you to kill her! Don't forget how Brother Yu and my father asked you to protect me! If anything goes wrong with me, you, a slave of lowly birth, will not survive!"

Before they could react, Su Rou got up from the ground and prepared for a sneak attack.

Before she could get close to the Ninth Princess, a sharp sword pierced her collarbone.

The Ninth Princess looked at her and proudly pulled out a dagger from her body, "Bitch, if it weren't for you, Brother Yu would have returned and married me long ago! I'm going to peel off your face and stick it on the city wall!"

The long sword pierced her body, blood soaked her cotton coat, and the coldness instantly swept through her whole body.

Su Rou's breathing was stagnant due to the pain...