Reborn, the daughter of the Marquisate went crazy

Dongling, Shengjing City, Prince's Mansion.

Night fell. The study was still brightly lit, and the Crown Prince's trusted ministers gathered. Crown Prince Chu Yuncang made arrangements in an orderly manner.

The day before yesterday, Emperor Yingtian's shadow guard secretly reported that the commander of the southwest garrison, Cai Zhen, and the prefect of Jiazhou, Huang Dai, were colluding with each other in an attempt to create strange phenomena, incite the people, and confuse the country.

As the matter concerns the stability of Dongling, it is a serious matter. Emperor Yingtian sends Crown Prince Chu Yuncang to investigate secretly and make sure that the disaster is nipped in the bud.

In order to avoid being seen, the prince lied that he was injured while hunting and closed the door to visitors.

Matters such as the prince's substitute in the palace, emergencies, accompanying guards, and travel routes have been repeatedly considered and arranged one by one.

Xie Tingyu, the eldest son of the Marquis of Jing'an, is a close friend of the Crown Prince. He is alert and highly skilled in martial arts, having trained under his maternal grandfather, General Jiang. Recently, he happened to return to Shengjing City and offered to escort the Crown Prince to Jiazhou Prefecture.

Everyone felt that all the arrangements for this trip were foolproof and without any mistakes.

When the morning light was dim, everyone dispersed.

Chu Yuncang returned to his room, intending to take a nap. Before he reached the bed, a flash of blue light suddenly appeared before his eyes, and then he fell straight to the ground, falling into a deep dream, unconscious.

In the dream, Chu Yuncang rushed to Jiazhou Prefecture as planned. They disguised themselves as a traveling merchant group and traveled day and night.

For the first few days, everything was peaceful. But then, waves of assassins began to emerge. Sometimes they were bandits with a savage aura, sometimes they were assassins with strange martial arts skills, sometimes they were brave warriors who were ready to die, and even well-trained soldiers. They were as numerous as a swarm of fish.

Chu Yuncang learned that his itinerary had been leaked and that multiple forces were simultaneously pursuing him, so he had to quickly change his plan. However, sporadic assassins still tracked them down. By the time they reached Jiazhou Prefecture, their men had been depleted and only a few remained.

On the day of the Cold Food Festival, Chu Yuncang and his group finally arrived at Jiazhou Prefecture and checked into the Yunlai Inn. As they entered the inn, they were met by a handsome young man in white.

Chu Yuncang recognized him at a glance. This was Wang Yan, the playmate he met when he sneaked out of the palace at the age of twelve.

That year, the two met on Yunwu Mountain outside Shengjing City. They hunted birds and caught fish together and had a lot of fun for a few days. They became close friends and even became brothers with different surnames, but they never met again since then.

Wang Yan also recognized Chu Yuncang. He was very happy and felt that he had the chance to see Brother Yun again.

However, when Wang Yan learned that there was only Chu Yuncang's caravan at the inn today, his expression suddenly changed. Since then, he has been in a state of entanglement.

That night, Wang Yan came to Chu Yuncang's room, and Xie Tingyu happened to be there too.

Wang Yan hesitated for a while, looked at Xie Tingyu, but stopped talking.

Chu Yuncang said, "This is Brother Xie, my best friend, someone I can trust with my life. Brother Yan, please speak frankly and don't be shy about addressing Brother Xie."

Wang Yan opened his mouth and finally asked nervously, "Brother Yun, is your surname really Yun, or is it Chu?"

Chu Yuncang knew that his identity had been exposed, but he was not angry. Instead, he felt ashamed of his previous concealment. He believed in his own judgment that Brother Yan was someone worth making friends with.

He confessed, "I am Chu Yuncang, the Crown Prince of Dongling. I concealed my name back then, although there were reasons for it, but I feel guilty about our friendship. Please forgive me, Brother Yan."

Upon hearing this, Wang Yan's face turned pale, and he looked pained. "You really are the Crown Prince of Dongling. And I am not Wang Yan, but Xiao Yan, the Second Prince of Nanjing."

Before Chu Yuncang could react, Xiao Yan clasped his fists and said solemnly, "It is my great honor to have made friends with Brother Chu. If you and I were just Yuncang and Wang Yan, how wonderful it would be. But now that we have different positions, I can only offend you!"

After he finished speaking, Xiao Yan drew his sword and was about to kill Chu Yuncang when a group of assassins in black rushed into the room.

Chu Yuncang initially thought the group of black-clad assassins were Xiao Yan's accomplices, but they simultaneously attacked the three people in the room, each strike deadly. Xiao Yan, upon seeing the group of black-clad assassins, immediately turned his attack on them.

This group of killers was highly skilled and numerous. The three men resisted for a long time and were all wounded. However, reinforcements did not appear, so they thought their men had already been dealt with.

In the melee, an assassin lashed out at Chu Yuncang's back with a sharp blade. Chu Yuncang couldn't dodge, and Xie Tingyu was even more distracted. In the critical moment, Xiao Yan flew to block the attack, only to see a large hole in his chest being cut open, and he died instantly.

Seeing this scene, Chu Yuncang felt his heart tremble and his heart ached. When he was distracted, he suffered new injuries and his body was already at the end of its strength.

Xie Tingyu's right hand tendons had been cut. Seeing that Chu Yuncang was in a bad condition, he carried Chu Yuncang on his back, holding a knife in his left hand, and tried his best to fight his way out of the inn.

The two fled to the suburbs, where the assassin in black was relentless in pursuit. Chu Yuncang urgently needed medical treatment and his condition was extremely critical. Xie Tingyu had no choice but to place Chu Yuncang in a dilapidated temple and went alone to lure the assassin away.

In the dilapidated temple, Chu Yuncang was dying, and Xie Tingyu had not returned for a long time. After a while, a group of black-robed people wearing black robes, black hats, and black scarves came into the temple.

The men in black robes walked in an orderly and silent manner, and went straight to where Chu Yuncang was hiding and tied him up tightly.

The atmosphere is a little weird.

Chu Yuncang wanted to resist, but he was powerless. He felt like a lamb to be slaughtered.

The black-robed men found a table in the dilapidated temple and placed it in the middle of the room. They laid Chu Yuncang face up on the table and covered him with talismans. Chu Yuncang's body instantly became unable to move and his mouth was unable to make a sound.

Then, the men in black robes stood in a circle around the table, muttering to themselves. After about a cup of tea, the muttering stopped abruptly.

A man in a black robe stepped forward and thrust a dagger straight into Chu Yuncang's chest. He began to recite the poem in unison once more.

Chu Yuncang first felt a piercing pain, and then his soul gradually withdrew from his body. When his soul completely left his body, all the talismans suddenly burst into white light and hit Chu Yuncang's soul directly.

Chu Yuncang's soul felt like it was being torn apart by countless hyenas. The pain was excruciating. In an instant, his soul was shattered and disappeared without a trace. The talisman paper also turned to dust in an instant.

After a moment of silence, the man in black robes silently cleaned up the scene and took away Chu Yuncang's body.

About an hour later, a handsome Taoist priest came hurriedly.

He walked around the dilapidated temple and sighed, but it was still too late.

The Taoist priest seemed unwilling to give up and walked slowly around the dilapidated temple. When he saw a spider web in the corner, his eyes lit up slightly. There was a fragment of the soul hanging on it.

The Taoist priest took out a jade cup, carefully put away the fragments, and pasted a piece of talisman paper on the mouth of the cup.

Chu Yuncang's dream was coming to an end. He only felt that he had been in a white place for a very long time...

The sun was setting at this moment, and the Prince's Mansion was already in chaos.

The prince suddenly fell to the ground and became unconscious this morning. The court doctor diagnosed him again and again and confirmed that the prince was just sleeping soundly, but was unable to wake him up.

The prince was supposed to leave for Jiazhou today. Xie Tingyu waited for a long time at the agreed location, but Chu Yuncang did not show up. Instead, he received the news that Chu Yuncang was unconscious.

At this moment, he was sitting beside Chu Yuncang's bed, worried.

Chu Yuncang slowly woke up, and the first thing he saw was Xie Tingyu with a furrowed brow. Thinking of the scene in his dream, he was a little dazed, wondering whether Xie Tingyu had escaped later.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Chu Yuncang awake. Chu Yuncang stared at these people, their anxious expressions seemingly unfaithful. Who among these people was the one who leaked the information?

Yes, Chu Yuncang believed in the dream. Although it was strange and supernatural, the pain was too real for him to disbelieve. He needed to be alone to think quietly, so he dismissed everyone.

First, there was a mole in the Prince's Mansion, someone he was very close to and trusted. Currently, all the people who knew about this, except Xie Tingyu, could be the mole.

His whereabouts, which he thought were secret, were leaked to multiple forces at the same time. This was because it was unlikely that one party could mobilize so many forces to hunt him down at the same time.

Even more so, the Jiazhou Mansion incident itself was a massive conspiracy, a trap set to lure him in. Then, his father's shadow guards were unreliable. If so, the person orchestrating all this must be incredibly powerful and terrifying.

So, do you still want to go to Jiazhou?

Of course he had to go! If the person behind this was coming for him, with such a meticulous plan, he could dodge it this time, but not the next time. It would be better to go with the flow, maybe he could find some clues.

Secondly, if Wang Yan is indeed Xiao Yan, the Second Prince of Nanjing, then Nanjing's forces are also involved, making the situation even more serious and complicated. Nanjing received advance information that they were disguised as traveling merchants and settled at the Yunlai Inn, so there must be a traitor in their ranks who is colluding with Nanjing.

Who were the black-clad assassins at the inn, and why did they kill Xiao Yan? It was rumored that Emperor Nanjing greatly loved Xiao Yan, and if Xiao Yan died on Dongling soil, war between Nanjing and Dongling would be inevitable. In his dream, Xiao Yan died saving him, and he didn't want that tragedy to happen again. Therefore, for both public and private reasons, he couldn't let Xiao Yan die in Dongling.

Furthermore, who were those black-robed men in the ruined temple? Why did they want to destroy his soul? And who was the Taoist priest who appeared at the end? It seemed as if this Taoist priest had caused his strange dream.

For the first time in Chu Yuncang's life, there were so many questions. It was also the first time that he discovered that there were so many enemies and dangers all around him.

He rubbed his temples, calmed down, and formulated a new action plan that only he knew.

On the second day, the shadow guard disguised as the prince led the guards of the prince's mansion and set off as planned.

Chu Yuncang, Xie Tingyu, and a team of shadow guards, disguised as students on a study tour, are already on their way...