My best friend is wearing a double body! Marry the emperor! Help me win the throne

Murong Che put his hands behind his back and remained silent for a long time before he whispered his conjecture, "If these children are not dead, they should have found a way to escape. However, in the past few years, the government has never received any reports of children escaping, and none of the people who lost their children have found them. Therefore, I think the possibility of them being alive is extremely small."

"If the perpetrator only wanted to kill these children, wouldn't he have just killed them on the spot? Why go through all the trouble of kidnapping them first?" Xue Youli thought about it and leaned towards the latter hypothesis. "I think it's more likely that the children are alive."

[Since Murong Ye is the one behind this, he must have a bigger plan for capturing these children! But what exactly is his plan?]

[He wasn't planning to lock these children up together, letting them fight each other, so that only one would emerge alive? And this surviving child would become his most loyal weapon, assassinating those who stood against him.]

wrong!

Xue Youli changed his mind and rejected his own guess on the spot.

The missing children have a wide age range. If a teenager were to fight a child of a few years old, the child wouldn't be able to withstand even a single blow. Furthermore, it's too late to start training a killer now.

To train a child from a weakling to a killer requires not only a great deal of effort and training, but also a tremendous investment of time. Murong Ye probably doesn't have the patience to wait for ten or eight years.

[Besides this, there's only one possibility left. Did he... No! Impossible! Murong Ye is the male protagonist after all, he wouldn't do something so cruel and disgusting!]

Xue Youli suddenly remembered that before she entered the novel, Chu Xinyue once told her about a piece of news from abroad that shocked the world.

No, no, no! She must be overthinking it!

No matter how evil the protagonist in a novel is, he would never do such a cruel thing!

Murong Che listened to her conflicted and contradictory thoughts and couldn't help but wonder what she was planning? What was this madness?

"Ali, why do you think the child is more likely to be alive?"

Xue Youli hesitated for a moment and did not answer his question directly. Instead, he thought of the key point that could prove his conjecture. "Your Majesty, tomorrow I will trouble you to ask the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple to see if they have portraits of the missing children."

Murong Che raised his eyebrows and asked her in confusion, "What do you want the child's portrait for?"

Xue Youli replied, "Only after I have seen the portrait can I confirm whether my guess is correct."

I hope my guess is wrong, and I also hope those children are not too good-looking.

When Murong Che heard her inner thoughts, his expression changed.

He vaguely guessed what Murong Ye wanted to do with these children.

During the reign of the previous emperor, princes and nobles lived a luxurious life, and many of them kept male prostitutes in their homes in pursuit of excitement.

After he ascended the throne, he severely punished this group of people. He thought that the evil trends had been eliminated long ago, but he didn't expect that some people were still doing these shameful things behind the scenes!

"Tomorrow I will request a collection of portraits of missing children from both the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Court."

"Okay." Xue Youli responded, paused, and looked up at the man again, "Your Majesty, do you want hypnosis today?"

Murong Che shook his head, "No, you've been working hard these past few days, go to bed early today."

During the days of the autumn hunting trip to Longshou Mountain, he knew that Xue Youli was very particular about her bed and didn't sleep well every night, so he wanted her to have a good rest tonight.

"Your Majesty, besides entertaining the Nanzhao envoys, also has to handle state affairs every day. You are the one who is truly burdened. I cannot share your worries, but I certainly cannot hold you back."

Xue Youli didn't feel sleepy at all. Instead, she thought of something else. "Oh, by the way, haven't the two princesses of Nanzhao chosen their ideal husbands yet?"

Murong Che replied, "Not yet. After all, this is a lifelong event, and both princesses want to be cautious. So I promised to give them another half month. Perhaps someone among the princes and ministers in the capital will be able to catch their eye."

"Your Majesty is wise."

Half a month is enough time for the puppet poison to break out.

Once the puppet poison invades Lan Zheng's brain, she will become a living dead.

It is better not to harm the young talents of Jiuzhou.

"The two princesses of Nanzhao have high standards. If they can find satisfactory husbands, I will help them find their ideal husbands. If they don't like the men of Jiuzhou, then I won't force them to stay."

"It's because of the emperor's benevolence, otherwise Lan Zheng and Lan Luo, as princesses of the defeated country, would have no choice. It's the king of Nanzhao who didn't teach his two daughters well about the marriage. He wasn't sincere at all." After muttering, Xue Youli climbed directly onto the bed.

However, after she lay down, she was still thinking about Murong Ye and the missing child.

Murong Che listened to her noisy voice and simply pulled her into his arms, "Okay, I'm tired, let's go to sleep."

"Ah."

Xue Youli agreed, but actually couldn't sleep at all.

She stayed up until the early morning, then quickly summoned the Book of Heaven's Secrets.

[Where were those children imprisoned by Murong Ye? ]

When she was chatting with Murong Che, she didn't dare to think about the worst, but when she was lying in bed, the more she thought about it, the clearer her mind became, and she came to a conclusion in her heart.

After the Book of Secrets came online again, four large characters appeared on the page: [In Xunhuan Tower.]

Pleasure House?

Just from the name, it doesn't sound like a serious place.

Xue Youli asked again: [Where is Xunhuanlou? What kind of place is it?]

The Secret Book states: [Xun Huan Lou is located on the capital's busiest red-light district, a renowned den of illicit entertainment. It is owned by the imperial censor Tang Renyi, but a large portion of Xun Huan Lou's earnings go into Murong Ye's pocket.]

Xue Youli: [What about those missing children? What did Murong Ye do with them?]

Book of Heavenly Secrets: [They all became tools for Murong Ye to make money.]

it is as expected!

Even though Xue Youli had guessed the result long ago, when he saw the answer in the Book of Heaven's Secrets, he was still so angry that he wanted to tear Murong Ye apart with his bare hands.

This scumbag!

We must get him offline as soon as possible!

She was angrily thinking about how to tell Murong Che the whereabouts of the missing child tomorrow.

As she got more and more angry, her eyelids became heavier and heavier, and she slowly fell asleep.

Lying on the outside of the large bed, Murong Che listened to the light and steady breathing of the person in his arms and gently poked her arm twice. "Ali? Ali?"

Seeing that she was sleeping soundly, Murong Che lifted the quilt and got out of bed quietly.

After he put on his clothes, he walked out of the bedroom, bypassed the eunuch who was patrolling the courtyard, and entered the empty side hall next to it.

Knock knock knock!

Murong Che walked to the window of the side hall and knocked three times on the windowsill, neither light nor heavy.

Soon, a black figure appeared outside the window as fast as lightning.

When the black shadow landed on the ground, there was no sound at all, which shows the exquisiteness of his lightness skills.

"emperor!"

The visitor Xuan Ming, upon meeting Murong Che's gaze, immediately bowed his head in greeting.

"Do something for me."

Murong Che said succinctly, "I need you to go to Xunhuan Tower tonight."

"Xunhuan Tower?" Xuan Ming thought he had misheard.

In the capital, every man knows Xunhuanlou.

The girls there are more beautiful and charming than those in other brothels.

However, not just anyone can enter Xunhuan Tower. If you want to enter the gate of Xunhuan Tower, you must first pay fifty taels of wine and drinks.

"I'm not asking you to go in and have some fun. Recently, many children have disappeared in the capital without explanation. Some people suspect that those children are hidden in Xunhuan Tower. You should secretly investigate whether the missing children are being held in Xunhuan Tower."

"Yes!"