Defeat the system! Kiss my little monster!

The treatment of Zhou Yanshu lasted for nearly three hours.

Yu Zhuo waited in his seat, occasionally getting up to look at the situation inside the inner hall before returning to his seat.

At first, Tamo was willing to linger up there, but after taking a nap, he felt exhausted and waved to the people below before leaving on his own.

“I’m tired and don’t want to wait any longer. Now that the Earl is out of danger, I’ll be leaving. As for Lin Shuang…” Tamo looked at Qi Mohan and tapped his finger on the table.

“He can’t go back on his word. I’ll give him a day. If there’s no result, he can go directly to the Ministry of Justice to receive his punishment.”

Everyone in the hall listened to Tamo's words with their heads down. Tamo walked down the steps, glanced at Yu Zhuo casually, and then rode the tortoise he had just arrived with slowly out of the hall.

"We respectfully see Your Majesty off."

Yu Zhuo spoke up with the crowd. After he finished speaking, he stood up and saw that Qi Mohan had also packed his things. He said a few words to his servant and then turned to leave.

Yu Zhuo was about to leave when he was stopped by the guards at the door: "Sir, General Lin Shuang has ordered that no one in the main hall may leave before the results are in."

Yu Zhuo was speechless. He pointed to Qi Mohan's back and asked, "Then how could he leave?"

"Qi Zuo was given His Majesty's orders and was naturally allowed to leave. But you were not." The guard's expression was indifferent.

Yu Zhu scoffed: "I can't enter the inner palace, nor can I leave the outside. What are you making me wait here for?"

The guard remained indifferent and said, "We are just following orders."

“You…” Yu Zhuo’s expression changed. He spread his hands and said, “Fine, I won’t go out either. Zhou Yanshu is out of danger, right? I’m his Alpha, I want to go in and see him.”

"I'm sorry, you can't..."

"Let him in." Another voice suddenly rang out, and the attendant paused, looking up at another soldier who was walking over.

Yu Xiangwan, holding a communication device given to him by Lin Shuang, said, "General Lin Shuang has already reached a conclusion. This matter has nothing to do with Yu Zhuo. He can go in and meet with the Earl."

The soldier frowned slightly upon hearing this. He glanced at Yu Zhuo, but ultimately stepped aside to make way for him: "Yes."

Yu Zhuo paused for more than ten seconds. He looked at Yu Xiangwan, but Yu Xiangwan didn't say a word to him. She simply gave her orders and walked into the other corridor.

Yu Zhuo watched him walk away.

The relationship between Yu Xiangwan and Yu Zhuo has always been delicate. Yu Zhuo could sense a special and strange emotion from Yu Xiangwan towards him. It was not the intimacy of brothers, but rather a vague sense of hostility and distance.

Yu Zhuo couldn't understand Yu Xiangwan's thoughts. For the past ten years or so, Yu Zhuo had rarely gone out and had not had much close communication with Yu Xiangwan or even her parents.

After his true form intruded, he had no close contact with Yu Xiangwan.

To be precise, he didn't have much contact with Yu Xiangwan. Not long after he returned, he married Zhou Yanshu and entered the mermaid realm, severing all contact with all species on land.

Yu Zhuo withdrew his gaze, and without anyone stopping him, he walked directly into the inner hall.

Zhou Yanshu was still lying on the large bed in the inner hall. Most of the doctors who had been treating him had left, leaving only the attendants responsible for recording the situation.

Yu Zhuo walked inside and gestured to the servants, "You don't need to watch over this place anymore, you can leave now."

"Yes."

After the servant left the room and closed the door, Yu Zhuo heard a slight sound and then approached Zhou Yanshu.

Zhou Yanshu lay on the bed with his eyes closed. Yu Zhuo approached him and saw that the rims of his eyes were purplish-blue, his lips were white, and they were even cracked.

Yu Zhuo sat down beside him and picked up Zhou Yanshu's hand. He was surprised to find that there were traces of poisoning under the fingernails of all ten of his hands.

That acting is truly amazing.

Yu Zhu secretly praised him. There was also a camera hanging in the corner of the room. Yu Zhu didn't say anything intimate, but simply picked up Zhou Yanshu's hand and casually rubbed his ten fingers.

Zhou Yanshu did not react. Yu Zhuo picked up his hand, which hung limply, revealing the thin bone structure of his hand.

"Zhou Yanshu?"

Yu Zhuo squeezed his palm tightly as a signal. But Zhou Yanshu still didn't react. His body was stiff on the bed, and his hands would immediately and unconsciously droop if he lost support.

"Zhou Yanshu?"

Yu Zhuo called out again, and seeing that Zhou Yanshu did not respond, he immediately sensed something was wrong.

He stood up and placed his hand on Zhou Yanshu's chest. There was a noticeable rise and fall; his heart was beating normally.

But he showed no signs of waking up, and he did not respond to the initial hints given by Yu Zhuo.

Could it be that he was ambushed by Tamer again after entering the inner sanctum?

Yu Zhuo immediately activated his system detection device. He scanned Zhou Yanshu from head to toe and vaguely sensed the fluctuations of a certain system energy within Zhou Yanshu's body.

Intermittent sounds entered Yu Zhuo's mind. Yu Zhuo frowned slightly, feeling certain fragmented memories quickly entering his mind.

Those memories were very familiar, they came from the sixteen small worlds that I had visited while trying to survive, but failed in my missions.

There are also fragments of souls struggling to survive in those small worlds, but they are not core fragments, and they failed to collect them in time due to mission failure.

...They were actually stored inside Zhou Yanshu's body?

Yu Zhuo's mind was foggy for a moment before his vision cleared. He gripped Zhou Yanshu's hand tightly and felt the fingers in his palm twitch slightly.

Zhou Yanshu hooked Yu Zhuo's palm.

Upon seeing this, Yu Zhuo immediately looked up at Zhou Yanshu. Zhou Yanshu's face was still pale, but his lips were pretending to be tight, yet they still curved upwards slightly.

Yu Zhuo: "..."

He was living in fear here, while Zhou Yanshu was still putting on a great acting performance.

Using his clothes as cover, Yu Zhuo pinched Zhou Yanshu's thigh hard in a blind spot where the camera couldn't see.

Zhou Yanshu's expression immediately crumbled. He pursed his lips tightly, keeping his eyes closed and refraining from making a sound.

Yu Zhuo breathed a sigh of relief, withdrew his hand, and heard the sound of the room door opening.

"Sir, General Lin Shuang has found the murderer. You may leave with the Earl." The servant who opened the door said respectfully to Yu Zhuo with a serious expression.

Upon hearing this, Yu Zhuo immediately stood up and asked with a frown, "Who is it?"

The attendant said, "He is an assassin who knows poisons. It is said that he was ordered to assassinate the Earl, and he has now been imprisoned by General Lin Shuang."

Yu Zhuo thought this was utter nonsense. He coughed and continued, "Do you know who ordered him to do this?"

The attendant said, "I don't know the specifics, but this assassin was on duty at Qi Mohan's house before entering the palace."