Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 410 The mantis stalks the cicada

After the emperor left, Yizhen and Prince Ming chatted with Ji Anni instead.

But Prince Ming still had to attend classes, so after lunch, Hua Rong sent him back to Wenhua Courtyard.

Yizhen and Ji Anni continued to talk about the past, which made Ji Anni gradually regain her personality. Her mind was no longer just filled with memories of Zhao Ji. With Ji Anni's memories, her actions and demeanor, based on Zhao Ji, had a bit of Ji Anni's own style, so Yizhen did not notice Ji Anni's subtle transformation.

After listening to Yizhen's description of her life in the palace, Ji Anni's eyes widened, "So I'm so powerful?"

I simply don't believe that I have done so many outrageous things. Whether it was teaching the princess a lesson, visiting the demon-suppressing temple at night, or even breaking into the execution ground... Maybe, there are still some vague memories of that time in my memory; I believe it, but it is a little hard to accept it rationally.

"Why did I go to the execution ground?" Ji Anni asked.

Yizhen said, "It was to save the Imperial Master. At that time, the Imperial Master's affair with Concubine Baogui was discovered and the Imperial Master was sentenced to death. But you grabbed a horse and chased him all the way to the execution ground. Strangely enough, after that, many strange things happened at the execution ground. For some reason, the Queen Mother pardoned the Imperial Master."

"Is that so..." Ji Anni's mood gradually became heavy, and she vaguely recalled the scene at that time.

The despair, anger, desperate determination and last-ditch effort were awakened from the depths of memory.

The Imperial Master, it's him again... He is indeed a special person...

"Yizhen, did anything happen between me and the Imperial Master? Why do I always feel that... he is a very special existence to me..." Although she knew that this way of asking would cause Yizhen to have bad associations, other than that, Ji Anni didn't know how to describe the wonderful feeling in her heart.

Yizhen thought for a moment and replied, "Xiao Zhao, the Imperial Master treats you very well, and you also rely on him."

"Is that all?" Ji Anni always felt that her relationship with Yun Zhen was not as simple as Yizhen said.

Yizhen suddenly changed the subject: "Xiao Zhao, what was the argument between you and the emperor just now? Why did he suddenly grab you?"

She seemed to care about Long Mohan very much. When she mentioned Long Mohan, her expression became different from usual and she seemed very nervous.

"I don't know what happened, he suddenly asked me if I was Soji, as if he didn't know me."

"What's wrong with the emperor..." Yizhen let out a long sigh.

"Yizhen, you really care about the emperor."

Ji Anni's words obviously had no deep meaning, but they frightened Yizhen. She hurriedly explained: "Xiao Zhao, I absolutely have no other thoughts about the emperor..."

Such a hasty explanation made her seem a little guilty. Ji Anni couldn't help but guess that Yizhen had some feelings for the emperor.

The strange thing is that she was not jealous at all. Instead, she wanted to create opportunities for Yizhen and the emperor to meet.

Then she thought about it again and remembered that she was also the emperor's woman, and she even had a son. There was no reason for her to remain indifferent after knowing that another woman had fallen in love with her husband. What on earth was going on...

"Yizhen, do the emperor and I... have a good relationship?" Ji Anni was worried that she might not like Long Mohan at all.

Today, I listened to Long Mohan talk about many happy memories between the two of them. I also remember the sweet feeling of being in love, but... it always feels strange, as if those sweet memories and the illusion of love were forced into my memory.

Yizhen was stumped by Ji Anni's question. She thought for a while and said, "If it's good, you are not inseparable; if it's bad, you are in love with each other. I don't know, but... before I met the emperor, I was curious about what kind of person the emperor was, and I asked you, and you said..."

"What did I say?" Ji Anni was eager to know what I said.

"You see... the emperor is not a bad person. He is just like a stone on the side of the road. His presence is too weak. If you see him, you see him. If you don't see him, you don't see him."

"Ah?" Ji Anni couldn't help laughing. How could she compare the emperor to a stone?

"You also said... the emperor is a lonely person. Maybe what he needs is not someone to sleep with him, but someone who can be sincere to him, someone who won't make him feel lonely." Yizhen's expression gradually became serious. She had always kept Ji Anni's unintentional words firmly in her heart.

"Now that Yizhen has met the emperor, what do you think of him?"

"I won't say anything. If I praise the emperor too much, Xiao Zhao, you will be jealous. If you say bad things about the emperor, your crime will be even greater."

Ji Anni thought about it and decided not to force her.

"But..." Yizhen hesitated for several times before finally whispering, "Xiao Zhao, don't blame me if I'm wrong. No matter how the emperor treats you, just from your attitude towards the emperor, I think... you probably don't like the emperor very much..."

A sentence that Ji Anni could not refute, but she had not dared to admit before.

"I don't love the emperor, I don't love him..." Ji Anni murmured to herself, her thoughts a little confused.

It seems like she loves him, but also like she doesn't. In her heart, the emperor and the imperial teacher occupy almost the same space.

If you love the emperor, why can't you let go of the imperial teacher? If you don't love him, why do you have so many beautiful memories with the emperor?

As she thought about it, Ji Anni's head started to hurt again.

Yizhen saw that Ji Anni's face was a little pale, and she stroked the back of her hand worriedly and asked, "Xiao Zhao, what's wrong? Is everything okay? It's all my fault. I shouldn't have said anything nonsense and made you upset."

Ji Anni showed a bitter smile, "Don't blame you, blame me... blame myself..."

She actually fell in love with two men at the same time.

As night fell, the Kang Mansion was shrouded in heavy darkness.

In a secluded courtyard in the Kang Mansion, the tall trees cast shadows that almost completely blocked out the sky.

The pale moonlight fell silently on the ground, leaving behind faint white spots.

Everything was silent, a good time to fall asleep, but suddenly a dark shadow jumped out from the darkness!

A dark shadow pushed the window open and broke into the room where Princess Tianning was.

Without any unnecessary movements, the black shadow walked straight to the bed where the princess was sleeping, opened the curtain, and raised the dagger in his hand.

With a "swish" sound, the white blade pierced into the protruding part of the bed!

As soon as he made his move, the assassin realized that the touch was not right and was about to withdraw his hand, but when he looked up, he felt a chill on his neck.

I took a quick glance out of the corner of my eye and there was no doubt that the coldness pressing against my neck was the blade of a sword.

"Don't move, put the knife down." The man holding the sword ordered in a voice as calm as dead water. The tone was not high, but it carried an irresistible majesty and suppressed anger.

"Why do you want to kill the princess?" The sword-bearer tightened his grip on the sword. The moonlight from the window fell on his face. He was Kang Xiaorong.

"Don't you want to see who I am?" The assassin had no intention of resisting. He threw away the dagger as if resigned to his fate and turned to face Kang Xiaorong.

"I know who you are." The implication was that there was no need to look, but Kang Xiaorong's tone remained very calm.

Having said that, Kang Xiaorong raised his wrist slightly and used the tip of his sword to gently remove the black veil covering the assassin's face.

After seeing the assassin's face clearly, he was not surprised at all. Instead, he felt a sense of "as expected".

"Liuguang." Kang Xiaorong couldn't believe that he could calmly pronounce his name at this moment.

"How did you find out?" Liuguang didn't know where he had revealed his identity, which made Kang Xiaorong wary.

"Because after knowing there were two princesses, you were not surprised at all, as if you had known it in advance. Moreover, you didn't care about Tianning's experience at all, but were more concerned about how I would deal with the fake princess in the palace. Apart from the fact that you had contact with the fake princess, I don't know how else to explain it." Kang Xiaorong pointed the tip of the sword at Liuguang's throat. With just a little force, he could take the other's life.

Even though his life was completely controlled by Kang Xiaorong, Liuguang was not panicked at all. He still had a cynical smile on his face, and it was unclear whether he had a plan to escape or was just bluffing.

"Xiaorong, don't be impulsive. Put down the sword first and let's talk slowly. Aren't you curious why I want to kill the princess?" Liuguang sat on the edge of the bed and spoke in a deliberately relaxed tone as if inviting Kang Xiaorong to have tea.

"No matter what the reason, I will never forgive you." Kang Xiaorong remained calm.

"I don't want to defend myself, I just want to explain the facts to you. Tian Ning and I have no grudges, but I must kill her because she is a descendant of the Long family, and is the lineage that will be killed by the Mountain Ghost Clan. If she doesn't die, the riot of the Anti-Imperial Society will not be quelled. I must take her life in order to give an explanation to the Anti-Imperial Society."

"So it was you who planned it, it was you who planned it all! It was you who disrupted the wedding and kidnapped the princess!" Kang Xiaorong had to use up all his calmness in his life to control himself from stabbing. He knew that the Liu family was the descendant of the mountain ghost tribe, but he didn't expect that the Liu family would collude with the anti-imperialists.

"It was my plan, but that's why you didn't become a royal consort. Shouldn't you thank me? Do you really want to marry her?" Liuguang sneered, with a cold light in his gloomy eyes.

Kang Xiaorong's heart was as cold as ice. He used to think that Liuguang was idle and not bad by nature, but now he found that Liuguang was a devil. Kang Xiaorong shouted, "Do you know how much I regret not marrying her now? If the Anti-Imperialists hadn't disrupted the wedding, Tianning... Tianning wouldn't have ended up in a brothel! She wouldn't be like this now!"

"Oh, so that's why. No wonder she seems like a different person." Upon learning that Tian Ning had ended up in a brothel, Liuguang nodded indifferently and even yawned, almost falling asleep.

"Liuguang! You still don't repent!" Kang Xiaorong was furious and stabbed him with a sword!

Liuguang did not dodge but stood up to meet the sword.

The blade pierced straight through his shoulder and went deep enough to pierce his body.

The bright red sword blade extended from behind Liuguang, and sticky blood kept flowing along the sword.