"Good-for-nothing!"
In a dark and secluded corner, a suppressed roar rang out, filled with a hint of hidden rage.
A tall man with an indistinguishable face knelt on the ground, not daring to look directly at the noble woman in front of him.
"Mad... Madam, please calm down. Since the plan has been exposed, I'm afraid the person has fallen into the hands of the dog emperor. The top priority now is to clean up the mess as soon as possible. We mustn't let..."
"Shut up!"
The woman excitedly raised her head, revealing half of her beautiful yet ferocious face in the moonlight. She said unhappily,
"What do you mean? Just let it go like this? I absolutely won't agree. I won't stop until they both die a horrible death!"
The tall man seemed to want to say something else, but the woman's crazy face interrupted his thoughts regardless.
The noble and still beautiful woman, like a goddess, suddenly bent down, holding the man's face with both hands. Her gaze softened for a moment.
"A Ning, if you don't help me, I'll have to take revenge myself. I'll personally drag them to hell with me. Otherwise, I'll die in pain. No one can help me. Will even A Ning abandon me?"
Feeling the soft fingertips on his face and the face so close, the man's heart skipped a beat.
The words of refusal and persuasion couldn't be uttered anymore. He just stared blankly at the woman with his pair of eyes.
Ripples rose in his heart lake. A long-suppressed thought surged out like a flood breaking through a dam. How could he bear to refuse or even abandon her?
The man had never thought that one day he would be so close to the noble goddess in his heart.
When he was a teenager, the noble lady who had always been out of reach in his heart, the goddess he had even had a hard time seeing, was now pleading so painfully and helplessly for him to help her.
"Okay, Shu'er, don't be anxious. I'll help you. I'll help you..."
The man only felt his heart ache. He kept agreeing and tentatively reached out his fingers to hold the woman's hand. His heart skipped a beat.
In the darkness, he didn't notice the deep disgust that flashed in those proud eyes.
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"What? She's really dead?"
Ling Shan had tossed and turned too much last night. When she woke up the next day, she was still a bit dazed.
Leaning on Jun Wuyuan's body, she didn't even open her eyes. Sleepy, she rubbed against his embrace and seemed to fall asleep again.
As she spent more time with Jun Wuyuan, Ling Shan had learned to ignore his out-of-tune inner thoughts well.
She listened to important matters and regarded unimportant flirting and inappropriate remarks as lullabies.
After several times, the effect was obvious. Ling Shan became more and more calm.
However, she didn't expect Jun Wuyuan to suddenly hold her hand and say a crucial thing in the tone of "What do you want to eat today?"
Wang Chengye, who had been kept alive by medicine in the palace, still couldn't escape the backlash of the secret medicine. He died.
This death stirred up the waves on the lake that had just calmed down.
Everyone who knew about this had a premonition that Wang Chengye would die.
However, no one had expected him to die so soon.
Especially the Queen Mother and the Grand Tutor Wang. They were very familiar with the side effects of the secret medicine. But everything got out of control after Qing Yuan died.
It should have been a night of passion, and then the person would become addicted. Until she was pregnant, the mother would die after ten months, and a new life would be born. The father would be poisoned to the bone marrow...
But the news they received was that Qing Yuan died the next day, and even Wang Chengye was on the verge of death.
This was completely different from the secret medicine they were familiar with.
In private, they invited many so - called "miracle doctors" from the folk besides the imperial physicians, but they still couldn't figure out this "secret medicine". Wang Chengye still died.
"Really dead?"
Ling Shan remembered Mrs. Xue she saw yesterday and thought that this drama might become even crazier and more wonderful.
Jun Wuyuan looked at the little girl in his arms who had been sleeping lazily with her eyes closed a moment ago but now was looking at him curiously with a pair of bright eyes.
He couldn't help but laugh and couldn't resist reaching out to pinch the tip of her nose.
"Of course it's true. Shan Shan, you should be careful in the next few days. Be careful of someone acting recklessly. Do you understand?"
[What happened last night must never happen again. It seems I still have to keep Shan Shan by my side.]
Ling Shan: "..."
Your Majesty the Tyrant, what you said makes it sound like she's some kind of thing.
Why not say something like tying her to your belt?
It was obvious that Mrs. Xue would go crazy, but she couldn't avoid it without any prior knowledge.
Seeing that Ling Shan was silent, Jun Wuyuan thought she was still thinking about the assassination last night. He quickly hugged her tighter.
Softening his voice, he coaxed, "Don't be afraid. I'll be by your side to protect you. I've added four more shadow guards. The assassins will never get close to you again. Stay by my side during the hunting."
"However, the hunting grounds for the foreign officials, the ladies, and the concubines are not in the same place. If Your Majesty takes me there, the imperial censors will scold you."
"Shan Shan can't ride or shoot. Naturally, I have to protect you well. Or does Shan Shan not want to go hunting with me?"
Jun Wuyuan didn't take those stupid rules seriously at all. He didn't give Ling Shan a chance to be scolded and directly issued an order that the monarch and his ministers could enjoy themselves together without restricting the hunting grounds.
Liang Jiusi was stunned for a moment. He really didn't understand what crazy idea his Majesty had come up with this time.
The rules of hunting had been followed since the founding of the Great Yan Dynasty.
Although the Great Yan Dynasty didn't restrict women from learning to ride and shoot, only the families of military generals and occasionally noble ladies were qualified to learn.
Hunting was for military exercises and to encourage the children of noble families to strive forward and select talents for the Great Yan Dynasty. It had always been for the ladies to amuse themselves.
It was imaginable how much of a stir this order would cause.
Strangely enough, after this order was issued, except for a few officials and noble families muttering a few words of dissatisfaction, it was surprisingly calm and accepted?
Jun Wuyuan didn't care at all. He hugged Ling Shan, kneaded her earlobe, bent down and got closer, saying in a low voice,
"Are you satisfied now? Don't be afraid. I'll take you hunting. What do you want later?"
[Rabbits? Sika deer? White foxes? Wild boars... Well, forget about this one. Shan Shan is so fond of beauty. She probably won't like it.]
Ling Shan: "..."
She always felt that Jun Wuyuan must be up to no good... But at such a crucial moment, he was still asking her what kind of prey she liked.
"Can I have anything I want?"
If you can't beat them, join them. Ling Shan suppressed her speculation in her heart and looked at Jun Wuyuan with a pair of glistening eyes.
"Of course. As long as Shan Shan wants it, I'll definitely give it to you."
Jun Wuyuan, who hadn't realized the seriousness of the problem, nodded indulgently.
Ling Shan: "Then Shan Shan wants a wild boar!"
Jun Wuyuan: "..." Huh?