Forced to be a third person: I turned around and left the palace to marry a villain

I had originally planned to get rid of Jiang Xue in one fell swoop today, but it seems my plan has failed.

"Your Majesty, since His Royal Highness and the Princess have obeyed your wishes and demonstrated their attitude, it seems that this rumor is really just nonsense."

Su Ming turned around and spoke respectfully to Emperor Beiling.

If it were someone else, if such a big thing was ruined, they would have been so angry that they would have wanted to kill someone, but Su Ming was just an ordinary person.

If the plan is disrupted, it is disrupted. He has plenty of backup plans, so why rush?

"Ah... well... the Prime Minister is right." Emperor Beiling finally came back to his senses and nodded in agreement, but his mind was already wandering.

"Since Xiaoxue has proved her innocence, can I take her away now?" Xiao Zhan was not asking at all. He had no intention of waiting for Emperor Beiling's consent. He just bowed to the Queen Mother and left Xuchen Palace with Jiang Xue in his arms.

"Fourth brother..." Looking at his figure holding Jiang Xue and leaving resolutely, Xiao Yun's heart skipped a beat and a sense of uneasiness quietly rose.

"What did you say? Xiao Zhan killed Liuli in the hall?" In a remote house in the south of the city, Jun Li was furious and overturned the desk in anger.

The inkstone fell and damaged the table.

Baimian endured the pain on his forehead, wiped the blood from his eyes, looked up and said to Jun Li: "Your Highness, you can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a lamb. Liuli's death can just intensify the conflict between Princess Changle and Prince Gong. Xiaochun's martial arts being abolished has already caused a rift between them. Adding today's incident, Princess Changle will definitely be completely desperate about Prince Gong."

Bai Mian had anticipated this step from the moment he asked those noble ladies to spread rumors. He wanted to use Liuli's death to completely destroy the trust between Jiang Xue and Xiao Zhan.

After listening to this analysis, Jun Li gradually calmed down. After thinking about it, he felt that Baimian's words made sense.

For Xiaoxue, watching the person she loves hurt the people she cares about again and again is something she cannot accept in her life.

Humph, Xiao Zhan, I want to see how you will face Xiao Xue in the future.

At the same time, in Prince Gong's Mansion, Jiang Xue was lying on the bed with a painful look on her face.

Her fingers were rubbing the corner of her clothes anxiously, and her beautiful eyebrows were twisted into the shape of the Chinese character "川".

"Your Highness, what happened to the princess?" Fu Dong saw blood at the corner of her mouth and hurriedly took a hot towel to wipe it for her.

Xiao Zhan remained silent, standing by the bed, his eyes deep and complex, his mind in a mess, and he had no idea how to face Xiaoxue when she woke up.

He could see that Xiaoxue had special feelings for the child.

As for Liuli, Xiao Zhan had also been keeping a close eye on her for a long time. Ever since he found the scar on Xiaoxue's arm in her room last time, he had his men investigate her background. It turned out that this child was from Xichen and had been trained as a secret guard since she was a child.

Xichen's secret guards were actually lurking in Prince Gong's mansion and approached Xiaoxue.

Xiao Zhan smelled a conspiracy.

This child cannot be left behind.

After learning Liuli's true identity, he made this decision in his mind.

Apart from the identity issue, he admitted that when he saw the face that was extremely similar to Xiaoxue and Junli, ripples of jealousy arose in his heart.

Xiaoxue had told him stories from the past in detail. He knew that Xiaoxue in the story had a daughter with Jun Li. Although he had never seen what the child looked like, from Xiaoxue's attitude towards Liuli, it was not difficult for him to guess that the daughter who was brutally killed by Jun Li in the story looked very similar to Liuli.

Whenever he saw Liuli, he would think of her entanglement with Jun Li in the story. As a husband and as a man, how could he not feel a little jealous?

So in the hall, when he held Xiaoxue's hand and ended the child's life, to be honest, he felt a sense of relief.

"Tieyi, sort out all of that girl's things and take them to the yard to burn them." After a long silence, Xiao Zhan ordered that all traces of Liuli be completely wiped out.

That girl is Xichen's secret guard. If any hidden dangers are left behind, everyone in Prince Gong's mansion will be implicated.

So, anything that belongs to her will not be kept.

"Stop!" Just as Tieyi was searching for something as ordered, Jiang Xue's weak voice came from the bed.

Despite the unbearable pain in her chest, she struggled to get up, and with anger in her eyes, she staggered forward, trying to snatch Liuli's relics from Tieyi, but was caught in Xiao Zhan's arms.

"You are weak, you need to rest well." Her hands were cold and her whole body was shaking, and she didn't know whether she was angry or in pain.

Xiao Zhan saw it and felt pain in his heart. He gently coaxed her to lie down and rest.

But Jiang Xue just glanced at him coldly, and her eyes were like a knife, piercing deeply into Xiao Zhan's heart.

He was too familiar with that cold, distant and heartless look, which only appeared when facing an enemy.

But now, Xiaoxue is looking at me with this look...

"Let go." Her words and eyes were as cold as a winter wind.

The arms around her stiffened slightly, but did not loosen as she requested.

"Let go." With a roar, Jiang Xue finally exploded all the anger accumulated in her heart.

She tried her best to push Xiao Zhan away and break free from his restraints. She tried hard to hold back the tears from her red and swollen eyes, and bit her lower lip until it bled.

Just now in her dream, she repeatedly dreamed of herself killing Liuli. The pain was like being skinned alive.

"Why?" she demanded, her voice trembling violently.

He knew how much she cared about the child, and he could have avoided the fatal blow, but he held her hand and inserted the knife into the vital part.

"That child must die." Xiao Zhan replied.

Her existence has become a threat to Xiaoxue, and he cannot let her survive.

"But she is my..." Before she could finish the word "child", Xiao Zhan interrupted her sharply: "She is just a maid."

The palace is different now than before. Xiao Yan's eyes and ears are everywhere. Her every word and action may be captured and she may become a new target of attack. Xiaoxue has lost her mind because of Liuli, so he has to use his anger to remind her of the severity of reality.

Although she understood that he was hinting that walls had ears, Jiang Xue was completely overwhelmed by sadness at this moment and had no time to care about anything else.

He took a deep breath, swallowed the fishy taste in his mouth, and said to Xiao Zhan weakly with a voice as hoarse as a broken gong: "I'm really exhausted. I need to lie down for a while. Please ask those people to leave."

When Tieyi and the others heard this, they stopped what they were doing, saw Xiao Zhan sigh, raised his hand and made a gesture to retreat, and everyone retreated obediently.

"Fudong, you stay first too."

Fu Dong was stunned. Seeing his princess looking exhausted both physically and mentally, although he felt distressed, he could only bow and quietly retreat.

As soon as Fu Dong left, Jiang Xue felt like a deflated ball and almost fell to the ground.

Fortunately, Xiao Zhan was quick-witted and held her in place.