After rebirth, the eldest princess dotes on her husband

"Princess, your engagement with the prince has been cancelled. Who else in the capital would marry you? I am willing to be your concubine. What else do you want?"

"Snapped!"

Yun Shuyue slapped Lu Jinnian again with her backhand, "Your bed-warming maid has made me unhappy. As the regent princess, there are many men who want to marry me, and you are not the only one."

Bai Wan'er's face immediately turned red with anger. She actually said that she was a bed warmer?

"Yun Shuyue, don't go too far!"

"Pa" another slap.

After three slaps, Lu Jinnian's face was swollen like a pig's head.

Yun Shuyue shook her numb palms and said, "You are so shameless. My palms are hurt from hitting you."

"Yun Shuyue, give me your life!"

Yun Shuyue frowned slightly and glanced at the assassins who suddenly appeared in the princess's mansion. She felt sleepy and was handed a pillow. How wonderful.

Changli and Changfeng quickly stood in front of her and looked at the assassin warily.

"Yingguan was unable to kill you, and I was just worried, and you guys came to me on your own accord."

"Stop talking nonsense and take your life!"

Yun Shuyue put two fingers close to her lips and whistled, and the secret guards came out in full force.

The palace was filled with swords and blood, while those passing by outside could only hear the heart-wrenching cries for help.

Bai Wan'er had been hiding in Lu Jinnian's arms, "Your Majesty, Wan'er is so scared..."

Yun Shuyue drew the sword from her waist and rushed into the crowd, chopping off the assassin's head, and the blood stained her mourning clothes red.

An assassin seized the opportunity and pointed the hidden weapon in his sleeve at Yun Shuyue. Bai Wan'er saw it clearly and decided to kill her, let her die. As long as she died, nothing would happen and she could be the Regent Princess in peace.

"master!"

Chang Li didn't have time to think before he stepped in front of her. Before the assassin could shoot the hidden weapon, Ying Yi's sword pierced her heart.

Yun Shuyue gave Yingyi a look, and Yingyi raised his sword and attacked Lu Jinnian. The other secret guards dealt with the assassin and stabbed at Lu Jinnian in unison.

The tendons in Lu Jinnian's hands were cut, and Ying Yi swung his sword, cutting the carotid artery in his neck. Within an incense stick of time, all the people brought by Lu Jinnian fell to the ground and died.

Upon hearing the noise, the Jinwu Guards rushed to the princess's mansion and pushed open the door. Yun Shuyue was standing in the yard covered in blood, with the sword in her hand still dripping with blood. The secret guards surrounded her. There were corpses with their heads and bodies separated lying all over the ground, and it was impossible to tell which head was a pair with which body.

"We are late in escorting you, please forgive me, Princess."

"The regent colluded with the remnants of the Yan Kingdom to assassinate me. I have executed him on the spot. The city gates are sealed and no one is allowed to enter or leave. Everyone in the palace is imprisoned and awaits their fate."

"Yes."

The commander of the Jinwu Guard left some people to guard the princess's mansion, and went into the palace to report the matter truthfully. Another part of the people helped the guards in the mansion deal with the corpse.

Yun Shuyue was not injured at all, the blood on her body was all from other people. She took a bath, changed her clothes, had lunch and took a nap in the bedroom.

She had prepared everything she needed to say and do, it just depended on how the person in the palace would handle it.

In the evening, someone came from the palace and asked her to come in.

imperial study room

"My son, I would like to send my regards to my father."

Yun Min twisted his Buddhist beads and opened his eyes when he heard the words. "Get up, I have heard about the matter. I have also sent people to the Regent's Palace. In the secret compartment of his study, we found the letters between him and the Crown Prince of Yan. The evidence is solid, and with Pei Si as a witness, he cannot deny it. But the Bai family..."

"It is better to kill someone by mistake than to let one go. Lord Bai favors his concubine over his wife and fails to educate his daughter properly. He deserves to be punished."

Yun Min took a sip of tea and said, "Let me think about it. You have made great contributions this time. What kind of reward do you want?"

Yun Shuyue pondered for a moment, "I want to build a ground dragon, but my body is seriously damaged, and the weather in the capital is cold..."

"Alright, but you'll have to pay for it yourself."

"My dear father, I thank you."

"Go visit your mother when you have time. She misses you very much."

"I will definitely go to visit you, mother."

"Go back."

"My son, please retire."

After Yun Shuyue left the palace, she returned home and asked her housekeeper to arrange the construction of an underground dragon. According to her instructions, it would connect her bedroom, study, and Wutong Garden.

Yun Shuyue didn't want to build an underground dragon in Wutong Garden, but her intuition told her that it didn't matter where else in the mansion, except Wutong Garden.

"Master, the wind is strong near the window, please put on more clothes."

Yun Shuyue sat leaning against the window frame, "Find a random excuse to kill Luzhu, peel off her skin and make a human skin drum, and send it to the Queen."

Chang Li's heart trembled. What drum? A human skin drum! Who is it for? Empress Sun! Did she hear it right?

"Do you have any objection?"

"No, I will arrange it right away."

Green Bamboo: So, after restarting so many times, I still can’t avoid the fate of being exposed?

The next morning at the court, Yun Shuyue took leave to recuperate on the grounds of feeling unwell, and dealt with Lu Jinnian and others.

"At the morning court today, His Majesty punished Lord Bai with thirty strokes of the cane, a three-year salary fine, and house arrest for three months, and he was not allowed to leave the house without being summoned," Chang Li served her food. "As for Lu Jinnian, his corpse was whipped three hundred times and thrown into a mass grave. I have burned his body to ashes according to your instructions."

Yun Shuyue picked up the carrot in the bowl and said, "A man who has changed his mind is just like this carrot. It makes me sick just by looking at it. Tell the kitchen staff not to make it again."

"Yes."

"Has the human-skin drum been delivered?"

"It has been sent. The Queen seems to like it very much."

"As long as she likes it."

After recuperating in the mansion for a few days, Yun Shuyue returned to the court, went back and forth among the ministers, secretly cultivated her own power, and placed her own people in the court.

In the summer of the following year, Nanxi was hit by a flood. Marquis Yongping was ordered to go to Nanxi to control the flood, but he embezzled the relief money. The local prefect wrote a memorial to the court, and the emperor was furious. He ordered Yun Shuyue to personally lead people to raid his house. Everyone in the marquis's mansion was executed the following autumn.

"Why is there one person missing?" Yun Shuyue flipped through the roster, "Are you sure everyone in the Marquis' Mansion was there that night?"

"I am sure," Chang Li nodded, "No one is allowed to enter or leave the Marquis' Mansion. Even a mosquito is not allowed in by the guards."

Yun Shuyue walked up to the second wife of Yongping Marquis and said, "Who is missing? Madam, do you remember? If you don't speak, your precious son will suffer."

"Shen Yici! He is the child of the Marquis and his first wife, and he is being raised in a farm in the countryside. I'm telling you everything. Let my son go. He is only twelve years old. Don't hurt him."

"I remember now. She is the second wife of Yongping Marquis. Yongping Marquis's previous wife was from a merchant family. The little prince she gave birth to had his brain damaged when he was three years old. Yongping Marquis felt that he was a disgrace, so he sent him to a farm in the countryside to be raised."

"Shen Yici..." Yun Shuyue curled her lips slightly, "Since they are a family, they must be reunited. Which farm is he in?"

Sun gave an address and Yun Shuyue led people there.

"Master, I will just come here. You don't have to come in person."

Yun Shuyue glanced at her and asked, "Do you have any objection?"