Help! I just woke up and was stabbed by a big kid

Qin Zhaoyue woke up from her dream.

He seemed to have had a very horrible dream. In the dream, on his wedding night, Lu Tianyun stabbed him, and Gu Xu wanted to kill him in the East Palace. Xiao Xuzi also...

He raised his hand, wanting to call Xiao Xuzi to come over and serve him, but suddenly he saw the tattered gauze curtain above his head, and the pain on his face brought his consciousness back to reality.

Everything that happened last night suddenly flooded into his mind.

Qin Zhaoyue's pupils trembled and he moved his body with difficulty, but he felt a piercing pain in his abdomen.

"Your Highness!" Someone entered the tent.

Lu Tianyun seemed to have been guarding outside all the time. There was a slight dark tint under his eyes, and the urgency in his eyes could not be faked.

"...Lu Tianyun?" Qin Zhaoyue's mind was confused for a moment.

Is this person real or fake?

The "Lu Tianyun" who had lost his memory and spoke incoherently had been lurking in the East Palace for too long, and he could no longer tell whether the person in front of him was real or fake.

"Your Highness, it's me." Lu Tianyun tried to smile: "This is my base outside the city. We are safe now."

"You..." Qin Zhaoyue opened his mouth and asked, "You are outside the city, why do you have a base?"

"It's like this... Your Highness." Lu Tianyun said, "I just arrived in Luoyang, and I first went to look for my relatives at home, but I found some people around the Lu family who seemed to be spies. I felt it was not good, so I first found a contact person in Luoyang. He was very surprised to see me, and said that Lu Tianyun was found together with General Yu Hu three years ago, and now he lives in the East Palace to recuperate."

Lu Tianyun said, "I wanted to send a letter to the palace to warn His Highness, but I was afraid that there might be other spies in the East Palace, which would expose my existence. So I took advantage of the wedding last night and took my friend's badge to the palace. I wanted to meet His Highness, but I didn't expect to run into such a scene."

"Don't worry, Your Highness. I have treated your injuries. The bleeding from the wounds on your waist and abdomen has stopped, and it looks like your internal organs are not injured." Lu Tianyun reported the good news to him.

Looking at the prince whom he met again after a long absence, Lu Tianyun's eyes became a little red.

This matter is really too big.

The prince was assassinated and fled, and until now, there has been no news around Luoyang City. Everything is going on as usual, as if everything that happened last night was just a dream, a dream that only he and His Royal Highness the Prince knew about... But now the crown prince has ended up in such a small, dilapidated courtyard, which is unreasonable.

Lu Tianyun felt that he was not even a little shocked.

It seemed that the man in the black robe was the instigator of everything. Who was he? Lu Tianyun was even deeply worried that his family would be taken hostage by that man to force him to hand over Qin Zhaoyue?

If this is the case, he... can only do what is right.

Qin Zhaoyue looked away, not wanting to reveal the emotions in her eyes to Lu Tianyun.

"You...what have you been through in the past three years?" Qin Zhaoyue asked. It was not out of concern for her childhood friend, but an eagerness to verify.

He doesn't trust anyone now.

Lu Tianyun's expression was a bit complicated. "It's been so long, I can't remember the details clearly. General Yu and I were seriously injured at the time, and when we woke up, we were in a dungeon. It was very dark in the dungeon, and someone was doing something to me. Now I think they were probably making a human skin mask in my image."

"We were tortured, but we were only asked about trivial details, not anything important about Your Highness. Three years passed like this, and we were moved to a different place several times. Finally, they relaxed their guards a while ago, and I found a chance to escape."

"Oh, General Yu and I were detained not too long before we were separated. Your Highness, General Yu..." Lu Tianyun wanted to ask about Yu Hu's whereabouts.

Qin Zhaoyue asked again: "How did you find me last night?"

Lu Tianyun was startled: "When I entered the palace last night, the wedding banquet had already ended. I was worried about the spies in the palace, so I avoided people. I met a eunuch on the road, and he showed me the way."

"And then?" Qin Zhaoyue's expression remained unchanged.

"Then, I found the courtyard and saw someone guarding the gate, so I jumped onto the wall." Lu Tianyun said, "Just then I saw the man raising his sword to stab Your Highness, so I threw the dagger and got close to him. Your Highness knows what happened next."

Qin Zhaoyue asked, "How did we get out of the capital? Didn't you meet the imperial guards when you left the palace?"

Lu Tianyun was stunned.

His expression immediately turned strange. "That's right. The situation was urgent last night, but I didn't notice this... At that time, I took Your Highness with me, and only wanted to escape from the surveillance of this group of people as soon as possible. We left the palace and the city unhindered, and went out of the city through a small road in the northern suburbs. On the way, there was no imperial guard except the pursuers. Your Highness, I'm afraid..."

Lu Tianyun thought carefully and did not notice the deep doubt in Qin Zhaoyue's eyes.

"During the past three years, Tianyun has been thinking over and over in prison and found that the assassination that caused the three of us to be separated was originally a trap set against Your Highness." Lu Tianyun said, "Your Highness, how did you rescue the fake Lu Tianyun and General Yu?"

Qin Zhaoyue did not answer.

An idea quickly formed in his mind - it seemed that he had escaped Gu Xu's surveillance, but in fact he was still in the trap.

This is still Gu Xu’s plan!

He stared at the tent above his head and raised his hand to touch his cheek. It was covered with a thick layer of dry cloth, so the pain was not too obvious.

Since Gu Xu wanted revenge, why did he scratch his face?

This move must have a profound meaning.

It wasn't because of his appearance, why did he act like this? The hatred in Gu Xu's eyes didn't seem fake, why didn't he take action, why didn't that fake Lu Tianyun kill him?

He was completely defenseless against the impostor and could easily have slashed his neck right there and then.

They deliberately let him escape from the capital!

Qin Zhaoyue's pupils trembled. He no longer looked at Lu Tianyun, but Lu Tianyun continued to ask, "Your Highness, who is that person? Was all this...his doing?"

Lu Tianyun was very anxious.

His Highness seemed to have suffered a great blow, his face looked so bad that Lu Tianyun had never seen him show such an expression. He therefore stopped asking questions and just half-knelt quietly beside the couch, waiting for Qin Zhaoyue's order.

"Lu Tianyun." Qin Zhaoyue said.

"I'm here." Lu Tianyun replied quickly.

"Today is already the second day?"

"Yes, Your Highness."

"What's going on in the capital?" Qin Zhaoyue asked coldly.

"There is no movement in the capital... I am also finding it strange. If the crown prince is missing, the entire city's imperial guards should have been dispatched to search for him. Why is everything normal?" Lu Tianyun said, "Your Highness, why don't I go into the city to see what is going on. According to the theory, you got married yesterday, even the Crown Princess should have noticed something was wrong..."

"No need." Qin Zhaoyue said.