After rebirth, I teamed up with the scumbag's mistress

"Oh?! What do you mean?" The emperor raised his eyebrows slightly, obviously showing some interest.

"It is rumored that the Ten Demon Lords are a famous stronghold outside the capital. Although they are an organization, how could a stronghold wear the same uniform and carry the same swords? But the people who came to assassinate the princess this time all wore the same style of night clothes and carried the same style of swords. I have reason to suspect that they are not the Ten Demon Lords." Li Jianzhang said slowly.

The emperor hesitated for a moment, "What you said makes sense, but what organization do you think it is?"

"This is obviously not a bandit like the Ten Demon Lords. I think it is either a tightly organized assassin organization or an enemy force." Li Jianzhang said slowly.

"Hmm." The emperor took a sip of tea and said slowly, "I'll leave this matter to you to investigate. Make sure you find out the whole story."

"Thank you for your trust in me, Your Majesty. I will investigate this matter thoroughly." Li Jianzhang bowed his head slightly and said respectfully.

The emperor nodded and said, "Alright, it's getting late now, you all should go down and go back to rest early."

"Yes." Everyone bowed and said goodbye and left.

Outside the palace, the carriage that was originally parked outside the hall was nowhere to be found.

It was late at night and the palace carriages were not allowed to move.

But outside the palace it was drizzling.

The princess sat on the sedan chair that had been waiting on the side. There was a huge canopy on the sedan chair to protect her from wind and rain.

The princess said rather embarrassedly: "I only have an oil-paper umbrella."

She signaled with her eyes, and the maid beside her walked up to Lu Wanqing and Li Jianzhang with the oil-paper umbrella and handed it to them.

As a result, for a moment, neither of them answered.

Finally, Li Jianzhang took the umbrella and handed it to Lu Wanqing, "You hold the umbrella. I'm fine with this little rain."

As he said that, Li Jianzhang stuffed the umbrella into Lu Wanqing's hand and walked into the rain.

Lu Wanqing hurriedly trotted a few steps and held an umbrella for Li Jianzhang.

"You're injured, how can you not hold an umbrella? The wound must not get wet. It will be troublesome if it gets infected." Lu Wanqing spoke anxiously, her words full of concern.

She paused and said softly, "Let's just share an umbrella. When we get outside the palace, we'll have a carriage."

Li Jianzhang turned his head and looked down at Lu Wanqing, his warm breath brushing across Lu Wanqing's face and ears.

Lu Wanqing only felt a tingling sensation on her cheeks and ears, which flowed through her limbs like an electric shock.

Her whole body trembled slightly for no reason.

Li Jianzhang reached for the umbrella handle, but his elbow accidentally touched something soft like a cloud. He moved away immediately.

Lu Wanqing's breath was choked, and her chest felt hot for no reason. She dodged and lost her balance, but she only took a step back and stabilized herself.

Li Jianzhang hurriedly grasped the umbrella handle, but happened to grasp a pair of white hands, which felt soft and smooth.

Lu Wanqing felt the warmth of the man's hand and her cheeks flushed slightly.

Li Jianzhang's hand, which was originally about to catch Lu Wanqing, was suspended in mid-air, but he retracted it again. His voice was a magnetic bass in the night sky, "Are you okay?"

Immediately, Li Jianzhang released his hand from hers and raised the umbrella handle, saying considerately, "Let me hold the umbrella. It's still a long way to the palace gate."

"You are injured, let me do it." Lu Wanqing said.

She lowered her head and felt her face was full of heat, which kept burning.

"It's okay, I just want to hold an umbrella." Li Jianzhang said with concern, "You were frightened today, so let me do it. You take a rest, I'm used to this kind of thing when I was in the Dali Temple."

His tone was quite nonchalant.

Lu Wanqing just felt heartbroken.

She raised her head slightly and saw that his somewhat messy hair had drooped down a few strands and was floating in the wind around his ears. His long eyelashes cast a small shadow under his eyes, and his eyes were shining like stars in the dark night.

"Have you encountered many things like this?" Lu Wanqing thought for a moment and asked.

Li Jianzhang nodded. "After all, there are many criminal cases in the Dali Temple. It is normal to arrest the murderer."

"Then... have you also blocked a knife for other... girls?" Lu Wanqing said with a red face and stammering voice.

After saying that, she mustered up her courage, raised her head slightly, and looked at Li Jianzhang's profile.

Li Jianzhang pondered for a moment, then turned to smile at her, "No, Madam Lu was the first one."

Lu Wanqing didn't dare to look him in the eye. She lowered her head helplessly and said, "Ah? Thank you."

Lu Wanqing kept replaying the scene in her mind where Li Jianzhang had just smiled and said, "No, Madam Lu is the first one."

"It is my duty to protect the princess and my wife. I believe that other colleagues in the Dali Temple will do the same."

His warm breath lingered on Lu Wanqing's head, and Lu Wanqing's face from the tips of her ears to her cheeks was burning red, and her heartbeat seemed to be beating like a drum.

In this rainy world, everything is silent, as if at this moment, there are only him and her in the world.

Lu Wanqing suddenly remembered that when they first met, Li Jianzhang said that he was so engrossed in thinking about the chess game that he accidentally bumped into her on the road and knocked off her lucky fortune stick.

If you love someone and they are your favorite, then even those heartless flowers and birds will become attached to you and will learn to live together on the branches without any ties.

He must be the destined person as described in the fortune, the one who is in love with each other and whose love is expressed by flowers and birds.

Lu Wanqing thought secretly.

She secretly glanced at Li Jianzhang out of the corner of her eye and saw his clear eyes, straight nose, and straight and slightly upturned philtrum. He was truly a man as beautiful as jade and a unique young man in the world.

Lu Wanqing's heart was pounding and she quickly looked away, fearing that the gaze would burn her.

"We're here." Li Jianzhang's gentle voice came from above her head.

Lu Wanqing nodded randomly like a chicken pecking at rice, "I'm leaving now. Goodbye."

Lu Wanqing's eyes accidentally met Li Jianzhang's. After they looked at each other, she hurriedly got on the carriage as if she was running away, saying those words.

Lu Wanqing sat in the carriage for quite a while, but still felt her heart beating fast.

When Li Jianzhang saw Lu Wanqing hurriedly entering the carriage as if running away, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

What is she panicking about?

Is it because of yourself?

I was originally thinking about how to strike with certainty, but when I went out to handle a case, I encountered such a thing by chance, and it turned out to be effortless.

I even got promoted by accident, it was really killing two birds with one stone.

As Li Jianzhang thought about it, the curve of his mouth unconsciously grew a little bigger.

However, whether to investigate this case, what to investigate, and how to investigate still need to be considered.

When Li Jianzhang thought of this, his eyes darkened.