Yuqiongyin

"The token given by my father finally came in handy."

The princess, who was on the verge of collapse just now, suddenly seemed like a different person. She turned to her personal maid Cui Yu to confirm.

She looked into the darkness and asked indifferently, "Where is Wen Ke?"

"See Your Highness the Princess."

"It has finally come to this. Wen Ke, go ahead. The tiger talisman is here, and General Wang outside the city has been waiting for a long time."

The princess in her red wedding gown straightened out her slightly wrinkled exquisite dress, tilted her head and narrowed her beautiful eyes to look at the secret guard who was kneeling upright beside her.

The secret guard's body trembled, but he still steadily took the token that the princess gently threw into his hand, pried open the mechanism, and found another tiger talisman inside.

"Yes." The secret guard Wen Ke took the order and retreated quietly.

"Is the princess awake?"

Cui Yu looked at his own princess sitting alone on the stone pier, a faint smile on her lips, staring at the fire in the distance thoughtfully, which was completely different from her timid and cowardly appearance just now.

"Yes, I'm awake now. Look, it's snowing tonight." The snow fell gently, and the princess reached out her hand to touch it, but it still melted in her palm.

Cui Yu did not answer, and now all they could do was wait.

There was a thick layer of snow, and the princess and Cui Yu were discovered by the rebels and taken to the palace. Because the prince consort Shi Xun had ordered that the princess should not be harmed in any way, as long as they obeyed, nothing would be done to them.

The outside of the hall should have been white, but it was still stained with blood, while the inside of the hall was brightly lit and crowded with people.

The court officials were supposed to attend Princess Rurong's wedding, but they never thought that the prince consort would actually rebel on this day. They were relieved to see that Her Royal Highness the Princess was fine.

Shi Xun, who was standing in the center of the hall in black, finally showed a slight change in his calm expression when he saw Rurong was found and unharmed. "Rurong, I was worried because you were not in the hall."

Shi Xun gave him a look, and a servant brought a chair. Ru Rong glanced at him lightly, sat down straight, and asked calmly, "Let me ask you, why did you rebel today?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present was shocked. Is this still the timid and cowardly little Princess Rurong?

Minister Zhao, who was following Shi Xun, quickly tried to smooth things over: "Your Highness, please be careful with your words! The Shi family and the Shen family conquered this world together, and now the Shen family is not governing well..."

"So, what's wrong with the Shi family taking this seat?" Before Minister Zhao could finish his words, he was snatched away by Shi Xun on the stage.

Ru Rong supported his chin with his left hand and chuckled, with a rare mockery on his face, "The Shen family is poorly governed, which is a good thing to say. But, Minister Zhao convicted the royal family with just one sentence? If I said that the Shi family colluded with the Northern Frontier to rebel, do you think this is true or false, Minister Zhao?"

"How could you..."

Minister Zhao seemed to have his sore spot poked, and almost blurted out the words but then stopped.

"That's enough, Rurong! Look at what you look like now! You are talking nonsense." Shi Xun on the stage cursed angrily, "If it weren't for Shen Xu and He Mulian interfering in what happened back then, how could my parents have died!"

"What you saw before was just what I wanted you to see. You used to pretend to be obedient, but now you are standing in this palace and have the guts to call my father, the emperor, and my mother by their names! Shi Xun, I begged my father, the emperor, and my mother to spare your life. I was wrong."

Rurong spoke calmly and coldly, with no special expression on her extremely beautiful face.

"make a mistake?"

"What do you mean you save me? Beg me to spare my life? It would be better to let me follow your father's will and have my entire family confiscated at the same time! What drama are you still putting on here? Aren't you tired after more than ten years? Do you want me to be grateful to your Shen family for sparing my life?"

Shi Xun in the center of the hall laughed crazily, "I think you are just daydreaming! You all deserve to die!"

When all the officials heard this, they fell silent.

Ru Rong looked at him silently as he went mad, not wanting to say anything more.

At this time, a guard quietly stepped forward and asked, shook his head gently, and whispered: "We have searched everywhere in the palace, but we haven't found the jade seal."

Shi Xun snorted coldly, looking at Ru Rong who was sitting on the chair with her eyes lowered, and his voice became a little louder: "Keep looking, the palace is full of my people, they can't escape even if they have wings. If it's mine, it will eventually return to my hands."

Xi Chenning followed the movements of the owner of the body and quietly looked at the bead curtain behind the dragon throne. The slight shaking was a sign that someone had just arrived.

It’s Wen Ke who’s back.

Ru Rong put two fingers together on her palm which was hidden by her wide sleeves and tapped twice gently.

Be prepared to take action and leave some alive.

Wen Ke, who was behind the pearl curtain, received the order. He pulled the bow in his hand like a full moon with both arms, and pointed the sharp tip of the sword at Shi Xun in the center of the hall, waiting for the order.