Early in the morning, when the guards rushed into the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Lu Rongjue was sipping a mouthful of Dragon Well with no expression on his face.

"Your Majesty, something is wrong with your Majesty!"

"What's the matter? Seeing me, I even forgot the etiquette."

The guard knelt down with a 'boom', "The emperor forgives me, my subordinates are not doing their job properly, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was robbed by an assassin last night!"

The porcelain cup in Lu Rongjue's hand slammed on the table, making an ear-piercing sound.He stared at the guard closely, "Has anyone been found?"

"This subordinate led people to chase him for a whole night but did not find His Royal Highness...This subordinate deserves to die!"

Lu Rongjue took a deep breath, "I remember, he left the palace with Huo Zhi."

"Mr. Huo hasn't come back either, I'm afraid it's..."

Lu Rongjue squeezed the thumbs on his hand vigorously, his face was dark and terrified, "I have ordered you to intensify the search, and you must find the prince and Huo Zhi today. If I am alive, I will see people, and if I am dead, I will also see the corpse! If you dare to come here empty-handed, I will prevent you from seeing the sun tomorrow."

"Yes! Your Majesty."

Lu Yuan opened his eyes in a bewilderment, the coldness against his body made him gasp, and he became sober for three minutes in an instant.

There is no part of the body that does not feel pain, and there is no part that can exert strength.Lu Yuan waited for a long time before finally turning his head stiffly, and what imprinted into his eyes was Huo Zhi leaning on his chest, with only a little blood on his two lips on his pale face.

"Huo...cough...Huo, Mr. Huo...?"

Lu Yuan called hoarsely a few times, the other party's silence made his heart gradually flustered, he reached out and touched Huo Zhi's body, the palm of his hand felt smooth skin without any hindrance, Lu Yuan's hand seemed to be scalded It trembled as if it had arrived, and after slowly moving down, it stopped on a slippery and abrupt hard object.

Lu Yuan looked over and was stunned.

——It turned out to be a whole slender fish tail!

"Huo, Huo Zhi?" Lu Yuan's voice was trembling, and his hand seemed to be frozen, and he couldn't move it, "Wake up, you..."

Is he hallucinating, or is he still in the dream?

Mr. Huo...how did he become like this? !

Lu Yuan sat up with difficulty, he hugged Huo Zhi in his arms, and the unobstructed view of his lower body was completely exposed to his eyes. This time, Lu Yuan could no longer make up lies to deceive himself up.

The touch on the hand is real, and the picture in front of him is also real, Huo Zhi...it turns out that he is really not a human being.

Lu Yuan found that, except for the first moment, he didn't have the slightest fear or surprise, as if everything was supposed to be like this.

He smiled wryly, and murmured softly, "From the first time I saw you, I felt that you were not like a human being. You have no smoke and smoke on your body, and your soul is not here. You are borrowing someone else's body to travel from heaven to earth, no one can keep you, not even my father, nor me."

Huo Zhi moved his body uncomfortably, his eyelashes trembled slightly, "Um..."

"Father also knows about this, right?" Lu Yuan stared into the distance unfocused, his voice getting lower and lower, "That's right, with your relationship...he must know everything. Well, if I can't do the first one, then I will do the second one, if my father has done something wrong to you, you...you can still have me."

Lu Yuan didn't know what he was talking about, it seemed to be the voice in his heart while he was half asleep and half awake, and Huo Zhi couldn't hear his voice clearly, he could only vaguely feel the gentleness and heavy emotion in the voice of the speaker.

Maybe it's best not to hear.

Lu Rongjue was riding on the horseback, the aura around him was so low that it was almost pressed into the soil.The crown prince was attacked and his whereabouts were unknown. No one knew what Lu Rongjue was thinking at this moment, and he didn't dare to guess.

"Report! My subordinates found traces of blood and fighting in the east, which should be the place where His Highness the Crown Prince fought the assassin last night!"

As soon as the guard's words fell, there was a neighing sound, accompanied by a cloud of dust, Lu Rongjue's figure was already galloping straight to the east, followed by two full rows of royal guards behind him.

"Without my order, you are not allowed to rush forward."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

As the surrounding scene became more and more remote, Lu Rongjue's eyes swept over the dried blood on the ground, he strangled the horse's hooves suddenly, and turned over.

"Your Majesty! Your subordinates..."

"Wait," Lu Rongjue stopped the guard's voice with a look, and said coldly, "Stay outside the door, and no one is allowed to enter without my order."

"Yes."

Lu Rongjue took a step forward, followed the blood stains on the ground step by step into the dilapidated thatched cottage, his heartbeat sped up a little bit, one hand was silently placed on the hidden weapon at his waist, and the next Seconds later he held his breath and opened the door curtain, a gust of blood rushed towards his face, the accompanying picture made Lu Rongjue's pupils shrink suddenly, and he put down the hand holding the weapon.

He strode over, pulled off his cloak and covered Huo Zhi's fish tail, covered the scene with a sullen face, and then stretched out his hand to check the breathing of the two, and let go of his heart .

But in the next second, Lu Rongjue's eyes were fixed on the two naked bodies under the clothes.The dark colors in his eyes rolled, and it took a long time before he took off his clothes to cover Huo Zhi's fair skin, and hugged him up.

"Huo Zhi..."

The comatose Lu Yuan murmured something, and firmly grabbed Huo Zhihang's wrist. Lu Rongjue fixed his eyes on their hands, then shook off Lu Yuan's arm heavily and resolutely, hugging Huo Zhi turned around and walked out of the thatched cottage.

The guards outside the door saw Lu Yuan walking out with a tightly wrapped man in his arms. They all thought it was the prince, and they breathed a sigh of relief, "Your Majesty, are you alright? How is His Highness the Prince?"

Lu Rongjue didn't turn his head back, "The prince is still inside, and he is still angry. Hurry up and send him back to the palace to ask the imperial doctor to heal his wounds."

"Yes! . . . hmm?"

The guard watched Lu Rongjue hug the man and ride on the horse, completely stunned, "The prince is still inside?"

"The... who is in the emperor's arms?"

The sun was setting and it was dusk, but the palace was not as peaceful as this scene.

The crown prince was assassinated, but fortunately his life was safe. Everyone saw Lu Rongjue carrying a man back to the palace in disheveled clothes, and there was a lot of discussion.

"Is that the prince?"

"But the Chonghua Palace is not in that direction at all, and neither is the Hall of Mental Cultivation."

A palace official murmured, "Why is this so like the direction of Ningjin Palace?"

"Ningjin Palace? Which concubine's palace is this?"

"Which concubine is it? It's Huo Zhi, Mr. Huo."

Lu Rongjue immediately carried Huo Zhi into the bathtub, and the water splashed everywhere in an instant, and he was in a panic.Huo Zhi's drowsy consciousness finally woke up slowly in the warm water. He hugged Lu Rongjue as if he was hugging the last straw around him. After a while, he choked softly on Lu Rongjue's shoulder.

"It's okay, it's okay."

Lu Rongjue patted him on the back lightly, repeating it over and over again.

"emperor......"

"I'm here." Lu Rongjue leaned into his ear and whispered, "Go to sleep for a while, my dear."

His voice seemed to have magical powers, which made Huo Zhi's exhausted nerves finally relax, and Lu Rongjue stopped what he was doing. The tone of his voice was extremely inconsistent, but there was no gentle indifference and killing on his face. cutting.

This is one of the very few times that Lu Rongjue entered the Chonghua Palace, which is also Lu Yuan's bedroom.

In the middle of the night, the imperial doctor had left, and Lu Yuan was still in a coma but his life was not in danger.Lu Rongjue winked at Eunuch Li, and then stepped into the Chonghua Palace alone. What caught his eye was a leisurely and luxuriant field of flowers and plants, exuding a faint fragrance in the dark night.

Lu Rongjue pushed open the closed door, and there was a "squeak", which was especially loud in the silent room.Lu Rongjue looked at Lu Yuan who was lying on the couch, and walked over slowly.

The imperial doctor said that the prince's injury was not serious, but fortunately, it was all skin trauma, and the bleeding was stopped in time, now he only needs to wait for him to wake up and rest for a few months.Lu Rongjue stopped a few steps away from the bed, he looked at Lu Yuan quietly, as if he didn't even breathe in the dark night.

For the first time, Lu Rongjue didn't know how to choose.

Lu Yuan is his son, sometimes he even forgets this, maybe because he has never been seen in Lu Yuan, he has lived in the harem since he was a child, with women, brothers, he is Is it a good thing to step on the head of a loved one to sit on the throne?Lu Rongjue only found it ridiculous and pathetic.

He never wanted his history to repeat itself in the next generation, so he only had one son, Lu Yuan, the only one.

But this is the only son...

Lu Rongjue's gaze paused under Lu Yuan's pillow, there was a light blue that didn't seem to be the bedding.He stared at it for a moment, then walked over and stretched out his hand to pull it out. It turned out to be a small half of a light blue sash.Lu Rongjue looked at it for a while, and it didn't look like the material of Lu Yuan's usual clothes. Suddenly, an unreasonable suspicion emerged from his heart. Lu Rongjue put the belt back by the bed, and walked to another place. On the desk at one end, Lu Yuan's favorite Four Treasures of the Study were placed on it, as well as a few sheets of rice paper spread out.Lu Rongjue looked up at the sleeping Lu Yuan, and then flipped through them one by one.

They are all ink paintings of flowers and plants, nothing unusual.But the more this happened, the more doubts in Lu Rongjue's heart grew. He faintly felt that he was about to encounter something, so he put down the rice papers, and moved his gaze to the picture scroll stacked in the bookcase.

No one will take apart a finished painting and watch it again and again, either hang it up or keep it sealed.With the moonlight outside the window, Lu Rongjue's eyes scanned the rows of brand new scrolls until he finally settled on the scroll at the bottom. He stared deeply, as if he wanted to see through that layer, which was deeper than other scrolls. Dark corners, see through the contents.

Lu Rongjue picked up the scroll, the palm of his hand felt a little rough, obviously it was the imprint left by its owner who often opened it to look at it.He spread it out on the table without any hesitation, the moonlight outside the window sprinkled on the painting, and also shone on Lu Rongjue's frozen face.

This was the only time he saw a person in Lu Yuan's painting, but it was Huo Zhi's face.

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