C76 Assassin

It was night, and the entire palace fell into silence. Aside from the sounds of shattering things that could be heard in the courtyard, the only sound that could be heard was the rustling of leaves in the wind.

Shen Kouqing was sleeping soundly, but it was not too deep. Ever since she was reborn, she had not slept soundly without any worries, and this time was no exception. Even though she was sleeping soundly, she could still hear some activity in the room.

'Who could it be? ' Shen Kouqing's brows knitted slightly as she questioned in her heart.

She secretly opened her eyes. Under the dim moonlight, she saw a masked man dressed in black walking towards her with a dagger in his hand.

'Who would want to assassinate me? ' Shen Kouqing felt a burst of fear in her heart, but she didn't know what to do. With her abilities, how could she stop a trained assassin?

When the assassin saw the light that was being emitted from Shen Kouqing's eyes, he knew that she had already woken up. He raised the dagger and was about to stab her.

"Help! There's an assassin! " Shen Kouqing screamed in fear, his body dodging nonstop as well.

Clear Water and Ting Zhu who were guarding the door heard Shen Kouqing's call, and immediately rushed in.

"Who are you!?" How dare you try to assassinate our Empress! " Even though Ting Zhu was extremely afraid of him, she couldn't care so much when Shen Kouqing was in danger. She could only bite the bullet and charge forward.

When the masked man saw that there were two more of them, he did not know who to attack first. Just as he was thinking, Shen Kouqing had already sneaked behind Qing Shui and Ting Zhu.

"Empress, don't be afraid. There's Ting Zhu and I here …" Qing Shui was trembling as she spoke.

Shen Kouqing knew that these two girls were pretending to be calm.

When the assassin saw this, he knew that things were not going well. If those people were here, then his plan would have failed.

He squinted his eyes, raised his dagger and was about to stab at Shen Kouqing, but seeing the situation, he immediately placed it in front of Shen Kouqing.

"AHH!" With a cry of pain, her blood flowed out from her arm, causing Ting Zhu to feel a tinge of fear.

Shen Kouqing was used to this kind of fighting and killing in her previous life, so she didn't think much of it.

When the assassin saw that he could not stab Shen Kouqing and heard the hurried footsteps coming from outside, he knew that the mansion's guards had already arrived.

Just as Shen Kouqing wanted to let the guards catch the assassin, she heard a "bang" sound. She turned around and saw that the assassin had fallen.

"This subordinate came late to save Your Highness, I beg that Your Highness forgive me!" The Guard Captain looked at the three of them and felt extremely guilty, so he quickly kneeled down and begged for forgiveness.

"Get up. Everything happened so suddenly, it's not your fault." Shen Kouqing waved his hand, telling them to get up.

She walked to the assassin's side and stretched out her hand, taking the mask off his face. It was a fresh face, but there was some black and purple blood flowing from the corner of his mouth.

This was a sign of being poisoned!

"Empress, this is?" The head guard, seeing a little confused, asked.

"Poisoned." Shen Kouqing said in a calm and assured manner.

The others were a little curious, waiting for Shen Kouqing to finish her words.

Shen Kouqing went to look at the assassin's mouth and found the poison sac.

"This is the poison sac. I feel that this should be their best place to return to after their mission has failed." Shen Kouqing said, but her thoughts were already far away.

In his previous life, Song Yuanhui had an extremely mysterious organization that trained a bunch of cold-blooded killers, these killers were all trained since young, with hundreds of people training together in the mountains, in order to survive, they would kill each other, in the end, only leaving behind the hundred most capable killers.

Therefore, they usually had no feelings for anyone but the word "loyalty". In their eyes, the person who raised them was their master, and that person was Song Yuanhui.

However, there was a rule in their organization. If one completed a mission, everyone would be overjoyed. If one failed, there would only be one result — biting the poison pouch underneath one's tongue and cutting off one's own life.

Song Yuanhui, oh Song Yuanhui, you are still such a person after all.

Shen Kouqing mocked in her heart.

But, she couldn't understand, the current her could already be considered to be like a well who didn't care about the river and who didn't care, why would Song Yuanhui still make a move against her? This... It was a bit hard to imagine.

"Empress, what are you thinking about?" Ting Zhu called out to Shen Kouqing, who had come out of her trance. After a while, Shen Kouqing slowly came back to her senses.

"Hmm? What's the matter? " When Shen Kouqing came back to her senses, she looked at Ting Zhu in confusion and asked.

"Esteemed Empress, Qingshui was injured …" Ting Zhu reminded Shen Kouqing a little.

"Take her to apply the medicine! In the pharmacy, there is a good medicine called Gold Sore Medicine. Even though you have to use it for clean water, it's all my fault. Shen Kouqing looked at the shocking wound in Qing Shui's hand, and said with a heartache.

"Thank you, Empress!" Qing Shui felt grateful in his heart. After bowing, he went to apply the medicine with Ting Zhu's help.

And at this time, Shen Kouqing fell into deep thought once again.

What was Song Yuanhui planning to do to him?

She had never been able to understand what was going on, but after a while, Shen Kouqing suddenly thought of something. Ting Zhu had told him that she had met Song Yuanhui and chatted with him a few days ago …

After a while, Ting Zhu came back with some water.

"Empress, we are back. Clear Water's injury is not too serious. I hope you do not worry." Ting Zhu said, but Shen Kouqing did not have any other reactions.

"Ting Zhu, yesterday you said that you heard Song Yuanhui talking with Wei Changling. Did you hear anything important?" Shen Kouqing came back to reality and asked Ting Zhu quickly.

"This servant doesn't know what's important. At that time, I wasn't very close, and I didn't hear much. I only heard the Ninth Prince say that the sky in the capital was going to change. What's wrong, Niang Niang, could this have something to do with the Ninth Prince? " As Ting Zhu spoke, she also had some doubts in her heart.

"I'm not sure." Shen Kouqing already had an answer in her heart, but she couldn't say it to anyone else. After all, she wasn't a resourceful person, so knowing too much would make others guess at her.

Shen Kouqing was not the kind of person who liked to cause trouble for herself.