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Yun Ruo Lu felt tired and fell asleep on her bed. When she slept until the middle of the night, she suddenly felt a sense of danger.

Yun Ruo Lu suddenly opened her eyes and saw a black clothed person flashing out from her room.

Seeing someone sneaking around in her room just now, Yun Ruo did not think too much about it. She got up from the bed and chased after him.

It was already midnight, and the streets were deserted.

With the help of the moonlight, Yun Ruo saw a black shadow moving in front of her, and chased after it.

The black shadow led her to the river bank and stopped. Just as Yun Ruo approached, she had not even said a word when a sharp sword was placed less than a centimeter away from her throat.

Such a fast sword art!

Yun Ruo Lu was inwardly shocked. She thought that if this person did not show mercy to her, she would have already been a dead person.

"Who are you? "Why did you lure me here?"

The black-clothed man turned around and said in a low and fierce voice, "Go back and warn your master to not meddle in other people's business! Otherwise, let him have a taste of the consequences of washing the Duke Palaces with blood! "

When Yun Ruo Lu heard this, she knew that this person must be someone from that organization. So he asked tentatively: "You're so kind to remind us? Or are you afraid that we might find out something that might affect your plans? "

Just as Yun Ruo finished her sentence, that person turned around and stabbed her with his sword. Fortunately, Yun Ruo Lu was prepared this time and dodged to the side, but a strand of her hair was cut off and fell off her eyelashes.

Seeing that this person's martial arts was so profound, Yun Ruo Lu did not dare to easily provoke him, so she asked in a serious tone: "Who exactly are you?"

"Who I am is not important! The most important thing is to remember what I said just now! "

After saying that, that person was about to leave. Yun Ruo Lu stepped forward to grab him, but that person disappeared from where she stood like a ghost.

The wind blew over the moat, sending a chill down his spine. Everything just now had seemed like a dream.

Yun Ruo returned to the palace dejectedly, unable to understand that person's intentions, unable to understand why he would come find her.

The next day, Yun Ruo woke up very late.

The first thing she knew about when she woke up was that Shang Guan had disappeared last night!

If this was a normal situation, Yun Ruo Lu would not be concerned about it, but now that it was a critical time, the letter of invitation had disappeared for no reason, so how could anyone not pay attention to it?

When Yun Ruo and her men learned of this, they hurriedly went to find Yuchi Xuan.

Yuchi Xuan was not in the manor. Yun Ruo Man found it even more strange when a guard told her that the prince was in the residence of the imperial edict.

If this had happened in the past, Yuchi Xuan would definitely have notified her and brought her along. But today, not only did he not bring her along, he didn't even notify her.

When she thought of what Yuchi Xuan had said to her last night, she couldn't help but wonder if this Lord Shang Shu Ling was the so-called 'boss'.

The more she thought about it, the more she felt that this was the case.

When she arrived at the gates of Shang Shu's mansion, she saw Yuchi Chen walking out. For a moment, Yun Ruo Man thought it was strange. She suddenly recalled that Yuchi Chen had married the daughter of the imperial edict, so when the imperial edict went missing, it wasn't strange for him to come to the estate to take a look.

Yun Ruo quickly avoided Yuchi Chen and waited for him to leave before stealthily entering the mansion.

As soon as she arrived in the courtyard, she heard a woman's angry shout from inside, "You bunch of damn servants, you don't even know where my father is going, what's the use of raising you!"

Yun Ruo did not expect that, even the daughter of the Shang Shu Token had returned.

Thinking back, when something had happened to the Yun Family, Yuchi Chen had not allowed her to step even half a step outside the estate. And the letter was only missing, but he actually brought this new side concubine back with him. The treatment was really different!

Yun Ruo Lu harrumphed coldly in her heart, but after a second, she no longer took this matter to heart.

When they walked into the hall, the young miss was holding a cane that she used for her family's law. Many people knelt on the ground, not daring to make a sound.

As for Yuchi Xuan, he was seated directly above them, his Fiery Eyes of Truth constantly scanning the people kneeling below him.

The letter had disappeared without a reason, and no one actually knew what was going on, not to mention that no one had noticed anything amiss. This matter was indeed rather strange.

Yun Ruo came to Yuchi Xuan's side and said softly, "My prince!"

Yuchi Xuan did not look at Yun Ruo Lu, but asked with a hint of displeasure in his voice, "What is it? "Why are you here?"

Yun Ruo quietly told him what had happened last night. Yuchi Xuan immediately stood up and walked out of the room.

Yun Ruo Lu followed behind him, and the two walked to a place with no one around. Only then did Yuchi Xuan frown and ask, "What else did that person say? When did you find me? "

Yun Ruo Lu suddenly woke up last night in the middle of the night, so she couldn't say what time it was. She could only say: "He didn't say too much, he just warned. Prince, could it be that the Shang Shu Token really is that boss? "

Confused, Yun Ruo Lu asked, wondering why this organization's people were doing things differently this time around.

If this was the case, then Shang Shu's family would have also been exterminated last night!

Yuchi Xuan knew that he could no longer hide it, so he sighed and nodded his head in response.

Yun Ruo Lu felt that something was off. Yuchi Xuan knew that she was suspicious, so he explained, "The previous three moves were all too noisy. Master Shang Shu was already prepared to hide everything after receiving that letter." So if those people kill him directly, I'm afraid they won't be able to find what they want for the rest of their lives. "

So that's how it is, Yun Ruo Lu nodded in realization and asked: "Then what do we do now? Wouldn't it be very dangerous for Lord Shang Shu to appear here? "

"We need to find what they want and move those people to us!"

Yuchi Xuan's hand clenched into a fist. It was as though he was silently cursing himself for being so late.

Yun Ruo thought about it for a moment, and felt that although this method was feasible, it was too dangerous. Once those assassins found out that the item was no longer in the book's hands, they could kill them to keep their mouths shut.

Furthermore, moving the target to them was way too dangerous.

Last night, she had seen that black-clothed man's martial arts. She and Yuchi Xuan were no match for him.

"Your Highness, please forgive this subordinate for taking the liberty. What happened in the palace more than twenty years ago? So after all these years have passed, there are still people who want to use this matter to their advantage? "

As soon as Yun Ruo Lu's words came out, Yuchi Xuan's expression immediately turned cold. It was even filled with killing intent as he said in a frightening tone, "Forgot what you just said. Otherwise, don't blame me for being merciless!"

At this moment, Yun Ruo Lu had also experienced the feeling of being with a tiger. Since Yuchi Xuan didn't want her to get involved, he must know something.

Because she had said the wrong things, Yuchi Xuan had told her to return to the palace. Furthermore, she was not allowed to take a single step outside without his permission.

Yun Ruo Lu smiled bitterly as she returned to the palace. She thought that perhaps she was too arrogant, and deserved to be grounded.

Yun Ruo returned to her room and continued to look through the books that Xiang Qing gave her.

To her surprise, she found a small picture book similar to the one she had unintentionally seen yesterday in some of the other old books.

Each of these little picture books was only a few pages long, and the contents were very simple. It was like writing a diary, recording the events of the day.

Yun Ruo Lu felt that this wasn't a coincidence, so she quickly flipped through all of the history books, and actually found four or five small picture books.

And, to everyone's surprise, these several small paintings should have been drawn by a eunuch, because in each of the paintings, there was a eunuch.

Yun Ruo guessed in her heart that the eunuch definitely could not read, but he wanted to record some things, so she decided to record it by drawing.

But why are these books in these history books? Could it be that he wanted to tell the future generations that he had drawn something related to the history of the royal family, so he placed them in separate parts of the book?

The more Yun Ruo thought about it, the more excited she became. She put all the books that she could find in the painting book together.

However, what shocked her even more was that when these books were placed together to read their titles, they could actually find the words' previous dynasty's empress'!

Yun Ruo guessed that this eunuch must have been working for the previous empress, and found out some unspeakable secrets!

In these books, there were records of what happened that year.

Yun Ruo Man began to seriously flip through the booklets. In the first book, there was a record of the old emperor accompanying two pregnant concubines out into the garden. The scene was very harmonious and friendly.

In the second, the emperor wrote an imperial edict and announced something to his concubines.

The third painting was very simple, but the meaning was very clear. The two concubines were born the same night, and in the end they gave birth to boys.

In the fourth book, there were suddenly five assassins appearing from one of the concubines' chambers. The five assassins took away the concubine's child and poisoned the concubine. The news the emperor received was that his concubine died in a difficult situation, and even the child was swapped with his infant.

The fifth and last book was a picture of the old emperor getting sick after hearing the news. On the other side, the concubine held an imperial edict in her hand, but her eyes were cold as she tore the edict into several pieces.

Seeing this, Yun Ruo Lu suddenly understood what had happened. Her surviving concubine was the previous empress. And what that mysterious organization was looking for, was probably the torn edict!

Yun Ruo Lu began to ponder about the sequence of events. If she wasn't mistaken, the black clothed man that she saw last night should be the baby boy that was taken out of the palace 20 years ago.

The contents of the edict should be the candidate for the crown prince of the old emperor!

Thinking about this, Yun Ruo Lu suddenly thought of that huge conspiracy. Could it be that the people from this mysterious organization wanted to usurp the throne?