oon as King Ming walked out.

The Queen, seated on her seat, did not even look at the Crown Prince at all.

“Sigh, you may rise.
You are not to be blamed for what happened.”

The Crown Prince was taken by surprise by the fact that his mother did not fly into a rage.

Stealing a wary glance at his mother, he realized that the Queen, though looking displeased, did not look severe.

“Do you know why you’ve failed this time?”

The Crown Prince pondered for a moment but shook his head.

“It was because you’re not as ruthless as her.
Are you able to do to Ming Yue what she did to her?”

A nauseating feeling came to the Crown Prince at the mention of Ming Yue.

When the guards carried her body away, he merely had a glimpse of one of her arms.

The sight of the exposed bones and the bloody, mangled flesh and skin had sent a chill up his spine.

Not to mention the Crown Prince, even the coroner who had seen many corpses almost threw up at the sight of Ming Yue’s body.

One could imagine what a wretched state the body was in.

“I… I…”

The Queen glanced at her son and sighed.

“The way to being an emperor had always been a journey through much bloodshed.
If you wish to succeed, you need to be ruthless.
In this aspect, that daughter of the Lins far surpasses you.”

The Queen’s words had shaken him up.

A wave of emotions was stirred up in the Crown Prince.

“Mother, you mean…”


“If you wish to defeat your enemy, the means by which you achieve it is not important.
More importantly, you must never be burnt by the fire.
Secondly, you have to give it your all in order to achieve your goal.”

The Queen went up to the Crown Prince and helped him up.

Under her watch and protection, the Crown Prince had all along been able to succeed in all his endeavors.

This was the reason the Crown Prince panicked at the appearance of Lin Mengya, who did not go according to the rules.

However, all of these did not matter anymore.

Now, Lin Mengya had ruthlessly gotten rid of Ming Yue and this had served as a wake-up call for the Crown Prince.

To the Queen, the fact that someone was able to create a stir before her was becoming something interesting.

It appeared that it was time for the Queen to face the daughter of the Lins, the princess of Prince Yu, head-on.

“I get it now, mother.”

The eyes of the Crown Prince seemed to come alive.

The Queen nodded.
It was time for her to act against King Ming and Long Tianhao.

Lin Mengya had fallen asleep on the horse carriage on the way back to the mansion.

Long Tianhao carefully and gently carried the girl in his arms back to the Liuxin Courtyard.

“Your Highness, is our mistress alright?”

Baiji was standing at the gates of the Liuxin Courtyards, carrying a lamp, while waiting for Long Tianhao and Lin Mengya to return.

Baisu went into the Liuxin Courtyard first to inform the people inside of their return.

As for the other three maidservants, they had come to right up to them the moment they arrived.

“Mengya’s hand is injured.
Go fetch some medicinal herbs for wounds and clean water.”

Long Tianhao instructed with a soft voice, fearing that he would wake the girl in his arms.

The four maidservants could only look on at Lin Mengya, whom Long Tianhao was carrying in his arms, and followed his instructions.

He carried Lin Mengya into her room and carefully laid her down on her bed.

Although she had fallen asleep, from the frown on her face, she was obviously still in pain.

“Bad things happen to her whenever she is with you.”

A voice which sounded like a complain, echoed from behind Long Tianhao.


Long Tianhao straightened his back as he rose, and just as he expected, Qinghu was looking at him with displeasure.

He strode up to Long Tianhao with his hands full of small boxes and bottles.

“Get up, I’m going to put medication on her wounds.
How could you still shamelessly claim to be a man if you couldn’t even protect a woman?”

Qinghu’s mockery caused Long Tianhao’s countenance to fall.

However, he held back his frustration when he saw Qinghu carefully changed the dressing on Lin Mengya’s hand.

“You can get out after changing the wound dressing.”

Every other day, Ye would go to Qinwu Courtyard to give an account of Lin Mengya to Long Tianhao.

He would often talk about Qinghu, the cunning fox.

Long Tianhao could not fathom how Lin Mengya could be so comfortable around this sly fox.

Although Long Tianhao was aware that there was nothing going on between them, he just did not feel good about their intimacy.

It felt as if someone had been peeking on his prized treasure.

Somehow, this guy had won Lin Mengya’s trust.

If it were any other person, he would have gotten rid of him, lest he remained an eye-sore.

“Are you alright, Elder sister?”

Before Qinghu finished changing Lin Mengya’s wound dressing, Lin Zhongyu’s anxious voice sounded.

The two men standing by Lin Mengya’s bed put their pointer finger to their lips in unison, indicating for Lin Zhongyu to keep quiet and not wake Lin Mengya.

Immediately, Lin Zhongyu shut his mouth, but like Qinghu, he began taking out little boxes and bottles from inside his clothes.

“These are some medicine for wounds.
Please put them on Elder Sister so she could get well soon.”

Qinghu raised his eyebrow in surprise.
Lin Zhongyu was actually so generous.

The medicine he offered were of the highest quality.
Some of them were even secret recipes which were hard to come by.

Qinghu took over the medicine from Lin Zhongyu without hesitation, and then gently poured it onto Lin Mengya’s wound.

“Hiss— who did this to Elder Sister?”

There was a mix of pain and rage in Lin Zhongyu’s eyes.

He had been picking up and practicing martial arts with them over the last half a year and he was progressing fast.
At the same time, he had gradually learned to carry himself with poise and maturity.

However, he almost felt that he could not contain his emotions at the sight of Lin Menga’s injury, which was so deep that he could see her bones.

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