Jiang Ru whispered: "I don't like to owe others favors."
Ye Xiuchen's face darkened and he asked her, "If we can go out, won't we owe each other nothing?"
Jiang Ru felt a chill, and she didn't know if it was her imagination. She felt that this man seemed angry.
Just as she was about to speak, there was sudden movement, and someone came looking for her.
The sword in Ye Xiuchen's hand was immediately placed across the visitor's neck. Before he could make a move, he heard the visitor say: "Follow me, and I will take you out."
He was stunned for a moment and looked at the person in front of him suspiciously. It was dark at night and he couldn't see the person's appearance clearly, but it was not difficult to see that he was wearing the uniform of a palace guard.
Ye Xiuchen asked suspiciously: "Who are you?"
The man said: "If you want to survive, come with me. The guards have been lured away by me. If you don't leave, it will be too late."
Ye Xiuchen heard that there was really no movement outside, and the current situation was critical and it would be a dead end for him to stay, so he might as well take a gamble.
He put away his sword, helped Jiang Ru up and followed the man. As expected, the guards in the palace had been drawn away.
The man led them through the imperial garden and to a remote corner of the palace, where there was a corner door leading to the outside.
The man opened the corner door and said to them: "I will send you here, you can leave quickly."
Ye Xiuchen looked at the road in front of him, which indeed led to the outside of the palace. He couldn't believe that this man really brought them out.
He looked at the man in front of him. It was dark and the situation was urgent, so he didn't take a closer look. Now that he took a closer look under the moonlight, he suddenly had some impressions and couldn't help but be shocked: "Are you...?"
The man interrupted him and said in a deep voice: "Let's go!"
Ye Xiuchen suppressed his thoughts and thanked him, then picked up the unconscious Jiang Ru and hurriedly walked out of the corner door and disappeared into the night.
An hour later.
Inside the main hall.
With a snap, the sound of the tea cup breaking echoed throughout the hall.
Duan Qingli looked at the people kneeling on the ground to plead guilty, and was furious: "There are so many people, but we can't even catch two assassins. What do we do raising you all alone?"
"Your Majesty, forgive me."
A group of people were kneeling on the ground, all with their heads lowered, and they were all frightened.
The leading man raised his head, looked at Duan Qingli and said, "The second princess has grown up in the palace and knows the terrain of the palace very well. It was the general's negligence that allowed them to escape. Please punish me."
He is the commander of the imperial army responsible for guarding the palace, and is also His Majesty's personal bodyguard. His name is Qingyang.
He cannot absolve himself of the blame for allowing the second princess and the traitor to escape today.
Duan Qingli was so angry that she had a headache. She had forgotten that her second daughter laughed at herself and was naughty. She often ran around in the palace when she was a child, and she often couldn't find anyone. She could escape without any fuss.
But she was unwilling to do so. She finally caught Ye Xiuchen, and now she let him escape. If these remnants escaped back to Nanyue and filed a complaint with Nanyue Emperor, it would be a disaster.
Duan Qingli closed her eyes and said to the person kneeling on the ground: "Get up."
Qingyang stood up and gave the people behind him a look to tell them to retreat. After everyone left, he walked up to Duan Qingli and said, "Your Majesty, you have a headache again?"
As he said that, he reached out and rubbed Duan Qingli's head.
Duan Qingli relaxed her eyebrows and said, "Once Ye Xiuchen is allowed to escape from southern Xinjiang, I'm afraid..."
Qingyang consoled him: "Your Majesty, martial law has been enforced throughout southern Xinjiang. Even if the man named Ye is extremely capable, he will not be able to escape.
Furthermore, the general feels that they will definitely go to save the Saint, so we only need to guard the Gu Palace and we will be able to catch them all."