All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

Chapter 90 Your Highness, please bear with me

"Miss Shen, wake up, wake up quickly..."

In the middle of the night, Shen Lingxi was fast asleep when she suddenly heard an anxious call coming from her ear.

She opened her eyes in a daze, and saw Polygonatum, which hadn't appeared for a long time, standing anxiously beside her bed.

"Yuzhu?" Shen Lingxi shuddered, and immediately woke up, sitting up, "Where have you been these days? I have something to ask you."

"If you have something to do, you might as well ask later." Yuzhu's usually indifferent face could not hide her anxiety, "In half an hour, an assassin will come to take the life of the eldest princess, please think of a way to save the eldest princess. If it's a little later, I'm afraid it will be too late."

Shen Lingxi's expression changed, and she hurriedly got out of bed, "I'll go to Chu Yan for help."

In the upper room, Chu Yan was holding a long sword in his arms, and was sitting on a soft couch by the window with his clothes on, closing his eyes and resting his mind.

He set up a thin slit on the window lattice, facing the west wing where Shen Lingxi was resting, so he could pay attention to the movement outside the room at any time.

Hearing the sound of the door opening in the west chamber, he suddenly opened his eyes, and a sharp cold light flashed across his ink-like star pupils.

Seeing Shen Lingxi running out in a panic, he sat down neatly, strode out of the room, and went up to meet her.

The slender hand pulled her sleeves, and the tall and straight figure caged her behind her, looking warily at the wide-open door.

"What happened?" He turned his head to the side, his brows were cold, but there was concern.

Shen Lingxi was startled by this series of actions and was slightly startled.

Seeing that his clothes were neat and his brows were not tired, she finally came back to her senses.

Didn't sleep all this time, staying in the room secretly?
Shen Lingxi knew that they were "detained" in the Princess's mansion this time, and someone would definitely take the opportunity to make trouble.

But she didn't expect it to be so dangerous.

"In half an hour, an assassin will come to kill the eldest princess." She told her bluntly, "Your Highness, please hurry to rescue her."

While speaking, from the corner of Shen Lingxi's eye, she caught a glimpse of Yu Zhu's soul, which was about to float towards them, and was startled.

Fearing that he would be bounced away by Chu Yan's evil spirit, she hurriedly said: "Don't come here, don't come close!"

This sound made Chu Yan "swipe" and instantly drew out the long sword in his hand.

The sword's edge glowing with cold light, wrapped in a biting killing intent, pointed directly at the direction of Shen Lingxi's line of sight.

The violent aura around him made Yuzhu turn pale with fright, and she backed away abruptly, finally understanding why Shen Lingxi made him stop.

Chu Yan didn't notice anything unusual there.

There is nothing there.

"Who are you talking to?" he asked.

"It's Yuzhu." At this point, Shen Lingxi no longer had to hide from him, "He just woke me up and told me about the assassination, and asked me to find a way to save the eldest princess."

Yuzhu was already a dead person.

If a dead person can still speak, he is a ghost.

Chu Yan's eyes darkened slightly.

This is not the first time Shen Lingxi has said such absurd things in front of him.

In the past, out of trust in her past words and deeds, Chu Yan would choose to believe her.

But after what happened last night, Shen Lingxi has absolutely no integrity in front of him.

Shen Lingxi could see the doubt in his eyes at a glance.

In desperation, she subconsciously stepped forward and grabbed his sleeve, and said anxiously: "You said you would believe me..."

As soon as the words came out of her mouth, she was startled to feel that something was wrong, so she hurriedly stopped, her eyes filled with guilt.

It happened, and it was revealed again.

Chu Yan's eyes darkened suddenly, and there was a flash of light in his eyes.

He said he believed her.

But at that time, he was "Ning Liulang".

So, when did she know his identity?

After getting to know "Chu Yan", or before that?

Chu Yan's icy gaze swept over Shen Lingxi's watery eyes scrutinizingly, and landed on her pale white fingertips clutching her sleeves tightly.

Inadvertently, he thought that before, in Yinyue Pavilion's lair, she would grab his sleeve like this in front of people.

At that time, although she concealed and calculated, she never did anything harmful.

On the contrary, in his eyes, she buried the clothes for the dead with a pure heart and compassion...

Chu Yan's indifferent star eyes loosened a little.

"Follow."

He closed the long sword, pulled back his sleeves expressionlessly, and walked towards the courtyard gate.

This time, he wants to see what kind of tricks the little liar is going to play.

Seeing that he believed in herself, Shen Lingxi felt a little relieved.

Just as he was about to step up to follow, he suddenly heard Yuzhu's voice coming again, "Those maidservants guarding outside are not entirely credible."

When she turned her head, she saw Polygonatum odoratum floating to the wall in the northwest corner of the yard.

Yuzhu: "Go from here, there are no guards, I will take you there."

"Wait." Shen Lingxi hurried forward, grabbed Chu Yan's sleeve, stopped him from opening the door, and repeated Yuzhu's words in a low voice.

Seeing him looking down at her hand, Shen Lingxi retracted her fingertips a little awkwardly, turned around and walked towards the wall where Yuzhu was.

Chu Yan passed her and flew up to the wall, and sure enough, seeing that there was no maidservant outside, his expression froze slightly.

He was about to go down when he suddenly found that Shen Lingxi was still standing there, looking at her with raised eyebrows.

Although he didn't say it clearly, his expression was already asking, "Why haven't you come up yet."

Shen Lingxi's heart skipped a beat.

If it was before, he would have taken her directly to the wall.

But now, she was waiting on the wall for her to go up.

This means that subconsciously, he has already determined that she will do light work.

Until this moment, Shen Lingxi finally understood that he should have noticed her footwork in avoiding sword moves last night.

Later, clumsy lies such as "sprained ankle" may have been seen through by him.

She didn't know anything about it, and she still fancied that she could "make a good relationship with him and have a cause and effect" with him even though she lost her trust.

It is estimated that in the eyes of the emperor's grandson, she is not only a liar now, but also a liar with strong martial arts!

Shen Lingxi sighed silently in her heart.

But I still have to keep smiling, "Please forgive me, Your Highness, I can only protect myself, it's true, I really don't know how to do light work."

Chu Yan glanced at her, but didn't say anything, flew up to her, and stretched out his hand towards her.

However, when his hand was about to touch Shen Lingxi's body, he barely stopped.

When he was hesitating whether to hug her slender waist or hug her like last night——
Then Shen Lingxi took half a step forward, warmly embraced him, her slender arms wrapped around his waist tightly.

"Your Majesty, bear with me, I'm fine, let's go." Her small face was pressed against his heart, and she whispered.

Chu Yan's thin lips were tightly pursed, and he felt that something had scalded his heart hard, causing his fingers hanging in the air to bend slightly, and finally slowly landed on her waist...

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With Yuzhu leading the way, Chu Yan carried Shen Lingxi to perform lightness kung fu, avoiding the guards, and after a while, she landed quietly in the courtyard where the eldest princess was resting.

The yard was dark and there were no lights.

Perhaps it was because the maidservants were sent to protect the small courtyard of Chu Yan and Shen Lingxi, and there was no one on duty outside the courtyard.

Yuzhu led the two of them into the eldest princess' boudoir through the half-open window.

There is no maid on duty in the room.

"Meow..."

Both Xuetuan and King An stayed in front of the eldest princess' bed, but the eldest princess didn't know anything about it, and she was still sleeping soundly on the bed.

Shen Lingxi was about to wake her up when she heard Yu Zhu's voice from the roof, "The assassin is coming, be careful!"

(End of this chapter)