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Chapter 97 The Eighth Prince Assassinated

Half a month passed in a blink of an eye.

The capital, the eighth prince's mansion, study.

Lu Shuyun looked at the information in his hand, clenched his teeth tightly, and his eyes were bloodshot.

He is now so angry that he can't speak.

He used to throw things when he was angry, but the information he received today made him so angry that he even forgot to throw things. His body trembled and his face even started to break out in cold sweat.

No matter what, he never thought that the owner of Xueyue Tower brought so many ninth-rank warriors to personally assassinate a waste prince, but they all failed! ! !

The owner of the Blood Moon Tower is a veritable master!
Even if there is a mysterious master in Beiwang Mansion, the owner of Blood Moon Building will have no problem holding him back!
Of course, what made Lu Shuyun even more angry was Wang Qingci's rebellion.

Wang Qingci, an assassin raised by the Wang family since he was a child, has now defected and defected to the Northern Palace.

Lu Shuyun tore the information in his hands to pieces. He sneered and said, "Okay, okay, okay, very good! No wonder the Northern Prince's Mansion can avoid the assassination of the Blood Moon Tower every time. It turns out that there are traitors!"

"My dear brother, you are really capable. You were able to instigate the assassination that the Wang family trained since childhood!"

"I really underestimate you!"

Just when Lu Shuyun couldn't find a way to vent his anger, he suddenly heard commotion outside.

Immediately afterwards, a servant rushed in in a panic and said, "Your Highness, something is wrong!"

Lu Shuyun, who was in a rage, was just about to kill this servant to vent his anger, when he heard the servant say: "Your Highness, run away! Some masked assassins broke in from outside, our people can't stop it at all!"

Hearing this, Lu Shuyun was stunned.

Masked assassin?

Who dared to assassinate a prince in the capital?
At this time, Lu Shuyun didn't think about Lu Chen at all. After all, Lu Chen was far away in Beijun, and there was only one mysterious master by his side. It was impossible for him to send that mysterious master to the capital for assassination.

The first thing Lu Shuyun thought of was the other princes who took part in the succession. As long as he died, they would have one less competitor.

only……

Would any prince dare to assassinate a prince in the capital?
If this is found out, not to mention losing the qualification to seize the heir apparent, he may even be expelled from the capital and become a vassal.

But now is not the time to think about this, the other party has already broken in, and he has to find a place to hide quietly.

Fortunately, there are some underground passages in his mansion, there is no problem in escaping, Lu Shuyun is not worried at all that he will die.

Immediately, Lu Shuyun entered the underground passage of the palace, and then used the underground passage to escape.

In the end, although those masked assassins broke into the eighth prince's mansion and killed the eighth prince's subordinates and some retainers, they did not find any trace of the eighth prince.

Of course, the original purpose of these assassins was not the Eighth Prince.

By the time the forbidden army from the imperial city arrived, the masked assassins had all left.

The news of the eighth prince's assassination quickly spread throughout the capital. Since Emperor Xia came to the throne, except for the last time Chen Guo remnants entered the palace to assassinate Emperor Xia, such a bad incident rarely happened.

A prince, staying in his mansion, was actually assassinated by a group of masked assassins.

When Emperor Xia heard about this incident, he was even more furious.

Since he ascended the throne, few people dared to make such a disturbance in the imperial city. The last time Chen Guo remnants entered the imperial palace, they were mainly looking for something and were accidentally discovered by the guards. Emperor Xia just exaggerated that he was assassinated. Then he took advantage of this to exile the Duke Mu's family. That was not a real assassination.

But this time is different.

This time, those assassins rushed in from the main entrance of the Eighth Prince's mansion with great fanfare, killing one by one, and directly bloodbathed the Eighth Prince's mansion.

It can be seen that the assassins have become lawless, and they don't take the imperial power seriously.

How could Emperor Xia not be angry that such a thing happened at the emperor's feet?

Emperor Xia ordered that night that the Ministry of Punishment and the Forbidden Army of the Imperial City should arrest those assassins immediately, and no one should be spared.

the next morning.

Xuanzheng Hall.

Early in the morning, the officials came to Xuanzheng Hall to wait.

They had already heard about what happened last night, and they were all astonished. No one thought that there would be an assassin so bold as to send someone to directly wash the eighth prince's mansion with blood.

You must know that there is a master and several masters in the residence of the Eighth Prince.

At this time, Lu Shuyun dragged his exhausted body into the Xuanzheng Hall.

At this time, Lu Shuyun's face was pale, completely bloodless, and he looked as if he had lost his soul.

Seeing Lu Shuyun himself appeared, the ministers immediately surrounded him.

"Your Highness, are you alright?"

"Your Highness, are you injured?"

"Your Highness, those thieves are really hateful. They dared to trespass on your mansion. I believe that Your Majesty will not let those thieves go."

……

Hearing the voices of the officials asking about their health, Lu Shuyun didn't say anything.

Although he escaped from the mansion yesterday and was not injured, what happened last night really shocked him.

He only found out this morning that the retainers of his mansion, as well as the grand master sent by the Wang family to protect him, were all killed.

Not only that, except for him and a few servants who escaped, almost everyone in the palace died.

At first, Lu Shuyun thought it would be no problem for the masters in his mansion to block the assassins.

He entered the underground passage of the mansion just in case, to prevent assassins from finding him directly.

But I didn't expect that the assassin's purpose was not just to assassinate him, a prince, but his disciples were also the assassin's target.

At this moment, the voice of the eunuch came from the hall.

"His Majesty is here!"

The officials quickly returned to where they were standing, and then saluted and said, "Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live."

At this time, Emperor Xia stood in front of the dragon chair, and did not sit down, but looked down at the officials below.

There seemed to be a strong murderous intent in Emperor Xia's eyes. It seemed that what happened last night really made him very angry.

At this moment, Lu Shuyun knelt down on the ground, and said loudly, "Father, you have to decide for my son! Only four people survived in the huge mansion of my son!"

After Lu Shuyun's words fell, Emperor Xia remained silent, his eyes swept over the princes in the hall.

Being stared at by Emperor Xia with murderous eyes, the princes all felt tremendous pressure, and their foreheads could not help but break out in cold sweat.

Although they were not the ones who did this, but now is the critical time to seize the heir apparent, they are the most suspicious. After all, once the Eighth Prince dies, they will lose one of their most powerful competitors.

But the few of them are not fools, how could they do such a bloodbath of the prince's mansion at the feet of the emperor.

If this was found out, it would be a trivial matter to be kicked out. If their father and emperor directly demoted them to common people in a fit of anger, it would be miserable.

The princes were very depressed. Is that idiot actually doing such a thing at this time? Could it be that Lu Shuyun directed and acted himself.

(End of this chapter)