Inside a certain residence in the city.
A masked black-clad Hidden Guard stumbled into the study room.
The eagle-eyed man was teaching his daughter to write.
His daughter was about five years old.
When the black-clad Hidden Guard suddenly barged in, she screamed in fright.
"Father, who is this person, is there an assassin!"
The eagle-eyed man immediately recognized it was his own Hidden Guard.
He calmed his daughter: "Moxin, don’t be afraid, this is a friend of your father’s. We have something to discuss; I’ll teach you to write another day."
Saying this, the man called out loudly to the house slaves: "Someone, take the young lady back to her room."
The little girl named Mo Xinxin looked displeased.
She threw away the brush in her hand: "Really annoying!"
Then she left directly.
After the door was closed, the eagle-eyed man was very angry.
Suppressing his fury, he lowered his voice: "I told you to act carefully. If someone’s spy sees this, do you want me dead!"
The Hidden Guard hurriedly knelt on the ground, anxiously saying: "Master, I discovered something serious and came quickly to report it to you!"
The eagle-eyed man saw his urgency and took a deep breath to calm down.
"What is it? You couldn’t destroy Lixiang’s corpse? Didn’t I tell you to burn the Xiuluo Guard?"
The Hidden Guard said: "I infiltrated through the Xiuluo Guard’s back door, and sure enough, as the spy said, the rear courtyard of the Xiuluo Guard was almost unguarded."
"Just as I was about to act, I saw the little princess and Feng Fuce sitting under the corridor talking, and their relationship seemed clearly friendly!"
The eagle-eyed man was taken aback, then deeply frowned: "What? Are you sure about what you said?"
Usually, his spies said that the Princess didn’t like Feng Fuce, and the two were at odds.
But how could the Hidden Guard have seen the little princess in the rear courtyard of the Xiuluo Guard?
"Absolutely true! Master, if the Princess drove Lixiang away, it wasn’t accidental, but the Emperor and Marquis Wan behind the Princess were covertly planning a thorough investigation?"
"The letter from Second Aunt mentioned that the Princess was extremely intelligent, as if she determined there was something wrong with Lixiang, and directly expelled her from the manor!"
"Master, the Princess is only three years old, and she was unfamiliar with Lixiang, how could she directly drive her away!"
The eagle-eyed man felt a hint of danger.
"You’re right, the Princess is so young, why would she inexplicably dislike Lixiang, it must be that Feng Fuce, on behalf of the Emperor, found something out and Bai Xilie revealed it to his daughter!"
"And now that Feng Fuce is withholding Lixiang’s body without dealing with it, he must have discovered something!"
The Hidden Guard nodded heavily: "Master, what should we do?"
The man felt it was very tricky.
He pondered for a long time and suddenly uttered a few words: "Risk everything, assassination first!"
Act first, lest Bai Xilie sends someone to kill us at home!
The Emperor held a plum banquet for Princess Cui Cuo, inviting nobles and ministers.
The extravagance and luxury gave the little princess all the splendor.
There were as many as three hundred guests here.
The crowd, black and dense, filled the entire large banquet venue — Shengping Hall.
Outside Shengping Hall, the Imperial Guard led the way into the venue, and everyone quickly made a path in the middle.
The Imperial Guard stood in two rows.
With Eunuch Quan Xi’s high-pitched ceremonial announcement —
"The Emperor, and Her Highness Princess Cui Cuo have arrived!"
Bai Xilie then walked in holding Bai Zhi’er, appearing in front of everyone.
Many people had never seen this Bright Pearl of the Empire, lost and found again.
As Bai Xilie appeared, everyone prostrated and knelt down.
"Long live our Emperor, a thousand years to the Princess!"