Chapter 1357: She Should Like Him Too, Right?
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Nothing else would happen anymore. Even if something happened, it wouldn’t happen in the city. If this party could help the former Emperor Beicheng aid Fu Ying to succeed to the throne, they should still have the ability to protect the Empress Dowager. Moreover, Fu Xu’s main power wasn’t in the city. Since the plan to capture Empress Dowager Minde had failed, Fu Xu must have fled the city at the first possible moment. Moreover, Fu Ying didn’t have any other weakness for Fu Xu to grasp, so he wouldn’t be restrained in this life. Xue Yan didn’t continue to send him off but brought Jiang Yue back to the Heavenly Imperial Inn.
The masked men who were captured alive were escorted into the city one after another by the troops. The commoners of the city saw this and naturally began to hypothesize what happened. The news of Empress Dowager Minde being a.s.sa.s.sinated by Prince Xu on her way to the temple to pray spread far and wide.
For a time, the people in the city were in a state of panic.
With the Cloud Guards and Dark Guards keeping an eye on him, Xue Yan didn’t need to pay too much attention to his surroundings. After returning to the inn, he placed Jiang Yue on the bed.
Then, he pulled the thin blanket over and gently covered Jiang Yue.
He ordered two Cloud Guards to secretly go out of the city and bring Shao Shuting and Huo Wenqing into the city. They were placed in one of their courtyards in the city.
Once he did that, he didn’t go anywhere else. He just stayed by Jiang Yue’s side.
He had known Jiang Yue for so many years, but he knew that Jiang Yue had never felt safe being in this vulnerable state. Perhaps it was due to the circ.u.mstances of her original world. However, Jiang Yue had put her life in his hands for him, and she had trusted him so much.
In the first year that Jiang Yue had transmigrated, Jiang Yue had said that one day, when she used her s.p.a.ce, she asked him to protect her well…
It was obvious that Jiang Yue had already put a lot of trust in him back then…
Sitting on the stool by the bed, Xue Yan stared at Jiang Yue with longing looks.
From this perspective, Jiang Yue treated him very differently than she did to anyone else.
Does that mean… She probably liked him too… Right?
Just like how he liked her.
Before Fu Ying returned to the palace, he received a report that Fu Xu had run away with his son, but Fu Xu’s wives and concubines were still in Prince Xu’s residence.
The person who reported even told Fu Ying that the Prime Minister had already sent people to capture Fu Xu.
When Fu Ying returned to the palace, he had the few young masters sent into the palace by Prince Xu’s estate this morning be sent back to their respective homes.
Since they had come to this point, there was naturally no need to pretend anymore. There was no need to keep these young masters here.
Ni Dingyuan, who was in the secret chamber, was also released.
During this period, Fu Ying also found that Ni Dingyuan was a talented man. She released Ni Dingyuan and even gave him an official position. Ni Dingyuan did not expect to survive it and even get an official t.i.tle! He was stunned at first, but he maintained his composure and thanked the Empress.
Although Xue Wuhu was very surprised that Ni Dingyuan was in Fu Ying’s hands, he was visibly happy when Fu Ying sent away all the young masters.
He didn’t understand why he was happy, but he felt his mood lightening.
Then, he went to play with the eunuchs.
Fu Ying had also gotten Fu Xu’s spies in the palace to be captured.
If Fu Xu ran away, he would rebel. The Prime Minister and the other royalists had already entered the palace and were waiting to discuss this matter. They wanted to discuss more details and countermeasures. Even Fu Ying herself did not expect that the first time she stepped into the royal study after she ascended the throne was going to be for this.
Initially, all her actions were done in secret. She told herself that only the day Fu Xu died would be the day she would truly rule openly and step into the meeting hall and the royal study.