After being forced into a marriage with a wealthy family, the virtuous wife caused a huge uproar.

"Captain Gu, you are in charge of cleaning up this area and reporting the case to the Jingzhao Prefecture. I, the princess, order you to cooperate with the prefectural government and find out who is trying to assassinate me within ten days," Princess Jinyang said in a commanding tone.

"Your subordinate obeys." Gu Jingcheng immediately ordered his men to remove all the bodies and clean up the scene.

He went to check on Li Xuanye in the carriage and was shocked to find him covered in blood and limp as a puddle of mud.

"Prince Li, are you injured?"

If something were to happen to Prince Le, this would be no small matter.

The Prince of Liao is stationed in the north, and his son has an accident in the capital. If the Prince of Liao blames him, the Emperor will also have to give an explanation. As the captain in charge of the city's defense in this area, he will definitely be in deep trouble.

The Duke's Mansion did not have the power or influence of the Prince of Liao's Mansion.

"Get out of here, it hurts so much!" Li Xuanxuan wanted to lash out at everyone he saw at this moment.

"Quickly, send Prince Li back to the capital for medical treatment." Gu Jingcheng's face turned pale.

He knew Li Shizi's physical condition well; he couldn't use force. If he forced himself to fight, he might lose his life. The corpses on the ground clearly showed that the soldiers were skilled in martial arts. If Li Shizi hadn't forced himself to fight, it would have been impossible for none of his own men to have died.

Rong Yingluo suppressed a laugh as she mounted her horse.

Yu Qiannian and Fang Yuening left the carriage with Li Xuanye and mounted their horses.

Princess Jinyang, however, stayed in the carriage to look after Li Xuanye.

The carriage started moving again.

After arriving safely in the capital, Princess Jinyang personally escorted Li Xuanye back to his villa.

Rong Yingluo chuckled inwardly; she could already see Princess Jinyang's shy, blushing cheeks.

The young girl must remember Li Xuanye's life-saving grace and want to repay him with her body.

Watching the carriage drive away, Rong Yingluo turned back to look back at the mansion.

Just as he turned his horse around, he saw Gu Ce riding up in a hurry.

"Madam, I heard you encountered an assassination attempt outside the city?" The worry in his eyes was obvious.

"Okay, let's talk about it when we get home." Rong Yingluo didn't want to say anything more on the street.

Gu Ce didn't ask any more questions and rode alongside Rong Yingluo.

He was extremely nervous when he heard that there were assassins outside the city gates.

To dare to arrange an assassination in broad daylight indicates that it was no ordinary assassination attempt; it must have been carried out by someone with immense power in the capital.

When his wife and Princess Jinyang went out of the city to ride horses today, his first thought was whether his wife had been assassinated.

Without wasting a moment, he mounted his horse and hurried toward the city gate.

Seeing that his wife was alright, he finally felt a little relieved, but after receiving confirmation, his heart leaped into his throat again.

Upon returning to the Gu residence, the two went directly to Gu Ce's study.

Gu Ce's study was a place of great importance. Many of the memorials sent from various places needed to be reviewed for the first time before being reported to the Emperor.

He assigned ten guards to stand watch here.

When Rong Yingluo saw that Huo Hu and Chen Qi, who had initially followed her, were also on the list, she knew that Gu Ce had given them important positions.

"Greetings, Master." The two rarely saw Rong Yingluo and took the initiative to greet her.

Both of them had lost an arm. But they were quite skilled in martial arts; otherwise, Yuwen Zhang wouldn't have sent them to her side in the first place.

"Good job. If you do a good job, Lord Gu will give you extra pay," Rong Yingluo encouraged.

"Master, the lord has already increased our monthly pay once, and I've also brought my wife to the capital and settled her in the Prime Minister's residence," Huo Hu said cheerfully.

Rong Yingluo glanced at Gu Ce gratefully.

Is this some kind of special treatment given to her?

Or is he just this kind of lenient towards all his subordinates?

Looking at the others, they were all standing ramrod straight, taking their duties very seriously.

The two lived together for more than two months, and Gu Ce's character was indeed good. In Rong Yingluo's eyes, he was much better than that damned Crown Prince and Prince Xuan.

The two went into the study, closed the door, and shut out the outside noise.

"What exactly happened?" Gu Ce's eyes were cold.

Rong Yingluo recounted everything that had happened that day, including her speculations.

"Besides your feud with Princess Xiangyi, you have no other enemies in the capital. Your guess is pretty much right. And you've even dragged Princess Jinyang into this. You're incredibly audacious." Gu Ce clenched his fists.

Princess Jinyang and the lady were on good terms, and she was very likely his younger sister. As their brother and husband, he couldn't just let it go.

"Go back to the inner courtyard first. I'll handle this. I'll make sure you don't suffer this fright for nothing," Gu Ce assured him.

Rong Yingluo's eyes lit up when she heard this.

She had just thought he was a good person, but in a short while, she saw Gu Ce's vindictive side.

"Okay. I'll wait for you to avenge me." Rong Yingluo accepted his kindness with a smile.

A few days later, she learned that Princess Xiangyi had gone out, and her horse had gone mad, taking her directly out of the city. In the end, she found that her carriage had overturned into a ditch beside the official road, and a wooden stick was deeply embedded in her thigh.

She also broke a bone and won't be able to walk without two or three months of rest. Rong Yingluo sighed, and Princess Xiangyi's wedding date would have to be postponed.

The news of Rong Yingluo and Princess Jinyang's assassination attempt quickly reached the Emperor's ears.

Princess Jinyang escorted Li Xuanye back to his villa, but did not stay there long. Instead, she went directly back to the palace to complain to the emperor.

The emperor was naturally furious and immediately summoned Tan Xingchen, the Prefect of the Capital, and Qi Qianhe, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, to the palace, ordering them to find out who had hired the murderer within a specified time.

Qi Qianhe was Ke Miaoran's father-in-law. Rong Yingluo praised him a few times during the peace talks and promoted him to Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice.

The Emperor then ordered the Grand Steward to select some tonics and take them with him an imperial edict to the Liao Prince's villa, praising Li Xuanye profusely.

The news of the assassination attempt naturally reached the Crown Prince's ears. Although he was under house arrest, he couldn't possibly be completely oblivious to what was happening in the capital. He wouldn't miss any information that he needed to know.

Yuwen Yi summoned Mr. Zhan, one of his most trusted advisors, and handed him the note.

"Mr. Zhan, what's your opinion on the assassination attempt on Princess Jinyang?" Yuwen Yi asked.

"Your Highness, I don't think it was Princess Jinyang who was assassinated. Consort Yu is just a concubine, and her family is only the Minister of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices. They wouldn't usually attract revenge. Moreover, Princess Jinyang is the Emperor's youngest daughter and has been favored ever since, so no one would dare to lay a hand on her," Mr. Zhan said after thinking for a moment.

The princess wasn't alone in the group.

Both the young mistress of the Gu family and Li Xuanye have rather special identities.

"You mean the disaster that Li Shizi brought upon himself?" Yuwen Yi had also considered this possibility, and it was the most likely one.

Li Xuanye is the eldest son of the Liao King and the future Liao King. It is not impossible for an enemy country to kill him.

There is another possibility: it was done by people from the Liao Prince's Palace.

Li Xuanye also had a second younger brother and two half-brothers. If the two half-brothers harbored ambitions, they would also have a motive to kill Li Xuanye.

Everyone in the capital now knows that the Prince of Liao's heir cannot be killed by force, and this is the perfect time to do so.

"It's also possible that it's Mrs. Gu." Mr. Zhan was more inclined to believe that someone wanted to kill Mrs. Gu.

"Your Highness, have you forgotten how that couple plotted against Princess Xiangyi?" Mr. Zhan reminded him.

"Xiangyi is so bold?" Yuwen Yi was taken aback.

"Your Highness, she may not be that bold, but what about Prince Xuan?" Mr. Zhan thought more deeply.

"You mean..." Yuwen Yi also realized the hidden meaning in Mr. Zhan's words.