Empress in her second playthrough: Something's not right with this plot!

Li Yunsheng turned his head and looked at Ling Zuo beside him.

"This old guy isn't telling the truth, let's find a place to bury him."

"Yes."

Ling Zuo clasped his hands in a fist salute and, without any hesitation, took the rag and was about to stuff it back into Bei Ye's mouth.

As the wet, tattered rag got closer and closer to his mouth, Bei Ye's mental defenses crumbled.

"I'll talk, I'll talk..."

Li Yunsheng raised his hand, interrupting Ling Zuo, and gestured for Bei Ye to continue.

Bei was in so much pain that he simply lay down on the ground.

"Someone sent me to assassinate you."

Li Yunsheng already had someone he suspected, so he didn't directly ask who was behind it.

"only you?"

"There is another person, also a second-rank expert, but I don't know who that person is."

Li Yunsheng nodded; those were all true.

When are you planning to make your move?

"Tomorrow is the hunting season."

Ling Zuo quickly raised questions.

"The Imperial Guard has Lin Ling protecting you, and Prime Minister Li also has close bodyguards. You two are just two people, yet you dare to attempt an assassination."

Let alone the Imperial Guards, even these two men would be enough to stop them.

Kita retorted.

"Lin Ling is the Grand General of the Imperial Guards, and he won't be constantly protected during the hunt, so the two of them are enough."

Li Yunsheng laughed. It was the truth, but not the whole truth.

"Who ordered you to do this?"

Bei also gently shook his head.

"The person was masked, and I didn't know who she was."

Li Yunsheng nodded: "I have no more questions."

Bei Ye turned to look at him: "I've told you everything I know, you can—"

Uh--

A cold glint flashed, and a short knife slit his throat.

With his trachea cut open, he could only utter "huff, huff" sounds, but he stopped breathing completely within a breath or two.

Li Yunsheng was somewhat surprised by Wei Xiang's swift action.

He assumed that Wei Xiang was just eager to protect the original owner of the body, so he didn't think much of it.

The reason it's said that it's out of concern for the original owner, rather than for him.

It was because he knew that if Wei Xiang knew that this body had changed owners, things might not be like this now.

They might even turn on him with a dagger.

The person Wei Xiang truly wanted to protect was Li Yunsheng, not him.

This matter was actually a knot in his heart.

When facing Wei Xiang, I always feel like I'm deceiving her.

But he absolutely dared not tell the truth about this.

Otherwise, if Wei Xiang wanted to kill him, there would be no one around him who could stop him.

Li Yunsheng sighed. Such a second-rank expert, a dignified general, died so suddenly.

As for how Bei Ye survived the battle to defend the city of Yan, probably no one in the world will ever know.

"Bury it."

Ling Zuo clasped his hands in a fist salute.

"I'll go out and look again to see if I can find another person."

"I would like to trouble General Ling."

After watching Ling Zuo and the others leave, Li Yunsheng looked up and met Wei Xiang's gaze.

Beside him, Wei Xiang stared at him and only said three words.

"Jiang Qingying".

The implication is that the person just now was acting on the Empress's orders.

Li Yunsheng remained silent, knowing full well that the Empress was most likely involved in this matter.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Wei Xiang picked up his knife and walked out.

"Sigh, sigh!"

Li Yunsheng reacted quickly and grabbed Wei Xiang's sleeve.

Wei Xiang turned her head in confusion, silently asking a question.

Li Yunsheng quickly replied.

"Give her another chance, give her another chance."

Chapter 36 She Escapes, He Chases

Under the moonlight.

The three men in black huddled together, whispering to each other.

"I heard from Su Wanwan that the head of their Imperial Guard is also a master. Second brother, you go and stop him tomorrow."

"Leave it to me, big brother."

"Third brother, go and deal with that female guard named Shangguan Xuanran who is by the Empress's side."

"clear."

"If the female guard next to Li Yunsheng makes a move, we have Lao Si on our side."

Ok?

"Where's the fourth brother?"

"Big brother, you know perfectly well that fourth brother likes to be alone. Please continue."

"Yes, the Empress is on my shoulders tomorrow. Tomorrow, success is the only option; failure is not an option!"

"Brother, if we close this deal, our brothers will be famous throughout the countries."

“A small state like Wei can no longer accommodate four great Buddhas like us brothers.”

"Let's, brothers, grow bigger and stronger, and create brilliance!"

"To grow bigger and stronger, and create brilliance!"

"To grow bigger and stronger, and create brilliance!"

……

the other side.

The fourth brother was resting with his eyes closed on a branch of a tall tree when a person passed by below.

The man was Ling Zuo, who had left the hunting palace not long ago. He was patrolling the area, trying to find another member of the assassins.

The fourth brother reached into a row of flying needles at his waist and took out the thinnest one.

sieve--

The tree branch swayed slightly, and the flying needle shot out, flashing a bright light in the moonlight.

"Uh--"

Ling Zuo cried out in pain, clutching his neck, and collapsed to the ground.

The body twitched briefly, then fell silent.

A moment later, the fourth brother gently fell down from the tree.

He carefully approached Ling Zuo's body, trying to confirm whether he was really dead.

At the same time, he also retrieved his own flying needle.

Just one step away, Ling Zuo suddenly moved.

With a flick of his wrist, the flying needle flew out between his two fingers.

It turns out that he had caught the flying needle with two fingers and then covered his neck with his palm, creating the illusion that he had been hit by the needle.

Feigning death is a tactic used to lull enemies into a false sense of security and force them to reveal themselves.

The fourth brother reacted quickly, immediately using his longsword to protect his throat.

With a snap, the needle pierced the sword hilt.

Ling Zuo braced himself with one palm and leaped into the air.

"If I catch you, I can finish my job."

The fourth brother spoke somewhat woodenly, with a heavy Weiguo accent.

"I don't like being disturbed."

"People of Wei!"

The person in front of him surprised Ling Zuo.