allonlinenovel Chapter 272 The protagonist's halo is really strong!
Chapter 272 The protagonist's halo is really strong!
Zheng Luoqi watched Chen Xianlin's departing figure without lingering and turned to leave.
Inside the Prime Minister's Mansion
Boyu had been waiting for a long time.
Finally, he heard the servants announce that Zheng Luoqi had returned!
Bo Yu hurriedly went out to greet him. Seeing Zheng Luoqi alight from the carriage, he stepped forward, bowed, and respectfully greeted, "My lord!"
Zheng Luoqi nodded slightly when she saw Boyu, indicating that he should not stand on ceremony.
Zheng Luoqi waved his hand, and the servants around him understood and withdrew, leaving only Boyu and him.
"Let's talk as we walk!" Zheng Luoqi knew from Boyu's expression that something urgent must be wrong.
Boyu quickly stepped forward and whispered, "Sir, recently a lot of spies have infiltrated outside the city. I have already investigated and found that these people are the same group who stabbed Jinyu last time."
Zheng Luoqi's expression changed slightly, but she quickly regained her composure.
He listened to Boyu's report as he walked into the mansion, with Boyu following closely behind him.
Along the way, Boyu told Zheng Luoqi in detail about the situation with Consort Jiang.
After entering the room, Zheng Luoqi went straight to a chair and sat down, then slowly asked, "Have you found out who these people are?"
His voice was deep, conveying an undeniable authority.
"My lord, please look!" Boyu took out an earring from his pocket and carefully handed it to Zheng Luoqi.
Upon closer inspection, Zheng Luoqi noticed that the earring was a simple metal hoop design, small and delicate, just enough to hold her ear cartilage.
Zheng Luoqi reached out and gently took the earring, examining it carefully in her palm.
His gaze slowly swept over every detail of the earring, noticing that there seemed to be some patterns engraved on the metal ring.
Zheng Luoqi squinted, carefully examining the patterns, and discovered that they were not randomly carved, but seemed to have some kind of pattern and meaning.
These lines, some deep and some shallow, intertwine to form a pattern.
“This pattern looks so much like…” a dragon’s head! Zheng Luoqi suddenly stopped speaking.
He didn't say the words "leader." Zheng Luoqi sorted out her thoughts, wondering when exactly Xue Huaiyu had started taking action.
If I'm not mistaken, it should have started on the Empress's birthday.
What was Xue Huaiyu's true intention in sowing discord between the Zhao and Yu families that day?
At this moment, Zheng Luoqi suddenly felt a strange sense of crisis. He had a premonition that Xue Huaiyu might not have really fainted, and that Chen Xianlin and the rest of us might have been deceived by him.
Xue Huaiyu has finally grown up; without realizing it, his hands can now reach so far.
One can't help but marvel at the power of the protagonist's halo.
That's true. After all, he's the male lead in a romance novel, and he's been emperor for so long. If he hadn't built up any of his own power, he would be truly useless.
Xue Huaiyu was far inferior to his elder brothers, the emperor. Thinking of this, Zheng Luoqi couldn't help but recall some past events...
Zheng Luoqi shook her head, realizing she had been thinking too far ahead. The most important thing now was to eradicate the male lead's influence.
If it weren't for the protagonist's halo, it's questionable whether Xue Huaiyu would even be alive today.
What if... the female lead and the male lead were to fight?
Can the protagonist's halo be broken?
Just then, Boyu noticed Zheng Luoqi's solemn expression and couldn't help but ask, "Sir, what should we do now?"
A shrewd glint flashed in Zheng Luoqi's eyes as he quickly put the earring away.
His gaze shifted to Boyu, and he asked in a deep voice, "What's the situation with Quan Yuyuan?"
Boyu quickly replied, "After receiving your letter, the young master immediately began preparations. Now, he awaits your command, sir!"
“Okay!” Zheng Luoqi nodded. “Tell him to proceed according to the original plan!”
Bo Yu replied, "Your subordinate obeys!"
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夜晚
In prison
A furtive man in black slipped past the other guards' patrols and secretly entered the prison where Shan Yan was located.
Outside the cell, only two guards were on duty.
The man in black surveyed his surroundings and, after confirming that no one else was paying attention to him, quietly slipped behind the two guards.
He swiftly struck, delivering a precise chop to the back of the neck of both guards.
With two muffled thuds, the two guards collapsed to the ground, completely unprepared.
The man in black groped around on the two unconscious guards and quickly found the key to open the cell door.
Just as he stepped into the prison cell, preparing to kill Shan Yan.
Suddenly, a hand reached out from behind him and grabbed his shoulder tightly.
He was startled and quickly turned around to look, only to find that the hand belonged to one of the two guards he had just knocked unconscious!
He had a bad feeling and realized the situation was dire. He immediately tried to turn around and run away, but it was too late.
The guard moved swiftly, instantly dislocating the man in black's jaw, rendering him unable to speak or bite his tongue to commit suicide.
After he finished doing this, the guards outside rushed into the cell and surrounded him.
They quickly tied him up with ropes.
Behind this group of guards followed a man in official robes, who was none other than Zhang Zhiyuan, the Commander of the Imperial Guards.
Zhang Zhiyuan smiled, a half-smile playing on his lips, as he looked at the tightly bound man in black and said slowly:
"Why did you sneak up on me to visit this colleague without giving me a heads-up?"
"I am not an unreasonable person. Since you are old acquaintances, I will naturally grant your request and let you catch up properly, right?"
After saying that, Zhang Zhiyuan dropped his ambiguous smile and shouted angrily, "Take him away!"
He cursed inwardly, "Do these people think the prison of the Imperial Guard is made of paper?"
This is not a place where you people can come and go as you please. It is an insult to his authority and the Commander of the Imperial Guards!
The man in black was dragged away by several guards like a chicken, his body being pulled along the ground with a dull screech.
Zhang Zhiyuan watched the departing figure of the man in black, his brows furrowed, but the anger in his heart did not subside.
He turned to one of his subordinates and instructed, "Send more men to guard the mountain embankment at all costs! This is a high-ranking criminal area of the imperial court; we cannot afford to make any mistakes!"
The subordinates dared not be negligent in the slightest and all obeyed the order and left.
"Governor, Lord Zheng has arrived!" a guard stepped forward to report.
"Oh?" Zhang Zhiyuan raised his eyebrows slightly. "Then hurry up and invite him in!"
[I took a break last month to prepare for the Level 2 Construction Engineer exam. I thought that after that, no one would read the book anymore, but I found that there were still readers waiting for my updates, so I came back. I figured I should finish what I started, so I'm looking forward to the finale and the bonus chapters!]