His Rui

Inside the Plum Courtyard, Li Rui was sitting on the comfy couch inside her room.

In front of her stood Yi Ju with her head lowered.

"This letter…take this to Elder Brother."

She forwarded a letter to Yi Ju who took it from her hands and bowed her head

"Yes, My Lady."

After this, Li Rui dismissed her and Yi Ju immediately left the room to do the asked job.

As Li Rui stared out of the window Yi Ju just had disappeared from, she remembered the content of her letter.

She had asked Yi Junjie send some of the shadow guards…shadow guards to protect her and her children.

Although that night, Xi Ying had told her that he would do something to eradicate the root of her doubts, she can't take any chance at least until she doesn't believe him completely.

It is not that she had not tried to trust him. She had tried …really tried but somewhere inside her heart or mine there was this uneasiness making her feel that she was taking everything very easily.

After seeing Xi Ying's firm eyes on that night, Li Rui recalled the scene of Princess Wenling saying those words again.

She remembered …very clearly that Princess Wenling's body language didn't have any signs by seeing which she could tell that Princess Wenling was actually lying.

She had seen this very carefully that day and that's the only reason that she had believed Princess Wenling's reason.

And that's why she wanted her won people to be there in Plum Courtyard …not Xi Ying's.

She can't take any chance.

Li Rui came out of her thoughts when the door of her room was knocked by someone.

She sighed and stood up from the couch.

She put a soft smile on her lips as she thought that it could be Xi Ling at the door. The child must have woken up after the afternoon's sleep and come to see her.

However, when she opened the door she saw an annoyed-faced Li Hua standing there.

Hearing Li Hua's words, the smile on Li Rui's lips also disappeared and her eyes went cold.

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Inside the silent study room, sitting on his chair, Xi Ying was looking at the wall in front of his eyes with narrowed eyes.

His index finger continuously tapped the table under his hands.

From his indifferent calm face, no one could guess the thoughts inside his mind…the thoughts that would create a huge and silent storm.

In front of him stood his six shadow guards with their heads lowered, silently. No one dared to interrupt their master even though it has been very long since they had been standing there.

Yes, six.

An Si has returned from the Imperial Palace. Though the Imperial Palace surely didn't know where did a Eunuch disappears suddenly but An Si doesn't care.

Since his job was completed, he left the Imperial Palace indifferently.

After all, who would like to clean those pits filled with disgusting waste?

He, at least, never liked it so as soon as he got the chance, he came back. After every few seconds, he would sneakily glance at An Ju standing at the end of the row and his lips and eyes had a hidden smile which he himself was unaware of.

It was after a very long time that Xi Ying finally looked at his shadow guards.

All of them instantly straightened their backs and looked at him with respect in their eyes but their face didn't have any emotion.

Xi Ying's eyes stayed on An Si for a few moments and An Si instantly stepped forward noticing this.

"An Si greets My Lord."

The shadow guard bowed his head and greeted his master.

Xi Ying grunted in acknowledgment and asked calmly

"Did you find out anything important?"

"Yes, Master."

Xi Ying's eyes flickered and he leaned forward as An Si continued.

"Master, An Si found out something very important….something that no one in the Imperial Palace knows about."

When Xi Ying didn't say anything, An Si continued

"Master, the nanny she was given to the First Princess by Empress and the Imperial Palace doesn't hold and records for her entry or her information. The old nanny manipulates Princess …"

An Si told Xi Ying a few incidents where he had seen or heard the nanny manipulating Princess Wenling and how Princess easily get fooled by the nanny.

An Si said so many things but Xi Ying doesn't look happy at all. Impatience lingered in his eyes.

This much … he had already guessed when General Li had told him everything whatever had happened with Li Rui fourteen years ago.

Xi Ying remembered that General Li had told him that Rui had repeated many times that it was the old nanny who had pushed the Princess inside the pond, not her.

This thing made him investigate the old nanny. Because in his eyes, the old nanny did everything deliberately.

She pushed the Princess inside the pond and then saved her so that no one would be able to doubt her. Her target all the while had been Li Rui.

So when Xi Ying heard the things from his shadow guard that he already knew he felt a kind of impatient.

He waved his hand and said coldly.

"Leave this. If you have found something else, then tell. Otherwise, I will be forced to think that your going to the Imperial Palace had been a waste."

A snicker followed Xi Ying's words and An Si glared at the only woman standing inside the room.

Under Xi Ying's calm eyes, An Ju whispered an apology and immediately maintained an emotionless face.

And Xi Ying looked back at An Si with his cold eyes.

An Si gulped in fear and said hurriedly

"An Si have found something else too, Master. An Si was just going to say that."

When An Si a little coldness receding in Xi Ying's eyes, he sighed lightly and continued

"Master, every maid and servant knows in the Imperial Palace that the old nanny was given to the Princess by the Empress but no one knows who gave the old nanny to the Empress."

Xi Ying's eyes flickered and his face had a thoughtful expression. An Si smiled and continued immediately fearing that his master would get angry again.

"Master, The old nanny was given to the Empress…by His Majesty, the Emperor."

As he finished his words, An Si had expected to hear some praise. However, the expectation in his eyes vanished away when he looked at his master.

After hearing his words, Xi Ying's eyes were so cold that every shadow guard inside the study room shuddered in fear.