Farmer Lady of Fortune, Imperial Concubine, Don't Be Too Sweet

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Just homesick

Author: 橙子澄澄

Source: Instadoses

When he walked out of the Imperial Chamber, the concubines guarding the outside of the palace had already dispersed, and under the purple-gray canopy, the entrance to the palace was particularly deserted.

In October in the capital, the weather has already started to turn cooler especially before dawn. The refreshing air with its foggy dampness was cold on the skin.

The young man took the cloak handed up by his personal attendant and walked ahead.

Stepping into the gray light, his steps were languid and unhurried, not too fast nor too slow. His majesty was already prominently towering.

After a good distance away from the Imperial Chamber, someone caught up a few steps forward and stopped behind the young man. "Your Highness, everything's been surveyed, and there's no ambush on the way. Will you go straight back to the mansion?"

The boy nodded, "Yeah."

Suddenly, he caught a fiery red glow at the corner of his eye.

The young man's face turned pale and he looked sharply in that direction.

The tongue of soaring fire appeared unusually abrupt and fierce under the gray-purple sky.

It seemed to have opened its bloody mouth, waiting to swallow up anyone who approached at any moment and burn them to ashes.

He clenched his fists tightly, his nails burying into his flesh. He trembled all over, staring at the fire and unable to move a step.

Wei Zi was the closest person to him. Seeing the young man in such a state, he quickly covered his eyes with his hand. "Notify someone to put out the fire! Also, thoroughly investigate what's going on!"

After saying that, he carried the frozen young man and flew away.

At the same time, he was extremely frustrated.

At this hour, at this location, the sudden emergence of a large fire could never be a coincidence.

As hidden guards, they guarded the prince's safety. They had avoided many ambushes and even shielded the prince's path back to the royal mansion as airtight as possible.

Against all odds, they still have overlooked something!

"… Check if any news was leaked out from Xinghua village. If there is…" the young man closed his eyes tightly, his face white as gold, and he almost squeezed his voice out of his throat with difficulty, "silence!"

"Yes!"

The fire in the palace was quickly extinguished. The fire wasn't really big enough to cause much damage.

After a thorough investigation, there was no flaw to suspect. It was a young eunuch who had risen too carelessly in the morning and knocked over an oil lamp. By the time he returned from the latrine, the fire was already burning.

The young eunuch was punished for it, and the matter seemed to have ended, but the undercurrents that lay beneath the surface began to surge intensely.

The Nanling King had a high fever after the shock in the palace, and it took him two days to wake up.

The Emperor was furious, and the whole court down to the people were trembling with fear.

Fearing that the King's shock and fever would burn his head up, everyone clamped their tails for a few days.

This incident wasn't unprecedented.