The fire was getting bigger and bigger, and Jin Ru and Su Hanzhi outside were as anxious as ants on a hot pot. Buckets of water were poured on them, but it had no effect at all.

Just when they were desperate, in the raging flames, in the red fire that could burn everything, a black shadow suddenly stepped out of the fire.

Flames jumped behind him, and strong winds flew behind him. Showa came walking on the fire with Su Hanzhi, who had fainted from the smoke, on his back.

Jin Ru and Chu Yunxiu looked at the scene in front of them, they were so shocked that they couldn't speak. They could only stare blankly.

Until a frustrated voice came from my ears:

"Quick...take care of grandma, I'll go in and save Qingwan..."

"Where is she?"

Halfway through the journey, Xia Houlie suddenly felt a throbbing pain in his chest, and an ominous premonition came over him. Under the constant disturbance of his mind, he had to give up his plan to return to the capital, and immediately called the secret guards hiding in the dark.

, turned the horse's head and rushed towards the palace.

But I didn't expect to see such a scene when I came back.

The entire palace was filled with smoke, Yangyizhai was caught in a sea of ​​fire, grandmother fainted on the ground, Zhaohe was in a mess, Jinru and Chu Yunxiu both had tears in their eyes.

Only I didn’t see that woman!

An ominous feeling suddenly surged in his heart, and even his voice trembled unconsciously.

"She just rushed in desperately to save her grandmother. When I arrived, she was hit by a beam trying to save her grandmother. She is still inside..."

Before Zhaohe could finish his words, Xia Houlie's figure disappeared into the sea of ​​fire.

"Brother Imperial——"

"The Emperor is in danger——"

"emperor--"

The secret guards who followed Xia Houlie in were also shocked. Amidst the screams of everyone, a deafening roar suddenly sounded in their ears. The entire Yangyi Zhai collapsed, and the violent sound almost opened a crack in the sky.

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"No--"

Showa's heartbreaking voice resounded through the sky. Looking at the collapsed house, his eyes were red and he stood like a wounded lone wolf. The voice penetrated the vast sky and echoed in the deep palace garden.

He jumped up and rushed towards the still burning ruins without thinking, but was hugged tightly by Leng Ji beside him, "Sixth Prince, please don't be impulsive. If something really happens to the Emperor, Bei

Yan still needs to rely on the prince to control the overall situation——"

There is a raging fire in front of us, and the Yangyizhai has collapsed to the point of being unsightly. If there are people here, who else can be there under such circumstances.

What's more, in today's Beiyan, if something happens to the emperor or something happens to the sixth prince again, wouldn't that mean the country is surrendered?

"Are you asking me to watch them both die?" Zhaohe cried heartbreakingly, his red eyes like blood holes.

"Your Majesty, please put the overall situation first!" Leng Ji bowed his hands and said respectfully, "The only solution now is to put out the fire as soon as possible. Maybe Your Majesty and the others still have a glimmer of hope!"

Showa's dark eyes flashed brightly, and he quickly wiped his face and said:

"Quick - get water to put out the fire -"

*

Xia Houlie sat quietly by the bed, looking at the woman sleeping peacefully on the bed. He had never seen this woman in such a mess. Even when she was forced to a desperate situation by him before, the tenacity and stubbornness in her bones were not there at all.

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He admitted that he had never understood this woman. Her panic when she lost her virginity on the wedding night, her wit at the banquet, her feigned respect and obedience after being threatened, her aggrieved coquettishness after being kidnapped and injured, all in Los Angeles.

The amazing talent at the cultural conference, the calmness and composure of the emperor's grandmother...

Scenes of scenes flashed through his mind, as vivid as if they happened yesterday. Only then did he realize that he had unknowingly had all her smiles, anger and anger deeply imprinted in his mind.

He had always thought that this woman was not worthy of love. He had always thought that she was a woman with a vicious heart who would do whatever it took to achieve her goals. Although, as they got along bit by bit, he had gradually realized that he might have been wrong in his judgment. However, the dignity of a man

But he refused to admit it no matter what.

Until, she used such a brave move today to completely subvert his judgment of her past. She really regarded the imperial grandmother as her own relative, and was not using her as he once thought. She was not unscrupulous for the purpose as he thought.

A femme fatale, who would sacrifice their life to save someone she only sees as a pawn?

Only when you truly value this person as more important than your own life can you make such a choice at that critical moment of life and death.

When he caught her fainting body and saw that she was covered with injuries, he realized what it meant to be in bone-shattering pain, just like when he saw her being whipped with scars by the Su family beast.

Thinking about it now, he discovered that since they met, she had rarely laughed sincerely. Most of the time, she was injured again and again, sad again and again, and just lay quietly like this again and again.

In front of him, even though he is almost omnipotent, he can only watch and guard helplessly.

He reached out and took her bandaged hands and pressed them tightly against his face. It was these hands that blocked the scorching beams for his grandmother. It was these hands that blocked the flames for his grandmother.

Saved his grandmother from the fire.

Although he was born so frail, he made a brave move that is difficult for ordinary people to do at the most critical moment.

His eyes moved to her delicate face. This face was still smiling happily in front of him in the morning. Unexpectedly, only a few hours later, all that was left on this small face was her closed eyes.

, the frowning eyebrows, the cold sweat that has been pouring out on the face, and a few dazzling red marks.

She was definitely not beautiful in such an embarrassing state, and could even be said to be ugly, but he just felt beautiful, as beautiful as a fairy.

He leaned forward and kissed the red marks, kissing away the cold sweat on her face one by one. The thin kisses were filled with cherishment and care.

Even he himself didn't realize that his eyes were filled with an almost drowning tenderness.

However, this did not escape the eyes of Showa, who had already opened the door and had been standing next to him for a long time. He sighed in his heart and said:

"Brother Imperial, you are also injured, so you should go back and take care of yourself. Just leave it to Aunt Chu to take care of you."

Xia Houlie looked up immediately when he heard the sound. He couldn't believe that he, who was always very alert, didn't even notice that someone was standing next to him.

If the enemy came who wanted to kill him...

He didn't dare to think about it anymore, and he didn't dare to think about how much weight the woman lying on the bed had in his heart, and how much she could make him lose his mind like this!

He lowered his head and looked at the bandage on his arm. The wound seemed to still have the burning sensation of the fire. His eyes moved to Mu Qingwan's left leg, which was also wrapped with a thick bandage. His eyes became extremely dark. He didn't dare to imagine that.

How painful it must have been for a beam to hit her.

"Showa, come with me."

With that said, he stood up and walked outside. When he got outside, he called Chu Yunxiu over and told him:

"Take good care of her and let me know when she wakes up."

Showa followed him all the way to the study, but he didn't expect that the person in front of him would suddenly stop. If he hadn't reacted in time, he would have almost bumped into his back.

Xia Houlie quickly turned around and asked, "How's the investigation going?"

"The cause of the fire has not yet been found."

Showa responded cautiously, knowing that the emperor had been holding back this anger for a long time.

He could not forget the look on the emperor's face when he found Mu Qingwan under Nuan Nuan's guidance and saw her unconscious on the ground.

"What do Leng Ji and the others do for food? It's been so long and they haven't been found out yet? I'm being too kind to them, aren't I?"

Xia Houlie's face was sullen, his eyes as black as ink flashed with a cold light. As long as he thought of Mu Qingwan lying lifelessly on the bed just now, he wanted to destroy the world.

"Brother Imperial, please don't get angry yet, be careful with yourself." Zhaohe touched his nose and advised. As he was speaking, Leng Ji's voice came from the door: "Master, Leng Ji wants to see you."

"Come in."

Xia Houlie sat down aside, glanced at Leng Ji, and asked, "But is there any news?"

"Returning to the master, I have made a preliminary judgment that the fire was not an accident, and the person who set the fire should be very familiar with the situation in the palace. He happened to do it when there was no one around the Empress Dowager, and according to the secret guards, before the fire,

The Empress sent them to the east of the city to pick up the Sixth Prince, but the Sixth Prince was not in the east of the city. From this, it can be judged that someone must have pretended to be the Empress, intending to distract the secret guards so that they could take the opportunity to attack the Empress Dowager. Jin Ru

Grandma and the others also said that they heard someone shouting loudly that Yangyizhai was on fire, so they got the message and rushed over."
Chapter completed!