Su Xi didn't know when the assassination in Yunzhou would happen. She was worried that it would happen in the middle of the night when she was sleeping. If she wasn't careful and didn't complete the mission, causing the Emperor to die, it would be over.

So she told Zaizai in advance that she had drifted to some alleys in Yunzhou and found that someone was planning to assassinate the Emperor. She told Zaizai to be careful.

Lu Huan watched her talk nonsense with a serious face, saying that she could walk through walls and punch a little evil spirit. He thought it was funny.

He tried hard not to laugh and nodded seriously. "Oh, thank you, Xiao Xi. I will be on guard."

A few days later, the Emperor arrived at the palace in Yunzhou. The army also arrived behind him.

The army was tired from the journey and temporarily stationed outside the city. According to the Yan Dynasty's rules, the officials leading the army had to enter the city to meet the Emperor.

So the Emperor and several other officials held a banquet in the palace to send off the Zhenyuan General.

Before this, there was endless debate about who should go to the north to quell the rebellion.

The Emperor originally wanted the Second Prince to go. After all, the Second Prince was low-key and honest. Because his mother was born in a poor family, he didn't have many connections in the court. It was the most suitable to give the military power to him. He could also take the opportunity to take back the military power of the Zhenyuan General and balance the situation in the court.

The Fifth Prince had always been active in forming cliques in the court. Although The Emperor liked his mother, he didn't like him.

He was ambitious and had a good reputation among the people. The Emperor was afraid that he would endanger the Crown Prince's position, so he couldn't give the military power to him.

But who would have thought that the Second Prince was like a salted fish. When he heard that he was going to the north, he fell sick.

First, he was bedridden for three months because of the arrow wound. When the provisions of the Zhenyuan General were gathered, he said that he caught a cold and delayed it again.

The Emperor wanted to support him, but he was so useless.

The Emperor was flustered.

So in the end, the matter of quelling the rebellion in the north was handed over to the Zhenyuan General.

The Emperor couldn't be at ease with the military power in the hands of an outsider like the Zhenyuan General!

But fortunately, the Zhenyuan General had no children and no successors. Even if he had any rebellious thoughts, he was probably powerless.

The Emperor had planned this, but he had never expected that during the banquet in Yunzhou, he had noticed that the Zhenyuan General seemed to treat a cavalry captain in a special way.

There were thousands of civil and military officials in the imperial court, and there were more than a hundred officials of the third rank and above. The Emperor naturally did not have an impression of every minor official.

However, he had some impression of this young man who was no more than sixteen years old.

Although he had only met him once a year ago at the Autumn Swallow Mountain hunting banquet, his impression of him had left a deep impression. At the time, he had felt that he was somewhat like an old friend. However, at the time, the Emperor had been slightly drunk and thought that he was drunk, so he did not pay too much attention.

After that, the Grand Commandant Of Cloud and the Protector General recommended him one after another, which slightly attracted The Emperor's attention.

The Emperor could not help but be suspicious about the recommendation. The two of them wanted to arrange their own people in the court.

However, because he had a good impression of the young man at the banquet that night, The Emperor actually agreed. After all, he was only a fourth or fifth rank official.

However, at the banquet in Yunzhou today, The Emperor did not drink too much and his mind was still completely sober. Seeing this young man again under the blazing sun, he was momentarily dazed. He only felt that the young man's appearance was somewhat similar to that person's — — it wasn't the facial features that were similar, but there were some subtle expressions that only the Emperor, who had been with that person day and night, could recognize.

However, the Emperor immediately laughed at his own misconception. In this world, who didn't have two eyes and a nose?

What was so strange about having some similarities?

This young man was Prince Ning Fu's illegitimate son.

After he had met that person in Yunzhou, he had directly brought her into the imperial palace and made her his concubine. That person had wasted many years in the imperial palace for him. She had been in the depths of the palace from her youth to her withering. She had never even seen Prince Ning's face.

Had he become muddle-headed?

As a result, during the banquet, he couldn't help but take a few more glances at the young man.

As a result, he discovered that the Zhenyuan General was a sly old fox. Although she didn't show anything, the people under the Zhenyuan General's command clearly showed some respect to this young man.

This showed that this young man, who had just been promoted to cavalry captain, had a high position in the army.

The Zhenyuan General was consciously looking for a successor. This wasn't a good thing.

The Emperor's alarm bells rang loudly in his heart. He calmly took a few more glances at the Zhenyuan General and the young man.

Lu Huan naturally also sensed The Emperor's gaze. He could guess all of The Emperor's thoughts, so he pretended as if nothing had happened and lowered his head to drink, doing his best to blend into the crowd.

However, when he toasted The Emperor, his gaze couldn't help but linger on the Emperor's facial features for a second.

Before he heard the Daoist nun's so-called background, he naturally wouldn't have thought that he had any connection with the current Emperor. But after hearing it, although he didn't believe it at all and felt that the Daoist nun was making things up, he had to admit that his appearance was somewhat similar to the dignified nobles at the banquet.

Lu Huan's eyes narrowed and his brows furrowed slightly.

The banquet lasted from day to night. Many officials drank until they were dead drunk, and the Zhenyuan General couldn't help but drink a few more cups.

Lu Huan also drank a bit, but he remained sober.

The eleventh mission said that there would be an assassin at the banquet. Presumably, it was tonight.

If he notified the palace in advance to strengthen the defense, it would inevitably arouse suspicion. Therefore, Lu Huan didn't do anything. He only lowered his dark eyes and stared at the wine cup in front of him, quietly waiting for the assassination to come.

The identity of the assassin was also very easy to guess.

Last time, the assassin at Autumn Swallow Mountain wasn't a violent mob. But this time, the assassin at the palace in Yunzhou was definitely a violent mob.

Yunzhou was covered in snow all year round and was close to the North.

Now that the people in the North had no way to make a living, and there were frequent wars, the Emperor still chose this time to come to the palace. Although he came to pay respects to the noble, in the eyes of the rebel army in the North, The Emperor's behavior was muddle-headed and tyrannical. Naturally, they couldn't take it lying down. Taking advantage of the fact that the palace wasn't as heavily guarded as the capital, they wanted to take down the Emperor in one go.

The problem was, how to save him.

When Lu Huan followed the Zhenyuan General and several other military officials into the palace, he roughly memorized the map of the palace.

The Emperor was in the light, and the assassins were in the dark. It was almost impossible to catch them before they acted.

He could only wait for them to act.

Lu Huan analyzed in his mind. If he wanted to kill the Emperor in the center of the heavily guarded palace, what would he do?

It was naturally impossible to directly surround the palace, kill the guards, and then get close to the Emperor.

Because even if the palace guards were no match for the assassins, there were still Zhenyuan troops stationed outside Yunzhou. With a signal flare, they could come and encircle the assassins.

The only way was for some experts to disguise themselves and sneak into the palace. Using a diversion tactic, they could take the Emperor's head in the midst of the chaos.

In this way, there should be a sudden major incident somewhere, luring the tiger away from the mountain.

Sure enough, in the middle of the night, after all the officials had drunk three rounds of wine, a place in the palace called the "Qinglan Court" suddenly burst into flames!

All the officials stood up in panic, but the most nervous was The Emperor. He immediately shouted angrily at the Imperial Guards, "What are you doing? Go put out the fire!

If there is any damage to the Qinglan Court, you will be punished! "

The leader of the Imperial Guards knew that the paintings in the Qinglan Court were all portraits of the noble. If they couldn't save them today, and half of them were burned, their heads would be gone. So, in a panic, he hurriedly led people to put out the fire.

The scene immediately became chaotic.

The Emperor rushed to the Qinglan Court, followed by the Zhenyuan General and the others. Lu Huan thought that this should be the time for those people to take advantage of the chaos to make their move.

Sure enough, in the next second, the scene suddenly changed!

The person who was previously the provincial governor of Yunzhou pulled the skin off his face and suddenly approached the Emperor with a few of the Emperor's bodyguards. He pulled out a needle and thread from his wrist. Although the needle and thread were ordinary, it was held by two well-trained people. When they approached at a fast speed, it could cut flesh like mud. It was not inferior to any sharp blade.

Swords were not allowed at the banquet, so this was the only weapon that could be used.

The surrounding officials, including the Zhenyuan General, did not expect this at all. Their pupils suddenly shrank, and they shouted for help, "Help the Emperor!"

If they hadn't expected this, the Emperor would have been injured.

Fortunately, Lu Huan was prepared. He quickly picked up a few wooden sticks that were still burning on the ground after the beams had been burned down, and threw them over.

Before the extremely sharp thin thread touched the Emperor's hair, it was burned by the torch.

Su Xi hurried home from school. She wasn't afraid of not completing Mission 11, but she was afraid that Zaizai would be injured when saving The Emperor.

But she never expected that as soon as she went online, a message would pop up on the screen: [Congratulations on completing Mission 11 (Advanced): Save The Emperor from an assassination in Yunzhou. This mission reward is + 1000 gold coins and + 15 points.]

It was completed so quickly?

Zaizai was too awesome. Su Xi was pleasantly surprised.

At the same time, she saw that the total points were 102 last time, but now it had suddenly become 127!

What happened?

Su Xi was suddenly stunned. Apart from the points from the newly completed mission, where did the other 10 points come from?!

Even if Zaizai had been frantically annotating books and doing push-ups these past few days, it was impossible for there to suddenly be an extra 10 points?

Su Xi's head was full of question marks. She wondered if there was a bug in the game system that automatically completed some mission and gave her 10 extra points.

But no matter what, the faster the points increased, the happier Su Xi was. This was because according to the nature of this game, there should be some big gift pack when it reached 200 points.

When she found Zaizai in the palace, the disguised assassins had already been arrested and were being interrogated by The Emperor himself.

Zaizai, the Zhenyuan General, and the others stood to one side in the palace.

Su Xi thought that Zaizai had bravely saved The Emperor once, which should have made The Emperor see him in a new light.

But Zaizai didn't seem to want to take out the jade pendant and let The Emperor see it to restore his identity.

He was probably still doubting the authenticity of the Taoist nun's words.

But Su Xi in front of the screen knew that the Taoist nun's words couldn't be false.

Zaizai didn't want to restore his identity as the Ninth Princes, so Su Xi began to hesitate. She didn't know if she should help Zaizai by deliberately taking out his jade pendant and letting The Emperor see it.

If it was in the past, Su Xi would definitely do this in order to complete the game's ultimate goal and let the game's protagonist ascend to the throne.

But she could sense that Zaizai didn't seem to want to participate in the struggle for the throne.

This put Su Xi in a difficult position.

The goal was important, but she didn't want to go against Zaizai's wishes.

She looked at Zaizai on the screen for a while, and then looked at The Emperor for a while. In the end, she didn't take the initiative to deliberately take out Zaizai's jade pendant to let the Emperor see it.

But Su Xi didn't think that blood relations could be very strange. Even without the jade pendant as evidence, when Lu Huan saved The Emperor today, The Emperor held his breath for a moment. At that moment, it wasn't because he was afraid of the rope that was about to cut his neck, but because he saw a familiar shadow in Lu Huan.

The Emperor was somewhat absent-minded when he interrogated the assassins, and his gaze frequently fell on Lu Huan.

In the end, he even forgot to give a reward. His expression wasn't very good, and he waved his hand to let people take the assassins back to the capital to be dealt with by the Supreme Court. Then, he dismissed everyone.

Lu Huan, the Zhenyuan General, and the others returned from the palace to their encampment outside the city. But before returning, he first went to a place outside the city.

After leaving the Monastery of Eternal Spring that day, he sent people to inquire. It turned out that Noble Lady Qing was born in Yunzhou.

The Emperor had buried her in the Imperial Mausoleum, but because he missed her so much, he set up a cenotaph for her in Yunzhou.

The cenotaph was also heavily guarded. Lu Huan relied on his good martial arts skills to sneak in without anyone noticing.

The night was very cold. Yunzhou was close to the north, and the weather was very cold. A layer of frost had already formed on the ground.

It looked like someone had come to the cenotaph a few days ago, and there was a box of jewelry that a woman liked. It should have been the Emperor who thought he was infatuated with her.

But even so, the surroundings were cold and cheerless, and there was still endless loneliness.

Lu Huan lowered his eyes and quietly looked at the cenotaph. His expression was somewhat complicated.

Su Xi tugged on his sleeve, and only then did he come back to his senses. His expression turned gentle. "You're here."

Su Xi felt that although Zaizai didn't believe the Daoist nun's words from the bottom of his heart, the matter of his birth mother, Noble Lady Qing, should have touched his heart.

After all, he didn't have any impression of his birth mother after he was born. Not to mention Noble Lady Qing, he didn't even know what Prince Ning Fu's lowly concubine mother looked like.

He grew up in Prince Ning Fu's household. Although he had status, he was actually worse than an orphan.

Su Xi's heart was filled with pity, and his voice was very soft. "What are you thinking about?"

Zaizai looked at the cenotaph and said, "I'm thinking that she should have been a very good person. Unfortunately, the Emperor is heartless.

I've never even seen her face. I heard that all the portraits in the palace were burned. "

After Noble Lady Qing's death, the Emperor went crazy for a period of time, and had people burn down the place where Noble Lady Qing lived.

But after burning it down, he lost his soul and was in incomparable pain. He then built a temporary palace for the deceased in Yunzhou.

The complicated emotions of the Emperor were truly incomprehensible.

Su Xi couldn't help but sigh. After thinking for a bit, he said, "Don't be sad. At least I'm with you."

Lu Huan looked up at the line of words floating in the night sky. His furrowed brows relaxed, and he smiled. "Mm."

The Zhenyuan army continued on their journey the next day. In the temporary palace of Yunzhou, the Emperor didn't sleep that night. He secretly summoned people and ordered, "Secretly investigate the matter of Noble Lady Qing. Find the imperial physician who diagnosed her miscarriage and interrogate him again."

Snow swirled in the northern border, and the situation was critical. When the Zhenyuan general arrived with the army, spies from the neighboring country were caught at the border.

The neighboring country had already quietly brought troops to the city, and the flames of war could be triggered at any moment.

Before reaching the northern border, Lu Huan was already extremely busy. After reaching the northern border, he was even more busy.

For the first two days, Su Xi only saw the starving people on the roadside of the northern border on the screen. Corpses were piled high. The places that used to be inns and taverns had now become mass graves. Disasters and riots had become more and more serious over the years, making this place like hell on earth.

It was a ghastly sight.

On the fifth day, spies sent by the neighboring country killed two civilians and were caught by the Yan Dynasty army. The Zhenyuan general was infuriated. She personally hung a prince of the neighboring country who had been captured a few days ago on the city wall and froze him to death.

An eye for an eye, indicating that the Yan Dynasty would definitely not back down!

This was the fuse, and the chaos of war completely began.

Su Xi and Lu Huan both received Mission 12 at the same time: [Quell the riots, make military contributions, and force the enemy to retreat. The reward is 2000 gold coins and 18 points.]

But at this moment, facing such a hellish city at the border, their attention could no longer be placed on the mission.

It was Su Xi's first time seeing such a scene of blood flowing like a river. Her eyelids twitched.

It was completely different from those ancient dramas where a few corpses were thrown on the ground. Instead, there were rotting corpses of soldiers and civilians everywhere. Although the northern border was bitterly cold, there were still flies and maggots that flew and crawled among the corpses.

The civilians in the city huddled together in pain. In the distance, the flames of war were dazzling, and the Yan Dynasty's flag was flying.

If it weren't for the fact that Su Xi didn't have money and all she saw were dead people, she would have vomited.

On the day of her birthday, Su Xi didn't have time to spend it with Lu Huan. Lu Huan changed into armor and led the troops to leave the northern border directly to the front line. The flames of war were intense. He spent most of his time on horseback, so he didn't have much time to communicate with Su Xi.

He wanted Su Xi to not open the brick screen on her side during this period of time. She didn't want to see the scene of blood flowing like a river on his side.

But Su Xi was on tenterhooks every day. She was afraid that the child she had raised with great difficulty would be injured in the flames of war. Instead, she turned on her mobile phone more frequently than before.

Lu Huan and the Zhenyuan General discussed matters together in the tent. Lu Huan came up with a lot of strategies, so that in the past month, the Yan Dynasty had repeatedly won and the neighbouring countries had retreated several cities.

But there was a new critical problem at the moment.

Before the neighbouring countries retreated, they tied up hundreds of old, young, women and children and retreated to the canyon of Huiyan Mountain to threaten the Zhenyuan army to retreat.

At this time, if they didn't pursue the victory, the neighbouring countries would most likely take advantage of this period of time to recuperate and continue to invade.

But if they pursued the victory, the more than one hundred old, young, women and children would certainly be beheaded in public.

They were all ordinary people of the Yan Dynasty. Their relatives were being escorted back to the city by the army. If they abandoned the lives of more than one hundred people, even if the Zhenyuan army won this war, they would most likely lose the support of the Yan Dynasty in the future.

For now, there was only one way, and that was to have a team secretly sneak into the canyon of Huiyan Mountain, rescue the more than one hundred people, and then wipe out the enemy in one fell swoop.

In the tent, Lu Huan stared at the topographic map on the table with a heavy heart.

The candlelight cast a shadow on the side of his face, flickering between light and darkness.

Before coming to the North, Su Xi already knew that marching and fighting would be very difficult, so she accompanied Zaizai to practice martial arts for a long time.

But she never thought that it would be so dangerous.

Swords and spears don't have eyes. Although Zaizai's martial arts were already very good and he didn't suffer any major injuries, but his skin was inevitably scratched a few times.

His white face was stained with some mud and bloodstains. Because he didn't know when the bugle horn would sound, he didn't have time to treat it. His arm was scratched by an arrow a few days ago, so he hurriedly bandaged it.

Every day when Su Xi saw him leave the tent, her heart would beat rapidly. Only when he stayed in the tent did her heart settle down a little.

If she had known it would be like this, she would have done everything possible to turn the main mission in another direction and avoid the mission in the North no matter what.

Su Xi couldn't help but sigh. She sat at the table and held a pen, unable to read a single question on the paper.

Lu Huan memorized the topographic map and looked at the screen. Seeing her worried face, he became even more worried for her.

Xiao Xi hadn't done any papers since she came back from school a few days ago. She had been staring at him nervously.

If this went on, wouldn't she fall behind in her studies?

But Lu Huan couldn't say it out loud. He said to Su Xi warmly, "You should rest early. I'll be fine. This time, I've already thought of a countermeasure to bring people to save people. I might not be the one leading the troops."

Su Xi didn't believe it at all. She felt that the old Zhenyuan General would definitely let Zaizai lead the troops.

She sighed. "If I had known, I wouldn't have come to this lousy place."

For Su Xi, although she had already seen the scene of rivers of blood, perhaps it was because the corpses of the people had all been systematically transformed into cartoon characters, so although she felt pity, she didn't feel so indignant.

Of course, what she cared more about was Zaizai, whom she had accompanied for almost a year and a half. She hadn't even been able to celebrate his sixteenth birthday because of the flames of war.

But Lu Huan had seen the bloody scene with his own eyes. He wanted to end the war as soon as possible and return peace to the people of the North. Naturally, he was more anxious than she was.

Lu Huan smiled. He didn't blame her for not being able to understand the dynasty he lived in.

They were separated by a thousand years. Everything, whether it was culture, language, or thinking, was very different.

After he came into contact with some of the knowledge and culture on her side, he realized that many of the feudal cultures in his dynasty were very decadent. On the contrary, her side was more peaceful. Wars almost never happened there.

Therefore, she didn't need to understand the backward and closed nature of his dynasty at all. She just let him integrate into her dynasty.

He really wanted to touch her through the screen, but he also felt that it would be very strange to do so. So he promised, "This war should be over in less than three months. When that time comes, we'll return to the capital. I haven't shown you the newly bought residence yet."

Su Xi was a little happier. "Mm."

Lu Huan urged her again. "Hurry up and go to sleep."

Su Xi looked at Zaizai on her phone screen. She didn't know why, but ever since Zaizai turned back into an original drawing after one hundred, he was handsome, but he always talked to her like an old father.

It was the kind of old father who hurried to buy medicine when his period hurt.

She shook her head, wondering if it was just her imagination.

However, it was indeed late and she had to go offline. So she said goodnight to Zaizai again and slowly went offline.

Although Lu Huan urged Su Xi to go to sleep, he was actually very reluctant. He didn't stay in the tent for long. These days, if he wasn't marching, fighting, or ambushing, he didn't have much time to talk to her.

Moreover, because there were too many soldiers in the army, there was no privacy. When he was injured, he could only deal with it himself. She couldn't help him deal with it like before.

He was also thinking about when he could return to the capital from the north.

As he thought about this, he looked up at the screen again.

Then, he saw that Xiao Xi was gradually fading away on the screen. A bunch of bubbles appeared on his head.

"Sigh, she left just like that. She didn't even stay with me for two more seconds when I was injured."

"Sigh, my face was injured yesterday. After Xiao Xi came, I didn't even notice. She only said a few words of concern. Sigh, if I knew this would happen, I would have been more seriously injured."

"Sigh, I want to go back to the capital."

"Sigh …"

Lu Huan's expression suddenly went blank. This bunch of bubbles — he actually had so many thoughts in his head?

Why didn't he know?!

He hurriedly covered his head, but the bubbles continued to appear. Fortunately, the screen on Su Xi's side turned black after a while.

On the screen, Su Xi was staring at the bunch of bubbles, slapping the table and laughing wildly.

Lu Huan's face darkened. "…"