AWB Chapter 216 I feel a little lightheaded
Chapter 216 I feel a little lightheaded
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After leaving Lan's place, Lu Yangyang returned to the courtyard she hadn't lived in for a while. She stood there for a while, then climbed a tree to look at the neighboring courtyard.
After she rarely returned to the Duke of Sheng's mansion, the Crown Prince also rarely came to stay at the villa.
But he rarely returned to the Eastern Palace.
Aside from the fixed time each month when they would go to give the prince acupuncture, they rarely had the chance to meet at other times.
Lu Yangyang still had a lot to say to him.
There are some things she can tell her friends, but there are others she prefers to share with the Crown Prince.
As she was thinking this, she suddenly saw the lights come on in the neighboring yard.
Lu Yangyang's eyes lit up, and she immediately climbed down from the tree, jumped over into the neighboring courtyard, and ran towards the Crown Prince's courtyard.
In just a short while, it started snowing.
When she ran to the Crown Prince's courtyard, she saw him wearing a black cloak with gold embroidery and carrying a palace lantern.
The snow fell on the palace lanterns and melted into water droplets.
"Your Highness!" Lu Yangyang exclaimed in surprise, quickly walking over and supporting his wheelchair. "When did Your Highness arrive? Why are you alone? I just saw a light on. Did Your Highness just arrive?"
"Judging by the time, you should be back today. I've already received a letter from A-Yao saying that you've done something extraordinary," the Crown Prince said softly.
Hearing this, Lu Yangyang felt a little embarrassed and touched her nose. "Brother, you're exaggerating. I've told him countless times that this wasn't my idea. I was just taking a gamble. I never expected it to actually work. Uncle Fang, do you know? He's one of my master's senior brothers. He was so excited he cried. To be honest, I didn't think that much at the time. I was just hoping that Brother could survive, and that all the innocent people and soldiers in Yangguan City could live."
Lu Yangyang truly thought so, so when they later attributed the credit to her, she felt a little guilty.
"Even if it was a lucky accident, it's all thanks to your courage to stay and try. Otherwise, even the best method would be buried and useless," the Crown Prince said earnestly.
The snowflakes started falling faster, landing on Lu Yangyang's face. Although it was cold, her cheeks felt slightly hot.
I've heard praise from people countless times, but hearing it from the Crown Prince always feels different and makes me feel exceptionally happy.
Lu Yangyang suddenly felt a little lightheaded.
She quickly changed the subject, pushing the prince inside: "Your Highness, it's snowing, let's go inside quickly."
The crown prince chuckled softly.
Lu Yangyang quickly pushed him into the house, subconsciously bending down to brush the snow off him, so much so that she didn't notice that a strand of hair from her forehead gently brushed against his cheek.
The chill of the snow on the girl mingled with the faint scent of medicine. The prince's gaze fell on her clean earlobe, and he couldn't help but wonder whether pearls or malachite were more beautiful.
Lu Yangyang straightened up, took the palace lantern from his hand and put it away. Turning her head, she saw that the Crown Prince seemed to be lost in thought, so she waved her hand in front of his eyes, "Your Highness?"
The crown prince snapped out of his daze and gave her a faint smile.
Lu Yangyang was momentarily stunned by the excessively beautiful smile, her breath catching in her throat. She thought to herself, "The Crown Prince's beauty is truly too unfair. The novels that Jiaojiao often reads describe a femme fatale as someone who brings disaster to the world, and this is probably what he looks like."
The Crown Prince, unaware of her inner thoughts, brought up the important matter with her: "What exactly did Li Duan see on the day of her aunt's birthday banquet?"
Lu Yangyang then remembered that this was exactly what she had come to tell the Crown Prince, so she hurriedly recounted how Li Duan had been kidnapped. She had left the capital in a hurry that day and only had time to send a message to the Crown Prince. She only learned the details after meeting Li Duan, but by then she and Li Duan were already far from the capital. She was worried that the message might be intercepted, so she had been very discreet and dared not say much.
After arriving in Yangguan City, such a major incident occurred, so they had no time to spare for anything else.
But this matter is not over yet.
She hurriedly told the Crown Prince about what Li Duan had seen Xue Wanning plotting with someone: "Xiao Li said she only saw the man's back. He looked somewhat familiar, but she couldn't hear his voice clearly. He was speaking in a low voice. She didn't know him well, so he probably wasn't someone she saw often. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been unable to recognize him."
She then remembered something else: "My elder brother said that the merchants brought the plague into Yangguan City, but they died soon after. He had all the people involved locked up, but because most of them died, he didn't get any useful clues. He is still investigating where those merchants came from."
“They were so certain that my brother would die, so certain that this was a dead end. The Tianhua plague must be related to them,” Lu Yangyang said with certainty.
The Crown Prince nodded: "I took the opportunity to investigate the events of my aunt's birthday. The person you mentioned who was with Miss Xue is not the Third Prince."
"Not the Third Prince?" Lu Yangyang was taken aback, but not particularly surprised. It was impossible for Xiao Li not to recognize the Third Prince, unless that person was not the Third Prince at all.
But back then, Xue Wanning clearly got involved with the Third Prince, which is why she abandoned her eldest brother and even wanted to kill him.
Lu Yangyang couldn't quite figure it out for a moment.
“The third prince has an alibi. He was invited out by Miss Cheng before the banquet even started that day. The gatekeeper saw him leave. At the time of the incident, he had just run into Miss Cheng, and someone else saw that too. The timing doesn’t match up,” the Crown Prince said.
Therefore, we can rule out the Third Prince first. He was not the one who spoke with Xue Wanning that day and then kidnapped Li Duan.
However, it cannot be ruled out that the events at Yangguan City were unrelated to him.
“I had someone investigate the people who followed Li Duan afterward, and it’s likely that the person who assassinated you last year was acting on the orders of the same person.”
Lu Yangyang was shocked, never expecting that she was involved: "Didn't those people disappear without a trace later?"
The group that attempted to assassinate her last year were almost all dead by then. They went silent afterward, clearly out of fear of being exposed, which made it difficult to continue the investigation.
“Manpower can be replaced, but the style of operation can always be found by clues. The assassin who kidnapped Li Duan committed suicide before being caught. I had someone examine the body and found the same poison on him as the assassin who tried to assassinate you last year.”
"Whether it's keeping secret guards or assassins, they usually have fixed methods of control, and poison is one of them. What's more, this poison is somewhat similar to the mind-controlling datura found in the Qinglian Temple's Nourishing Heart Pill last year."