Joy of Life: Me, the Second Prince? Summon Yuan Tiangang!

"ah--!"

She instinctively let out a short gasp.

The two soldiers wielding steel knives were now completely petrified.

Their eyes widened in horror as they stared at the decapitated corpse on the ground, then at the Second Prince standing there with an icy expression. Their legs began to tremble uncontrollably.

crazy!

The Second Prince has completely gone mad!

He actually dared to kill the eunuch sent by His Majesty to deliver the imperial edict right in front of him when he was surrounded by the army!

This is tantamount to open rebellion, and tantamount to slapping Emperor Qing in the face in public!

They were ordered to protect the eunuch who was delivering the imperial edict, but now the eunuch is dead.

They had no doubt that the prince, a god of death, would swing his sword and kill them all in the next second.

Faced with absolute power and the fear of death, the courage of these two battle-hardened veterans crumbled instantly.

Their hands, gripping the knives, were trembling violently; they didn't even have the strength to lift them.

However, Li Chengze did not look at them again.

He acted as if he had casually crushed a tiny bug, his eyes showing no emotion whatsoever.

He loosened his grip.

Clang!

He tossed the blood-stained longsword to the ground like a piece of trash, making a crisp metallic clang.

The sound, however, was like a death knell to the two soldiers.

Li Chengze turned around and walked back to the soft couch.

He looked at the trembling Si Lili, and the coldness in his eyes vanished instantly, replaced by the gentle yet domineering gaze he had shown before.

He bent down, disregarding the possibility that Si Lili's light veil might be stained with the bloodstains on his clothes, and directly stretched out his arms to pick her up horizontally.

Si Lili gasped in surprise, instinctively reaching out to hug his neck and burying her face in his chest, unable to bear looking at the horrific scene on the ground.

Holding Si Lili in his arms, Li Chengze strode barefoot across the blood-soaked ground and headed straight for the bedroom inside the warm pavilion.

When he reached the broken wooden door, he paused slightly.

He didn't turn around, but instead stood with his back to the two soldiers who were already terrified, and in an extremely calm tone, yet with boundless arrogance and disdain, he uttered a single sentence:

"Go back and tell Father that if anyone comes to deliver a message, they should wait until I'm finished."

After saying that, he picked up Si Lili and walked behind the beaded curtain of the bedroom without looking back.

"Splash..."

The beaded curtain swayed, making a crisp clinking sound, completely isolating the spring light inside the bedroom from the bloodshed outside.

Inside the warm pavilion, only the headless corpse, the blood all over the floor, and two soldiers standing frozen in place remained.

"Gulp."

One of the soldiers swallowed hard, the sound unusually loud in the deathly silent room.

"Go...go quickly!"

The other soldier finally reacted. He let out a hoarse growl and, without even bothering to tidy up the corpse on the ground, turned and ran away.

Like stray dogs, the two stumbled and rushed out of the warm pavilion and out of the Second Prince's residence.

Outside the mansion, Gong Dian was on horseback, coldly watching the gate. When he saw the two soldiers, pale-faced and scrambling out, but the eunuch who had delivered the imperial edict was nowhere to be seen, his brows furrowed sharply.

"What happened? Where is he?" Gong Dian shouted sternly.

"Dead...dead..." The soldier fell to his knees with a thud, trembling like a leaf. "Second Prince...Second Prince drew his sword...and cut off the eunuch's head..."

"What?!"

Upon hearing this, the surrounding Imperial Guard generals all gasped in shock, their faces filled with disbelief.

Gong Dian's pupils suddenly contracted. He turned his head sharply and stared intently at the tightly closed vermilion gate, the veins on the back of his hand holding the riding whip bulging.

"Madman... Li Chengze, you've really gone mad," Gong Dian muttered to himself. He knew that the sky was truly about to fall.

"Prepare the horses immediately! I want to personally escort them to the palace to meet the Emperor!" The palace official made a decisive decision. This matter was beyond his authority and the Emperor needed to be informed immediately.

……

The palace at night is like a giant beast lurking in the darkness, exuding a suffocating sense of oppression.

The Imperial Study was brightly lit.

Emperor Qing was still wearing his loose-fitting casual clothes, holding a sharp carving knife in his hand, and was concentrating on carving the arrowhead of a feathered arrow. His movements were slow and steady, as if the raging waves outside could not affect him in the slightest.

Eunuch Hou stood aside, not daring to even breathe loudly.

"Bang bang bang!"

Hurried footsteps sounded outside the door, followed by Gong Dian's deep voice: "Your Majesty, I, Gong Dian, have an extremely urgent matter to discuss!"

Emperor Qing paused slightly in his carving knife, but he did not raise his head. He simply uttered a single word: "Enter."

The door was pushed open, and Gong Dian walked in with the two still-shaken soldiers.

"Your Majesty!" Two soldiers entered the room, slumped like mud.

"Your Majesty!" The two soldiers burst through the door and immediately began kowtowing frantically on the ground like rag dolls, crying, "Your Majesty, spare us! Your Majesty, spare us!"

"What's the matter that you're so flustered?" Emperor Qing put down the carving knife in his hand, picked up a white silk handkerchief, and slowly wiped the wood shavings off his fingers, his tone calm and without a ripple.

Gong Dian stepped forward, knelt on one knee, and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty, the eunuch who was sent to the Second Prince's residence to deliver the imperial edict just now... was beheaded on the spot by the Second Prince."

Upon hearing this, the air in the imperial study seemed to freeze instantly.

Eunuch Hou's legs went weak, and he almost lost his footing. To execute the imperial envoy was blatant treason!

He secretly raised his eyelids, observing Emperor Qing's expression. He expected to see thunderous rage, and to hear an imperial edict to raze the Second Prince's residence to the ground.

However, there was no trace of rage on Emperor Qing's face.

He simply stopped wiping his fingers, raised his head slightly, and his deep gaze fell on the two soldiers.

"Oh? Killed him?" Emperor Qing's voice remained calm, even carrying a hint of barely perceptible amusement. "How did he kill him?"

One of the soldiers, mustering his courage, stammered out a detailed account of everything that had happened inside the warm pavilion. This included how Li Chengze held Si Lili, how he beheaded her with a single sword strike, and the extremely arrogant words he left behind.

"He...the Second Prince said...said..." The soldier swallowed hard, not daring to repeat those words.

"What are you going to say? Tell the truth, and I will pardon you," Emperor Qing said calmly.

"His Highness said... go back and tell Father that if anyone comes to deliver a message... wait... wait until I'm done." After saying this, the soldier pressed his head firmly to the ground, waiting for the wrath of the thunderbolt to descend.

The entire imperial study fell into a deathly silence.

Eunuch Hou's heart was in his throat, and Gong Dian also lowered his head, not daring to look directly at the emperor's face.

one second.

two seconds.

three seconds.

"Oh……"