Chapter 27

Emperor Qin Yue dismissed everyone with the words, “Allow Us to consider.”

Qin Xiyi returned to the Princess’s Residence that night, only to find Liang Ying missing. The palace servants were kneeling all over the floor, saying that as soon as the princess left, Han Su had sent people to take away the little crown prince.

Qin Xiyi nearly collapsed to the ground. She looked at the little rabbit that Cheng Mozhi had personally carved for Liang Ying, now smashed into two halves, and her heart bled with pain.

“Princess, please take care of yourself…” the old wet nurse of the residence cried and pleaded.

The old wet nurse knew that perhaps the princess’s only reason to live was now gone.

But Qin Xiyi wiped her face, stood up, and the sorrow in her eyes vanished without a trace.

She walked into the study, not allowing anyone to follow her in.

Inside the study, she opened a secret compartment and entered a secret chamber.

Inside the chamber was a brocade box. She opened the box and took out a silver sword.

“Mother, I’ve endured for twenty years, and today, I won’t endure it any longer. I want to save him, I want to save my child.”

Then she lit the tassel of the silver sword. The tassel caught fire, and the flames shot out of the skylight and outside the chamber, blooming into a giant butterfly high in the sky.

After several decades, the secret operative personally left by Empress Zhang before her death was activated.