"Be careful? Be careful about what?" Xiao Huayong stroked his wide long sleeves with one hand and lightly touched the flowers that stretched out from the railing with his fingertips. His eyes, as deep as the abyss, shone with a dark luster. "Does he think he still has a chance to make a comeback?"
Shen Xihe had never seen Xiao Huayong like this before. His whole body seemed to be shrouded in a thick murderous aura. The short-lived man who was originally lying on the beauty's back gave a cry, jumped off the beauty's back, and quickly left the pavilion.
"Your Highness, you..." Shen Xihe didn't understand what Xiao Huayong was going to do for a moment.
"I will make his life more painful than his death. I will make him a rat in the gutter all his life, never having the chance to see the light of day again." With a click, he plucked a peony flower.
Xiao Huayong walked to Shen Xihe holding the flower stem with his fingertips, put the flower into her hair, stepped back two steps, and smiled at her: "Even a peony can't match my Yoyo."
Smiling at Shen Xihe, Xiao Huayong continued, "I will go back to the palace first. Youyou will take care of the rest."
He restrained all his sharpness and edge in front of Shen Xihe, and became much gentler and calmer. But Shen Xihe turned around and looked at his receding figure. Under the scorching sun, he was glowing like a sword, its blade as sharp as autumn frost, able to cut gold and jade.
"Your Highness, you were so majestic just now that I couldn't help but hold my breath." Hongyu let out a deep breath. She was holding it in.
Just now, in that instant, she felt that if her breathing disturbed His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, she would die instantly.
Zhenzhu also felt the indescribable pressure: "Princess, should we send someone to the Shen Mansion?"
"No need. Since Your Highness said that she will come back safely, she will come back naturally." Shen Xihe trusted Xiao Huayong very much.
It has to be said that out of consideration for Ye Wantang, Xiao Changtai would not take action against Shen Yingruo.
"Your Highness, there is no solid evidence that the Fourth Prince is the mastermind behind the tomb robbery. News from the imperial mausoleum said that the Fourth Prince's jade pendant was found on the charred corpse." Tian Yuan reported immediately after Xiao Huayong returned to the palace.
It was a jade pendant symbolizing the prince, and was exactly the same as the jade pendant that Xiao Changying had thrown to Shen Xihe when he first met her, except that the engraved word "Ying" had been changed to "Tai". Every prince had one, except for Xiao Huayong's, which had a different dragon pattern.
"There are still pit marks on the skull." Xiao Huayong added.
Tian Yuan bowed his head and replied, "Yes."
When Xiao Changtai was a child, the back of his head was injured and he almost died. The imperial physician at the time said that there would be a depression on the back of his head, hidden between the hair, which would not affect his appearance.
With these two pieces of evidence, it is basically ironclad evidence that the person who was burned to death in the imperial mausoleum was "Xiao Changtai".
If Xiao Changtai is caught alive, Your Majesty will certainly execute him. There is also evidence, and he can be found escaping to the imperial mausoleum.
Now that Xiao Changtai has "died" in the imperial mausoleum, even if Your Majesty guesses that he was the mastermind behind the tomb robbery, you cannot convict him without evidence.
"Your Majesty needs a legitimate way to take the blame for Xiao Changtai. I have to share your worries." Xiao Huayong walked around the table, found a box and handed it to Tian Yuan, "Give it to Cui Jinbai, he will know how to act."
“Yes.” Tian Yuan respectfully accepted it and left the hall.