Baoqin went out to prepare the ingredients.
Xiao Xixi was still leisurely cracking melon seeds.
Everyone believed she had lost her mind, running to play god and ghost in front of the Crown Prince for no good reason. But only she themselves knew that the Crown Prince really was going to suffer a bloody disaster.
She was originally a member of the metaphysical sect, having followed her master to learn divination and fortune-telling since childhood. Last night, she observed the astrology and discovered that the future Emperor Star was going to suffer a bloody disaster.
If something unfortunate really happened to the Crown Prince, according to the ancestral regulations of the Dasheng Dynasty, the concubines would have to be buried alive with him.
Xiao Xixi was still young; she was only sixteen years old now, and she absolutely did not want her wonderful salted-fish life to be buried just like this.
Therefore, she stayed up all night to make an amulet and sent it to the Crown Prince to help him escape this disaster.
Thinking of this, Xiao Xixi stroked her chin.
Calculating by the time, the Crown Prince’s bloody disaster should be about to happen very soon.
She hoped he could show some ambition and pass through this disaster safely, so as not to waste her painstaking efforts.
During the hunt today, Luo Qinghan was riding his horse in the forest, chasing a stag.
For some unknown reason, the horse beneath him suddenly went mad, rushing forward recklessly!
Luo Qinghan mobilized his inner force and pulled the reins tight, trying to rein in the horse.
Unfortunately, it was useless.
Ahead lay a cliff. If they rushed forward any further, both horse and rider would fall off the cliff.
Luo Qinghan could only endure the pain to abandon this beloved horse that had followed him for many years. He let go of the reins and used lightness skill to leap off the horse’s back.
Yet at the very instant he landed, a concealed arrow suddenly flew out from the woods, shooting straight toward his chest!
This arrow came too abruptly and at too fast a speed; Luo Qinghan no longer had time to dodge.
His pupils contracted, and his heart came to a sudden halt.
In an instant, the arrow had already flown before him, its sharp arrowhead only an inch away from his chest.
It looked as though his heart was about to be pierced through by the arrow.
At the critical juncture of life and death.
He suddenly felt a warmth in his chest.
The arrow seemed to hit an invisible barrier, pausing slightly, and was then bounced away. After flying some distance, it fell powerlessly to the ground.
Before Luo Qinghan could react to what had happened, over a dozen black-clad assassins burst out from the woods, wielding sabers and swords as they pounced toward him.
Fortunately, the guards had already arrived on horseback.
Seeing the assassins, they shouted a cry to protect the prince, drew their sabers, leaped off their horses, and began to fight fiercely with those assassins.
After a flurry of flashing sabers and swords.
Relying on their numerical advantage, the guards quickly gained the upper hand.
The assassins were no match; some died, while others were wounded.
Originally, Luo Qinghan wanted to keep a couple of them alive, but unfortunately, he was a step too late.
The few surviving assassins had already taken poison to commit suicide.
Luo Qinghan’s gaze was as dark as ice.
His line of sight swept over the ground full of corpses, finally landing on that arrow lying quietly on the grass.
The timing of that arrow just now had been calculated extremely exquisitely.
He was almost shot to death on the spot.
If not for that invisible barrier blocking it for him…
Thinking of this, Luo Qinghan uncontrollably raised his hand and touched his chest, discovering that something was hidden inside his clothes at his chest.
Taking it out to look, it was actually an amulet!
Although this amulet had already turned pitch black, looking as if it had been burned by fire, he still recognized it at a single glance—
This was the amulet Virtuous Consort Xiao had given him.
In just an instant, Luo Qinghan understood how this amulet got here.
It must have been when Virtuous Consort Xiao hugged his thigh; she had quietly stuffed the amulet into his clothes.
The amulet was very small and light, having almost no presence, to the point where he had never noticed its existence.
What he could not understand was, why did this amulet turn black?