Heartless Phoenix Queen - C232

The arrival of Shuangshuang added a touch of brightness to the gray life of Ziyuan during this period. Coincidentally, during this period of time, Zi Yuan really wanted to purge those who wanted to support the new King and oppose the women’s rule. During the period of turmoil during which the court was in a state of chaos, the Minister of the Left had infiltrated the imperial court with many of his students. He had even tried to rope in a few idle princes who had not asked about politics for a long time. One of the Left Premier’s men had been killed by a dart in the morning assembly. She knew that her actions had completely turned the Minister of the Left into her enemy. The most important thing for him to do now was to use assassination to clear out his young supporters one by one, depriving him of the control of his words and the pump in the imperial court.

She personally investigated a file, spent three days and three nights to compile a list, and then handed it to Shuang Shuangshuang.

“You can kill one of these people every night and ask me for a plan after you’ve explored the terrain. However, you have to do it yourself and if you alert anyone, your life will be gone. In other words, all actions can only succeed and not fail.” Zi Yuan said sincerely and earnestly.

Qu Shuangshuang didn’t expect to be given such an important task as soon as she arrived in Beiyue Capital. Now, a few months after the new year, she was only eleven. She wasn’t familiar with the terrain of Beijing, so even though she was excited about the quest, she calmly requested for a few days to familiarize herself with the terrain.

In the end, the Violet Garden had taken out a very detailed map and gave it to Qu Shuangshuang, telling her to memorize the map forcefully. Then he gave her an address and told her to get there within the allotted time and then return by the same route.

Just like this, after two days of special training, Shuang Shuangshuang was ready to carry out the first big task of her life. Of course, this was also a great test for her. If she succeeded, the Violet Garden would officially begin her plan. If Qu Shuangshuang failed, her plan would have to start from selection again. It could be said that the Violet Garden was only gambling with him.

Flowers two, one at each end.

After Feng Lingxue received the commission from Murong Xiu that Lady Fang brought back, as well as the truth about Helian Profound Wings’ disappearance, he was both shocked and helpless. However, he immediately gave her an order to save Helian from the Western Paradise Prison at all costs, and save Helian from Dongping to heal his wounds.

After receiving her orders, Lady Fang sped up and rushed to Xilai City. She didn’t know why, but even though she knew that all she had done before was just a mission and that she shouldn’t feel any discomfort, she still felt an inexplicable sense of guilt towards Helian Lie. Thus, when she received the mission given by Feng Lingxue to save Helian, she became excited and felt a sense of atonement.

Feng Lingxue didn’t think of what Aunt Fang was thinking in her heart, but seeing her so happy, the way she looked at her was a bit strange. To be honest, although Feng Lingxue was the highest ranking officer of Mei Ji’s organization, the ones carrying out the mission were all these Mei Ji’s. He had never cared about how these Mei Ji carried out the mission, so Feng Lingxue did not have the time to pay attention to those details.

Although he had more or less guessed that this girl must have had physical contact with Helian, he hadn’t expected her to be so concerned about Helian. He immediately thought of Zi Yuan, and couldn’t help but worry about how Zi Yuan was doing. In this period of time, most of his thoughts had been on his daughter, Feng Yuxi.

He pondered whether it was time for him to bring his daughter to visit the Violet Garden. However, this daughter of his refused to let him rest, stuck to him, had a fever, cough, and so on. He was truly worried to be able to bring his daughter along.

As for Lady Fang, she had rushed back to the Western City, and had quickly used Mei Ji’s internal intelligence network to find out the exact location of Helian’s detention. She surveyed the terrain, called for a few sisters who had been lying in ambush in the west for a long time to help her infiltrate the Sky Prison. She was afraid that this Helian would see that it was her who was not cooperating with her, so when she saw Helian, she wanted to knock him out immediately. Because of the injuries on his body, this Helian was in a half asleep state. In the middle of the night, this state was even more intense. He completely looked like a living corpse.

Thus, Aunt Fang directly carried him out and told her good sister to bring the person who replaced Helian into the house and place him there. Fortunately, at that time, she had found a substitute who was on the verge of death. Her current state was quite similar to Helian, and it might be possible for her to deceive the guards for a period of time.

Along the way, a life occasionally popped out of Helian’s mouth. At the beginning, Aunt Fang didn’t hear it clearly, but she later realized that he had originally called out “Zi Yuan”. As a woman, she couldn’t help but feel a little envious of Zi Yuan.

The journey from the west to the east was via the North Vietnamese. After travelling for two days and two nights in a row, they had finally entered the northern region of the Yue State. Helian Lie, who had been in a half asleep state, suddenly woke up. At this moment, Aunt Fang was resting on a hilltop. Seeing Helian wake up, she was extremely happy. He didn’t expect Helian to stand up with all his might as if he wanted to fight with her. The moment she got close to him, he would heavily hit her. There was no helping it, Lady Fang could only retaliate.

Thus, the two of them fought twice before arriving at the edge of the cliff. Lady Fang saw that behind her was a bottomless abyss, and nimbly jumped back to a safe place. But Helian didn’t have time to stop his steps, and directly rushed towards the cliff. Aunt Fang quickly reached out to stop him, but only grabbed a corner of his clothes.

This could be considered as Lady Fang’s first mission failure. She sat at the edge of the cliff and was depressed for a long time, but there was nothing she could do. He could only pack up and return to report this tragic news to Feng Lingxue. However, when she walked on the road, she still felt very uncomfortable, so she simply sent a secret message to Feng Lingxue.

When Feng Lingxue received this secret report, he was a little shocked and also a little sad. He felt that this Helian Xuan Yi’s fate was truly ill-fated. However, what he was worried about the most was that Zi Yuan would not be able to take such a huge blow if he knew about this.

At that moment, he decided to bring his precious daughter to visit the Violet Palace in the North Yue palace.

Meanwhile, Qu Shuangshuang had sent a task of clearing up the area, but Qu Shuangshuang was doing it in an orderly manner. At first, when the first person was found dead at home, everyone thought it might have been an accident. However, after another day had passed, another relatively younger official had died, and another member of the family had died. Everyone felt that this was a coincidence.

Another day later, another person died. This time, he was not at home, but on the way home from the brothel. He also died suddenly. Some people in the court began to panic. During the morning assembly, they reported on paper that there was a perverted killer in Beijing right now.

The Violet Garden naturally made light of this matter. Moreover, it said that this matter belonged to the Ministry of Justice and had the Board of Justice investigate it. The head of the Board of Punishments was actually one of the top secret guards among the dark guards of Helian Lie. He had more or less guessed that these assassinations were done by the disciples of Zi Yuan. Since it was done by that little girl, it meant that the empress herself wanted to kill the political enemy. Therefore, he could roughly guess the reason. During the investigation, it was simply a matter of course.

Following that, another official died a day later. More and more people started to panic as more paper clips appeared on their hands. As before, Zi Yuan pushed all responsibility onto the Board of Justice. The President of the Board of Punishments could only mutter to himself.

Just like this, half of the officials had died while the smart ones had already guessed that the empress was trying to clean up the political enemies. Thus, no one bothered about it anymore. Almost all the officials in the court had silently acknowledged the existence of this weird assassin.

The assassin operated for a month, and left party officials were assassinated on the fifteenth. The Minister of the Left took a leave of absence, and Ziyuan simply persuaded her to give up her old home. She chose the right people from another group to take the place of the Minister of the Left, and a dozen or so young men from the political parties of the Minister of the Left to take the places of the dead officials.

After she had completely cleaned up the Imperial Palace, Feng Lingxue brought his Phoenix Garden Xi over to the Imperial Palace.

This time, he came as Emissary Dongping, so Zi Yuan had no choice but to treat him with courtesy. At first, she was dissatisfied, but when she saw the cute and adorable Phoenix Garden, her maternal love immediately flooded.

With his daughter’s blessing, Feng Lingxue was able to obtain what she wanted, and she once again entered the Northern Yue Palace. On this matter, an old official made a note, but before Zi Yuan could reply, a young descendant retorted, “The empress resides in the palace, while Emissary Dong Ping only resides in the palace’s outer court. Why not?” Thus, this matter didn’t cause any more gossip.

Only, in reality, Feng Lingxue did not stay in the emissary’s pavilion, but in the west hall of the palace that she used to live in. Zi Yuan’s two children liked this little sister very much, especially her older brother. They couldn’t help but want to touch her little face. This action made Feng Lingxue a little worried, but also helpless.

At first, she had a cold on the way, but after arriving at the Northern Yue Palace, she unexpectedly recovered quickly. The three of them were eating and sleeping together, just like siblings who were born from the same mother.

These adorable little angels helped Violet Garden ease her worries a little. However, she really wanted to quickly set up her assassination organization. Now that there was Feng Lingxue, who specialized in controlling organizations, beside him, Zi Yuan naturally asked him everything he thought of.

Feng Lingxue naturally spoke everything he knew about Zi Yuan. When it was necessary, he even used his business contacts in the Northern Yue. At this moment, he did not hide the fact that he was that mysterious rich businessman. He knew that since Helian had already found out, there was no way the Violet Garden did not know.

However, he carefully observed the Violet Garden every day. Seeing that she didn’t seem to miss Helian, he felt that it was a bit strange. He knew that the Violet Garden thought that Helian had disappeared, but with Feng Lingxue’s understanding, the Violet Garden should not be so cold. Every time he intentionally brought up Helian, she would avoid this topic.

At first, Feng Lingxue thought that she did not want to talk about this topic, but later on she realized that she really did not want to talk about Helian Lie. Feng Lingxue thought that there must have been a misunderstanding between them, and this misunderstanding was definitely the one between the crafty Murong Xiu who bought Mei Ji and said he would execute the mission. Thinking to this point, Feng Lingxue could not help but bitterly smile: “I never expected that I would once again have the effect of adding fuel to the fire.”