After rebirth, my sister always wants to be close to me

Liu Yunyan did not understand what Lin Yuxuan said before he left. She did not know anyone in the martial arts world, so she did not take it to heart.

After Lin Yuxuan was taken away, the Duke of Protectorate's Mansion was in complete chaos. The old lady was so angry that she fainted. The Duke of Protectorate hurried into the palace to find the Queen Mother. After hearing Lin Momo's story about Liu Yunyan's experience in the Duke of Protectorate's Mansion, the Queen Mother simply closed the door and refused to see her.

Wuqi wanted to untie the ropes tied around Liu Yunyan's body, but was rejected by Liu Yunyan. Wuqi then had someone lift Liu Yunyan up and send her to the palace.

No one expected that the women who disappeared successively in the capital were actually related to the Duke of Protectorate's Mansion. Yun Ting was furious when he found out, especially when he saw that Liu Yunyan was tied to a chair and sent to the palace. She was not even tried. Lin Yuxuan was directly imprisoned in the Sky Prison and would be executed soon.

After learning what happened, Yun Ting was even more shocked. He did not expect that there was a secret passage in the palace. He immediately sent secret guards to secretly search for the secret passage in the palace. It took more than half a month before he finally found the entrance to the secret passage.

Liu Yunyan and Wuqi entered the secret passage and carefully looked at the surrounding structure. "Looking at the patterns on the wall, this secret passage must have been built quite some time ago."

Wuqi touched the stone wall, felt it, and then spoke, "It has existed for at least a hundred years. Even the emperor doesn't know the existence of this secret passage. I'm afraid it was the work of the previous dynasty."

"That's strange. The entrance to the secret passage is so hidden, how did Yun Ruoyao find this place?" Liu Yunyan was very confused. In order to find the secret passage mentioned by Lin Yuxuan, Liu Yunyan even called Feng Yu and Leng Yan. They were both experts in investigation and tracking, and it took them more than half a month to find it.

Leng Yan said expressionlessly, "Feng Yu and I searched the palace every night, and it was only after we discovered that there seemed to be an echo in the underground of the Imperial Garden that we found it thanks to Feng Yu's extraordinary hearing."

"That's strange," Liu Yunyan and a few others walked towards the depths of the secret passage with torches.

The further we walked, the more something seemed wrong. This underground secret passage was too wide, and the stone wall in front had a lot more decorations than the previous ones. It didn't look like a secret passage, but more like a place where people lived.

As they walked, they came to a door. The door was closed and had exquisite patterns carved on it.

"There is actually a door here..." Liu Yunyan walked forward and pushed the door, but it didn't move at all.

Wuqi took out a dagger and tried to pry open the door lock, but the lock was very strong.

Just then, the door slowly opened, and a stale smell blew in. They walked in cautiously and found a spacious hall inside.

The hall was filled with many precious jewels, collectibles, and utensils, as well as beds, furniture, and all kinds of daily necessities. There were also some scattered clothes and moldy food on the ground, and even some ropes and torture instruments inside.

Liu Yunyan looked around, her heart full of doubts.

Is this a place where people live or a prison?

Why is there such a palace under the imperial city? It is gorgeous, luxurious and dangerous.

"Miss, look," Feng Yu noticed a huge portrait in the center of the hall and gestured to Liu Yunyan.

"This is..." Liu Yunyan walked closer to the portrait. There were two people in the portrait, a man and a woman. The man looked familiar to Liu Yunyan, and the woman's southern Xinjiang costume was particularly eye-catching.

"Be careful," Wuqi and his men quickly protected Liu Yunyan in the middle. The arrows shot from all directions almost surrounded them.

Liu Yunyan stood in the center of the circle, surrounded by several people. Suddenly, she thought of something and looked at the portrait in disbelief. "The late emperor?"

"Destroy the mechanism," Liu Yunyan shouted, and the four of them flew to the mechanism points in four places. After completely destroying the mechanism, the rain of arrows stopped.

Liu Yunyan walked towards the portrait, "If this man is the retired emperor, then who is this woman? Why are their portraits here?" Since Yun Ruoyao led to the outside of the palace through this secret passage, how much did she know about this?

"Miss, the exit is just ahead," Wuqi came to report after checking that there was no danger.

"Go and have a look."

The exit of the secret passage was in an abandoned house a few hundred meters away from the palace wall. Several people searched the house but did not find anything suspicious.

"Yanyan, I just asked the people living nearby. They said that this yard has been abandoned for decades. No one has been seen entering or leaving during the day. Only at night, they can occasionally hear people talking in the house. But because this house was once haunted, no one dares to come here," Feng Yu told Liu Yunyan the news he had found out.

"Have you found out who the previous owner was?" Liu Yunyan asked. This secret passage is a hundred years old, and the house has only been abandoned for a few decades, so the previous owner is likely to know about this secret passage.

"An elderly man said that the previous owner of the house seemed to be surnamed Li. They called him Lao Li at that time, but because it has been so long, they have forgotten his name," Feng Yu said.

The last name is Li? What is the connection?

Liu Yunyan didn't know about the troubles of the retired emperor, and she didn't dare to ask the empress dowager, so she had to return to the palace and report to Yun Ting everything she saw in the secret passage.

Yun Ting was stunned for a long time after hearing this, and finally spoke, "When I was young, there was indeed a woman from Southern Xinjiang in the palace, but she disappeared not long after she stayed there. Now that I think about it, maybe she was imprisoned in that secret passage by the late emperor."

"There is indeed an opening on the palace that can accommodate one person in and out. I estimated the location and it should be the backyard of Yunhua Palace," Liu Yunyan thought for a moment before speaking her guess.

"Yes, that woman from Southern Xinjiang lived in Yunhua Palace back then," Yun Ting recalled the past with a lot of emotion, "The late emperor loved this woman from Southern Xinjiang very much and even let her live in Yunhua Palace, which represented the residence of the empress. I met her several times when I was young, and she didn't seem happy."

Liu Yunyan nodded and understood. It should be that the late emperor was attracted by the woman's beauty and took her by force. Later, the woman disappeared. She either died or ran away.

"What are you going to do with the secret passage? And what about your daughter?" It's time for the emperor to step in.

"I will send people to move the things inside out, and then completely seal the secret passage. As for Ruoyao, I will send people to monitor her every move," Yun Ting was really shocked when he thought that someone was shuttling back and forth in his imperial city and he had no idea about it.

"I'm afraid this is inappropriate," Liu Yunyan stopped Yun Ting's actions.

"What's wrong?"

"Uncle, don't you want to understand why Yun Ruoyao knew about that secret passage? And what did she do with the help of that secret passage? If you make such a high-profile move before we figure it out, we're afraid it will alert the enemy and we won't be able to find out what she plans to do next," Liu Yunyan shared the reasons with Yun Ting in detail.

"That makes sense. I'll do as you say. But I'll send some secret guards to keep an eye on those entrances to see if anyone else knows about it," Yun Ting said.