Your Majesty, please stop messing around.

The room was in chaos.

"Your Highness, I am late to save you, please forgive me!"

Lin Jiangnian was in shock. He glanced at the mess in the room and then glanced at the guard kneeling in front of him.

Lin Kong!

Lin Jiangnian's eyes gradually turned cold.

Xu Lan was right. The person who secretly protected Prince Lin but also monitored him was indeed Lin Kong.

And just now, he almost killed Lin Jiangnian!

"Excuse me?"

Lin Jiangnian looked at him expressionlessly, with a hint of anger in his tone: "My prince almost died in the hands of that assassin just now, do you know?"

Lin Kong knelt down on one knee, lowered his head and said in a deep voice: "My subordinate arrived too late to save me and disturbed Your Highness. Please punish me..."

"I'm afraid it's not that the rescue arrived late, but that you didn't want to save him, right?" Lin Jiangnian sneered.

Lin Kong lowered his head and his pupils suddenly shrank.

"You could obviously have taken action to stop the assassin immediately, why didn't you take action?"

Lin Jiangnian stared at him coldly: "Or do you want to see my prince take a slap from that assassin and die in her hands?"

Hearing this, Lin Kong's expression suddenly changed: "This subordinate has absolutely no such idea."

"So, this prince has wronged you?"

Lin Jiangnian sneered again and again.

He dared to come and see the oiran alone, knowing that Lin Kong was hiding in the dark. He is the commander of Prince Lin's bodyguard and the person responsible for protecting Lin Jiangnian.

Just now, Lin Jiangnian dared to openly fall out with the female assassin because he knew that he was secretly there and would take action at any time.

But Lin Jiangnian still didn't expect that Lin Kong would dare to play this trick with him?

If Lin Jiangnian hadn't been vigilant, he might have received that slap just now!

Even if he doesn't die, his injuries will not be minor.

But his good guard and commander did not take action immediately!

What does he want to do? !

"My subordinates dare not!"

At this moment, Lin Kong still lowered his head and spoke in a deep voice.

Lin Jiangnian looked at him coldly. From the first day he arrived at Prince Lin's Mansion, he knew that the guard in front of him probably didn't listen to the orders of Prince Lin.

It's even hard to say who he is.

And who was the instigator of what he did today?

Paper kite?

Lin Jiangnian narrowed his eyes.

Could it be that she wanted to die?

Feeling a little frightened, Lin Jiangnian looked away and glanced at him coldly: "I will remember what happened today."

"I'll settle this account with you later!"

Lin Kong still knelt on the spot with his head lowered: "Thank you, Your Highness."

At this moment, a figure hurriedly rushed in outside the door.

Xu Lan ran into the room. When she saw the mess outside the room, she subconsciously looked at Lin Jiangnian: "How are you? Are you okay? Where is the person?"

"Where's the assassin?"

"It's okay, run away!"

Lin Jiangnian said calmly.

"That……"

Xu Lan was about to ask something when she saw Lin Kong kneeling beside him. He was startled and suddenly noticed that Lin Jiangnian didn't look good?

A livid and gloomy face, seemingly very angry.

"What’s wrong with you?"

Xu Lan asked subconsciously in a low voice.

Lin Jiangnian didn't speak, but at this moment, footsteps came from outside the door. Immediately afterwards, a guard walked in holding a man.

"Your Highness, Yingfeng Garden has been controlled and closed down. This is the madam of Yingfeng Garden!"

The guard threw a middle-aged woman to the ground.

"Your Highness, have mercy on me, Your Highness, please have mercy on me!"

The madam was frightened and trembling, and quickly knelt down in front of Lin Jiangnian, kowtowing repeatedly: "I, I really don't know where the assassin came from... Your Highness is aware of it!"

Lin Jiangnian looked at her expressionlessly: "This assassin is the oiran of your Yingfeng Garden. You say you don't know him?"

"Yes, is it Lu'er?"

The madam was startled: "This, this is impossible... Lu'er, what, how can she be an assassin?"

The Madam was about to explain something when she heard someone say: "Your Highness, we found an unconscious woman from the next room..."

Lin Jiangnian raised his eyes and saw a disheveled woman who was unconscious wearing only her underwear.

"Lu'er?"

When the madam saw this, she quickly opened her eyes.

Is she Su Lu?

Lin Jiangnian frowned, then relaxed.

It seems that the female assassin knocked out the oiran Su Lu and pretended to be the oiran to invite Lin Jiang to assassinate her?

However, the suspicion that Yingfengyuan directed and acted on his own cannot be completely ruled out.

"Your Highness, what should we do with them?"

At this point, the guard stepped forward and spoke respectfully. He glanced at Lin Kong, who was kneeling on the ground, and was shocked.

What's going on here?

"Take them all back!"

Lin Jiangnian glanced at them and said, "Check to see if they have colluded with assassins!"

"yes."

"..."

On the carriage back to the palace.

When Xu Lan learned what happened in the room, he suddenly realized: "You said Lin Kong deliberately didn't take action immediately because he wanted to kill you?"

Lin Jiangnian nodded and said solemnly: "This possibility cannot be ruled out!"

But Xu Lan frowned and became confused: "It shouldn't be! This Lin Kong is loyal to Prince Lin's Mansion. He is the child adopted by Uncle Lin many years ago. He is half of Uncle Lin's adopted son. He has no reason to harm you, right?"

Lin Jiangnian narrowed his eyes: "What if it was the person behind him who instigated it?"

"You mean...paper kite?"

Xu Lan was startled, then shook her head: "That's even more impossible. Zhiyuan was adopted by Princess Lin and raised by Princess Lin's sister. There is no way she would harm Princess Lin's child."

Lin Jiangnian glanced at her: "Even you can harm the prince, why can't she?"

Xu Lan turned her head and snorted: "I'm different..."

Lin Jiangnian narrowed his eyes: "If it wasn't her instigation, why would Lin Kong dare to do this? Or does Lin Kong want to give this prince a chance?"

Guessing something, Lin Jiangnian sneered: "I, Prince Lin, are really frustrated!"

"You're fake!" Xu Lan pouted.

"Who said a lie can't come true?"

Lin Jiangnian said calmly.

Seeing Lin Jiangnian's meaningful smile, Xu Lan's heart skipped a beat.

"You, what do you want to do?"

"Of course I do what I have to do."

Lin Jiangnian said calmly.

When he first arrived at the palace, he was worried about exposing his identity, so he was always cautious, walking on thin ice in disguise.

Now that he is familiar with his identity and gradually assumes the role, he can finally try to do something he wants to do.

What happened today was the opportunity that Lin Jiangnian had been waiting for!

Although dangerous!

But it’s also a coincidence!

…

Inside Prince Lin's Mansion.

forecourt.

"Plop!"

Lin Kong knelt down on the ground, his face ugly and sweating profusely.

Not far in front of him, stood a cold figure.

Just standing there gave Lin Kong a great sense of oppression, so much so that he could hardly breathe.

"Lin Kong, you are so brave!"

Those cold eyes glanced at him, and his voice was gloomy and cold: "I ordered you to protect His Highness, are you so derelict in your duty?"

Cold sweat ran down Lin Kong's back, and there was a hint of trembling in his voice: "I, I am guilty..."

Zhiyuan stood there, enveloped in a cold and gloomy aura.

"If Your Highness makes even the slightest mistake, even if you have a hundred heads, it won't be enough!"

"You have let me down too much!"

Lin Kong's face turned pale, he lowered his head and said nothing.

He wanted to explain, but ultimately said nothing.

After Zhiyuan stared at her coldly for a long time, he slowly put away his cold gaze: "In recognition of your many years of service to the palace, I will temporarily exempt you from the death penalty. From now on, you will be demoted to an ordinary guard and sentenced to 100 sticks. , reflect carefully!”

Lin Kong lowered his head and said with a pale face: "Yes."

He stood up slowly, turned and left.

At this time, Zhi Yuan's cold voice came from behind: "Don't think that I don't know what you are thinking?"

Lin Kong's heart skipped a beat and his whole body was startled.

"Your Highness will always be Your Highness, he is your and my master, and the future master of Prince Lin's Mansion!"

Zhiyuan gave him one last cold glance: "I don't want it to happen again!"

Lin Kong's mind went blank, as if his thoughts had been discovered, and he felt discouraged.

"yes."

He lowered his head and turned to leave.

Zhiyuan stood there, and it wasn't until a long time later that he realized something and turned around.

At the end of the corridor not far away, a figure was leaning quietly at the door, looking at her interestingly.

"Tsk, didn't you see that you still defend my prince?"

Zhiyuan glanced at it, withdrew his gaze, and said slowly: "Your Highness."

Lin Jiangnian stepped into the courtyard and walked up to her.

Looking at the cold maid in front of him, he seemed to think of something and suddenly came to her, staring at her fair and cold face, raising his eyebrows.

"You just said..."

"Is this prince your master?"

"Did I hear correctly?"

"..."

Today’s second update is ahead of schedule.