C42 Throw yourself into the arms

He steeled his heart, ignoring her sluggishness as his actions became crazier and crazier. Only at this moment could he feel that she truly belonged to him.

However ?.

He closed his eyes, but his heart was still empty. Emptiness caused him to feel pain. He suddenly grabbed her hands and imprisoned them above her.

Beneath him, her eyes were tightly shut and her lips were tightly pursed ?

After an unknown period of time, he finally stopped. Her body shrunk as she subconsciously moved towards the side of the bed.

However, he suddenly stretched out his hand and scooped her up into his embrace, letting her body stick tightly to his embrace.

Her body stiffened once again.

He secretly let out a sigh of relief as he lifted his hand to grab onto her silky long hair. He then smacked her ear with his hot lips, causing her to tremble. He smirked and said, "Qing Er, you have been in the palace for nineteen years. We have been husband and wife for nineteen years."

"Right." The empress answered him with a light voice. She just couldn't understand why he'd said such a thing so suddenly.

"Chen'er is almost eighteen." The emperor's voice was a bit vague.

"Yes." The queen was stunned. She answered with a low voice and her body trembled even more.

"Time flies." The emperor's voice was faintly complicated.

"What does the Emperor want to say?" The Queen's eyes twinkled as she asked.

"I want to say, let's do it again." The emperor suddenly flipped over and pressed down on her, his eyes once again burning with madness. He and she had been husband and wife for nineteen years, but every time he touched her, he would still lose control like a seventeen or eighteen year old boy.

The room that Aunt Xi had arranged for Tang Kexin was close to the empress's, only separated by a wall.

Aunt Xi definitely did not expect that her husband's wife's emperor and empress would be so intense in the middle of the night. She definitely did not expect that Tang Kexin's hearing was much better than most people's.

As a result, Tang Ke was unable to fall asleep due to the heat.

Tang Ke Xin rolled over and over on the bed. She secretly let out a sigh of relief before getting out of bed and quietly leaving the room.

Actually, it was already too hot. Not only was it hot, it was also very stuffy. In such a hot and stuffy weather, there was no air-conditioning, and there wasn't even a fan.

After leaving the room, Tang Ke Xin didn't disturb anyone. In the middle of the night, most of the people in the palace had already gone to sleep. The emperor hadn't left anyone to attend to them, so even the empress's palace maids had gone to rest.

Usually, there wouldn't be so many guards in the Peace Palace. Even if there were, they would be kept far away and wouldn't be too close. However, tonight, the emperor was staying over, so the situation was different.

Tang Kexin quietly walked under a tree. There was a bench right under the tree, so she laid down on it.

The night was hazy, and the leaves were obscured. It was very difficult to find her.

A cool breeze blew, making him feel much more comfortable. Tang Kexin closed her eyes and decided to rest here for a while.

However, in the next moment, her eyes suddenly opened, revealing a sharp glint within the darkness.

As the cold wind blew over, she suddenly smelled a scent, the same smell she had smelled from Xiao Cui earlier in the day.

Through the dense foliage, Tang Kexin looked in the direction from where the cold wind blew, and saw a figure walking over.

Tang Kexin's eyes narrowed as she held her breath.

"Head of the exhibition." Upon seeing the newcomer, the guard outside the palace bowed respectfully.

Tang Kexin also recognized him. He was one of the imperial bodyguards of Kun Ning Palace and was in charge of the palace's safety.

A few years ago, someone tried to assassinate the empress and hurt her. After that, the emperor arranged guards to protect the empress. The emperors personally selected all the guards, and they were the most powerful among them.

The guards outside the Palace, including Zhan, were all under the supervision of the Internal Affairs Bureau. They also needed to report to the Emperor's Eunuch Liu at all times.

As such, the guards would report the situation to the Emperor without any details.

Of course, when the Emperor was not in the palace, they wouldn't go too close and would patrol a kilometer away.

But, why does Imperial Guard Zhan have the same scent as Xiao Cui?!

That smell was very unique, so unique that it was her first time smelling it. At that moment, she felt that it was not a coincidence that it appeared on both of them at the same time.

On the other hand, he was the head guard of the palace. He was in charge of the palace's safety and also the empress's safety. It could be seen that the empress still trusted him.

Tang Ke Xin's eyes turned cold layer by layer.

"Carefully patrol." Imperial Guard Zhan ordered in a deep and pleasant voice.

Tang Kexin had seen him earlier in the day. He was handsome, had a graceful bearing, and was a handsome man.

"Yes, yes. Please rest assured, we are here to guard and will be fine. The time is still early, we can rest now."

"Yes, the weather is too hot and humid. I'll go wash first before coming over."

Hearing the conversation from not too far away, Tang Kexin roughly understood that the guard was here on night duty. Even if there were assassins in the palace, they would usually be in the middle of the night. So the guard would wait outside the palace in the middle of the night.

All of this seemed normal, without any flaws.

If it weren't for the fact that Suifeng had smelled the scent earlier, Tang Kexin definitely wouldn't have paid too much attention to it.

However ?.

The palace had guards' offices for temporary use. Ordinary guards wouldn't stay in the palace, but some needed to stay inside for twenty-four hours, just like the imperial guards by the emperor's side.

Although Zhan Yu was in charge of the safety of the Peace Palace, he was at least of this nature.

Guards were people after all, not machines. They also had some daily needs, so the guards' department was prepared for them.

Did Imperial Guard Zhan say he wanted to take a bath? Did he want to go to the Imperial Guard's place?

However, Tang Kexin had a feeling that things weren't as simple as he thought.

Seeing that Imperial Guard Zhan had turned around to leave, Tang Ke Xin's eyes flashed. In this sort of situation, she couldn't rouse anyone. The empress and emperor were currently coquettishly interacting with each other in the room.

The guards outside paid their respects to the Zhan guards.

Furthermore, if anything happened, any movement could alert the enemy.

When she was five years old, she was adopted by a head, and the military's senior doctor especially liked her. Initially, he had only told her a few things in amusement, but after discovering that she had a special talent for medicine, he taught her all the knowledge he had learned throughout his life. Afterwards, the head sent her abroad to study western medicine.

After learning it, she was assigned to be a military doctor in a special army.

Although she was a doctor, she did not need to undergo the almost brutal training that everyone else in the army did.

However, she still had some basic training, so she had mastered some scouting and concealing techniques.

As long as she was careful, it shouldn't be a problem for her to follow him. Seeing that he had walked quite some distance away, Tang Ke Xin carefully got up and followed him from the other side of the small path.

Tang Ke knew in his heart that Zhan Yu's martial arts were powerful, so he didn't dare to get too close. He only followed from afar as long as he didn't lose him.

It was a good thing that there were no guards on the way out of the Palace.

Tang Kexin tried her best to find some hidden places to hide herself.

Soon after, Tang Ke Xin discovered that she had followed him to the fake mountain where the murder occurred. Tang Ke was stunned, and suddenly became alert that the guard in front of Zhan Yu had stopped his footsteps for a moment. She quickly bent down and hid behind the fake mountain, doing her best to hold back her breath.

The guard did not stop and kept moving forward.

Tang Ke secretly let out a sigh of relief. Seeing that Imperial Guard Zhan was already walking further and further away, he then walked to the front of the fake mountain and stood up.

But in the next moment, Tang Ke's heart suddenly hit a wall. It was just that the wall was a bit soft, a bit warm, and it also gave off a suffocating pressure.

No, this was not a wall, but a chest, a man's chest.

Isn't this the same as throwing yourself into a hug?

It was obvious that this was not the most shocking of all, but the most frightening was that when she had first risen, her head had been lifted, and the man had lowered it.

Then, coincidentally, his lips touched hers.