My Princess and Crown Prince Are Revived
Chapter 360 Who is Your Master?

Chapter 360: Chapter 360 Who is Your Master?

"Yan Lin, you are nothing but a defeated foe of ours,"

"She won’t come to save you, you can only wait for death."

"..."

A sword pierced through from behind, directly stabbing through Yan Lin’s heart.

"No!"

Chu Baihan woke up abruptly.

She was drenched in sweat.

"Princess, what’s wrong?"

The worried voice of the Hidden Guard came, and Chu Baihan regained some clarity.

She shook her head and then looked up at the blazing sun overhead.

She had just dozed off and had a nightmare.

"Dreams are the opposite; Yan Lin will be fine," she reassured herself in her mind.

Just then, Ali came over quickly, "Princess, something has happened, Deputy General Zheng... is dead."

Deputy General Zheng is dead?

Chu Baihan’s expression suddenly turned cold.

She quickly walked past them and headed straight for Deputy General Zheng’s tent.

Although she disliked Deputy General Zheng as a person, he was still a member of the Tongzhou army.

"Princess, his leg was only bandaged with herbs; it was bound to cause trouble,"

Doctor Li also heard the news and spoke in a grave tone while carrying a medicine chest.

Chu Baihan did not speak.

Inside the tent, the stench of blood hit her nose.

Many people stood by, their expressions grief-stricken.

Not far away, on the bed, lay the body of Deputy General Zheng.

Xie Feifei was continuously wiping her tears, choking, "I just thought of coming to apply medicine to Deputy General Zheng, but when I entered, I found he was gone."

"Last night, Deputy General Zheng was low in spirit but still able to talk; how is it that he is gone today?"

Someone couldn’t help but blurt out.

"Was anyone guarding outside the tent?" Zhu Yinian covered Deputy General Zheng’s head with a white cloth, then asked with a sorrowful tone.

"Reporting to the General, I was always guarding outside," a soldier immediately knelt down.

"Then did anyone enter, or did you hear any noise?" Zhu Yinian turned around and asked sternly.

"Reporting to the General, last night Deputy General Zheng mentioned his wound was painful and he went to bed early. There was nothing unusual during that time, and no one else entered the tent."

The soldier hurriedly explained.

"What about this morning? What was his condition?" Chu Baihan demanded sharply.

"Reply, replying to the Princess. Since Deputy General Zheng disliked eating breakfast, I did not disturb him. It was only when Miss Xie came that I knew something had happened to Deputy General Zheng."

The soldier explained while wiping tears.

"Could it be that Miss Xie’s medicine was ineffective, which is why something happened to Deputy General Zheng?"

Someone suddenly muttered this, and then various gazes began to fall on Xie Feifei.

Xie Feifei’s face turned pale, and her slender body seemed about to collapse.

"General, do you believe me?"

Xie Feifei’s eyes reddened as she choked up, looking pitifully desperate.

Zhu Yinian frowned deeply, pursing his lips and did not respond immediately.

Just then, Chu Baihan lifted the white cloth to take a few glances at Deputy General Zheng’s corpse, then coldly said, "It’s not a matter of improper medication for now. He was murdered."

For now?

Upon hearing this, a cold glint flashed in Xie Feifei’s eyes.

She clearly understood what Chu Baihan meant.

"Murder, Princess, what do you mean by that?"

The rest looked shocked.

"Who could have come in and killed Deputy General Zheng? Was it you, you bastard?"

Many eyes began to fall on the little soldier guarding the gate.

"It’s not me, it’s not me, I don’t know anything."

The little soldier knelt down again, frantically explaining himself.

"Everyone leave, except General Zhu."

Chu Baihan, with her back to the crowd, spoke coldly.

Xie Feifei took a deep look at Zhu Yinian and Chu Baihan before picking up her medicine box and leaving.

Soon, the tent quieted down.

"Your Highness, do you have a way to find out who the murderer is?"

Zhu Yinian asked in a grave tone.

Although Deputy General Zheng was as stubborn as an ox, he had shared life and death with him, and he didn’t want him to die without clarity.

"His fatal wound is here; the assailant was highly skilled in martial arts and appeared and disappeared like a ghost, and it is not ruled out that it was the doing of the Shenxiao Guards."

Chu Baihan lifted the hair at the back of Deputy General Zheng’s neck and then said coldly.

Zhu Yinian looked and indeed saw a small hole there.

"Why would the Shenxiao Guards target Deputy General Zheng?" Zhu Yinian furrowed his brow and voiced his confusion.

With such a serious injury, Deputy General Zheng would probably not be able to go to the battlefield any time soon; why would the Shenxiao Guards go through all this trouble to murder him?

"General Zhu also finds it strange, right?"

Chu Baihan turned and looked at Zhu Yinian.

Without waiting for Zhu Yinian to express his opinion, Chu Baihan spoke again, "General Zhu, would you join me in staging a play?"

...

"Zhang Pengchi, what’s the status?"

Xie Feifei asked Zhang Pengchi coldly.

Zhang Pengchi had just come back from outside; he wiped the cold sweat as he spoke seriously: "General Zhu said that it was the little soldier at the gate who killed Deputy General Zheng, and he has already had the man beaten to death."

"Did they find any evidence?" Xie Feifei spoke somberly.

"It’s said that the Princess discovered a poison in Deputy General Zheng’s body, which coincidentally was found on that little soldier." Zhang Pengchi continued to report.

"That’s the extent of Chu Baihan’s capabilities? I thought she would find out something substantial."

Xie Feifei’s lips curled into a mocking smile.

Worried that Deputy General Zheng’s death might be traced back to them, she had prepared the groundwork for framing someone else early on.

Initially, she had been worried that such clumsy methods wouldn’t deceive Chu Baihan.

Who would have thought that such a fool would believe it without any doubt.

"The citizens of Nanduan Kingdom praise their Princess as if she were a god, yet it turns out she’s just a fool with no brains at all."

Xie Feifei spoke disdainfully.

She had thought of Chu Baihan as her biggest adversary, not expecting her to be so inept.

"So, do we still need to take action against the Princess now?"

Zhang Pengchi asked nervously.

He remembered that Xie Feifei initially had the intent of killing Chu Baihan to avenge her master.

At these words, Xie Feifei’s face darkened.

She naturally would love nothing more than to kill Chu Baihan right now.

But...

Chu Baihan was protected!

Thinking of those cold, eerie eyes, even she, who dealt with poisons regularly, was frightened into a cold sweat.

"The third Prince of Beihai Country said he wanted to ally with my master to conquer Nanduan Kingdom, but he has no interest in warring and is wholly infatuated with Chu Baihan. Surely my master is being used by him."

She added sarcastically.

"Bring me paper, ink, brush, and inkstone," she commanded Zhang Pengchi.

Zhang Pengchi, trembling, brought over the items, and Xie Feifei began to write some characters that he could not understand at all.

"Xie, Miss Xie, your master... who is he?"

Though he already had a suspicion, Zhang Pengchi couldn’t help but muster the courage to ask.