章 33: The Golden Labyrinth

Guards marched up from behind the queue, and I found myself facing around 30 guards spread out against the wall.

They were all holding their swords at the ready, as though they were going to fight.

I swallowed the lump in my throat. The sun shone down on us, but it did nothing to warm my trembling body.

I had to get out of here. If I got caught and was sent into the Bureau of Punishment...

There was no way I could return home.

And I could cause even more troubles of Shen Li Gong.

Zheng.

I couldn't shake the feeling that he had done something to protect me.

Forcing the thought out of my mind, I struggled to come up with a way to get out of the queue without looking suspicious.

If the Crown Princess was willing to use her title in the noticeboard, it was likely that either her or her husband were the ones behind this call for arrest.

That meant that the guards would definitely have received instructions to look out for a maiden with the identity papers of Lan Ying.