While fighting erupted in the Imperial Garden, movement was stirring in the secret tunnels of the imperial palace as well.
Just as the bell for the midnight hour faded, Yingjia gave a hand signal. Three hundred assassins in black and one thousand dead soldiers gathered at an ordinary residence outside the palace, then vanished into a tunnel beneath the house, slipping into the imperial palace like ghosts.
The origins of the palace’s vast tunnel network were unknown, as was the identity of its builders. Yet, now that such a concealed network had fallen into the hands of Prince De, if Li Zhi played his cards right, the throne would truly change hands by tomorrow.
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