After being abandoned, Tofu Xishi broke off the relationship

Thinking of Mu Bai and Xiaoxi, Su Runruan felt a pang of pain in her heart. If Mu Bai had not left and Xiaoxi had not been harmed, she would probably have brought Xiaoxi to accompany Mu Bai to the capital by now.

However, things are unpredictable, and now everything has changed, leaving her alone to endure the loneliness and solitude.

Until the day of the imperial examination, Su Ruanruan still hadn't received any news from Mu Bai.

Sitting in the carriage, Su Ruanruan kept her eyes on every candidate entering the examination room, fearing that she would miss Mu Bai. However, she still did not see Mu Bai until all the candidates entered the examination room.

She asked Zi Wu to ask the officials of the Imperial Examination Hall, but the answer she got was that there was no one named Mu Bai on the list.

Su Ruanruan's mood became increasingly heavy. Why did Mu Bai stop moving forward after passing the imperial examination and not take part in the spring examination?

Are you seriously ill and unable to attend? Or are you delayed by other things?

All the speculations made Su Ruanruan upset. She lingered at the gate of the Imperial Examination Hall for a long time before she got on the carriage.

The carriage slowly drove out of the Imperial Examination Hall, and Su Ruanruan's thoughts gradually drifted away...

She closed her eyes tightly, feeling inexplicably frightened and uneasy, the scene of her final farewell with Mu Bai kept flashing through her mind.

Although it has been a long time, the images imprinted in my mind are still vivid and hard to erase.

Mu Bai's choked cry was like a dull knife, deeply hurting her heart.

"Purple mist..." Su Ruanruan murmured softly.

However, no one responded to her call. She calmed herself down and wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead with her sleeve.

Puzzled, he lifted the curtain and looked towards the shaft of the carriage, but was surprised to find that Zi Wu and the driver who were originally sitting there had disappeared. At this moment, only a sturdy man in black wearing a veiled hat was driving the carriage alone.

Su Ruanruan narrowed her eyes slightly and gently stroked her aching temple with her hand. This figure was very familiar to her. Her voice was a little lazy, "Why is it you?"

The man didn't turn around, but simply responded, "Yeah."

"How are my maid and coachman?" Su Ruanruan asked.

The man replied, "I won't kill your people."

Hearing these words, Su Ruanruan finally felt relieved. As long as they were fine, that was all that mattered.

She looked outside and found that they were already out of the capital. She couldn't help but feel puzzled as to where he was taking her.

If it were in the past, Su Runrun would definitely be frightened, but at this moment she was unusually calm.

Not only that, she even had the leisure to flip through the sketchbooks in the carriage to pass the time.

The carriage continued to move forward, but the road became more and more bumpy, as if the road was becoming rough and uneven.

Su Ruanruan couldn't help but lift the curtain again and look out. A cool spring breeze blew on her face.

Just then, the carriage suddenly stopped.

Su Ruanruan turned her gaze towards the man wearing a black veil who was leaning against the bicycle frame and asked calmly, "Why did you bring me here? I never saw you during the day."

The man was silent for a while before he slowly answered, "The master's order."

His voice was still as low and cold as usual.

"Oh, it's him." Su Ruanruan turned her head and looked at the cliff not far away. The corners of her mouth slightly raised, as if she was smiling, "Are you going to throw me off the cliff?"

"With your current status, he won't kill you."

"Oh? Could it be that he wanted to play a trick on me before returning to Jiangnan?" Su Ruanruan raised her eyebrows slightly, the corners of her mouth slightly raised, and she walked down from the carriage slowly and gracefully.

Her fingers gently stroked the man's hard and broad chest through his clothes, while her other hand gently lifted a corner of the veil covering his head.

She teased, "As the saying goes, a husband and wife for a day are bound by a hundred days of love! The love between you and me is more than just one day. You are so hard-hearted that you actually let him tease me..."

The man's deep, dark eyes stared at Su Ruanruan motionlessly, his eyes as calm as water.

Su Ruanruan flexibly wrapped her arms around his neck like a water snake, then she tiptoed lightly and whispered softly in his ear, "You are so cold and heartless. You really don't have any sympathy for me at all."

"But do you know that the only people in this world who are more cruel than you are heartless and loveless women?"

At this point, she paused, then smiled and said, "Coincidentally, I am one of them."

The man finally responded, his brows slightly furrowed, as if he wanted to push Su Ruanruan away from him. However, at this moment, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck. It was as if a thin needle gently pierced into his skin, and then a cold liquid slowly spread throughout his body.

At the same time, the woman who had just whispered to him quickly retreated. There was no panic on her face, but she looked at him calmly.

The man tried to touch the back of his neck with his hands, but his body seemed to have lost control and was limp and unable to move. His strength seemed to be drained away in an instant, and he could only slowly slide down the frame to the ground, and finally sat powerlessly on the cold ground.

Seeing the man in such a miserable state, Su Ruanruan knew that the anesthetic had begun to take effect.

She paced slowly beside the man, her eyes lingering on him from time to time. When she noticed the astonishment in the man's eyes, Su Ruanruan couldn't help but pause for a moment, then slowly squatted in front of him.

"That night at the palace banquet, you should not have come back after leaving the hot spring pool in my mansion...Some things are doomed from the moment you decide to turn back."

Su Ruanruan's voice was gentle, like the sound of nature entering the man's ears. She continued, "It was wrong for you to spend a night with me, and it was even more wrong to have tasted the sweetness of it."

"Has no one ever told you that the more beautiful a woman is, the more dangerous she is?"

Su Ruanruan stretched out her slender, white fingers like green onions and gently stroked the face of the man in front of her, with a hint of regret in her eyes, "You have been with me for so long. If I kill you, there will be no one to comfort my lonely heart in the long night."

"What on earth did you do to me?" No matter how the man struggled, it was useless. He couldn't even muster a trace of strength in his body.

Seeing this, Su Ruanruan laughed sweetly like a silver bell, "Why do you care about these things? You just need to know that today is the day you die. Why not take a good look at the scenery around you? Are you satisfied to die here?"

As she spoke, she was seen holding a gleaming, extremely sharp dagger, shaking it from time to time. Her fingertips gently rubbed the blade, and in an instant, several bright and vivid blood beads rolled out from the wound.

Afterwards, Su Ruanruan placed her finger, which was still oozing blood, on her lips and gently wiped it. Her lips instantly turned scarlet as blood, like a ghost greedy for blood.

The man stared at the scene in front of him in amazement, "It seems like I have never known the real you..."

Su Ruanruan looked at him, "But I have recognized you clearly. I am sure that you have never been Chu Ran's person." Her voice was not loud, but every word sounded as heavy as if it was knocking on the other person's heart.

The man was slightly startled, with a hint of surprise in his eyes, "How did you know?"

Su Ruanruan smiled and said, "I said that when I was poisoned by the love incense that day, you shouldn't have appeared by my hot spring pool."

"The person you came into contact with had a spice on him. When you touched him, it changed its taste when it came into contact with water."

"That person is none other than the eunuch beside the emperor."

"Maybe it was just a coincidence once, but the fact that you sneaked into my mansion and lingered with me these days makes me even more certain that you are the emperor's man!"

Su Ruanruan said slowly, "You don't have to look at me like that. I know much more than you think."

"Since you are the emperor's man and you are lurking in the Zhennan Palace, you must have discovered that the Zhennan Prince and Defei are having an affair?"

The Black-Faced God looked at Su Ruanruan in shock, "How do you know?"

"Not only do I know that they are having an affair, I also know that King Rui is not a dragon."

From the palace banquet at the end of the year, Su Ruanruan discovered a shocking secret.

At that time, she noticed that Concubine De and Emperor Shun both had single eyelids, but King Rui had double eyelids.

However, there is still a chance that parents with single eyelids can give birth to children with double eyelids. This alone is not enough to explain anything, so she decided to continue observing other details.

Therefore, Su Ruanruan keenly captured some subtle details. She found that Concubine De's eyes often drifted towards Prince Zhennan involuntarily.

Amid the noise and laughter of the party, no one else seemed to notice this.

What is even more strange is that Prince Zhennan ignored Concubine De's attention and instead his eyes lingered on Princess Jingyi many times.

Moreover, Su Ruanruan also noticed that some of the small movements of Prince Zhennan during the banquet were surprisingly similar to those of Prince Rui who was sitting above him.

These clues made Su Runruan suspicious, so in order to confirm her bold and surprising guess, after the space was opened, she bribed the handyman in the restaurant and successfully took away the teacup that the King of Zhennan had used.

Then, she bribed the maid in Prince Rui's mansion and got the hair that fell when Prince Rui was combing his hair.

After rigorous testing and comparison, it was confirmed that there was a blood relationship between them. Prince Zhennan and Prince Rui were really father and son!

"What? Prince Rui is not a prince? How did you know?" The black-faced god looked at the beautiful Su Ruanruan in front of him with a gloomy face.

How on earth did she know so much?

In fact, Emperor Shun had always known about the affair between Concubine De and Prince Zhennan.

But the Black-Faced God didn't know when their affair began. After all, he was brought into the Zhennan Palace to get close to Chu Ran when he was twelve years old.

Naturally, he knew nothing about what had happened before.

Emperor Shun was suspicious by nature, and whether or not King Rui was his son, it would be a thorn in his heart. He would spare his life, but he would never hand over the throne of Great Shun to someone who might not have pure blood.

Su Ruanruan slowly squatted down in front of him, "With you as an eye and ear lurking here, no matter how small the movement in the Zhennan Palace is, it will be difficult to escape the eyes and control of Emperor Shun."

She paused, then continued, "Emperor Shun has long known that the real culprit behind the mine is the Zhennan Palace!"