The arrogant imperial concubine arrives, the favorite of the regent

In the Night Palace Garden, there is a small pavilion located beside a pond.

Yun Mujiu was quite familiar with the scenery by the pool. She had come here for a walk with Ye Xiaohan in early summer.

Under Ye Xiaohan's instructions, the garden of the Ye Palace had already been renovated according to Yun Mujiu's preferences. The people in the Ye Palace also privately admired: With the princess here, why does it feel like the Ye Palace has become more alive?

In addition to planting a large number of exotic flowers and plants, Ye Xiaohan also had people open up some separate land to plant Yun Mujiu's favorite medicinal herbs. First, they can be used for viewing. Second, they can also harvest medicinal herbs for Yun Mujiu's use in the future.

Yun Mujiu looked at the herbs in the flowerbed beside the pond and said with a smile, "Why do I feel like the flower garden has become my herb garden too?"

"Why not remove these flowers and plants and plant your favorite medicinal herbs instead?" Ye Xiaohan said lightly.

Yun Mujiu raised his eyes to look at Ye Xiaohan, pretending to be angry and said: "Your Highness, please stop teasing me. How can it be so?"

She pointed at the flowers and herbs in the flowerbeds and explained, "These flowers and herbs are growing well right now. I also asked my men to plant a lot of herbs in other places in the capital. In addition, we purchased herbs from other places. Now the daily reserve medicines for several medicine cabinets are enough."

Ye Xiaohan nodded slightly: "Then it's up to Mu Mu."

Yun Mujiu knew that the idea of ​​digging up the flowers and plants just now was just a dark joke of the Night King, so he smiled and replied: "Digging up those flowers and plants would be a betrayal of the prince's kindness."

Ye Xiaohan turned his head, as if looking at the scenery around the pavilion, and said, "It's okay."

Yun Mujiu picked up the teacup and jokingly said, "Then is it okay for me to disappoint the prince?"

"Hmm?" Ye Xiaohan turned around and looked at Yun Mujiu who was standing across the stone table.

"I mean," Yun Mujiu said by analogy, "if I fail the prince's heart, what will the prince do?"

Ye Xiaohan said bluntly: "Don't let me down."

Yun Mujiu asked again: "What if I really failed you?"

Ye Xiaohan raised his eyebrows slightly: "Then this king will not forgive you."

Yun Mujiu shrank his neck and said, "That's terrible." He glanced at Ye Xiaohan carefully and said in a joking tone, "Your Majesty, what would have happened if I had escaped from the palace with another man not long after I entered the palace?"

Ye Xiaohan raised the corner of his lips and said decisively: "I will kill him first, and then... kill you."

Yun Mujiu was so surprised that he didn't even bother to pick up the teacup. "Is the prince so cruel? But when I first entered the palace, there was no love between us. I left the palace just to find a chance to live again and seek another way to survive."

Ye Xiaohan looked at Yun Mujiu indifferently, raised his lips and said, "So what? Even if you and I have no feelings for each other, since you have come to my side, you definitely cannot leave alone without my consent."

"If I ask the prince for help, will he allow me to leave?"

"I don't know." Ye Xiaohan said truthfully.

Yun Mujiu recalled her initial thoughts when she entered the palace. She really intended to flee the Yewang Mansion if things didn't work out. It was better than dying at the hands of Ye Xiaohan. She even planned to take Suixi and Fusang with her, and the three of them would temporarily flee the city together.

"But if I find a powerful backer and can successfully escape from the palace, can the prince kill me?"

“No matter who he is, I will kill him.” Ye Xiaohan’s tone was calm yet firm. Although he was saying terrifying words that could kill someone as easily as nodding, it sounded like he was just chatting casually.

Yun Mujiu felt her heart tremble, thinking about what would happen if Ye Xiaohan fought with a person like Youming Jiuchong? A few days ago in the garden, the strange devil Youming Jiuchong mentioned to her that he wanted to extend an olive branch to take her away from the palace.

Yun Mujiu couldn't help but ponder...

If Yun Mujiu had not signed a cooperation contract with Ye Xiaohan when she first entered the mansion, and Ye Xiaohan wanted to kill Yun Mujiu, if Yun Mujiu was invited by other organizations at that time, she might have escaped from the mansion and found a new way out. She would have stood firm and lived freely for herself, without having to live in a certain place.

However, the reality was different. Yun Mujiu had already reluctantly reached an agreement on a contract with Ye Xiaohan at that time, and later Ye Xiaohan had no obvious intention to kill Yun Mujiu, and they even developed feelings for each other during their time together.

Therefore, the assumptions in Yun Mujiu's mind at this time were just assumptions. And her conversation with Ye Xiaohan was nothing more than a foreshadowing of what the road that had not yet been taken would be like.

Yun Mujiu listened to Ye Xiaohan's casual tone of killing, but he also knew that Ye Xiaohan was not joking. Ye Xiaohan would want to kill anyone who tried to escape from him.

Yun Mujiu stood up, stood beside a stone bench, and quietly looked at the lotus pond behind Ye Xiaohan.

Then he asked calmly: "If the prince wants to kill me, he will also kill the person who helped me leave the palace. What if that person is very powerful?" If it is a top-level assassin organization, or even a big shot like the Master of the Mushi Pavilion, Youming Jiuchong, would Ye Xiaohan still go against those people for a mere girl like her?

Ye Xiaohan said to Yun Mujiu: "No matter who it is, kill them without mercy."

"Are the people from Soul Stealer Yuanxi, Mu Xi Jiuyou Pavilion, and Bi Luo Xue Sha the same?"

"Yes. I can even kill their leader."

"For example, if the prince fights with the Netherworld Nine, what would the prince think?" Yun Mujiu did not say the following sentence, "Is there a chance of winning?" To be honest, she could not accurately estimate the true strength of these two big figures when they fought.

Ye Xiaohan slowly stood up, his tall body blocking Yun Mujiu's view of the lotus pond behind him. Yun Mujiu's eyes could only naturally fall on Ye Xiaohan's handsome and cold face.

"No matter who it is, I will kill them all..." Absolute arrogance, this is the pride and arrogance unique to those in a higher position.

Yun Mujiu's eyes flickered, and after thinking for a moment, he lowered his head slightly and said with a smile: "I understand, the prince is indeed the most powerful."

She heaved a sigh of relief, and was suddenly glad that she had not mentioned the matter of the Ninth Layer of the Netherworld to Ye Xiaohan. Otherwise, if the two of them fought, not only would both of them be hurt, but she would not be able to bear the thought of anyone on either side getting hurt, especially since she did not want Ye Xiaohan to face any danger. He was the one she cared about the most.

Ye Xiaohan raised the corner of his lips and said nothing more. He looked at Yun Mujiu with an indifferent look.

He took a step to the side, and Yun Mujiu on the opposite side saw the lotus pond behind him.

Yun Mujiu did not stand still. Instead, he walked to Ye Xiaohan's side. The two turned around and looked at the pool behind the pavilion together.

The lotus flowers and leaves growing in the pond are now much more luxuriant than in early summer, and many graceful lotus flowers are dotted among the densely packed green lotus leaves.

The wind brought the fragrance, and Yun Mujiu felt relaxed and happy, his thoughts drifting away.

Ye Xiaohan suddenly spoke up: "So, Mu Mu, never think of leaving me."

Hearing Ye Xiaohan bring the topic back to the previous discussion, Yun Mujiu was slightly startled. For a moment, she felt that Ye Xiaohan's tone was a little serious, which made her a little alert.

Her little heart began to get a little nervous, and an idea suddenly came to her mind.

Did Ye Xiaohan know that Youming Jiuchong was playing a trick on her and jokingly wanted to take her away?