The arrogant imperial concubine arrives, the favorite of the regent

The sound of fireworks exploding rang in my ears, and the excited cheers and shouts of people could be heard all around.

Princess Ji Ling raised her head, her eyes fixed on the tough man who was looking at her with concern. She was stunned for a long time, pointing to her ears to indicate that she couldn't hear what the other person was saying.

Ling Chiye curved his lips into a smile, then shook his head and said silently, "It's okay."

Princess Ji Ling finally understood what Ling Chiye was talking about this time. Oh, so he was saying "it's okay".

In the end, Princess Ji Ling did not express her joy at liking the rose jade pendant given by Ling Chiye, nor did she ask whether the jade pendant had any other deeper meaning.

In the corner, Ling Xingmu silently withdrew his gaze. Xiao Zhao behind him leaned close to his ear and asked, "What's wrong, sir? Are you feeling lost?"

"What am I missing?"

Xiao Zhao winked in Princess Ji Ling's direction, and Ling Xingmu said coldly, "Stop talking nonsense!"

Xiao Zhao felt humiliated and noticed that Ling Xingmu seemed to be in a bad mood, so she shut up decisively.

Ling Xingmu let out a light breath, and his mind unconsciously thought of Princess Huiyang, the innocent and kind little princess.

Then he thought about how he'd been investigating Princess Huiyang recently, and how he'd politely declined Yun Mujiu's offer of help when he'd visited the Night King's mansion a few days earlier. And after Yun Mujiu had Gao Yang imprisoned and the Night King had Gao Yang's entire faction removed from power, he'd finally uncovered the truth. He'd stayed in the capital to investigate a personal matter...

Seven years ago, Princess Huiyang, who was only eleven years old and in her prime, went south to study at Renci Du Ren, but encountered an accident not long after returning to the capital.

Just because of Princess Gaoyang's jealousy, the little princess was killed by Princess Gaoyang.

That’s right, the final truth that Ling Xingmu found out was that Gao Yang was the real murderer of Princess Huiyang!

At this moment, his heart ached at the thought of his final investigation results. Shouldn't he rather never find the truth, because after all the hard work he put into finding it, he wouldn't know what to do next?!

Huiyang had died long ago. He was murdered by someone.

Ling Xingmu felt a pang of pain in his heart and turned his head to look at Ling Chiye. Princess Ji Ling's profile was gentle and peaceful. The hazy moonlight shone on her body, making her look like an innocent little princess who would live a happy and carefree life.

Ling Xingmu turned his head away, no longer looking. The moment he closed his eyes, a crystal tear fell from the corner of his eye.

His Huiyang, Huiyang, Huiyang!

What Ling Xingmu didn't know was that when he turned his back, Princess Ji Ling's glance also fell on this piece of land...

...

It was a moonlit palace banquet with many participants and many things happening.

Judging from Princess Ji Ling's desire to find old friends, Yun Mujiu had already arranged some measures for Princess Ji Ling.

Before the Yuexi Palace Banquet, she arranged for Princess Ji Ling to formally meet the two young masters of the Ling family and establish a friendship.

When the Yuexi Palace Banquet was underway, she secretly created an opportunity for Princess Ji Ling to have the chance to talk to Ling Chiye at the end of the banquet, intending to get to know Ling Chiye better.

Of course, Yun Mujiu would not forget her previous plan. She wanted to first verify whether Ling Chiye was the young man surnamed Mu from that year. She also had to test whether Ling Chiye had lost his memory at the banquet.

In response to this, Meng Ninglang took the opportunity of chatting and reminiscing with his good friend Ling Xingmu at the banquet to get in touch with Ling Chiye.

Ling Chiye had no aversion or rejection towards Meng Ninglang, and he remembered that when he visited the Night King's Mansion, Yun Mujiu allowed him and his younger brother Xing Mu to hang out and play with Meng Ninglang often.

However, as clever as Meng Ninglang was, he failed to find out more information about the calm eldest son of the Ling family.

However, there was at least one thing he was certain of.

On the second day after the Yuexi Palace Banquet ended, Meng Ninglang passed the news of this harvest to Yun Mujiu.

"Ling Chiye has practiced martial arts for many years, and he hasn't suffered many injuries. But one thing I've discovered is very clear—Ling Chiye has never suffered a head injury."

Meng Ninglang even had someone question Yun Mujiu on his behalf, "Does this mean Ling Chiye can't have lost his memory? Both Divine Doctor Wu and Wu Tutu had head injuries, which is why their memories were damaged and disordered."

In response, Yun Mujiu wrote back to Meng Ninglang: "Good boy, you did a great job."

"However, judging a person's memory impairment solely based on whether or not they've suffered a head injury isn't entirely accurate." She suggested another method: "Wait a few days and I'll personally take action and test Ling Chiye again. Perhaps I'll have the opportunity to examine him."

The communication information between Yun Mujiu and Meng Ninglang was not hidden from Princess Ji Ling, and they both sent the information they found to Princess Ji Ling's residence in a timely manner.

...

One afternoon after the Yuexi Palace Banquet, Ye Xiaohan, after finishing a meeting with Yun Mujiu and his subordinates regarding the Beihan forces, put on his court robes and went to attend an ongoing court meeting.

It was called a meeting, but it was just a postponed morning court session. After all, the Cold Shadow Guards had discovered that the Emperor was unwell this morning and had postponed the morning court session. Later, out of jealousy of the Night King, he vomited blood and fainted. After he regained consciousness, in order to prevent the news of his serious illness from leaking out, he could only force himself to hold a postponed morning court session as normal.

Yun Mujiu also wrote a letter and sent it to Princess Ji Ling, telling her about his decision on how to investigate Ling Chiye.

At this time, Wei Bai came back with an unexpected news.

After Gao Yang, Wu Mingwei, the Divine Doctor of Wu, the Beihan Divine Doctor team, Yun Boliang and the Ye family were imprisoned, shocking news came out from the prison in Jingzhao Prefecture this morning.

A group of men in black sneaked into the prison at night, knocked out the jailer, and then concentrated their firepower on beating Gao Yang.

At the birthday banquet held by the Cao family, Gao Yang was severely punished for attempting to murder Yun Mujiu again, as well as for poisoning Madam Cao and Madam Qiu.

In other words, Gao Yang was already beaten half to death, waiting for the day of beheading. Unexpectedly, at the last moment, a group of people suddenly broke into the prison and beat Gao Yang again.

Cleverly, these people did not harm other innocent people, but instead directed their firepower at Gao Yang alone.

What was clever was that they did not beat Gao Yang to death directly, but let Gao Yang continue to suffer in prison while he was still breathing. In the future, they would send Gao Yang, who was still breathing, to the execution ground so that the people of the capital could watch him being beheaded.

Yun Mujiu listened to Wei Bai's report and said, "This group of people are quite smart. They won't let Gao Yang die in such pain."

Wei Bai continued: "I guess they also hate Gao Yang very much."

Yun Mujiu glanced at Wei Song and asked, "What did the Jingzhao Yin say?"

Wei Song replied respectfully: "Zongquan has not yet tracked down the whereabouts of that group of people. However, Jingzhao Prefecture estimates that this group of people may be Gao Yang's old enemies..."