Peach Blossom.

In Chen's house, Tao Ye was sleeping soundly. She had suffered from insomnia after meeting Wang Jing at night, and she had been awake almost all night. After dawn, she felt extremely sleepy, and the bed was so soft and comfortable that she slept soundly.

It was the first time that Chen Ji spent the night in the same room with Tao Ye. He never knew that a woman could be so difficult to wake up!

He had called Tao Ye countless times and pushed her away countless times by the bed. He even used a wet towel to wipe her face, but Tao Ye still had a sleeping smile on her face. This almost pissed Chen Ji off!

Finally, Chen Ji had no choice but to lift Tao Ye's quilt, but Tao Ye still did not move.

Chen Ji simply took off his shoes and turned over to press on Tao Ye.

Tao Ye finally opened her eyes, screamed, and pushed Chen Ji aside: "You...what are you doing?"

Chen Ji sneered: "If you don't sit up, I'll think you're dead!"

"What do you mean?" Tao Ye was confused.

Chen Ji picked up a mirror and held it in front of Tao Ye.

Tao Ye screamed again when she saw herself in the mirror—her hair was disheveled like a madman, and there was a large white mark on her face left by saliva!

"Aren't you ashamed of yourself for sleeping like this?" Chen Ji threw the mirror at Tao Ye with a look of disdain on his face.

Tao Ye picked up the mirror weakly, looked at her face carefully again, and found that there was still eye boogers in the corners of her eyes. She looked up awkwardly and smiled at Chen Ji.

"What a joke!" Chen Ji glared at Tao Ye and pointed at the bedding on the ground. "This is the first time in my life that I sleep on the ground. It's cold and hard. There's no way I can do anything to it! How dare you sleep on it until now? If you sleep any longer, it will be dark!"

Tao Ye pouted and muttered quietly: "Why are you so angry? At worst, I can sleep on the floor tonight..."

"Do you think you have a chance to sleep in this room tonight?" Chen Ji smiled, his eyes full of mystery.

Tao Ye felt depressed after hearing this and thought, is Chen Ji going to chase her out again tonight?

Chen Ji knew that Tao Ye's brain was incapable of understanding any hints, so he could only tell her clearly: "Just wait and see, the princess will come up with a way to punish us soon!"

Tao Ye was half-believing and half-doubting: "Can you predict it so accurately?"

Chen Ji smiled faintly: "If I can't even calculate this little thing correctly, wouldn't it be a waste of my six years of marriage with her?"

Theoretically speaking, Tao Ye should be more concerned about whether her life will be in danger next, but for some reason, she just wanted to gossip: "You have been married for six years, so have you slept with her?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Tao Ye seemed to feel a crow flying over the sky, and it cried "Wow-Wow--"

Chen Ji's eyes widened, his teeth bared, as if he didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Little girl, sometimes, I really want to strangle you to death!"

Before Tao Ye could figure out why Chen Ji said that, the voice of Chen Ji's brother Chen Xi came from outside: "Are your second brother and sister-in-law in the room?"

Chen Ji handed Tao Ye a comb, signaled with his eyes that Tao Ye should comb her hair quickly, and asked through the door: "Brother, is there anything wrong?"

Chen Xi said from outside: "The princess will give you two cups of fine wine as a wedding gift."

Chen Ji smiled and glanced at Tao Ye, his eyes seemed to say, "See! I guessed it right again!"

Chen Ji opened the door and said to Chen Xi, "Thank you, brother! Jiaojiao and I will definitely go to the princess's house to thank her in person later!"

Tao Ye had already combed her hair by this time, but had no time to put it into a bun. Of course, she didn't know how to put her hair into a bun before. She only learned it from Xiao Wan after coming to the ancient times. She didn't learn it very well, so it took her a long time to comb her hair every time.

To be polite, Tao Ye also came to the door. She saw Chen Xi smiling, with the same unchanging expression she had seen before.

Behind Chen Xi there was a maid holding a tray with two glasses of wine on it.

Tao Ye recognized at a glance that the maid serving the wine was Ruchun, whom she had seen in the princess's mansion.

Chen Xi continued to smile and said, "Second brother, sister-in-law, the princess has ordered that you must drink this glass of wine with my own eyes. Please drink it, and don't let the princess down!"

Tao Ye felt uneasy after hearing this. Wasn't it obvious that there was something wrong with these two glasses of wine?

She cursed silently, "This damn princess didn't even bother to go to the palace to complain, and just brought two cups of poisoned wine, and wanted us to die obediently?"

Seeing that neither of them came to get the wine glasses, Chen Xi asked with a smile: "Second brother, sister-in-law, we have to drink this wine sooner or later! How about...you two discuss who will drink first?"

Tao Ye thought, "If I just don't want to drink, can you force me to drink?"

Chen Ji picked up the wine glass and glanced at Ruchun who was holding the wine: "Miss Ruchun, if I don't have the opportunity to go to the princess's house to thank her, please give me your regards!"

Ruchun was stunned for a moment.

Tao Ye was suddenly very scared after hearing what Chen Ji said, and she just shouted: "Chen Ji, don't..."

Chen Ji had already finished his glass of wine. He looked very happy and kept praising it: "Good wine, it really is good wine!"

Tao Ye looked at Chen Ji, and her heart suddenly felt cold.

Ruchun had already extended the tray towards Taoye.

Chen Ji suddenly picked up another glass of wine and drank it all: "My wife is not good at drinking, I drink for her, and it will not disappoint the princess."

At this moment, Tao Ye didn't know how touched she was. She felt distressed and scared...

Seeing that the two wine glasses were empty, Chen Xi said to Ruchun, "The wine has been received. You can go back and report now."

"Grand Marshal, Second Young Master, I'm leaving!" Ruchun bowed and left.

Tao Ye watched Ruchun leave, then turned back to look at Chen Ji, only to see Chen Ji holding his abdomen and soon breaking out in a sweat.

"You...what's wrong with you?" Tao Ye supported Chen Ji in panic.

Chen Ji seemed to have severe abdominal pain, but he held on and looked up to ask Chen Xi: "Brother, if I...if I die, can you please take care of Jiaojiao for me?"

Chen Xi nodded slightly as if nothing had happened: "You are my biological brother. If you encounter misfortune, I should take care of my sister-in-law."

"That's good... If today's incident goes to court, brother... brother must testify truthfully!" Chen Ji was still holding his stomach, the pain making him unable to speak. He bent over and could hardly straighten his back.

Tao Ye was so frightened that she trembled all over and started crying like a pear blossom in the rain: "Chen Ji... don't... don't die!"

Chen Xi still had that attitude of staying out of the matter: "Don't worry, second brother! If that day comes, I will ask a coroner to perform an autopsy. We will follow the rules and do what is right!"

Tao Ye was filled with anger and could not help but roar at Chen Xi: "How could you do this? He is your own brother!"

Chen Ji was probably in so much pain that his whole face turned red and even purple. He supported Tao Ye and motioned Tao Ye to take him into the house.

Tao Ye was in tears, but she managed to control herself and helped Chen Ji into the house.

Seeing this, Chen Xi ordered two guards he trusted, "Stay here. If he really dies, report to me immediately."

The two guards took orders and stood guard at both ends of Chen Ji's house. Chen Xi went back to his room.

After Chen Ji entered the room, he managed to utter two more words: "Close the door..."

Tao Ye closed the door and came to help Chen Ji, crying so hard that her whole body was shaking.

Chen Ji smiled slightly: "Girl...are you really that sad for me?"

"It's already like this, why are you still asking these nonsense?" Tao Ye cried bitterly. She had never experienced separation of life and death, and had never cried so sadly.

"If I had known this...why did we sleep in separate beds last night?"

Tao Ye was a little surprised when she heard this. She looked up with tears in her eyes and looked at Chen Ji who was sweating profusely.

Chen Ji seemed a little intoxicated and slowly moved closer to Tao Ye's lips.

Tao Ye felt a little resistant, but facing a dying person, she felt that she should not refuse, so she had to close her eyes for the time being.

She accepted Chen Ji's passionate kiss, which was her first kiss.

Chen Ji kissed harder and harder, but the sweat on his head was getting more and more. He finally couldn't hold on any longer, and suddenly left Tao Ye and hurriedly went to the other side of the house to find a wooden barrel.

Tao Ye was confused.

Chen Ji waved his hand: "Turn around, don't look at me!"

Tao Ye turned around quickly, with her back to Chen Ji. The next second, she heard a splashing sound, and then smelled a foul odor.

She realized that Chen Ji had diarrhea.

At the same time, she also understood that the so-called "poison wine" was just laxative added to it!

Tao Ye was very angry at this time. She was angry that Chen Ji had lied to her, made her shed so many tears in vain, and also cheated her of her first kiss. She turned her head and yelled at Chen Ji involuntarily: "You——"

"Turn back!" Chen Ji reminded her again.

After a long while, Chen Ji finally stood up. The room was already smelling unbearably bad.

Tao Ye pinched her nose and asked angrily: "Why don't you go to the toilet? Are you going to suffocate me to death?"

"Hush..." Chen Ji signaled Tao Ye to keep her voice down. He walked to Tao Ye's side and said, "Just bear with it for a moment and act out a play with me."

"What play?" Tao Ye was even more confused.

Chen Ji pulled Tao Ye as far away from the barrel as possible, then leaned over to whisper in Tao Ye's ear: "There are many old subordinates at the border who are loyal to my father and support me. My life is always a threat to the military power in my brother's hands. He asked the princess for my hand in marriage in order to tie me to Jiankang. The princess divorced me, and he asked the emperor to allow him to take me in, still to tie me down... Only if I die can I gain true freedom, and you can have an excuse to return to the Wang family again, understand?"

Tao Ye suddenly realized, but still had many worries. She asked in a small voice: "But Princess knew that she had given a laxative, not poison. And your brother said he would ask a coroner to perform an autopsy. How could you fake your death?"

"It is precisely because these two people are involved in this matter that it is easy for us to fake it..." Chen Ji smiled evilly and threw a coquettish glance at Tao Ye.

Tao Ye seemed to understand: "Dog bites dog?"

"clever!"

Tao Ye seemed a little confused again: "But, aren't the princess and your brother in the same group?"

"They have never been in the same group, they are just using each other! In the past few years, the two of them have teamed up to deal with me countless times. I have dodged them many times, but was still caught once in the end! If we can take this opportunity to make them turn against each other, it would be great..." Chen Ji wanted to continue speaking, but suddenly he felt a stomachache again, and hurriedly ran to the wooden barrel again.

Tao Ye quickly covered her nose.

After a while, Chen Ji returned to Tao Ye and told her his plan in detail: "Ma Da has gone out to make arrangements this morning. At midnight tonight, he will bring a male corpse similar to mine outside the wall. Our house is closest to the east wall of the mansion. When the time comes, you will set a fire on the westernmost side of the room. When the fire is strong and no one dares to approach, I will secretly climb over the wall and Ma Da will carry the corpse in. You must burn the male corpse to a char and burn it completely unrecognizable... My brother will definitely come to put out the fire. After you are rescued, you will insist that the fire was set by the princess to destroy the body and prevent the coroner from testing for poison. Do you understand?"

Tao Ye nodded seriously.

Chen Ji said, "After I escape, I will wait for you at Ghost Mountain. You can watch how they fight each other, and then find a suitable opportunity to come and see me, and we will discuss the next plan together!"

Tao Ye nodded seriously again.

"Is there anything you don't understand now?" Chen Ji seemed a little worried about Tao Ye's ability to carry out the plan.

Tao Ye smiled a little embarrassedly: "If I can accomplish this, I will have done you a great favor. You...shouldn't you eat a few meals I gave you?"

After hearing this, Chen Ji smiled helplessly and hurried towards the wooden barrel.