Peach Blossom.

When Wang Jing made this promise to Yu'er, he already had a plan in mind.

At noon, after Wang Jing had lunch, he walked out of the room on crutches, passed by Princess Si Yao's door, and then continued his journey west.

Ruxia, the maid guarding the door for the princess, saw this and hurried into the house and walked to Si Yao's side: "Oh no! It seems that the prince consort has gone to the west courtyard again!"

Si Yao had just laid down and was about to take a nap when she heard this. She was shocked and immediately stood up and asked the maids to bring her clothes. She did not even have time to comb her hair carefully. She just tied her hair loosely into a bun and went out to the west to chase Wang Jing.

While Si Yao was getting dressed, Wang Jing had already arrived at Taoye's door.

The door was open. Taoye was sitting there in a daze, bored, while Qingxing was standing aside, staring at Taoye.

There was no one else in the room.

This is probably the most common state of this room in recent days.

Wang Jing stood outside the door and called out, "Qing Xing, come out. I have something to tell you."

Qing Xing was stunned for a moment. Although she was ordered by the princess to keep an eye on Mantang Jiao at all times, she had to obey the summons from the prince consort himself!

Qingxing had no choice but to walk out the door and kneel down to salute Wang Jing.

"Come here." Wang Jing turned around and walked to the side.

Qingxing didn't know what Wang Jing meant, so she had to follow him.

Tao Ye was watching from inside the door and was also very curious. She stood up, leaned against the door and looked out. She saw Wang Jing leading Qing Xing to the pavilion diagonally opposite, and then they stopped to talk, but she couldn't hear what they said clearly.

Tao Ye was hesitating whether to go over and eavesdrop. Before she even stepped out of the door, she saw Si Yao rushing in with four maids, Chun, Xia, Qiu and Dong.

Si Yao saw Tao Ye and shouted without thinking: "Bitch! Tell Wang Jing to come out!"

Tao Ye sneered unhappily: "Who said Wang Jing was in my room?"

"He's not here?" Si Yao had already rushed to the door and glanced inside. As expected, he didn't see Wang Jing. He was very surprised: "Then where is he?"

Tao Ye couldn't help but smile when she saw Si Yao's confused look, then glanced towards the pavilion a little further away.

Si Yao followed Tao Ye's gaze and saw Wang Jing talking to Qing Xing. He smiled gently and casually lifted the hair beside Qing Xing's ear while speaking.

That action and that expression were enough to make Si Yao explode with anger.

Tao Ye didn't want to laugh at this time, but when she saw Si Yao shaking with anger, she felt a little gloating from the bottom of her heart!

Si Yao glanced into the room again and saw a basket of needles and thread and a pair of scissors on the table against the wall. Xiuping had put them there when she got up in the morning to make clothes for Yuer.

Before he could think about it, Si Yao had already grabbed the scissors and rushed towards the pavilion in anger.

At that time, Qingxing was just about to walk down two or three steps of the pavilion, because Wang Jing had already said everything he wanted to say. She didn't understand why Wang Jing came all the way over to tell her a few unimportant things, and she didn't understand why Wang Jing wanted to tie her hair in the end. But when she turned around and saw Si Yao rushing towards her with a pair of scissors in his hand, she seemed to understand.

Si Yao yelled, "Bitch! How dare you steal from your employer!"

Qing Xing was frightened to death when she saw Si Yao rushing towards her like a ferocious monster and the scissors in his hand! At such a close distance, how could she have time to explain? She screamed timidly and turned around and ran back in panic.

But running like this makes me look even more guilty!

Wang Jing was still standing in the pavilion, watching Si Yao chasing Qing Xing as he ran towards him from his left and then to his right.

Qing Xing ran around the yard screaming, and Si Yao chased her relentlessly. Several maids who followed Si Yao also ran after Si Yao to try to persuade him. These people looked like a drama, attracting servants who were standing guard nearby or passing by to come and watch the fun.

Qingxing tripped and fell to the ground in panic. Si Yao pounced on her and sat on her back, leaving her no chance to stand up.

Several of Si Yao's maids just stood by and advised her with words like "She has served the Empress Dowager since she was a child, you must not do that", but no one dared to approach, because Si Yao was holding a pair of sharp scissors in his hand, and anyone who wanted to dissuade him was afraid of being hurt by mistake.

The servants who came to watch the fun gradually formed a big circle, which was so crowded that Wang Jing, who was standing in the pavilion, could no longer see what was happening inside the circle.

He then walked down the pavilion and towards the big circle.

In the center of the circle, Qing Xing was lying on the ground, trying desperately to break free from Si Yao, but she was pinned down. She struggled to explain, "Princess, spare me! I really didn't seduce the prince consort! I really didn't!"

Si Yaocai didn't listen to Qingxing's explanation and just cut Qingxing's back.

In a short while, the clothes on Qingxing's back had been cut into pieces and her skin was scratched with bloody marks. She cried in pain but continued to explain desperately.

But Si Yao ignored the crying and explanations. There was no more clothes on the back that could be cut, so she completely shifted her target to the back. She poked it with the scissors, and two streams of blood spurted out at the same time, which even the crowd of onlookers felt creepy.

Qing Xing howled hysterically, but Si Yao became more and more addicted to poking her, and he poked her again and again like a madman!

Qing Xing couldn't bear it any longer, and she used all her strength to finally turn over and lay on her side, pushing Si Yao to the ground. The torn clothes suddenly slipped off, and Qing Xing hurriedly covered them in panic.

Si Yaosong's tied hair suddenly came loose, and she was furious. Just as Qingxing was trying to cover her body with the torn clothes, a pair of scissors stabbed Qingxing in the face, hitting one of her eyes.

"My eyes! My eyes!" Qing Xing screamed twice. She covered her face with her hands and blood flowed out from between her fingers.

The servants who were watching made way for Wang Jing when they saw him.

Wang Jing walked in, first looked at the bloodstains on the ground, then looked up at Si Yao.

Si Yao finally stopped making trouble, but he would never think that he was wrong: "No one else is allowed to covet the food on my plate! I can't even tolerate the original owner, let alone a lowly maid?"

Wang Jing ignored Si Yao and did not look at Qingxing on the ground again. He turned around and left the scene silently. When he was far away, he asked a servant to call a doctor for Qingxing.

Qingxing was sent back to her original residence, which was the corner room next to Taoye's room.

Finally, no one came to monitor Tao Ye anymore, and she slowly figured out Wang Jing's unusual behavior today.

Although Qingxing was a servant, she was given to her by the Queen Mother. Apart from Princess Si Yao, probably no one in the mansion would dare to drive her away.

When Tao Ye learned that Qing Xing had been blinded, she was afraid to see Qing Xing again. She felt uneasy the whole afternoon. She looked into the corner room countless times, but the door was always closed and she could not hear any movement from inside.

This made Tao Ye even more frightened. She paced in front of the door for a long time. She had some doubts in her heart, but she didn't dare to go in alone to see.

It was not until Xiuping accompanied Yuer back from school that she asked Xiuping to accompany her to the corner room to take a look and did not allow Yuer to go over.

But children are the most curious, so Yu'er still followed Taoye and Xiuping quietly.

Xiuping pushed open the door and saw that Qingxing had already hanged herself.

"Ah——" Yu'er screamed in horror.

Tao Ye then realized Yu'er was behind her and hurried over to cover her eyes.

Qingxing became a victim of the love triangle between the second house and died in the yard of the first house.

The eldest sister-in-law Zhou Yunniang learned about this later and thought it was unlucky, but she was well-known for her virtuousness, so she could only let it go and ordered people to handle the funeral.

After nightfall, Tao Ye couldn't fall asleep. She always felt that there was some sound coming from the corner room.

She thought that as someone who had been to the underworld, she should not be afraid of ghosts, but the strange sound made her unable to sleep, so she decided to go out for a walk.

This was the first time Tao Ye went out in the middle of the night after coming to the Wang family. No one stopped her or followed her, and she was free.

After she went out, she could no longer hear the strange sound.

But when she went out, she saw the corner room which was empty.

Although she really hated Qingxing these days, she couldn't help but feel guilty about Qingxing's death. She thought that if she had not come to the Wang family, these messed up things might not have happened.

Thinking of this, she felt the urge to leave again.

Before she knew it, she had reached the back door of the Wang family's house.

She looked at the back door and began to hesitate again. If she opened the door, she could leave. But where should she go?

"Gillian..."

Tao Ye heard Wang Jing's voice and turned around: "Why are you here?"

"I remember that every time you couldn't sleep, you would come to the back door and hang around. I thought you might not be able to sleep again tonight, so I came to see you." Wang Jing had already walked in front of Tao Ye, still leaning on a crutch.

Tao Ye was very puzzled after hearing these words, but she never dared to ask about the past events related to Mantang Jiao.

She could only deal with what was happening in front of her: "Qing Xing is dead, and she died so close to my room, how can I sleep?"

Wang Jing nodded, feeling deeply guilty: "It's my fault. I thought the princess was suspicious of her, and I would just beat her a few times and chase her away, giving you your freedom, but I didn't expect that someone would die..."

"I didn't kill Boren, but he died because of me. I can also be considered a murderer." Tao Ye lowered his head, full of self-blame.

"If you would listen to me, we would have left this place of trouble long ago. How could we be controlled by others? And no innocent people would be implicated!" Wang Jingyang sighed to the sky, as if he had mixed feelings.

Tao Ye heard a message from this: before the princess married into the Wang family, Wang Jing must have mentioned elopement to Mantangjiao, but obviously Mantangjiao did not agree at that time.

As for why Mantangjiao did not elope with Wang Jing but instead chose to leave the Wang family alone, Tao Ye was not clear and did not dare to respond to Wang Jing's words.

Wang Jing took another step closer to Tao Ye, looking at her with sincere eyes: "If I want to beg you again now, can you agree to go with me?"

Tao Ye was confused. She did have the urge to leave the Wang family tonight, but she wanted to leave alone, not with Wang Jing... Besides, she knew that the person Wang Jing wanted to elope with was actually his original wife Man Tang Jiao, not a fake like her...

"Then...what about Yu'er?" This was the only reasonable excuse Tao Ye could think of at the moment.

"I am half disabled now. Once I leave this house, I can't even make a living for you and me, so how can I take care of such a young child? Just leave her here! My parents, brothers and sisters-in-law will raise her, and she will understand us."

In fact, Tao Ye could see last time that Xiao Rui loved his little granddaughter Yu'er very much, and Zhou Yunniang was also not bad to Yu'er. Even without biological parents, Yu'er should grow up safely.

Unconsciously, Tao Ye had a picture in her mind: she and Wang Jing lived in seclusion together, Wang Jing was never picky about food, he would eat whatever she gave him, a few months later, she finally completed the takeaway task assigned by the Ghost King, and then, she could smoothly return to her own era...

Thinking of this, Tao Ye couldn't help but smile in her heart!

But...what will happen to Wang Jing after she leaves the ancient times? Will he be devastated when he finds out that he has been deceived?

Moreover, what if her identity was exposed before she completed the task?

In this mansion, she and Wang Jing only met occasionally, and each meeting was very short. It might not be easy for Wang Jing to realize that she was a fake, but if they were together day and night, it should be easy for him to be discovered, right?

After thinking it over, she still couldn't take Wang Jing with her. She could only use Yu'er as an excuse: "No... I'm afraid that the princess will find out that we're gone and take it out on her! I don't feel comfortable entrusting her to anyone..."

"I knew you would say that!" Wang Jing looked disappointed and discouraged.

Tao Ye didn't know what else to say.

"It's late, go back and rest early!" Wang Jing forced a smile, still very gentle.

"Okay..." Tao Ye seemed to have no choice but to walk back. As she walked, she wondered in her mind whether she should escape from the back door after Wang Jing left? Or escape at another time? But if she escaped, what was the point of coming to Wang's house? She hadn't even delivered a takeaway meal yet...

Since you have already thought about escaping, there is no need to worry about your identity being exposed. You might as well do something useful for yourself!

Tao Ye thought about this and couldn't help but turned back and asked, "Can I...can I bring you food every day from now on?"

Wang Jing was still standing there, smiling and nodding.

Tao Ye felt happy and nervous at the same time, and quickly ran back to her room.

After closing the door, Tao Ye heard the strange sound again—the same sound she heard before she left the house, coming from the corner room… one sound, one sound, and one sound again…