I traveled through time with my best friend.

Lu Cui nodded with a somewhat stiff expression, "Yes, my young lady sneaked out last night while everyone in the mansion was asleep."

"Have you sent anyone to look for it?"

"People have been sent to look for him."

Jiang Xue frowned slightly, wondering why Yiyi didn't tell her when she left.

"Miss Jiang, my young lady must not want to marry the young marquis, that's why she ran away secretly." Lu Cui said with a vague look.

"Oh." Jiang Xue didn't look at Lu Cui. She lowered her head and left thinking.

After watching Jiang Xue leave, Lu Cui fell to the ground with a nervous and frightened expression. Zeng Qin came out from behind, looked down at Lu Cui, and said with satisfaction: "You did a good job."

Then he looked away fiercely, "Humph, this Lin Yiyi is still a little naive."

Then he turned around and walked in, not forgetting to whisper to Mother Liu beside him: "Keep your hands and feet clean."

Mother Liu stopped and nodded respectfully, "Don't worry, ma'am."

Zeng Qin glanced at Lu Cui with disdain, and then walked in slowly and gracefully.

Mother Liu immediately stared at Lu Cui with a serious look and said, "Come with me."

Lu Cui quickly stood up and followed Mother Liu.

From a remote yard, bursts of muffled noises were heard, as if someone's mouth was covered and they couldn't shout out.

Lu Cui was being strangled by Madam Liu from behind, struggling with a painful expression. Madam Liu's fierce voice rang in Lu Cui's ears, "How can you make Madam believe that you will not betray her when you have betrayed your master for many years?"

Lu Cui's eyes were filled with panic. She desperately grabbed the rope around her neck, trying to pull it off, but she had no strength left. She fell down and slowly closed her eyes.

"Only the dead will keep their mouths shut forever." Mother Liu saw that Lu Cui did not struggle, so she stopped her movements and made sure that Lu Cui was no longer breathing. Then she ordered someone to put Lu Cui in a sack and take her out through the back door.

Zhu Feng saw someone dragging a sack walking out from the back door, and he immediately followed.

On the way back, Jiang Xue met Mu Qi.

"My prince wants to see you."

Jiang Xue's heart skipped a beat, and then she said, "Not now, I have something important to deal with." Then she was about to take a detour.

Unexpectedly, Mu Qi drew his sword and put it on Jiang Xue's neck.

"Brother, let's talk it over." Jiang Xue didn't dare to move and said with a smile.

"Miss Jiang, you'd better not keep my prince waiting for too long."

"How dare I let the prince wait for me? Where is your prince?" Jiang Xue asked with a wry smile.

Mu Qi pointed his sword at the teahouse behind him.

Jiang Xue glanced at Mu Qi, "Sword?"

Mu Qi withdrew his sword expressionlessly. Jiang Xue took a deep breath and walked towards the teahouse behind him.

Private room on the second floor.

Li Lingxuan was sitting on a chair making tea. When he saw Jiang Xue coming in, he said lazily without even raising his head, "It's really hard to meet Miss Jiang."

Jiang Xue knew that this was not a good thing to say, so she walked forward and sat down and said, "Your Highness, you are joking. Isn't it easy for Your Highness to see me?"

Li Lingxuan raised his eyes and looked at Jiang Xue, with some temptation in his eyes. He felt a little numb staring at Jiang Xue.

He quickly changed the subject and asked, "What does the prince want from me?"

Li Lingxuan put down the tea-making tools in his hands and said, "What do you think?"

Jiang Xue: “?” How did she know?

Jiang Xue's brain began to work rapidly, thinking about how to deal with today's situation.

Li Lingxuan suddenly said, "Why aren't you talking?"

Jiang Xue reacted, and then looked at Li Lingxuan with a smile on her face and said, "Your Highness, are you talking about the young marquis or the white paper?"

Li Lingxuan looked at Jiang Xue without saying anything. Jiang Xue smiled awkwardly, knowing that to become the king, she had to know both things.

Never mind, just make it up. King Cheng doesn’t know about it anyway.

Then he said, "There is no movement from the young marquis for the time being. As you know, I was taken to the imperial prison that day. As for the blank paper..."

"If I tell the prince everything, will the prince make sure he doesn't kill me when I'm no longer useful to him?"

Li Lingxuan's eyes moved slightly, and suddenly the corners of his mouth rose, "You have learned to be smart."

"When you follow the prince, you have to be careful."

Li Lingxuan poured a cup of tea and pushed it towards Jiang Xue, saying, "Aren't you afraid that I will kill you directly?"

"Your Highness won't do that." Jiang Xue looked at Li Lingxuan with a firm look.

"Humph, I must get what Prince Yan has, so..." Li Lingxuan said, his eyes suddenly gloomy as he stared at Jiang Xue, "You should know what the result will be if you fail?"

"I know." Jiang Xue smiled and took a sip of the teacup in front of her, then stood up and said, "If Your Majesty has nothing else to say, I'll leave first."

"kindness."

After Jiang Xue left, Mu Qi said, "Your Majesty, it's obvious that Miss Jiang is trying to trick you."

"It doesn't matter. I am very curious about what she wants to do next."

"I feel that Miss Jiang has become a different person. She is not the same as before..." Mu Qi wanted to say that she no longer pestered the prince like before, but suddenly remembered that the prince did not like Miss Jiang, so he did not continue.

Li Lingxuan looked at Mu Qi with his narrow eyes, "Do you also think she has changed?"

Mu Qi immediately lowered his head and said, "It was my fault for talking too much."

Li Lingxuan stared thoughtfully at the teacup that Jiang Xue had just drunk from. This woman didn't recognize him as soon as she returned to the capital and kept her distance from him. Was she pretending or had she really forgotten?

"Send someone to keep an eye on her."

"Yes."

After Jiang Xue came out of the teahouse, she leaned against the door frame with weak legs, "Oh my God, why am I so afraid of King Cheng?"

It seemed that she had to leave this terrible capital as soon as possible.

"Miss, something happened."

Zhu Feng suddenly appeared and spoke in front of Jiang Xue.

"Ah!" Jiang Xue was so scared that she stepped back repeatedly. Just when she was about to fall backwards, she was suddenly caught steadily by someone and fell into his arms.

Jiang Xue raised her eyes and looked up, and immediately held her breath. She... was actually in King Cheng’s arms?

Li Lingxuan clearly felt that Jiang Xue's body was stiff in his arms.

"Is Miss Jiang okay?"

Jiang Xue immediately pushed Li Lingxuan aside and stood still, saying nervously, "I'm fine."

When Zhu Feng saw that it was King Cheng, he immediately ran over to pay his respects, "Greetings to King Cheng."

"Miss Jiang, are you so guilty that you can't even walk steadily?"

Jiang Xue immediately shook her head and said, "No, I didn't stand firmly. I'm leaving first."

Jiang Xue immediately pulled Zhu Feng out of the teahouse.

Jiang Xue ran a long way without stopping, and then she stopped panting, looked at Zhu Feng and asked, "What did you just say?"

Zhu Feng said quickly, "I have been watching from the back door of the Lin residence. I saw someone dragging a sack out, so I followed them all the way to the mass grave. The person in the sack was Miss Lin's personal maid, Lu Cui."

"What did you say?" Jiang Xue looked surprised and asked, "Did you see it right?"

"You are not mistaken. I have searched the bodies around, but I cannot find Miss Lin's body."