Dad, open the door. I'll bring your mistress back for you.

"If someone used a syphilitic to deliberately seduce the prince, we have to investigate carefully. Where did the prince meet that woman?" Shen Chuning frowned and asked in a serious tone.

"Miss Shen, the fact that the prince is ill is a top secret. Are you conducting such a massive investigation to let everyone in the world know about it?" Zhou Lin had a stern look on his face and raised his voice a few degrees.

"I...we can investigate privately, and then only Your Majesty will know the results." Shen Chuning said anxiously with a firm look in her eyes.

She knew in her heart that if someone really deliberately framed the prince, then she must find out the truth.

According to Shen Chuning's speculation, this matter was most likely the work of the third prince.

Because the eldest prince was far away in his fiefdom, he could not easily interfere in the affairs of the capital.

The fourth prince was born with a disability and was destined to have no chance of becoming emperor from the moment he was born.

The fifth prince has no strong support from his maternal family and is not favored by the emperor.

Therefore, if this matter was really man-made, the most likely culprit would be the third prince.

In the previous life, after the prince passed away, the emperor announced to the world that the prince had died of a sudden serious illness.

But now it seems that there must be something hidden behind this.

Xiao Yuanlang must have expected that the emperor would not conduct a large-scale investigation if the prince died for such a reason.

Even if it was finally discovered that he was the one who did it, the other princes were not very capable after all, so the emperor would not do anything excessive to him.

Moreover, most of the power controlled by the prince during his lifetime has fallen into Xiao Yuanlang's hands.

It was precisely because of the support of these forces in the hands of the prince that he was able to send troops to suppress the rebellion of the eldest prince.

However, as to whether the eldest prince was instigated by Xiao Yuanlang to rebel, Shen Chuning has no way to find out at the moment and can only take it step by step.

Now, an excellent opportunity to completely defeat Xiao Yuanlang is right in front of her, and Shen Chuning is really unwilling to give it up so easily.

However, she was just an outsider who had nothing to do with the prince. She didn't know what identity she should use to investigate the matter, and she didn't know how to keep herself out of it after finding out.

Therefore, she had to rely on Zhou Lin, who had a close relationship with the prince.

"This is not something a girl like you should worry about. Miss Shen, please go back." Zhou Lin spoke again to see the guest off.

"Zhou Hanzhi, I really misjudged you. You clearly knew that there was a huge conspiracy hidden here, but you didn't even think about avenging the prince. You're such a coward." After Shen Chuning said this, she turned around and left without hesitation.

"Ms. Shen." Zhou Lin looked at Shen Chuning's back and called her.

Shen Chuning thought things had taken a turn for the better and turned around happily.

Zhou Lin said coldly, "Miss Shen, please don't do things you shouldn't do, and don't bother people you shouldn't bother. Otherwise, I'm afraid Miss Shen won't be able to bear the consequences."

Don't disturb people you shouldn't disturb? Shen Chuning was furious. In her mind, she had already imagined a big drama of the emotional entanglement between Zhou Lin, the prince, and the brothel girl.

After Shen Chuning left, Zhou Lin seemed to have lost all his strength and collapsed into the chair.

He understood in his heart that there was a huge problem.

Especially when the prince met Miss Sisi, he happened to have injured his wrist and was unable to leave the house.

If he had not noticed the clues in time and helped Miss Sisi to redeem herself from Furong Pavilion, the prince would probably have been branded as a person of poor moral character.

The crime of lack of moral character may be serious or minor, but at a critical moment, it may deal a fatal blow to the prince.

However, despite all his calculations, he did not expect that Miss Sisi actually suffered from syphilis.

Just when he was about to investigate Miss Sisi, he was expressly forbidden by the prince.

Zhou Lin will never forget what the Crown Prince said to him that day

[Sisi is a person with a miserable life, and she has many things she has no choice but to do.]

[Sisi had always avoided physical contact with me, but I couldn't help but force her.]

[Sisi didn't know she had this disease. She said if she had known earlier, she would rather die than meet me.]

[But how could I bear to let her die?]

[I only regret that I was so concerned about my reputation that I didn't take her into the Eastern Palace sooner so that we could stay together forever.]

[But this is also good. If she were in the Eastern Palace, my father would have executed her the moment he found out.]

[Hanzhi, I've lived my entire life in the eyes of others, doing what a prince should do. Only when I'm with Sisi am I just Xiao Yuanqi, not some prince.]

[Even if Sisi is lying to me, I am willing to do it.]

[Hanzhi, please don't disturb Sisi. Let her finish her final journey in peace.]

I don't want her to have to endure the pain I've caused her in her last moments of her life.

[Hanzhi, if Sisi doesn't leave peacefully, I will die with regrets.]

……

In order not to alert the enemy, Shen Chuning could only order people to find all the villas of Xiao Yuanlang in her previous life memory.

However, due to limited manpower and the fact that most of her men were just ordinary servants, they could only conduct investigations quietly nearby.

This situation made Shen Chuning deeply aware of the importance of training a team of secret guards.

If she had a reliable team of secret guards, her current situation would not be so difficult and restricted in every way.

"Fourth brother, I recently heard in the teahouse that Zhou Er helped redeem a girl from a brothel." Shen Chuning found her fourth brother Shen Chengluo and asked him.

Because Fourth Brother and Zhou Lin are cousins, they are of similar age and have a close relationship.

After hearing the news, Shen Chengluo, who was practicing calligraphy, suddenly stopped writing, and the ink on the brush dripped onto the paper, forming a black mist.

"Children should not ask about adults' affairs." Shen Chengxuan put down the brush and gently tapped Shen Chuning's forehead with his finger.

Shen Chuning covered her forehead, which had been hit by the bullet, glared at Shen Chengxuan fiercely, and said coquettishly, "Fourth brother, just tell me if it's true."

"The Zhou family is not like our Shen family which has the rule that one can only take a concubine after the age of 40 without having any children. It is normal for a young man like Han Zhi who is full of vigor and vitality to have one or two confidantes." Shen Chengluo said nonchalantly.

"And there are one or two close female friends!" Shen Chuning was shocked.

"No, no, I've only heard of the one in Furong Pavilion." Shen Chengxuan explained quickly.

He couldn't let Zhou Lin hear what he said, as that boy holds a grudge.

"Fourth brother, do you know where Brother Zhou Er redeemed the woman from Furong Pavilion and placed her?" Shen Chuning asked tentatively.

Shen Chengxuan looked at Shen Chuning with suspicion, "Why are you so concerned about Zhou Hanzhi's affairs?"

Shen Chuning couldn't tell Shen Chengluo that she just wanted to know the woman's residence and was going to investigate who was behind her today.

"I just want to know." Shen Chuning could only say in a low voice, trying to fool her.

"You...you wouldn't...you wouldn't fall for Zhou Hanzhi!" Shen Chengluo shouted loudly, his tone full of disbelief.