Dugu Jingyao is reborn as Li Chu's beloved

Except for Li Chu, everyone else left. Li Chu said, "Okay, everyone else has left. Just tell me what you want to say!"

After being locked up here, He Lingyi was no longer tied up, but only handcuffed. Now she was finally not just looking at the small window, but facing Li Chu head-on.

This was the first time He Lingyi looked at Li Chu so bluntly. Li Chu was a little uncomfortable. He asked, "He Lingyi, why are you looking at me like that? I have never wronged you. Why did you team up with others to harm me? It's fine if you harmed me, but why did you not let Ruo'er go?"

Facing Li Chu's question, He Lingyi, unlike the initial attempt to quibble, chose to answer directly: "Yes, Your Highness has indeed never treated me unfairly when it comes to treating subordinates, but you never give me what I want!"

Li Chu frowned slightly and said, "Then you can tell me what you want. I will definitely satisfy you if I can."

He Lingyi snorted coldly and said, "Hmph, my dear prince, if you knew what I wanted, you couldn't give it to me."

Li Chu didn't care whether He Lingyi's address was wrong or not, he just asked with a puzzled look: "How do you know I can't give it to you if you don't tell me?"

He Lingyi glanced at Li Chu, tears streaming down her eyes. She wiped them away with her hands: "Your Highness, Li Chu, can't you feel that I like you?"

After He Lingyi finished speaking, Li Chu was obviously startled. Before Li Chu could react, He Lingyi continued, "Yes, you have always treated me as a subordinate like Feng Shengyi, and never paid attention to my feelings."

Li Chu had just recovered from He Lingyi's confession, but he really didn't expect He Lingyi to have such feelings for him. But he still couldn't understand why He Lingyi loved him and helped Zhang to assassinate him?

Without waiting for Li Chu to speak, He Lingyi continued, "But I figured out some things while I was in the dungeon. I'm afraid you've already suspected that I have something to do with the Zhang family, right?"

Li Chu neither confirmed nor denied it, so He Lingyi knew that she guessed right.

He Lingyi raised her head and closed her eyes: "Your Highness, do you know that day when you came back from the East Palace, you looked at me with burning eyes. I thought you knew what I was thinking. How happy was I? But in the end, I was overthinking it."

Li Chu didn't want to listen to He Lingyi's words. He just wanted to know the answer to his doubts, so he asked, "But I don't understand. You clearly said that you like me, so why did you help them kill me?"

He Lingyi walked up to Li Chu and whispered in his ear, a voice only they could hear: "Your Highness, you just went to Yunnan and you have that princess in your heart. I think even if I tell you my thoughts, you will never have a place for me in your heart. Since you can't have me, then destroy me!"

Li Chu was obviously shocked by He Lingyi's paranoid idea. He was about to ask He Lingyi back, but He Lingyi took out the dagger hidden in her sleeve and stabbed Li Chu.

Li Chu was caught off guard, but because He Lingyi was handcuffed, it was not very convenient for her to move. Although Li Chu had no time to dodge, he couldn't kick her away because he was close to her, so he took the knife with his bare hands.

The guards outside heard the noise and rushed in, kicked the dagger out of He Lingyi's hand, and controlled her.

One of the guards saw that Li Chu's hand was bleeding after receiving the sword, so he said, "Your Highness, leave this to us! You go back and bandage your wound first!"

Li Chu had never expected that He Lingyi, who usually looked very obedient, would be so dark inside. He never thought that you would be such a He Lingyi! So he said to the guard: "Watch her carefully, don't let her die!"

The guard accepted the order, Li Chu shook his head and left the dungeon.

In order to prevent He Lingyi from dying, the guard collected all the sharp weapons around He Lingyi, tied her up again, and blocked her mouth with cloth to prevent her from biting her tongue to commit suicide.

On the other side, Feng Shengyi was speechless when he saw Cui'er fainted from fright. He had no choice but to ask someone to pour water on her to wake her up.

When Cui'er woke up, she saw the silver needle in Feng Shengyi's hand and remembered what Feng Shengyi had just said. She almost fainted again.

Luckily, Feng Shengyi noticed she was about to faint and pinched her philtrum in advance. He then said to her, "As long as you find me, I will discuss this with His Highness. I'll count it as meritorious service while you're serving your sentence, and you won't have to suffer any punishment. How great is that?"

Cui Er thought about it and decided that her life was more important, so she confirmed again and again: "Is what the adults said true?"

Feng Shengyi nodded: "It's more real than pearls."

So, without any torture, he told the whole story!