Although the little apprentice sister is weak, she can fight

Shen Qiao felt that he had tried his best to be smarter in his life, but this was the first time that his thoughts were seen through.

"Oh..." She pretended to sigh and conjured up a hairpin to help her tie her hair.

"I'm so old now. I didn't even notice that the little crybaby back then has turned into a little fox."

Yu Feiwan couldn't help laughing.

Shen Qiao lowered his eyes, "'Yu Feiwan'?"

"Yeah." She looked at Shen Qiao and chuckled, "I picked it myself."

Shen Qiao's brows relaxed unconsciously, "It sounds good."

Yu Feiwan nodded unceremoniously, "I think so too."

After combing the last few strands of hair neatly, Shen Qiao let go of her hand and placed the comb on the dressing table.

"Still putting on makeup?"

Yu Feiwan seemed surprised. She couldn't help but turn her head to look at Shen Qiao, "You... can also put on makeup?"

"It's my first time drawing." Shen Qiao smiled. "Do you dare to try?"

Yu Feiwan's eyes lit up, revealing some of the liveliness typical of her age. "It sounds risky."

"uh-huh?"

The little girl smiled slyly and stood up. "Since you're not confident in your own craftsmanship, why don't I draw one for you first?"

Shen Qiao looked at the little girl's malicious smile and surprisingly didn't refuse. He sat down and said, "Okay, your skills are not worse than mine, right?"

Seeing that she agreed, Yu Feiwan immediately started to get busy, and it looked like he was actually doing something.

"It rained outside last night." Yu Feiwan carefully compared the rouge in her hand. "The raindrops looked like ice flowers when they landed on the ground. It was very beautiful. Is it because you fought with them?"

"Hmm..." Shen Qiao tilted his head and let her fiddle with it. "It's not that we're fighting with the royal family. We're just trying to clear out the poisonous insects in the capital. Now that it's rained, these things have been cleared away."

Yu Feiwan's eyes lit up when he heard this, "But that strange black, smelly thing?"

"Yes."

"Great!" Yu Feiwan was obviously happy. She finally chose the color and painted it on Shen Qiao's lips.

"This thing has harmed many people. Many people in the palace have been bitten by it. I've noticed that after being bitten by this thing, it's like a completely different person. Three years ago, Concubine Li of Wenyu Pavilion was accidentally bitten. Si Huangxu went to see her several times under the pretext of visiting the sick, but she died within a month."

Hearing her speak so calmly about life and death, Shen Qiao looked up at her, "Are you afraid?"

"I was scared at that time." Yu Feiwan tilted his head to look at the color presented, and seemed to feel that the angle was not right, so he lifted Shen Qiao's chin again.

"I've been in this palace for seven years now. So much time has passed that I've long forgotten what it feels like to be afraid."

Shen Qiao looked at her diligently playing the drum and sent her a message: "Si Huangxu is dead."

Yu Feiwan stopped moving completely, a look of shock in his eyes. "Are you referring to the one in the ancestral hall at the back?"

Shen Qiao nodded, "Have you also noticed that there are 'two Si Huang Xu'?"

Yu Feiwan breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this. "Yes. When I first arrived, Si Huangxu treated me very well, showering me with rewards. But after a while, he couldn't keep up the pretense anymore and took me to a secret cell to try to extract my blood to feed my worms. But I had the jade ring my sister gave me to protect me, so his poisonous insects had no effect on me. He tried several times but couldn't touch me. Later, he seemed to have met someone more suitable, so he locked me up for a while and left me alone."

"Later, he suddenly issued an edict to confer the title of Consort upon me and asked me to move in here. He told me to go out as little as possible and to contact Eunuch Liu from the Imperial Household Department directly if I needed anything."

Yu Feiwan kept busy. After finishing her lipstick, she casually picked up something else. "But I was young at the time and didn't think much of it. I just felt grateful for having escaped death. After I became familiar with the affairs of the palace, I slowly started to care about it."

"Everyone in this palace is willing to work hard for a profit, and they are willing to be open-hearted when they have money. Guan Yan is an old woman in this palace. She got a lot of small details from Si Huangxu's personal eunuch, and then connected them together, and I came up with this guess."

Shen Qiao listened to her without interrupting her, and waited until she finished before continuing to transmit, "Si Huangxu borrowed his son Si Huangzhao's lifespan and body to survive for over a decade. Now that he's dead, Si Huangzhao has regained control of his body. He was a kind person, and things like that won't happen again."

Yu Feiwan carefully traced the small mole at the corner of her eye and smiled, "Sister, are you trying to comfort me?"

'Not entirely.'

After Yu Feiwan finished all of this, he straightened up with a pen in one hand and asked, "Why do you say that?"

Shen Qiao raised his hand and handed the blank document signed by Si Huangzhao to Yu Feiwan, along with a black wooden token.

"This is......?"

"Si Huangzhao personally promised that if you don't want to stay here any longer, you can leave and go wherever you want. He will make proper arrangements."

Yu Feiwan's eyes widened when he heard this, and he didn't have time to react.

"Just now, when I said I was only here to help you mend your jade ring, you looked a little lost."

These words brought Yu Feiwan back to her senses. She lowered her head and looked at the two things Shen Qiao handed to her. "When I first came here, I wanted to smash the jade ring countless times."

"Then why didn't you fall?"

Yu Feiwan raised his hand and took the two things from Shen Qiao.

"I said... I want to be as awesome as my sister."

She clenched the document and lowered her head slightly, her vision blurring. "I don't want my sister to think I'm someone who breaks my promise."

A complex emotion flashed across Shen Qiao's eyes, but he pretended to smile casually. He wiped away the tears from her eyes with his fingers and said softly, "Xiao Wan is already very impressive."

Yu Feiwan burst into laughter and nodded vigorously, "I will leave here and go to the south to do what I have always wanted to do."

Shen Qiao didn't continue to ask what she was going to do, but just nodded, "Okay."

The two of them had just finished discussing the matter when the maid Guan Yan knocked on the door.

"Then I... will go and pack up now." Yu Feiwan reacted and raised her sleeve to wipe away her tears, but when she looked at Shen Qiao, she couldn't help covering her lips and holding back her smile.

Shen Qiao shook her head helplessly. "Let me guess, this is your first time putting makeup on someone, right?"

Yu Feiwan's eyes were still red, but she smiled heartily, "Actually... it's not that unsightly."

"It's just that you don't suit these rouge and powder decorations."

Shen Qiao turned his head and took a look at his reflection in the mirror, but he couldn't bear to look at it any longer after just one look.

Yu Feiwan saw her quickly stand up, remove her makeup with a flick of her sleeve, and return to her original appearance.

"Are you...leaving?"

"Ah."

Shen Qiao turned around, walked up to her, and patted her shoulder. "Seeing you like this now, I feel relieved."