The Killer's Cleansing Manual

Nanny Chen watched her drink with a loving face, and only after she finished the bowl did she try to persuade her earnestly.

"Your Highness has been doted on since she was young. Your Highness always gives in to her in everything. In fact, she has your Highness in her heart. She just asked someone to add a blanket for you this morning because she was afraid you would be cold!"

Lin Shanjuan didn't understand what she meant, so he just agreed with her and said, "Yes, we have a good relationship."

Nanny Chen clapped her hands with a smile, "That's good, that's good. However, it's cold out, so it's better for the two of us to live together. Does the Prince Consort have any concerns that prevent him from living with His Highness?"

Where did this big scapegoat come from? Wasn't she the one who kicked me out?

"Who told you that? We didn't have a fight. I just...got up early to go to court and didn't want to disturb her rest."

Nanny Chen's eyes narrowed into slits with smile: Look, these two people even gave the same excuse, isn't that a tacit understanding?

This one sentence strengthened her determination to bring them together.

"How could that be! It's cold now, so we should still live together. Your Highness said you don't want to live with her, and she feels wronged. Your Highness, please be more tolerant and coax her."

Oh, it’s the pot thrown by the sponsor, so it’s a golden pot!

"Okay, I'll move back tonight. Thank you, Ma'am... for your guidance."

Nanny Chen smiled and nodded: "Then I will wait for your good news. I have prepared soup for you tomorrow."

Good news? What good news? Even if we were truly in love, what good news could there be?

And this soup...can't I drink it every day?!

Lin Shanjuan drank a clay pot of soup until she could not drink any more and then escaped. She could hear the sound of water in her stomach as she walked. She was eager to find a place to vomit, but she was stopped by a man as soon as she walked out of the kitchen yard.

Lin Shanjuan frowned and turned around. He saw a man dressed like a scholar, who looked to be about thirty years old. He had a fair complexion and was quite handsome.

"Are you the prince consort?"

Lin Shanjuan had never seen this person before, and he felt a little wary: "Are you questioning my identity in my own house?"

Cen Li pursed her lips slightly: "I am from His Highness's backyard, Cen Li, nice to meet you."

In the backyard?

Lin Shanjuan thought of the small courtyard that she had never set foot in. It was said that Qi Zhaomian kept his lover there. At first she didn't know what it meant, but later she realized that it was similar to keeping a mistress in a golden house, and she even suspected it.

Now there is a "person from the backyard" standing in front of him. Lin Shanjuan looks at him carefully and feels a little unhappy.

"What do you want from me?"

Cen Li had already taken this opportunity to look Lin Shanjuan over.

Her features were striking, her gait casual, and she looked like someone with an uninhibited personality. The calluses on her hands were obvious, likely from years of archery, and her graceful gait suggested she must be a martial artist, with considerable skill.

Would His Highness like such a person? Oh, it's impossible.

He thought he saw through the person after just one encounter, and his guard was reduced a lot.

"It's nothing important. I was just traveling abroad to help His Highness with his worries. I just returned recently and heard that His Highness has recruited a female consort, so I came to see you."

Lin Shanjuan heard the slander in his words and thought about it carefully, he was probably an admirer of Qi Zhaomian, similar to Ye Lang.

Although she didn't know how much Qi Zhaomian loved this strategist, but... No, this tonic soup was a bit too nourishing. She felt like vomiting and couldn't think anymore!

"I...I have something to do. You've seen me, so I'm leaving now."

Lin Shanjuan held back the lump in her throat and wanted to find a place to relieve it first, but Cen Li thought she was deliberately looking down on her and snorted coldly, "I haven't even finished my words yet, and no one in this princess's mansion dares to be so negligent..."

"vomit--"

Before he could even drink the Ten-Ingredient Tonic Soup, it appeared clearly before Cen Li's eyes.

Cen Li looked at the things that splashed on the hem of his clothes, and the veins on his forehead throbbed uncontrollably.

"Prince Consort, what's wrong... is it because what I said was too——"

He didn't know what to say next for a moment. Fortunately, Lin Shanjuan only vomited once and quickly stopped, saying apologetically.

"I'm sorry, I drank too much tonic soup. It's not that what you said was disgusting, I just felt like vomiting, that's all."

Cen Li clenched his fists tightly, his face sank to the ground——

I didn't say my words were disgusting! So that's what you really think?!

The situation was getting a bit difficult to handle. Lin Shanjuan gave an awkward smile, "Um... Cen Li, right? Sorry, if you don't have anything else to say, I'll leave first."

She ran away after she finished speaking. Cen Li stood there, almost petrified with anger. She glared at Lin Shanjuan as he walked away, then stormed back to the backyard.

After dinner the next day, Nanny Chen did not leave as usual, but still stood behind Qi Zhaomian. Both of them knew what she was waiting for.

Lin Shanjuan looked at the earthenware jar on the table, his heart almost dying - who knows how long she will be able to drink this soup!

She couldn't figure out what Qi Zhaomian meant. He seemed to be normal, nothing was different, and he was indifferent to the earthen jar.

He couldn't drink any more, and Nanny Chen wouldn't listen and stop. He probably had to keep drinking until they were in the same room. But it was the sponsor who kicked him out in the first place, so he definitely couldn't go back without her permission.

Caught in a dilemma, after much deliberation, Lin Shanjuan had no choice but to take the worst option.

"I...I might have to stay at the Qingzhengsi tomorrow night to handle some matters. If I come back too late, Princess won't have to wait for me."

Qi Zhaomian glanced at her in surprise: "Okay."

She knew that Lin Shanjuan only had that one important case recently and was still waiting for clues. Apart from that, there was no other important matter that needed to be handled in the Qingzheng Division.

Did she say that because she really had something to say, or was she just making up an excuse to cover up other purposes?

For the next three days, Lin Shanjuan found various excuses to stay in Qingzhengsi every day. Qi Zhaomian asked someone to investigate and found out that she was indeed just resting in Qingzhengsi and not doing anything else. He became more and more confused.

Until the fourth day, Xiao'er came back from the Qingzhengsi with a lunch box, and there was still no one behind him.

Qi Zhaomian put down his chopsticks: "Is she busy today too?"

Xiao'er nodded without saying anything.

Qi Zhaomian took a deep breath and said, "Let's retreat. I'm going to rest too."

Busy? Sitting idle all day, watching the mistresses and concubines quarreling is also called busy?

What is there in this princess's mansion that makes her avoid it so much? Is it me?

The moonlight outside the window is clear. Winter is coming soon and the cold air is coming into the house through the cracks in the windows to keep warm.

Qi Zhaomian gathered his fox fur coat, unable to stop feeling upset. No matter how beautiful the moonlight was, he no longer had the interest to appreciate it, so he simply closed the window and lay down.

But as soon as I lay on the pillow and closed my eyes, I couldn't help but start thinking about everything that happened in the past few days, trying to find out what Lin Shanjuan was avoiding.

After thinking about it, she remembered what Nanny Chen had done.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that Lin Shanjuan started staying overnight at the Qingzhengsi from the day after Nanny Chen asked.

Could it be that Nanny Chen also went to say something to her?