The day her husband welcomed the time-traveling girl into the house, she woke up

After listening to Li Xing's story about how their mother returned to her original world after her death in their world, and now she has found a good man and has a daughter, and how their father already knew all that, yet he was still willing to hurt their sister, whom they used to love and cherish, in order to force their mother back, and watched them being controlled more and more by Xie Yu, which eventually led to the current rift between the siblings, Li Shen was more angry than ever before.

But he was their father after all.

No matter how angry he was, the most he could do was to stop being under his father's control.

After that, the two brothers sat quietly beside Ning Jin's bed for a long time without saying a word.

Until Ning Jin woke up at night.

"Why are you doing this?"

Li Shen spoke in a steady tone. After Ning Ge and Ning Ji helped Ning Jin wash up and eat, he continued, "Even if you don't understand Xiaoshu now, you should understand Xiaoshu in the past. We protected her too much since she was a child, and she was very timid. I wonder how frightened she must have been to dream about such a future..."

Hearing this, Ning Jin asked excitedly, "You also dreamed..."

"We're not as lucky as you." Li Shen shook his head and handed a thick letter to Ning Jin. "The letter written by Xiaoshu was taken away by the emperor's people. I copied this letter based on my notes. Take a look at it. Don't mess around anymore. Xiaoshu has found someone better and has completely let you go. Even if you indulge in dreams and know everything she knows, she won't be able to reconcile with you."

"..."

If it were in the past, Ning Jin would have immediately refuted his argument that Shushu could not possibly fall in love with someone else, nor could she completely let him go.

But after dreaming about so many future events, he couldn't utter a single word of rebuttal.

Especially before waking up this time, he saw her Shushu in his dream and the look of extreme panic when she watched her in the dream turn into bones.

When he thought about Shushu's reaction when he grabbed her collar and woke her up that day, he felt a dull pain in his internal organs.

So even though every cell in his body was clamoring to stop Shushu from communicating with others immediately, he could only try his best to restrain the impulse.

He can't hurt Shushu in the slightest!

Li Shen gave a wry smile at his reaction and continued, "After I left Xiaoshu's residence during the day, I recalled the events of the past year and more. Like you, I finally discovered many discrepancies with my past memories. This makes me feel that we deserve to be where we are today. If we hadn't been deceived by Xie Yu's pretense and subconsciously sided with her in everything, she might not have been able to control us so smoothly."

Ning Jin remained silent.

He had already realized that.

Then Li Shen stood up and asked him, "How is Xie Yu?"

Hearing this, Ning Ge glanced at Ning Jin for a few seconds before answering for him, "Previously, the Crown Prince had us imprison Xie Yu and torture her severely. We used every possible means, but she remained silent. Initially, no matter how many wounds we inflicted on her, no matter how severe, she would recover the next day. But over the past two days, her wounds have gradually become unable to heal on their own, and her appearance and figure have changed drastically. I guess that strange ability of hers has been exhausted."

Li Shen now knows that Xie Yu is not a monster, but a person who traveled from another world with a system like their mother.

But he didn't plan to tell Ning Jin.

For things that are beyond ordinary people's understanding, the fewer people who know about them, the better.

Ning Ge paused briefly before continuing, "After these days of interrogation, we've vaguely realized something. Although it hasn't been confirmed, it's nine out of ten true. Xie Yu remained silent throughout the interrogation. It seems it's not that she didn't want to speak, but that she couldn't."

"Can't say it?"

"Well, every time she gives us the impression that she's about to confess, she closes her mouth in agony, as if being stopped by an invisible force."

"..."

Li Shen knew that was the so-called system.

But he only said: "Since nothing can be learned from the interrogation, don't keep her around anymore. Let her go and let her fend for herself. But you have to send someone to keep an eye on her. Don't let her die too easily. After all, Xiaoshu has suffered so much because of her."

Ning Jin nodded silently, and after the two brothers left, he ordered Ning Ge and Ning Ji to throw Xie Yu out of their mansion.

After Li Shen and Li Xing left the Dingbei Marquis Mansion, they had not gone far when they were stopped by a group of people.

The leader showed them a token of the Eastern Palace.

"Our master invites you."

*

The next morning, Lin Yuan walked into Li Shu's room. Li Shu turned around and asked him, "How did things go last night when you visited my grandmother?"

"I encountered something and didn't have time to investigate carefully. I will go again tonight."

"what's up?"

"Someone broke into the Grand Princess's residence to silence us. I waited for the person to leave and then rescued him. However, he was seriously injured. It took me a whole night to save him from life-threatening danger."

"Is he the emperor's man?"

"Judging from his skills and the way he does things, it should be."

"So, what's the name of the person you rescued?"

"The male favorites around the Grand Princess all look the same. I can't recognize which one it is. I have to wait until he wakes up to find out."

"..."

Li Shu thought back to the male favorites she had seen in the Grand Princess's Mansion. They did look similar, but not to the point where she couldn't tell one from the other.

I couldn't help but suspect that Lin Yuan was somewhat face-blind.

Then she heard Lin Yuan say, "Yesterday, after the Third and Fourth Young Masters Li went to the Dingbei Marquis's residence, Ning Jin had Xie Yu thrown out of the residence, and in a busy street. Today, most people in the capital are talking about Xie Yu's changes. She said that Xie Yu hid in a dark, damp alley, and people kept coming to see her current condition."

Li Shu has always been curious about what Xie Yu looked like when he was born. Just as she was about to say that she would go back and take a look, Lin Yuan handed her two portraits.

After she took it, Lin Yuan said, "This is what Xie Yu looked like last night and this morning."

Last night and this morning?

Li Shu looked at the two portraits one by one with suspicion.

After reading it, he said, "It seems Xie Yu will soon return to her original appearance."

The two portraits of Xie Yu showed one who was just a little plump, and one could still see some resemblance to her in his face.

In the other photo, she had gained more than ten or twenty pounds, and her facial features had changed drastically. There was no trace of her anymore.

The two portraits were taken only one night apart.

No wonder it attracted so many people to talk about and watch.

That night, Lin Yuan once again visited the Grand Princess's mansion, but did not find any clues related to Gu.

A few days later, the man he saved woke up.

He brought the man from the Peacock Terrace to Li Shu's residence. When he arrived at the door of Li Shu's room, he had just raised his foot when a piece of cake flew out of the room.

He turned his head away.

The cake hit the nose of the person he brought with him right on target.

The man had just woken up and was very weak, barely able to stand.

Not only did he get a nosebleed from the blow, but he also staggered for a few times before falling to the ground unconscious.

It can be seen that the person who threw the pastry used all his strength.

For this reason, when Lin Yuan looked at Kong Sanniang, who was sitting opposite Li Shu in the room, his face was full of confusion.

Sanniang has been away from Beijing for a few days and is back. Why is she so irritable?

Didn't she bring those two back to Peacock Ridge to prevent him from causing harm to Lin'an and Linhu?

Thinking of this, he looked at Lin'an Linhu who was standing obediently behind Kong Sanniang.

Lin Hu immediately moved to his side and whispered, "Sanniang heard that you were talking nonsense in front of the young lady!"