The princess was fed contraceptive soup on the day of the marriage exchange, and she went crazy

Shi Huaizhi shook his head: "I didn't set the fire."

Without waiting for Sheng Nanzhi to say anything more, Shi Huaizhi continued, "I know why you think so. The fire started from under the double. It looks more like I'm destroying the double's appearance and some of its features so that it can better impersonate me."

"But not me."

Shi Huaizhi's eyes were dark and gloomy: "It has been nearly two months since my accident."

"Such a long time has passed, and many people have gradually forgotten my existence."

“That’s actually exactly what I wanted.”

"I hope time goes by faster and I am gradually forgotten."

"This will actually be more beneficial for me."

"But once this fire started, I and Prince Yi's Mansion, which had gradually faded from everyone's sight, were thrust back into everyone's sight."

Now that you put it that way, it is indeed true.

When everyone forgets about Shi Huaizhi, it becomes easier for him to secretly manipulate things.

No matter what happens in the court, no one will doubt Shi Huaizhi.

But now... countless eyes in the imperial city have once again fallen on Prince Yi's Mansion.

The emperor also specially arranged for the Imperial Guards to be stationed in Prince Yi's Mansion.

This move is really strange.

Sheng Nanzhi walked to the window and looked towards Huai'an Courtyard.

"Has there ever been a precedent of Your Majesty stationing the Imperial Guard in the homes of princes or court officials?"

"Yes." Shi Huaizhi slowly walked behind Sheng Nanzhi: "But it was during the time of the previous emperor."

"At that time, a high-ranking official in the late emperor's court heard that the prime minister was colluding with the enemy and plotting rebellion, but he had no evidence."

"So, he first sent a secret decree to Prime Minister Wen, then arranged for someone to steal the decree and post it on the city's bulletin board."

"Then, he feigned anger and arranged for the Imperial Guards to enter the Prime Minister's Residence to investigate the matter."

"The Imperial Guards failed to find the thief who stole the secret decree from the Prime Minister's residence, but a few days later, they found evidence of Prime Minister Wen's conspiracy to rebel."

Sheng Nanzhi turned around in surprise and looked at Shi Huaizhi intently.

What Shi Huaizhi said was very similar to what was happening right before his eyes.

Sheng Nanzhi gritted her teeth: "What have you done recently?"

"Could it be that when you were sneaking out to cause trouble, His Majesty discovered something? Did it arouse His Majesty's suspicion?"

"You entered the palace to commit assassination?"

"Or are they secretly mobilizing troops?"

"Or perhaps, colluding with the enemy country?"

After Sheng Nanzhi finished speaking, he frowned and shook his head: "No, you may be able to do the first two, but the last one is impossible."

"So, between the assassination attempt and the secret deployment of troops, which one did you do?"

"Or perhaps, you poisoned the emperor?"

Shi Huaizhi held his forehead with his hand: "Is this the kind of person I am in your mind?"

Sheng Nanzhi nodded: "Otherwise, I really can't imagine why the emperor suddenly sent the Imperial Guards to Prince Yi's Mansion."

She quickly grasped the key point: "So you're saying that the fire was set by the Emperor? Just to find an excuse to send the Imperial Guards into Prince Yi's mansion?"

Shi Huaizhi shook his head: "I didn't say that."

"I was simply answering your question about whether there had ever been a precedent for an emperor sending his imperial guards into the residences of princes or court officials."

"After all, Prime Minister Wen's incident was done by the late emperor."

"Perhaps the current emperor has other ideas in mind?"

"The king's mind is unpredictable. You will never be able to guess what he is thinking."

Shi Huaizhi curled his lips: "But I'm afraid you'll have to work hard again recently."

"Because, no matter what the emperor's reason is, because there is such a precedent, others will definitely make the same connection. Recently, I'm afraid that the way others look at you will be different."

Sheng Nanzhi understood: "They will think that Prince Yi's Mansion and I are almost finished. Just like that Prime Minister Wen before..."

Sheng Nanzhi said this, but his expression did not change at all. He was silent for a moment: "But I think this is also an opportunity."

"If the Emperor really did send the Imperial Guards to investigate Prince Yi's Mansion and wanted to accuse him of a crime he didn't commit, then wouldn't we be able to use them to place something in the mansion that would benefit us but harm our opponents?"

"Whatever the emperor suspects, we will follow his suspicions and divert the disaster eastward."

"Well, since you're unconscious, anything that happens in the mansion is perfectly reasonable. After all, I'm the only woman in Prince Yi's mansion right now. I'm very easy to deal with, so it's normal for me to be framed."

"But no matter what is discovered, there should be some clues that point to the eldest prince, the seventh prince, or something like that."

"As long as you don't suddenly wake up from your dead body, I'm safe."

Shi Huaizhi couldn't help but laugh out loud, and looked at Sheng Nanzhi with increasing appreciation: "Princess, you are absolutely right."

"That's what I'm going to do."

"Don't worry, Princess. I will make sure everything is arranged properly."

Sheng Nanzhi glanced at him sideways and said, "You should have arranged everything properly. After all, everything started because of you."

After receiving the accurate information from Shi Huaizhi, Sheng Nanzhi was no longer anxious.

She didn't go out either. She went to Huai'an Courtyard every day, sat in front of the bed for a while, and looked at the person on the bed who was burned beyond recognition. The rest of the time she either took a walk in the mansion or lay on the bed to take care of her pregnancy.

The commander of the Royal Guards came to see her several times.

What he asked repeatedly was what happened after Sheng Nanzhi married into Prince Yi's Mansion, and also what happened on the day of the fire.

Sheng Nanzhi played the role of the puppet princess to perfection, and knew nothing about anything.

Just a few sentences repeated over and over again.

"I don't know. The affairs of the mansion are all managed by Concubine Jinxin, assisted by the housekeeper. I don't know how many servants there are in the mansion, how many people come in every month, and how many people leave."

"After I entered the palace, although I held the title of princess, the prince's affairs were all taken care of by someone else, so I didn't know much about the prince's situation."

"Plus, after I found out I was pregnant, I couldn't stand the smell of medicine in the prince's room, so I moved to the attic. Prince... I visit him in the main courtyard every day, and I haven't noticed anything unusual."

"The prince has been unconscious. Doesn't the imperial physician come to check on the prince every few days? The imperial physician should know more about the prince's condition than I do, right? You can ask the imperial physician, or the palace physician."

"The prince is naturally different from when I entered the palace. He has lost a lot of weight. There's nothing we can do about it. The prince is unconscious, and his daily meals and drinks can only be fed to him by servants who make a paste out of prepared food. It's inevitable that he's lost weight."

After asking her several times, they probably couldn't get anything useful out of her, so the Royal Guards didn't come.

After a few days, on the seventh day after the Imperial Guards entered Prince Yi's Mansion, they finally found some things from Prince Yi's Mansion.