After entering the book, the cold prince begs for favor

Lu Jiangnian decisively refused: "No."

His interrogation methods have always been rough. If she gets scared and falls ill, she doesn't know how she will scold him.

Yuan Wanru probably understood his concerns. She smiled and said, "I'm quite courageous. Even if you skin me alive, I'm not afraid."

"Besides, even if you were really scared, I wouldn't blame you."

Does that mean she's determined to follow him?

His brows twisted into a "川" shape, and he disagreed: "What if I don't agree?"

Yuan Wanru put away the smile on her face, her eyes filled with loneliness and sadness, then she turned around silently and no longer looked at him.

Lu Jiangnian's eyes struggled for a while: "Forget it, don't blame me if you get scared."

She immediately turned her head to look at him, her eyes filled with smiles, anticipation and joy pouring out: "No way."

With bright eyes, he suddenly thought of a poem, "The sun and the moon shine brightly, day after day."

He took a deep breath, feeling like he'd been fooled again.

How could she be so pitiful?

She lowered her head slightly, or remained silent, looking as if she had suffered a great deal of injustice, making it difficult for him to refuse her request.

Next time, I must be more ruthless.

-

In a dark room in the East Palace, the guard was hung high.

The identity of this person has been ascertained. He is an ordinary guard of the Eastern Palace named Ma Zhen.

Ma Zhen's lower jaw had been reattached. He was beaten with a barbed whip until his skin was torn and flesh was exposed. His two hands were drooping, and one of them had exposed bones, looking very miserable.

Lu Jiangnian was still wearing the same dark brocade robe. A faint smile appeared on his handsome face. He patted Ma Zhen's face and said, "Aren't you going to tell me yet? If you do, I can give you a quick death."

When Ma Zhen was caught cheating, he was still in a daze and had not yet recovered from the effects of the drugs.

When Lu Jiangnian removed his jaw, he used some clever force to make him temporarily deaf, so Ma Zhen couldn't hear what the people around him were saying at all.

He didn't know that the woman in the side room was not the wife of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery.

But Lu Jiangnian was a frequent visitor to the Eastern Palace, so Ma Zhen certainly knew him.

Thinking of Lu Jiangnian's kick, his eyes turned red and he taunted arrogantly: "Master Lu, even if you kill me, what does it matter?"

"For me, Ma Zhen, to have cuckolded the high and mighty Lu Jiangnian, it would be worth dying for."

"The taste of the wife of the loyal and brave Marquis is really good."

Lu Jiangnian punched him in the chest. Ma Zhen's ears buzzed, his throat felt sweet, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

Then, he took out a dagger and gestured at Ma Zhen's face: "You're just being stubborn, aren't you?"

"Unfortunately, the person in the side room with you is just a palace maid."

"Ma Zhen, tell me, is your life lost in injustice?"

He showed a ferocious smile on his face, pried open Ma Zhen's mouth, and tapped it lightly with a dagger, and one of Ma Zhen's front teeth fell out.

"These teeth aren't that hard."

Ma Zhen's pupils shrank. He didn't expect that he would end up like this. He actually made a mistake!

Oh my god, are you kidding me?

He had a mouth full of blood and angrily spat at Lu Jiangnian.

Lu Jiangnian moved swiftly and dodged it.

He turned back to look at the prince and sneered, "Your subordinate still has some backbone, but it's a pity that he is a traitor."

The prince looked at Ma Zhen calmly, "I've checked, and you were assigned here seven years ago when I moved from Xuanzhe Palace to the East Palace."

"Over the years, I have lived a peaceful and contented life. I am nearly thirty years old, but I still haven't started a family."

"It seems that from the beginning, you were someone else's pawn."

Ever since he found out Ma Zhen's background, Lu Jiangnian has realized that it would be difficult to pry open Ma Zhen's mouth.

Regardless of whether his plan to plot against Yuan Wanru succeeds today, as long as Ma Zhen is caught, he will have only one fate, death.

Ma Zhen knew the result, he would not survive. If Lu Jiangnian did not have something that could threaten him, he would not speak.

Yuan Wanru walked over gracefully, and Lu Jiangnian opened his arms to stop her: "There's blood on the ground, what are you doing here?"

The prince raised his eyebrows. So nervous?

For Lu Jiangnian, a killing god on the battlefield, blood is nothing strange to him, but he is afraid of tarnishing the Yuan family?

Is this still the Lu Jiangnian who came to him for a drink to relieve his worries and didn't want to get married?

Yuan Wanru stopped, looked at Ma Zhen, and said, "You're not afraid of death, but if the woman you love knew that you had done such a beastly thing, what do you think she would think of you?"

Ma Zhen's eyelids moved, but he didn't look up.

She still spoke softly and said a name: "Fang Ming, it must be her, your sweetheart."

Ma Zhen, who was hanging on the rack like a corpse, looked up suddenly when he heard the name, and looked at Yuan Wanru fiercely: "Why are you..."

He realized something and suddenly closed his mouth.

Yuan Wanru chuckled: "The law of nature is clear, you have harmed others, do you think you can hide your deeds from the world?"

"Ma Zhen, you better keep your life for now."

"Maybe one day, your secrets can save her life."

The prince understood what she meant and knew that asking further would get no results, so he had Ma Zhen taken away.

Lu Jiangnian asked curiously, "What is the origin of this Fang Ming?"

Yuan Wanru shook her head. "When Ma Zhen was doing that with Caidie in that room, I heard him call out this name. Actually, he said it vaguely, so I couldn't hear it clearly. I was just trying to trick him."

"However, judging by his reaction, I got the pronunciation right. As for the specific two words, it depends on whether you can figure them out."

Fortunately, she put half of the hallucinogen in the incense burner. When Ma Zhen gave it to the eunuch, he must have inhaled a lot of it. So he probably mistook Caidie for the "Fangming" he liked, and couldn't help but call out this name.

The reason she followed was to test whether the name was correct through Ma Zhen's reaction.

This name might be an important clue in the future.

Lu Jiangnian's handsome face fell: "Are you a woman or not? You actually listened to that..."

She is a lady from a noble family. How could she listen to those obscene words?

But she looked at him with a teasing look in her eyes: "I'm listening to it by myself, so it's not that embarrassing. But you're listening to it with more than a dozen people. I can't even compare to you in terms of fun."

Lu Jiangnian was furious: "I thought you had fallen for a trick, but when I realized it wasn't you, I immediately turned around and left. There was no such thing as 'fun' as you mentioned!"

Yuan Wanru thought about the situation at that time. It seemed that Lu Jiangnian had really turned around and left, standing quite far away from the wing room.

She looked curious: "How do you know I'm not in there?"

Lu Jiangnian wanted to say something, but he realized that the prince, such a grown man, was still standing there, watching them with great interest, as if he was watching a play.

He immediately changed the subject: "Let's not talk about this, Your Highness. Have someone bring in the maid and the eunuch."

The prince asked teasingly, "No, why are you so anxious? I want to know too. You didn't even open the door, so how do you know the person inside is not your wife?"

Lu Jiangnian snorted in a very disrespectful manner: "Ask the heavens."

The prince laughed heartily. He had a premonition that Lu Jiangnian's heart of stone was about to bloom.