After transmigrating into the body of a stepmother, I led the villains in a rebellion.

Lin Shu glanced at him and said, "I saw Lu Shiyuan."

This time, not only Lin Shu was shocked, but even Jiang Mubai was stunned.

"Your husband? Does he know you've become a concubine?"

"I know, he not only knows but has also become my personal bodyguard," what kind of situation is this? She hasn't even received the divorce papers yet.

I was so angry when I left that I didn't think about anything else.

When she saw him again, she realized that she actually missed him a lot.

Two-thirds of the reason she pretended not to know him was because she was upset about his acting with Qinghe to spite her.

She didn't know when she had become so childish.

"So what do you plan to do? I remember you said before that he betrayed you," Jiang Mubai reminded her.

Lin Shu sighed, "I know, but we're not divorced yet, and now he's caught me red-handed. It feels like I've been caught cheating."

After hearing Lin Shu's words, Jiang Mubai immediately realized the truth: "You don't actually like him, do you?!"

Lin Shu didn't deceive herself about this, saying, "He is my husband, isn't it only natural that I like him?"

Jiang Mubai was surprised by her honesty, "You're serious."

Lin Shu smiled sadly, "The issue now is not whether I am serious or not. The issue is that I am the enemy who killed his entire mansion, while he is the murderer who killed my brother."

"And him... never mind, I won't say anything more."

"...What do you mean you're not going to talk about it anymore? Are you planning to keep hiding forever?"

“No,” Lin Shu looked at him firmly, “Now that the Emperor is injured, no one is watching me. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me.”

At this point, she took out the spiritual spring she had prepared in advance and gave it to Jiang Mubai, saying, "This is for you, it's what I promised you before."

Her actions immediately alerted Jiang Mubai. "What are you trying to do?"

"Everything that's happening now is simply because I'm Lin Shu, and the Emperor still harbors feelings for me. That's why it's all happening. As long as I die, Su Qing and the others will be fine, and you can return to the Divine Doctor Valley. So I'm thinking..."

"You're trying to fake your death and escape, right? I'll help you. In any case, you're not getting rid of me in this matter."

“Besides, with my help, you’ll have somewhere to go after you leave the palace. Although our Divine Doctor Valley is useless, it can still hide people,” Jiang Mubai interrupted her directly.

Lin Shu thought for a moment, "Alright, prepare the carriage outside the palace. I'll come find you after I've set the fire."

"Okay, I'll go prepare right away. Remember, you must come out and find me," Jiang Mubai instructed anxiously.

Lin Shu nodded.

After watching Jiang Mubai leave, she turned around and glanced at Yikun Palace, where she had stayed for several days.

Suddenly, I realized that I didn't have a home of my own in this ancient world.

Previously, Qijia Village was Lu Shiyuan's home.

He returned to the State of Jiang and went to the Duke's Mansion, which was Lin Shu's home.

Now that she's in the palace, she still doesn't belong to her home.

She realized that none of this was what she wanted.

She is not Lin Shu, and everything she has is not hers, so where should she go from here?

Lin Shu sighed heavily, turned around and glanced at the palace servants guarding the door, as well as Lu Shiyuan's lonely figure.

Perhaps it's time to say goodbye.

He immediately picked up a vase and threw it at the nearest palace servants, shouting, "You bunch of dog servants, how dare you! The Emperor was assassinated and you concealed it from us! What are you up to?"

The palace servants were so frightened by this sudden turn of events that they all knelt down on the ground, their faces filled with fear and confusion.

Lin Shu's eyes were sharp as he scanned the crowd. His tone was cold and resolute. "I am very unhappy that the Emperor was assassinated. So you all had better get out of my sight and not show up in front of me. Otherwise, if I get angry, I will drag you all out and execute you."

Upon hearing this, the palace servants rushed out of Yikun Palace in a panic.

The once vast Yikun Palace was now empty except for Lin Shu.

She sat alone in Yikun Palace for the entire afternoon, only snapping out of her daze as night fell.

After regaining her senses, she slowly stood up. After confirming that no one was around, she took out a large amount of flammable materials from her spatial storage and hid them in a secluded corner.

Only after there were no loopholes were the pre-arranged fire source ignited.

In an instant, flames soared into the sky, illuminating half of the night sky.

The palace was thrown into chaos. Palace maids and eunuchs fled in all directions, shouts and screams rising and falling.

Lin Shu took the opportunity to change into ordinary clothes that he had prepared beforehand, and mingled with the chaotic crowd, hoping to escape the palace.

Unexpectedly, just after escaping Yikun Palace, he was ambushed and knocked unconscious.

Before she lost consciousness, only one thought remained in her mind: Had she really met with such a terrible fate?

When Lin Shu woke up again, he found himself in an unfamiliar carriage.

This startled her, and she sat up abruptly, not forgetting the attack she had been in before she lost consciousness.

Just as she got up to see who had knocked her unconscious, the carriage curtain was lifted.

Lu Shiyuan looked at her with a smile, "You're awake. Are you still pretending not to know me?"

Lin Shu curled his lip in boredom. "Now that you know everything, how can I pretend? But you, how did you know I was faking it?"

Lu Shiyuan approached the carriage and sat down naturally beside her. "It's not hard to guess."

"Then why didn't you expose me before?" Lin Shu felt something was wrong.

“If I expose you, how will I know what you’re up to?” Lu Shiyuan didn’t tell her that he had actually been deceived by Lin Shu before.

It wasn't until later, when he saw Lin Shu lose his temper in Yikun Palace, that he realized something was amiss.

Although he didn't know why she was so angry, he felt that Lin Shu must have something on her mind.

Based on his understanding of Lin Shu, she wasn't the type to cause trouble unnecessarily; if she lost her temper for no reason, something must have happened.

To avoid alerting the enemy, he hid in the shadows and observed.

Based on this, Lin Shu stopped speaking.

Although Lu Shiyuan ruined her original plan, it wasn't too different from her original plan.

As long as the people in the palace believe she's dead, that's enough. Thinking of Jiang Mubai, Lin Shu suddenly asked, "By the way, did you tell Jiang Mubai about us coming out?"

Mentioning Jiang Mubai, Lu Shiyuan's eyes darkened. He glanced at Lin Shu, then looked away. "Don't worry, I sent someone to deliver a message to him."

Upon hearing this, Lin Shu relaxed, reverting to his usual lazy demeanor. "So, where are we going now?"

“When we return to Xia Kingdom, you will be my wife, so naturally you must come home with me,” Lu Shiyuan said, looking at her intently with undisguised love in his eyes.

Lin Shu smiled, a hint of amusement in his eyes. "Then you don't mind if I destroy your Marquis's mansion?"

At this point, Lu Shiyuan sighed heavily, cupped Lin Shu's face in his hands, and said earnestly, "Shushu, the hatred is in the past, we must look forward."

"And that's not what I care about. What I care about is that after you regain your memories, you'll hate me for killing your brother, do you understand?"

Lu Shiyuan's answer surprised Lin Shu somewhat. "You care about this?"

Lu Shiyuan nodded, "Yes, I was afraid you would hate me, so..."

Upon hearing this, Lin Shu inexplicably breathed a sigh of relief, but when he looked at Lu Shiyuan again, his eyes were filled with a smile. "I thought you were concerned about my destruction of your Marquis's mansion."

“If it’s because of this, I don’t think you need to do it at all,” the two of them said frankly, and Lin Shu no longer hid his identity.

After hearing Lin Shu's confession, Lu Shiyuan excitedly pulled her into his arms.

“I knew my Shushu was so kind, how could she do such a thing?”

Seeing his completely unsurprised expression, Lin Shu suddenly felt uneasy. "You...you didn't already know, did you?"

Lu Shiyuan nodded. "It's not early. After I broke into the imperial city, I captured Yuan Bingxuan. She told me everything about you."

"then you……"

“But I want to hear you tell me yourself,” Lu Shiyuan interrupted her.

He held Lin Shu tightly in his arms. "For me, the fact that you told me this yourself is enough to prove that you have truly opened your heart to me and fallen in love with me. This is what I want."

Lin Shu's face was filled with undisguised happiness as she reached out and hugged him. "That's because you don't know, I've already opened my heart to you."

"Really," this was an unexpected surprise for Lu Shiyuan.

Lin Shu nodded.

“Then we’ll get married when we get back. You don’t know this yet, do you? Actually, Aheng and the others already knew your identity. Even though you weren’t here, he still made you the Empress Dowager, his mother,” Lu Shiyuan said.

Lin Shu was shocked. "How can that be? His mother is..."

“He is the emperor now, so naturally he has the final say. Besides, he was worried you would be bored, so he deliberately allowed you to live in the general’s mansion.”

The carriage swayed and rattled as it headed towards the Xia Kingdom, with intermittent sounds of two people coming from inside.

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