My reborn husband and son are thinking about how to kill me every day.

Ji Yunshuang had no idea that such a small matter had caused Prince Rui and Bo Ling to think so much.

After Li Dequan had the two children sent to Fufeng Palace, she followed him to see Prince Rui.

Zhong Xu accompanied her to see Prince Rui.

Because he hadn't yet been detoxified, Zhong Xu was weak and sore all over, unable to walk on his own. He was helped inside by two guards, behind Ji Yunshuang.

Upon seeing the prince, Zhong Xu began to cry and plead for the prince to do justice for him.

He was so weak that he couldn't even sit up, but the poison that caused him to lose his ability to move did not affect his ability to express himself.

So he quickly recounted the whole story in tears.

Prince Rui's face was as black as the bottom of a pot. He glared at Bo Ling and the others and shouted, "What do you have to say now?"

Bo Ling was heartbroken, knowing that he could no longer deny secretly watching Ji Yunshuang and intercepting her people. His only option was to find a loophole in this affair and pin Fu Pei's disappearance on Ji Yunshuang.

“Your Highness, General Ji is highly skilled. Since she sent Tiger to protect Guard Zhong, it means she discovered our people long ago. It must be her. After discovering that the Third Young Master had sent people to follow her, she kidnapped the Third Young Master in a fit of rage as revenge.”

Ji Yunshuang hadn't said a word since she came in.

Only then did she slowly bow to Prince Rui and say, "Your Highness, this is truly a grievance!"

Actually, not long after Guard Zhong left with the letter, I sent my pet tiger to protect him.

I don't know why it didn't immediately go to help. Perhaps it was playing around on the way, hunting, or maybe it thought Guard Zhong could handle the assassins, so it didn't rush to act until it saw he was outmatched, at which point it finally came out to help.

As she spoke, she smiled wryly and said, "How could I possibly have such abilities! This gentleman is giving me far too much credit."

No one doubted her words.

After all, it was just a tiger. No matter how clever a tiger is, it's still a mangy animal and can't completely obey its master's commands, so it's not strange.

Moreover, according to Bo Ling's confession, Fu Pei disappeared in the secret residence in Hongdu. Prince Rui did not believe that Ji Yunshuang could abduct Fu Pei in the heavily guarded Hongdu without making a sound.

He was more inclined to believe that Fu Pei had secretly hidden himself away after realizing that what he had done had been exposed.

While Li Dequan was inviting Ji Yunshuang, he had already roughly looked through the account books, letters, and other things he had brought back from the Dark House.

Thinking of the contents of those account books and letters, Prince Rui was both furious and disappointed. Even if the Ji family had nothing to do with it, they would still deserve to die.

He never imagined that this person would be so audacious as to do such a thing right under his nose.

If this gets out, his reputation, which he has painstakingly built up over the years, will probably be ruined.

He didn't give Bo Ling and the others a chance to speak again, and had them taken away. He also summoned the imperial physician to examine Zhong Xu.

After everything was arranged, Ji Yunshuang was invited to sit down, and asked what Ji Yunshuang's intention was in sending someone to Ningxing Prefecture.

Ji Yunshuang wrote to Fu Ci, asking Lu Yinheng to lead elite troops to Ningxing Prefecture to cooperate with her. Although Fu Ci did not obtain the Prince Rui's consent, he did as she asked.

But afterwards, he immediately sent a letter to Prince Rui.

However, the letter was rather brief, conveying only some important information. And the information in this letter was exactly the same as what the spies that Prince Rui had arranged to send back in Ningxing Prefecture.

However, even the spies that Prince Rui had placed in Ningxing Prefecture did not understand how Ningxing Prefecture had suddenly fallen into chaos.

How exactly Ningcheng was burned down, and where Prince Duan went after his disappearance—his spies never gave him a clear answer.

Prince Rui hoped to get the answer from Ji Yunshuang.

Ji Yunshuang also wanted to test Prince Rui to see if the witch had used any tricks to get in touch with him.

Therefore, she began by saying that she had discovered that Prince Duan had sent people to Jiangzhou to buy livestock, in an attempt to completely cut off Jiangzhou's food supply.

She said that after intercepting the livestock they had purchased, she planned to go to Ningxing Prefecture to retaliate in kind.

Of course, in the process of narrating, she omitted many things that could not be said, mainly telling the story of the unexpected discovery that the Prince Duan used something called a sacred insect to interrogate prisoners, and that the insect was said to be a gift from a witch of the witch clan.

While Ji Yunshuang was speaking, she was secretly observing Prince Rui's reaction, trying to determine whether he had been in contact with that witch.

However, to her disappointment, the prince's facial expressions were simply too well controlled.

It was impossible to glean any information from his expression.

This was the first time Ji Yunshuang had felt defeated since her transmigration.