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

Ji Yunshuang's height is not short for a woman, but she is petite next to Lu Yinheng.

She sat behind him, wanting to seize the time to discuss the matter of the witch and the prince, so she had to speak close to his ear, to the point that half of her body was pressed against him.

At this moment, she belatedly realized that what she was doing seemed inappropriate.

Although she didn't have any ulterior motives, she still had a strange feeling that she was taking advantage of him.

Her cheeks flushed, and she loosened her grip on him slightly, saying, "It's good to change seats. I'm feeling a bit tired sitting in the back."

Lu Yinheng said, "Okay, let's change it."

He stopped Tianrui, and the two switched places. Lu Yinheng sat behind Ji Yunshuang.

He stared at the slender waist in front of him, his hands stiffening, unsure of what to do.

Tianrui didn't care about his conflicted thoughts.

It was so annoyed by him.

Once their positions were reversed, it pushed off with its legs and dashed away. Lu Yinheng jumped, quickly pulling Ji Yunshuang into his arms.

Encircling Ji Yunshuang from behind meant he no longer had to feel her softness brushing against his back.

But such a gesture only makes things more ambiguous.

Moreover, she was sitting in front, and her scent drifted towards him on the breeze.

He felt as if he was completely enveloped by her presence.

He suddenly regretted switching places with her earlier.

After the positions were changed, it seemed even more unbearable.

To alleviate this torment, he tried to distract himself. He tried to recall what she had just said to him.

Normally quick-witted and with an excellent memory, she now had to exert a lot of effort to recall what she had just said. She also had to work very hard to get her almost blank mind working again.

He said, "Have you asked the villagers how they developed symptoms of the disease? I asked the soldiers who were infected before, and they didn't say that they found any insects in Prince Duan's eyes."

Tianrui ran very fast; besides his voice, there was also the whooshing sound of the wind.

Upon hearing him speak, Ji Yunshuang unconsciously sat up a little straighter and brought her ear closer to his mouth.

Lu Yinheng stiffened again, his gaze involuntarily falling on the small, cute ear tips.

His thoughts nearly snapped.

He finally managed to find his voice and continued, "The soldiers all said they had no idea when they contracted the disease."

I didn't hear anything about the witch from them either. They all seemed to have only seen Prince Duan. If your analysis is accurate, Prince Duan must have regained his senses and escaped the witch beforehand.

However, due to the insects' influence, his periods of regaining consciousness were very short. The soldiers said that when they saw him, he appeared to have been affected by the insects again and had lost his senses.

Ji Yunshuang thought what he said made a lot of sense. "When I was in Yaoguang County, I also asked the villagers about their movements before they got sick."

Based on the villagers' accounts, the two individuals must have previously been active in the Yaoguang County area.

Thinking of his past life, Lu Yinheng said, "Was the plague in Yaoguang County deliberately released by them? Did they act ahead of schedule this time?"

The "this time" he was referring to was naturally a comparison to the plague of his previous life. Because in his previous life, no one had ever chopped off the villagers' heads, and no one had discovered that the villagers were infected because of insects.

Everyone felt it was extremely terrifying, as contracting it would almost certainly lead to death.

Because this plague was so terrible that it made people tremble with fear, a witch appeared and controlled the plague, which is why she gained such high prestige and was able to take the position of royal advisor almost without any resistance.

But this situation is clearly different from the last life. Is she still planning to follow the same path as in the last life?

Ji Yunshuang thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps the timing of this outbreak is different from the last one because many things are different this time. She may also be in a passive position now."

After all, she didn't appear in her previous life, so no one noticed anything unusual about the Heart-Eating Worm beforehand.

This time, she discovered the unusual nature of the Heart-Eating Worm in advance and killed it.

It certainly disrupted the other party's plans to some extent.

Ji Yunshuang was just guessing, but little did she know that she had guessed correctly.

Moreover, because she discovered the abnormality of the Heart-Eating Worm in advance and killed it, the priestess's control over it was greatly weakened, which made her extremely angry.

Only the thought that those people would all die soon did her anger subside slightly.

She was very confident in her insect-based venom techniques.

Although her insect-based Gu technique was disrupted midway, preventing her from fully developing it and thus significantly reducing its effectiveness.

But she was raised using ancient witchcraft, so what could a mere mortal do to her?

It was precisely because she trusted the worms she had raised using ancient witchcraft that she did nothing else after seeing Lu Yinheng and Xu Xi afflicted by the worms, simply letting them suffer and die at the hands of the worms.

Besides being arrogant and overconfident in her insect worms, the unexpected incident before the worms were fully developed also disrupted her plans.

Currently, she cannot completely control another person through the Gu worm, and the Gu worm, for some unknown reason, seems to be trying to break free from her control.

The priestess desperately needs to regain control.

Therefore, after stabilizing the Gu worms again that day, he immediately led his men away, intending to regain control.

She suspected that someone had killed the Heart-Eating Worm midway, causing it to hastily parasitize Prince Duan's body and rendering her worm-poisoning technique ineffective.

She hasn't found a concrete solution yet, so she doesn't have the energy to worry about anything else.

Lu Yinheng was unaware that he and Xu Xi had escaped death only because of the witch's arrogance and the uncontrollable Gu worms.

Tianrui is several times faster than a horse.

He and Ji Yunshuang arrived at the soldiers' isolated camp before dark.

In the camp, a small number of soldiers were not infected with the disease. After Lu Yinheng and Xu Xi left, they took care of the infected soldiers and ensured the safety of the camp.

When the soldiers on guard duty saw Lu Yinheng and Ji Yunshuang riding back on tigers, their eyes lit up.

Ji Yunshuang asked, "How are the soldiers who contracted the disease?"

"They couldn't eat and collapsed weakly to the ground..." the soldier said, looking at Ji Yunshuang with hope. Lu Yinheng had told the soldiers who were infected with the plague that the medicine they were taking was given by Ji Yunshuang.

After taking the medicine given by Ji Yunshuang, their symptoms were significantly relieved.

There wasn't much medicine, just a tiny pill. After one pill was given to each person, there weren't any left.

He said, "Sir, do you still have the medicine you gave us before? Give them another one; it might save their lives."

When Ji Yunshuang heard that the soldiers were still in the same condition as before, she breathed a sigh of relief.

This indicates that the soldiers' symptoms did not progress to the next stage.

She quickly took a porcelain bottle out of her bag and distributed the medicine to the soldiers, instructing them to administer it to the infected soldiers.