Poisonous Goddess: I'm just lazing around in the mortal realm.

Hao Jing looked up and saw Shen Mu carrying a girl who had fainted, hurriedly entering the mansion. Before he could react, he saw Xie Qiao following behind, quickly opening the door to the secret room.

He looked at the girl Shen Mu was holding, who was wearing men's clothes that looked very familiar to him, and a lot of thoughts suddenly came to mind.

Shen Mu? A man? Or a girl?

Haojing stared wide-eyed at Shen Mu as he entered the dark room with a strange expression, his mouth slightly agape.

When he saw the door to the secret room slowly close, Haojing remembered that he needed to talk to Shen Mu about the Second Prince. He hurriedly ran to the secret door behind the artificial hill, his little face scrunched up with worry.

"Sir..."

Haojing pounded on the door of the secret room. The secret room was uniquely designed; once someone entered, the door would be locked from the inside, making it impossible to open with ordinary external force.

Haojing kept knocking on the door from the outside, afraid that the person inside wouldn't hear him.

But he was afraid that someone in the mansion would see the location of the secret door, so he had to suppress his shouts.

He unusually got up early today, and went to deliver the letter Shen Mu had given him the night before to Helian Nash. When he came out, he happened to run into the Second Prince's carriage leaving the city.

These past few days, the Second Prince's carriage has frequently left the city. Remembering what Shen Mu had told him about the relationship between the Second Prince and Helian Nash, he became more cautious and followed the Second Prince all the way.

Unexpectedly, the Second Prince was having a secret rendezvous with a girl at Yuqing Temple!

This kind of boring gossip really made him feel a bit frustrated; it was all his fault for being too curious for a moment.

But then he carefully recalled his brief encounter with the person in Shen Mu's arms.

He didn't even have time to see who it was!

Just as Hao Jing was feeling depressed, the door to the secret room was opened from the inside again. He rushed forward and bumped right into Xie Qiao.

Haojing was about the same height as Xieqiao, and when the two of them faced each other head-on, they bumped into each other's foreheads.

Xie Qiao instinctively covered her head, and with a hint of anger on her face, she looked up and saw Hao Jing squatting on the ground, touching his head.

He was overjoyed and quickly grabbed Haojing by the collar, pulling him into the dark room.

"Eh?"

Before Haojing could speak, Xie Qiao grabbed him by the collar and led him into the dark room.

Having just entered the pitch-black room, still somewhat disoriented, he inevitably stumbled and fell headfirst into the wall. He was in so much pain he saw stars, but while harboring resentment towards Xie Qiao for causing his fall, he followed behind him.

After the two walked through the long, dark passage, they arrived at the secret room that Shen Mu had painstakingly prepared.

Before they could clear out the spies in the Shen family mansion, Shen Mu found this place as their new base.

Whether it was Shen Mu's injury or the arrangement for Zhou Jinghuai to burn down Mingyue Palace, it all happened in this dark room.

Right now, Haojing is watching as Shen Mu has had a skylight chiseled open in the center of the ceiling of the dark room, and after the rain, sunlight slowly streams into the dark room through the window.

He stared at the sunlight, somewhat dazed.

"Haojing? What are you thinking about?"

Xie Qiao saw Hao Jing staring blankly and quickly went over and nudged him with her elbow.

"Ah, I'm fine."

Hao Jing quickly regained his senses and followed Xie Qiao into the inner room. It was an inner room that Shen Mu had specially prepared for himself to handle official business, mainly because he had recuperated here after his injury.

Xie Qiao pushed open the door to the inner room, and Hao Jing happened to see Shen Mu carefully placing the girl in his arms on the soft couch.

Upon seeing this, Haojing suddenly felt a twitch between his eyebrows, indicating that something was probably about to happen.

Before he could speak, Shen Mu's cool voice rang out.

"What are you standing there at the door for? Hurry up and come see her."

"Ah... okay."

Haojing felt it was not a good day to go out, but now that he was in front of Shen Mu, he couldn't run away.

He exhaled a slight breath and strode forward to look at the girl on the bed.

This sight alone was enough to cause a huge shock.

"Isn't this girl...?"

In broad daylight, did he see a ghost?

Hao Jing's face turned deathly pale instantly. Even with so many people in the room, he still took a few steps back, feeling a little scared.

Shen Mu frowned as he looked at the agitated Hao Jing.

"What are you doing? I brought you here to see a doctor, not to have your illness flare up here."

Upon hearing this, Hao Jing looked up and met Shen Mu's angry gaze. He quickly waved his hand and said...

"No, sir. I... this girl... isn't this girl... isn't she dead?!" He was so frightened by the girl lying on the bed that he stammered.

Seeing Shen Mu's face growing darker and darker, he swallowed hard, wanting to argue back.

Before he could speak, Xie Qiao stepped forward and pushed him forward.

"Look quickly, this is what the master brought out from the palace. She's seriously injured, you must treat her immediately!"

Xie Qiao could naturally guess why Hao Jing was reacting so strongly. Seeing his master's increasingly abnormal behavior, he had no choice but to quickly make Hao Jing lower his head and do his job.

Don't turn back and get blamed by your master; you should punish him too.

"I……"

Seeing that Shen Mu was about to lose her temper, Hao Jing quickly composed himself and stepped forward to examine the girl's illness.

After all, now is not the time for him to gossip.

By the time he finally stabilized the girl's injuries, it was already late at night.

Haojing yawned as he walked out of the inner room. He looked up at the moonlight streaming in through the skylight and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

While he was examining the girl in the inner room, the look Shen Mu gave him from behind kept him from relaxing.

In fact, if he hadn't saved that girl today, he might have ended his life here.

Thinking of this, Haojing couldn't help but feel a surge of emotions.

Fortunately, his medical skills were reliable, and he temporarily saved the girl's life.

"You'll have to work hard these next few days. Just stay here with the Imperial Guards. I'll have someone arrange a room for you."

Shen Mu's cold voice interrupted Hao Jing's thoughts, causing him to tremble involuntarily. Even though his mind had been drowsy for a long time, it was suddenly jolted awake by Shen Mu's voice.

Hao Jing subconsciously turned his head and saw Shen Mu also coming out of the room.

"Yes, my lord."

He nodded to Shen Mu and noticed that Shen Mu also had some dark circles under his eyes, perhaps because he hadn't rested well either.

"Thank you for your hard work. I'll go take care of some matters in the palace." Shen Mu nodded to him and then left the dark room.

Although the barrier surrounding the previous fight with Sun Youzhi was meant to prevent any mortal from seeing it, the battle between Thirteen and Sun Youzhi at the Bright Moon Palace was still remarkable.

It was seen by quite a few people.

He needs to find a suitable excuse to get out of this.

At least until they capture Sun Youzhi, they cannot afford to turn against the Emperor of Nanyang.

After Shen Mu left, Xie Qiao slowly closed the door to the inner room. Looking at Hao Jing's somewhat dazed expression, he couldn't help but ask with some confusion...

Do you know that girl?