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

Duan Yuchuan's plan was extremely dangerous; in fact, it put him on the line to gamble.

When lives are at stake, he can naturally understand people's selfishness.

People are driven by self-interest. Unless something unexpected happens, ordinary people under their command, unless they are die-hards, would not easily entrust their lives to others.

Including Yongcheng in front of him.

Duan Yuchuan's tone was devoid of any emotion, which only emboldened Yongcheng to speak again without fear.

“Your Highness, Yongcheng was fortunate to be saved by Your Highness back then. Yongcheng’s life already belongs to Your Highness. If Yongcheng ever dares to betray Your Highness, then I will make sure that Yongcheng dies without a complete corpse and never be reborn.”

After he finished speaking, he raised his head and looked at Duan Yuchuan with a pair of clear, unadulterated eyes.

Startled, Duan Yuchuan took a few steps back without batting an eye. He truly hadn't expected Yongcheng to swear an oath in front of him.

But because of his status, he still pretended to be calm.

"In that case, you should quickly spread the news that my sister broke into the Embroidered Uniform Guard at night. This is the first step in our plan."

"Yes, Your Highness!"

Yongcheng bowed his head in greeting, then quickly got up and left the study.

After everyone left, Duan Yuchuan's tense thoughts finally began to relax. He turned to look in the direction Yongcheng had left, his eyes filled with contemplation.

He truly couldn't understand why Yongcheng would be so loyal to him.

After all, he also had a clear understanding of himself.

He's no good person!

The heavy rain gradually stopped, and a slight chill seemed to creep in.

The Embroidered Uniform Guard headquarters remained brightly lit.

Shen Mu stood under the corridor, looking leisurely at Duan Yuyan, without a trace of pity in his expression.

Right now, all he wants is to leave this place as soon as possible and see if Thirteen's injuries have improved.

Even though he had to go to the dark room three times a day.

He said indifferently in the face of Duan Yuyan's curse.

“If the princess believes that I admire her, then I apologize; I was not clear enough. But if the princess swears on this matter, I have not done anything excessive to offend her.”

This is probably the longest thing he has said in recent days.

He did not want to have any further entanglement with this mortal princess.

To these divine beings, the existence of mortals is but a blink of an eye, and they have already gone from being newborn infants to old people in their twilight years.

Not to mention, would she be attracted to an ordinary person?

When immortals fall in love with mortals, it only brings unrest to the three realms.

He hadn't killed the Demon Lord yet and didn't want to die so soon.

"Shen Mu, are you sure you won't regret this?" Duan Yuyan roared. Her makeup was ruined by the rain, and it looked rather terrifying upon closer inspection.

She staggered, unsteady on her feet in the wind.

At this moment, Man'er had already gotten up and was carefully helping Duan Yuyan.

"Regret?" Shen Mu couldn't help but chuckle a few times, as if he had heard a huge joke.

Those blood-red eyes gleamed with excitement in the night; he had finally decided to kill.

Leaving aside the harassment the Fourth Princess had caused him these past few days, and focusing on the methods she used against the Thirteenth Prince, he suddenly felt a strong urge to get his revenge from the Fourth Princess.

But his remaining rationality eventually pulled him back.

“Princess, I have done nothing wrong to Nanyang, nothing wrong to His Majesty, and I have nothing to do with you. Why should I regret it?” The mockery in his eyes was obvious.

His nonchalant demeanor left the guards from the princess's residence, who had been detained, looking at each other in bewilderment.

Because at this moment, the relationship between the two is about to become clear.

It was clearly the Fourth Princess who had been constantly harassing Shen Mu, and even came to the Embroidered Uniform Guard headquarters in the middle of the night to cause a scene. Such behavior made the guard who had been taken away suddenly feel a chill down his spine.

If news of what happened today reaches the palace, I'm afraid they'll lose their heads.

As if sensing something, Shen Mu glanced at the guards.

"Rest assured, today's events are solely the princess's responsibility and have nothing to do with you. Besides, thankfully you didn't harm Prime Minister Pei's daughter."

He crossed his arms, as if he were confident of success.

Seeing this, Duan Yuyan felt her already suppressed anger flare up even more!

She stumbled and nearly fell to her knees.

She instinctively gripped Man'er's arm tightly, her fingernails, stained with balsam juice, digging deep into Man'er's fair skin.

Man'er frowned. At this moment, she understood that Duan Yuyan's anger had reached its peak, so she naturally dared not utter another word.

"She's just a woman from an official family, can't I, the princess, kill her?" Duan Yuyan naturally attributed Shen Mu's rejection to Pei Suisui.

At this point, Duan Yuyan had already gone mad with demonic possession.

Shen Mu frowned slightly, clearly having underestimated the Fourth Princess's shamelessness.

"I will explain to the princess again that the young lady from the Pei family has no relation to me whatsoever." He hadn't intended to explain, but considering the relationship between Thirteen and Pei Sui Sui, he finally spoke up.

Haojing, who happened to be walking to the gate of the courtyard, naturally heard Shen Mu's explanation.

He turned around and saw the guards about to rush into the courtyard, and instinctively gripped the sword at his waist.

"grown ups--"

He shouted, drawing everyone's attention and causing them to stop and look.

A well-trained group of guards, none of whom carried any tokens, suddenly surged to the courtyard gate. Upon closer inspection, they were all highly trained elite soldiers.

Hao Jing frowned slightly, thinking about how to defeat these people as quickly as possible.

"Princess, what exactly do you want to do? This is the capital, the Imperial Guard!" Shen Mu narrowed his eyes dangerously. He really didn't understand what charm he had.

That made Duan Yuyan so reluctant to part with him.

His last well-intentioned reminder to Duan Yuyan was because he didn't want to get involved in the trivialities of the mortal world.

His goal was clear: to take Thirteen away and kill the Demon Lord.

Duan Yuyan stood up straight with a half-smile, and solemnly tidied her temples, as if she were redoing her makeup.

After she finished tidying her hair, she looked up at Shen Mudao.

"I said that killing an official's daughter would be enough to get you, so why wouldn't I kill her?" She seemed to have gone mad as she raised her hand and swung it down.

The elite troops quickly changed direction and surged in all directions, searching for Pei Suisui, who had just disappeared.

"What are you doing! This is the Embroidered Uniform Guard!"

Haojing naturally drew his sword, intending to stop them.

Unfortunately, he couldn't fight against so many guards. He was too busy to stop them all, and many of them had already scattered to find Pei Suisui.

"Xie Qiao, please help me!"

Seeing that he was at a disadvantage, Haojing quickly shouted towards Shen Mu.

Shen Mu and Xie Qiao exchanged a glance, and Xie Qiao immediately drew her sword and left.

Shen Mu stood under the eaves, hands behind his back, his face icy cold. He thought to himself, "This princess is still incredibly stupid. Where am I?"

How can we let her run wild here!