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

Thirteen lowered her eyes, pretending not to know.

Qin Sang, on the contrary, became somewhat anxious and hurriedly said...

"Could it be that the Third Prince's second poisoning wasn't your doing?"

“If it were really me, I wouldn’t risk my legs and Sui Sui’s life.” Thirteen raised his hand and pointed at Pei Sui Sui beside him.

At that time, the Third Prince was inexplicably poisoned, and she was being chased by the Fourth Princess, which led to Pei Suisui being pushed off a cliff and nearly losing her life. If she hadn't later inadvertently discovered the box of official silver the Third Prince had given her...

That's probably because she's been kept in the dark all along, foolishly thinking about curing the Third Prince's illness.

"you……"

Seeing that she had made the wrong bet, Qin Sang naturally looked flustered and secretly bit her lip, wanting to find an opportunity to jump out of the car.

Unexpectedly, Pei Suisui, who was guarding the corner, spotted them and blocked the entrance to the carriage.

"I think you should make things clear today before getting off the train." She could naturally tell that Qin Sang wanted to jump off the train and leave.

"you--"

Qin Sang's face stiffened. She slowly raised her eyes to look at Thirteen, her lips trembling slightly.

"My father died at Fengya Zhai back then, and it took me a great deal of effort to find the real culprit. If you are truly the Third Prince's man, then you can take my life today! I'll have done right by my Qin family!"

Her eyes were filled with unconcealed sorrow, as if she had given up the struggle at this moment.

Thirteen straightened up and sat upright.

"Who told you I'm on his side? I don't belong to any faction."

From the moment she stepped into the mortal realm, her sole mission was to protect it from the Demon Lord's harm. Beyond that, she would not interfere in any affairs of the mortal world.

She had no interest whatsoever in the struggle for the throne among the three future princes.

"You won't kill me?" Qin Sang asked, somewhat incredulously.

Why would she kill you?

Pei Suisui couldn't help but speak up out of kindness. She didn't mean to meddle, but ever since she learned about Thirteen's true identity, she seemed to have discovered that Thirteen wasn't wholeheartedly devoted to the Third Prince.

Not to mention that she now despises the Third Prince from the bottom of her heart.

Qin Sang was somewhat incredulous, and tears even rolled down her cheeks. At this moment, the hatred for her father's murder was already etched in her heart and could not be erased.

Seeing this, Pei Suisui quickly handed over her handkerchief.

"Don't worry, we were at Fengya Zhai when your father was murdered. Weren't all those assassins captured by Lord Shen?"

Qin Sang took the handkerchief, but clutched it tightly in her hand. She naturally knew that her father had been killed at that time, and that Thirteen, Pei Suisui, and Zhou Jinghuai were all at Fengya Zhai.

She even secretly investigated Thirteen's background, but found nothing.

"Qin Sang, I know you entered Zuixianlou to find evidence of Anguo Gong's crimes for the sake of your Qin family, but obviously you alone are not enough."

Thirteen took out a porcelain bottle from his sleeve and waved it at Qin Sang.

"what is this?"

"This is the poison I promised to make for you. It's colorless and odorless, and just one drop is enough to instantly incapacitate a strong man."

Thirteen tossed the porcelain bottle to her, and Qin Sang stared at the bottle in her hand, somewhat incredulous.

"Then what did you give me before?"

"Anyway, it's not poison." Thirteen chuckled. It wasn't that she deliberately tricked her back then, but after thinking it over, she realized she shouldn't interfere in their mortal entanglements.

"Aren't you afraid that I...?"

"But you didn't do that, because you also knew that even if you poisoned Minister Xu, it still wouldn't overturn your father's wrongful conviction, or the case of the Governor of Jiangnan, right?"

What Thirteen didn't expect was that Shen Mu would use the fire at Mingyue Palace as an excuse to arrest Minister Xu, which inadvertently helped Qin Sang.

Qin Sang subconsciously bit her lip. She felt like a clown, being fooled by others.

"So you never believed me in the first place, did you?"

"No, I just like to be careful in what I do. Now that we've talked things out and you've told me your true identity, I won't harm you unnecessarily."

Thirteen looked at Qin Sang and saw that her expression was still somewhat unpleasant, so he pointed to the sleeve where he had hidden the letter.

"Consider this a thank you for this secret letter. You can use this medicine to kill whoever you want to kill."

"Thirteen--"

Pei Suisui instinctively spoke up to stop her, afraid that Qin Sang would really listen to Thirteen's words and go to poison Duke Anguo!

If the Duke of Anguo could really be easily poisoned to death by an ordinary person, the Pei family would not have been able to stand against him for more than ten years!

She glanced uneasily at the porcelain bottle in Qin Sang's hand, her face showing reluctance.

"This poison must not be given to the Duke of Anguo!"

"I never said I wanted her to poison Duke Anguo." Thirteen touched her nose; she naturally understood this.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have deliberately given Qin Sang a bottle of poison at this time.

"So what do you mean?" Pei Suisui felt like she had missed a few words, noticing that the two of them were looking at her with a tacit understanding.

"This medicine is used to poison those beasts at Zuixianlou."

Qin Sang gripped the poison tightly. She naturally understood that she couldn't kill Duke Anguo on her own.

This is one of the reasons why she was willing to sacrifice herself and enter the Drunken Immortal Pavilion.

"Poison the people of Zuixianlou? You want to burn Zuixianlou down?" Pei Suisui was somewhat surprised, after all, since she was born, Zuixianlou's reputation had been one of the best in Nanyang.

So many years have passed in the blink of an eye. I'm afraid Zuixianlou is so deeply rooted that it's not something an ordinary person can bring down.

"Of course it should be burned, but the fire must be set just right. It should burn so badly that even the Duke of Anguo won't dare to make a sound." Thirteen remembered the account book Shen Mu had given her before, and then took it out from the hidden compartment of the carriage.

"What is this?" Qin Sang frowned slightly.

"I originally thought Shen Mu giving me this was useless, but I didn't expect him to have predicted that you would come looking for me." Thirteen opened the ledger, which contained evidence of Anguo Duke's embezzlement.

Originally, this was an item that Shen Mu had prepared for her before she left. She had just casually flipped through it out of boredom, but she never expected that it was gold and silver jewelry that the Duke of Anguo had secretly looted when he built the Mingyue Palace.

These funds were originally intended for the construction of Mingyue Palace.

This is why the Mingyue Palace took so long to build, and all that was done was digging a pit and burying a few pieces of wood.

Qin Sang looked down at the slightly yellowed ledger in her hands, her hands trembling slightly. She really hadn't expected to have such a harvest today!

"Thirteen...I..."

She looked up at Thirteen, her eyes filled with gratitude, but when the words of thanks came to her lips, she didn't know how to express them.

"You don't need to thank me. It's quite a coincidence that Shen Mu discovered the account book. When Mingyue Palace was burned down and the Emperor ordered the arrest of the arsonist, this book was found in Vice Minister Xu's house."

Thirteen's thoughtful gaze fell on the ledger.