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

Late at night

A villa in the suburbs

With a creak, the door was opened.

Herlian Nash looked exhausted. After closing the door, he sat down on the soft couch and let out a sigh of relief.

He had been dealing with the Second Prince for so long today that he was in a state of constant tension, and only now was he finally able to catch his breath.

He leaned on the table beside the tatami mat with one hand, and when he turned his head, he saw the tea set on the table.

No! Someone broke in!

Suddenly, a bad feeling rose in Hernanasch's heart. He looked around warily, searching for any trace left by the uninvited guest.

His secret return to Beijing was little known to anyone.

But before leaving this morning, he carefully left a mark on the edge of the tea set on the table.

However, this mark has now suddenly disappeared!

Without making a sound, Hernández reached for the dagger at his waist, which he had kept for self-defense. After looking around unsuccessfully, he suddenly turned and went straight into the inner room.

"What urgent matter brings you here, sir? And why are you doing this so secretly?"

He stood in front of the desk in the inner room, and he could clearly sense that someone was hiding inside!

Yoshihisa

A gray-blue figure slowly emerged from behind the curtains in the inner room.

The pure white moonlight fell on the girl, making her look so beautiful.

Pei Nanyue pursed her lips slightly. She had clearly underestimated Helian Nash's strength. She hadn't expected Helian Nash to suddenly return and catch her off guard.

When Hernándash saw that it was her, he quickly released his grip on the dagger. His expression visibly became somewhat flustered, yet it also subtly revealed a hint of surprise.

"What...what are you doing here?"

He couldn't hold back any longer and spoke first.

Pei Nanyue subconsciously touched her nose, her delicate face filled with embarrassment.

"It's nothing, I... I just happened to be passing by and wanted to come in for a drink of water, I didn't expect this to be your house." Her lie was full of holes, but unexpectedly, Herlian Nash nodded like a fool, as if he really believed it.

"Then you go drink... no, let me pour you a glass of water."

Hernash quickly turned around, subconsciously touching his face. Fortunately, he had been staying at the Second Prince's residence all day, so his appearance was barely passable.

He walked straight to the table, only to find that one of the cups was missing.

"Pei Nan... Miss Pei, did you have another purpose in coming here today?"

He turned around and handed her the warm water in his hand, a hint of shrewdness hidden in the panic in his eyes.

Clearly, he discovered something!

Pei Nanyue licked her lips and looked away, trying to avoid Helian Nash's questioning.

But to her surprise, Hernández had no intention of letting her go this time.

"Miss Pei may not know this, but you tend to lick your lips whenever you feel guilty. This is the second time since I first met you."

Pei Nanyue's heart skipped a beat when she heard his voice.

She never expected that she would be helpless in front of Hernández.

She kept trying to find a suitable reason in her mind to justify herself. But when she finally mustered up the courage to look up at him...

The walls she had painstakingly built in her heart crumbled in an instant.

"I...I want to know if your secret trip to the capital was to handle your marriage with the Fourth Princess."

"This doesn't seem to have anything to do with Miss Pei, does it?"

Herlian Nash's eyes were full of tenderness, but his words still hurt her deeply.

After all, in his heart, as long as Pei Nanyue could stay away from this conspiracy, it wouldn't matter how much Pei Nanyue hated him in the future.

Just as he expected, Pei Nanyue suddenly showed anger on her face and said...

“If you secretly enter the capital and I expose you before the Emperor, you will have no choice but to confess.”

Clearly, her emotions were affected by Hleinash.

"Then please proceed. However, Helian had heard before entering the capital that the Emperor of Nanyang seemed to favor the eldest daughter of the Pei family. If you were to enter the palace this time, what would you say..."

"you……"

Pei Nanyue looked at the smug Helian Nash and realized that she had indeed underestimated this scoundrel!

She gritted her teeth inwardly. Back then, in order to help her younger sister get married, she had almost agreed to the emperor's request to take her as a concubine.

Later, because her younger sister refused to marry her, the matter was temporarily put on hold.

She naturally cannot show her face in front of the Emperor recently, since she is the only one in the Pei family who can barely maintain a semblance of dignity in the capital.

Seeing that his threats were effective, Hernández pressed his advantage and said...

"If that's the case, it seems that Miss Pei is in a similar situation to Helian. It seems that neither of us can show our faces in front of the emperor?"

He raised an eyebrow slightly and looked down at Pei Nanyue, who looked flustered.

That face, so familiar to him, seemed like it had been so long since they last met...

So long that he almost forgot why he had risked his life in the Western Regions to get to his current position.

"Helian Nash, you really are a scoundrel. Now that you've consummated your marriage with the Fourth Princess, you'd better behave yourself in public."

Pei Nanyue didn't want to get entangled with him any longer. She had already lost her confidence because she had barged into his house today. Seeing how aggressive he was, she thought it best to find an excuse to leave as soon as possible.

She was about to leave his side when her delicate body was suddenly blocked by someone.

Helian Nash stretched out his long arm and blocked Pei Nanyue's way.

"Don't rush off. Leave my things here first, or I'll have to report you to the authorities tomorrow."

"I didn't take your things. Is there anything valuable in your house?"

Pei Nanyue also adopted an equally impolite attitude.

"You really didn't take it?"

Helian Nash bent down slightly, approaching Pei Nanyue.

At this moment, Pei Nanyue couldn't care less about anything else, so she took a few steps back and turned her face, which was already gradually heating up, away.

“I said I didn’t take it, and I didn’t take it. There’s nothing in your dilapidated house that’s worth me taking.”

"is it?"

Seeing that he found it amusing to tease the other party like this, Helian Nash smiled and suddenly pulled Pei Nanyue's arm into his arms.

"You lecherous scoundrel..."

In a panic, Pei Nanyue raised her hand and pushed him away.

But when Herlian Nash raised the teacup that should have been on the table again, Pei Nanyue realized that he had tricked her once again!

"you……"

"Didn't you say my house is full of junk? Then why would Miss Pei take this worthless teacup of mine?"

As if showing off his spoils, Hernández ran his fingertip across the crystal-clear teacup, an item he always carried with him.

I've been with him for many years...

Seeing this, Pei Nanyue decided not to continue pretending. She casually straightened her long dress and forced herself to remain calm.

"That teacup originally belonged to my Pei family. I just happened to see it today and thought it had been stolen by some thief, so I took it back to the manor to avoid any future disputes."