After her mind was read, the spoiled brat became the darling of the whole group.

Jun Lanjin said calmly, "You said I'm ugly? But the look in your eyes when you looked at my body just now didn't say that."

He tilted his head, rested his hands on the stage, and looked at her with a lazy gaze.

Xie Xing immediately denied it: "Lord, I didn't say that. I said you look average!"

"Volkswagen?" Jun Lanjin was not used to such a modern term.

Honestly, Xie Xing's inexplicable shyness disappeared after she saw the masked man's face beneath the mask.

She glanced at Jun Lanjin's expression, moved closer to the bathtub, and said, "My lord, what I mean is, you look very down-to-earth..."

Before Xie Xing could finish speaking, he suddenly changed the subject, "Hey? Lord, why is the skin on the side of your face peeling?"

Jun Lanjin instinctively reached out to touch it.

His human skin mask was the most realistic one ever made by Ximen Zhu; it felt smooth as jade to the touch, without any peeling.

Jun Lanjin narrowed his eyes and looked coldly at Xie Xing: "You suspect that I'm wearing a human skin mask?"

Xie Xing blinked: "What is a human skin mask?"

Jun Lanjin's face darkened.

He reached out and splashed some water on Xie Xing's face.

Xie Xing grunted and was splashed with water, instantly becoming soaking wet and looking utterly disheveled.

Before she could react, a white cloth flashed in front of her, and Jun Lanjin was already dressed. He walked barefoot to Xie Xing and looked down at her: "If you try to trick me again, I'll kill you."

Xie Xing pouted, looking aggrieved, and said "Oh".

He wasn't wearing a mask anymore, and with an ordinary face, he passed by Xie Xing. But he couldn't hide his noble aura, and every move he made was extremely elegant, as if he was born with a kingly air.

People with this kind of temperament are extremely rare.

This person is either a prince or a duke.

Xie Xing didn't believe he wasn't wearing a human skin mask.

They're not that easy to fool.

The more people try to prove something, the more they try to hide it.

"Follow me."

Just as Xie Xing was pondering this, Jun Lanjin's cold voice came from ahead.

Xie Xing wiped the water droplets from her face, patted her clothes, and followed.

Jun Lanjin wore a white undergarment, which was casually draped over his shoulders, exposing his snow-white skin and revealing glimpses of his slender collarbone.

Xie Xing glanced at it a few more times.

I don't know what she looks like, but I have to say, her figure is simply incredible.

Jun Lanjin met her evasive gaze, glanced down at himself, remained silent for two seconds, quietly closed his clothes, and couldn't help but say, "You're a young lady, don't you know how to be shy?"

Xie Xing looked completely bewildered by his words. "My lord, I'm innocent! I was just shy!"

"I was covering my eyes just now, but you told me to look!"

Junlan was speechless for a moment.

It was indeed he who told her to open her eyes.

However, he didn't let her see anything she shouldn't have.

Junlan gave up arguing with her; she always had her reasons.

He beckoned to Xie Xing: "Come here."

Xie Xing glanced at him twice, hesitated, and did not immediately approach: "Master, what do you want to do?"

Jun Lanjin's patience ran out, and he sneered, "What, you're not going to care about the poison in your body anymore?"

Xie Xing jolted and immediately moved closer to Jun Lanjin. "Lord, as you say, I've naturally come to ask you for the antidote."

As he spoke, he extended his hand.

Jun Lanjin slapped her hand away, the force was neither too light nor too heavy, but Xie Xing's palm immediately turned red.

She flinched in pain, but Jun Lanjin grabbed her hand and pressed his fingertips against her pulse.

Xie Xing looked at him with a puzzled expression.

Junlan Jin's medical skills were not excellent, but he was good at taking pulses.

He specifically asked the Valley Master of Divine Doctor Valley about the pulse symptoms of the Half-Moon Poison. The fifteenth day is the time when the Half-Moon Poison takes effect, but Xie Xing has not shown any signs of it taking effect yet, which means that she has already obtained the antidote.

Jun Lanjin thought for a moment, then suddenly asked, "You were poisoned for half a month?"

Xie Xing looked at Jun Lanjin in surprise: "How did you know, Master?"

Jun Lanjin chuckled: "The Half-Moon Poison is a poison from the Yama Palace, how could I not know that?"

Xie Xing nodded readily, "Yes."

Jun Lan asked cautiously, "Who gave it to you?"

"Why does Your Excellency ask this? Can Your Excellency help me solve this problem?" Xie Xing's wariness of Jun Lanjin did not decrease despite Jun Lanjin's seemingly approachable demeanor.

Although she doesn't appear afraid at all now, and even jokes with Jun Lanjin, she is actually under immense tension.

Jun Lanjin naturally noticed it as well.

He paused for a moment, then took a small white bottle from the table and said, "This is the antidote for you."

Xie Xing's eyes lit up, and she immediately picked up the white bottle and poured out a round, red pill.

She glanced at Jun Lanjin, then tilted her head back and swallowed the small pill.

The pill melts in your mouth and tastes sweet, like candy.

Xie Xing smacked his lips, thinking the taste was pretty good.

Jun Lanjin looked at Xie Xing with a half-smile: "What, aren't you afraid it's poisoned now?"

Xie Xing chuckled: "If the Venerable One wants to kill me, why would he need poison?"

With Jun Lanjin's methods, Xie Xing could have died silently with just a wave of his hand.

Jun Lanjin stared at her smiling face for a long while, then suddenly said, "Let's go, I'll take you back."

Why did this person suddenly change their mind?

Xie Xing looked at Jun Lanjin with a puzzled expression.

But he had already turned and walked into the inner room, and when he came out, he had changed his clothes.

He indeed stopped wearing the mask; aside from his tall and slender figure, his face truly blended into the crowd.

Xie Xing stared at him for a while, then lowered his eyes.

She still remembered the delicate, fair jawline she saw when Jun Lanjin carried her back in his arms; it could never be such an ordinary face.

The journey back will be much faster.

This time, however, Junlan used a horse-drawn carriage.

The two sat in a carriage drawn by a fine Akhal-Teke horse, and the bells outside the carriage jingled.

Xie Xing looked out the window.

It was almost dawn. She hadn't slept all night, and her eyelids were drooping. She was forcing herself to keep her eyes open.

...

the other side.

Xie Ansheng expended a great deal of effort to capture a few men in black, but the leader of the group escaped.

With a cold face, Xie Ansheng ordered Xie Yuhe to escort the man to the Dali Temple.

“This matter needs to be reported to the Emperor,” Xie Ansheng said coldly. “The matter of the rebels is extremely serious. If the Emperor does not take it seriously, then war will break out at any moment.”

Xie Yuhe hesitated and said, "But will His Majesty still believe us?"

If Xie Ansheng hadn't heard Xie Xing's thoughts and noticed the change in the emperor's attitude over the past few days, he wouldn't have believed that the emperor would doubt their loyalty.

I fear that his loyalty will be wasted, and he will misplace his trust in the monarch, leading to the extermination of the entire Xie family.

What to do?

Xie Ansheng was in utter confusion.

Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, he looked up and asked, "Prince Jin, can't you also hear Xie Xing's thoughts?"