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

"Xie Xing?" Luo Huaichuan paused in his eating and turned to look at Xie Xing.

Xie Xing smiled at Luo Huaichuan.

Luo Huaichuan looked at Xie Xing in surprise, "You have this skill too?"

Xie Xing smiled slightly, eating without saying a word.

Too many words are wrong.

"Your Highness." A short while later, a voice came from the other side, "Miss Yin requests an audience."

"Why is she here again?" Luo Mengfei frowned, waved her hand impatiently, and said, "Tell her that this princess will not see her."

"Eh? Wait a minute." Luo Huaichuan stretched out his hand, looked at Luo Mengfei curiously, and asked, "Miss Yin? Which Miss Yin?"

Recently, only the Yin family moved into Shengjing, and I heard that the daughter of the Yin family even entered the palace today.

“It’s that Miss Yin from one of the four great clans, Yin Ruyu,” Luo Mengfei said.

She told Luo Huaichuan about what happened today: "This girl from the Yin family is indeed beautiful, with a delicate and frail appearance, but today Xie Xing kindly helped her up, but she said that Xie Xing insulted her and complained to the Empress Dowager."

"Fortunately, Xie Xing is a woman. If she were a man, who knows how badly she would have been slandered."

"Is it really like this?"

Luo Huaichuan was surprised.

However, he immediately turned his head and looked at the two of them, saying, "But you two are quite bold. I heard that you disguised yourselves as men and went to the Guanghua Brothel, and were caught red-handed by Prince Jin?"

The two of them felt a pang of guilt.

But soon, Luo Mengfei raised her chin and said stubbornly, "Don't think I don't know that you princes also frequently go to brothels. I, as a royal descendant, am no different. So, you can go, but I can't?"

Luo Huaichuan's face darkened. "You can go, but don't get caught and become the subject of gossip."

"You are, after all, a member of the royal family. If word gets out, it will damage your reputation as a princess."

"Let that woman from the Yin family in," Luo Huaichuan instructed the palace servants as he turned around.

When Luo Mengfei heard that he wanted to see Yin Ruyu, she said with some dissatisfaction, "Why do you want to see her?"

Luo Huaichuan shook his head helplessly, "I don't know what you've been learning from your mother. How could someone as intelligent as your mother have raised you like this?"

"The Yin family is one of the four great clans, second only to the Jun family in status. Yin Ruyu, a daughter of the Yin family, is even more noble than many other noble ladies in the capital."

“You represent not only the royal family, but also the Lin family and your mother. If you keep her out, you are disrespecting the Yin family.”

Upon hearing Luo Huaichuan's words, Luo Mengfei's expression of disgust subsided somewhat.

Seeing her like this, Luo Huaichuan shook his head: "It seems you've had it too easy in the palace. You might become someone else's tool one day and be sold off without even knowing it."

Xie Xing chuckled inwardly upon hearing this.

The sixth prince's words proved prophetic. If Xie Mingzhu's identity hadn't been revealed beforehand, Luo Mengfei might have become a handy weapon in Xie Mingzhu's hands, striking wherever she was directed.

To be honest, Xie Xing had some worries in his heart.

Judging by the time, Luo Hanfeng and Xie Mingzhu have been silent for several days now, and it's unclear how things are progressing.

Xie Xing asked the system, "System, how's the relationship between the male and female leads going?"

The system stated: "Their progress is gradually increasing, but it's different from what's shown in the storyline."

Ok?

【What's different?】 Xie Xing was afraid that something had gone wrong.

Perhaps due to a lack of shared experiences, although the two appeared outwardly affectionate and deeply in love, their true intentions differed, preventing them from reaching the level of a devoted and trusting couple depicted in the original story.

Xie Xing frowned.

In this sense, the two lacked the life-and-death bond they shared, and the storyline of facing life and death together at the edge of a cliff, which led to their differing thoughts during their escape today.

Xie Xing secretly pondered in his heart, trying to figure out if he could create another opportunity for the two of them.

……

the other side.

After the Chu Emperor issued the arrest warrant, Xie Mingzhu was like a rat crossing the street, unable to show her true face.

In the past few days, several groups of people have recognized her and have tried to capture her for the reward.

At that time, Xie Mingzhu, wearing a human skin mask, followed Luo Hanfeng to Wen Yan's residence.

Wen Yan was lying on a soft chair, holding a folding fan in his hand, and looked helplessly at Luo Hanfeng: "You said that you originally wanted to steal the Xie family's tiger tally, and then successfully win this battle. When you returned to the capital, His Majesty would naturally give you an important position."

"But you managed to disappear perfectly during this war, and no one knows where you went, taking all the credit for the Xie family."

"Now that the Xie family has been released by His Majesty, and His Majesty has betrothed the princess to Xie Tongchen, as long as the Xie family surrenders the Tiger Tally, then the Xie family will pose no threat to the Emperor."

All your previous plans have failed at the last hurdle.

"How much effort has the Wen family put into you? Now that things have turned out this way, how can the Wen family trust you?"

Wen Yan opened her folding fan, covered her face with it, and said coldly, "I might as well turn around and support the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince is mediocre and not particularly capable, but his maternal clan is powerful and easy to control."

Xie Mingzhu's heart tightened.

She bit her lip, following beside Luo Hanfeng, listening to Wen Yan say these words, feeling somewhat at a loss.

If even Wen Yan doesn't support Luo Hanfeng, then what will Luo Hanfeng rely on to turn the tide?

If that's the case, she might as well have just followed the Crown Prince and avoided taking this risky move.

Luo Hanfeng sat down next to Wen Yan, his face expressionless, and simply said, "Is that so? What if we add tens of thousands of soldiers?"

"Those tens of thousands of troops have all fallen to the Wen family. Does your Wen family still intend to betray us?"

Wen Yan paused in his hand, which was twirling the fan. He removed the fan from his face, sat up straighter, turned to look at Luo Hanfeng, and asked, "What does this mean?"

"Jun Lanjin had many people around him who passed on information to him. I don't know where he got the information, but he wiped out all the troops that the remnants of the previous dynasty had been raising for more than ten years."

Upon hearing this, Wen Yan lay back down and said, "Wasn't that all wiped out in one fell swoop? Where did those tens of thousands of soldiers come from?"

Luo Hanfeng chuckled: "No matter how powerful the Fenglang Army is, they can't possibly incorporate all tens of thousands of troops and have half of them run away."

"They are just waiting for your Wen family to take them into their hands."

As Luo Hanfeng spoke, he casually picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip.

Ready-made troops!

How could anyone not be tempted by this?!

Wen Yan's lips curled up slightly, but she quickly suppressed it and asked, "Are they willing?"

He squinted, looking at Luo Hanfeng with suspicion, and asked, "And why are you in contact with them?"

Luo Hanfeng didn't say anything, but turned to look at Xie Mingzhu.

Seeing this, Xie Mingzhu hesitated for a moment before taking off the human skin mask from her face.