All beasts submit, and the peerless imperial princess is about to defy the heavens!

"It's not so much that we'll be fooled, but we might as well give it a try."

As he spoke, he pulled out a pill from somewhere and popped it directly into Qi Cuihe's mouth.

Caught off guard, Qi Cuihe swallowed it whole, staring at him in horror. "What did you give me to eat?"

The elder clapped his hands. "It's nothing, just some potent aphrodisiac."

As she spoke, her smile deepened. "Aren't you supposed to be a chaste and virtuous woman? I'd like to see how much of your chastity is genuine and how long you can keep it up."

As he spoke, he began to undress himself.

A look of panic flashed across Qi Cuihe's face, and her eyes were filled with terror.

"You! What do you want to do?"

The elder did not speak, but simply approached step by step.

"Don't come any closer!" Qi Cuihe staggered backward.

Once they retreated to a corner, there was nowhere left to hide.

She was perfectly lucid, but the strangeness in her body made her unable to control herself.

She immediately panicked.

"Don't touch me! Don't touch me! Please, I'll do anything you say."

The elder shook his head. "I have nothing to say, but I think you are a very interesting person. As for your husband, he is nothing but a cowardly hypocrite. He talks about righteousness but doesn't even care about his own wife. Why should you remain chaste for him?"

"You might as well come with me. At least I have some sincerity towards you, and you're the only woman I've ever been with."

Qi Cuihe didn't even have the strength to struggle.

A moment later, the room was filled with enchanting beauty.

Meanwhile, Liu Yuanxiu, who had been searching for his mother, had returned to Jiuling City.

He searched the entire city of Jiuling but couldn't find his mother. He even went into the dungeon of the city lord's mansion, but there was nothing there.

He panicked immediately, but Gu Wenlang had already been imprisoned on the Cliff of Repentance, and he could no longer see him.

He hurried home to find Liu's father and told him everything.

However, after hearing this, Liu's father did not immediately set off to search as Liu Yuanxiu had expected. Instead, he looked at him calmly.

“Yuanxiu, you’ve grown up and should have your own judgment. You are the next head of the Liu family and should think about the Liu family. Do you think our Liu family’s collateral branch can afford to offend the royal family?”

"Father! Are you just going to let them take Mother away and leave her alone?"

"It's not that I don't care, it's that I can't."

Liu Yuanxiu closed his eyes tightly, his heart filled with sorrow. "Is Father unwilling to save people?"

Mr. Liu sighed, "Why can't you understand your father?"

Liu Yuanxiu roared, "You just don't want to save people! I thought at the time that there was just a simple marital discord between you and Mother, but I never expected that you would actually stand by and watch someone die!"

"Shut up! Is this how you talk to your father?"

“You are not my father, I have no father! When you abandoned my mother time and time again for other women, when you abandoned me for other bastards, I no longer had a father!”

Father Liu's hands trembled with anger. "You! You unfilial son!"

Liu Yuanxiu turned and left, saying, "I will save my own mother!"

After saying that, he set off to find the person alone.

But he had lost his way.

Gu Wenlang said he was in the City Lord's Mansion, but he wasn't there. Did someone else take him away?

Who exactly is trying to take Mother away?

He was completely lost and could only wander around Hunyuan City like a headless fly.

They searched the entire Third Prince's residence and the entire territory under his control.

But still found nothing.

Several days later, he happened to see a person on the street who was the same person he had seen in Feng Ning's memory array.

It was the very person who was chasing them.

The fact that this person could be used by Gu Wenlang indicates that they had a close relationship.

He will surely find out where his mother is.

If Gu Wenlang were here, he would recognize that this person is the elder.

Liu Yuanxiu dared not follow the elder, fearing he might alert him, so he only dared to watch from afar. After inquiring, he learned that the elder would go to a small courtyard every other day.

That small courtyard didn't belong to the elder, yet he went there every few days, which meant that something important to him was inside.

Liu Yuanxiu immediately became excited.

If we can find this thing, can we use it to negotiate with that person?

He confirmed the elder's whereabouts once again, and on the second night after the elder left, he quietly sneaked into the courtyard.

He cautiously approached the main courtyard.

But they found the place eerily quiet, as if no one was there.

He dared not be careless and quietly observed through the crack in the door for a while. After confirming that there was no danger, he went in, but he only dared to walk close to the wall.

Seeing that the light was still on in the main bedroom, he quietly crept over.

I was about to climb in through the back window when I saw that it was open.

He quickly hid himself, but when he looked inside again, he saw that the person in the bedroom was actually his mother!

He was overjoyed; his mother was indeed here!

He was about to rush in when he saw his mother suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood.

He was stunned for a moment, and in that short time, he suddenly sensed a terrifying aura rushing towards him.

He quickly concealed himself, not daring to even breathe.

They discovered that the figure seemed unaware of their presence and rushed directly into the house.

He held his mother in his arms, seemingly whispering words of comfort.

He was immediately shocked, his eyes widening in disbelief.

Elder!

he!

How could he be so close to his mother?

He felt completely bewildered, and what he found even more unacceptable was that his mother did not push him away; instead, she seemed to have a faint smile in her eyes.

He watched as the two talked for a while.

He had intended to ask his mother after the elder left, but he discovered that the elder had stayed overnight in his mother's room.

He just couldn't accept it, but if he left now, the elders would definitely notice.

It could only stay in the courtyard, as stiff as a stone, not daring to move an inch.

He waited until dawn the next day, after the elders had left, before he reached the door of his room.

After hesitating for a while, he gently raised his hand and knocked on the door.

Qi Cuihe's gentle voice came from inside, "Didn't you just leave? Why are you back again?"

After a series of footsteps, the door opened.

Qi Cuihe's smile froze the moment she saw Liu Yuanxiu outside.

A look of panic flashed across his face. "Yuan...Yuan Xiu? What are you doing here?"

Liu Yuanxiu's expression was complicated, with a hint of anger in his eyes. "Mother! You! You actually..."

He didn't know what words to use to describe it.