Your Highness, please stop chasing me.

Cang Lin also expressed his incomprehension of the An family's way of doing things, and asked Ye Yi, "Doesn't An Ru Hai have a daughter?"

Yoruichi answered honestly, "An Ruhai has two daughters and two sons."

"Then why not let his daughter marry the Wing King?" Cang Lin asked curiously.

Mu Xue also wanted to ask this question.

Yoruichi replied, "Uncle, you may not know this, but An Ruhai's eldest daughter married Chen Gong, the former Minister of War, as a concubine before the new year. His second wife is a well-known beauty in the capital and has been betrothed to Prince Gong. She will be marrying into the family next month."

"How old is his eldest daughter? That Chen Gong is even older than the Wing King!" Cang Lin said in surprise.

He guessed that An Ruhai's eldest daughter was probably no more than twenty years old!

Yoruichi confirmed Cang Lin's guess, and he replied, "An Ruhai's two daughters are the third and fourth in line. The eldest daughter is four years older than the fifth young lady."

Mu Xue was also shocked when she heard this. An Ruhai's eldest daughter was only eighteen years old! She had actually married Chen Gong, a man who was almost forty.

Mu Xue couldn't help but sigh inwardly, "An Ruhai is truly a man who makes the most of everything!"

Yoruichi looked at Mu Xue with a hesitant expression, unsure whether he should say something.

Cang Lin said, "Xiao Yi, is there anything else you haven't said?"

Yoruichi glanced at Muxue and finally decided to speak up, as a way of reminding Muxue.

Yoruichi said cautiously, "Yoru San discovered that the Wing King has a peculiar fetish."

"Oh?" Mu Xue became interested upon hearing this. This could be considered a royal secret!

He continued, "Every month, the Prince of Yi's mansion secretly disposes of the bodies of several young girls through the back gate. Your Highness previously sent people to investigate the mansion at night, but they couldn't find out the specifics. However, Your Highness speculates that the Prince of Yi is probably after the young girls..."

Ye Yishi couldn't bring herself to say what came next, but Mu Xue and Cang Lin both understood.

Mu Xue said, "So the Wing King has pedophilic tendencies!"

Cang Lin asked, "What do you mean?"

"What I mean is, this Wing King is mentally ill, he's a pervert! Yoruichi, go on," Mu Xue said.

So Ye nodded and continued, "Originally, the Prince didn't expect An Ruhai to set his sights on Mu Jiaojiao. But after we arrived in Yu Nan City, we discovered that someone had secretly passed on news from the capital to the Jing Prince's residence, which caught the Prince's attention. Ye San then followed the clues and found out about the Mu residence."

Cang Lin chuckled and said, "Your prince doesn't take these petty scoundrels seriously at all, which is why they've become so powerful. You should know that it's often the petty scoundrels who are like ants that destroy a great building!"

Mu Xue agreed with Cang Lin's statement and said, "When I had Ah Hu keep an eye on Mu Jiaojiao and An Rudie before, I found that the maids and servants around them would go to Yingkelai Inn to deliver messages from time to time. Some were delivered to the Jingwang Mansion, and some were delivered to the capital. The Wuyi Daoren I mentioned last time got his name by following Li Fu, the manager of Yingkelai Inn."

“Speaking of welcoming guests, I think there’s a welcoming guesthouse in almost every big city!” Cang Lin said at this moment.

“That’s right. I just don’t know if this Yingkelai is run by the Jingwang Mansion or if there’s someone else behind it,” Mu Xue said, stroking her chin.

Yoruichi realized this as well, and said, "There is one in the capital, but because it is located in an inconspicuous place and is not large-scale, it has not attracted our attention."

Mu Xue said, "That's right! If these contact points were to be established on a large scale, with one in every city, how much financial resources would it take to support that? Looking across the four kingdoms, there are only a handful of people with that capability. Isn't this indirectly telling the enemy, 'Come and investigate me, is there something wrong with my inn?'"

Ye nodded and glanced at Cang Lin, saying, "Actually, just like what Miss Wu said, there is one in almost every city, and they are quite large."

Cang Lin nonchalantly picked up his teacup and said, "Why are you looking at me like that? It's about profits. Do you think I'm afraid of being investigated?" Mu Xue gritted her teeth at his irritating tone.

She looked at Cang Lin speechlessly; the Leap Forward Inn was indeed quite ostentatious.

Moreover, this Yuesheng Inn even offers guest rooms with courtyards for guests to stay in.

Although she couldn't be sure of Cang Lin's true identity, seeing how much Ye Yi feared him, she figured he must be someone important. Was she really not afraid of being caught off guard one day?

“Uncle, you’re the kind of person who opens up businesses so openly, clearly intending to cause trouble and let people know that Yuesheng Inn has someone backing it up. Anyone who wants to cause trouble will think twice about their own strength. But Yingkelai is opening so discreetly, obviously because they don’t want to attract too much attention. I always feel like they have some kind of ulterior motive, and it’s not a small one,” Mu Xue said.

Ye Yi nodded and said, "I'll go back and have Ye San thoroughly investigate who the mastermind behind Yingkelai is."

"You'd better remind your lord again. I have a feeling that the connection between the Jing Prince's Mansion and the capital is not limited to the Wing Prince. There must be a bigger conspiracy behind Mo Shijie and his son. It's possible that their master is not just the Wing Prince." Mu Xue said to Ye Yi after thinking for a moment.

"Don't worry, Fifth Miss, I will definitely pass on your words to the Prince," Yoruichi said.

“Go back and tell Ye Shangyuan that if it’s found out that it was indeed the Jingwang Mansion who colluded with the An family to harm Princess Shengping back then, then I will definitely not let the Jingwang Mansion and the An family off the hook. I don’t care whether the Jingwang Mansion is the royal family of Xiyu Kingdom or not. You’d better also make this clear to Ye Shangyuan and reassure him that I’m a person who clearly distinguishes between gratitude and resentment and will not cause any trouble,” Cang Lin said.

"Don't worry, my lord will definitely find out the truth. If it really is related to the Jing Prince's Mansion, my lord will not protect him." After Ye Yi finished speaking, she glanced at Mu Xue.

Mu Xue raised an eyebrow and looked at Ye Yi.

Ye Yi stood up, cupped his hands, and said, "This subordinate will take his leave now."

"Go on, you must be tired after a long day of travel back to Yunan City. Get some rest," Mu Xue said.

After Yoruichi left,

Neither Mu Xue nor Cang Lin spoke first.

Mu Xue walked out of the study and sat on the steps, looking at the moon in the night sky.

Cang Lin also came out, and the two sat side by side.

Finally, Mu Xue spoke first to Cang Lin, saying, "I've been wanting to tell you this for a while, but I haven't been able to. Tonight, you've found out for yourself."

Cang Lin looked at Mu Xue with annoyance and said, "You little brat, you've got such a big problem on your mind, why didn't you tell me? Can't I help you?"

"I was afraid you would do everything you could to help me, so I didn't know how to tell you," Mu Xue said.

Cang Lin choked, looking at Mu Xue without saying a word.