The Cold King Demands Love and Pleasure

Seeing his surprised expression, Xia Tongsheng explained, "Your father was killed by the Crown Prince. Back then, the Crown Prince used this method to frame the Prince for harming loyal martyrs! The Prince was even stripped of his salary and given 100 lashes because of that incident!"

"How would you know if you weren't there?" His gaze suddenly turned cold. "Your Highness, I hope you won't deliberately try to mislead the public to protect the Prince!"

"Am I misleading you, or did you simply not investigate properly? You don't even know who your real enemy is! If you're so inclined, go back and investigate again; you'll surely find some clues!" Her grip on the teacup tightened slowly. "I know about this because my master once told me!"

Min Yoo-an was known for her loyalty to the army and her country, but unexpectedly she would harm loyal and virtuous people. So her master investigated and used this incident as an example to teach them.

"Are you telling the truth?"

"Why would I lie to you?" Xia Tongsheng glared at him. "It's because you didn't find out who killed my father that I got stabbed for no reason!"

“I…” Mo Ziyu couldn’t possibly believe that Min Youan was innocent just because he heard Xia Tongsheng’s words. However, Xia Tongsheng’s words overturned the idea that he had been convinced of his father’s murderer for so many years!

"Is everything clear now? Is there anything else you want to ask me?"

Mo Ziyu shook his head!

"Then you can go!" Xia Tongsheng was also a little tired and wanted to rest!

Mo Ziyu looked at her in disbelief, "You're letting me go?"

"If I don't let you go, how are you going to find out the truth?" Xia Tongsheng rolled her eyes dramatically!

Mo Ziyu paused for a moment, then said, "I hurt you!"

"I'm not dead, am I?" Xia Tongsheng suddenly found it amusing. "Now you feel guilty? You think you should be punished for hurting me? What about those people you killed? Didn't you ever think about being punished for them? Is it because I'm a princess that you treat me differently?"

"No, I killed people who deserved to die. You're a good person!"

Xia Tongsheng couldn't help but laugh. How could there be such an innocent and silly child!

"Whether they are good or bad, you shouldn't be the one enforcing the law! Ask yourself honestly, were there really no good people among the people you wiped out?"

"But since God won't intervene, I will!" he said through gritted teeth.

"Can you manage to control everything? There are so many bad people in the world, you can't kill them all! Why get yourself involved?" Xia Tongsheng suddenly remembered something and asked curiously, "Let me ask you something!"

Mo Ziyu looked at Xia Tongsheng's slightly sly smile and didn't want to answer her question, but remembering that he was the one who caused Xia Tongsheng's injury, he asked, "What?"

"I heard from the prince that you once raped a girl, is that true?"

Indeed, gossip is a woman's nature; even when she's hurt, she still can't resist asking about gossip!

"It's fake. I didn't touch her at all. She was the one who insisted that I marry her because I'm handsome, and of course I refused!" He scratched his head awkwardly. "So she tore her clothes, messed up her hair, and falsely accused me of ruining her reputation, trying to force me to marry her!"

Mo Ziyu still feels lingering fear when he recalls the scene!

"Is that woman pretty?"

"She's fairly pretty!"

"Then why didn't you marry her back then? Her father has such a lot of influence in the area; I bet you're living an open and legitimate life under a different name right now!"

Mo Ziyu glared at Xia Tongsheng, "My name is Mo Ziyu, I take my mother's surname, and my father gave me this name. No matter how many aliases I have, I only have this one name in this life!"

"Go, go, go!"

"Let's go quickly, I'm going to sleep for a while!"

Seeing Mo Ziyu get up to leave, Xia Tongsheng reminded him, "Don't forget to say goodbye to Shui Han properly before you go, and be careful when you leave Yan Lane, the prince probably has spies there!"

Xia Tongsheng never let Min Youan see her wounds. Given the prince's vigilance, he probably already had someone keeping an eye on Yan Xiang!

"Alright, see you again in the martial world if fate allows!"

"No, I don't want to meet you in the martial world. If I, a dignified princess, were to meet you in the martial world, it would mean I'm at my lowest point. I don't want that!" After thinking for a moment, Xia Tongsheng added, "If you want to see me—or someone from Yanxiang—just go to Wutongsheng at the street corner and give them a message! They will tell me!"

"it is good!"

Mo Mozi went out, and Mo Chen glanced at him before entering the house. "You let him go?"

"Hmm, what else would we do? Keep it for the New Year?"

"He's a wanted criminal!"

Xia Tongsheng stretched her aching neck. "I'm not an official of the imperial court, and I don't have the responsibility to help the court capture and bring criminals to justice! Besides, I don't think he's a bad person at heart!"

Although Mo Ziyu did kill someone, so many people die in the martial arts world every day, doesn't everyone have to be guilty?

“Mo Chen, I’m doing this to protect you! If I hand him over to the authorities and he admits his identity, what about you?” She paused slightly. “Your true identity as Mo Ziyu will probably be exposed!”

Mo Chen lowered his eyes slightly and sighed, "You rest, I'll be going now!"

"it is good!"

Xia Tongsheng lay on the bed, looking at the sleeping Yi Yi!

"Such a loud noise didn't wake you up, my little darling!" Looks like she'll be a little girl who loves to sleep in from now on!

Unfortunately, Yi Yi was just a sleepy child; she's become much more disciplined than some people as an adult...

Min Youan and the emperor finished organizing the new defense map in the palace late at night!

The emperor stretched wearily. "I've arranged rooms for you all. Go and rest!"

"Yes!"

Min Youan, however, took a detour on his way to his room and ran away. He was worried about the injured Xia Tongsheng, so he naturally wouldn't stay overnight in the palace. Whenever he had a spare moment, he would run back to see her!

The windows of her room had been locked, and Min Yoo-an was afraid that breaking the window would wake her up, so he entered through the front door!

"Your Highness should be asleep now!"

Mo Chen nodded.

Min Youan went upstairs and saw Yingling standing guard at the door. "Go to sleep, I'll guard this place!"

"Yes!"

Yingling couldn't sleep either, so she went to the rooftop to find some peace and quiet!

Min Yoo-an gently pushed open the door and went inside!

Seeing that Xia Tongsheng was holding Yi Yi and sleeping soundly, her gaze turned slightly cold as she thought of what she wanted to hide today!

He gently stroked the white bandage on her wound, where fine bloodstains were still slightly seeping out!

It's just a candlestick. Would a wound from being stabbed by a candlestick really bleed so much?

She's hiding something from me!

His hand hesitated, wondering whether to reopen Xia Tongsheng's wound!