Transmigrated into a cunning princess, she sets her sights on a celibate royal uncle.

"Well!"

Jiang Xi groaned and pressed her body against Lu Ye's back.

"Princess……"

Lu Ye wanted to turn around and check on Jiang Xi's condition, but Jiang Xi stopped him: "Let's go!"

"drive!"

Lu Ye dared not linger, and with a strong spur, the horse ran even faster.

Jiang Xi endured the sharp pain in her shoulder blade and looked back. Behind her, Huo Jingxuan was riding a large horse, leading his guards and drawing a bow.

He really wanted to kill me!

Luckily, I ran fast enough!

"Your Highness, I will kill her for you!"

Han Chuan, standing behind Huo Jingxuan, drew his bow and nocked an arrow, intending to kill Jiang Xi.

"Caught alive!"

Huo Jingxuan stopped Han Chuan, tossed the bow in his hand to Bei Ying beside him, and gave orders to the guards.

Han Chuan frowned and looked at Bei Ying beside him, somewhat puzzled as to why the prince wouldn't let him fire the arrows.

Bei Ying shrugged, indicating that he didn't understand either, and rode off to follow.

After running for an unknown amount of time, Jiang Xi could no longer hold on and fell off the horse with a thud.

"Princess!"

Lu Ye quickly tightened the reins, and the horse reared up and spun around in place. He then leaped off and ran to Jiang Xi.

Jiang Xi's face was dark, and an arrow was stuck in his shoulder blade.

"Princess, please bear with it!"

Lu Ye sealed Jiang Xi's two major acupoints, then pulled the feathered arrow out for her with a whoosh.

The gushing out of black blood was a clear sign of poisoning.

With pursuers closing in, Lu Ye carried Jiang Xi on his back, abandoned his horse, and fled up the mountain.

The mountain road was rugged and full of thorns, but Lu Ye dared not delay for a moment.

He sped along, protecting Jiang Xi on his back, and his hands and face were covered in cuts.

After he finally managed to shake off his pursuers and settled Jiang Xi in a relatively secluded cave, he finally had time to investigate Jiang Xi's situation.

"Princess, are you okay?"

Lu Ye had Jiang Xi lean against the cave wall, reached out and checked her breath to make sure she was still alive, and couldn't help but ask her with concern.

Jiang Xi's eyes were glazed over, her body felt weak and powerless, and the pain spread from her shoulder blades to her limbs, causing her to clench her teeth and tremble incessantly.

"Excuse me...excuse me, Mr. Lu, could you please get me some water? I...I'm thirsty..."

"Okay, I'll go right away!"

Without a second thought, Lu Ye got up and walked out of the cave.

After the footsteps faded into the distance, Jiang Xi quickly used her last breath to enter the space.

She remembered that there was a poison in the space called "Drunken Illusion," which could counteract all poisons in the world. The price was that anyone who drank Drunken Illusion would suffer excruciating pain every month.

But there was no other way. Jiang Xi took her own pulse and realized that if she didn't get the antidote soon, she would die suddenly!

Thinking this, she quickly found the poison on the shelf, took down the sieve, tilted her head back, and drank it down.

He was afraid that Lu Ye might suddenly return, or that the pursuers might find him.

She didn't dare linger and immediately exited the space, allowing her consciousness to return to her body.

"Princess, the water is here!"

Lu Ye used leaves to fetch water from the stream outside the cave, helped Jiang Xi up, and fed her the water.

After drinking water, Jiang Xi's throat wasn't so dry and hoarse anymore.

Lu Ye noticed that the dark aura between her eyebrows and eyes had also dissipated.

Although he still looked weak, he was no longer on the verge of death as before.

Even the blood flowing from his back and shoulder blades had changed from black to dark red.

Could this river water possess some special healing power that can bring the dead back to life?

Jiang Xi noticed the shock on Lu Ye's face and the confusion in his eyes, but she didn't explain.

At this moment, Xue Yang, who thought Jiang Xi was surely dead, went back to report to Yang Xuerou.

"Are you sure she's not going to make it?"

Yang Xuerou was pruning a peony and placing it in a fine porcelain vase with a white glaze and blue-and-white base.

After listening to Xue Yang's report, he asked a question out of concern.

Xue Yang replied respectfully, "I shot that arrow myself. The tip of the arrow was soaked in 'Datura' overnight. Even a celestial being couldn't cure it!"

Yang Xuerou was still uneasy: "You forgot, that bitch knows how to use poison herself. I won't feel at ease until I see her body."

Send a group of men to search secretly. If they find any survivors, kill them without mercy!

"Yes!" Xue Yang accepted the order and withdrew.

As night falls and the bright moon rises, the mountains are filled with the sounds of animals and insects.

Jiang Xi clutched her back, unable to reach her injury, so she asked Lu Ye, who was lighting a fire in the cave, for help.

"Mr. Lu, did you bring any wound medicine? Could you please bandage this for me?"

Although the poison has been neutralized, the wound remains, and if it is not bandaged in time, excessive blood loss is inevitable.

The temperature in the mountains is low, and it's even cooler inside the cave than outside.

After Lu Ye lit the fire, he heard Jiang Xi's call and quickly went to her side.

He knelt down on one knee, glanced at the injury on her back, and hesitated slightly.

"Your Highness is of immeasurable value; I would never dare to offend you!"

Jiang Xi found it funny that she had lived for eighteen years.

The meticulous man in front of her was the only one who treated her like a proper princess!

So she looked up at him and said, "So you want to just watch me bleed to death?"

“This…” Lu Ye hesitated.

He dared not offend Jiang Xi, nor could he stand by and watch her die.

Faced with two evils, he chose to follow Jiang Xi's arrangement.

"excuse me!"

Lu Ye first apologized, and then asked Jiang Xi to turn her body to the side, with her back to him.

He took out a bottle of wound medicine from his pocket, closed his eyes, and took off the clothes from her shoulders.

Based on the last glimpse he had seen, he poured the powder onto her wound.

"hiss!"

The powder stung when it touched the wound, and Jiang Xi gasped, but quickly gritted her teeth and endured it.

Lu Ye pulled her clothes back up before opening his eyes again.

"How is the princess feeling?"

Jiang Xi straightened her clothes, shook her head, and said, "It should be fine! I'm just worried that the people from the Regent's Palace will come after us soon!"

"Logically speaking, the Regent is your royal uncle. You are a princess, and he has no interest in you. Why would he want to kill you?"

Lu Ye asked, puzzled.

"..."

Jiang Xi looked guilty.

She could say that she was blinded by lust and kidnapped Huo Jingxuan to spite Yang Xuerou, forcing him to do whatever he wanted with her.

However, she did not regret it.

Huo Jingxuan, that scoundrel, is no good either.

They allied with the Yang family, intending to seize the throne from his elder brother and change the emperor's surname!

Meanwhile, Huo Jingxuan, whom Jiang Xi had cursed in her heart, had already led the Prince's Guard to chase after them into the mountains.

"Your Highness, the bloodstains disappear here!"

After searching the area with his guards, Han Chuan returned and knelt before Huo Jingxuan's horse to report.

Huo Jingxuan raised his hand.

Immediately, a guard brought over dozens of hunting dogs, and Bei Ying took out some of Jiang Xi's usual clothes and let the dogs smell them.

He then ordered the guards to loosen the ropes, and the hounds scattered like wild horses, disappearing into the jungle.

Meanwhile, seven or eight falcons were circling overhead, observing everything happening on the ground.

As soon as Jiang Xi appears, they will immediately howl and swoop down to seize their target.