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

Jiang Xi gritted his teeth. Chun Tao was pregnant with the Emperor's child, and he had to find a way to bring her back.

Otherwise, as her belly grows bigger every day, it will tarnish the reputation of the nunnery, and she might be secretly executed!

In a flash, Jiang Xi had an idea.

"Your Highness, did you kidnap me because you still can't forget me? That's perfect, I also miss your body very much, why don't we go and relive our old dreams now!"

"Dream on! I will never allow you to touch me again!"

Huo Jingxuan pinched Jiang Xi's chin and said coldly.

"I sent you to the Prince's residence because I felt more at ease having you under my watchful eye!"

"You are now nothing more than a lowly maid in my palace. I will avenge every single one of the humiliations you committed against me!"

With that, he pushed her behind him and said to the old woman with the round face, "Granny Li, discipline her for me!"

Granny Li stepped forward and replied loudly, "This old servant obeys!"

Jiang Xi stared at Huo Jingxuan's retreating figure, gritting her teeth inwardly.

You better keep your word, Huo Jingxuan, or you'll be begging me later!

After Huo Jingxuan left, Jiang Xi was taken by Granny Liu to the dormitory where the lower-class maids lived.

"You'll be living here from now on!"

Looking at the piles of pillows and bedding on the two rows of kang (heated brick bed), Jiang Xi estimated that there were probably seven or eight people living in this room.

But since she was already there, she might as well make the best of it; she wasn't someone who couldn't endure hardship.

Compared to the ten years she lived in the Yang family, this was already considered good.

Besides, she needs to settle down now and bring Chun Tao back first!

"understood!"

"You must say yes!" Granny Liu instructed with displeasure.

"Yes!" Jiang Xi was very pragmatic.

Then Granny Liu led her to the kitchen, pointed to the stove, and said, "From now on, you'll be a fire-starting maid!"

Jiang Xi thought to herself, "They dare to make her a kitchen maid? Is Huo Jingxuan really not afraid of being poisoned to death by her?!"

"Yes!" Jiang Xi replied.

That very evening, when the chef wasn't looking, Jiang Xi secretly poured some laxatives into the pot.

At dinner time, Huo Jingxuan returned home, and the food was served.

Bei Ying used a silver needle to test for poison, but the needle turned black. Startled, Bei Ying immediately widened her eyes and called for the head chef.

The head chef burst into tears as soon as he entered the room and knelt on the ground, too afraid to get up.

"Your Highness, even if I had a hundred lives, I would never dare to poison you!"

This head chef has been working at the Regent's Palace for several years.

It's impossible to risk the execution of the entire family by poisoning Huo Jingxuan for no reason.

"Gather everyone who entered or left the kitchen today. I will interrogate them personally!" Huo Jingxuan ordered.

A moment later, everyone was gathered in the courtyard outside the flower hall.

There were five rows of maids and servants, and Jiang Xi was in the first row.

The others, seeing this spectacle, were so frightened that they burst into tears, and they had been discussing it on the way here.

"Who did this? Are they trying to kill us?"

When Huo Jingxuan came out of the house, they didn't even dare to cry anymore, and just lowered their heads and prayed that the suspicion would not fall on them.

Huo Jingxuan's sharp gaze swept across everyone's faces. Before he could speak, Jiang Xi stepped forward on her own.

"Your Highness, there's no need for further interrogation. I was the one who poisoned you!"

Everyone was shocked.

"Why is it her?"

"What does she want to do?"

"Do you want to die?"

Jiang Xi ignored him and looked directly into Huo Jingxuan's eyes: "If you leave me in the kitchen, I'll come back tomorrow!"

"hiss!"

Everyone gasped.

This newcomer must have eaten the gall of a bear and the heart of a leopard, right?

"So where do you want to stay?"

For the first time ever, Huo Jingxuan wasn't angry; instead, he seriously asked Jiang Xi for her opinion.

"Ask me?"

Jiang Xi pointed to her own nose.

"If I had the choice, I would be happy to be the prince's concubine!"

"hiss!"

Another gasp of shock rippled through the room.

Is this newcomer courting death? Who in the world doesn't know that their prince is celibate?

A lowly maidservant dares to dream of sleeping with the prince? That's just wishful thinking!

However, with their prince holding such a high position and being so dashing, there were quite a few maids in the mansion who wanted to get into his bed.

But only Xiao Qi dares to say it so openly, it's really... shameless!

"You're dreaming!"

Huo Jingxuan refused without hesitation, and there was even a hint of anger in his voice at being publicly harassed by her.

Jiang Xi shrugged.

"If you're not happy about it, then so be it. Now everyone has heard that the Regent doesn't want to take me in. So, you're not allowed to come to me when the Regent needs you in the future!"

Huo Jingxuan gritted his teeth, his hands trembling with anger as they hung at his sides: "Do you think you're the only woman in the whole world?"

Jiang Xi fell silent. She didn't tell Huo Jingxuan that the twins' poison would flare up once a month.

Moreover, once the twin poison is planted, he will suffer a backlash if he becomes intimate with other women.

That evening, Huo Jingxuan was handling some official business in his study when he suddenly felt a tightness in his chest.

An indescribable heat spread from his limbs and bones, causing his face to change drastically and cold sweat to pour down his face.

Upon seeing this, Bei Ying, who was standing guard to the side, quickly helped him up: "Your Highness, has the poison taken effect?"

Huo Jingxuan gritted his teeth, but his body was trembling uncontrollably, as if tens of thousands of ants were gnawing at his body at the same time.

"Your Highness, I'll go find Miss Yang for you!"

Beijing Film Academy was about to leave when they said that.

Huo Jingxuan grabbed Bei Ying's shoulder and held him down: "Don't go!"

Bei Ying stared into Huo Jingxuan's bloodshot eyes: "Your Highness doesn't want Miss Yang to see you being controlled by the twins, does he? What should we do then?"

Because Huo Jingxuan was never a promiscuous person, the Beijing Film Academy dared not take it upon itself to find a courtesan for him.

"Help me back to my room!"

Huo Jingxuan handed his hand to Beijing Film Academy.

The Beijing Film Academy was surprised. Did he intend to endure the onset of the twin poison?

He dared not disobey Huo Jingxuan's orders, so he had no choice but to help him back to his bedchamber.

"Stand outside the door and don't let them in!"

Huo Jingxuan lay on the bed, enduring the increasingly intense, bone-deep pain within him, and commanded in an unsteady voice.

"Yes!"

The Beijing Film Academy members obeyed the order and left.

As the surroundings quieted down, Huo Jingxuan's senses became even clearer.

The strange sensation inside his body involuntarily reminded him of the night Jiang Xi took him into the secret room.

The young girl had a slender figure, her clothes half-undone, and she straddled his waist, her eyes alluring, her hair flying in the wind...

The more Huo Jingxuan thought about it, the more he felt as if a raging fire was burning inside him, making his mouth dry, his body tense, and his scalp tingling.

He was not a lustful person, but the twin poison caused him unbearable pain.

He tried to use his internal energy to expel the poison from his body, but unexpectedly, it backfired, and the poison became even more excruciating.

"Bang!"

A loud thud reached Bei Ying's ears through the tightly closed palace doors.

"My lord, what's wrong with you?"

Bei Ying moved to push the door open, but a muffled roar came from inside: "Don't come in!"

The Beijing Film Academy members paused in their tracks.

She was deeply worried about Huo Jingxuan, yet dared not disobey him.

After much thought, he realized that perhaps there was someone who could help his prince!

With that in mind, Bei Ying headed straight for the servants' quarters in the South Courtyard.