As the nighthawk picked up the gold, he calculated in his mind:

"This gold must be saved carefully. In the future, we can make a golden cradle, a golden rice bowl, and a golden chamber pot for the young master..."

The more he thought about it, the further he drifted off into his own thoughts, and a silly grin unconsciously crept onto his face.

At this moment, Jun Jiuxiao's voice rang out again: "Return to the manor."

Night Hawk jolted, quickly wiping the smile from his face, and respectfully replied, "Yes, Your Highness."

Nighthawk moved with light steps, already looking forward to the future, to those fun days of chasing butterflies with his young master.

Study of the Prince of Yan's Mansion

Jun Xuanche sat in his study, staring blankly at the wrist that was tightly bandaged.

The pain still lingered from the wound, as if reminding him of the humiliation he had suffered that day.

His heart was filled with doubt and resentment, and Jun Jiuxiao's cold gaze and Chu Xingyao's smug smile kept echoing in his mind.

"Could it be that Jun Jiuxiao really likes Chu Xingyao?" This thought was like a thorn stuck in his heart, making him feel uneasy and anxious.

He tried to find various reasons to convince himself that the idea was absurd and impossible.

“Impossible,” he muttered to himself, his voice trembling slightly. “How could His Highness the War God of Dongjing Kingdom possibly be monogamous for life, let alone marry into the General’s Mansion?”

He tried to suppress his unease with reason, telling himself that how could someone like Jun Jiuxiao be moved by a woman, let alone a woman like Chu Xingyao?

However, whenever he recalled the look in Jun Jiuxiao's eyes when he looked at Chu Xingyao, and how there seemed to be some hidden meaning in those deep gazes, he could not completely convince himself.

That look in his eyes seemed to convey more than just how he viewed an ordinary woman; it contained a deeper emotion.

Jun Xuanche thought of the ruthless glint in Chu Xingyao's eyes and secretly vowed in his heart:

"Chu Xingyao, since you refuse to listen to reason, you'll be begging to marry me one day."

Zhennan General's Mansion, Xinghai Garden

Chu Xingyao tossed and turned on the bed, as if she had become a living "rolling emoji".

If her sighs were recorded, they would definitely become the saddest background music of the year.

Her feelings were as if she had been trampled by ten thousand elephants in high heels, a truly "heart-wrenching" pain.

She regretted it so much, it was like she'd swallowed a whole plate of expired regret pills, and she was filled with deep remorse.

She wondered why she had acted so impulsively and agreed to Night Hawk's request to "embroider a sachet".

If it were about making clothes, she would be full of confidence, after all, she has high-tech products like sewing machines in her space.

However, this sachet... sigh, this thing is simply her nemesis, leaving her helpless in both her past and present lives.

Recalling her previous life, she stayed up for three days and three nights to embroider a sachet for Jun Xuance, but Jun Xuance disliked the sachet so much that he threw it on the ground as if he had seen aliens invading Earth.

Even more tragically, Chu Xinglan, that innocent-looking girl, actually used the sachet as a joke and showed it off to her girlfriends. As you can imagine, Chu Xingyao became the laughing stock of everyone.

However... Chu Xingyao is a woman of her word; she does what she says.

So for the next four days, she was as if she were possessed by an embroidery needle, staying at home and working hard, determined to embroider a sachet that would amaze the world.

First, she tried embroidering a dragon, but the dragon looked more like a centipede than anything else. Its undulating body and dense legs made it look like a bodybuilder among centipedes.

Chu Xingyao looked at her work, shook her head helplessly, gritted her teeth, and threw it away.

Next, she tried embroidering a pair of mandarin ducks, hoping to express the sweetness of love through this.

However, those mandarin ducks looked exactly like a pair of fat geese, with their round bodies and adorable appearances, they were practically comedic stars in the goose world.

Chu Xingyao shook her head again, sighed, and gave up.

Then, she embroidered a twin lotus, but the twin lotus looked like it had been stung by a bee, swollen beyond recognition, and was simply the "fatso" of the lotus world.

Chu Xingyao looked at her work, feeling like crying but unable to shed a tear; it was gone.

Just when she was about to give up, she had a flash of inspiration and thought of the Chinese tradition of giving gifts to loved ones with a heart-themed design. So she decided to embroider a heart.

This is simple, beautiful, and absolutely foolproof.

As she embroidered, she boasted, "I'm such a little genius! This love is simply my salvation, Chu Xingyao!"

The heart she embroidered was bright red and plump, just like a beating heart, full of vitality.

She looked at her work, nodded in satisfaction, and thought, "Now, I won't be laughed at anymore, right?"

However, fate always likes to play tricks, and just when she was feeling smug...

A mischievous kitten jumped onto the table and knocked the heart-shaped sachet to the ground with one paw, leaving several "plum blossom prints" on it.

Chu Xingyao looked at this scene, tears welling up in her eyes. She was almost in despair: "Heavens, is this the legendary 'cat paw sachet'?"

However, Chu Xingyao is not so easily defeated.

She decided that since the heart-shaped sachet already had a "cat paw" design, she would create a limited edition "cat paw sachet"!

She picked up her needle and thread and embroidered a few kitten paws on the plum blossom patterns.

The cat paws she embroidered were pink and chubby, just like the little paw prints kittens had left on the sachet.

In this way, the sachet was not damaged, but instead became more playful and cute.

Chu Xingyao stood in front of her dressing table, toying with the "cat paw sachet" she had just finished.

This sachet is unlike any of her previous works. Its shape mimics a cat's chubby little paw, with exquisite and adorable details. Even the paw pads are embroidered with lifelike realism.

She couldn't help but laugh out loud, filled with a sense of accomplishment: "Haha, this is the real 'cat paw sachet,' a unique limited edition!"

She believed that this sachet would surely catch the prince's eye and become his most treasured possession.

At this moment, Da Bai stepped into the room, cupped his hands in greeting, and said, "There is a strange fragrance in Chu Xinglan's room. I do not know what it is."

Chu Xingyao already understood. A slight smile played on her lips as she spoke softly:

"It must be a Gu poison. You must not act rashly these days. I want to find out who the master behind her is, that she can suppress my poison within twelve hours."

Da Bai accepted the order and left.

Chu Xingyao recalled Chu Xinglan's fate in her previous life, and her expression turned cold as she murmured softly:

“In my past life, you used me as bait to kill Yao Chen. In this life, I will use you and Jun Xuan Che as bait to find the mastermind behind this and tear him to pieces.”

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