The Emperor, with more men than women, made me his mistress.

After Qingyun left and closed the door, Jin Chenyuan asked, "Are you really sure you checked carefully? Are there really no other drugs added to these packets of tea?"

When it came to his profession, Shao Qi sensed the distrust in Jin Chenyuan's words and immediately bristled. He didn't care whether the person sitting in front of him was the powerful Prince Chen or not, and launched into a tirade: "Of course no other drugs were added. How could I not be sure about this? Besides, didn't you drink those flower teas downstairs just now? What kind of medicine could have such a good effect? ​​Even if there were drugs added to the flower teas, they would be medicines that are good for the body."

Looking at Shao Qi staring at him with his little mouth agape, Jin Chenyuan had a headache. If he remembered correctly, this young master of the Duke's mansion was already 18 years old, right?

How did the old Duke of the Duke's Mansion raise such a free-spirited yet naive heir?

With a personality like that, how will he inherit the Duke's mansion in the future?

After inheriting the Duke's mansion, dealing with those cunning and shrewd people, wouldn't he be devoured alive by them?

Ignoring the still somewhat sullen Shao Qi, Jin Chenyuan picked up the brewed tea and took a small sip.

The aroma of the tea is refreshing and invigorating, and the taste is mellow, smooth, and lingering on the tongue.

After swallowing it, you can feel your body feel even lighter.

All these changes explain why Jin Chenyuan suspected that Yue Li had put some kind of drug in the tea.

However, as Shao Qi said, not to mention that his medical skills are top-notch, who would give such a good medicine to someone else for no reason?

Having figured this out, Jin Chenyuan enjoyed his tea even more.

Well, they don't plan to separate from Yue Li anytime soon anyway, and some things need to be observed slowly.

Thinking about how he had realized his own feelings in Yue Li's room, he changed their plans.

Their original plan was to set off back to Kyoto after lunch today.

However, after leaving Yue Li's room, he instructed his two most skilled subordinates, Huan Yun and You Yun, to take the evidence they had gathered of local officials illegally mining iron ore and return to Kyoto first.

This would also ensure that the collected evidence was delivered to his nephew, the emperor, as soon as possible. Thinking of his purpose in staying, Jin Chenyuan lowered his eyes.

Seeing himself getting angry while Prince Chen leisurely sipped his tea, Shao Qi felt even angrier.

This tea was clearly brewed using tea leaves from my own tea bag, so why did he get to drink it all?

So Shaoqi also picked up a teacup, poured himself a cup of tea, and drank it down in one gulp.

Jin Chenyuan, who was leisurely sipping his tea: ...

After quickly and elegantly finishing his tea, Jin Chenyuan placed the teacup on the table and began to urge everyone to leave.

"Your Highness, please return. I need to rest."

Shao Qi: ...

"okay."

Shao Qi quickly wrapped up his tea bag, took another unopened bag of flower tea, and left Jin Chenyuan's room.

After Shao Qi left, Jin Chenyuan called Qingyun over and instructed him, "Be careful later. When Young Master Yue returns, inform me."

When Qingyun heard the prince give such an order, although he was surprised, he still respectfully replied, "Yes, Master."

"Well, you go down."

He still knows too little about Yue Li. All he knows is that she is a woman disguised as a man, and she hasn't even revealed where she lives.

No, she simply avoided the topic.

She deliberately avoided the topic when her home was mentioned several times.

Although he didn't know why she avoided talking about her family, it greatly hindered his efforts to investigate her.

And even now, he doesn't know her real appearance or real name.

Since appearance and identity are fake.

So, is a name possible?

It's fake too.

That's why Jin Chenyuan didn't rush to have his men investigate everything about Yue Li.

If you want to know everything about Yue Li, at the very least you need to know what she really looks like.

And then there was the tea she brought out, with its miraculous effects.

Jin Chenyuan stared blankly at the two packets of tea that Yue Li had given him on the table.

......................................................

......................................................

Yue Li was unaware of everything that happened at the inn after she left, nor did she know that she was being watched. She had already arrived at a pavilion a hundred meters outside the city.

Looking around, I realized this place wasn't suitable for taking action; it was too open and too close to the city gate.

Yue Li did not stop at the pavilion, but continued riding forward. After about half an hour, she arrived at a dense forest.

The dense forest was bisected by a narrow path, just wide enough for two horse-drawn carriages to pass.

This is also the only way to get to Putuo Temple.

Looking at the path, Yue Li thought it was a perfect place to make her move.

There were places to hide her, and both were some distance from Qingyuan Prefecture and Putuo Temple. Even if she was injured, it would take a considerable amount of time to seek medical treatment in either place.

Having found a good spot, Yue Li rode her horse and settled it at the outermost edge of the dense forest.

Then, he channeled his spiritual power and quickly traversed the forest, returning to the path. He found a large tree not far from the path, so large that it would take three people to encircle it. He flew up into the dense canopy and concealed himself, waiting for Yuan Xinyi's carriage to pass by.

It wasn't that she didn't want to get any further away, but if she got too far away, her spiritual power was limited and she simply couldn't reach that far.

Seeing that it was still early, Yue Li sat cross-legged on the thick tree canopy to cultivate.

She had already tried it last night; the spiritual energy was even thinner in the inn in Qingyuan Prefecture than when she cultivated at her home in Qingshan Village.

So she gave up cultivating in the inn.

After all, such thin spiritual energy would not only be difficult for her to absorb, but would also only waste her time. Rather than wasting time, she might as well get a good night's sleep.

Close your eyes, cast aside all distracting thoughts, empty your mind, and gradually merge yourself into this world. Slowly, Yue Li's divine sense sensed the colorful, star-like spiritual energy surrounding her, dancing in the air.

Although the spiritual energy here is also very thin, at least it can be absorbed into the body compared to the inn.

Not knowing how long she could cultivate here, Yue Li did not take any Qi-Inducing Pills this time.

The effects of one Qi-Inducing Pill last for four hours.

Regarding cultivation, she had already developed her own set of experiences on how to absorb spiritual energy in the shortest amount of time without taking Qi-inducing pills. Therefore, even without taking Qi-inducing pills, it didn't take her long to slowly absorb the spiritual energy surrounding her into her meridians.