The reborn sweet girl always wants to escape, but the abstinent prince hugs her and coaxes her!

The clock of the Yin hour had not yet finished ticking when Mu Rong opened his eyes.

The warmth rushing through the meridians is so strange that it makes people's heart palpitate, as if a hot spring suddenly gushes out of an ancient pond that has been frozen for years, and even the fingertips are steaming with long-lost vitality.

He couldn't remember how long it had been since his body felt so relaxed.

During this period of time, the icy poison blocked his heart meridians from time to time. Even though he had deep internal strength and Shu Qing's help, the cold poison still devoured half of his internal strength.

However, this was not the most exhausting thing for him. In order to conceal the fact of poisoning from everyone, he had to find ways to hide it.

This... is the most painful thing.

And now, everything has been solved.

The light coming through the window was still tinged with dark blue, but he could already see the pretty reflection in the gauze curtain.

Although he couldn't see the girl's face clearly through the gauze curtain, the warmth reflected on the corners of her lips seemed not to have faded yet.

He stood up from the couch, and the extinguishing charcoal fire in the trap was startled by the air current, bursting into a few sparks, drawing golden lines in the darkness, and then quietly disappeared as he left.

He did not go to the study, but went to an old house in the capital.

……

When Chu He was waiting in the courtyard of the old house, he was throwing dead branches into the cracks in the rocks.

Hearing the sound of clothes tearing through the air, he turned around and saw Mu Rong coming towards him on the remaining snow, his black cloak covered with white scales.

"My lord, your steps are three times lighter than before you were poisoned." He raised his eyebrows and chuckled, and the dry branch in his hand suddenly shot out like a sharp arrow.

Mu Rong waved his wide sleeves lightly, and the dead branches broke into powder and scattered into the morning mist.

“He’s already so powerful with only half of his strength. The Marquis’s inner strength is indeed as good as his reputation.” Chu He patted the dust off his hands.

"What do you want from me?" Mu Rong frowned.

Before receiving the letter from Prince Ning's Mansion last night, Mu Qi had already sent a verbal message - Chu He invited him to meet here at the end of the Yin hour today.

This house was given to Chu He by Mu Rong for recuperation when he came to Beijing for the second time. Chu He also knew the secret of this house, and asking him to meet here was definitely not just for the sake of his martial arts.

but……

"I'm just curious about how weak the Marquis will look after he is detoxified." Chu He said with a smile.

Mu Rong looked at him and said, "Deputy Commander Chu shouldn't be such a boring person. Tell me, have you discovered anything?"

"The emperor visited Princess Lingxi." Chu He said slowly.

"Princess Lingxi? I've heard about this." Mu Rong was not surprised.

Princess Lingxi has been in the Great Zhou for nearly a year. Although it was the Queen who kept her here, now that the Queen has been deposed and died, it is unreasonable for her to be kept in the palace.

Some people speculated that she had been taken into the emperor's harem, but the matter had not been made public, and there had been no rewards in the harem recently, so everyone just suspected it in their hearts and did not dare to speak out.

Regardless of whether the guess is true or not, this is just a love affair in the harem after all. Is it worth Chu He to leave the palace to tell at such a critical moment? Mu Rong looked at Chu He in confusion: "Is there another hidden story?"

Chuhe nodded.

He recounted in detail what he had discovered in the imperial study in recent days.

The more Mu Rong listened, the weirder it seemed.

The emperor is not a lustful person, and his harem only had a few concubines at its peak. But his actions now... why don't they act like a normal person?

Moreover, the harem is now ownerless. If the emperor likes Princess Lingxi, he can directly take her into the harem. Why does he have to meet her sneakily through the secret passage... and every meeting doesn't seem like a favor, but more like... humiliation?

not to mention……

Mu Rong seemed to remember something. He looked at Chu He and asked, "Did this person exist in my previous life?"

Chu He shook his head: "In my memory, Lingxi County Lord never appeared in my previous life..."

Snowflakes were slowly falling from the sky, like fog.

“No!” Mu Rong waved his hand. “I remember that when the emperor of the previous life abdicated and moved to the harem, there was a woman from Northern Xinjiang serving by his side… but after he was restored to the throne, this woman seemed to have never appeared again.”

At first, he was determined to kill Wu Tianqi to avenge Xu Rongrong. After helping the emperor to restore the throne, he fought wars in the south and the north for the peace of the Great Zhou. He had no time to care whether there were any new palace maids around the emperor or which beauties left.

"If that woman is Princess Lingxi, why didn't she show herself as a princess in her previous life?" Chu He asked.

Mu Rong lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, his memory gradually becoming clearer like a peeling mural. He looked at Chu He and said slowly: "Because, Rongrong did not attend the New Year's Eve banquet in the previous life."

In both worlds, dancers from Northern Xinjiang came to perform at the New Year's Eve banquets, and some people also performed sword dances to liven up the atmosphere. However, the difference was...

In the night banquet in her previous life, Xu Rongrong was not a county princess, nor did she marry into a marquis's mansion. She was not a member of the royal family, so naturally she had no chance to attend the New Year's Eve banquet that symbolized the royal family banquet.

And in this life... Princess Lingxi dressed up as a dancer from Northern Frontier, and after performing sword dance, Xu Rongrong praised her as "wonderful".

At that time, he couldn't accept the girl who had been rude to him throughout the dinner praising others, so he said angrily, "It's just fancy moves", which led to Princess Lingxi revealing her identity.

Chu He listened to his analysis and nodded: "So, in the previous life, Princess Lingxi withdrew with everyone after her performance, and never showed up in public again. So everyone thought she was just an ordinary dancer from Northern Frontier, and then was quietly detained in the palace by His Majesty, and only kept her by his side after he abdicated."

Mu Rong frowned, "Wai Yi from the southern border, and Princess Lingxi from the northern border. The emperor sucked Wai Yi's blood for immortality, so is the reason for taking Princess Lingxi away... the same?"

As he spoke, a chill ran through his heart.