On her wedding night, she went into exile with her pharmacy arsenal

The Ninth Princess suppressed the scream that was about to burst out, tightly grasped the dagger, and stared at Huo Changhe and Yan Ruyu who came in.

"Is it you?"

The Ninth Princess still held the knife in her hand tightly and forced a smile: "My Lord, Princess, coming here so late at night and entering through the back window, I'm afraid this is against the rules, right?"

"Rules?" Yan Ruyu chuckled. "You want to talk to us about the rules? If we come in through the front door and talk to you about the rules, I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it."

The Ninth Princess snorted coldly: "What do you mean, Princess? I am the Ninth Princess of Dacheng. Even if this is in the territory of the Li Dynasty, I am also the future Princess of Yong. How can I not be able to bear it?"

"The Prince of Yong in our dynasty," Huo Changhe took over the conversation, "is going to marry the Ninth Princess of Dacheng."

"Are you?"

The Ninth Princess' breathing was slightly choked, her eyes reflected the only candlelight, and she was panicked for a moment.

"What do you mean by that, Your Majesty? Are you still questioning my identity?"

After the Ninth Princess finished speaking, she became more confident: "Your Highness, my ceremonial guards are stationed outside the city gate today. If you don't believe me, you may as well go out and take a look."

"Or, I can call Commander Tang Yibai and ask him to prove my identity."

Yan Ruyu flicked the candlelight, making it brighter: "Why, do you need someone else to prove your identity?"

The Ninth Princess was stunned: "What do you mean? Weren't you the ones who questioned me?"

Yan Ruyu tilted her head to look at her: "If you are really a princess, when we questioned you, you should have said it was presumptuous, and said angrily but firmly that you are a princess, full of majesty."

"Instead of calling others to prove it for you, because you are real, why do you need proof? Unless you know you are fake."

The Ninth Princess' heart was beating wildly. She turned away and didn't look at her. "I don't know what you are talking about. How you say it and what you say are personal habits. Do you think I have to follow your way? This is really unreasonable."

"This is called psychology," Yan Ruyu said calmly, "Since you said you are a princess, where is the princess's order?"

The Ninth Princess pursed her lips tightly and said, "It was taken away by Tang Yibai. He is the commander, and I trust him. He is useful, so it's not wrong to give it to him, right?"

"The Princess's Token represents your identity. Would your Great Emperor give the token to anyone at will?" Yan Ruyu sat down on the chair and looked at her quietly, "Who are you?"

The Ninth Princess clenched the dagger: "I am the Ninth Princess."

"Your words, like the weapon in your hand, have no deterrent effect at all. I advise you not to waste your energy."

After Huo Changhe finished speaking, he flicked his fingers, and the Ninth Princess let out a low cry. She let go of the dagger with one hand and clenched her wrist with the other.

Yan Ruyu looked at her, then at her pillow: "You should be of some status, but not high. This set of pajamas is made of good material, but it has been worn for a long time. The embroidery on the pillow is also outdated."

"If you said that before your ceremonial procession arrived, you came here incognito, it was barely acceptable. Today, your team has arrived, and the attendants have also arrived, but nothing has changed."

"Besides, there is no servant on night duty outside your room."

Yan Ruyu's voice was slightly deep, exuding a bit of pressure: "The prince and I have no intention of interfering in your internal affairs, but we will never watch you deceive Prince Yong."

"If you don't tell me," Yan Ruyu gently stroked the bracelet on her wrist.

From the Ninth Princess's perspective, she just happened to see the sharp edge on the bracelet suddenly appear, flash and then disappear.

"Then we can try and see how they will react by killing you."

Yan Ruyu's tone was calm, and even her brows did not change, but the Ninth Princess' heart could not help but shudder, and she felt a chill throughout her body as she was frightened by the murderous intent.

Huo Changhe said nothing, standing in the shadows not far away, without even glancing over here, but the sense of oppression was extremely strong, like a silent killing god.

The Ninth Princess's tense body relaxed resignedly.

She knew that nothing she said would help.

You can't bear it.

She lowered her eyes and said in a faint voice: "That's right, I'm not the Ninth Princess, I'm the Eighth Princess."

Huo Changhe's face was in the shadows, and his expression could not be seen, but his voice was clear and cold: "I have only heard that Dacheng has eight princes, but I have never heard of eight princesses."

"Yes, I have never heard of an Eighth Princess. But, without an Eighth Princess, how could there be a Ninth Princess?"

The princess laughed at herself, "Their mothers are of noble status, but my mother is a commoner. My father met her outside when he was out hunting, and she got pregnant secretly. My mother got pregnant out of wedlock, and her life was extremely difficult. If the witch hadn't said that her belly was noble, she would have been drowned in a pond, or punished by the family law. In short, there are ten thousand ways to die."

"It wasn't until I was eight that my father found us and brought us back to the palace. I thought good days were about to begin, but in fact, it was just another form of torture."

"The ridicule and humiliation, I'm used to it. It's just a change of place from the village to the palace. At first I was a little bit lucky, thinking that my father found us because he loved us, and he brought us back to the palace and ignored us because he was too busy."

"It was not until later, when my mother and I were beaten by the second-class nanny beside the Ninth Princess, that I realized that my father brought us back not because he loved us, but because he needed the eighth princess ranking and needed someone in the eighth position so that his beloved daughter would be the Ninth Princess."

The Eighth Princess laughed until her tears came out. "How ridiculous! The Imperial Master said that the Ninth Princess is blessed and can help the country prosper. If I don't return to the palace, she will be the Eighth Princess. But no, she must be the Ninth Princess."

"So, it doesn't matter who I am. I just need to occupy the eighth position."

Yan Ruyu listened quietly. Since she realized that something was wrong with her identity, she thought of several possibilities. The most likely possibility was that the Ninth Princess exchanged identities with the palace maid around her in order to protect herself.

But I didn't guess her identity.

She was not a palace maid, but a princess, the Eighth Princess who had never been heard of.

The Eighth Princess wiped her tears and said, "Isn't this ridiculous?"

Yan Ruyu didn't answer. She continued to ask, "How did the princess know that I'm not the ninth princess?"

Yan Ruyu replied: "Feeling. You give me a very weird feeling."

"A little maidservant, no matter how arrogant and presumptuous she is, would not go to a place like this and contradict the governor and the city guard in public. If you say that she is naive and does not know how to be polite to her master, it's okay once or twice, but it's wrong if it happens too many times."

"She clearly didn't take them seriously. This was an unconscious attitude of superiority. Because she had been in a high position for a long time, she naturally looked down on them. Because she looked down on them, she didn't need to be polite when speaking to them."

"Besides, she didn't seem to be very afraid of Tang Yibai, at least not as much as you."

"Tang Yibai has been on the battlefield for a long time. Ordinary people will naturally be afraid of him when they see him. That's the cruelty that comes from his bones."

"But the maid was able to remain calm in the face of him."

Yan Ruyu paused for a moment: "And..."