Farewell Flower Festival

Qian'er wanted to go into the house to take a look but was stopped outside the door by Feicui and Amber. She shouted inside and Chaoyan's voice came out.

"Come in."

Jadeite and Amber pushed open the door and let Qian'er in. Qian'er had just stepped in when she heard Chaoyan say stop. She retracted her foot and stood at the door, looking inside.

"Why did Aunt Lin ask you to go to the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery's Mansion a few days ago?" Chao Yan's voice came from the inner room.

Qian'er denied it and said that she had never been to the Marquis' Mansion.

"She's been seen but she still refuses to admit it. She's really stubborn. Arrest her."

Jadeite and Amber were about to fight, but unexpectedly Qian'er knew martial arts. She pushed the two away with one palm and took the opportunity to escape.

Jade asks Amber to stay and she chases after him.

Qian'er turned around and threw a hidden weapon at Feicui. With a clang, the hidden weapon hit Qianfeng's sword and fell to the ground. Feiyu appeared behind her.

Seeing that she was surrounded, Qian'er released a whistling arrow and pulled out a hairpin to commit suicide, but was deflected by Feiyu's sword and knocked unconscious immediately.

Qianfeng and Feiyu took away Qian'er and the hidden weapon, which was the same meteor dart used by the masked man before, but their skills were not as good as the masked man's.

……

When Eunuch Wu saw that only Mu Tianling came back, he asked about Chao Yan. Mu Tianling said that she would stay for two more days, so Eunuch Wu didn't ask any more questions.

In the evening, Chao Yan came to Lin Rou's residence with a small incense burner in her hand.

Jade and Amber stayed in the room and watched Lin Rou.

"Have you thought about it?" Chao Yan put the incense burner on the table and sat down on the stool.

Lin Rou glanced at the incense burner and asked, "What do you want to know?"

"Where did the poison come from?" Chao Yan asked.

Lin Rou smiled and said, "What old immortal, what golden elixir, they are all fake. If you want the antidote, let the prince come over."

Chao Yan said: "Do you think Dad still wants to see you now?"

Lin Rou sneered: "I just want him to remember me for the rest of his life. Even if I die, he won't forget me."

Chaoyan said: "If you die, Dad will avenge Mom." She opened the lid of the incense burner, took out a fire starter and lit it, then closed the lid. A faint fragrance wafted out of the incense burner.

Jadeite and Amber backed off first.

"Do you know what the nine punishments are in the Nine Punishments Department?" Chao Yan asked.

Lin Rou stared at the incense burner and wanted to get up but found herself exhausted. It was as if her consciousness was sucked into an invisible funnel and was draining out of the funnel bit by bit.

"This is called soul-guiding incense. It is used by the Nine Punishments Department to deal with prisoners who refuse to tell the truth. It is called incense punishment. I heard that people who have been subjected to incense punishment either go crazy or stupid in the end."

Chao Yan's voice gradually drifted away, and Lin Rou finally couldn't resist the invasion of the fragrance and closed her eyes.

In the white fog, a vague outline floated out from the mist.

The vague sound of her sister made her feel cold all over.

The figure in the mist was erratic, and suddenly appeared in front of her, as if very close to her, so close that she could feel the coolness of the other person, wrapping around her like a tentacle.

"You're already dead, I'm not afraid of you..." she murmured.

The elusive figure suddenly disappeared. The next moment, a vague voice of "sister" sounded behind her. She felt a pair of cold hands on her shoulders. She froze in place and dared not look back. The hands suddenly grabbed her shoulders and dragged her into the vast fog in the blink of an eye...

When Chao Yan came out of the room, the moonlight was high in the sky and as cool as water.

Lin Rou curled up at the foot of the bed, muttering nonsense to herself.

Chao Yan asked Feicui and Kohaku to watch her while she went towards the study.

Shen He was looking at Su Yan's portrait and didn't even notice Chao Yan pushing the door in.

Chao Yan walked over and looked at the portrait without saying anything.

After a while, Shen He asked, "Xue'er, do you think your mother will forgive me?"

Chao Yan replied truthfully: "I don't know."

Shen He's eyes suddenly darkened, without any light in them.

"But, mother must love father very much," Chao Yan said in a gentle tone, "even if mother can choose again, mother will definitely not want to give father to someone else."

Shen He revealed a very faint smile and reached out to gently touch the person in the portrait.

After taking his hand back, he asked, "Have you said everything?"

Chao Yan nodded and said that the person was crazy.

Shen He was silent for a while, then asked, "How do you want to deal with her?" Chao Yan said, "Let her live and die on her own."

……

The next morning, Shen Cheng was a little surprised when he came to have breakfast. First, he didn't expect Chao Yan hadn't gone back, and second, he didn't expect that she was the only one there.

"Where are Dad and Aunt Lin? Why don't they come for dinner?" Shen Cheng knew that Shen Ming sometimes went out without eating breakfast, so he didn't ask him.

Chao Yan said in a normal tone: "Dad and big brother went out early in the morning." She paused, "Aunt Lin is not feeling well."

After breakfast, Shen Cheng wanted to visit Lin Rou, but Chao Yan asked him not to go.

"Brother, Aunt Lin is gone."

Shen Cheng was stunned for a long time, not realizing what "left" meant. After coming to his senses, he asked anxiously, "Where did you go?"

After asking him to calm down, Chao Yan said, "Brother, you know that Dad only has Mom in his heart from beginning to end. Aunt Lin doesn't want to wait any longer, so you don't have to look for her anymore."

Shen Cheng stood up and sat down, sat down and stood up again. He opened his mouth several times but didn't know what to ask.

"Brother, two people can only be happy together if they like each other. If they don't like each other, it's better to separate early. If they insist on being tied together, it's just torturing each other."

After listening to Chao Yan's words, Shen Cheng sat down again and thought for a long time, but still couldn't figure it out, "Are Dad and Aunt Lin really unhappy?"

Chao Yan said: "Brother, if you marry a girl you don't like, and you always have another girl in your heart, can you live happily?"

Shen Cheng experienced it personally and felt that he would not be happy there, but why did he just leave like that?

"Brother, don't mention Aunt Lin in front of Dad again." Chao Yan warned.

Shen Cheng agreed sullenly.

The next day, Feicui came back to Prince Ling's Mansion and reported to Mu Tianling that Chaoyan would stay for two more days.

Then Mu Tianling came over.

With Chao Yan's guidance and persuasion, Shen Cheng was finally able to accept Lin Rou's sudden departure. Just as his mood was getting better, he heard that Mu Tianling was coming to take Chao Yan back, and his mood immediately became bad.

Chaoyan told Mu Tianling that she would go back in two days, waiting for her father and brother to feel better.

Two days later, Chaoyan came back and brought Shen Cheng with her.

Then the next day the brother and sister went back again. Chaoyan was really worried about her father and wanted to bring him to live with them.

Mu Tianling came back from the Jiuxingsi and his face turned a little dark when he heard Eunuch Wu say that Chaoyan had returned to her parents' home again.

……

After a while, Chaoyan started running back to her parents' home every few days.