Murong Yan stared at Ye Wanqing suspiciously, and after a while he blurted out, "You, are you using Ah Xu's body to put on makeup again?"

Ye Wanqing blushed. Murong Yan saw it and quickly denied it, "No! If I put on makeup, wouldn't my brother beat me to death?"

"Your brother?" Upon hearing this, Murong Yan was even more confused. When did the relationship between Fu Yi and her become so good!

"Ah—no, no, Shen Xu's brother." Ye Wanqing quickly shook her head to deny it, then nervously changed the subject and said, "By the way, you said you waited for me for a whole day. What did you want to talk to me about?"

Murong Yan then became serious. He sat on the edge of her bed, held her hand earnestly, and said, "Qingqing, were all the words you said to me yesterday sincere?"

"Ah? What did I say yesterday?" Ye Wanqing scratched her head in confusion, trying hard to recall what happened yesterday. She only remembered that she and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince drank a lot of wine last night, and then said a lot of confusing words, all kinds of things, such as love and jealousy... Later, she went into the room with Nanny Jiang to take a shower, and only then did she sober up a little and listen to her talk about a long story about the southern border.

She covered her mouth and quickly defended herself, "I drank too much yesterday and said a lot of nonsense. Your Highness, please don't take it to heart. If I have offended you, please forgive me."

Murong Yan suddenly felt quite disappointed, but he refused to give up. He tightened his grip on her hand slightly and said in a gentle tone, "Why can't I take it to heart? Qingqing said everything, and I must take it to heart."

Murong Yan gently let go of her hand, stood up and walked slowly to the desk.

Ye Wanqing hurriedly got out of bed, put on her coat, tied her loose hair into a ponytail, and stood by the bed at a loss.

Murong Yan took out a box on the desk, walked to her and opened the box. Inside was a set of headpieces with colorful butterflies and flowers. The delicate gold-wire buds were inlaid in the petals of various velvet flowers, and the kingfisher butterflies on it were lifelike.

It was that set of her mother's belongings that was pawned by Ye Xueruo. Ye Wanqing did not redeem it in time, so it was bought by someone else and she has been unable to find the whereabouts of the buyer.

It was actually bought by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

"Qingqing, that day I saw you hesitating for a long time at the door of the pawnshop, so I went in to ask around. I found out you liked this set of colorful butterflies and flowers, so I bought it."

Murong Yan paused, then stammered sheepishly, "But, Ah Xu is a man after all. I... I didn't know how to give it to you at first. I was afraid you would think I was sick."

Ye Wanqing's eyes suddenly became moist. She reached out and picked up the hairpin and step-shake, gently stroking the butterfly wings made of gold thread. The kingfisher feathers fluttered lightly, as if it was about to flap its wings and fly.

She spoke with a suppressed mood: "This is a relic my mother left me. It was originally intended to be used as a dowry."

"Qingqing, so, are you willing to..." Murong Yan was a little excited. He was about to tell her what he had mentioned to his father and uncle when he went to the palace today, but she said disappointedly:

"But it's meaningless now. I'm dead, so I can't use you anymore." Seeing Murong Yan's expression change from joy to loss, Ye Wanqing could only say indifferently: "But I still want to thank you, Your Highness."

She took the headdress and carefully put it in the box, then walked to Chen Xu's wardrobe, opened the secret compartment, and placed the box in the secret compartment.

When Murong Yan heard her say this, his mood suddenly became much lower. In fact, his father and uncle did not stand on his side today, which was considered an obstacle. Seeing Ye Wanqing's attitude, he felt even more discouraged.

He was about to say something when he looked up and saw her opening the secret compartment in the closet. The thing in the secret compartment...

"Wait." He strode forward and pulled the door of the secret compartment of the wardrobe. Inside, he saw hairpins, powder, silk dresses, jewelry, and everything else. The entire secret compartment was stuffed to the brim.

"This..." He stared at the closet full of women's clothing in amazement, and reached out to take out the pink dress with layered beads and tulle that Ye Wanqing was wearing when she first met her. The light pink tulle was draped over the pleated skirt like clouds, and the dotted pearls seemed to be scattered randomly, but they were just the right embellishment.

She wore this dress that day, with her fair skin, slender shoulders and beauty like a fairy.

Wait, so these things were originally in Shen Xu’s cabinet?

And the appearance of Chen Xu that he saw that day was clearly that of a girl!

No, no, no, it's impossible, absolutely impossible.

Ah Xu taught himself how to swim. At that time, they lived together in the palace of the Summer Resort and were honest with each other every day.

If he were a girl, how could he dare to be naked in front of her, wear her pants, and sleep with her every day.

Although Ah Xu was only seven years old at that time, but...

What kind of girl from a good family would play naked in the water with a bunch of boys?

Besides, the Shen Hou family has been a wealthy family for generations and attaches great importance to the education of girls. Which good family would let their daughter learn the six arts of a gentleman, hang out with boys every day, practice throwing pots, shooting arrows, and holding Huang Qingying, and chat about which girl is pretty in their spare time?

Is this reasonable?

Ye Wanqing also reacted immediately and hurriedly closed the secret compartment of the wardrobe. After spending two days with Fu Yi and enjoying two days of freedom, she actually relaxed and forgot that this was Chen Xu's secret. How could she open the secret compartment in front of Murong Yan!

Looking at Murong Yan's tangled situation, Ye Wanqing shook her hands guiltily and explained: "Your Highness, you, you listen to my explanation, these were all bought by Shen Xu, it's none of my business!"

Although most of the things in it were bought by Shen Xu, she had also added a lot of good things in it recently, but Murong Yan had repeatedly warned her not to do strange things with Ah Xu's body.

Now that she had been caught hoarding so many things, Ye Wanqing suddenly didn't know how to defend herself and became extremely confused.

"Did Chen Xu buy it?" Murong Yan's brows twisted into knots when he heard that. Regardless of whether he was sick or not, his brother was definitely sick for buying these things!

Murong Yan's temples were throbbing. Everyone knew that Chen Xu had a feminine demeanor and a girly appearance.

I didn't expect that he had hoarded so many girls' things in private.

This younger brother, hiss...

Ye Wanqing was shocked. If Chen Xu bought these things, wouldn’t it be even more difficult to explain? She quickly explained: "No, no, no, I bought these. I, I... I don’t know why I bought these. I just like these. It has nothing to do with Chen Xu."

Murong Yan still spoke suspiciously, staring at the shallow dimples on Ye Wanqing's face, and whispered tentatively: "Did you feel anything strange about Ah Xu's body? Did you feel uncomfortable when you woke up this morning?"

Ye Wanqing looked at him with confusion, thinking about Murong Yan's intention. Why would His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ask me such a question?

So she cautiously probed, "Where do you think I'm uncomfortable?"