In fact, Princess Cheng had already noticed that the Ninth Prince had also come to the Cheng Palace with Prince Zhan, but she had always ignored him before.

Because in her opinion, this Ninth Prince was a foolish man who relied on the favor of the Emperor and the Queen Mother to do whatever he wanted, and sooner or later he would lose the reputation of the royal family.

She didn't like Shen Tingsi and never let her daughter have much contact with him.

But she had heard the rumors that Shen Tingsi had suddenly become a different person.

As for the incident at the Queen Mother's blessing banquet, she also heard that it was Shen Tingsi and Shen Yubai who worked together to set up a trap and caught Jiang Huaizhu who was secretly colluding with Tianming Pavilion.

But because she happened to be ill during the blessing banquet, she did not go in person, so only Princess Ruining went to watch the fun.

So she didn't really believe these rumors.

She also didn't believe that Shen Tingsi would suddenly wake up, but there was one thing she couldn't understand, which was why King Zhan was willing to keep him by his side.

It was for Prince Zhan's sake that she did not question why Shen Tingsi appeared in Prince Cheng's mansion.

Now Shen Tingsi reached out to stop her, which made her very dissatisfied.

No matter what the people in Prince Cheng’s Mansion did, it was not Shen Tingsi’s turn to stop them.

She looked at the handsome and tall young man in front of her and said solemnly in the tone of an elder, "His Royal Highness Prince Zhan is the commander of the Imperial City Division. He has already allowed me to enter. What does it mean that my ninth nephew tried to stop me?"

When Jiang Xiancao heard Princess Cheng's unfriendly tone, she sighed in her heart.

Chen Tingsi's popularity is really bad, even his own aunt dislikes him so much.

She understood Princess Cheng's feelings very well. It must be that Chen Tingsi had done something shameless in the past, which made the reasonable Princess hate him.

"Auntie, you misunderstood."

Therefore, Jiang Xiancao was not angry at all, and smiled very gently at Princess Cheng:

"My nephew wanted to remind you that the doors and windows of this study are all tightly shut, and the courtyard is heavily guarded, not even a fly can escape. Furthermore, the Imperial City detectives who are constantly patrolling nearby haven't spotted a single suspicious figure.

Is there a possibility that the thief is still hiding in the study and hasn't left?"

Upon hearing this, Princess Cheng felt her scalp tingle.

She glanced at the tightly closed study door and felt that it was eerie and scary as if there were ghosts inside.

Just when she subconsciously wanted to take a step back, the door of the study was shattered from the inside. A man in black with his face covered with a black cloth rushed out at lightning speed, with his right hand clawed, and grabbed Princess Cheng's neck fiercely.

Princess Ruining saw this scene and screamed, "Mother!"

The detective from the Imperial City Department wanted to protect Princess Cheng, but he was a step slower because he was standing some distance away from her.

Seeing that Princess Cheng was about to fall into the hands of the thieves, Jiang Xiancao frowned slightly, and then relied on the instinct of this body to slap the man in black with a palm, blocking the man in black's fierce attack on Princess Cheng.

This momentary change is enough to accomplish many things.

The detectives from the Imperial City who arrived protected Princess Cheng behind them, and the remaining few people set up a formation to suppress the man in black so that he could not escape.

Shen Yubai's eyes were cold. He didn't look at Princess Cheng, nor did he pay attention to the man in black. He flashed to the side of Jiang Xiancao.

He lifted her arm without hesitation and looked at her red and purple palm.

When Jiang Xiancao swung out that palm just now, although it was done in a hurry and the palm wind was quite fierce, the man in black had strong internal strength and his nails were poisoned, so he still injured Jiang Xiancao.

Now not only did Jiang Xiancao's palms feel itchy and painful, but her entire right arm was also very sore.

Shen Yubai lowered his eyes and looked at her for a while, then suddenly held her hand to his mouth.

Jiang Xiancao was confused and had no idea what he was going to do.

The next moment, something wet and soft held her palm.

A low cry escaped from her unclosed lips, and then a blush of shame spread across her face.

Because she realized belatedly that Shen Yubai was not only putting his mouth on the palm of her hand, he was also licking her!

This realization made her whole body tense up. She wanted to shake off Chen Yubai as if she was scalded, but he held her tighter.

He raised his eyes, and the strange red color that was originally only visible at the bottom of his eyes now spread to the entire pupil, as captivating as a blooming poppy.

Shen Yubai just glanced at her indifferently, and she was like a little scholar who knew that his soul was about to be sucked away by a charming monster but was at a loss. Her face flushed, she stopped resisting and quietly accepted her fate.

Then, he suddenly bit her palm lightly with his teeth.

With the warm, light and extremely ambiguous touch, he sucked the poisonous blood from her palm into his mouth bit by bit.

Everything around seemed to have quieted down; even the sounds of fighting not far away disappeared from Jiang Xiancao's ears.

She just felt that everyone was staring at her and Shen Yubai. She had never felt so embarrassed in her life.

Even when those old men tried to take advantage of her in her adoptive parents' tavern, she wasn't so upset.

After Shen Yubai had absorbed all the remaining poison, he calmly opened his mouth, let go of Jiang Xiancao's wrist, and then reached out to his stunned subordinate who was standing aside. The subordinate was stunned for a moment before reacting and quickly presented the handkerchief with both hands.

Jiang Xiancao opened her eyes wide and watched Chen Yubai wipe the black blood from the corner of his mouth with a handkerchief. Then she looked down at her palm which had faded from the bruise and returned to normal.

After she raised her head again, it took her a long time to find her voice:

"Uncle, are you okay?"

She was so nervous that she even forgot the honorific.

Compared to her bewilderment of not knowing where to put her hands and feet, Shen Yubai's face did not show any discomfort at all. He smiled at her calmly, "Xiao Jiu'er, are you worried about the emperor's uncle?"