Princess Anle: "..."

He had never seen a woman like Lin Xiuyan!

How could she say such things so confidently?

He gritted his teeth and said, "Give me back my clothes!"

Lin Xiuyan glanced at him sideways, and he immediately squatted back into the bathtub, covering his private parts with his hand.

He couldn't help but curse, "Shameless!"

Lin Xiuyan pulled a pair of pants out of her clothes and swung them around in her hand.

She didn't say anything, just looked at him sideways.

Anyway, it wasn't her who wasn't wearing clothes, and he wouldn't dare call for help, so she had plenty of time to waste with him.

Princess Anle's forehead veins throbbed when she saw Lin Xiuyan's appearance. She took ten deep breaths before saying, "Let's talk."

Lin Xiuyan sat down on a stool nearby, crossed her legs, and said, "Alright! Go ahead and say it!"

She knew she held the upper hand now, and she wanted to hear what he had to say.

Princess Anle looked at her and said, "Give me your pants."

Lin Xiuyan threw her pants directly into the innermost corner.

Princess Anle: "..."

Lin Xiuyan said with a look of disdain, "Princess, you took the initiative to talk to me. Since you want to talk, please adjust your attitude first."

"I have a bad temper and I can't stand being spoken to in a commanding tone."

Princess Anle's forehead veins throbbed again as he stared coldly at her.

She smiled and said, "If you are not satisfied with my behavior, you can ask Grandpa Fish to bring you some clothes."

She had figured it out by then: Eunuch Yu was someone the emperor had sent to Princess Anle's side.

Once Eunuch Yu finds out that Princess Anle is a man disguised as a woman, then the Emperor will also find out.

Although Lin Xiuyan didn't know why Princess Anle was dressing as a man, she knew there must be some important secret behind it.

Moreover, he has been impersonating the emperor for so many years, so he is fully guilty of deceiving the emperor.

Princess Anle's visit to Liefeng Prefecture to withdraw the barbarians, to some extent, also reveals his enormous ambition.

He is most likely using Liefeng Prefecture as a springboard to do something extraordinary.

Princess Anle said with a dark face, "If he comes in, you will die too. This is not good for you either."

Lin Xiuyan smiled: "I'm just a worthless life, I'm not afraid of dying."

She pretended to stand up and go to open the door.

Princess Anle took a deep breath and said, "I will let you go as long as you promise to keep this a secret."

Lin Xiuyan crossed her arms and looked at him with a roguish grin, saying, "And then, as soon as I stepped out, you had your guards kill me?"

Princess Anle glanced at her and said, "I always keep my word."

"Give me a break!" Lin Xiuyan didn't believe a word he said: "Someone like you who is capable of kidnapping and threatening others is scum."

"A scumbag like you, your words are like farts, do you think I'd believe them?"

Princess Anle gritted her teeth and looked at her: "Then what do you want? I can't stay in the bathroom forever."

"If I don't go out soon, they'll get suspicious, and when they come in, you'll die too!"

Lin Xiuyan laughed and said, "Princess, you've come full circle again."

"I don't know if I'll die if they break in, but your secret will definitely be lost."

Princess Anle recalled the trick she had played at the city lord's mansion last time and knew that she was just bluffing.

He was amazed by her series of life-saving methods.

He asked Lin Xiuyan, "So what do you want?"

Lin Xiuyan spread her hands: "What happened today was too sudden, and this situation is a dead end. I can't think of a way to break it right now."

"Besides, I'm a bit tired right now and don't really want to use my brain, so I'd like to trouble the princess to come up with a solution that satisfies both sides."

Princess Anle looked at her coldly.

If he could, he would strangle her right now!

No, strangling her isn't enough; we must also whip her corpse and grind her bones to dust!

Lin Xiuyan yawned: "If you don't want to think about it, I'll just throw your clothes out."

Princess Anle: "!!!!!!!"

He had never met anyone more troublesome or difficult to deal with than Lin Xiuyan!

Even if he knew that she was probably just trying to scare him, what if she actually threw all his clothes out?

After all, she's so crazy!

He took several more breaths before he finally managed to calm himself down.

He looked at her and said, "You want to live, and I want to keep my secret."

"In essence, we just have different positions, not any real deep-seated hatred."

Lin Xiuyan smiled at him without saying a word, but in her heart she didn't think much of it.

He's obviously a petty and narrow-minded person. She's hit him several times, and now that she knows his biggest secret, it would be strange if he didn't want to kill her.

She wanted to see what kind of flowers he could weave.

As it turns out, Princess Anle, a master of palace intrigue, was quite ruthless in this regard.

He looked at Lin Xiuyan and said, "You don't trust me, and I don't trust you. How about we make a deal?"

Lin Xiuyan asked with great interest, "What kind of deal?"

Princess Anle replied, "If you reveal my secret, I will be doomed. Right now, I have something on you."

“Normally, if you tell me one of your secrets, we will reach a certain balance.”

"But you have the upper hand now, so you definitely won't agree to my demands. And revealing my identity won't actually do you any good."

"How about I do you a favor, and you keep my secret? That way, you'll benefit, and I'll be able to keep my secret too."

Lin Xiuyan's eyes narrowed slightly: "It's the same old problem. Why should I trust you? You can get the guards to kill me as soon as you put on your clothes and leave this room."

Princess Anle took a deep breath and pulled on a jade pendant around her neck: "This is the only thing my mother left me, and it is very precious to me."

“I’m leaving this jade pendant with you. If you discover that I’m going to kill you, you can smash this jade pendant.”

After he finished speaking, he took the jade pendant off his neck: "You also give me the most important thing you have on you, and we will make an exchange, which can be considered as mutual restraint."

Lin Xiuyan felt that this constraint didn't have much practical significance, but in essence, it was the most suitable for them at the moment.

Because they don't trust each other and won't believe what the other says.

She doesn't like wearing jewelry and usually only wears a few hairpins in her hair. This time, for the sake of convenience, she didn't wear anything valuable either.

She thought for a moment, then took out a gold lock from her bosom and said, "This is what my mother bought for me when I turned one year old. It's my favorite thing."

Although Princess Anle felt that what she said might not be true, at this time, the thing that she was allowed to keep close to her body must be very important to her.

He then said, "Alright, then I'll exchange my jade pendant for your gold lock."