Chapter 201 This Evil Star

"Well, since I allowed her to come back, she's still one of us. I'm only asking you to fight with all your might, not to kill her."

Jiang Shenyuan stopped Master Ruan.

He moved with aplomb. Those who can persuade others to stop fighting are always more powerful than those who start the fight. This has been a truth since ancient times.

He didn't seem to have any intention of hiding anything. It seemed as if he was testing Cheng Nianying's current abilities while inadvertently showing off his own strength.

Cheng Nianying quickly lowered her eyes and got up from the ground.

Jiang Shenyuan wanted to reach out to help her, but she still dodged him.

In the past, Jiang Shenyuan had no interest in such a cold and aloof woman.

If she hadn't run away and was bold enough to replace the Qin girl to deceive Fu Yi... he couldn't remember that there had ever been such a person, who was specially left to him by his father.

Jiang Shenyuan stared at her and looked at her carefully again.

Today, I've seen something interesting... When she competed with Master Ruan, her movements were extremely beautiful. She didn't cry out in pain, nor did she refuse to admit defeat or surrender.

"Blood is seeping out," Jiang Shenyuan said, reaching out to touch the wound on Cheng Nianying's neck. However, he was now familiar with the girl's temperament, and before she could move away, he withdrew his hand.

So as not to let so many people see it.

Jiang Shenyuan's eyes showed pity: "I don't have a maid by my side, so no one can carefully apply medicine for you."

Cheng Nianying didn't understand the deeper meaning of these words at all, and just went to take the medicine in silence.

This made Master Ruan lose the motivation to win.

Only after Cheng Nianying left did he say, "If you want to punish her so that she knows how to be afraid, you should let me..."

"I want you to kill her with one blow?" Jiang Shenyuan turned his head. "I know Cen Yaoxin saved your life, and you want to kill Cheng Nianying for her, but you have to know the difference between the important and the minor."

Jiang Shenyuan patted his shoulder lightly: "You know, I won't allow anyone to disrupt my affairs."

Master Ruan responded in a muffled voice.

Cheng Nianying returned to the house, and after a while, the door opened.

"Jiang Shenyuan didn't treat you very well. You almost lost your life just now." Zhong Dingyuan's voice came before he arrived.

Cheng Nianying muttered quietly, even Zhong Dingyuan noticed it, and Jiang Shenyuan thought he was pretending very well.

"You risked your life to visit the Prince's Mansion, so he should reward you. Could it be that because you followed Fu Yi, he suspects that you are no longer loyal?"

Zhong Dingyuan paused and said meaningfully, "But I won't doubt you."

Cheng Nianying felt strange when she heard this. She hoped that Zhong Dingyuan would die quickly so that she could apply medicine.

But Zhong Dingyuan not only did not leave, but sat down and lowered his voice to the lowest point: "Why don't you turn to me instead?"

He said, "At least I am the emperor's son. Who is Jiang Shenyuan?"

Cheng Nianying pursed her lips, her eyes lit up slightly, and then she slowly raised her head.

She beat the deposed prince.

But neither the deposed crown prince nor Jiang Shenyuan caused trouble for her, not because they were mentally ill.

But...the relationship between these two people is not close, and there is even a rift between them.

She initially guessed that Shao Qu Tower was related to the emperor, and when she saw the deposed prince, she thought that the real master behind the scenes was the prince.

But now look at it again... he is not the deposed prince.

It seems that he is not as smart as her.

"I can't betray Shaoqu Tower." Cheng Nianying only said this in the end.

"It's not that I don't want to, but that I can't." Zhong Dingyuan calmed himself down. "I know that people like Jiang Shenyuan usually use drugs to control their subordinates. I'll ask my father to get an antidote for you."

"I let my father."

These four words are extremely crucial.

This is equivalent to directly admitting that the person standing behind Shao Qu Tower is indeed the emperor!

Cheng Nianying suppressed the turmoil in her heart and showed only a little joy on her face.

It's a good thing that the deposed crown prince is not on good terms with Jiang Shenyuan, and it's an even better thing that the deposed crown prince has his own plans.

Cheng Nianying raised her head and asked, "Does your hand still hurt?"

When these words were spoken, Zhong Dingyuan felt a little flattered.

Is there any time when this evil star still cares about him?

"How could it not hurt?" Zhong Dingyuan was about to sneer, but he swallowed the sarcasm back halfway.

Cheng Nianying thought for a moment and said, "Let me take a look."

"How come...ah!" Zhong Dingyuan screamed unexpectedly.

Cheng Nianying put his bones back in place.

"Okay." Her face was still slightly pale, and she raised her head with an innocent look.

Zhong Dingyuan clenched his teeth with cold sweat dripping down his face.

He stood up and left in a cold sweat.

It can be said that from the time he became the crown prince to the time he was deposed, the most pain he suffered was caused by Cheng Nianying.

It is unforgettable.

Zhong Dingyuan stood in the corridor and laughed angrily.

Inside the house, Cheng Nianying slowly peeled off her collar and looked in the mirror. ... Fortunately, the cracks weren't severe.

The next day, they continued their journey to Imperial Capital.

Perhaps because Zhong Dingyuan screamed again the day before, Jiang Shenyuan didn't even bother to find out what Zhong Dingyuan had said to Cheng Nianying in private.

Just wait until after nightfall.

There was a barely perceptible sound of "creaking", which was the door being pushed open. Master Ruan sat up from the bed, ready to take action.

"It's me." Cheng Nianying said in a muffled voice.

Master Ruan found it extremely strange.

Why did Cheng Nianying come to see him?

Master Ruan picked up the knife and walked over without even bothering to put on his clothes.

"I still want to compete with you." Cheng Nianying said.

Master Ruan was even more puzzled. Was he seeking death? That was just right. He could quietly fulfill Cen Yaoxin's wish without alerting anyone.

Even if the master knew about this tomorrow, it wouldn't be his fault. She had brought this upon herself.

Master Ruan took a half step back and said, "Come in."

But in a moment, Master Ruan found that what he thought was too easy.

In the dead of night, any movement would alarm others... How can I kill her without telling my master?

Master Ruan could only be more cautious.

Cheng Nianying, on the other hand, does not have such constraints.

"Swish--" Master Ruan raised his head and the knife in his hand cut the bed curtain.

He slumped down onto the bed, looking a bit embarrassed as if he had been forced into a corner.

In a fit of anger, he bent his body in a strange posture, then raised his leg and kicked hard, and the candlestick was brought to the ground by Cheng Nianying.

Cheng Nianying opened her lips slightly and tasted a slightly fishy sweetness in her mouth.

The noise was neither big nor small. Master Ruan Zhengxin raised his head.

"Come out, I saw you go in." Zhong Dingyuan's voice suddenly sounded outside the door.

"Come out quickly."

"Are you in there?"

"What were you doing in his room in the middle of the night?" Zhong Dingyuan asked several questions in rapid succession.

Master Ruan gritted his teeth and had to put away his knife.

Cheng Nianying didn't even look at him and just walked out silently.

Zhong Dingyuan could still be heard mockingly, "Why are you sneaking into his room? You're just a servant, too."

Master Ruan's face darkened. He stood in the dark for a long time holding the knife unwillingly before slowly lying down again.

Cheng Nianying walked out of the door and walked side by side with Zhong Dingyuan. Zhong Dingyuan was a little dissatisfied. How could she walk side by side with him?

No rules.

But when these three words came to his lips, he swallowed them for the time being.

"You asked me to come to you now because you are afraid that Master Ruan will kill you with one knife? If you are afraid, why did you look for him? Weren't you hurt enough yesterday?" Zhong Dingyuan curled his lips.

But he wasn't completely stupid after all, and he realized it in an instant: "Are you... trying to find out his background?"

"You're really not afraid of death." Zhong Dingyuan smiled sarcastically.

But then there was a strange silence again.

He didn't speak again after that.

In the first half of the prince's life, which was smooth sailing, he had never seen such a person.

Instead, it makes him, a man, appear weak and incompetent, unable to endure the slightest hardship.

Zhong Dingyuan took a deep breath... He also knew that it would not be easy for him to return to his previous position.

From the fall of the Cen family, it was clear that what his father said was not really for his own good.

And endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens.

But endure the humiliation!

In the next few days, Cheng Nianying secretly went to see Master Ruan almost every night.

She was madly learning and improving from the battles.

Although Master Ruan was slow, he finally came to his senses. ...Cheng Nianying was deliberately using him as a training ground!

"You don't know what death is!" Master Ruan muttered softly, his eyes red, and his belligerence became more and more excited.

He still didn't tell anyone and just waited for her to come again tonight.

No matter who comes this time, she must be crippled if not dead.

…

Jiang Shenyuan looked up at the setting sun and said, "We are very close to Imperial Capital. Let's not stop today and rush back to the city in one go."

Master Ruan: “…”

Even though Master Ruan was extremely dissatisfied, he had no choice but to swallow it down.

Under the leadership of Jiang Shenyuan, everyone rushed into the city.

After a few months of absence, Yujing had become somewhat unfamiliar. Before Cheng Nianying could take in more of the surroundings, her eyes were bound.

"Let's go." Jiang Shenyuan's voice sounded in his ears.

Cheng Nianying knew...that they were going to be taken back to the building.

Even taking the deposed crown prince with him?

Instead of going directly to see the emperor?

Or maybe you can see the emperor in the building?

Several suspicious thoughts surfaced in Cheng Nianying's mind, and her turbulent emotions were gradually smoothed out along the way.

The moon was already at its highest point at this time.

But the cloth strip was completely opaque. Cheng Nianying walked slowly behind it and stepped on it.

sticky.

Why is it sticky?

"Something's wrong." Jiang Shenyuan's voice, slightly distorted in his throat, was reflected by the narrow passage, causing an echo.

The others couldn't see anything, and when they heard these words they instinctively took a step forward.

"Keep going." Jiang Shenyuan said coldly.

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly took a few steps back and stood shoulder to shoulder with Cheng Nianying.

Then he grabbed Cheng Nianying's hand.