He smiled slightly.

With a hint of anger, You Ran said, "You're still laughing? You actually dare to laugh?"

Chu Heng remained calm. "If I don't laugh, am I supposed to cry?"

"Why are you in my carriage? Where is Suyue?" She thought for a moment, "And where is Yun Tianzhi?"

Yun Tianzhi's clear voice immediately rang in from outside, "Sixth Sister, I'm here!"

You Ran: ...

She wanted to question him: "So, you knew the Crown Prince was in her carriage?"

But fearing that if he shouted it out, everyone on the street would hear, he could only lower his voice and grit his teeth, "What are you doing here?"

Chu Heng twisted his arm. "My guards discovered that someone was plotting against the Sixth Miss. He was no match for the enemy's guards alone, so he sent a signal to me. I led men to rescue the Sixth Miss and also informed the Sixth Young Master."

So when she heard the sounds of fighting outside the door, she figured it must have been the bodyguard he was talking about.

She asked suspiciously, "You...sent secret guards to follow me?"

“It’s protection,” Chu Heng corrected. “There have been rumors circulating in the capital recently targeting you, so I’ve been keeping a close eye on things.”

You Ran exhaled again, and as her mind relaxed, she immediately felt a burning heat all over her body.

He unconsciously reached up and scratched his neck, thinking of his icy hands from just now...

My gaze involuntarily shifted over there...

Chu Heng reached out his hand, "Want it?"

You Ran immediately objected, but what escaped her lips was a soft moan of "hmm".

Alarm bells rang in her mind, and her fingernails dug deep marks into her palms as she tried to stay alert.

Chu Heng was startled to see her strange expression and tentatively asked, "You...didn't detoxify yourself?"

He thought that with her medical skills, she had just managed to protect herself and should be able to detoxify him quickly.

Su Youran had only thought of the aphrodisiac; she figured a cold bath would do the trick.

But she didn't want to lose her composure in front of this man right now, especially since she didn't know how pathetic and miserable she would be if the drug took effect. So she asked her little notebook in her mind, "Ben'er, what are the test results? Has the antidote come out yet?"

The little notebook replied instantly: "Of course I have it. The antidote costs 1500 luck points."

Su Youran was furious, but she had no choice but to buy it.

Just as she was about to take the antidote out of her sleeve, she saw Chu Heng staring curiously at her sleeve and immediately stopped. "You, get out of the car."

Chu Heng raised his eyes. "Are you sure you want me to get out of your carriage in this busy downtown area?"

He choked up slightly.

So many people in Kyoto recognize her carriage!

But the heat in her body kept rising, and she forced herself to resist the urge to touch her skin, gritting her teeth as she pulled the antidote out of her sleeve.

It is a bottle of colorless medicine.

Looking at this bottle, she knew she would have to spend 1 point of luck to get a syringe.

Unexpectedly, the price of a syringe that used to cost 1 yuan has now increased to 3 yuan.

Prices are rising like a tiger!

I really regret not exchanging more when they were cheap and storing them in my space!

A moment later, You Ran gritted her teeth and injected the antidote into her arm before leaning against the car wall and exhaling a breath of hot air, waiting for the antidote to take effect.

Chu Heng saw her actions the whole time but didn't say anything.

You Ran tossed the medical waste into her spatial storage, looked up at him, and said, "Don't you have anything to ask?"

Chu Heng: "Yes, there is, but will you answer if I ask?"

With a haughty shrug, she retorted, "Look how happy this old lady is!"

Chu Heng chuckled softly.

After waiting a while without hearing his voice, You Ran asked again, "Are you really not going to ask?"

Chu Heng remained silent.

You Ran thought for a moment, then suddenly turned around and asked angrily, "Senior brother actually told you even this?!"

Just how close are Senior Brother and this Crown Prince? He even shares his secrets with him.

Chu Heng was momentarily unsure whether to ask or not, but this little girl had unexpectedly come up with a way out in her mind, so he quickly followed suit, saying, "Yun Bai has already mentioned it; I will not ask about your secret."

You Ran was so angry that she pounded on the car wall. "Why does this senior brother tell you everything? He never shares your secrets with me!"

Chu Heng looked at her amusedly, "I have no secrets. Or, if you want to know something, just ask me, and I'll tell you!"

He hummed leisurely.

Her eyes darted around, and she turned to him with a smile, asking, "Then, Your Highness, tell me, what's this talk about your so-called bad luck? My senior brother was also plagued by bad luck when he was young, and he even fell down three times a day back then! How come you two think alike?"

Chu Heng was taken aback, feeling a little nervous, but quickly put on a bitter expression, "Yun Bai must have been implicated by me."

From the time I was born, I was plagued by misfortune. The Imperial Astronomical Bureau once predicted that I was deficient in many of the five elements, that everything would go wrong, and that I would have a short life, or that I would not live past thirty.

Fortunately, my father and mother did not abandon me. As the eldest son, my father named me Crown Prince early on, hoping that the blessings of the nation would bless my destiny.

Later, the Imperial Advisor examined my face and said that my destiny had been stolen, which was why I was experiencing such misfortune. The solutions were twofold: first, to find the person who stole my destiny; and second, to find a blessed person to marry, so that our destinies could complement each other, thus helping me overcome this calamity.

You Ran rolled her eyes. "Then Your Highness should hurry up and find the person who harmed you. You don't need to keep an eye on me!"

Chu Heng smiled bitterly, "Father and I began searching for that person ten years ago, but unfortunately, we found nothing."

You Ran suddenly thought of her previous life, where the crown prince was deposed and then disappeared without a trace. She figured he probably died a few years later, and the person behind it all was never found out.

You Ran indicated that she was unable to help.

As they were talking, the carriage arrived at the gate of the Duke's mansion. She lifted the curtain and saw Su Yue jumping down from the left side of the carriage, while Yun Tianzhi was sitting on the right side of the carriage shaft, preparing to get up.

She kicked Yun Tianzhi in the back.

Yun Tianzhi stumbled and fell off the carriage, nearly losing his balance, but he did a graceful somersault and landed on the ground.

Su Youran then jumped off the carriage, looked at the now handsome and dashing Xiao Liu, and said with her hands on her hips, "You little brat, we've been fighting since we were kids, what did that person give you in return? Why did you sell me out like this?"

"That person" Chu Heng: ...

Yun Tianzhi stepped forward with a grin and cupped his hands in a gesture of respect, "Sixth Sister, Sixth Brother knows he was wrong... Sixth Sister, please don't be angry..."

With her hands behind her back, she strolled leisurely. "If you know you're wrong, then hurry up and bring me your freshly printed 'Floating Life' so that your great-aunt can have a sneak peek!"

Yun Tianzhi choked, then said with a bitter face, "Grandma... you haven't told us any stories lately, and I've completely run out of ideas..."

She glanced at him sideways, "Out of inspiration? Over the years, the stories I told you have become the talk of the capital. What, you still want to drain me dry? I wonder what would happen if Grandmother knew you'd run out of inspiration while writing these stories..."

"No, no, no!" Yun Tianzhi immediately bowed to her, "I was wrong, I will deliver it on time at midnight tonight!"

You Ran smiled smugly and returned to her own courtyard.

Outside the door, Crown Prince Chu Heng slowly alighted from the carriage.

He heard the conversation inside perfectly, and a smile appeared on his lips.

Unexpectedly, the "Mr. Yunshan" who has become famous in Kyoto in recent years is actually the sixth young master of the Yun family, who is only sixteen years old this year.

What a wonderful surprise!

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