"What happened to the prince? Is he injured?" a young secret guard asked with concern.

"This is not an injury, it's clearly... You are still young, you won't understand even if I tell you, wait until you grow up, then you will understand!" The older secret guard next to him had an unfathomable look on his face: By the way, if they saw the prince bleeding from his nose after coming out of the princess's tent, would they be silenced?

The older secret guard was horrified and kept his mouth shut tightly, not daring to speak again.

"Oh." The young secret guard did not suspect anything and did not ask any more questions, continuing to stand guard.

It was almost noon when Lin Jinghan woke up from her sleep.

As soon as she opened her eyes, she noticed something strange: there was a smell on the bed that didn't belong to her!

He quickly sat up, called Shiqin in, and asked, "Shiqin, who entered my room while I was sleeping?"

Shiqin came in, put the water for washing face on the shelf, and stood respectfully in front of Lin Jinghan, "Princess, the prince came here at dawn this morning."

What? Sikong Zhan had been here? So, the scent on the quilt was Sikong Zhan's? He slept in her bed? And, she actually had that scent too!

Lin Jinghan lifted the quilt and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that she was still wearing her underwear and there were no suspicious marks.

She was so focused on herself that she didn't notice the blood on the bed sheet. However, the sharp-eyed Shiqin noticed it and said in horror:

"Ah! Blood! Princess, are you hurt?"

As soon as she said that, Shiqin suddenly thought of something and stared at Lin Jinghan with wide eyes: The prince and the princess consummated their marriage? Oh my god, their godlike prince, the prince who never let women get close to him, actually... And the princess doesn't seem to know about it? Oh my god...

After Shiqin's reminder, Lin Jinghan also noticed the bloodstains on the bed sheet. She was shocked and looked at herself again to make sure that nothing bad had happened. She moved closer to the bed sheet and analyzed it for a while. She felt relieved and got up from the bed, not caring much about Shiqin's shock.

"I'm hungry. I'll prepare a meal right away. Also, I'll prepare a bath and change everything on this bed."

Because of the strict discipline in the Prince of Jingnan's Mansion, although Shiqin has always done a good job of serving Lin Jinghan out of her duty, in her mind, she has never regarded Lin Jinghan as her real master, especially after she learned that Lin Jinghan was indeed just a country girl, she became more calculative and never really put her heart into doing things for Lin Jinghan. She even felt that it was a waste of her talent for a secret guard to now do the job of a maid.

At this time, she felt that becoming the princess's personal maid was her chance. As long as she seized the opportunity and pleased Lin Jinghan, her day of success would not be far away.

So, she suppressed her shock and smiled softly, covering her lips with her hands. "Princess, please rest assured. Lunch will be here soon!"

After saying that, he turned around to make the bed and went out with the soiled sheets, with a smile on his face.

Lin Jinghan had no idea what Shiqin was thinking. Even if she knew, she wouldn't care. After thinking about it, she called Wu Si and asked him to write down a prescription. She told him to boil the medicine and give it to Sikong Zhan to drink - to reduce fever.

Meanwhile, Sikong Zhan, upon learning that Mu Wenyao's actions were progressing smoothly, was in high spirits, seemingly forgetting even his embarrassing nosebleed that morning. He summoned the other generals of the Jingnan Army and arranged the next step.

Not long after, Wu Si came to his tent and asked for a meeting.

Looking at the medicine on the table, Sikong Zhan's eyelids twitched, "Did the princess say anything?"

"Your Highness, the princess said that Your Highness has too much heat in his body and needs to reduce it. Please take this medicine for three consecutive days and I guarantee it will cure the disease." The brothers of the Wu family were all quite straightforward, and Wu Si was the best among them. He repeated Lin Jinghan's original words word for word.

Cool down? So, that woman knew about his nosebleed? How dare someone leak the news! It seems that the discipline in the palace needs to be rectified.

After sending Wu Si away, Sikong Zhan called the secret guards and ordered them to interrogate everyone who knew about his nosebleed today to find out who betrayed him and dared to gossip about him in front of Lin Jinghan!

After a thorough investigation, they didn't find the person who betrayed him, but they did uncover a rumor that had just spread - the prince and the princess consummated their marriage last night, and the reason was that the prince rested in the princess's tent, and then there were bloodstains on the princess's bed sheets...

Now, there is no need to investigate who betrayed him. It must have been the bloodstains on the bed sheet that betrayed him. How could he really go against a bed sheet?

But, consummating the marriage? Sikong Zhan's face turned cold.

He never married Lin Jinghan to make her his woman. The identity of Princess Jingnan was just a means to keep her.

His woman is someone who can accompany him for the rest of his life, someone who can walk side by side with him. Lin Jinghan is not qualified, at least not yet!

"Pass the order down. Anyone who knows about today's events and mentions them to others will be punished with 100 strokes of the cane and transferred to the first floor of the Interrogation Department. Anyone who does not mention them will be transferred out of the Jingnan Palace. Anyone who dares to mention today's events will be beheaded!"

King Jingnan secretly has three major forces: the Night Department, where the secret guards are located; the Xun Department, which collects intelligence; and the Shang Department, which makes money to support the army.

The Interview Department was divided into three tiers: the first tier was the lowest, responsible only for training secret guards; the second tier was responsible for carrying out less important missions; and only the third tier had access to core secrets. Generally speaking, only those in the third tier had the opportunity to appear before the Prince of Jingnan. Of course, Shiqin was originally a second-tier secret guard because the Prince of Jingnan's mansion had no maids. This time, she served as a maid to Lin Jinghan, and thus had the opportunity to meet the Prince of Jingnan, making her an exception.

King Jingnan is very strict in the training and selection of each department, but he is not rigid. If the people in the first level have outstanding performance, it is not impossible for them to directly enter the second or even the third level. However, if they are punished to the first level of the Night Department, it is impossible to return to the second or third level without ten or eight years of perseverance in their posts or outstanding contributions.

The first person to suffer from this punishment was Shiqin, because the rumor about the prince and princess consummating their marriage started with her.

She had originally hoped that by pleasing the princess, she could rise to prominence in the future and be promoted to the third level of the Night Department, or even a higher position. Unexpectedly, when she was most ambitious, she was demoted to the bottom because of such a "small matter"!

You know, entering the first level of the Night Division means that you will be responsible for the devilish training of the secret guards every day, and you will have to take part in the assessment with the new secret guards every year. Those who fail the assessment will face ruthless elimination.

The new secret guards, because they have not been exposed to any of the affairs of the Jingnan Army, if they are eliminated, they will just go out and change their way of life; for those secret guards like them who have been exposed to the second level and above, the outcome of being eliminated is either to go to the lowest level of the Shang Department and remain an unknown person forever, or - die!