"Naturally, it's the person behind her who instructed her."

The Fourth Prince spoke casually, but Li Tiao's lips couldn't help but twitch.

"I said before that I would never let the master who ordered her get away with it. Now that I know who her master is, I will naturally not let him go."

But she was your servant before, so I've come to ask you what to do with this servant.

Li Tiao's heart felt like it was about to leap out of her chest, and she nervously swallowed hard. "Replying to Your Highness, before you, I am but a servant, so how dare I presume to question Your Highness's decisions? Granny Liu... Your Highness, please..."

"Now you can have your say!"

Li Tiao couldn't help but think to herself: How wonderful! She had been questioning herself about "what crime she should be guilty of" before, and now she has been given such a great blessing.

Such a master! He's so adept at using the tactic of giving a slap followed by a sweet treat.

Whether she was dissatisfied or resentful, Li Tiao could only complain in her heart. Faced with such a favor, Li Tiao could not be ungrateful. She asked, "Master, may I ask who the master behind Granny Liu is? Different masters require different strategies."

“Yes, that’s right, it was my oversight.” The Fourth Prince said, “That servant Liu said that you asked her to spread rumors among the princes.”

"I..." Li Tiao's mouth twitched, and her eyelids started to twitch. In her current state, she could easily be mistaken for someone who had suffered a stroke. "This servant..."

“She said that because the prince didn’t stay in your room on your wedding night, you were unhappy and thought of using this method to get his attention. You originally wanted her to spread this gossip throughout the palace, but she was afraid that things would get out of control, so she only told the princes.”

Li Tiao's stroke symptoms seem to have worsened.

Well… what Granny Liu said is true. When she asked Granny Liu to gossip with Chunxi, that was exactly what she told them.

The Fourth Prince remained calm, as if he were talking about someone else's business. Li Tiao really couldn't figure out what this prince meant, so she could only grit her teeth and continue to maintain her "jealous and envious" persona.

"Master, I know I was wrong. I was just too angry and confused, so I made Granny Liu do that."

Before the Fourth Prince could even finish speaking, Li Tiao herself got goosebumps.

However, the Fourth Prince remained unmoved. Just as Li Tiao was so embarrassed that she was about to dig out a large flat, the Fourth Prince suddenly stood up and walked towards Li Tiao.

Li Tiao was nervous and terrified. As the Fourth Prince approached little by little, she tilted her head back and slowly retreated.

When there was nowhere left to retreat, Li Tiao heard the Fourth Prince's voice, which sounded like either teasing or stating a fact: "You seem to care a lot about me?"

She wanted to laugh, but couldn't quite manage it, so Li Tiao resorted to a forced smile: "Replying to Your Highness, now that I've married you, Your Highness is my everything, so naturally I must think of you every moment."

Li Tiao really wanted to vomit properly in this basin; it was such a torturous situation.

The key point is that even though he was putting so much effort into acting, the Fourth Prince, who was just watching, seemed unmoved, responding with a nonchalant, "Is that so?"

"Of course!"

The Fourth Prince finally stood still, slightly increasing the distance between himself and Li Tiao, and said mercifully, "Since you are so deeply in love with me, I cannot let you down. Tonight, I will come to your room to rest."

Li Tiao looked as if she had been hit on the head with a club.

Before she could react, the Fourth Prince was about to leave. Li Tiao rushed to the door, leaned against it, and blocked his way: "Your Highness, what do you mean by that?"

"It was truly unfair that I couldn't stay in your room on our wedding night. Here's to make it up to you."

After saying this, the Fourth Prince pulled aside Li Tiao, who was blocking the door, and left.

What was Li Tiao's posture when she was pulled away by the Fourth Prince and leaned against the wall? What is her posture now? She wanted to cry but had no tears.

My mind raced with countless thoughts... but none of them were romantic; they were all terrifying images!

Because she remembered a suspense drama she had seen in modern times, in which the murderer was a man who couldn't have sex, and because of this defect, he gradually became very perverted...

Thinking of this, Li Tiao felt a chill run down her spine!

Run! What are you waiting for? To be scared to death or tortured to death?

She has no masochistic tendencies!

There's no time like the present, so Li Tiao decided she absolutely had to go "jump into the lake" today.

Everything had been packed and hidden away long ago. Li Tiao gathered her emotions for a while, then looked in the mirror and felt that she looked utterly despondent before heading to the Imperial Garden.

Standing by one of the lakes in the Imperial Garden, a place where she could easily hide, Li Tiao thought that if her jump could take her back to the modern world, it would be perfect.

Although everything was planned out perfectly, Li Tiao still had some reservations when it came to actually jumping, since in modern times she had learned to swim in a swimming pool.

This lake... it's hard to say how deep it is... and we don't even know if there are whirlpools in it... If she jumps in and... doesn't make it back, and really kicks the bucket, that would be more unjust than Dou E. She only resorted to this desperate measure because she didn't want to die.

But then she thought, if she continued to stay here... Li Tiao shook her head abruptly, steeled her heart, and made a move to fall forward.

However, before he fell, someone grabbed him around the waist.

"I can't even stand up straight anymore?!"

That voice… Li Tiao turned around abruptly, and it was actually the Fourth Prince.

"Master, you..."

"Tell me about you first, what happened?!" The Fourth Prince's face was very ugly.

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