"Someone's protecting you? Who is it? Is there anyone in Kyoto with a more powerful backer than Your Highness?" Bai Lu asked, extremely curious.

"I just found out too," Ji Feng said in a great mood, shaking her right index finger mysteriously with a grin. "But I can't tell you now. You'll know when the time is right."

"Then this servant will not ask. When the time comes, Your Highness must tell this servant," Bai Lu said quietly, being very sensible.

"good!"

Ji Fengyao, like a female hooligan, touched Bai Lu's face, making Bai Lu blush bright red.

The master and servant entered the house happily.

Knowing Ji Fengyao's habits, Bai Lu immediately summoned the four palace maids to prepare bath water for Ji Fengyao.

Seeing that the young female bandit wanted to take a bath, Mo Linxian took the initiative to cut off their visual connection.

The young female bandit happily soaked in the bathtub, the warm water washing over her skin, feeling all the shackles and burdens on her body being relieved.

She let out a long sigh of relief, leaned against the edge of the bathtub, and closed her eyes contentedly.

Thinking of her master, who was recuperating in the extreme heat, the young bandit felt a strange mix of excitement and sweetness welling up in her heart.

Although... there are some things she should ask about clearly.

The little bandit's consciousness returned to her soul, and she approached Mo Linxian at the closest possible distance, softly calling his name.

At such close range, even if Mo Linxian wanted to pretend to be dead, he couldn't.

"Little darling, didn't your master tell you that you are already a great..."

“You’re a grown woman now, you should be mindful of the proper conduct between men and women,” Ji Fengyao interrupted him and finished his sentence for him. Then she deliberately teased him, “But Master, we’re already…married. Why are you still saying this? Are you perhaps disgusted with Yao’er and don’t want to acknowledge this marriage?”

Mo Linxian: "..."

He died from lightning because he couldn't get what he wanted, so how could he not want to admit it!

But the master and disciple had only just reunited after a long separation when he was suddenly seduced by his disciple.

He had never expected that his nearly thousand-year-old dream would suddenly come true!

"Little Jiaojiao, who did you learn all this from?" Mo Linxian asked, suppressing his immense excitement and confusion.

"With you, Master!" Ji Fengyao blurted out without thinking. "Master, haven't you always taught me that if you want something, you have to be quick, ruthless, and accurate? I've been separated from you for so long, and I've thought it through very clearly. Master, you are highly skilled and handsome. Besides treating me well, you never flirt with other women. As the saying goes, 'Don't let the good stuff go to outsiders.' Wouldn't it be perfect for me to marry... uh, marry Master?"

The young female bandit was determined to shock her master with her words, vowing to leave him speechless and unable to get up again: "So once I was certain that Your Highness was the reincarnation of you, Master, I decisively married Your Highness and consummated our marriage."

Master, it might be difficult for you to renege on your debt now;

If you really find it hard to accept, you can keep it in the extreme fire for now and take it slow.

"When you feel ready, you can return to the prince's body and merge with your reincarnated soul, how about that?"

Mo Linxian was both amused and exasperated: This really was a good disciple he had taught;

She's planning to keep him under house arrest until he agrees!

"Little darling, how dare you threaten your master?" Mo Linxian held back, his smile ambiguous, his tone cool.

He could sense that his little darling was actually just a paper tiger at that moment;

She spoke with great confidence, but she was actually extremely nervous inside.

Hearing her master's familiar yet ominous tone, the little bandit immediately cowered, stammering, "N-no, Master... Yao'er... actually, at first I... I didn't know..."