Chapter 15 Chapter 15 The love poison breaks out, Your Majesty...
The moonlight quietly filtered through the carved window lattices like water, sprinkling on every corner of the house. The air was filled with an ambiguous and dangerous atmosphere, like the prelude to an impending storm.
Her eyes were hazy, and in the chaos she could only see a familiar yet unfamiliar figure. The effect of the love poison made her body scald, and her rationality was gradually overwhelmed by the tide of desire.
As soon as his hand touched the back of her waist, Hanyu clung to him like a drowning person clinging to driftwood. The burning love poison made her eyes shimmer with the misty rain of the Jiangnan region. In a trance, she could smell the scent of pine, the scent of fumes that Ah Jiang often used, mixed with the scent of bamboo after snow, which made her even more dazed.
The candlelight crackled and exploded into stars, and the tassels of the gauze curtain swept across the back, feeling exactly the same as the red silk in the wedding room on the snowy mountain that day.
Yin Jinglong pinched her neck and pressed her into the brocade pillow, but in her tearful eyes she saw her own appearance distorted into the outline of her brother.
"Ayu, please look carefully..."
He held her earlobe and whispered, while his thumb covered the teardrop mole on his left eye that his brother didn't have. The person under him suddenly whimpered and raised her head, and offered her lips in the same manner as when he welcomed Ajiang that year.
The dragon and phoenix carved on the bedposts swayed, casting entangled shadows, like the overlapping reflections of the intertwined trees cast by the moonlight outside the window. The broken jade hairpin in the brocade pouch at her waist collided with the jade pendant on his waist, making a clear sound like the clinking of glasses at the wedding wine ceremony on the snowy mountain that day.
Yin Jinglong pulled out her broken jade hairpin and stabbed it into his palm with pain. The smell of blood made the love poison burn even more fiercely.
In the lonely courtyard outside the door, the spider leaned against the intertwined tree, her eyes fixed on the birdbone circling above the roof. A wicked smile rose at the corner of her mouth, "It seems the love poison has taken effect."
When the last piece of underwear fell to the ground, Min Hanyu touched his smooth chest and suddenly remembered that there should be a scar there left by A Jiang when he saved her, but the person in front of her did not have it.
She suddenly opened her eyes wide and saw Yin Jinglong holding the bloody jade pendant in his mouth, his eyes blurred, and leaning towards her lips.
"Don't you dare touch me!"
Hanyu woke up as if from a dream, wondering how she could have been so careless and recognized the wrong person.
"Ayu, what's wrong with you?"
Yin Jinglong took off the coiled dragon jade pendant from between his lips and held it in the palm of his hand, deliberately turning the side engraved with the word "Heng" upwards, as if to imply that he was holding the jade.
"You are not him at all, stop lying to me!"
"Again? You're saying this as if I've lied to you before. You volunteered tonight."
Yin Jinglong approached her curled up body, teasing her seaweed-like black hair, and whispered in her ear: "Ayu, don't forget that you were infected with the love poison that I personally planted in you. As long as the female poison in my body is aroused, the male poison in your body will also be aroused, and you will have no control over your body."
Hanyu lifted her sleeves and saw several golden lines running on her arms. Those were the footprints of the poisonous insects. She pulled out the broken jade hairpin and tried to pierce her skin to force the poisonous insects out.
"What are you going to do?" Yin Jinglong quickly grabbed her wrist holding the hairpin, preventing her from hurting herself.
"How can you remove the poisonous insect from the body? Don't you want this hand anymore?"
"I would rather lose my hands than be controlled by your poison!"
The determination in Hanyu's eyes made him feel sorry for a moment, but that was only a brief moment of pity. He was more worried that if the insect was not controlling her, this woman could escape from him at any time, and then his plan would fail. Therefore, he would not allow her to remove the insect no matter what.
He grabbed Hanyu's wrist with his left hand, trying to snatch the broken jade hairpin that she was holding tightly in her palm, but he didn't expect Hanyu to suddenly bite his other hand. The intense pain caught him off guard and he had to let go of her wrist.
Hanyu took this opportunity to jump off the bed and ran to the door, but the moment she opened the door, a pitch-black bird flew towards her, making a chirping sound from its mouth.
The spider standing under the twin trees blew its whistle, and the bird spread out its pair of bright black feathers.
After the bird circled around her head chirping for a few times, Hanyu felt dizzy, the person in front of her became more and more blurry, and she suddenly fell asleep.
Yin Jinglong ignored the pain in his arm and subconsciously stepped forward to support her limp body.
"Your Highness, have you witnessed the power of Quegu now?"
The spider walked towards them with her arms folded across her chest and a leisurely pace, while the bird landed obediently on her shoulder, its pair of black pearl-like eyes staring at Hanyu's heart.
"You did this?"
"That's right. It was me who controlled the Sparrow Bone to trigger the love poison in your bodies. Your Highness... don't you want her?"
The spider saw that Yin Jinglong had different feelings for the woman in his arms, so he wanted to try the power of the love poison. He was just one step away from achieving reunion.
She thought to herself, that girl is indeed extraordinary. She was able to resist the hallucinogenic power of the insect and wake up at the critical moment. What kind of willpower could allow her to stick to herself?
The reunion was unsuccessful, and the man in front of him seemed dissatisfied. He had a cold and handsome face like an iceberg, and was unwilling to pay attention to the arrogant spider beside him. He picked up the sleeping woman in his arms and went back to his room.
She didn't know how long she slept, but when Hanyu woke up again, she opened her eyes and saw the dungeon where she was trapped in her previous life. Her limbs were tied with iron chains, and she was lying on the ice silk jade couch.
"Someone! Yin Jinglong, let me go!"
Her cries echoed in the empty room, and no one responded for a long time until her voice became hoarse.
At this time, someone pushed the door open and walked in. The person was wearing a dark gold armor of a different color from the guards in the palace, and had a half-covered mask with a dragon pattern on his face.
"Why are you shouting? You can't just see the prince whenever you want. Maybe you'll feel better if you just stay still."
"Why did the prince lock me up here again? What crime have I committed?"
"Hmph! The prince can lock up whoever he wants, regardless of whether you're guilty or not. If you don't have the ability to escape, then don't make such a fuss!"
The man left with some impatient harsh words and left. As the door of the secret room closed, the whole world immediately became silent.
Hanyu was in confusion. In her previous life, Yin Jinglong slaughtered her entire clan and trapped her in a dungeon. After his rebirth, he did not slaughter her clan, nor did he imprison her at first. When she thought that her fate had been changed by some unknown means, why did he inexplicably enter this dungeon again?
If things remained the same as in her previous life, would her people be massacred by him in the end? Would her husband, A Jiang, remain in the icy coffin in the dungeon?
If she wanted to know all this, she had to find Yin Jinglong and ask him clearly, but she was locked up in the dungeon for several days and had never seen that man. Only the man in armor and mask brought her some food on time.
The armored soldier handed the food box to her, uncuffed her hands, and watched her eat. The sound of several servants talking could be heard outside the secret room.
She ate her meal slowly and eavesdropped on the private discussions of those people.
One of them asked, "I heard that the prince brought Lieutenant General Li to the princess's residence. It seems he wants to make things clear with Princess Chaoyang. But Li Yu has been lurking in the palace for many years and has long known about the existence of our private army. If we report this to the princess and His Majesty, will we still have a chance of survival?"
Another person sighed and said, "It's a blessing, not a disaster. If it is a disaster, we can't avoid it. We have all signed a death contract. If the day comes when we have to rebel, we can only bite the bullet and go ahead!"
The armored soldier noticed the chatter outside was getting too loud, so he deliberately closed the door and scolded Hanyu, "Focus on your meal! Ignore all that gossip. You never know which meal this is going to be your last."
Han Yu couldn't help but sneer, "If your prince really wanted to kill me, he would have done it the day we first met in the snowy mountains. Why would he bring me to the Central Plains and imprison me here now?"
Although she didn't know what Yin Jinglong was up to, judging from the fact that he had poisoned her, he must have wanted to use the poison to control her, so he would definitely not kill her easily.
In that case, I must still be useful to him. I just heard people outside the door talking about the soldiers privately raised by Yin Jinglong hiding in the secret room of this dungeon, and I believe that the armored and masked man in front of me is one of them.
She tested the man before her, "Big Brother, you don't know this. I come from the remote hinterland of the snow-capped mountains and have been with my tribe since childhood. Your prince invaded my tribe before he seized the statue and abducted me to the Central Plains. As a newcomer here, I know very little about your Central Plains rules. I don't know how long you've been in the palace, nor do I know what position you hold in it now, but you came here earlier than I did. You must understand the complicated rules of this palace. Why don't you tell me about them?"
The armored soldier sneered, "You are quite perceptive. Everyone says the Prince Regent is ruthless and murderous, but only those in our palace know that the Prince is not as cold and heartless as the rumors say. He has never abused his subordinates, nor has he harmed any of the elderly, the weak, women, or children. He only killed those corrupt officials who deserved it, to purge the court of parasites for His Majesty."
"Really? According to what you said, he is a kind and upright person?"
Hanyu disagreed with his words. She didn't think Yin Jinglong was a kind person. After all, the scene of her entire clan being slaughtered in her previous life still often came to her dreams at midnight.
But the man continued, "Of course the prince is a kind-hearted man. You don't know that all of us have voluntarily signed a death pact to pledge our allegiance to him. Before I entered the palace at the age of sixteen, I was just a poor beggar, begging on the streets, with an elderly mother at home. That cold winter, my mother was seriously ill, and I had been without food for several days. Fortunately, I met the prince, who took me in, saved my mother, and now has entrusted me with such an important task. I can only repay this kindness with my death."
"Oh? So all of you are desperate people who were rescued by him?"
The armored soldier nodded and then shook his head: "Perhaps! Everyone had their own difficulties before entering the palace. Because the past was too unbearable, everyone was reluctant to confide in each other, but they all had a heart of loyalty to the prince."
"Since your prince is so compassionate to his subordinates, and I am now completely alone, I wonder if I could join his army? Your prince has held me captive for several days and has not yet appeared. Could you please tell him that I want to discuss the matter of the statue?"
The armored soldier shook his head awkwardly and said, "It's not that I don't want to help you pass on the message, but the prince is not at home right now. He hasn't returned since he went to the princess's residence the day before yesterday."
Princess Chaoyang? Could she be the aunt Yin Jinglong mentioned when he exposed Li Yu that day?
Hanyu pondered this carefully, and couldn't help but wonder who that infamous princess was. How could she possibly control this cold and cruel regent?
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