"What Biliuting? Mu Jingrui, can't you read?" Shangguan Wanning suddenly felt a surge of grievance in her heart, and her nose felt sour.
Mu Jingrui was stunned.
After all this time, the location was wrong.
So, the killer he met at Biliuting that day had nothing to do with Shangguan Wanning?
Looking at Shangguan Wanning's red eyes at this moment, Mu Jingrui's heart twitched violently with pain.
He pulled Shangguan Wanning into his arms and did not let go no matter how she struggled.
"Ning'er, can you tell me what you wrote in the letter?"
Shangguan Wan Ning stiffened again when she heard this. "You didn't see it?"
"I didn't have a chance to read it." Mu Jingrui really didn't know how to describe his current mood, "You entrusted the wrong person. The handwriting on the letter was already blurred when it reached me."
Mu Jingrui briefly told what had happened. Shangguan Wanning leaned on his chest and couldn't help crying.
She clenched her fist and punched Mu Jingrui's chest hard.
"Do you know... how much I have suffered in order to explain to you... I hate you so much..."
Shangguan Wanning hit Mu Jingrui's wound right on the spot.
In order to calm her down, he endured the pain without saying a word and comforted her: "It's my fault... Let me teach Xiaoyan a lesson when I get back."
Shangguan Wanning came out of Mu Jingrui's arms and looked up at him.
After a good cry, I felt much better.
She reached out her hand and gently stroked Mu Jingrui's face, choking with sobs as she asked, "Are you really okay?"
Mu Jingrui groaned for a while and said, "It wasn't a big deal, but the few times you hit me just now... the wound seems to have split open."
Shangguan Wanning was horrified and at a loss as to what to do.
"Really? Why didn't you say it just now? Let me see..."
Mu Jingrui held Shangguan Wanning's hand, stretched out his arm and embraced her again, raised the corners of his mouth, and asked softly: "Ning'er, can I... kiss you?"
Shangguan Wanning's heart was filled with ripples, and her cheeks instantly flushed.
She remembered the promise Mu Jingrui made when he was rude to her last time.
He...actually remembered it.
Shangguan Wanning raised her eyes to look at Mu Jingrui and slowly closed her eyes.
With her consent, Mu Jingrui quickly kissed her lips.
It was like thunder and lightning from heaven and earth, causing the heat in Mu Jingrui's body to burst out and become uncontrollable.
After a long time, he let go of Shangguan Wanning when his patience reached its limit.
"Ning'er, what can I do to marry you?" Mu Jingrui endured it very hard. He originally thought that he would be worthy of her if he became successful, but who knew...
Shangguan Wanning sighed sadly.
"Jingrui, I... too many things have happened at home recently. If I propose our marriage to my father at this time, I'm afraid..."
Shangguan Wanning also knew that it was not so easy to resolve her grandfather's worries.
"Can you give me a moment?"
Mu Jingrui was helpless. He held Shangguan Wanning's hand and sighed.
"Ning'er, I understand. Anyway, no matter what happens in the future, I will face it with you."
Shangguan Wanning felt relieved, and suddenly seemed to remember something. She stretched out her finger and poked Mu Jingrui's forehead.
"You wait for me, just wait alone; don't ask any other lady to wait with you."
Mu Jingrui laughed. Shangguan Wanning was so cute when she was jealous.
"How dare I? Others are just jealous, but you... are the jealous jar."
Shangguan Wanning pinched Mu Jingrui's waist. "Lutong should be back soon, you should leave quickly."
"Okay."
Mu Jingrui kissed Shangguan Wanning lightly on the forehead and got off the carriage.
However, he did not leave immediately, but hid in the dark to protect until he saw Lu Tong and the coachman brought helpers to pull the carriage out of the mud pit.
Mu Jingrui escorted Shangguan Wanning home and watched her enter the Prime Minister's Mansion with his own eyes before leaving with peace of mind.
After he returned home, he took a shower, changed his clothes, and reapplied medicine to his wound. When he finished everything, the rain outside the window had stopped.
"Boom boom boom."
The knock on the door brought Mu Jingrui back to his senses. "Come in."
After a pause, the door was pushed open.
Mu Jingrui saw a girl in a blue gauze dress walking in.
Her hair was waist-length, her skin was as white as cream, there was a black mole on her left eyebrow, and her expression was cold and vaguely murderous.
"You..." Mu Jingrui frowned slightly, "Are you the head of the Soul Capture Hall?"
Chu Xiaolian was stunned. She didn't expect Mu Jingrui to recognize her at first sight. This made her heart full of inexplicable thoughts.
"My name is Chu Xiaolian, and I came here to thank Master Mu for saving my life."
Mu Jingrui didn't care. He threw his robe on the chair and sat down. He said coldly: "As far as I know, the rules of your martial arts world are that if anyone sees the killer's true face, it will be either you or me. You showed your true face today... to kill me?"
Chu Xiaolian didn't expect Mu Jingrui to think this way. She couldn't help but get angry and said coldly: "That's right, I want your life."
After saying that, he slapped Mu Jingrui in the center of his eyebrows.
Mu Jingrui did not dodge or evade, but looked at Chu Xiaolian with deep eyes.
Sure enough, Chu Xiaolian's palm was withdrawn when it was half an inch away from Mu Jingrui.
She looked at him in surprise. "You won't fight back? Aren't you afraid that I will kill you?"
"Didn't you say you came to thank me for saving your life?"
Chu Xiaolian was speechless for a moment.
"I received your thanks." Mu Jingrui picked up the cup and drank tea slowly. "If your injury is healed, you can leave at any time. I will pretend that I have never seen you."
Chu Xiaolian was a little confused about the man in front of her.
"No conditions?"
"No."
Chu Xiaolian seemed to be in disbelief. She turned and walked to the door of the room, but still turned back to look at Mu Jingrui.
"I owe you a life. If you need the Soul Taker Hall again, you can contact me anytime."
Mu Jingrui remained silent and did not make any response.
Chu Xiaolian had no choice but to leave quietly.
In the evening, it started raining heavily again, and the rain was getting heavier.
Shangguan Yue, his wife and daughter were accompanying Zheng Guoxun in the courtyard. It rained too heavily to go back, so they stayed to have dinner together.
"Your Excellency, news has come from the palace that Concubine Liu has hanged herself in the cold palace."
The housekeeper of the Prime Minister's Mansion came in the rain to report the news.
Shangguan Wanning couldn't help but stop eating.
Isn’t Concubine Liu in the cold palace the former Imperial Concubine Liu, Xiao Zhenting’s biological mother?
"Why did she hang herself?"
Shangguan Wanning's question drew a disapproving look from her father.
She knew she shouldn't ask around, but she just couldn't help being curious.
Moreover, she must always keep abreast of any news about Xiao Zhenting, otherwise, who knows what tricks that guy will play?
"Maybe he was forced into a desperate situation." The butler replied.
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