Yanyang Country, Jiang Mansion’s backyard, shooting range.
Murong Yan stood up straight with a serious look on his face. He aimed the crossbow in his hand at Ye Wanqing's chest and put his hand on the trigger.
"Tell me, who are you?"
Ye Wanqing was stunned, thinking he was joking, she spread her hands and stepped back slightly, saying, "Hey, what are you doing? I'm Shen Xu."
"I'll only give you three chances. You'd better think it over carefully. Alternatively, you can test the accuracy of this compound crossbow and see if it misses."
"Hey, Your Highness the Crown Prince—" She wanted to say something to ease the awkwardness, but she saw Murong Yan pointing his crossbow at her, "I'm really Shen Xu."
"There is one last chance." Murong Yan didn't say anything more. He pressed the mechanism on the crossbow. Click, there was the sound of the crossbow arrow being strung.
Seeing the solemn atmosphere at the scene, Ye Wanqing was silent for a moment, then sighed softly and said tiredly, "Okay, I'm definitely not Shen Xu. How did you tell that?"
Murong Yan sighed softly, turned the crossbow towards the target, pulled out the safety catch on the crossbow, pulled the trigger, and with another whoosh, the arrow sank into the center of the bull's eye, leaving a penetrating hole.
Ye Wanqing's breathing stagnated. If a crossbow could penetrate a hole from such a distance, if they really shot a crossbow at her chest, she would be nailed to the pillar and unable to be pulled out.
"Ghost ball." He lowered the crossbow, added three more arrows into it, looked up at the bull's eye in the distance, and replied.
"The Ghost Ball and the Nine Links were gifts we three gave each other when this place was built. Chen Xu has always treated them as treasures and never spread them out to play with."
"ah?"
"If Jiang Yu knew that the Nine Links he gave her was broken into pieces, she would cry for days and nights."
"Your Highness, it turns out you knew it from the beginning." Ye Wanqing frowned. Did His Highness the Crown Prince treat her so well these days just for show?
Murong Yan looked forward, raised his crossbow again, aimed at the bull's eye, and said as he aimed: "At first I was just confused, so I started to pay attention. Shen Xu wouldn't call me Your Highness the Crown Prince, nor would he call Fu Yi Big Brother. He wouldn't cry so sadly for someone who has nothing to do with him."
"This, I don't know how to explain it to you." Seeing that he was no longer hostile to her, Ye Wanqing simply found a place to sit down.
He aimed at the three bull's eyes in the distance, pulled the trigger, and three crossbow arrows landed accurately on the three targets.
"I thought Chen Xu was sick or had lost some memory, which was why he was acting strangely. It wasn't until yesterday that I figured out what was going on."
"Ah, did I say something yesterday?" Ye Wanqing let out a short exclamation, and suddenly realized: "So the person you were talking about yesterday was Chen Xu!"
Murong Yan put down the crossbow, frowned and looked at her with an expression as if to ask, "Why did you just react?"
He continued, “We often sneak out to eat at that wonton shop in the middle of the night, and Shen Xu never eats spicy food.”
"A person's memory may change, but habits and body reflexes remain unchanged. Instead, they become instinctive reactions due to memory loss."
"I don't know why Fu Yi and A Rao didn't notice anything wrong with you. Maybe they just thought there was nothing wrong since your physical appearance hadn't changed."
Murong Yan stated his conclusion, "However, after observing you for the past few days, I can see that apart from doing some strange things, you have no ill will towards the Prince's Mansion or me."
“I guess this body is still Shen Xu’s body, but the person inside is not Shen Xu, but someone who is familiar with the Imperial City but not familiar with Shen Xu, right?”
Ye Wanqing's heart began to beat wildly. He had guessed it right at once. Could it be that Chen Xu's daughter body could no longer be hidden?
After struggling for a long time, Ye Wanqing breathed a sigh of relief and confessed: "Well, I am indeed not Chen Xu, but when I woke up, I became Chen Xu's appearance. I thought I could change back, but..."
She had no memory of Shen Xu, and sooner or later she would be discovered if she met someone Shen Xu knew well.
Murong Yan sat down beside her, staring blankly at the target in the distance. He said in a gentle tone, "What you're most concerned about is the murder of the eldest daughter of the Ye family. You didn't fight back when County Lady Liu threw gold at you, and you were absolutely certain that Miss Ye's two friends weren't the murderers. So, you are the eldest daughter of the Ye family, right?"
Ye Wanqing nodded. Murong Yan's guess was very accurate. After listening to Murong Yan talk about Chen Xu's past and seeing the things in that room, her opinion of Chen Xu changed a lot.
The automatic compound crossbow alone was an eye-opener for her.
It turned out that the arrogant and domineering Shen Xu was not a useless playboy who was undisciplined and only knew how to tease girls.
She is beautiful and smart, likes to dress up, and is exquisite and sophisticated; she is tough on the outside but soft on the inside, quick-witted, enthusiastic and studious.
With her talent, whether she enters the harem or the cabinet to assist the king in the future, she will surely go down in history and make great contributions to the Yanyang Kingdom.
It's a pity that such a person died.
She was tortured to death and died in a well in the outer city. She died alone in her own body. Her funeral did not even have the dignity that a noble lady should have.
"Your Highness." Ye Wanqing said bitterly, her eyes suddenly red, "Chen Xu may have died, died in my body."
Murong Yan's face suddenly darkened and he stood up suddenly. He suddenly remembered the scene when he went to the general's mansion to make trouble that day. That Miss Ye hurriedly called him Brother Yan!
He suddenly felt his scalp tingling and his whole body trembling. It turned out that he was the one who pushed Ah Xu to the murderer!
"Impossible, impossible..."
Seeing him covering his chest with a very ugly expression, Ye Wanqing quickly stood up and held his arm.
She grabbed his arm tightly and said seriously, “Your Highness, I don’t know what happened to cause this, but the murderer who killed Shen Xu was also me!”
Murong Yan kept repeating "impossible" in his mouth, as if he could not accept this fact.
"Your Highness, let's avenge Chen Xu, okay? Find the murderer, find out the truth, and let her, let me, rest in peace." She frowned, trying hard not to cry.
Whether it was her own death or her troubled past, all of them touched the softest part of her heart, and she didn't know who to sympathize with.
But the target of her hatred and that of Murong Yan was the same - the murderer behind the murder!
Murong Yan raised his head and looked at her. He seemed to have calmed down, nodded, and said, "There is something wrong with the body in the general's mansion. She can't be Shen Xu."
Ye Wanqing asked in surprise: "Why?"
"The victim of that corpse committed suicide by hitting his head against the wall, and his face was destroyed after death. Chen Xu is a man, even if..." Murong Yan paused, reluctantly saying: "Even if he encountered such a thing, he would not seek death."
Ye Wanqing couldn't hold back any longer, tears streaming down her face. She shouted at him, "She will! She absolutely will!"
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