Lu Wan didn't say a word along the way. He was thinking about how to solve this problem. It was not possible for him to travel through time and space with great difficulty and then lose his life inexplicably without experiencing anything.
"Bring the man to me."
Just after getting off the horse, Lu Wan heard Shen Yan's voice.
Wait, bring it over here? They wouldn't be taking him there... But that was indeed the case. Before Lu Wan could finish his thought, Ying's hand had already rested on his shoulder.
"Don't be afraid, cooperate with me in a play. I know there is a ghost here, and it's not you."
Shen Yan stood in front of Lu Wan, looking down at her with his sword pointed at her.
At the same time, a voice sounded in Lu Wan's mind, just like the previous few times.
But this time, there was still no physical contact.
"I am wronged!"
Lu Wan immediately shouted that Ying had asked him to change into men's clothes before, perhaps to make things easier.
It's just like one crisis after another.
"What do you have to be wronged for? You are such a traitor. How much benefit did the Queen Mother give you to make you work so hard for her? The Prince has been so kind to you for so many years, but it's all in vain."
Shen Yan didn't say anything at all, and Ying at the side did the job for him.
Lu Wan captured several key information from it: She might now pretend to be a traitor to help Liu Shen, who is the Queen Mother's man and has followed the prince for many years.
He understood all this, but why did he want her to play the role? Obviously, he has so many subordinates who have a tacit understanding with him and have followed him for a long time. They are still men on the surface. Aren’t they much better than him?
"Take this shameless person away and wait for your punishment."
This time it was Shen Yan who spoke personally.
"Your Majesty, please spare my life. I am innocent!"
Lu Wan was still shouting hard.
Although he actually understood that this was all a play, since he was acting it, he had to act convincingly, at least to fool the audience.
Lu Wan was taken to a dark dungeon, which was probably where Liu Shen was imprisoned before. The walls were covered with blood writings, full of words of confession.
At first glance, there really is nothing wrong with it, and it perfectly creates the illusion of suicide out of fear of crime.
"Brother Commander, please spare my subordinates."
Lu Wan didn't know whether he still had to act now, but in his opinion, apart from Chen Yan himself, she should only trust the guard who had always been following her.
Ying didn't say anything, but just glanced around indifferently, which made Lu Wan a little confused. What did this mean? Just like that? After a while, the two looked at each other and said nothing.
Lu Wan thought, I don’t know whether this guard has a cold personality or he just doesn’t want to talk to him.
This awkward situation lasted for about an incense stick of time until footsteps were heard outside.
"Do you plead guilty? The evidence is irrefutable. Do you still want to deny your guilt?"
The voice came in before Shen Yanren arrived.
The voice was different from the teasing one he used to joke with her before. This time it was filled with murderous intent.
Did I guess wrong before? Does this dog prince really want to get rid of him as soon as possible? "I am innocent. If Your Majesty insists on forcing me to confess, I have no other choice."
Lu Wan had a deathly pale expression on his face, and it really seemed like that was the case.
Without even looking at her, Shen Yan waved his hand and Ying pressed Lu Wan onto the rack.
What is going on? Isn't it acting? This seems a bit beyond the scope, why is he being punished? There are only three people in the room now. Could it be that Shen Yan is suspicious of Ying? Or was it that from the beginning to the end, this was an action against her, with the purpose of putting him in her place.
"I'll give you another stick of incense to think about it. You've seen all these torture instruments. If you don't want them to be used on you one by one, you'd better tell me what other orders the Queen Mother has given you."
Ying said a lot in one breath, and Lu Wan roughly understood what she said. Either she was really going to be tortured, or the people who were watching the show had not left yet.
An incense stick of time passed quickly, and Lu Wan really had nothing to say. She could only endure the incense stick of time in fear.
"The incense stick time has come. Since you are so stubborn, I can only disregard our past friendship."
After Ying finished speaking, he picked up the branding iron on the rack beside him.
Lu Wan even closed his eyes. Even if he had never used a soldering iron himself, had he never seen one before? With her small body, she would almost faint from the pain.
However, the imagined pain did not come. Lu Wan opened his eyes and saw that Ying just hung the branding iron near his chest.
The torn clothes blocked the iron, and Lu Wan's skin could even feel the burning temperature.
"ah!"
Lu Wan immediately realized that this was still acting, and he now just needed to pretend to be enduring the torture.
"Your Majesty, please spare me! I really don't know anything! I am innocent!"
Lu Wan used almost every word he knew to beg for mercy.
This shouting continued for a long time, and Ying finally spoke again.
"My Lord, he has left."
After saying this, Ying put down everything in his hands and returned to his usual indifferent look, without any trace of the madness he had earlier in the morning.
It seems like everyone in this palace is an award-winning actor! This guy acted so realistically that even he couldn't tell.
"I'm sorry to have brought you here rashly, but I really have no other choice."
Shen Yan smiled apologetically at Lu Wan.
"Also, I know your true gender now. You don't need to hide it in front of me and Ying anymore."
Chen Yan pointed at Lu Wan's clothes that had been stripped open, revealing her entire chest, which was very flat. How could she look like a woman? Lu Wan also understood that this dog prince putting these two things together could be considered a threat.
Now that they have threatened us, there will be no good results if we resist.
"Your Majesty, just tell me what I need you to do."
Now that his identity had been exposed, Lu Wan naturally didn't bother to pretend to be a girl anymore.
In fact, in the current situation, even if Lu Wan didn't say it, he already understood the situation almost completely.
Shen Yan's statement only made her more clear about the whole matter.
"So you want me to investigate Liu Shen's death, is that what you mean?"
Lu Wan was too lazy to beat around the bush. Since this mission was his, he couldn't escape it no matter what.
He had actually seen the scene when he just came in. Who on earth is this Liu Shen, and why would he betray so suddenly? There must be something that they are completely unclear about, and now they have no way of understanding it.
But what is certain is that there must be someone behind this whole thing who has an overall view of the situation and controls everything.
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