After drinking a large bowl of soul-awakening soup, Shen Tingsi regained consciousness.
He saw Jiang Xiancao sitting opposite him with a sullen expression, and looked around. After realizing he was in a carriage, he lowered his voice and asked her, "Hey, where are we? Where are the people from Tianming Pavilion?"
Jiang Xiancao didn't want to pay attention to him. After he asked her a few questions, she said indifferently:
"The Tianming Pavilion colluded with the Imperial Preceptor Huiming. They handed you over to Huiming, who then brought you into the palace and claimed in front of the Emperor that you were the true Ninth Prince. The Emperor then summoned me and had Huiming cast a spell on the spot."
Shen Tingsi opened his eyes wide and held his breath for a while, waiting for Jiang Xiancao to continue.
But Jiang Xiancao didn't say anything with malicious intentions, deliberately keeping him in suspense.
He slapped his thigh anxiously, "And then, go on, did the emperor recognize me?!"
Jiang Xiancao smiled. "If the emperor recognized you, would I still be able to sit across from you and talk to you peacefully? Huiming's spell must have failed."
Shen Tingsi showed a disappointed expression, and heard Jiang Xiancao sneer:
"You're disappointed, aren't you? What a pity! My life is so tough. You still have to continue to be Miss Jiang Er."
Hearing this, Shen Tingsi raised his eyes and looked at her.
Jiang Xiancao felt that his eyes were a little strange. She frowned, thinking that Tianming Pavilion had done something to him.
But I heard him say:
"You've been staying in my body all this time, just to use my identity to get revenge, right? You're also working with Prince Zhan. Although I don't like his disdainful personality, I know he would never betray Dasheng.
He knows you're not the real me, but he hasn't exposed you. He probably wants to use the Ninth Prince's identity to deal with those noble families who don't submit to the imperial power. Some of these people are secretly involved with the Tianming Pavilion."
Shen Tingsi was silent for a moment, then said as if he had made a great decision:
"Since what you are doing is beneficial to Dasheng and not harmful, then it's not that I can't cooperate with you."
Jiang Xiancao raised an eyebrow in surprise. "Did you drink the wrong medicine? I took over your body and trapped you in the Jiang family to suffer. Are you willing to do that?"
She didn't believe that a blind bastard like Shen Tingsi could have such a broad mind.
Shen Tingsi was a little annoyed and said in a deep voice:
"I admit that I was very stupid before, which is why I was led by Jiang Huaizhu by the nose and did many things that hurt you. But I am also a prince after all. I have the righteousness of my family and country in my heart. I am not a beast who can't distinguish right from wrong."
The way Jiang Xiancao looked at him seemed to say that in her eyes he was a beast.
Just as Shen Tingsi was about to lose his temper, he remembered that he had forced Jiang Xiancao to bleed before, and he was suddenly speechless.
Jiang Xiancao stared at him coldly for a moment, then smiled and said:
"No matter what you think, I will do what I have to do, which is revenge and make the Jiang family pay for their blood debt with blood."
Shen Tingsi nodded:
"I know. Go ahead and take your revenge. I won't stand in your way."
When he first exchanged bodies with Jiang Xiancao, he thought Jiang Xiancao was going too far.
But during this period of time, he saw through the true face of the Jiang family and knew how they usually bullied Jiang Xiancao, took advantage of her, and ruined her reputation. He felt that it was natural for Jiang Xiancao to want revenge.
"Of course you won't stand in my way."
Jiang Xiancao sneered, "You've now replaced me as the humiliated Second Miss Jiang. The Jiang family are all your enemies. Getting rid of them will only make your life better. If you try to stop me, you're a fool. Don't make it sound like you've made a huge sacrifice."
Shen Tingsi's face flushed slightly, but he did not refute or defend himself.
Because Jiang Xiancao was right.
The carriage fell into an awkward silence, and Jiang Xiancao closed his eyes to rest.
When they were almost at the Wenning Marquis's Mansion, Shen Tingsi suddenly spoke:
"I just want to tell you that before you succeed in your revenge and fulfill your wish, if our body swap is ever discovered again, I won't betray you. Even if Father asks me to my face who I am, I will keep it a secret for you."
Hearing this, Jiang Xiancao slowly opened her eyes and looked at him with some confusion.
She didn't understand what he meant by saying this.
Did he want to negotiate terms with her, or did he want to gain her trust and then stab her in the back?
Shen Tingsi looked at her, his eyes trembling slightly, and suddenly said:
"You were the one who saved me from the assassins from the Tianming Pavilion, weren't you?"
Jiang Xiancao didn't answer his question, but just sneered, "Boring."
When he was with Jiang Huaizhu before, she was full of regrets and grievances. Why did the person she saved have his heart taken away by someone else?
Now she no longer cares about this matter, but he suddenly brings up the past and asks what's the point of this?
"I--"
Shen Tingsi seemed to have a thousand words to say, but when the words came to his lips, they only became one sentence, "I don't want you to regret saving me."
The girl who risked her life to save him was the gentle moonlight that illuminated him on that dark rainy night.
But he mistook his moon for his own and repaid kindness with hatred.
"Really? But I already regret it."
Jiang Xiancao smiled cruelly, "If I hadn't saved you back then, it would have been great. I've thought about it more than once."
Shen Tingsi felt as if the softest part of his heart had been stabbed.
He stared at Jiang Xiancao for a long time and asked softly:
"What about now? Do you regret it now?"
Jiang Xiancao said calmly:
"Now that we've swapped bodies, I don't regret it. If you really want to repay my kindness to you, then give me your body forever. As long as you remain Miss Jiang for the rest of your life, I'll forgive you. How about that?"
Shen Tingsi stopped talking.
Jiang Xiancao sneered in his heart, why pretend to have suddenly come to his senses and turned over a new leaf?
She doesn't believe it!
The carriage stopped in front of the Marquis Wen Ning's mansion. She lifted the curtain and walked down, ordering the imperial guards who came with her to surround the entire mansion.
The noise outside disturbed the people in the marquis' mansion.
After a while, Marquis Wen Ning, wearing his outer coat, hurried out with several servants.
Seeing Jiang Xiancao and Shen Tingsi standing at the front, a complex emotion flashed in Marquis Wen Ning's eyes.
Jiang Xiancao noticed the look in Marquis Wen Ning's eyes and guessed that Marquis Wen Ning must have heard about what happened in the palace today.
That's why he was so surprised. Why hadn't she been punished yet and could still stand in front of him unharmed?
Marquis Wenning hesitated for a moment before speaking, "Your Majesty the Ninth Prince has come to the Marquisate so late at night. Is it to bring my missing daughter back? Thank you so much."
Jiang Xiancao raised the corner of his mouth slightly, "My Lord, you misunderstood."
Marquis Wen Ning's eyelids twitched, and he had a bad feeling in his heart.
Then I heard Jiang Xiancao say lightly:
"I am only sending the Second Young Lady back to the Marquis' Mansion on the way. I have something important to attend to."
Marquis Wenning was a little flustered, but his expression remained calm. "Then may I ask, Your Highness, what instructions do you have?"
Jiang Xiancao took the imperial edict from the eunuch who followed behind him, "Marquis Wenning, listen to the order."
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