Cui Yun'er arrived at the villa, carefully avoiding Xiao Yuan, and only slipped in when Zhou Shi went to take care of Su Xuerong.
"Madam, has she woken up today?"
Cui Yun'er looked at the person on the bed and suddenly realized that she was talking nonsense.
Su Xuerong looked even thinner than she had seen a few days ago.
Despite being fed rice porridge by Zhou and Xiao Yuan every day, she visibly lost weight.
Zhou's eyes were red-rimmed, and she shook her head with a sorrowful expression.
Cui Yun'er sighed.
Since Cui was taken away by Xiao Yuan, she hasn't seen him for quite some time.
The mansion no longer had a master; only she, a guest, remained.
She hadn't realized it before, but now she had absolutely no desire to return to that empty palace.
Seeing that Xiao Yuan was not there for the time being, she quickly winked at Cheng Shi.
Cheng followed her out of the house: "What are your orders, Madam?"
"Give me a room, right here..."
"Who gave you permission to live here!"
Suddenly, Xiao Yuan emerged from the study next door, glaring at her angrily: "There's no one in the Prince's mansion right now, you'd better go back right now!"
Cui Yun'er rolled her eyes at him, annoyed: "I'm not going back! It's so lifeless!"
Xiao Yuan's face darkened. He had just begun to reprimand someone when he suddenly heard a guard rushing over from the side of the corridor: "Your Highness, the person has been caught!"
Xiao Yuan's expression froze for a moment, and a fierce look instantly appeared between his brows.
Cui Yun'er was stunned: "Who did you catch?"
Seeing Xiao Yuan stride away, she hurriedly followed after him.
Xiao Yuan waved his sleeve at her impatiently: "I'm going back to the city to take care of some things. You stay here and take care of Arong for now!"
Cui Yun'er was overjoyed and immediately stopped in her tracks. She waved at his departing figure and shouted, "Cousin, don't worry, I will take good care of you!"
Xiao Yuan paused slightly as he walked forward, a bitter smile gradually appearing on his lips.
The Prince's Mansion dungeon.
When Xiao Yuan walked down into the dungeon, he saw Ming Shu, Ge Huai'an, and Ling Qingxue standing to the side.
"Your Highness!"
The three of them saw him coming and said in unison.
Xiao Yuan nodded slightly and sat down in a grand chair in front of him.
A blood-stained wooden stake directly in front of them is chained to a person covered in blood.
Not far from him, another young woman was bound, covered in blood and barely breathing.
The entire dungeon was filled with an extremely unpleasant stench of blood.
After Xiao Yuan sat down, Ming Shu handed him a booklet: "These are their confessions after their separate interrogations."
Xiao Yuan looked at the person directly in front of him with a cold smile, narrowing his eyes: "Jin Yin, the master of the Blissful Altar?"
I never imagined that this androgynous creature, which escaped in Zhenjiang, would actually haunt the Ge family mansion!
He glanced at Ge Huai'an and sneered, "Your Ge family is really audacious. Not only did you bring back a spy from Medicine King Manor, but you even recruited the Master of Bliss Altar to be your cook?"
The person tied to the wooden stake was Wu, the cook who had worked in the Ge family kitchen for three years.
Ge Huai'an hurriedly replied, "Yes, it was my oversight."
Fortunately, this time they joined forces and found a way to uncover the scourge hidden in the Ge family.
"Splash!"
A bucket of cold water was splashed onto the unconscious Jin Yin. The man slowly raised his head, revealing an androgynous and exceptionally handsome face through his disheveled long hair.
It was none other than the master of the Blissful Altar at Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang, who used drugs to deceive the public and reap huge profits.
Jin Yin looked at the man sitting in the armchair before him, a mocking smile playing on his lips: "Xiao Yuan, you actually removed the spy you planted in the Prince's mansion for the sake of a woman? Aren't you worried that the people in the capital will become suspicious?"
Xiao Yuan narrowed his eyes: "I never expected that you, the charlatan master of the Blissful Altar who secretly swindles and deceives, would actually be one of Xiao Cheng's men?"
Jin Yin chuckled self-deprecatingly: "You managed to spot me among so many people."
It turns out that the Ge family was selling off their ancestral property and dismissing all their servants all in order to dig him out!
After Ge Yin and Shi Shu were arrested, he had every opportunity to secretly escape from the Ge residence.
But at that time he realized that the elite troops of the Prince's Palace were keeping too close an eye on the Ge family, so he simply held back and waited for an opportunity.
His mission this time was to sow discord between Xiao Yuan and the Ge family, causing Xiao Yuan to completely lose Ge Huai'an.
Unexpectedly, even though he had Shishu instigate Zeng Ling to target the Su family and shift all the blame onto Ge Yin, Xiao Yuan still didn't fall for the trap.
"It seems that the Prince of Fenyang, who is rumored to be blinded by lust for a woman, has not lost his mind!" Jin Yin said angrily.
He recognized Xiao Yuan that night in Zhenjiang and wanted to kill him in the chaos, but the group of martial arts practitioners were too crazy. He only injured Xiao Yuan's leg and escaped from Jinshan Temple when the government troops arrived.
Xiao Yuan slowly stood up, took a dagger from Ming Shu, and walked towards Jin Yin.
At this point, Jin Yin's body was covered in wounds, and even his once handsome face was now marred by several scars.
Looking at the face before him, Xiao Yuan said with interest, "I've heard that there was a famously handsome male concubine in the imperial harem of the former dynasty, the Canary. Is that you?"
Jin Yin's cheeks twitched violently.
Xiao Yuan's face immediately contorted with disgust: "Old monster!"
The harem of the previous dynasty dates back at least fifty years, so the man in front of him must be an old monster nearing eighty.
"So, the secret to your youthful appearance all these years is those women you secretly kidnapped?" Xiao Yuan said coldly.
If he hadn't meddled and gone to Jinshan Temple that day, would Arong have become the old monster's blood bag long ago?
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