The loud noise startled Bai Zhi: "What's wrong with you?"

"No...nothing."

Qin Peng picked up the comb and tried to calm himself down.

Bai Zhi likes Zhao Yu...

Bai Zhi actually likes Zhao Yu, who is three years younger than her!

When did this happen and what was Zhao Yuyou's attitude towards it?

"Do you...does he...does he like you?"

Qin Peng held back for a long time before finally speaking. Bai Zhi smiled, walked behind Qin Peng, took the comb from her hand, and combed her hair: "How can I guess what your Highness is thinking?"

"Does he know you like him?"

Qin Peng felt very complicated. His best sister actually liked his own brother, and he only found out about this after he had died three times. What kind of experience was this?

Bai Zhi smiled with a hint of bitterness on her lips: "Your Highness... maybe he knows? But he probably won't take it to heart."

"Your Highness never cares about anyone except the princess."

Qin Peng listened to Bai Zhi's words and recalled Zhao Yulai of that year.

In her memory, Zhao Yu was always a very kind child who always smiled at everyone.

Zhao Yuchang inherited his mother's beauty. Although he was a boy, he looked a bit enchanting, especially the teardrop mole at the corner of his eye, which made him look even more charming.

It wasn’t noticeable when I was young, but as I grew a little older and my features became more mature, I began to feel a bit feminine.

Qin Peng was very worried at the time, afraid that Zhao Yu would not look manly enough, so he asked Qin Shuhuai to teach Zhao Yu to read.

At that time, Qin Peng only knew one man, Qin Shuhuai, even though he was just a teenager.

Zhao Yu followed Qin Shuhuai and learned the air of a scholar. Qin Shuhuai also had a sense of arrogance, but Zhao Yu learned to be elegant and gentle. Whenever he stood on the side of the road in a wide-sleeved cloak, people would praise him as a gentleman as beautiful as jade and orchid.

However, when Qin Peng died, Zhao Yu was only seventeen years old. A seventeen-year-old boy has not yet grown into his full form, and no one knows what he looks like now.

Missing his brother and having time to adapt, Qin Peng slowly accepted the fact that Bai Zhi liked Zhao Yu.

Qin Peng has always known that Zhao Yu is popular, so it is not difficult for people to accept that Bai Zhi likes Zhao Yu.

She thought about it and couldn't help asking, "What does the Emperor of Beiyan look like? Is he good-looking?"

"Of course he's good-looking." Bai Zhi said proudly. Qin Peng couldn't help laughing: "Who's better-looking, Qin Shuhuai or Beidi?"

"This..." Bai Zhi was an honest person. After a long pause, she said, "Each has its own merits. But our Majesty will never lose to Qin Shuhuai."

Qin Peng laughed out loud, thinking that Bai Zhi was very interesting about this matter.

She asked questions and learned a lot about Zhao Yu from Bai Zhikong. As she listened, she fell asleep.

Two days later, it was the Qiqiao Festival.

Bai Zhi and Qin Peng were threading needles at home in broad daylight. Whoever could thread seven needles at once would have a good marriage.

"I am married," Bai Zhi said while wearing a needle, "I am just accompanying you in fooling around."

"What is it?"

Qin Peng tried hard to poke the needle hole, and said seriously: "It's just a token of my appreciation. Even marriages can end in divorce. I'll just ask for the Bodhisattva's blessing."

"You are..."

Bai Zhi wanted to scold her, but then she thought that this was the last day, so she held her words back.

The two of them worked together to thread the needle for the whole afternoon. Qin Peng drank while she sewed, and Bai Zhi followed her. Most people couldn't drink as much as Qin Peng, and soon Bai Zhi waved her hands: "No more, I can't drink... If I drink again, something bad will happen tonight."

"Oh." Qin Peng was stunned for a moment, then he remembered: "Are you really going to kill Qin Shuhuai?"

"Um……"

Bai Zhi propped up her chin and said, "What else? For His Highness... I stayed in Beiyan... I let the princess go on the journey alone... I killed the princess. It was my fault... If I don't kill him to avenge him... How can I be worthy of the princess?"

Qin Peng listened, feeling a little sad. She opened her mouth and said gently, "Silly girl, why don't you see that I am your princess?"

"you?"

Bai Zhi raised her eyes with disdain in them. She came over and stared at Qin Peng. After a moment, she waved her hand and retracted it: "Not like that."

"How is it not similar?"

Qin Peng was a little amused. Bai Zhi thought for a moment and said seriously, "The princess is not as tolerant as you, nor as open-minded as you."

"If you really were a princess..."

Bai Zhi said as she stretched out her hand, held Qin Peng's, and said hoarsely, "How much suffering must you have endured!"

Is there anyone who can grow without hard work?

She died three times.

Once to be betrayed, once to be filled with resentment, once to be a useless person in a wheelchair.

Qin Peng didn't say anything. She lowered her head and responded, holding Bai Zhi's hand and said, "Don't fight to the death. Just do it for your own good. I'll go to Beiyan next year and drink with you again."

"Okay..." Bai Zhi nodded: "Now that you are here, I will take you to see His Majesty. He will definitely...definitely like you. You...sometimes, you still act like a princess."

"Where is it similar?"

Qin Peng asked with a smile. Bai Zhi was stunned for a moment, thought about it, and took a sip of wine.

"Actually, they look alike everywhere."

Bai Zhi knew she couldn't drink any more, so she stood up shakily and took a nap aside.

Qin Peng looked at the sky and realized that the time he and Liu Shuyan had agreed on was almost up. He patted Bai Zhi who was leaning beside him and said gently, "Go to sleep if you want to. Don't catch a cold here."

"It's okay." Bai Zhi pushed her and said, "Go change your clothes. Wear the sky blue one. It looks good."

Qin Peng found it funny that she was in a daze, so he asked someone to take care of her while he went to change his clothes.

When I changed my clothes and came out, Bai Zhi was no longer in the courtyard.

"Where's Miss Bai?"

She asked the maid next to her, and the maid brought up the box with seven needles in it, and said nervously, "Miss Bai left and left this for the princess, saying that she didn't need it, so she gave it to the princess."

Qin Peng lowered his head and saw that the seven needles had been threaded.

She took the needle back, unable to describe her feeling, a little sour and a little sad.

Fortunately, she quickly cheered herself up, dressed beautifully, and went to Yue Lao Temple.

It was not dark yet, and the streets were already crowded with people. Liu Shuyan, wearing a light blue long gown and a silver jacket, stood at the entrance of Yue Lao Temple with his friends. Qin Peng walked over, and Liu Shuyan was still looking at the moon. Qin Peng smiled and said, "What are you looking at?"

Liu Shuyan was startled, turned around, breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I was just looking, are you late?"

"So what if I'm late?"

Qin Peng and Liu Shuyan walked in together. There weren't many people there at this time. Liu Shuyan took him to a big tree and said with a smile, "It's late, but it's nothing."

As he spoke, he bought a sign from the side, borrowed a pen and ink, and wrote his name on the sign. As he wrote, he said, "To be honest, this is also the first time I bring a girl to celebrate the Qiqiao Festival. I don't know how to celebrate it. I thought visiting the Yue Lao Temple was a must, so I planned to take you there."

After Liu Shuyan finished writing his name, he turned to look at Qin Peng and asked, "What do you write as your name?"

"Um?"

"Dong Wanyi, or Qin Peng?"

Qin Peng was slightly stunned, then smiled and said, "Qin Peng."

Liu Shuyan lowered his eyes and wrote her name with joy in his eyes.

"When I wrote to you before, I was always thinking about what kind of girl you were. Whether you were good-looking, what your family background was, whether you had a good temper..."

As he spoke, he wrote her name and handed it to her.

His handwriting was very good, and every stroke seemed to carry tenderness and love. When Qin Peng looked down at the wooden sign, he looked down at her. Seeing her serious look, he couldn't help but soften his voice and said, "But later I thought, I fell in love with you before I even met you. What I loved must be the most fundamental thing in your bones. Then whether you are beautiful or ugly, or have a bad temper, it doesn't seem to be that important."

Qin Peng looked up at him, and under the light, there seemed to be stars flowing in Liu Shuyan's eyes.

For a moment, Qin Peng felt as if she had opened the door to a new world. This world was given to her by Liu Shuyan. She finally walked out of the world called Qin Shuhuai.

She didn't know why, but she didn't feel as happy as she had imagined. She was like a child who had just walked out of the door, carefully holding up the hem of her skirt, full of longing and fear.

Liu Shuyan held her hand and pulled her to a wooden rack.

There were wooden racks one after another, all hung with wooden signs. Liu Shuyan handed the wooden signs and silver to a man standing guard nearby, who gave them ropes. Liu Shuyan threaded the ropes through the holes in the wooden signs and started hanging them.

As he was hanging the cards, he said to Qin Peng, "I heard that if lovers hang a wooden plaque with their names on it here, they will never be apart."

Qin Peng didn't say anything. She just used her fingertips to move through row after row of wooden signs.

Suddenly, she saw familiar words. The wooden sign was very old and the words were a little faded, but she still recognized it at a glance.

Qin Shuhuai, Zhao Peng.

She stared at the wooden sign blankly until Liu Shuyan called her, "Princess?"

Qin Peng turned around abruptly, hurriedly covering the wooden sign she had found, and said with a smile: "Where are we going next?"

"Go and worship Yue Lao."

Liu Shuyan was a little excited: "I have never done any of these."

Qin Peng smiled and nodded.

She has actually done all of these.

When she was thirteen years old, she took Qin Shuhuai to visit the temple fair and did everything happily.

At that time, Qin Shuhuai had a stiff face and looked unwilling. He told her that fate was not in the hands of God and it was useless to pray to these Bodhisattvas.

It was she who forced him to accompany her to hang up the name tag, worship the matchmaker, and tie a red string around her finger.

At that time she said to Qin Shuhuai.

"Qin Shuhuai, although you haven't married me yet, I have already told the matchmaker that you are mine, so don't resist me in the future."

At that time, Qin Shuhuai looked at her coldly and muttered, "Boring."

She jumped to hit him, but stepped on a stone and sprained her ankle.

That day, Qin Shuhuai carried her back home. The moonlight lengthened her shadow. She raised her hands happily and looked at the red rope on her fingers in the moonlight.

When she was thirteen years old, she sincerely wanted to spend her life with Qin Shuhuai.

But she was tricked by the queen into feeding poison to her mother, and she was tricked again and again.

After a long time, she even forgot how to trust someone.

The more I love, the more I dare not believe, because I am particularly afraid of trusting that person and the pain of being betrayed.

She learned not to give her heart to others and learned to treat everyone as a bad person, so that she would not feel so sad when she was betrayed.

Qin Peng looked up at Liu Shuyan beside him. There was a simple joy on his face, like a young boy who had just started out.

He closed his eyes devoutly in front of Yue Lao, and his expression was as sincere as she was at the age of thirteen.

She slowly closed her eyes, as if making a wish.

However, at that moment, she felt particularly calm.

This is long-lost peace.

After making a wish in front of Yue Lao, Liu Shuyan turned around and looked at her.

"What did you say to Yue Lao?" Liu Shuyan looked at her expectantly. Qin Peng asked him back, "What did you say?"

"Of course I said that," Liu Shuyan's eyes seemed to be able to see the future, full of soft light: "This is my wife, I hope Yue Lao can bless me and her, for the rest of our lives."

Qin Peng pursed his lips, smiled softly and said nothing.

She and Liu Shuyan finished worshipping Yue Lao, and Liu Shuyan took her out. Shortly after they walked out of Yue Lao Temple and turned into an alley, Liu Shuyan suddenly growled, "Come out!"

Qin Peng was slightly stunned, and then he saw a man in black jumping down from the alley wall, turning over and kneeling in front of Liu Shuyan.

"Sir, Qin Shuhuai hasn't left the house yet, but he's already preparing."

This man in black was a little different from ordinary shadow guards. He wore a silver belt around his waist, and on the silver belt hung a hollow iron ring with a bead inlaid in the iron ring.

Qin Peng was stunned. She vaguely felt that she had seen people dressed like this before. When she followed Qin Shuhuai back to Beiyan, she was attacked by an assassin. Qin Shuhuai was not at home at that time, and the assassin sneaked into her bedroom. The assassin was actually very skilled in martial arts, but he did not expect that she also had such skills. After exchanging two moves with her, he quickly retreated.

The man's attire was very similar to the man in black, except that the hollow iron ring was inlaid with a blood jade bead instead of pearls.

Qin Peng stared at the belt and felt a little headache, but she didn't dare to stop and carefully looked at every bit of the decoration of the person in front of her.

Liu Shuyan listened to the other party's report, nodded, waved his hand and said: "Follow the original arrangement and keep an eye on it."

"yes."

"Also," Liu Shuyan pulled Qin Peng and introduced her, "This is my wife. You don't need to be shy about it in the future."

"I have seen the lady."

The other party spoke in a stiff tone. Qin Peng nodded, and the other party disappeared into the night.

"Why are you staring at Qin Shuhuai?"

Qin Peng pursed his lips, and Liu Shuyan said calmly: "Since I have decided to marry you, it is a life-and-death situation for me and him. He is traveling alone tonight, which is a good opportunity."

"You want to kill him?!"

Qin Peng raised his voice, and Liu Shuyan was a little surprised: "What's wrong?"

What's wrong?

no.

Qin Peng looked at Liu Shuyan and couldn't say a word.

What Liu Shuyan did was logical, and if she were in his shoes, she would naturally do the same.

If Bai Zhi tried to assassinate Qin Shuhuai, she would definitely fail, so she let her go without any worries.

But when Liu Shuyan wanted to assassinate Qin Shuhuai, she felt a little scared.

She didn't know what she was afraid of. She stared at Liu Shuyan blankly and opened her mouth. Her mind was in a mess until Liu Shuyan asked worriedly, "Peng'er?"

"Oh," Qin Peng came back to her senses. She calmed down and recalled the most important thing just now. She pretended to be casual and said, "I haven't seen your shadow guard before. I thought you didn't have one."

"All noble families have some hidden cards," Liu Shuyan treated her as one of her own, without hiding anything: "The Liu family has its own special hidden position training organization, and in fact, the former Liu family members also served as the emperor's hidden guards?"

"The Emperor's hidden guard?" Qin Peng and Liu Shuyan walked out of the alley and heard Liu Shuyan say, "These should have been handed over by the Emperor to the Prince, but Your Majesty was in a hurry to ascend the throne, so he didn't know. The Liu family is only loyal to the monarch, so we are also the monarch's knife. If there is anything shameful, we are always the ones who do it. There is always someone in the Liu family who is the sword of Your Majesty, and that person was me."

As he spoke, Liu Shuyan turned around, looked at Qin Peng, and said with a smile: "I was afraid of scaring you, but I think you are not such a weak woman. Sooner or later, you will know."

"Yes." Qin Peng nodded and guessed, "So the set of hidden guard uniforms just now is the unique uniform that your Liu family wears in the dark?"

"Yes." Liu Shuyan took out a belt from his sleeve. There was a hollow iron ring hanging from the silver belt. In the iron ring was firmly embedded a blood-red jade bead, exactly the same as the one that the man who assassinated Qin Peng used that year.

Qin Peng calmed down and listened to Liu Shuyan pointing at the jade beads and said, "This is a symbol used to distinguish levels. For example, I am the leader of the Liu family's hidden guards, so mine is the most precious blood jade, below which are warm jade and green jade. Below jade are pearls, gold, silver, and copper. The man just now was a pearl, which is the fourth level of the hidden guards."

Qin Peng didn't say anything, but raised his hand to touch the blood jade. Liu Shuyan didn't mind. He looked at Qin Peng and said gently, "When your majesty grows up, I will be your majesty's sword."

"This blood jade bead...are you the only one who has it?"

"Yes." Liu Shuyan said steadily: "Since I received it ten years ago, it has been mine alone."

"So..." Qin Peng held the blood bead and raised his head: "What have you done?"

"That's too much," Liu Shuyan laughed out loud, "If you want to hear it, I'll tell you slowly."

"Have you been to Beiyan?"

Qin Peng lowered his eyes to hide his expression. Liu Shuyan was slightly stunned and sighed, "I have been there."

"To do what?"

"You might be familiar with this."

Liu Shuyan put away the blood bead, sighed and said: "I'm going to kill Zhao Peng."

"You failed?"

"Failure?" Liu Shuyan smiled bitterly: "I would rather fail."

Qin Peng suddenly stopped in her tracks, turned around, and looked at Liu Shuyan in shock: "What did you say?"

"Huh? What's wrong with you?" Liu Shuyan was a little confused as to why Qin Peng looked so shocked. After thinking for a while, he thought he knew why Qin Peng was shocked. He smiled and said, "You don't really think Zhao Peng died of illness, do you?"

"Zhao Peng..." Liu Shuyan sighed, "He was poisoned to death by the Jiang family."

"I played as a striker and was about to call it a day, but who knew that the Jiang family would use 'Drunken Dream'."

"You know the poison called Zuimeng, right? It's in the air and can be inhaled by anyone with a wound on the body. When I went to assassinate Zhao Peng, I discovered the aura of Zuimeng in her room during the fight, so I withdrew immediately."

"I just want to kill someone, not lose my life."

"So..." Qin Peng trembled and said hoarsely, "Zhao Peng, it was the Jiang family and you who...conspired to murder him."

Liu Shuyan didn't say anything. After thinking for a while, he sighed and said, "Maybe."

As soon as he finished speaking, the dagger from Qin Peng's sleeve suddenly flew out and pressed against Liu Shuyan's neck.

Liu Shuyan's eyes widened in disbelief.

"Why kill her?"

Qin Peng said in a hoarse voice: "She has no grudge against you, why kill her?!"

"You..." Liu Shuyan frowned: "What's wrong with you? Zhao Peng's death has nothing to do with you?"

"It's none of my business..." Qin Peng trembled and laughed softly: "It's none of my business?"

As she spoke, her hands trembled as she used the blade to cut open Liu Shuyan's neck. Blood oozed out. Qin Peng suddenly raised her voice: "I am Zhao Peng, the Zhao Peng who was murdered by you and the Jiang family!"

Qin Peng approached him, Liu Shuyan stared at her blankly, Qin Peng's eyes were full of coldness, and he said in a low voice: "Tell me, is this my business?"