"The fragrance of this special herb is very unique. According to Youyang Zazu, this fragrance can last for days or even months without dissipating and does not mix with other fragrances. Legend has it that in some places, this fragrance is called lover's fragrance. Whenever there is a gathering, girls will use this as a mark to let their lovers find them quickly.

The conversation with Xiao Zhixuan once again emerged in Yuanxi's mind. She tried to recall what Xiao Zhixuan did when she finished speaking. She seemed to snatch the small jar from Yuanxi's hand, held it in her arms and smiled: "Such a rare thing, can you lend it to me?" Then she opened the lid and sniffed it gently, staring at her and said jokingly: "If I disappear in the future, sister-in-law must find me!"

These words suddenly exploded in his mind, pulling Yuan Xi out of his memory. At that time, he just thought she was a little girl who was playful and did not realize the determination and sadness hidden in her words.

It was not until this moment that she smelled the familiar scent in the princess' room and suddenly realized: it turned out that since then she had thought about using her own life as bait to exchange for the truth!

Yuan Xi took a deep breath, but her hands began to tremble uncontrollably. Xiao Du saw her standing blankly in the corner, and hurried over to ask in a low voice, "What's wrong?" Yuan Xi turned her head, tears welling up in her eyes. She raised her trembling fingers and pointed to the wall, "The Buddhist hall... The Buddhist hall is just a cover, the entrance to the secret room is in the princess's room!"

As soon as these words came out, not only did Xiao Du's face change, but even the princess stood up in shock and shouted, "How dare you! Searching the house is not enough, are you going to dig the wall now? Who gave you the courage!"

Yuan Xi pushed Xiao Du away, looked at the princess with burning eyes and said, "It was Xuan'er, Xuan'er told me herself. You must not have thought that Xuan'er would rather sacrifice herself to let you convict her. She deliberately took the risk of letting you capture her, and she calculated that you would not dare to take her out of the house when the wind was blowing, so she would definitely hide her in that secret place first. So she put a fragrance on her body that only I can recognize, and the smell will be left wherever she goes. All the evidence can be hidden, but the smell can't deceive people."

The princess was so angry that she trembled all over, and she glared at Yuan Xi fiercely. However, despite her toughness for half her life, she gradually showed signs of failure under this firm and cold gaze. Finally, she could no longer maintain her indifference and composure. She leaned against the wall, gasping for breath as if an old illness had flared up, but she still shouted coldly: "No one is allowed to touch my house without my permission!"

Nanny Yu quickly stepped forward and grabbed her arm tightly, suggesting that she should not show too much panic. Xiao Du and Yuan Xi had read everything from her reaction, but the princess was lying there, and no one dared to act rashly. Just when the situation in the house was stagnant, a voice suddenly came from outside the door: "I said it can be done, and it can be done. If Madam is not satisfied, you can report it to the emperor and punish me."

The princess' eyes widened as she listened to the man she had been thinking about for half her life mercilessly breaking down all her defenses, as if she had heard the final verdict from above. She slowly turned around and stared at Xiao Yunjing, who was approaching with a cold face. Her expression changed again and again, and finally she smiled at him sadly and said, "Okay, everything is up to you, old man."

With the old marquis' instructions, several secret guards no longer hesitated. Not long after, a wall collapsed with a bang, and behind the fallen bricks and dust, a bottomless dark hole was revealed. Xiao Du and Yuan Xi looked at each other, both showing excitement, but the princess just sat there, as if all the vitality had been drained away, numb like a dried corpse.

Several people looked at the entrance of the cave and were about to go in to check, but Xiao Yunjing suddenly waved his hand to let them go, then stood in front of the princess and whispered: "I will leave you the last bit of dignity, as long as you can take me back to Xuan'er." But the princess seemed to hear nothing and still looked ahead with empty eyes.

Xiao Yunjing looked at her coldly, his expression showing no difference between sadness and joy. He turned around and motioned for Xiao Du and Yuan Xi to follow, and then said coldly to the frightened Yu Ma, "Take your master with you and lead the way!"

Nanny Yu was so frightened that she fell to her knees with a thud, her legs trembling constantly, and she could not move an inch. At this moment, the princess put on a weird smile, stood up, straightened her clothes and hair, and when she raised her head again, she regained her usual cold expression and said lightly: "Since the old man wants to see it so much, I will take the old man to see it."

The old marquis asked the secret guards to guard the princess's room, and they walked in one after another through the cave. Xiao Du held a lantern in one hand and led Yuan Xi in the other, walking in front. The weak light made the road even more eerie. A faint smell came from the darkness in the distance, and the closer they got, the more obvious the smell became: it was a mixture of rotten and smelly meat.

The further they walked, the uglier their faces became. They didn't dare to think whether Xiao Zhixuan could have a chance of survival in such a place. Only the princess always had a smile of destructive meaning on her face.

At this moment, a faint groan suddenly came from the front. Several people were stunned. Xiao Du was the first to react. He rushed over with a lantern and shouted, "Xuan'er!"

The lantern fell to the ground with a "pop". In the flickering firelight, a pale-faced girl in yellow clothes curled up on the ground, with a row of fans spread out behind her. The fan stand was made of fine sandalwood, but what was tied in the stand was not silk or brocade, but human faces!

Everyone was shocked by the scene before them, and it took a while for them to recover from the shock. Xiao Du rushed over and helped Xiao Zhixuan up from the ground, and then reached out to feel her breath, and then nodded to the old marquis and Yuan Xi in ecstasy. The few people finally let go of their worries, but soon they felt the coldness around them, and they felt that the place they were in was even more terrifying than the Asura hell.

Only the princess walked to the row of fans with a frown, and stroked the tense faces with her scallion-like fingers, as if caressing the finest silk, muttering: "Little girls aged fourteen or fifteen have the most watery and tender faces, which are truly treasures that cannot be found in the world. It's a pity that in a few years, even the most tender skin will become old and wrinkled. Therefore, I have collected all their best years here, which is the greatest compassion for them." Her fingers touched the last empty fan rack, and she sighed softly, "It's a pity that you came too early, otherwise Xuan'er should be here, and her face must be the most beautiful one among them."

A heavy slap interrupted her words. The old marquis's shaking hands stopped in the air. He stared at her with red eyes and shouted, "You! You vicious woman! It's all my fault that I tolerated you for too long and harmed so many people!"

The princess covered her face and laughed, but the laughter became sharper and more miserable. She raised her head and stared at the old marquis with a sad look, shouting, "Really? I am a vicious woman! Then what are you? A pervert? Who made me look like this today?"

Her face twisted as she spoke, and tears finally burst out. She cried until she was hoarse, bent over and covered her belly, and said in an increasingly sad voice: "I fell in love with you at the age of sixteen, and married you regardless of everything. But what did you do to me? Have you ever looked at me more in these years! You said you wanted to take a concubine, so I let you do it; except for the wedding night, you didn't even enter my room, and I endured it. But why did you bring back that unknown bastard, and even allow that bastard maid to kill our child! Just to give that bastard's child a name?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Du raised his head suddenly, and his face seemed to be stained with blood red. He handed Xiao Zhixuan in his arms to Yuan Xi, walked up to the old marquis and trembled, "Is the child she is talking about me? Where is my biological mother? Where did she go?"

"She's dead!" the princess shouted loudly. She saw Xiao Du's face suddenly turned painful, and his eyes were filled with smugness. She said in an increasingly sharp voice, "That bitch died after giving birth to you! This is her karma. It's the karma of her bitch servant who made me never have a child again. Otherwise, how could I agree to raise you under my name? You don't know how painful it has been for me to act like a bastard all these years. Every time I acted like a loving mother in front of you, I felt sick and wanted to vomit. In fact, I don't want to see you at all. I wish you would die every day!"

"Shut up!" The old marquis waved his hand and slapped the princess again. The princess staggered a few steps. She looked at the old marquis's face full of disgust and anger, and finally covered her mouth and vomited blood. She wiped the blood from her mouth, her voice suddenly softened, raised her eyes and said sadly: "Xiao Lang, from the first time I saw you until today, my heart for you has never changed. I am so devoted to you that even a stone should be warmed up. How can you be so cruel to me! Now, can you tell me the truth, who is the person you have always remembered in your heart!"

The old marquis trembled, and the hard and cold expression he had been trying so hard to maintain finally showed a crack, and then he was filled with infinite sorrow and pain. He staggered back a step, then tightly closed his eyes and said, "Okay! If you want to know, I'll tell you. From the first time I saw you until now, there is indeed only one person in my heart, and she is your former maid, Qianyue!"

The princess raised her head suddenly, and her face suddenly showed an extremely terrified expression, as if everything just now was not as deep and heavy as the blow at this moment. She was unsteady on her feet and suddenly fell to the ground, her hair was completely messed up, and the pearls and jade on her head fell to the ground, but she just shook her head with a distracted look and kept shouting: "This is impossible! This is absolutely impossible!"

The old marquis squatted down, lifted her chin and forced her to look at him, his eyes filled with the pleasure of revenge, and said coldly: "You should understand now, what a ridiculous thing you did back then!"