Chapter 951 The Truth
As soon as Nan Yan opened her eyes, she saw Prince Ning Zhu Xuan.
He was standing beside her, looking down at her.
A confident and slightly playful smile appeared on his face, as if everything was under his control and Nan Yan was the ant in his hand.
Never before had I found this man's smile so dangerous.
Nan Yan frowned, and suddenly remembered what happened before she fainted - in the cold palace, the man in black suddenly appeared and knocked Aunt Tongyun unconscious, and then...
“……!”
She suddenly understood: "You——"
In a hurry, she tried to stand up immediately, but a dull pain in her neck made her lie back down too weakly.
"Your Highness, please calm down," Zhu Xuan said, smiling at her, not disguising the teasing in his eyes. "I know your Highness was injured before, and I was warned not to hurt you again."
“…”
"Then your majesty had better not hurt yourself, or I will have a hard time explaining myself."
“…”
Nan Yan frowned.
At this moment, I couldn't care less to ask who he was going to tell. I just gritted my teeth and said, "What do you want to do?"
“…”
"Do you know that I am still a noble concubine? Are you robbing the concubines because you want the emperor to chop off your head?!"
Zhu Xuan smiled nonchalantly and said, "Of all the things I said and did at the Great Altar, which one of them didn't make the Emperor want to chop off my head?"
“…”
"Now that things have come to this, I no longer need to worry about the means. Besides—"
He raised his eyebrows and said, "If the emperor really still cared about you, he wouldn't have let me succeed."
“…”
"If they hadn't let their guard down, I wouldn't have been able to kidnap you, let alone take you out of Beiping City."
"What?!"
Nan Yan was shocked.
She had just woken up and found herself in this room. She also knew that she had been abducted from the cold palace by Prince Ning, but she thought she was in his Prince Ning Mansion. She did not expect him to act so quickly.
They had actually already left the city of Peking.
I wonder if there is anyone here I can ask for help.
Nan Yan subconsciously looked at the doors and windows, but saw that the doors and windows of the room were closed. She thought that he would not act alone in his current situation, so there must be someone guarding outside.
As if he could read her thoughts from his eyes, Zhu Xuan sneered and said, "My Lady, from the first time I saw you in the palace, I knew you were a smart person."
"how?"
"A smart person should know the current situation and not do stupid things."
“…”
"Although you ruined my plans at the Grand Altar this time, I am a man of honor and will not lay a hand on a woman."
“…”
"But, if Your Majesty wants to seek help from outside and cause chaos, then it's hard to say. I really don't want you to get hurt in the chaos."
“…”
The meaning of this statement is very clear.
He had taken the matter of the Great Altar to heart, but would not take action against him for the time being. However, if he dared to act rashly, he would not be polite to him.
Nan Yan thought quietly for a while, took a deep breath, and said, "I understand what His Royal Highness Prince Ning means."
“…”
"I already have injuries on my body, and I don't want any more accidents."
"That's great."
"However," Nan Yan stared at him with burning eyes, "Can Prince Ning give me an explanation for what happened these days?"
Zhu Xuan raised his eyebrows and looked down at her condescendingly: "Explanation? What do you want to explain?"
"What on earth did you do to the Emperor?"
“…”
"Why did the Emperor act so abnormally during those days?"
Zhu Xuan narrowed his eyes, then looked at Nan Yan's slightly angry expression, chuckled, and said, "With the Royal Concubine's cleverness, she would have guessed it."
Nan Yan took a deep breath and said, "So, you are indeed secretly colluding with Feng Shu?"
"Collusion?" Upon hearing these two words, Zhu Xuan sneered and said coldly: "She is not qualified enough. She is just a tool sent by the Kingdom of Dian."
Nan Yan's face darkened: "So you admit that you colluded with the Neng Kingdom."
“…”
Zhu Xuan just glanced at her out of the corner of his eye and didn't respond.
This attitude obviously means tacit agreement.
Nan Yan also sneered.
She thought of Emperor Gao's life of military service, his campaigns in the south and the north, and the founding of the Yan Dynasty, which would last forever. However, his sons, Prince Jing Zhuoyan, colluded with the State of Yue, and Prince Ning Zhuoxuan, colluded with the State of Neng.
Instead, it was Prince Yan Zhu Feng, whom he had always been wary of.
For more than ten years, he guarded Peking, preventing any soldier from the Neng State from going south to invade the land of the Yan State.
Isn’t this too ironic?
Nan Yan said coldly: "Then how did Feng Shu do it?"
“…”
"During the time she was in the harem, I had people search her residence and the medicinal herbs she came into contact with. She didn't use any drugs that could cause people to be terrified. How could you control the emperor's mind?"
Zhu Xuan said, "Now that things have come to this, it's okay to tell you."
“…”
"Feng Shu doesn't use any medicine. She only uses herself."
"What?"
Nan Yan's brows knitted together: "Herself?"
Zhu Xuan said, "She is gifted. She was born with a unique fragrance that can make men intoxicated."
"ah?"
"Later, she arrived in the Kingdom of Dian. The sorcerers of Dian used magic to intensify her unique fragrance, giving it a captivating power that could control some people's minds and even their actions."
"Then why are we—"
"You mean why you can't smell it, right?"
"Um."
"Even this king can't smell it," Zhu Xuan said, "The people of Neng have turned her into a tool to seduce men. Of course, she must have restraint. She can choose whether to let people smell that fragrance or not. Who can smell it?"
“…”
Nan Yan thought for a moment and immediately said, "Tea?"
"That's right."
Zhu Xuan said, "I know that you, especially Concubine Kang, once ordered an investigation into the tea she served to the Emperor, but found nothing."
"That's right."
"Because there was nothing wrong with the tea in the first place. It was just a trigger to break down people's defenses."
“…”
"It makes people no longer wary of their surroundings."
“…”
"Only those who drink that kind of tea can smell Feng Shu's fragrance."
“…”
"This kind of thing is originally flawless and there won't be any handle. But..." Zhu Xuan's eyes flashed with a cold light, and he said: "I don't know why, although my royal brother was also affected, he still refused to favor Feng Shu."
Nan Yan was suddenly shocked when she heard this.
She looked at him with wide eyes: "You said that the emperor has never favored Feng Shu?"
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