Upon learning of Shilan's disappearance from Yinzhen, Yinzhen's eyes instantly turned cold. Ignoring his exhaustion from days of hard work, he ordered his men to manage the palace and keep the matter a secret while simultaneously mobilizing his own people to search for her in secret.
Su Peisheng looked at the prince, who had been staying up all night for several days for the sake of Consort Nian, and was terrified by the prince's ugly and gloomy face. He dared not offer any more advice.
The next morning at the court, Yinzhen noticed that Yinzhen's complexion had improved a bit. Normally, he would have noticed it too, but given the incident with Qingyin, he had a feeling that something was amiss.
Perhaps noticing Yinzhen's expression, Yinzhen remained outwardly calm but secretly glared at Yinzhen with hatred, just like before. This only intensified Yinzhen's suspicions. His eyes grew even colder, and he suddenly remembered the Lantern Festival he had taken Qingyin to before. Wasn't that when they happened to run into Yinzhen and Yintang?
He lowered his deep eyes and carefully examined Yinzhen. Upon closer inspection, he suddenly noticed that as Yinzhen moved, his waist seemed to emit a faint glow. However, the movement was too subtle and the glow too dim, making one wonder if it was just an illusion.
Glowing? Glowing! "Master, don't you think my skin looks more radiant with this powder on?" This was what Qingyin had said to him before, and he remembered it very clearly. "Su Peisheng called Songzhi over."
Songzhi rushed over anxiously. As Qingyin's personal maid, she naturally knew the truth. These past few days, she hadn't been able to sleep well at night because her mistress had disappeared. Her mistress's disappearance and return would only damage her reputation if made public. Therefore, when Yinzhen said to keep it a secret, she was the most supportive person. In order to make people believe that Consort Nian was sick, she went to brew medicine during the day and secretly prayed to various gods at night for her mistress's safe return. In just two days, she became haggard and tired. Fortunately, this was in line with the state of a maid's worry when her mistress was sick.
This also caused the women in Yinzhen's harem to become restless for a while. Yinzhen kept these people in mind, waiting to settle accounts later.
The large study was occupied only by Yinzhen, Su Peisheng, and Songzhi. Because it was not advisable for too many people to know about Qingyin's matter, Yinzhen had already left the child with his father. It was not surprising that the child spent a lot of time in the palace, and he was quite at ease.
"Does Shilan have a skin cream that can glow?"
Songzhi was momentarily stunned when she heard about the skin cream, but she quickly extracted the keyword "glowing". This must be a clue to finding her master. She thought carefully: "Yes, there is a kind that can glow, but it is not a skin cream. It is a kind of pollen sent by General Nian Gengyao. The master used it to make tea, but it was too difficult. At night, the master suddenly discovered that it would emit a light pink glow at night."
Sure enough, Yinzhen's eyes turned somewhat cold. Shilan's matter must be related to Yinzhen! "Su Peisheng, investigate Yinzhen's movements these past few days thoroughly for me."
"Yes, Your Highness!" Su Peisheng frowned, knowing that the prince must have discovered something from the Fourteenth Prince. He didn't seem to care about the impact of one prince secretly investigating another. If they didn't save Consort Nian, Su Peisheng felt that his master would go crazy.
Yinzhen never expected that a slight relaxation compared to usual would be noticed by Yinzhen, who would then follow the clues to find the treasure he had hidden.
However, Yinzhen's gaze today gave him a bad feeling. Not daring to openly investigate the movements of Prince Yong's mansion and risk being targeted by Yinzhen, Yinzhen simply suppressed his feelings and did not visit Qingyin.
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However, Qingyin in the basement also received the system's notification.
"Yinyin, the Yinzhen in this world is the same Yinzhen from the previous life. He came to this world by accident and saw you, which is why he remembered his memories. But it doesn't matter to you, hehe, Yinyin. Don't you have a mission to cuckold someone in this little world?"
"I think this Yinzhen is pretty good. He's strong and healthy, and he's been resisting marriage for so many years. He's still a virgin. Yinyin, why don't you give him a try? Hehe."
Qingyin looked at the system flying in front of her in the form of a cat. She found it hard to speak. How could there be such a lewd expression on a cat's face? Could it be that the system's lewdness had developed to such an extreme that it had directly polluted this cute appearance, and even the cute image of a cat could not save it?
She brushed aside the creepy cat head that was practically plastered to her face and glared at the system menacingly, saying, "The small world malfunctioned, didn't the main system offer any compensation?"
The system cat's face went blank. It looked at Qingyin innocently with its big, round blue eyes and said ingratiatingly, "Hehe, of course there will be! I'm just helping Yinyin complete the task and then telling Yinyin about the reward. Am I the kind of dog system that would steal the host's reward?" The system, who wanted to divert the host's attention and secretly steal the reward, was in tears. Reluctantly, it continued to tell Qingyin about the task's reward and compensation under her threatening gaze.
"First of all, the rewards for completing the mission in this small world will be doubled. Also, the main system has given me several gold-level treasure chests. Whatever you get from them will belong to the host."
Qingyin was somewhat surprised. She now understood why the damn system was so bold as to try and steal compensation this time. This gold-level treasure chest required 100 million points to purchase, and the items inside were all incredibly valuable, including even god-level treasures. Tsk, the main system was really generous. Qingyin smiled with satisfaction. As for the system that was eyeing her, she waved her hands and directly locked the system into her system space. What did it matter what it did? Anyway, she got what she wanted, so she didn't care about the stupid things this damn system had done.
However, Qingyin had actually considered the suggestion from this dog system and included it in her shortlist. Qingyin had actually done similar tasks to build a harem before. What impressed her most was the countless political affairs that made Qingyin, who considered herself a lazy bum, never take on any more. And those scheming male concubines. Qingyin suddenly felt a little weak in the knees.
Qingyin lay quietly on the soft stone bed, thinking, "Hmm, a bit bored." She picked up a storybook at random. It was about a bandit who met a scholar. One night, the scholar, exhausted from traveling all night, stopped to rest at a temple. Little did he know that it was a bandit's den disguised as a temple. Several burly men came out... two men. Only then did Qingyin realize that Yinzhen had given her a erotic gay storybook. "Hmm, it's actually quite good," Qingyin thought, a slight blush creeping onto her face, as she read the storybook even more intently.
Having become quite familiar with the female guard these past few days, Qingyin skillfully asked her for a novel by the same author. Lost in the erotic lesbian romance novel, Qingyin almost forgot her mission, relentlessly chasing after this ancient author's novel.
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