After the kiss, Sheng Linfeng hung up the portrait, summoned Nan Yuan to his tent, and inquired about Si Jin: "What kind of person is he?"
"He's stupid." Nan Yuan snorted dismissively. "He's a rigid, old-fashioned person. I get annoyed just looking at him."
"But why do I find it more and more pleasing to the eye?" As he spoke, his index finger touched the portrait, slowly sliding from Si Jin's Adam's apple to his collar, as if he wanted to lift the collar and kiss it.
Nan Yuan was disgusted by his gaze, but she couldn't say it outright, so she only said, "Didn't Your Highness want to kill Mu Sijin? Why did you change your mind?"
“At first, I wanted to kill him.” Sheng Linfeng sat back down. “But recently, I received news that my elder brother liked him, and now I’ve confirmed the truth of that.”
"How can I not take back what my brother likes? Including beauties, including... the throne."
After saying that, he took Nan Yuan's hand and patted it lightly twice: "My beauty, when we get to the capital, you'd better help me snatch people away~"
After speaking with Nan Yuan, Sheng Linfeng wrote a letter and sent it to Shen Zhiyu.
… …
Upon hearing the news of the deaths of Prime Minister Nan and his son in the palace, Shen Zhiyu was so angry that he couldn't even eat.
Over the years, he fought the Empress Dowager for power, and only the Southern Chancellor's family remained loyal to him. How could this happen...?
"Damn it!" he cursed, kicked the table, and once again used his consciousness to call upon the Heavenly Lord.
[System! Come out here! Two assassination attempts on Mu Sijin, my son is sick, my subordinate is dead, is this the plan you're talking about?]
The Heavenly Emperor replied in his mechanical voice: "Don't worry, the bigger this matter gets, the more Sheng Linfeng of the Great Yong Dynasty will find out that Mu Sijin is not dead."
Once he arrives in the capital, he will take care of this person for us.
The Heavenly Emperor calmly and steadily carried out his plans, soothing Shen Zhiyu's emotions.
Unexpectedly, less than a day later, he received an urgent secret letter from Sheng Linfeng.
The moment he saw the letter, the Heavenly Emperor was overjoyed: "I knew it! Look, the letter has arrived!"
As if grasping at a straw, Shen Zhiyu hurriedly opened the letter, only to find a single line of text—
The execution of Mu Sijin is forbidden. I value him highly and wish to meet him in person.
"Execution is forbidden?! Execution is prohibited?!" Shen Zhiyu collapsed: "System! Is this what you call 'using someone else to do the dirty work'???"
The simple line of text caught even the Heavenly Emperor off guard, causing that fragile little soul to tremble for no reason.
What exactly happened that made Sheng Linfeng suddenly change his mind?
Just as he was racking his brains trying to figure it out, he suddenly heard a system notification: [The framing failed, luck value -20%, and 20% of the host's soul was extracted.]
Extract the host's soul? Extract his soul!
The Heavenly Lord was in a panic. The fear of being torn apart by Si Jin resurfaced in his mind, and he was so frightened that he couldn't utter a sound.
How could this be? How could this happen?
Does a broken system from the mortal realm even deserve to extract his soul?
However, the system program had been forcibly altered by Si Jin, and it was completely irreversible. The soul was being ruthlessly taken away, leaving the Heavenly Emperor with only endless despair.
Where exactly did things go wrong? As the first Lord of the Heavenly Realm, why was he unable to defeat Mu Sijin at every turn?
But that fool used to obey him without question.
… …
The next day, Si Jin slept until evening as usual.
I deeply feel that I must change this bad habit of staying up all night and not getting up during the day.
I didn't have dinner at home; I went directly to the Empress Dowager's Renshou Hall.
The Grand Secretary was left to sit by the stove, feeling wronged and resentful.
After waiting for a while, Sheng Linyuan suddenly remembered what Sheng Yu had mentioned to him before: the methods that courtesans used to keep their lovers.
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