After learning from the servants that Qu Lingyuan had come to the Regent's Palace, Liu Huiyin forced an ugly smile onto her increasingly gloomy face.
"Lingyuan, Liu Huiyin might be using the same trick again, so you better be careful." Yi Ling, who was flying beside Qu Lingyuan, suddenly reminded.
Qu Lingyuan and Shen Qingmo walked side by side on the street, their faces expressionless. They secretly communicated with Yi Ling: "Can you still give us spoilers?"
"I have a bird's-eye view. I can monitor the female supporting characters' movements and give you some tips, but you have to ask me to do it. Otherwise, I'll only know when they make a big move," Yi Ling recounted his uses. "You can also ask me to do things for you, including surveillance and data collection. I'm much more useful than those stupid secret guards."
"Why didn't you say so earlier?"
"You didn't ask."
The meaningless conversation made Qu Lingyuan feel angry.
He thought about Liu Huiyin's repetition of the same old trick. How else could she do it? It was obvious with a simple calculation that Liu Huiyin was going to use the same trick she had used on Cui Yue on him.
But Qu Lingyuan is different from Cui Yue. She and the emperor have never been in the same group, and there is no need for her to assassinate Shen Qingmo. Not to mention whether Shen Qingmo will suspect her as he suspects Cui Yue, first of all, she will never let Liu Huiyin's plan succeed, and she will even turn the tables.
Seeing her absent-minded look, Shen Qingmo, who was beside her, thought she was bored, so he asked, "Is there any place Yueyun wants to go?"
"Is there any place with nice scenery?" Qu Lingyuan was not really interested in shopping, so it would be better to go see the scenery with someone she liked.
"There is a maple forest near Chanxi River. It seems to be red now. Do you want to go?" Shen Qingmo thought for a while and replied.
In autumn, the red maples are also worth seeing.
"OK."
The two of them did not bring any followers with them, and strolled to Chanxi River. From afar, they saw the red maple trees that were almost dyeing the sky red.
"It's so beautiful..." Qu Lingyuan's eyes lit up.
In the past, she just liked to stay at home and rarely even went to the park, let alone to enjoy the scenery.
The sun was setting and the sky soon darkened. Chanxi was far away from the world and there were no lights nearby. The only illumination was the vast starry sky.
Qu Lingyuan fell behind, looking at Shen Qingmo's back as he walked under the starry sky, and thought of a sentence he had seen in modern times.
"The stars are blazing, you are the ideal of the world."
Somehow, Qu Lingyuan recited aloud what she was thinking.
Shen Qingmo, who was walking in front, paused and turned around, his eyes brighter than the starry sky.
Their eyes met, and Qu Lingyuan's cheeks flushed red because of Hong Feng: "Yue Yun was just talking casually..."
A breeze blew by, and the stars in the sky were covered by clouds. It was a quiet night with few people around. The atmosphere was just like that. Chen Qingmo refused to let her go. He took a step closer, bent down, put his lips close to her ear, and asked in a low voice: "Yuan'er, do you have no feelings for me?"
He changed the address naturally, which surprised Qu Lingyuan.
The corners of her lips twitched, and Qu Lingyuan stretched out her small hand to tightly grasp the clothes on his chest, and replied: "Of course it was intentional..."
Shen Qingmo chuckled a few times in her ear, which made her feel itchy. Her hand that was grabbing her clothes was held back. Shen Qingmo took Qu Lingyuan's hand and walked back.
If it were someone else, they would not know where to put their hands and feet. Qu Lingyuan was even worse. She almost didn't know where to put her head. It seemed like her neck could no longer accommodate this part of her body with disordered information.
This damn bastard, when he doesn't move, he makes people stunned when he moves.
Chen Qingmo was thinking that the Empress Dowager might not be willing to marry Qu Lingyuan to him, but what he didn't know was that Qu Lingyuan had already helped him settle the matter with the Empress Dowager.
During the days when she was out of the palace, the Empress Dowager handed Qu Lingyuan over to Chen Qingmo, and they lived and ate in the Regent's Mansion. The two of them, who had made their feelings clear, had a sweet time together. On the Double Ninth Festival, Chen Qingmo took Qu Lingyuan to fly kites, and when they were tired, he carried her back to the mansion.
Qu Lingyuan became much more lively than before. Yi Ling looked at her and nodded secretly. This was probably one of the reasons why he chose Qu Lingyuan, to change her unhappy life.
The day before Qu Lingyuan was about to return to the palace, she learned from Yi Ling that Liu Huiyin was finally ready to take action, and she was still looking for the same assassin organization.
After hearing what Yi Ling said, Qu Lingyuan couldn't help but sneer.
Liu Huiyin didn't have her own assassins, but she found an assassination organization from outside. If the plan failed and was tracked down by Shen Qingmo, with the power of the Regent, did she think the matter would not be exposed?
The reason she was able to escape the disaster last time was because Shen Qingmo was sure that the assassin was hired by Cui Yue, so he did not continue to investigate. If there was no threat from the emperor behind the last plan, and the dagger did not fall out of Cui Yue's wedding dress, Liu Huiyin might not have succeeded.
But Liu Huiyin didn't know all this. Having succeeded once, she became even more arrogant. In addition, the previous incident in Jiuyue Garden almost made her lose her mind. She urgently needed a channel to vent her hatred towards Qu Lingyuan, so she chose a very unwise way.
In this matter, Qu Lingyuan didn't even need to do anything. She just needed to prevent Shen Qingmo from suspecting her. Shen Qingmo would naturally investigate the rest.
After dinner, Chen Qingmo said he wanted to take Qu Lingyuan out for a walk.
"Nineth brother, Yueyun feels a little uneasy today. Shouldn't we go out?" Qu Lingyuan had a sad face and refused to go out.
"In that case, let me take you back to your house."
Qu Lingyuan nodded and followed Chen Qingmo to the courtyard where she was staying temporarily. She thought to herself, the guards in this palace are many times more than those outside. Even though that assassin organization is top-notch, they would probably be captured alive if they came.
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