Long Xinghuang suddenly explained, "I have never consummated my marriage with any of them. The Empress Dowager once used extreme methods, which I discovered. After I forcibly controlled myself, I fell seriously ill. Since then, the Empress Dowager has never dared to treat me like that again."
For some reason, he just didn't want her to misunderstand him.
Mu Tiantian paused for a moment, then looked him up and down. "You wouldn't be..."
Seeing that she was definitely thinking the wrong thing, Long Xinghuang's eyes darkened, and he subconsciously said, "My body is very healthy, and I don't like men."
Mu Tiantian chuckled twice, "That's not what I meant. By the way, I remember you like Xia, I understand."
It's rare to see an emperor so chaste; usually, it's only because he loves someone that he would do so.
The only explanation Mu Tiantian could think of was that the person he liked was Xia.
Long Xinghuang opened his mouth to explain, but Mu Tiantian remembered the important matter and quickly picked up the pen holder and handed it to him, saying, "If you don't believe me, I can put this Gu worm on Jingxi's body on our wedding night, and then use the bell to control her and make her tell the truth. Then you will know the truth."
"And you must remember, this Gu worm cannot be used on the Empress Dowager," Mu Tiantian instructed. "The Empress Dowager should have taken medicine to resist the Gu worm, so the Gu worm will not work on her. More importantly, she will notice if the Gu is used on her."
Long Xinghuang looked at the wriggling Gu worms in the pen holder, listened to her words, and seemed to believe them.
Mu Tiantian seized the opportunity to persuade him, "I want to go back to the Regent's Palace. I also need to ensure my safety on my wedding night, so I need the Regent's cooperation."
Long Xinghuang was reluctant to let her leave the palace. "Can't I help you?"
"Your Majesty, you are overwhelmed with other matters, and do you really think you have anyone you can trust?" Mu Tiantian's final question left Long Xinghuang speechless.
It seems that he really has no one he can trust around him.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have trusted her.
Mu Tiantian continued, "So, now you can only trust me. You don't want to be an emperor who is controlled by others forever, right?"
Long Xinghuang understood that she meant he was a puppet emperor.
He wasn't angry; instead, he agreed to let her return to the Regent's Palace.
However, this matter still requires the Empress Dowager's approval.
Mu Tiantian said she wanted to return to the mansion to break off the engagement with the Regent, and the Empress Dowager agreed. However, she also sent several palace maids and eunuchs to accompany her back to the mansion.
It was all for the purpose of monitoring her.
Before leaving, the Empress Dowager fed her another piece of pastry, which was made with the same Gu worms as before.
Mu Tiantian ate it without hesitation, pretending to be happy.
This type of worm cannot survive in the human body for very long, so it needs to be taken regularly to ensure its effectiveness.
The Empress Dowager was afraid that something might happen if she regained consciousness.
Mu Tiantian wasn't afraid. As long as she didn't send everyone in the palace to monitor her, she had a way to control the palace maids and eunuchs who were watching her.
The first thing I did after returning home was to take a bath and use medicinal powder to force all the Gu worms out.
However, she left one small one behind and suppressed it with her own power. Only in this way could she hear Xin Liangmu's bell and thus act better.
After she finished bathing, palace maids and eunuchs served her.
Taking advantage of their unpreparedness, Mu Tiantian secretly flicked the Gu worms onto everyone's necks.
The group felt a tickle on the back of their necks and instinctively reached out to scratch it.
As if sensing a crisis, the Gu worm desperately tried to burrow inside.
Mu Tiantian hurriedly went to Long Fantian to ask for the bell.
The autumn wind handed her the bell.
After she left the study, Qiu Feng said with some concern, "Your Highness, I have found out that the Emperor wants to take her as a concubine, and the Empress Dowager has the support of him. Moreover, she came back this time to break off her engagement with Your Highness. I am worried that Miss Mu... Lin may have been bribed by the Empress Dowager."
System: [Long Fantian's corruption value increased by 5, currently at 55.]
Mu Tiantian was brainwashing the palace maids and eunuchs. After hearing the system notification, she sped up and, once the maids and eunuchs were completely under her control, she hurriedly ran back to her study.
"Your Highness, I have something important to tell you. I've returned this time..."
"You've come back to annul the engagement?" Long Fantian asked, his face dark and unable to contain himself.
Mu Tiantian was stunned for a moment. Was this the important point?
"I...I didn't come back to annul the engagement," Mu Tiantian explained. "Wasn't this engagement a sham to begin with?"
Long Fantian's expression seemed even more unpleasant.
Mu Tiantian couldn't care less about anything else and said urgently, "I really have something important to discuss with you."
Long Fantian glanced at Qiu Feng, who then withdrew, closed the study door, and stood guard to the side.
"king..."
As soon as Mu Tiantian opened her mouth, Long Fantian suddenly leaned closer to look into her eyes. They were dark and bright, very clear, and showed no signs of being poisoned.
He breathed a sigh of relief. "Speak, what is it?"
Mu Tiantian came to her senses and told him about the Empress Dowager's plan. This marriage was just a scheme set up by the Empress Dowager to control the Emperor.
At the same time, she told him the contents of Shi Changbo's imperial edict and also admitted that she was Lin Miao.
Long Fantian had no choice but to look her in the eye. "How exactly did you learn the contents of the late emperor's will? What makes you think I should believe you?"
Shi Changbo would never tell anyone.
He knew this through extraordinary means.
He never believed in gods or ghosts, but according to Ulana's testimony, the place where he was injured ten years ago was at least a ten-day journey from Mingfeng Valley.
But he wouldn't have lived more than a day back then.
The same thing happened at the hunting grounds; he didn't even see how she appeared.
It is an undeniable fact that she saved him.
He even began to doubt whether ghosts and gods really existed in this world.
"You're quite wary." Mu Tiantian rubbed her temples, thinking for a long time but still not knowing how to explain it to him completely. She asked directly, "How can you believe me? Anyway, I've been saving you the whole time, I would never hurt you."
Long Fantian didn't speak, but just stared at her quietly, his deep black eyes revealing no emotion.
After a long pause, Long Fantian slowly spoke, "As long as you answer my questions truthfully, I can cooperate with you."
"Ask whatever you want." Mu Tiantian was prepared to tell the whole truth, whether it was saving him ten years ago or taking care of him during the time in Mingfeng Valley, it was all her doing.
She had to let him know that she would only save him and had no intention of harming him.
You must gain his trust.
She was ready to answer his questions.
result...
Will you leave someday?
"Huh?" Mu Tiantian looked at her with a puzzled expression. "Is this... what you wanted to ask?"
"Otherwise what?"
"I definitely won't stay in the capital in the future. I need to take care of my master in his old age. Going back to the countryside to grow flowers and vegetables would be nice." Mu Tiantian rambled on for a bit, then promised, "I will absolutely not cause any trouble for the prince."
Long Fantian asked with a displeased expression, "Go back to the countryside? Aren't you supposed to be a wanderer, always looking out for home?"
"Now that I have a master and a junior brother, I'll go back to my hometown to do some small business, settle down, and never set foot in the capital again. No matter what happens in the capital, I won't know anything and I won't say a word." Mu Tiantian made a solemn vow, promising to stay away from the capital and keep her mouth shut.
System: [Long Fantian's corruption value increased by 5, currently at 60.]
Mu Tiantian's eyes widened when she heard the notification sound. She had already assured him that it wouldn't affect him, so why did his "darkening value" still increase?
Do we really have to make her swear a solemn oath?
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