Bei Mingxuan didn't say anything, his face still serious. He sat on the couch, looking at Chang'an seriously.
Such a look made Chang'an suspect that there was something strange on his face or body, which made Bei Mingxuan look at him for so long.
"Bei Mingxuan, I...is there something wrong?"
"No."
"So what are you looking at?"
“Look at you!”
"..." Changan was stunned, "What's so good about me?"
Bei Mingxuan wanted to laugh, but he was forcing himself to hold it back. Finally, he turned his eyes away and said, "It looks good."
"Ah?" Chang'an's face was full of question marks.
"Are you tired?" Bei Mingxuan looked straight at Chang'an.
"tired."
"Are you sleepy?" Bei Mingxuan still looked directly at Chang'an, his handsome face was extremely calm, but if you looked closely, there was a faint smile in the corner of his eyes.
But at this time, Chang'an was like a confused monk.
"Sleepy."
"Come here." Bei Mingxuan stretched out his hand towards Chang'an.
"What?" Chang'an asked cautiously. God knows how many question marks appeared in her head when she walked in front of Bei Mingxuan.
Bei Mingxuan held Chang'an's hand and said softly, "If you're tired and sleepy, let's go to sleep."
"Sleep? Didn't you say downstairs that you had something to say? What did you want to say?"
Bei Mingxuan smiled, "I've already said that."
“!!!” Changan was overwhelmed.
Without waiting for Chang'an to speak again, Bei Mingxuan exerted force and Chang'an fell directly onto the bed.
Bei Mingxuan had a smile on his lips, his eyes slightly closed, and he held Chang'an in his arms. His low voice was slightly hoarse, "Be good, don't make trouble, and sleep well."
Chang'an tried hard to break free, but for some reason, Bei Mingxuan's arms were like a rope that could be loosened or tightened.
It was not until Chang'an noticed the changes in Bei Mingxuan's body that she suddenly stopped twisting her body.
She knew very well that the changes in Bei Mingxuan's body were due to the stimulation of her constantly twisting body. After realizing this, she lay obediently in his arms.
Her big eyes flickered, and she didn't know how long it had been. When she heard Bei Mingxuan's breathing become steady, she knew that this person had fallen asleep.
It was not until this moment that she dared to look up and see the sleeping Bei Mingxuan.
The moonlight shone on his face, and there was an unreal beauty in the haziness, which seemed real and illusory, revealing an alluring temptation. Chang'an couldn't help but smile.
Slowly raising her hand, her slender fingertips rested on his brows, gently stroking them, from the brows to the tips, over and over again...
When Chang'an was already asleep, Bei Mingxuan slowly opened his eyes, his lips, eyes, and eyebrows showing tenderness. He tightened his arms around Chang'an slightly, and fell asleep with a satisfied look on his face. When he opened his eyes again, the sun was already rising.
Bei Mingxuan stood up, and although his movements were light, they still startled Chang'an.
However, Chang'an was unwilling to face him like this, so he simply turned over and continued to pretend to sleep.
Bei Mingxuan smiled and shook his head lovingly, pretending not to know that Chang'an was pretending to sleep.
The door opened. "Come in and wait on the princess. I think she'll wake up soon. If anyone asks about me, just say I went to see Prince Nangong and Doctor Yu."
"Yes, Your Highness." Bai Lu prepared her toiletries and waited in the room for Chang'an to wake up.
The door creaked shut. After a while, Chang'an no longer heard Bei Mingxuan's voice, so she turned around and slowly opened her eyes.
"Miss, are you awake?" Bai Lu immediately helped Chang'an up.
"I can do it myself." Chang'an saw a hint of something strange in Bai Lu's eyes, and she knew that Bai Lu was overthinking it.
When Chang'an saw Bai Lu for the first time, he felt that she was pleasing to the eye and liked her from the bottom of his heart.
She smiled and glanced at Bai Lu. "Between master and servant, the most taboo is mutual suspicion. If they guess right, it strengthens their relationship and fosters tacit cooperation. If they guess wrong, their heads and bodies will be torn apart, loyalty and treachery indistinguishable. It's a tragedy and an injustice."
"Miss, this servant...I am worried that you don't like me, so..."
"So that's why I don't need you to serve me?" Chang'an said with a smile, "You're overthinking it. Actually, from childhood, I've done all these things myself, such as washing and dressing. I don't want you to serve me because I'm not used to it.
If I didn't like you, I would never keep you. Letting you replace Dongxue means I trust you, and you are more suitable for my eyes."
"Yes." Bai Lu wanted to crawl into the ground at this moment. She was really stupid. A servant actually guessed about her master, and even had a little bit of dissatisfaction just now. "I know I was wrong."
"Get up." Chang'an sat in front of the bronze mirror, painting his eyebrows. "Did the person I asked you to follow find out anything?"
"Miss," Bai Lu reported, "I followed the Emperor's secret guards all the way to the vicinity of Nanhua Mountain. The assassins we saw yesterday were the Crown Prince's men."
Chang'an knew that what you see on the surface is often not the reality. "Then the emperor's secret guards went to investigate again. The prince is in the palace, why did that person go to Nanhua Mountain?"
"Miss, the assassins last night were obviously not from Dongfang Ge's group, but they were indeed from the Shijin Kingdom. Yesterday, the Emperor's secret guards followed the assassins to the Crown Prince's residence. During their conversation, they confirmed that the assassin had failed."
"What's the result?" Chang'an's voice was flat, as if he was not surprised at all. The assassin was related to the prince.
"After the secret guards left, the assassin left. The person who contacted the assassin had changed his appearance. He did not go to report to the Crown Prince, but instead left the Crown Prince's Mansion and went to the Fourth Prince's residence."
"In other words, that person deliberately went to the prince's residence to make people think that he was ordered by the prince. In fact, that person was Bei Ming Ye's man." Chang'an was sure, because she knew that Doctor Yu was also the fourth prince's man, and the drug in last night's meal was related to Doctor Yu.
"Miss, there is one more thing. I thought the secret guard who followed the assassin would return after gathering information, but he went to Nanhua Mountain and met the emperor. However, the people around the emperor are all masters, and there are quite a few of them. I could only watch from afar and didn't dare get too close, so I didn't hear what the secret guard said to the emperor."
"You said he went to see the emperor." This was unexpected in Chang'an. Those secret guards would report everything that happened here to the emperor, that was for sure.
Chang'an thought they could have sent a letter by carrier pigeon or reported everything after returning, but why did they have to go all the way to Nanhua Mountain to see the emperor in person? Chang'an always felt that something was wrong.
"What did Bei Mingxuan say about this matter?" Chang'an thought that Bei Mingxuan had already asked Bai Lu about it, or Bai Lu had already reported it to Bei Mingxuan.
"My lady, the prince did ask me about this matter, but I thought you ordered me to do it, and I haven't reported it to you yet, so I didn't tell the prince either."
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